The Eternal Inflation Lecture Council gathered

The Eternal Inflation Lecture Council gathered in the star chamber. The diamond secret had finally escaped. It was inevitable. As the Pulsar Chronicles had always said.

The EIL Council was now faced with a vicious cycle of market deflation and a stagnant putrid economy. Their four-pointed economic structure had stalled when Pulsar technology

turned out to depend on dark energy & dark energy depended on consumer confidence in quantum gravity. When they started suspecting the multiversity was a sham, deflation set in

People lost the value of money. They would mime paying the clerks in stores. "If we can't figure our place in the universe, why worry about the economy?" said a nihilist consumer.

The nihilist consumer lost the will to consume and sat around all day trying to be as one with the light particles flowing through her window. Her name was Sunbeam & she ate light

for breakfast. Breakfast was a bit too optimistic, though. She preferred the term "prolonging my meaningless life so that I might continue to exist without purpose or direction."

I had lived like that all my life and was ready to find a purpose, so I took up painting.you must start somewhere. This worked.

It was not long before painting happy trees started to go off the canvas and into the streets. I became graffiti artist Taggertaint and I tagged the west coast from Mission Beach

to La Jolla, painting tiny Steve Buscemi faces in every painting in every hotel room I visited. Some times it appeared in a flower, other times in the sky over a seascape. Some day