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INT. OSVALDO’S – NIGHT


Joe leans forward conspiratorially toward Toozie.


JOE


Why do you say you know what goes on where I work?


Toozie reaches into her purse and pulls out her smartphone. She taps a few keys and then hands the phone to Joe to see.


It show a picture of Rosalie. Joe blanches.


TOOZIE


In case you’ve forgotten, that’s Dr. Rosalie Quisp. I believe she was a colleague of yours.


The bartender sets a glass of white wine in front of Toozie. She takes it and takes a sip.


TOOZIE


She was killed in some sort of industrial accident — unclear what kind, all the news media I could find were very vague about its nature.


JOE


It was tragic. We all liked Rosalie. What’s your point?


TOOZIE


Well, interestingly enough only one week after Dr. Quisp’s untimely demise, Oikos Galenou patents a compound that turns out to be the biggest medical miracle since penicillin.


Joe puts Toozie’s phone back on the bar.


JOE


A fortunate coincidence.


TOOZIE


Perhaps, Dr. Tucker. And a few years go by, and then there’s a terrorist incident, a really bad one, takes place. Something like six security guards were killed before the terrorists themselves were wiped out by a SWAT team. To this day no one, either from Oikos Galenou or law enforcement has been willing to comment in the news media about who these “terrorists” were or what they wanted.


JOE


Sometimes people play rough in industrial espionage.


TOOZIE


Yes, well, after that incident a mysterious artificial intelligence called the Mediatrix appeared. She…it?…let’s call her “she” puts her services to use solving an atrocious and long-running conflict.


JOE


I don’t see what you think that has to do with us.


TOOZIE


I would have thought nothing, until she gave that weird news conference prior to deactivating herself. She made a strange and possibly inappropriate set of references to sacrifices being made and how the long-suffering land of Stradanya was now in the “house of Galen.”


JOE


So that’s just weird.


TOOZIE


“Just weird,” until you think about the fact that “house of Galen” in Greek is Oikos Galenou.


JOE


Look, Toozie…


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Podcast Appearance: Zoot Suit

It is with great pleasure that I can announce a new appearance on The Moustachioed Podcastio with Daniel Segura as we spent an intense time discussing Luis Valdez’s 1981 Zoot Suit, a musical that takes off from real historical events in wartime Los Angeles (the Sleepy Lagoon Murder and the Zoot Suit riots) and becomes something truly extraordinary and complex. You can get a sense of how complex by listening to Daniel and me wrestle with it for nearly 100 minutes. It stars, among others, the awe-inspiring Edward James Olmos as “El Pachuco,” who’s either protagonist Henry Reyna’s projected alter ego, an allegorical representation of Chicano consciousness, or perhaps an Aztec deity. Aren’t movies great?

You can access the episode via Daniel’s links page or just load up “Moustachioed Podcastio” in your podcast app of choice.

Our custom episode art is by Lucy Fidelis, a long-time contributor here at Erotic Mad Science, showing El Pachuco projecting in front of a 21-st century Los Angeles. You can find out more about Lucy by visiting her website.

Toozie’s Cinematic Fantasy 15

Her tension relieved, Toozie returns to her seat at the movie.

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Part of a sequence in which artist Dark Vasili imagines what Toozie was imagining when she had to leave the monster-movie Cheesefest (a sequence that in main continuity begins at Storyboard 033.

If you support this artist on patreon as I do, you can get access to the artist’s galleries of exquisitely-rendered (some of it very NSFW) work.

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INT. OSVALDO’S – NIGHT


Osvaldo’s is a slightly more louche version of an American chain restaurant, the sort of place where twenty- and thirty-somethings congregate after work to drink and hook up.


There are televisions over the bar, at least one of which is tuned to a cable news channel.


Joe, dressed much like the rest of the clientele, sits at the bar nursing a beer.


Toozie, dressed as if she is out on a date, carrying a small purse, sidles onto the barstool next to Joe. She places her purse on the bar.


TOOZIE


Hello, Joe.


JOE


Toozie.


The BARTENDER approaches.


BARTENDER


Anything for the lady?


TOOZIE


Glass of white wine, please.


BARTENDER


You two want anything to eat?


JOE


(to Toozie)


The boneless wings here are pretty good.


TOOZIE


Okay.


JOE


(to Bartender)


Double order of boneless wings, extra hot-sauce on the side.


The Bartender nods, then shuffles away to get Toozie’s drink and put in the order.


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Toozie’s Cinematic Fantasy 14

Toozie climaxes, then politely goes to wash her hands.

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Part of a sequence in which artist Dark Vasili imagines what Toozie was imagining when she had to leave the monster-movie Cheesefest (a sequence that in main continuity begins at Storyboard 033.

If you support this artist on patreon as I do, you can get access to the artist’s galleries of exquisitely-rendered (some of it very NSFW) work.

Please do not reproduce this image or its associated storyboards or screenplay text without permission from Faustus, who may be contacted here.

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INT. CORNER OF SLEEPLESS JOE’S – DAY


A cheap paperback novel sits on the table where Joe is sitting. Joe finishes his coffee, then looks at the bottom of the cup.


INSERT CUP, WHICH READS:


“Sure.”


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Toozie’s Cinematic Fantasy 13

And in the end, our heroine makes a nice tasty octopus meal.

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Part of a sequence in which artist Dark Vasili imagines what Toozie was imagining when she had to leave the monster-movie Cheesefest (a sequence that in main continuity begins at Storyboard 033.

If you support this artist on patreon as I do, you can get access to the artist’s galleries of exquisitely-rendered (some of it very NSFW) work.

Please do not reproduce this image or its associated storyboards or screenplay text without permission from Faustus, who may be contacted here.

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INT. CORNER OF SLEEPLESS JOE’S – DAY


A cheap paperback novel sits on the table where Joe is sitting. Joe finishes his coffee, then looks at the bottom of the cup.


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Toozie’s Cinematic Fantasy 12

The penetration of our undersea heroine become positively obscene.

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Part of a sequence in which artist Dark Vasili imagines what Toozie was imagining when she had to leave the monster-movie Cheesefest (a sequence that in main continuity begins at Storyboard 033.

If you support this artist on patreon as I do, you can get access to the artist’s galleries of exquisitely-rendered (some of it very NSFW) work.

Please do not reproduce this image or its associated storyboards or screenplay text without permission from Faustus, who may be contacted here.

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INT. SLEEPLESS JOE’S COFFEE SHOP – DAY


Joe across the counter from Toozie.


JOE


Large coffee with two extra shots, please.


TOOZIE


Certainly, Dr. Tucker. That will be seven-fifty.


Joe hands a folded ten-dollar bill to Toozie. Inside the fold is a business card. Toozie puts the ten in the till then reads the card.


INSERT CARD, WHICH READS:


“Osvaldo’s 7:30 this evening?”


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Toozie writes something on the cup and on its bottom, then hands it to the preparing barista.


TOOZIE


Your coffee will be right up, Dr. Tucker.


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