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Journal Entry # 1 [Video/Action]

[Anyone who walks by or happens to be watching the network feed will see a frustrated kid siting on the grass and flipping through an old, battered journal.]

There isn't anything in this book about 'Pokémon'! Or how a sheep can produce electricity! That mom lady must have been a shape-shifter who didn't look anything like my mom... and that professor makes McGucket look sane...

[The gear moves towards the boy before it's tossed to the ground. Unfortunately, it lands face down, obscuring whatever threw it and the boy.]

Hey! Don't break that. We might need it later.

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[No. Just pointing out that some mysteries can never be solved.]

Mysteries in a small town.

Mysteries?

[Color him curious.]

Is there anything about ghosts in it?

Maybe. But they're not ghost stories.

[More questions. Is this guy honest or is there something he's hiding?]

[Maybe?]

I see...mysteries are my favorite kinds of stories. It sounds like that must be full of pretty good ones.

[He assumes, anyway, since Dipper's still being kindof cagey about it.]

There's no stories in these. Just cold, hard facts.

[Serious child is serious.]

...facts? So you believe the mysteries to be true?

[Sounds like he's got an overactive imagination, for a kid. Assuming this book is just that- a book of fiction someone wrote.]

No. They are true. I've seen it all myself.

[Not that he has any photographic proof. Oh, if only Mabel were here, or his grunkle Stan would talk to this guy...]

Well...what kinds of things have you seen?

[Spill, Dipper.]

[What do. What do.]

Things that will give you nightmares.

[Geeze Dipper, what have you been reading?]

Wow...it sounds pretty intense.

[Not reading it. Living it.]

Life and death situations are like that.

[Kaneki just nods. Okay, he'll just go along with that for now. Seeing that journal, though, he can't help but ask:]

So...do you like to read?

[Clearly Kaneki needs to spend the surer in the wonderfully paranormal state of Oregon.

ISN'T IT OBVIOUS]

Yeah, I like to read.

[Hmm...]

...would you possibly be interested in joining a book club, then?

[Yes.]

No.

[I mean.]

YES.

[Kaneki can't help but smile a little at that. SUCH ENTHUSIASM.]

My friend Maka started up a book club not long ago. We have meetings every now and then. Her Alakazam can bring people over who can't travel that far themselves, so that wouldn't be a problem, if you're interested.

[...ah, right-]

I'm Kaneki Ken, by the way. I never introduced myself.

[Book club = like minded, intelligent people that a 12 year old might fit in with!]

Maka. Right... wait... Alakazam. Like those magi words "Abra Kadabra Alakazam?"

[Intro time.]

Dipper Pines.

That's right. Those are the names of three Pokemon, too, in the order they evolve- Abra, Kadabra, and then Alakazam.

It's nice to meet you, Dipper-san.

[That's as bad as Mabel naming her pig Waddles because pigs waddle...]

Are they magicians?

-san? Are you from Japan?

Well...they're Psychic type Pokemon, which are probably as close to magicians as you could get...

And I am, yes. I'm from Tokyo.

[He'll have to look them up.]

Why are Japanese horror movies so weird?

[Ju-on, man. Ju-on.]

[Dipper oh my god you don't just ask that-]

I...don't know?

[HE'S CURIOUS]

Japan sure has a different take on what's scary.

You can say that about movies from other countries too though, can't you? I mean...not every movie is all that scary.

[Some American "scary movies" are just as weird, man. Not like he'd know though...he's not much of a movie watcher anyway.]

True. "The Shining" isn't that scary once you realize it's supposed to be a psychological horror instead of a horror movie like Alfred Hitchcock's "Birds".

[Eight Legged Freaks is a really weird horror movie. Mutated spiders were a horror movie staple.]

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