Time to Get My Head Examined
July 3, 2009 in Blogs
I mentioned last time that I am now writing for The Examiner, on Time Travel movies. Last night I posted the second installment on Primer, Primer part 2: answering the phone. I also have watched the movie again–I’d like to say twice more, but really I was out of the room for part of one time and I fell asleep for most of another, and I don’t remember whether there was or was not a third attempt in there. But I did collect the information I need for the next installment, which hopefully will post Monday.
I am also supposed to promote these articles through modern Internet systems with which I have no familiarity at all, so there’s a steep learning curve and I’m still at the bottom of it, I think. But the staff is very encouraging, and hopefully I’ll figure it out before they lose patience.
The big drain on my resources, though, is family care at present; it may be that there is more of it than I can manage, and it may be that I’m going to have to manage a way to reduce it. But we’ll see.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on July 3, 2009
MJ, know that you have the support and prayers of all of us here, and I’m certain at every other forum you frequent.
I’ll watch Mimzy again later and see if I can reconstruct my notes on it. I’m sure that would be helpful to you.
(Doing Therapy)
John “A1nut”
JohnA1nut said on July 5, 2009
Oh yeah MJ, if you do Mimzy, as I stated, all I would expect is recognition of my work. If you wanted to call it “A collaborative effort” that would be perfect. And since you now have that twice in writing, I’d say you’re pretty safe.
(Doing Therapy)
John “A1nut”
M. J. Young said on July 6, 2009
I should thank you for the effort you’ve put into Mimzy, and for sending me your thoughts. However, I am not certain when or even whether I will tackle that film, and I have the additional problem that I have a word limit I struggle to meet, so I’m always clipping extraneous bits from the text of each article trying to get it down to size.
So I make no promises on crediting anyone, although if I can and I remember when I get there, I will try to do so.
–M. J. Young