Philosophy Laboratory Dream

Exposition
I'm seated on a desk (along with Daniel from Ugly Betty) on the mezzanine level of a large warehouse, looking down at the first floor. The first floor contains Govind and Collin's Philosophy Laboratory. The laboratory consists of a series of connected rooms constructed out of cubical walls, each separated by a door with a luminescent-red screen on it. Within some of the rooms are cyborgs (one has a robotic body and a human head, another has human limbs and a robotic head, etc).

Development
I notice Collin and Govind passing between the rooms easily, but the cyborgs stay within their rooms. I also sense that the cyborgs have malicious intentions. I express this concern to Daniel from Ugly Betty, and he explains to me that we are safe from the cyborgs because each door is sealed with a "simple moral question." Therefore, since they are cyborgs, they do not know how to answer the questions. I also notice that in addition to Collin and Govind, another researcher is moving around in the rooms. He seems to have some sort of neuromuscular disease, so he shakes the cubical walls unintentionally each time he tries to enter another room. I am filled with fear because I notice how flimsy the doors and walls are; the cyborgs could be unleashed at any moment. (I also wonder to myself how he could be allowed to work there when he endangers everyone, but conclude that it must be for diversity's sake).

Culmination
The cyborgs burst out as a result of the disabled man's shaking. We all run in separate directions, each being pursued by a cyborg. I run out of the warehouse towards a street intersection (the setting is like that of suburbia near a rich high school). As I run across the cross walk, I notice Collin and Govind walking calmly in the other direction; they wave, but I run on, still pursued by the cyborg (I am relieved to see them because I thought they were harmed, but wonder why they don't tell me how to save myself). I run up a grassy hill, where I'm trapped on a ridge by a little league stadium at my back and the cyborg.

Lysis
I'm cornered; so I fight the cyborg. It does not really fight back, but is not injured by my attacks (like dropping flat gym weights on its joints, or popping a glass christmas ornament in its eye with the heel of my hand). End.

What is inside the new De Young Museum?

On this gloriously sunny day we went to the Sunset to get ice cream. On the way there, we stopped at the De Young Museum.

We saw a piece of lead toast, ceramic books, and clothes by Vivienne Westwood, including a T shirt with an explicit passage from a sex novel. Also we saw a dress called "Koo" from Westwood's Hype collection, which we will have to steal when Carina becomes a raver.

Jenna came too but she had to go home and write a paper before the cameras emerged. Let this be a lesson to you: stay out of grad school, kids.



Love from San Francisco,

Govind and Phoebe