Correspondence 12/17/08 19:04 - 12/18/08 21:00

   See? Told you there'd be more Christmas and Beatles stuff. It's eerie how that works out, isn't it? Brenna gave me a Beatles album for Christmas in French class, and here she uses Cailin as a probe to find out if there were any I didn't have so she wouldn't give me something I already owned.

Beatles

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 17, 2008 7:04 pm

Do you own any of the Beatles' albums? Are there any you don't have but you want?

Re: Beatles

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 17, 2008 8:52 pm

Okay, there's one from my childhood, and I remember three to four songs off of it, but I can't find any particular album that has the exact songs:

Hard Day's Night

Yellow Submarine

Eight Days a Week

And maybe I Want to Hold Your Hand, or Love Me Do, or Please Please Me. One of those.

Re: Beatles

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 18, 2008 3:56 pm

Well I guess you know now why I asked this...

Re: Beatles

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 23, 2008 12:50 pm

I remember the forth song: We Can Work it Out.

Re: Beatles

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 23, 2008 4:19 pm

I love that one!

Re: Beatles

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 23, 2008 5:10 pm

It surprises me why I didn't think of it earlier.

Re: Beatles

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 23, 2008 5:11 pm

Well, it is somewhat more obscure.

Re: Beatles

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 23, 2008 6:49 pm

Really?

Re: Beatles

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 23, 2008 9:00 pm

Well, kind of.

Correspondence 12/6/08 14:00 - 12/8/08 17:45

   On Comrade Helicopter stuff, I come up with a name of hypothetical Comrade Helicopter tour, which apparently cailin liked so much, she drew a picture of it. Thought that'd be interesting.

The Three Hour Tour

Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 6, 2008 2:00 pm

(The following questions are rhetorical.)

I was thinking, you know how bands go on ridiculously long tours; like, for two years and such? How long would a Comrade Helicopter tour last? Well, how many places would we have to go? Just Fallon? How long would that take? A two year tour... A two day tour... A five hour tour? A three-hour tour!

I'm not sure what Gilligan's Island has to do with the band, but you gotta admit, it's pretty hot, neh?

Re: Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 6, 2008 2:59 pm

Wait, so Gilligan's Island would be the name of our tour...?

Re: Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 6, 2008 5:41 pm

The three hour tour would be its name.

Re: Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 7, 2008 6:51 pm

Why don't your songs ever have choruses?

Re: Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 7, 2008 8:55 am

Sounds awesome. Also, in all honesty, if we get a few good, competent musicians, or make ourselves that, this could all be pulled off rather nicely.

Re: Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 8, 2008 4:19 pm

I am not much of a chorus guy, to be honest, I like it when one person sings, it seems more personal, and I only like choruses for really upbeat, or inspirational/intense songs.

Re: Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 8, 2008 4:21 pm

Oh, yeah. And you don't do those kinds of songs, do you?

Tell you what, you write the chorus for Whatever Happened?

Re: Comrade Helicopter... Live in Concert

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 8, 2008 5:45 pm

I'll try, but I'll have to know the lyrics you write first, or at least the rhyme scheme thing.

Correspondence 12/3/08 21:37 - 12/4/08 19:16

   A Correspondences Christmas special! There's more where this comes from, by the way. We talk about what will become Comrade Helicopter's Red and White Album.

Re: I wrote 2 more songs.

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 3, 2008 9:37 pm

Christmas is coming, and I kind of feel >>pressure<< to write Christmas songs. All I can think of is a Beatles parody, entitled "Hey Yule Log." Do we do parodies?

Re: I wrote 2 more songs.

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 4, 2008 6:07 pm

We could do parodies. But how can you make Hey Bulldog Christmas-y, it's full of so much nonsense. Also, I should see if I can write a Christmas song too.

Re: I wrote 2 more songs.

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 4, 2008 7:01 pm

It's a parody, dude! It's supposed to be full of so much nonsense.

Which of us shall write "Whatever Happened?" What tracks are on our second album?

Re: I wrote 2 more songs.

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 4, 2008 7:08 pm

Well, I've got a few songs that can be pinned onto album two, and as for Whatever Happened... let's try and co-write it. But despite, these extra songs, I'd like to only use some of them, and write some new ones in the meantime.

Re: I wrote 2 more songs.

From POMegranate to Persomem   Dec 4, 2008 7:15 pm

Some kind of Sinterklaas is measured out in fat

what makes you think you're something special to your cat?

