Late
June 30, 2011 in Blogs
I pause a moment to mark the passing of the late Susan Margaret Adams Kirkegard, a girl I almost married some decades ago. I received word yesterday that she died on June 20th of this year after a battle with cancer. We had been in touch on-and-off over the years, but I had not seen her in perhaps a quarter of a century despite the fact that she sang at my wedding. I know that drummer John Mastick had hoped we would be able to get together and do a bit of music with her for the nostalgia (she sang for a while in The Last Psalm), but with the passing of lead guitarist and vocalist and one-time best friend Jeffrey Robert Zurheide (also in my wedding, as Best Man) it is becoming less likely that there will be enough of a group to fill a table at a diner. I had expected this, but not so soon, and really I had doubted I would outlive any of them.
Today’s temporal anomalies article at The Examiner is also about being late, specifically about the oddity in the film A Sound of Thunder which suggests that having changed the past the time travel team cannot return to the moment at which the change occurred. We’ll talk more about how ridiculous and inconsistent this is, but for now A Sound of Thunder part 10: late arrivals introduces the problem and the immediate impact of the trips made while attempting to define it.
Turning the attention to the latest work from Eric Ashley, I read Practise Bits: Farmboy yesterday. It’s an interesting view of a Multiverser character recently versed out as a young man who does not know what has happened to him but is struggling to make a life where he is. Today I find Practise Bits: Faith tells a story of a confrontation between a weak but believing verser and a horde of vampires in the playground of a preschool, which was an encouraging read.
Before I am late for anything else, let me wrap up and move forward.
–M. J. Young