Chapter 29

Brian has a metaphorical headache. He has been moaning all morning whilst carrying out his chores. What he wants is a new 1000 gig control box from The Apple Corporation. It would take me an Illustrian week of gigs to pay for it. So he is not getting one. Brian is very close to the point where I trade him in for a newer model,  which will come with a better control box and a better attitude. And he keeps harping on about Veronica being worth ten Georgia’s  and why don’t I move her in. I shut off his sound for a bit of peace. I use my IGBI special video link to find out how Veronica is. All I get is Smith being all uncious, which doesn’t suit him, and we will contact you. It is not as though I am saving the Universe. I put in the Fats chip and play some of his numbers, to see if I can spot any chord changes that shouldn’t be there, but all seems Okay to me. Brian buts in and says Georgia is on the holovid.

She is a sight for sore eyes. Her red hair is like copper in the sun and her freckles very prominent against her white skin. Her hologram is leaning on the end of the piano.

‘Want to take in a Suroundaround.

‘Yeh Okay, anything to get away from Brian’

It’s “I Married a Witch” with Frederic Marsh and Veronica Lake,’ Susan Heywood is in it too. We’ll take my sister along for that part’

‘The Veronica Lake?’

‘As cast by Rene Clair.’

Since our little bout in the hospital, Veronica has been shot again. It is becoming a habit. The things you have to do to save mankind. I drag my mind back to the present. For extra cash at the suroundaround it is possible to not only to play out the film, but to be in at the rehearsal stage, and some of the outtakes.

‘Lets do the whole thing, The Film, outtakes rehearsals. I’ll pay.’

‘Sounds a gas’, says Georgia. See you in the screen room, is an hour Okay?

‘Yes’

The hologram fades, and Brian chips in. ‘Shall I lay out the tux, Sir?’

‘Don’t be a prick Brian it’s not a premier, something casual will do, but nothing fuchsia, I hate that fucking colour.’