Tuesday, November 20

Twenty minutes to freedom

I remember being in this position before...being at work, waiting for the phone to ring, the clock to run out, something to happen so that my life would have some meaning for the next hour. Except in this case, it's twenty minutes, which time I hope to fill up as much as possible with this post.

It sounds almost like a movie title, actually--"ONE HOUR TO FREEDOM", the new action thriller about a Russian man in Moscow during the cold war who actually turns out to be an American spy who is actually a Chinese communist...it could be juicy. Or maybe it could be a show about a man having flashbacks over his life's story during his last hour of life before he's executed by aliens on some distant star system that he just discovered, then in the end he amazingly escapes and subdues the aliens and makes them farm an alien plantation for him, since I hate gory endings.

There are so many possibilities with a title so luscious as "ONE HOUR TO FREEDOM". No one would ever guess that it originated with a bored computer technician trying to find some way of passing the time.

I wonder what other movies or exciting books and such could be written with that title as a basis...

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