Dogboy walks outside.
Dogboy hops a ride on streetcar.
Dogboy bumps into listless strangers on crowded streetcar.
Streetcar smells like robotic utopia.
Dogboy sees basket of pineapples and oranges next to a benevolent transient.
Benevolent transient offers dogboy an orange. Dogboy accepts.
Dogboy stuffs orange in his pocket.
Pocket tears open, orange rolls across streetcar floor and onto concrete.
Girl says, -Dogboy, what you doing?
Dogboy says, -Playing game.
-Oh, cool. Is it fun?
-Used to be. Higher levels too difficult.
-Quit, Dogboy, quit!
-Can’t. Want cake.
-Game gives you cake?
-Keeps saying I get cake if I pass all of the tests.
-Who says?
-Computer voice. I keep dying in tests.
-Dogboy, why you trust computer voice who gives you tests that kill you?
-Good point. Got bus pass?
-Yep.
-Want to pass the bus-to-cake test?
-Yes! I can do it!
-Let’s boogie.
Dogboy shuts down laptop. Closes laptop top. Sprinkles lighter fluid on laptop. Lights lighter fluid.
Laptop burns.
Dogboy and Girl get cake.
Girl says, -Dogboy, why you put on scarf?
Dogboy says -It’s for waving.
-Scarves wave?
-Yep. As you go through airport security, scarf and I will wave you goodbye.
-Dogboy, scarves have no hands to wave.
-Scarf will wave by flapping in wind.
-Dogboy, you’ll be in airport. There’s no wind!
-I thought of that.
Dogboy holds up a fan.
Dogboy opens fridge.
Girl says, -Dogboy, what you doing?
Dogboy says, -Cooling off.
Girl says, -Dogboy, it’s zero degrees out.
Dogboy says, -Zero is a thousand.
Girl says, -How?
Dogboy says, -Global warming.
Girl says, -And?
Dogboy says, -Dream I had.
-Ah. It’s faster with breeze.
Dogboy says, -Way ahead of you.
Dogboy reaches over and turns on fan.
Girl says, -Cold.
Dogboy says, -In dream, you were ice cream.
-What does ice cream say?
-It says don’t eat!
Dogboy gets up.
Dogboy runs into wall.
Dogboy bumps edge of doorway.
Dogboy moves hand along table.
Dogboy opens fridge. Kitchen lights up.
Dogboy takes out water.
Dogboy pours into cup.
Dogboy puts water in fridge.
Dogboy closes fridge. Kitchen turns dark.
Dogboy drinks.
Randolph goes to the store. He looks at the choices. He buys everything else he needs, then comes back and looks at the choices. He drools. He stands to the left and thinks. He adjusts himself. He wonders out loud if one brand is cheaper by the ounce than another. He discovers that this information is on the label. He picks up a carton. He puts it down.
His cell phone rings.
Randolph says, -Hello?
Dogboy says, -Hello.
Randolph says, -Hello.
Dogboy says, -Hello?
-Hello.
-Hello.
-Hello.
-Hello?
-Hello. Hello hello.
-Hello.
Randolph hangs up. He picks up a carton. He checks out. He drives home. He orders pizza. He sits down.
Dogboy says, -I am Darth Vader.
Girl says, -Not again!
Dogboy says, -Shazam!
Nothing happens.
Girl says, -Dogboy, you out of batteries.
Dogboy moves to the wall, hand on light switch.
Dogboy says, -Shazam!
Light turns on.
Dogboy says, -Magic!
Girl says, -Like frosted oatmeal in summer!
Dogboy says, -Exactly.
Dogboy Has a Strange Dream!
Dogboy is in dreamscape.
Strange purple swirly things float all around Dogboy.
Girl asks, why are you building a pyramid made out of pancakes, Dogboy?
Dogboy has great idea but can’t explain it well.
A silver robot walks up to Dogboy.
Silver robot says, can I have pancake, dogboy?
Dogboy drenches pancake in syrup and hands to silver robot.
Silver robot enjoys his pancake.
Pancake pyramid collapses, syrup splashes.
Girl, Dogboy and silver robot do a little dance.
Dogboy wakes up.