The Gaming Outpost

Today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article proposes a solution for the problem raised in last week’s entry, concerning what happens if the book is buried in Redferne’s grave and then Redferne is removed from the past so that he does not have a grave.  Warlock part 5:  concurrence suggests how it could be in near enough the same place and time that the story could happen without disaster.

Meanwhile, I completed work on a thirteen-part analysis of Blackadder Back & Forth over the weekend which will be ready to start two weeks from today when this one ends.  Since that’s an odd number of entries, I have already written a piece to fill the end of that week, in which I outline a way that a serious time travel outfit could change the past without creating a temporal disaster–but it will be early next year before that posts.

Speaking of next year, I received word over the weekend that the third installment of the Men in Black franchise will include a time travel element, hitting theaters in what we would call late Spring.  That’s one I wish I could get in pre-release so I could write about it in advance, but probably it will be a while before I get that.  Still, I ought to get the release details and publish them as one of my articles, if only to boost readership a bit and look like I’m doing newsworthy things.

Eric Ashley has posted a new one, Practise Bits:  Dragonhunt, which has a number of interesting cultural ideas mixed into a world in which dinosaurs are still around and primitives hunt them to prove their manhood.

I was drafted to drive someone to a medical appointment this afternoon, but promised that as a reward I could treat everyone to the Golden Corral buffet I have wanted to visit since it opened a few weeks back.  I mean, all you can eat is always tempting, but when it includes steak off the grill it becomes even more tempting, and the breaded shrimp, and the bourbon chicken, and the fish fillets, and the pot roast with vegetables, and the creamed spinach and mashed potatoes and macaroni & cheese, and the chocolate covered macaroons and cherry cobbler and peach cobbler and whipped topping and fresh strawberries and fresh pineapple, and I had neither the pecan pie tarts nor the chocolate chip cookies I wanted, and it was still difficult to get home and stay awake long enough to get this far.  We’ll eat there again.

–M. J. Young