The Gaming Outpost

This Blogless Lepolt does force me to come up with titles fairly regularly, a skill at which I have never excelled despite having written hundreds of songs and thousands of articles.  Thinking of a few terse words to capture the flavor of a creative work is not really in my skill set, I think, although I have hopefully managed to get by with what ability I have in that department.

That came to mind as I was looking for a title for this week’s entry and thinking about the Examiner temporal anomalies article I posted earlier today.  This one, Source Code part 4:  quantum leap, notes the connection between the movie and the once popular time travel television series, in that in both instances the time traveler takes the place of someone else.  As I was thinking about that in search of a title for this blog entry, I started to wonder, who are you when you are not yourself?  When Sean Fentress was not himself he was actually Colter Stevens–or perhaps it was the other way around.  In any case, the article calls attention to the problem that Sean Fentress seems to have vanished and the film never really considers what happened to him.

Speaking of titles, I think I have completed the draft analysis of Warlock.  Probably my next task will be Blackadder Back and Forth, although I’ve a new one on the stack.  One of my readers–in fact, the one who provided copies of several recently analyzed films–asked whether I would analyze the temporal elements of Watchman.  I said that I will analyze any movie with a temporal element for which I can find a copy, and prioritize one which has been requested.  Two days later a copy was in my mailbox, so thank you to my benefactor and I will be sure to include it probably early next year.  (Source Code will run about another month, and although Warlock will be short it will still be about a month, so it will be nearly January when the next one appears.)

We have cut back Collision rehearsals to alternate Fridays, so that will give me more time this week; I am also thinking that it’s time to phase out my involvement with the Silver Lake Community Church worship band, as my involvement was intended to help them get organized and it has succeeded sufficiently that I am becoming not exactly superfluous but certainly marginalized.  That should give me a bit more time.

Eric Ashley has added two more titles to the library here.  The first, Practise Bits:  Intruder 4, continues the story of the verser trying to find someone who is the primitive direct descendant of the captain of the starship stranded long ago.  He claims in a note that he did not intended to publish Practise Bits:  Horse, but it strikes me as exactly the sort of practice scraps I did when I kept a notebook, short and focused on one part of the task, in this case description.

As I often say, I’m late and it’s tired, but let me see what else I can finish before it finishes me.

–M. J. Young