Do You Need Ideas?

Here on the Rouge Wave, we do lots of things. We talk about why we write. And we get into lots of peripheral discussions and friendly disagreements. And we talk about how we write and we have helpful examples and some basic rules of execution. And sometimes the Wave-inatrix posts items of interest, things which can become the what we write.

So for today's Ripped From the Headlines, the Wave-inatrix tickles your imaginations with these alarming and/or interesting tidbits:

New interfaces for games use brain waves. All right. Is it just me or is this really freaking alarming?? Also - do we not think that the worry that eating cloned beef is bad for you, will in about twenty five years seem as ludicrous as believing the earth was flat? No, this isn't just me being funny, these two items ARE related - they ARE! Should the fact that some games are being developed which could use your brain waves scare us or is that ignorance? Is it fine? Is it innocuous? Is it the hook for your great new thriller script about a brain wave controlling, game playing dystopian future?

World's largest particle accelerator seeks to find "the god particle", or Higgs boson particle. Okay, I have it on good authority, people, that this accelerator could find the god particle or it could also tear open the space/time continuum and suck all of humanity into a giant black hole!! Good authority meaning I saw What the Bleep and have a loose understanding of super string theory and quantum physics and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE in the time it takes those particles to zip around their 17-mile circuit! Or is this the topic of your next sci-fi thriller?

Third item of interest: why have about five people, independently mentioned Many Lives, Many Mastersto me? Could it be that reincarnation is coming back? Bada bump bump. Tish.
Yep, race to your local library, people, check out Audrey Rose and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (which, according to Studio System, is in development with Scott Rudin at Paramount with David Fincher set to direct). Could reincarnation be the Next New Thing?

With these thought-provokers, the Wave-inatrix leaves you to enjoy this lovely President's Day, a day so meaningful and full of tradition for all of us. A day when we gather round and...notice the mail didn't come and get cranky. The Wave-inatrix is actually playing hooky and going to my favorite place in the world - Joshua Tree - to spend the day hiking in the desert. And while I'm doing so, I'm going to wonder if those Swiss engineers running that giant particle accelerator plan to like send a courtesy email to the world before they flip the switch so we can all have that last Creamsicle or Pinks hot dog before we disappear in a cosmic ink blot.

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