Life Has A Peculiar Habit -- Once

I've Always Felt That Anyone Who Wants To Talk About My Private Life Is Only Demonstrating The Paucity Of His/her Imagination When There Are So Many More Important And Exciting Things To Discuss.

Star Trek' Is The Mcdonald's Of Science Fiction; It's Fast Food Storytelling. Every Problem Is Like Every Other Problem. They All Get Solved In An Hour. Nobody Ever Gets Hurt, And Nobody Needs To Care. You Give Up An Hour Of Your Time, And You Don't Really Have To Get Involved. It's All Plastic.

Study What You Love, And Youll Never Have To Work A Day In Your Life. Itll Be One Great Adventure.

Notice How Every Science Fiction Movie Or Television Show Starts With A Shot Of The Location Where The Story Is About To Occur. Movies That Take Place In Outer Space Always Start With A Shot Of Stars And A Starship. Movies That Take Place On Another World Always Start With A Shot Of That Planet. This Is To Let You Know Where You Are. Novels And Stories Start The Same Way. You Have To Give The Reader A Sense Of Where He Is And What's Happening As Quickly As Possible. You Don't Want To Start The Story By Confusing The Reader.

Something Went Klunk. Like A Nickel Dropping In A Soda Machine. One Of Those Small Insights That Explains Everything. This Was Puberty For These Boys. Adolescence. The First Date, The First Kiss, The First Chance To Hold Hands With Someone Special. Delayed, Postponed, A Decade's Worth Of Longing--while Everybody Around You Celebrates Life, You Pretend, Suppress, Inhibit, Deprive Yourself Of You Own Joy--but Finally Ultimately, Eventually, You Find A Place Where You Can Have A Taste Of Everything Denied.