You can carol me

You can carol me

You can carol me

If you sing good, you can carol me!

Hey Yule Log!

Sommink like that. I just love copyright laws.

Re: I wrote 2 more songs.

From Persomem to POMegranate   Dec 4, 2008 7:16 pm

Oh my god that's astounding! I love it, and I don't know why...

Correspondence 11/15/08 22:24 - 11/16/08 12:58

   Another shot at naming the PoM sequel trilogy, Treachery of Images. A Clash of Memory, or something? Understandably doesn't amount to much.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 15, 2008 10:24 pm
oKAY, i WAS goshdarn capslock thinking about the name the Persistence of Memory: Those Left Behind.
How about Those Remaining?

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 16, 2008 2:34 am
"The Remainders" or something too.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 16, 2008 12:51 pm
Sounds a bit too... Mathematical.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 16, 2008 12:58 pm
I thought that too, honestly.

Correspondence 11/14/08 18:25 - 19:26

UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 6:25 pm
The more I think about it, the more dissatisfied I've been with the names of the resistance groups. Lynx and OREM should be switched.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 6:40 pm
OREM for Rem's group, and Lynx for Trittany's?

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 6:42 pm
Yes.
It's the most sense-making thing in the world.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 6:43 pm
I believe you've used that line before.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 6:45 pm
Hmm... Yes. It does seem familiar, does it not?
It's borrowed from the slang of the Uglies series by Scott Westerfield. (-feld?)

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 6:47 pm
Hum, I learned something today.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 6:55 pm
But really...
(and I can't find the instance in which I said it...)

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 6:56 pm
Yes, I more or less agree with your sentiment.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 6:57 pm
This is going to require a major hacking of the InterCube...

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 6:58 pm
It's been done before, don't lose your cool.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 6:59 pm
What does OREM stand for anyway?
(Besides the overthrow of the government.)

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:00 pm
I don't even remember.
(They also stand for good hygiene!)

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:01 pm
Who's gonna do it, then?
Lest our edits overlap.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:02 pm
You could, I guess, our number of edits is rather disproportional.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:02 pm
I will do it. I will do it nine times.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:03 pm
Do it nine hard times.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:07 pm
Should it be an all-female resistance? Woman's Lib or something?

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:09 pm
I don't think so, but the upper echelon of it could be all female.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:10 pm
Sexism is alright!

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:11 pm
Yep, it's still the seventies! Sexism is go!

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:14 pm
Okay, I think I've caught all of them.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:15 pm
Well, I think you can use the search bar to search in articles' text.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:17 pm
Holy crap, it's just mostly discussion pages.
Yeah, I got them all.


Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:18 pm

Alright, awesome.
Also, I just thought, what would a sequel series be called? Would it still be Persistence of Memory, or something else?

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:19 pm

Akkash of Memory.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:19 pm

A Clash of Memory

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:20 pm

The Persistence of Memory: Those Left Behind

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:21 pm

Kite's Wacky Adventures.

But actually, that one is pretty neat, but people might think of the Left Behind series.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 14, 2008 7:26 pm

I was actually thinking of Serenity: Those Left Behind, which was a comic miniseries based off of the Firefly TV show.

Re: UltraSigmaFightForceSix

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 14, 2008 7:26 pm

Huh, I see.

Correspondence 11/13/08 18:30 - 19:13

Anakaitsie picture

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 6:30 pm

I edited that one t-shirt like picture.

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 13, 2008 6:35 pm

I said white lines on a black background. But still, less garish.

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 6:39 pm

Garish? What do you suggest?

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 13, 2008 6:44 pm

White lines on a Black background. I've told you once. Twice, actually.

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 6:46 pm

oh, white on black.

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 6:53 pm

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 13, 2008 7:00 pm

Now That is awesome.

Hold on, I drew a Nephyrem...

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 7:01 pm

Thank you.

And alright.

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 13, 2008 7:05 pm

I managed to get it on my profile page...

I apologize in advance, I had to use a camera in stead of a scanner.

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 7:08 pm

No problem, my scanner is also broken.

Nice perspective. His fashion sense is in accord, but since when does he have irises?

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 13, 2008 7:11 pm

Everyone has irises, silly!

And it's not that his eyes are black, it's just that they're so deep that it's impossible to tell were the pupils begin.

And I really don't think that he should have his own race. It wouldn't be quite so freakily unique that way, right?

