See Spock Run

I've come up with some awesome ideas in the past, but nothing cheers me like knowing I've come up with an original idea that no one has thought of. "Spontaneously" coming up with something and then finding out a bajillion other people already thought of it is a bit disheartening.

For example, a few years ago I came up with the idea of a gangsta rap album called "Right to Remain Violent". Turns out that somebody else (actually, quite a few "somebody elses") came up with it first.

But today Google can't quench my spirits, for the idea I came up with at 1:00 this morning is truly mine. Earlier, lying in my bed, the phrase "see Spock run" popped into my fuzzy little brain. A little Google-ing has validated my originality. Nothing but a few out-of-context blog posts.

It's a children's book with Dick & Jane-style illustrations. Here are the words for the first couple of stories:

See Spock Run

Oh, see Spock.
See Spock run.
Run, Spock, run.
Oh, see Spock run!
Funny, funny Spock!
Run from the illogic that pervades human society.


Kirk is Mad

See Kirk.
Kirk is mad.
Kirk is a mad, mad captain.
Why is Kirk mad?
"Khan is a big jerk", says Kirk.
Oh!
Oh oh oh.
Khan is no good.
No good at all.

Getting the smart/stupid syntax just right is difficult, but this could go on for volumes.

I mean, as a webcomic. Trademarks and copyrighted characters hardly apply on the internet anyway. Look at Chad Vader, for crying out loud.

Tips For Aspiring Criminals/Authors. . .

. . . if you've committed a grisly murder, don't later write a novel about it. If by some lapse in judgment you do later write a novel about your murder, don't make it apparent by the details in the novel that you have actually committed the crime.



From the New Zealand herald: "Writer convicted of murder he described in novel"

You see, Krystian Bala had superhuman knowledge of the 2000 murder of Dariusz Janiszewski. Knowledge presumably only available to the police department and the crime's culprit.

Spraying those details out to the public in his novel "Amok" wasn't his best moment. The details in the novel provide a pretty strong case, especially considering that Bala sold the victim's mobile phone on the internet days after the disappearance.

Kind of ironic, but this sounds like a crime novel, dunnit?