Carbonated lasagna

There was a cultural watershed event tonight at the Red Cup, and even many of the regulars missed it. Years from now, many will no doubt say they were there even though they weren't.

Kathryn, Brian, Hugh and I put our heads together in an outside-the-box brainstorming session, and laid the groundwork for concepts that, years from now, will be so much a part of our everyday life that many will simply take it for granted they were always there, and marvel at the stories told of the evening they were first expressed as the germs of ideas.

Kathryn revisited her baby-caught-in-a-pipe air bag, but in a collective free-wheeling jam session we added that the bag, originally conceived to stop a baby who had fallen down a pipe from falling any further down pending rescue, could actually be deployed with a sudden burst likle an auto airbag, thus popping the infant into the air to be caught on descent by waiting firefighters.

Hugh suggested the formation of MABIP -- Mothers Against Babies in Pipes -- to help raise the level of baby-in-pipe awareness.

Your correspondent suggested flavored nose spray -- black raspberry being my personal favorite -- to help relieve the discomfort that occurs when one inhales too much in one sniff and some of it runs down your throat into your mouth.

But Brian had the most innovative idea of all -- carbonated lasagna that goes off in your mouth with a subtle popping sensation.

The man is a culinary Edison!

So there you have it. Tanner was there, but no one else. If, years or decades from now, you hear someone else say they saw it happen, well, they didn't.

Maybe you should print this page out and save it for future reference, just to keep the record straight.

All this thinking wore me out. I feel exhilarated but exhausted. I'm going to go to the bathroom and get some sleep.

Later.