I had the strangest dream- I know that must sound like a cliché by now- but I was in some sort of alternate universe, which would be some sort of time throwback to the 1980s except in this alternate dimension the technology was in many ways more advanced than it was in our dimension in that era. anyways, I was in a shopping mall when one of those pollster types approached me and asked me If I wanted to be on some kinda tv show, and I said, "SURE!" so I walked with him to the studio, was taken into the front area with the other contestants, handed a computer tablet, a large one of about 18 inches diagonal measurement, and told to listen to the instructions from the host who told us to paint using our fingers on the interactive tablet, an artwork motif featuring a cartoon hand [which previously had been voted on by the audience], to "paint" on the tablet using that motif, and everything we did was projected onto a huge white screen in front of the auditorium, and the audience which must have been in the thousands, also had tablets [smaller ones] in which to make comment on, vote up or down, or even modify each of our creations. well, non-conformist me, even in that alternate dimension, decided to "paint outside the box" with unapproved colors, and I made me a grid, with columns for name, charity, donation amount and so on, and started to fill it in when some people in the audience decided to modify it by entering their names and desired charities and donation amounts, and the form just sort of exploded into a thousands-long list, and people were cheering me and I became a celebrity in a most unlikely way. after the show, the instant magazines put my picture [I was dressed most hiply in a loose-fitting red long-sleeved shirt tucked into impossibly trim blue jeans, looking much as I did in the real 1980s, described on the cover as CEO of Charity, Inc. then I went into a tavern of sorts, met the mayor and his flunkies, we lounged in front of an interactive big-screen tv set, they tried to find the broadcast of the show by entering figures into a computer built into the tv set, then I awoke.