When you stare into the eyes of a giant land cat, what are you seeing? Strength? Worry? Pure Natural Instinct? It is a creature of undeniable power and – due to man’s overreach – incredible vulnerability. Simultaneously at the top of the food chain and next on the extinction list.
If we could peer into their minds, through the power of advanced 3D holographic technology, however briefly, we’d be exposed to a familiar yet altogether foreign world. Fractals, designs, tessellations, those posters of expensive sports cars on fire – all pale to the inner secrets of a Lion.
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But I imagine the Brain of a Lion is filled with a thousand unsorted recipe cards and an ever-growing, ever-spinning, ever-lasting buzz saw.

My idea in it’s most basic terms: Parking Meters, but bigger.

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The rapport was so casual that Stewart even said it felt like they should be sipping lemonade on a porch.
Rumsfeld responded that Stewart was just unused to folksy conversation because Americans in the heartland — but not on the coasts — are that affable all the time.
“Yes, Stewart responded. “On the coasts we just curse and have gay sex. That’s all we do”

The local Fife and Drum corps have been disbanded. There’s nothing to be done about it. We’ll be lucky if any of them stay in town. Their absence in the parade will be filled by the Old Lady Knitters Auxiliary #452.
The hardest part will be repossessing all the instruments themselves and sanding off the initials of their current owners while they watch. Very old city ordinance. No way around it.