There’s something to be said about seizing the day. I remember my last million-dollar idea: it was to make a hybrid gasoline-electric car.

Honda and Toyota took that idea.

Then I thought it was high time the world be blessed with a gyroscopic two-wheeled scooter.

Some guy made the Segway.

It’s one of those strange facts of life: Ideas are like a one-dollar bill on the sidewalk. People just walk by, thinking it belongs to someone else.  If you don’t stop at that particular moment to pick it up, it’s going to be gone in the blink of an eye.

And you’ve had one of those types of ideas. Like that one time you wanted to make a television show based on your highly dramatic life, wherein you vote roommates out of the apartment or make them cross a tightrope to see who pays the electric bill. Then the fall TV lineups come out, and you’re sitting watching  Survivor, still pissed your roommate drank all the milk, but too engrossed in the show to say anything.

A friend of mine told me about a conspiracy covered up for centuries in which Jesus had a wife who was purposely removed from the Bible, and how she would create an elaborate plot device involving a man connected to literature who uncovers a hidden textual code that sets a whole series of Indiana Jones-like events spiraling almost out of control. But along comes this writer named Dan Brown who wrote a small book called The Da Vinci Code. You may have heard of it.

sixosix wanted to publish an article about drive-in theaters, but the Chicago Tribune ran one the week before we could get it together.  We had an article written on the remake of Raiders of the Lost Arc, filmed by  a few kids in 1982, now receiving national attention, incidentally covered by Vanity Fair in an review that ran in the same month as our article.

Thus the magazine took the irregular route for issue six.  In anticipation of gearing up for a summer of ingeniously conceived original content, we decided to take a month hiatus from active production to feature some of our best stolen ideas.  We are taking the extra time and running with it – expanding our staff, and planing more sponsored events to get the good word out about Chicago's new web magazine, now six months in the works.  Check out our events page for details on our upcoming creative open house.  And don't forget to come back in July for issue seven:  Land of the Lost.  What follows is a mix of brand new content and the stories that got away, coupled with some of our best work from our first five issues.

We went ahead and ran a review of the drive-in theater. Ours is better.

Enjoy the potluck of material that we are calling issue six.