Improbable Events
March 29, 2010 in Blogs
I am seated next to a printout of a poster announcing a concert on Friday, April 16, 7:00 PM at the Abundant Life Assembly, 44 Route 50, Ocean View (Seaville), New Jersey, where the headliners are a duo completely unfamiliar to me, Tal & Acacia, but where Baxter and I will also be performing two songs under the name Collision, included in the poster listing as “along with exciting up & coming area bands”. Lift FM (locally WZFI) is sponsoring the concert effectively free, although those who attend are expected to bring a non-perishable food item to be used by the local food banks. So I guess I’m playing a benefit concert.
Meanwhile, the temporal anomalies articles on The Examiner continue with Terminator part 15: bad dates, which examines the hidden problem with the birth of Kyle Reese. Kyle appears to have been born sometime between 1997 and 2004–which means that he was born in the relatively peaceful period before SkyNet destroyed the world in 2004 and in the post-apocalyptic chaos following SkyNet’s destruction of the world in 1997. The odds of the same person being born in both histories are incredibly low, yet it must happen to avoid an infinity loop. This article considers how it might, but leaves another answer for next time.
I was also offered a copy of Hot Tub Time Machine, which if it comes I will probably prioritize, as someone already asked about it. I am told it is perhaps a bit irreverent, but the Bill & Ted movies were certainly irreverent, and so was Time Bandits, so that’s not new in itself. (I’ve done analyses of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and found interesting original concepts explored in both, so I know that irreverence does not necessarily mean worthless.)
So things keep moving.
–M. J. Young