Each week we here at GMSC receive a gazillion pieces of fan mail either lauding our gallant efforts to offer fresh material or more often than not suggesting a post topic. (No, bababooey@lycos.net, I wasn’t at Royal Oak on Saturday wearing cut off jeans and a tank top. God, I hate missed connections.)

One loyal reader in a letter suggested that we take John McCain up on his new Republican challenge: a $300 million government prize to whomever can develop a super battery that far surpasses existing technology thereby saving the planet from greed, filth, and famine. Hooray! I couldn’t help but get choked up with nostalgia, reminiscing about my days in the Boys Scouts when my father and I built a racing car for the pinewood derby. We lost. But the fight goes on!

So I took McBush™ up on his gimmick challenge, only to discover that I had absolutely no idea how to engineer a super battery à la Tony Stark. At first I thought Hillary Clinton could help. She has loads of free time on her hands now that she’s next season’s host of ANTM. She demurred. So I turned to the next best think tank in town: the Sugs, i.e., Sugarland. As noted, The Metropolitan had been closed by the DOH. (tsk, tsk dirty little Fitzy.) At first some participants were hesitant, but once those complimentary shots kicked in, several designs and blueprints came rolling in. You be the judge!

Charlie Tu didn’t offer much cause he was too hungry (natch), so he got inspired in other ways.

One dude visiting from Montreal tried way too hard.

Fitzy came close to harnessing a Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ) sort of energy actually, but used it for other means.

Some artfag from Baden-Württemberg, Germany came up with a cute doodle. I think he was actually on to something.

Yes! He eventually crashed though due to DWI.

Why hello, Jerry!

He was an astronaut but couldn’t come up with much, so we dance the night away instead. Happy Pride!

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