6th day off • [ you can find it all on your radio ]

[truant]

[video; private]

It's been a while since our last installation; and really, I offer my sincere apologies for being so lax in my account. You know how it is. Life keeps moving, you've gotta keep up. Things have certainly kept moving here. Not entirely in a positive sense-- biblical plagues can put a damper on things, but, hey, we pull through.

I'm taking today's "curse" [the quotations are indicated with finger gestures] as a bit of a peace offering, though. Really, it's almost as if the City doesn't want me to be homesick. Which I appreciate, sincerely.

And hey -- apparently, I'm an icon of the eighties. Really, I'd be more surprised about it, but I always suspected the decade and I had a special relationship.

[end private]

[begin public video feed]

[Ferris appears with a reassuring smile.]

Good afternoon, City. Ferris Bueller here with a helpful bit of advice to help you survive the day.

Do not attempt to adjust your set. The colors are that bright. To be honest, they're not really my personal style, but hey -- to each their own. I'm not about to get on anyone's case if Day Glo is their idea of a good look. You get used to it. Oh, and then there's the leather, the lace and the studs. I have to level with you there, all that hardware's a little bit too complicated for me.

As to my own personal tastes...

[He pulls on his beret.]

Well, I prefer the understated classics. It helps you maintain yourself as a free-floating individual, not pigeonholing yourself into a predefined social circle. It can be limiting, you know, letting your appearance define you before you have a chance to do it yourself based on your own personal views and merits.

I seem to have gotten off on a tangent. At any rate--

[He pauses to pull his glasses on and smirks at the camera.]

I'm going out to enjoy this choice day. Frankly, when the deities decide your era is the next stop on the time shuffle, you've just got to see for yourself what they do with it.

[end feed]

Comments

[tenthsickday.livejournal.com]

Not particularly, on either count.

What can I say? We're just a highly distinctive decade.

[not-pirate.livejournal.com]

Distinctive is a good word for that. Tacky and in your face just doesn't have the same ring to it. Not that I'd call it that. Only respect for the 80s. I don't want bad decade karma.

[tenthsickday.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd be careful with what you say about it. I mean, I'm a forgiving, understanding kind of guy, but some of us iconic figures of the decade are a bit rougher than others. You don't want the A-Team to show up and find out what you said, now do you?

[not-pirate.livejournal.com]

I'll be careful. I'd pity the fool who got Mr. T angry. [Look who is so terribly clever over here! Going to be laughing at himself. He's an audience of one.]

[After a moment.] You don't really think he could show up here too?

[tenthsickday.livejournal.com]

[Aww, he'll give you a snicker for that. If only for effort.]

Hey, who knows? After all, I hear we missed out on Luke Skywalker.

[not-pirate.livejournal.com]

What? Are you serious? Luke Skywalker was here? As in the one with the force and kissing his sister and hanging out with a wookie and Han Solo? [Nerd? Who is a nerd?]

[tenthsickday.livejournal.com]

If there's another Luke Skywalker, I can't say I've heard of him.

[not-pirate.livejournal.com]

That would be pretty strange to run into Luke Skywalker, gas station attendant or Luke Skywalker sous chef.