Misconceptions
November 22, 2010 in Blogs
I want to thank Adam Keller for the link to Pegasus; hopefully once I download and install that e-mail client it will resolve my continuing computer problems. It has been strange, feeling as if I have a lot more time in my days, arriving here earlier than usual three days a week, all because somewhere the e-mail that wasn’t lost to aborted downloads has been collecting on a server awaiting my long-overdue attention. Since it’s also the only way several important people have to contact me, I probably should fix that; I’m just enjoying being unavailable. I could do with more of that.
Meanwhile, I have posted a new temporal anomalies article to The Examiner, Hot Tub Time Machine part 9: Lou and Kelly, or don’t, stop. This one tackles the problem arising when Jacob interferes with the one event in the past he most wants to have happen without complication: his own conception. The silliness of his vanishing act is addressed, and an alternative resolution to the problem presented.
In other temporal news, I have completed a fifteen-part draft for Premonition. It probably needs a lot of tweaking–I’ve only viewed the film once, and I have detail questions–but it was a nightmare to unravel without having it come unraveled, and while there are still problems with it and unanswered issues, in the main I think I’ve managed it.
Thanksgiving looms, and company is coming, and although I do not yet have a head count I am forming a shopping list. Today I hope to stock the pantry in anticipation of the holiday, and if any of my anticipated or surprise guests wish to contribute requests to the menu, find my cell number quickly or you’ll miss the chance.
–M. J. Young
Bob Schretzman said on November 24, 2010
Mark,
Well, I was gonna surprise you but it’d be better to ask. Do you have room for two more?
M. J. Young said on November 25, 2010
Bob, that would be a surprise. We always have room for two more, and you certainly would be most welcome–but do you know where the Hopewell Township house is?
Text me at the old Camden area code (not the new one), 364-5530. Not worth trying to call–I’m not at the phone enough answer it.
–Mark
M. J. Young
M. J. Young said on November 25, 2010
I’ve not heard from Bob; it is possible that that was a prank post.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on November 25, 2010
At any rate, is posting your cell number in a public forum really a bright idea?
M. J. Young said on November 26, 2010
Eh–I suppose anyone who cares can work out the area code, but I couldn’t think of a way to reach Bob if that was him, since I haven’t had any contact with him since the 80′s.
–M. J. Young