Dad's Back Home & It's Saturday
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snoozefestaudioI brought Dad back home from the hospital around 4PM today. He's still a bit tired, but he had enough strength to get around and in and out of his chairs tonight. First thing he did was sit himself down in his kitchen chair and light up a smoke... after three days without one.
He coughed up a storm, but was glad to get that fix... with his dog whining with joy at his side, to see him again, as I made him a pot of coffee.
He got himself up from there, a bit later and made it to the living room, to sit himself down and watch some Accuweather... the only channel he ever watches anymore.
I ran out and picked up his prescriptions, and by the time I got back, he was back in the kitchen chair at the table again, smoking another menthol.
Despite being kinda tired, he stayed up until 7:30PM to have a Guinness, before bed.
All is well, and God is in his Heaven!
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Snoop & Prowly were left alone upstairs for longer today, I think, that at any time since I adopted them, back on the 8th.
I'd left them just after getting up and making my coffee, and... didn't get back up here for a good six to seven hours.
So, being that it was also Saturday, I abandoned any idea of recording outside tonight so I could stay up here with them the rest of the night and catch up on the attention they've been lacking from me, the past week.
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I've continued to think about this idea of a Legend of Speeder screenplay!
I know it can't be a novel, because I've tried writing novels and I just can't do it! And it' can't be a comic because... that's even harder than a novel! If anything it'd have to be a screenplay!
I don't know if I'll ever be able to see that through either, but it does have my interest right now, so I'm turning it over in my head.
So, Speeder's name, I figured should be Mark Wagner.
The origin story is 1954 America, and I wanted Speeder to be kind of the underdog from the East side of town, from one of the immigrant classes of the day, which were the Irish, Polish, German, etc. But I decided he should be of German decent, because he needs to have engineering skills and... you know... that's a German thing.
So the last name Wagner is German, and means, "wagoner," which is the closest thing they have to a car guy. I wanted his first name to be like, Mercury, the God of speed, and the closest I could get was just, Mark.
I could've gone with Otto... because it's German... was popular in the 1950s, and sounds like "auto," but... I think that's already been done.
Mark Wagner's fine... he's just an American white kid with black hair and brown eyes from the poor side of town in the early 1950s, trying to soup up his hot rod to be faster than anybody else! And he's got to use his wits to do that, because he doesn't have the money that the kids on the west side have!
So, what car is he hot rodding?
Well... it has to be a pre-WW2 car, because not many cars were made at all during the war, and it's too soon after the war for anything to be around that he can afford. So I did a little research and settled on the 1938 Studebaker Commander Coupe.
I love the look of this car!.. and the way it looks so cool, yet would seem a bit old and outdated to the youngsters of 1954.
But I also love that it's a Studebaker... which is just a totally forgotten car maker in this day and age. But my quick research seems to suggest, Studebaker was a prewar baddass manufacturer, and this would still be a solid choice for Mark in 52 through 54 as something to hot rod.
It came stock with a six cylinder engine in 38, but there was enough room under the hood to cram in an eight-banger. And, as it turns out, by the early 1950s, Studebaker was making, arguably, the most powerful V8 ever made!
The post war Studebaker V8 was designed to work with ultra high octane gasoline... that the market never actually produced... even to this day.
But if it was given super high octane gasoline, it would've delivered far more horse power than any other engine of the time... and had the beef to endure the stress of such high compression combustion.*
So... drop that baby in a little 38 Commander Coupe, and you've got a hot rod!
Of course, you'll have to beef up the drive train and transmission, but that's all part of the game.
But Mark knows what he's doing, so... he's got a fast assed car, using normal high octane gas of the day. Yet he's able... without cheating and using nitris oxide, to super boost the hell out of it... if he can get hold of higher octane fuel.
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But Mark's gotta have a foil. So, clearly his foil is from the west side... and of English decent. And I decided to name the foil Jack Frost. And Jack Frost is a vampire.
Jack's hot rod is a 1952 Chevy Coup.
