Subject: Are you ready for the future?
From: AJ
To: AJ's Friends and Enemies
Date: Thu 8/02/07 11:17 AM


It's early August, it's cold, and face it...you've got absolutely nothing
better to do.  So this weekend, we're putting some zing back into your summer
with what could possibly be the greatest night ever...

Saturday, August 4, 2007 AD is officially TIME CAPSULE NIGHT!!

That's right, we're going to make some memories you'll completely forget about
until 2017.  We're taking a snapshot of our lives and locking it away.  Come to
the Horseshoe anytime after 8 or 9 and bring a disposable camera.  We'll drink
and rejoice the night away, snapping pictures as we go.  When the night is done,
you'll surrender your camera to me (Father Time) with maybe a $5-$10
contribution (for developing pictures).

In the next week or so, I'll take all of the cameras to get developed (hard
copies, and on a disc) and will swear on the souls of my dead goats to not look
at a single image.  Everything will then be sealed up in plastic and put into a
certified time capsule (shoe box) in my vault...er, closet.  With enough tape,
glue, and ice cubes to choke a mule, our night will be thereby frozen in time
until August of 2017.

But that's not all...there will also be a questionnaire distributed Saturday
evening that will allow you make some predictions for the future, talk about how
great I am, and share any other special moments for your future self.  These
documents will be viewed by only you before also being locked away.

And another thing...you're highly encouraged to take a few pics earlier on
Saturday.  Take some shots of your apartment, your favorite pilates studio, your
local bum.  Just no nudity please (Shifty), and be sure to save enough pictures
for the bar.   And the only other rule: absolutely positively NO digital cameras
allowed.  The only records of the night (beyond your own hazy recollections) will
be locked up for 10 cold, dark, lonely years.  Digital cameras will be smashed to
bits.  Costumes or other odd accessories are welcome.

So come one, come all (forward to those I missed).  If you don't want to bring a
camera, that's perfectly fine...come anyway, even if only for a minute.  I'm
sure we'll have enough shots of everyone.  I might not even like you (don't
worry, I love you all), but if you bring a camera and leave your email address,
I'll be sure you're invited to the capsule opening in 2017.  And if you can't make
it to the unveiling because your flying car is stuck in traffic, I'll be sure to
teleport the pictures to you or something.  Disclaimer: I may have to charge you
10 zillion earth dollars for the service, however, after my dreams of trying to
harness flatulence for world peace falls flat and leaves me broke.

Sheesh, am I still talking?  I'm done...see you there suckas.

AJ