Re: Anakaitsie picture

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 7:13 pm

Well, I meant that he has a race that he originates from, but no one can quite figure out what it is. And no one else has the same ethnicity as him, only we have any idea about it.

Correspondence 11/11/08 20:35 - 11/13/08 18:47

Re: Maps
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 11, 2008 8:35 pm
Do you have it downloaded? Is it awesome?

Re: Maps
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 12, 2008 7:45 pm
I haven't had much time to do so, sorry. And I will work on it, but in the time being, I'll just work on drawing it up in Photoshop or something.

Re: Maps
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 12, 2008 6:20 pm
You figure any of it out yet?

Data Tables

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 12, 2008 8:00 pm

So, I'm making data tables for the Persistence and Eltern, but I need names for capitals and largest cities. The rest I think I can improvise.

Re: Data Tables

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 12, 2008 10:09 pm

Steinway

Morass

Vortal

Skipjack

Pontoon City

Marcus

Re: Data Tables

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 12, 2008 10:09 pm

And I'm being serious about about half of those.

Re: Data Tables

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 4:14 pm

Only half?

Re: Data Tables

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 13, 2008 6:42 pm

Well, Steinway is a brand of pianos. Morass is just a silly word. A pontoon is the name of one of those things that the waterplanes float on. Marcus is the name of a person. And Vortal isn't really a word.

Skipjack is still a cool name. Just not for any place in Eltern or the Persisitence.

Re: Data Tables

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 13, 2008 6:46 pm

Speaking of which, did you know that Henry Z. Steinway died?

Re: Data Tables

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 13, 2008 6:47 pm

I was not aware that he even lived. And Skipjack could be the name of a small port town that they only ever pass through.

Correspondence 11/9/08 15:35 -19:02

   I don't think this one needs all that much in the way of introduction, as it doesn't amount to much anyway. Just trying to extrapolate technology from the science in this little universe of ours, and ending up nowhere, but in an awesome manner.

Bound

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 9, 2008 3:35 pm

I was thinking, (a dangerous and necessary thing to do,) and I thought of the possibility that bonds could be used for communication somehow, like radio or the internet. How would this work?

Re: Bound

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 9, 2008 6:11 pm

Well, maybe communication between two individuals, but I doubt they could be used for mass telecommunications in the sense of the internet, or what have you.

Re: Bound

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 9, 2008 6:29 pm

How would it work?

Re: Bound

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 9, 2008 6:30 pm

I don't know? I guess the two would have to be very close... and there'd most likely be some manner of machine involved.

Re: Bound

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 9, 2008 6:32 pm

If it was that complicated, what would be the point? They'd be within close proximity of each other anyway.

Re: Bound

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 9, 2008 6:48 pm

Exactly my point, I don't think it would work, and if it could, it would be wholly impractical.

Re: Bound

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 9, 2008 6:52 pm

But it's still cool. And noöne said it had to be impractical.

Re: Bound

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 9, 2008 6:53 pm

Yeah, that's true. We could have people from the Persistence get all pipe-dreamy about it though.

Re: Bound

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 9, 2008 6:56 pm

<<Chuckle.>> People would expect that to be part of the plot, though...

Re: Bound

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 9, 2008 6:57 pm

Well then we'd be dashing many hopes. Awesome!

Re: Bound

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 9, 2008 7:00 pm

Ahh, the sweet funk of really bad "alternate reality" fanfic.

Re: Bound

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 9, 2008 7:02 pm

You can smell it too? Well, at least we'll know that there would be a few really good ones.

Correspondence 11/6/08 19:28 - 19:42

Re: Genre

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 6, 2008 7:28 pm

What is it, exactly?

Are we just defying the concept of genres? Like, Ha, Ha, in your face, Concept of Genre!

It could honestly be Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery...

Re: Genre

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 6, 2008 7:30 pm

Yeah, writing is always far too cliché when one writes to a label, labels should always come after, if at all.

Re: Genre

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 6, 2008 7:33 pm

Sort of like the Hero's Quest. It just sort of happens. There's the call to adventure, the rite of passage, etc.

I still think we should include more horrific elements, though. As if Letheans aren't horrific enough. <<shudder>>

Re: Genre

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 6, 2008 7:34 pm

Well, what do you have in mind? Not for the specific events, but the... effects, I guess.

Re: Genre

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 6, 2008 7:37 pm

Yes, definitely the effect. Like, include some Great Old Ones in there when they speak of Searchers, to make it not only more ominous but also more superstitious.

