MetaPlay ~ The Final Absolution

When last we left our intrepid playwright some five years ago [January 2011], he was still musing on the working title of the next comic opera in the Rinse Cycle...

The Ring of the Neener Bomb

Previously, Schadenfreude Theatre presented a pair of seemingly unrelated operas, one entitled Fear and Loathing in Lost Vagueness and one entitled No One Expects the Spammish Inquisition! [Not to mention a subsequent one entitled Rocky Horror Brain Cafe.]

Those historic productions were in addition to an earlier Soap Opera entitled Bildungsroman in the Age of Character Assassination which featured Bela, Klaatu, Moulton, and a variety of walk-on cameos by various and sundry characters from the Original ATI/RI/PDR Soap Opera which Bela graciously kicked off some seven years ago [in 2005 in a now-defunct social network site called World Crossing].

Now [September 2008] the third opera in the Ring of the Neener Bomb is getting underway at the English Wikipedia and at Wikiversity. This one is tentatively called The Final Absolution and promises to have considerably better music than the utter atrocities previously composed by Barsoom Tork Associates.

The tentative plan [in 2008] was to place the proposed drama aboard a Ship, the HMS Final Absolution. On the prow of the Ship, in lieu of a statue of a naked lady, there was to be a sculpture of a Fucshia Foofy Loofah. The cargo was slated to be Vanilla Bean Soap-On-a-Rope.

However, I'm now [in January 2011] thinking that instead of a Fucshia Foofy Loofah, I'll use a piece of Stainless Steel Wool as an Anode, and a Deuterated Palladium Cathode in lieu of the Vanilla Bean Soap-On-a-Rope. The Ship will be propelled by a noisy burst of pulsing energy through a fabulous spray of swirling mist. [The impetus for that never-produced drama was a misadventure in Wikiversity over the propriety of a course on Cold Fusion.]

I'm especially looking forward to crafting the grand finale, "The Riot of the Mockeries."

Clearly, the above concept was an utterly ludicrous non-starter.  Evidently, what's needed is a presentation based on a concept we might call "Zen and the Art of Posting Content-Free Memes" in which the unspoken rule is for the captive audience to digest them in utter and thoughtless silence.