Like Golfballs for Gunmen
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Golfballs?!?!?
So why golfballs? (Believe me, my fiancee is still asking that question.)
Well...
One of the first few episodes run was called "Bond, Jimmy Bond". The opening scene featured a young hacker hitting golfballs off a balcony...as tears slowly ran down his face. He manages, with grim satisfaction, to shatter the windshield of a car a little ways away. In the meantime, an evil-looking man has come into the room adjacent to the balcony...only to find the hacker's work eradicated from the bank of computers within. Enraged, he shoots the hacker.
Fast-forward several weeks...to a geeky young woman with a dream. Other TV shows had been snatched from the brink of cancellation by mail-in campaigns--why not THE LONE GUNMEN? Just one thing...what object to choose? Roswell had its tabasco bottles and labels. What one humble item would be the rallying cry of viewers from coast to coast this time? What one thing would perfectly symbolize our heroes and their plight?
I still haven't figured that out yet.
But while I was pondering the question, that one scene flashed through my mind. Golfballs are small, pretty readily available, and fairly easy to ship. (And pictures of them are even easier to mail.) I saw, in a flash, a vision of hundreds of golfballs soaring through the air (figuratively) to land upon the desks of baffled FOX executives (literally.) Just as hitting golfballs was both a celebration of the hacker's favorite sport and one last tragic act of defiance, we could use golfballs as a celebration of our enjoyment of this show and a protest against ratings-based programming strategy.
Plus, "Like Golfballs For Gunmen" had a really cool ring to it, similar to that episode "Like Water for Octane" (you know, the one with the water-powered car.) It just sounds cool. And I had this web-site publishing program from my birthday that I was just itching to take for a spin...
...and the result is here.
