last night’s dream: cite your sources

I was reading the latest issue of Comedian’s Quarterly, a magazine for comedians that has industry news. This magazine doesn’t exist in real life. I read a blurb about a comedian who had recently passed and they quoted a friend of mine. It occurred to me that the quotes attributed to my friend were actually things I had said to that friend in a phone call. This friend of mine was using my words and not attributing them to me.

The next article was a longer piece about a new up and coming comedian. Halfway through the article, they stopped calling him his own name and started calling him Nate Van Deusen, which was my name in the dream. For some reason I decided to change my last name to my brother’s wife’s last name. I don’t know why. Anyway, the article was still about this other guy but they kept calling him Nate Van Deusen, which was me.

I was going to show my friends this article but I couldn’t find where I had set down the magazine. I was babysitting my niece Astrid at the time and she had pulled down all my books and magazines off the shelves and I couldn’t find anything. Also, she had colored all over my books.

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