2003-01-15 - 1:45 p.m.

Actionhero: circa early 21st century, age:early mid 20s.

Standing in the iridescent womb of an Apple store, across form a Gap and Victoria’s Secret, AH stops, as the reality of the situation hits him. The sales staff is cheerful and friendly, not the wild-eyed console cowboys of 80s post modern cyberpunk but the friendly henchmen of Hank Scorpio. They are wearing chinos and Birkenstocks. The computers are trendy, sleek and sexy while maintaining their playful manner. I think of Sailor Mood and Retrocarp’s brown haired Shunjuku Subway Sex Moppet all packed with a G4 processor. Neo yuppie, gen-x waning into the beginning of middle age despite all comb-over attempts to keep with the youth abounds. Somewhere, very faintly, Avril Legvine’s “Skaterboy” starts to play.

What the hell happened to my life?

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