You can see how it's more modern than the 38 Studebaker... yet how similar they are. And I like this too!.. that neither car is what a modern person would think of when you say 1950s hot rod... they both look earlier, and more of a forgotten style of cool... yet between the two, you can see that the Chevy is a bit more modern than the Studebaker.
And Jack Frost would've been quite proud of his Chevy, and really looked down his nose at Mark's prewar dinosaur car.
And here, the idea is that Frost chooses style over subtance, and... I haven't done the research yet, but I'd like to have him running an aluminum block engine, which he thinks will give him an advantage, because it's lighter weight... and also rigging it up with nitris for a speed boost... because that sets the table for him potentially blowing up his engine block at some pivotal moment in some decicive race against Mark.
--<>--
The idea is that Jack Frost has a huge advantage because of his vampire senses, and vampire response times, which makes him an unbeatable driver in a certain style of racing, but that Mark... while he is still human... manages to overcome that because he's keener about the engineering aspects of the vehicle, and his car just holds together better when it's really put to the test.
--<>--
And... that's just two hot rodders as foils in a story.
The plot has to be more involved than that, even in an origin story for Speeder, but I have ideas about how to make it more interesting with an unrequited love for Mark, who Jack wants to eat... and a secret coven of witches who want to rid the town of the vampires...
And like... Mark goes to jail for a minute...
I dunno.
It's early days on this.
I promise I won't burden you with every development of this screenplay, but tonight I'm not doing much else, so I have.
It's been a rough week!
Hopefully next week, as we transition into September, things will start moving along more smoothly, at home, and on that new workfront.
°¦}
*Octane allows the fuel/air mixture of gasoline and air to undergo much higher compression in the cylinder, before it finally ignites. This leads to the pistons being moved with much more force, and more efficiently... which means much higher speeds, with less combustion waste building up inside the engine.
It also leads to higher engine temperatures, but the Studebaker V8 was hefty enough to handle that extra pressure and temperature. It was considered a heavy, and over-engineered engine in it's day, but... if you fed it super high octane fuel and pushed it to it's limits... the horsepower would more than make up for the weight of the engine... especially if you put it into a smaller vehicle.
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He coughed up a storm, but was glad to get that fix... with his dog whining with joy at his side, to see him again, as I made him a pot of coffee.
He got himself up from there, a bit later and made it to the living room, to sit himself down and watch some Accuweather... the only channel he ever watches anymore.
I ran out and picked up his prescriptions, and by the time I got back, he was back in the kitchen chair at the table again, smoking another menthol.
Despite being kinda tired, he stayed up until 7:30PM to have a Guinness, before bed.
All is well, and God is in his Heaven!
Snoop & Prowly were left alone upstairs for longer today, I think, that at any time since I adopted them, back on the 8th.
I'd left them just after getting up and making my coffee, and... didn't get back up here for a good six to seven hours.
So, being that it was also Saturday, I abandoned any idea of recording outside tonight so I could stay up here with them the rest of the night and catch up on the attention they've been lacking from me, the past week.
I've continued to think about this idea of a Legend of Speeder screenplay!
I know it can't be a novel, because I've tried writing novels and I just can't do it! And it' can't be a comic because... that's even harder than a novel! If anything it'd have to be a screenplay!
I don't know if I'll ever be able to see that through either, but it does have my interest right now, so I'm turning it over in my head.
So, Speeder's name, I figured should be Mark Wagner.
The origin story is 1954 America, and I wanted Speeder to be kind of the underdog from the East side of town, from one of the immigrant classes of the day, which were the Irish, Polish, German, etc. But I decided he should be of German decent, because he needs to have engineering skills and... you know... that's a German thing.
So the last name Wagner is German, and means, "wagoner," which is the closest thing they have to a car guy. I wanted his first name to be like, Mercury, the God of speed, and the closest I could get was just, Mark.
I could've gone with Otto... because it's German... was popular in the 1950s, and sounds like "auto," but... I think that's already been done.
