The Gaming Outpost

Today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article concludes the examination of Source Code with Source Code part 11:  future, a consideration of what happens to Colter Stevens now that he has to become Sean Fentriss in this final universe.  I anticipate posting a filler article on Thursday addressing why I do movies but not television shows, or incidentally books, comic books, graphic novels, or video games.  Then on Monday we’ll begin running a short series on Warlock, and I’ve already begun work on Blackadder Back and Forth hopefully to follow that.

Meanwhile, I keep forgetting to post links to the available videos from the recent Collision concert at Silver Lake Community Church.  At first it was because they were delayed–I have no video equipment, and someone else had done the recording.  Then when finally they were posted I myself was too busy to view them.  I managed to do so last week sometime, but forgot to mention them here.  So for anyone who is curious what I look like and sound like when I’m singing, I recommend the video Fall Festival 01, if I recall aright three songs from our performance there which are reasonably well done overall.  I hesitate to recommend the other two videos, creatively entitled Fall Festival 02 and Fall Festival 03, because I made a could of mistakes in the singing–you probably wouldn’t notice it in the first clip, but I displaced a line and had to fake a fix during the song; the second is, if I recall correctly, a much more obvious flub.  altogether that’s just over half an hour from the concert.  I’m waiting for the rest of the video, but it might come to me privately on DVD rather than posted publicly, and I don’t think I have any editing software so I’m not likely to be able to post the massive amount of material I anticipate receiving.  I also haven’t figured out how to download those, but I did manage to dub the audio off to my recorder so I can listen to them.  Anyway, I expect the response will be “don’t quit your day job”, but since I’m not making appreciably more money on my day job than I am singing for churches, it’s a moot issue.

While I’m posting links, let me include the new material from Eric Ashley, who has given us three more over the weekend.  Practise Bits:  Leo gives us a Florentine setting with a man summoned to see the king.  A man who takes a job overseeing the policing of the royal highways is the core character of Practise Bits:  Roadway.  Finally, Practise Bits:  Dance begins at a dance, but moves to a different kind of dance in which a villain again confronts his Nemesis in an ongoing duel.

I have been asked to help with a float for a Christmas parade Sunday, primarily in providing sound system equipment and a bit of musical performance, so I’m hoping to get a few minutes to do some equipment repair just to cover the bases before it gets too late.  That means getting through things quickly here.  And I am already tired.

–M. J. Young