Not Yet the End
September 12, 2011 in Blogs
In the continuing Examiner temporal anomalies series we come to the moment when our trio leaps forward something just under a century, to a post-apocalyptic future. This creates other problems to be addressed in articles yet to come, but Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel part 5: Apocalypse gets us that far.
Over the weekend I managed to watch Source Code, a movie which so surprised me in the end that I’m not sure I can discuss it casually without really spoiling it–in fact, that might already be saying too much. I’m going to have to watch it again–perhaps twice more, although the details are less critical in this case than in most films I analyze–and then I’m going to have to figure out how to write about it.
Speaking of things happening over the weekend, this one did not: due to the soggy ground and threat of additional precipitation at the Silver Lake Community Church, our Collision concert was postponed to next Saturday evening, 6 PM to 7:30 PM, free ice cream, community invited, no cover charge.
If you’ve been keeping up on Eric Ashley’s work, then you’ve already seen the three new ones. Practise Bits: Revelations drops a magician into a frustrating 1984-style universe until it pushes him past his limit, but the part I like is that the nerd gets the girl. Practise Bits: Test is another magician, but in a fantasy setting; it’s also another beginning of a story. Speaking of Beginnings, Practise Bits: Intruder 2 is the continuation of the story previously mentioned under the title Practise Bits: Intruder. There’s a bit of a gap in the story, but this one gives us a bit more insight into the motivation of the hero–and again leaves us hanging.
I am surprised at how early I am, but I had an early morning (after collapsing last night) so my steam is running down but I have a hope of finishing everything, for a refreshing change.
–M. J. Young
Tadeusz said on September 12, 2011
Revelations is largely this present world MJ. 1984 would be far worse.
…In New Orleans, street cops were paid oh, 13-15K…which might get you fed in a major metropolis if you’re willing to sleep on the street. So just what did the payers plan for the cops? Mmmmm, rhymes with tribe-raking….
The Clintons enter the WH with 7 Mil, good money, and leave 8 years later with 100 Mil….they sure guessed good on those stocks. Man I wish I was that lucky.
Marion Barry was cruelly and unjustly prosecuted just because the FBI faked up some tapes of his using coke and call girls while Mayor of Washington DC. Happily, his voters repudiated this obvious frameup, and reinstated him after he got out of prison….and he may have still been mayor in prison for part of it.
And that icon of tolerance and good financial acumen, Senator Barney Frank, in between telling us the Fannie Mae was sound, and therefore wrecking the US economy, he also managed to not be aware his boyfriend was running a prostitution ring from his apartment. Poor Barney, that must have hurt to find out that betrayal.
….And going back to NO, I hear that if you sent ten bucks to them to build up a levee, eight of those taxpayers dollars got diverted on the way….