Mark Wagner's fine... he's just an American white kid with black hair and brown eyes from the poor side of town in the early 1950s, trying to soup up his hot rod to be faster than anybody else! And he's got to use his wits to do that, because he doesn't have the money that the kids on the west side have!
So, what car is he hot rodding?
Well... it has to be a pre-WW2 car, because not many cars were made at all during the war, and it's too soon after the war for anything to be around that he can afford. So I did a little research and settled on the 1938 Studebaker Commander Coupe.
I love the look of this car!.. and the way it looks so cool, yet would seem a bit old and outdated to the youngsters of 1954.
But I also love that it's a Studebaker... which is just a totally forgotten car maker in this day and age. But my quick research seems to suggest, Studebaker was a prewar baddass manufacturer, and this would still be a solid choice for Mark in 52 through 54 as something to hot rod.
It came stock with a six cylinder engine in 38, but there was enough room under the hood to cram in an eight-banger. And, as it turns out, by the early 1950s, Studebaker was making, arguably, the most powerful V8 ever made!
The post war Studebaker V8 was designed to work with ultra high octane gasoline... that the market never actually produced... even to this day.
But if it was given super high octane gasoline, it would've delivered far more horse power than any other engine of the time... and had the beef to endure the stress of such high compression combustion.*
So... drop that baby in a little 38 Commander Coupe, and you've got a hot rod!
Of course, you'll have to beef up the drive train and transmission, but that's all part of the game.
But Mark knows what he's doing, so... he's got a fast assed car, using normal high octane gas of the day. Yet he's able... without cheating and using nitris oxide, to super boost the hell out of it... if he can get hold of higher octane fuel.
But Mark's gotta have a foil. So, clearly his foil is from the west side... and of English decent. And I decided to name the foil Jack Frost. And Jack Frost is a vampire.
Jack's hot rod is a 1952 Chevy Coup.
You can see how it's more modern than the 38 Studebaker... yet how similar they are. And I like this too!.. that neither car is what a modern person would think of when you say 1950s hot rod... they both look earlier, and more of a forgotten style of cool... yet between the two, you can see that the Chevy is a bit more modern than the Studebaker.
And Jack Frost would've been quite proud of his Chevy, and really looked down his nose at Mark's prewar dinosaur car.
And here, the idea is that Frost chooses style over subtance, and... I haven't done the research yet, but I'd like to have him running an aluminum block engine, which he thinks will give him an advantage, because it's lighter weight... and also rigging it up with nitris for a speed boost... because that sets the table for him potentially blowing up his engine block at some pivotal moment in some decicive race against Mark.
The idea is that Jack Frost has a huge advantage because of his vampire senses, and vampire response times, which makes him an unbeatable driver in a certain style of racing, but that Mark... while he is still human... manages to overcome that because he's keener about the engineering aspects of the vehicle, and his car just holds together better when it's really put to the test.
And... that's just two hot rodders as foils in a story.
The plot has to be more involved than that, even in an origin story for Speeder, but I have ideas about how to make it more interesting with an unrequited love for Mark, who Jack wants to eat... and a secret coven of witches who want to rid the town of the vampires...
And like... Mark goes to jail for a minute...
I dunno.
It's early days on this.
I promise I won't burden you with every development of this screenplay, but tonight I'm not doing much else, so I have.
It's been a rough week!
Hopefully next week, as we transition into September, things will start moving along more smoothly, at home, and on that new workfront.
°¦}
*Octane allows the fuel/air mixture of gasoline and air to undergo much higher compression in the cylinder, before it finally ignites. This leads to the pistons being moved with much more force, and more efficiently... which means much higher speeds, with less combustion waste building up inside the engine.
It also leads to higher engine temperatures, but the Studebaker V8 was hefty enough to handle that extra pressure and temperature. It was considered a heavy, and over-engineered engine in it's day, but... if you fed it super high octane fuel and pushed it to it's limits... the horsepower would more than make up for the weight of the engine... especially if you put it into a smaller vehicle.
