Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 07:02:18 -0700
Title: Bell, beer and blitzkrieg

"The reason I'm interested ONLY in the biker-bars leitmotiv for all the bars
I own is because I AM a 'biker'. I love to fly, I love to ride.  I can
be me.  It's all I want to know about...."

"What about the Center?  What about your reputation in the field?  Four years
ago you blitzkrieged the network security business with THE bioorganic
operator miniaturization process, or something like that.  You 'loved' that
so much you wrote 2 books and godknowshowmany articles. Then suddenly
nothing.  Nuthin' else to do with it."

Bell lightly taps her beer mug on the bartop and silently gestures for Jake
to bring another, then drains the dreg.  I'm NOT in the mood for lectures but
She Goes On...

"Are you still involved in the Center?  Did I hear that you actually WON it
in a 5-card Stud game?"

"Yes, I 'own' the controlling interest and I 'own' all the machinery and
brains in the building.  I own the building.  I had a straight flush, Len
got caught up in a betting battle between me and Henry. That's all I
remember."

She practically empties the beer, looks around the bar, and leans toward me,
"I found out who planted the bomb in your car and I know where he is."

Bell lightly taps her empty beer mug on the bartop and silently gestures for
Jake to bring another.  The suspense builds as she takes the last two or
three swallows of Jake's Olive Elegance, eats, relishes the olive as Jake
draws two Hollenbeck drafts, drops a green olive stuffed with pimento in each
and sets them down in front of us.  Bell smiles, looks at me straight on, and
says,
"Tod. Cockroach Tod.  He used some sort of 30-second delay mechanism for the
car bomb, and it saved your life, sonny boy. It was he who stole Ray's hog,
or is it YOUR hog? "
Bell reaches over and tweeks my cheek. My automatic response is too quick
for me to regulate and I quickly jerk away.

"Where is he?"

*leit.mo.tiv or leit.mo.tif \'li-t-mo--.te-f\ n [G leitmotiv, fr. leiten to
lead + motiv motive] 1: an associated melodic phrase or figure that
accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation in a Wagnerian
music drama 2: a dominant recurring theme.

*blitz.krieg \'blit-.skre-g\ n [G, lit., lightning war, fr. blitz lightning
+ krieg war] 1: war conducted with great speed and force; specif : a  violent
surprise offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground  forces in
close coordination 2: a sudden overpowering bombardment -  blitzkrieg vt.

NOTE: there was a mistake in yesterday's episode.  the subject line of the
email message mentioned B.J. whereas the message was about L.A..  Sorry, it
was about B.J. all the way.  L.A. might have been watching with the rest of
us.

FRIDAY!!!
Ah, the sound of the word
Is enough to stir one's soul...
later,
d.