Three-hundredth Panopticon posting is Part II of "The Runes of Sebastian Lloyd"!

Special Santarialand commemorative railway carriage created for the event!

(and that's little Sebastian Lloyd back in the gaily painted cabin, putting firecrackers in the egg nog)

[From the desk of Perfessor Pille] A too brief halloo as I'm garbed in jammies and scheduled for the brushed cotton sheets of Morpheus. Here handed to me is a 6 by 9 indexical card upon which is inscribed the predictions of the next Rune of Sebastian Lloyd (Das Runen von Sebastian Lloyd) and it is hummed thusly:

• 2042- SL emerges from his Llamisery of Solitude high in the Tibetan lowlands and proceeds to utilize his limitless fortune to set up a vast retail chain establishment to be known as Null-Mart in an attempt to utterly destroy the globe-girdling totalitarianism called Wal-Mart. His new stores sell toilet paper for 3 cents a roll, piñatas for a nickel, and 55 gallon drums of sucrose-drenched "root beer" for a dollar. The scheme is so successful that within a mere year the miracle-maker is able to employ desperate members of the Walton Family as minimum wage store greeters. Victorious, the Mighty SL jettisons the "crap" and gradually replaces it with health-giving and sturdy products offered to the public at highly reasonable prices (including inexpensive water-closet paper that does not cause a gluteal rash). Further, the chain is renamed from the pugilistic-sounding Null-Mart to We Really Like You Guys!

(be alerted to further adventures of "The Runes of Sebastian Lloyd," soon to be a National Optical Wireless entertainment starring Baby Chanute as "Sebastian Lloyd," Penny Pille as "Sarah," and Escrow Fountainbleau van Buren as "Papa Ted")