Had a hilarious conversation with Gypsy last night. Wish to hell I had logged it because pulling it from memory will NOT do it justice.

Let's just say it was seeded in hentai joking, spread to Gypsy's offer to do Clarence and Tisandra hentai (We verified she has green skin, dark green nipples and red hair and an almost-angelically smooth sex organ. Clarence at one point offered to pull a rabbit from Tisandra's vagina, which sent her running....She cracks me up. I blink and my rock-n-roll fairy tale gets turned into Larry Flynt does the Wizard of Oz? "You may not have a brain Scarecrow, but jeeeesus you're hung like a bear!" Cowardly Lion coughs in annoyance and waits his turn.....)

And eventually all our hentai joking graduated into an all out laughing assault on something she found on somethingawful.com. A class on Furries recently shitcanned by UC Berkeley. Doesn't read like a legit course but it's well worth the laugh thinking something like this would be in a college course catalog SOMEWHERE.

Furries and Plushies: The World Within (2 credits, MF) - Students are introduced to the exciting and colorful world of furries and plushies, two groups of people who enjoy fantasizing about having sex with live or stuffed unnatural mutant animals. This course covers the "turn ons" of cartoon humanoid-shaped elk, how to successfully place penis-sized holes inside a Fievel Mousekewitz doll, and the joy of whining about how people "unfairly persecute" you when they claim you're a delusional sexual deviant who should be rounded up into a government-funded concentration camp. Students will take class field trips into the various basements that furries and plushies live in, interview them for their final project, and then examine their volumes of archived animal porn. No refunds are offered on this course.

Number Nun and Uncle Anesthesia (who used to be Dr. Combine until I got sick of the name) are two law-abiding, blue-collar working white Americans. They voted for Eisenhower and they believe in the Manifest Destiny of America. A math teacher and a plastic surgeon, they share a madness, a sort of holy/nationalistic calling, a patriotic and God-like voice in their respective heads that summons them together, whispers to them both in schizophrenic shiverings. This is the Iron Curtain. This is the madness of the American Dream.

Suffering a nervous breakdown from it, the two find themselves called to a hotel where it tells them they are to meet with Agent Provocateur (naturally). This agent is the one who gives them their respective 'codenames' (names they slobber over like a little kid allowed to run a police siren) and sets them about their 'mission for the good of all Americans'; namely that of hunting down and killing Bobby and Tisandra.

God bless late night fornications of insomnia and inspiration. I have you, you Beatnik bastard. I have the complete file on you.

Clarence Montgomery Peyroux. Creole by birth. Raised by his parents in Louisiana. Lost his parents to a car accident at 7 years old. Went to live with his brother, William, in California. Brother cruel and brutal to him and so, seeking refuge from his brother, joined the state-travelling Circus Phantasmagoria at 11. Ended up working as a young clown. By the time he was 15, the Circus, threatened with closing unless profits increase, stops over in San Francisco to assert its fate. Clarence has become romantically involved with the owner's son, Matthew (23, the ringmaster and a recent college graduate of philosophy) and Clarence knows if Matthew could give the circus new blood, the Circus might still be sponsored by Matthew's wealthy father.

The two of them one night happen upon one of Bob Kaufman's spontaneous cafe poetry readings. Amazed and inspired by a conversation with Kaufman late into the night and the popularity of the City Lights bookstore, he and Matthew become struck with the idea that they can reinvigorate the circus. Clarence, with Matthew's clout, convinces the owner that the Circus Phantasmagoria could reap larger profits as a subculture edutainment venue. It isn't an easy change as Matthew's father isn't aware of Clarence and Matthew's involvement and wants to make sure he's not dumping money into a foolish investment again. But eventually Matthew's father relents. It takes some time but eventually the acts and sideshows take a satirical and critical look at mainstream life, suburbia, the Red Scare and Republican nationalism. They begin a nationwide touring circuit within the year.

Now an avowed Abomunist, Clarence is about to assist Matthew in this new endeavour when word that his brother had died in bar stabbing reaches him. He opts to stay in San Fran for about two weeks longer, to put his brother's things in order, then finally decides he needs to be back home with his circus friends and Matthew. And at 16, he takes to hitchhiking to make his way to Chicago, where the circus was scheduled to be. And it's on the road that Bobby and Tisandra nearly run him over with the Beast.

He's prone sometimes to severe crashes of depression but puts incredible effort to hide them behind masks of trying to be funny. He's a goofball. Well-read. Extremely intelligent. He staunchly holds to Dadaist terrorism as the balm to the world's ills. Sort of guy who'd get Bobby's attention just to put Tisandra's panties on his head.... and then say it represented women's lib. Heh.

Plot changes: Bobby prefers a good old fashioned pistol to any stupid magickings. It's only when faced against the Custodians that conventional pistolero tactics fail miserably and he has to turn to magick. He's taking Tisandra to Chicago where there is said to be people sympathetic to Tisandra's plight. That's all he's interested in. Getting his promise delivered and being free of all the madness that this whole Wizard of Oz extravaganza has brought him.

His heritage unfortunately might very well insure he doesn't get off that easily. As a baby, he wailed when they took him to church. His father was a demon, Asmodeus, the same who bore Kurlos, and it's that demon blood that prepares him for the magical abilities he will later manifest with Azaran's wand and spellbook. His mother was a quiet mortal woman who suffered from severe bouts of depression due to her preacher-husband's constant beratement of her past affections with a demon. Bobby's relations with his stepfather were tenuous at best. Bobby's temper, agitated from his rebellious demonic blood, often clashed with his father's strict Baptist upbringing.