Daily Writing Prompt – Who is Driver Doug?

I’m serious about work and my coworker relationships, and the bounty has flowed as an abundance that has served me well–although I have bad fortune with subordinates and with my private life sexual excursions.

Glib, quick-witted and able to read a group and others when I am still and quiet–is a rarity in and of itself, and rarely lasts very long–as I am on to the next topic and issue and relationship.

My biggest anger-maker is when someone withholds information. Lies I can deal with. People get mad at me because they think I am a flippant waffler, but this is far from who I really am. As a Gemini Sun, with my ruler Mercury in Gemini, I see both sides, and can’t understand why people get so angry when their beliefs or way of doing things are challenged. I would make a good ambassador and negotiator, though I rarely get the chance because people don’t take me seriously. I do have a perfected side-out rotate method of attack which catches an enemy off guard, when I go in for the kill–to teach a lesson that won’t be forgotten. Everyone is usually too impatient with their agendas to hear what a long term solution could be that works out best for everyone–because they are too focused on the short term.

Indeed, I have a long-sighted horizon. This is usually at odds with what looks like a quick fix. If you want what you want, you have to be willing to completely change everything at the autonomic reactionary level of first blush. And far be it from me to tell you. What goes around comes around does seem to be the long term healer of heels.

Anyway, I do love lithe lean artists and writers, dancers and doers, bakers and candlestick makers. Upper management and office politics bore me. I like being in the trenches. Or in the kitchen or on the line.

Lest I seem too much like Brainiac*

Silver Age DC Comics

*The first Brainiac/Kandor comic book story in Action Comics #242 (July 1958) was based on a story arc in the Superman comic strip from April through August 1958. In the comic strip story, Superman’s foe was named Romado, who traveled the cosmos with a white alien monkey named Koko, shrinking major cities and keeping them in glass jars. The strip’s Kryptonian bottled city was named Dur-El-Va.^[4] This cross-continuity conflict was not unprecedented; in 1958 and ’59, editor Mort Weisinger used the comic strip to prototype a number of concepts that he planned to introduce in the book, including Bizarro and red Kryptonite.^[5]

Brainiac is a bald, green-skinned humanoid who arrives on Earth and shrinks various cities, including Metropolis, storing them in bottles with the intent of using them to restore the then-unnamed planet he ruled.^[6] He was originally notable only for having shrunk the bottle city of Kandor with his shrinking ray and for using a force field.^[7] In his initial story, he also traveled with a white alien monkey named Koko; the monkey also appears in a 1960 Superman story retelling the story of Kandor’s disappearance (Superman #141 (November 1960)). Koko was quickly dropped from Brainiac’s stories, but a version of the monkey has made sporadic appearances as the villain’s pet in the series Justice and the 2008 storyline “Brainiac” in Action Comics. The villain’s descendant Brainiac 5 also had a pet named Koko for several stories in the 1990s.

Archetypal Explorer is an incredible view of planetary effects by graphic depiction

Christopher Witecki

Note Brainiac’s debut occurred just as I was born in New York City in June of 1958. I was three weeks early.

Let me assure you–I fail and I fail monumentally. My favorite theme song is Tom Petty’s “Free Falling.” –and it ain’t a rising meteor or shooting star!