Re: Genre

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 6, 2008 7:38 pm

Like, Cthulhu...?

Re: Genre

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 6, 2008 7:40 pm

Yes. And Yog-Sothoth, and Shub Nigguru.

Man, my Wikipedia browsing habits are unhealthy.

Re: Genre

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 6, 2008 7:40 pm

Mine are just as bad, Wikipedia consumes me on some days.

Re: Genre

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 6, 2008 7:41 pm

The really sad thing is that for me, it’s just at lunchtimes. Lunchtimes!

Re: Genre

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 6, 2008 7:42 pm

Well, maybe you need an intervention.

To Our Survival

   If you can read this, then yay, I guess that means we made it out alive!

Don't Believe Me, Eh?

   See, I told you I could draw normally in the normal pony-drawing drawing style (I don't think there's a word for that, is there?), in my own style.

   If you look you can see I had to fudge the angle on that back leg. Or at least, that's the official explanation of what that is. That is what I did. But it doesn't really call attention to itself. Yeah, you see it now, don't you?

The Pun is Nigh

   It's not very good, but I spent exactly as much time on it as it deserved, which is perhaps more than it deserved (think about that.) Either way it certainly turned out better than it deserved, not that that's saying much, as the joke is a little lame. Why am I putting up something of which I'm none too proud? I guess so you can see the, uh, artist's, uh, frikkin', like, design process or something. Makes sense.

   I kind of drew it in a style that emulates the pony-style drawing style. You know, the style that the ponies themselves have in the show. All I had at the time was MS Paint, which as a program was a lot more powerful than I remember it being, and can genuinely produce some breathtaking stuff, so I suppose I could have spent a little more time on it (see above.) But MS paint art is kind of supposed to be crappy. That's its thing. Please don't think less of me? Anyway, enjoy.

Correspondence 11/5/08 16:04 - 17:49

   Before OREM was OREM, and before it was even Lynx, it was SUPER ULTRA FIGHT FORCE SIGMA! Or was it ULTRA FIGHT FORCE SIGMA SIX! Either way, it was Steve. Just like with the Persistant capital, we weren't sure on a name at first. There's gonna be some heavy brainstorming for that coming up, just you see.

Rem's Group

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 5, 2008 4:04 pm

What's it called?

Stiev?

Re: m's Group

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 4:33 pm

Oh yeah that's right, we called it Steve for quite a while there, I guess it does need a real name. Suggestions? I can't think of much, should it be an acronym? 

Re: m's Group

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 5, 2008 4:55 pm

It should be something lame, like it was named after some Persistence Saturday morning kid's show <<emoticon::stick_out_ tongue >>

Re: m's Group

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 5:24 pm

That sounds fitting, in all seriousness. Then again, I'm the one who recommended "SUPER ULTRA FIGHT FORCE SIGMA!" And yes, it would be in all caps like that with an exclamation point and everything.

Re: m's Group

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 5, 2008 5:49 pm

And a lightning bolt.

Correspondence 11/5/08 14:11 - 17:49

Eltern question

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 2:11 pm

In working on the Eltern article it has come to my attention that its principal religion has gone as of yet unnamed. I'm not sure what to name it, but I was thinking about the religion itself, and what it would be like. Here's what I've got so far: It will consist of a god and goddess as objects of worship, but the two will be nigh indiscernible from one another, and will form something similar to how the Holy Trinity works. Basic stuff, but I thought it would be interesting.

Re: Eltern question

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 2:13 pm

Oh wait, wouldn't that mean that they would view hermaphrodites to be of divine origin? Actually that could be kind of cool, it'd add a uniqueness to the faith. Also, Akkash would have a similar religion, I assume.

Re: Eltern question

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 5, 2008 3:34 pm

LOQ!

Re: Eltern question

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 4:32 pm

"LOQ"?

Re: Eltern question

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 5, 2008 4:50 pm

It's like LOL, except I Laughed Out Quiet.

(I just made it up.)

Re: Eltern question

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 4:54 pm

oh, okay, I thought you were recommending a name, that was an acronym.

Re: Eltern question

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 5, 2008 4:57 pm

Also, do you like the way I set up the homepage?

Re: Eltern question

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 5:22 pm

Is there a difference in text sizes?

Re: Eltern question

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 5, 2008 5:49 pm

(bashfully)

Yes...

Correspondence 11/3/08 19:59 - 11/5/08 13:38

   I'm not sure if this idea amounted to anything, but here it is, another idea from early-days PoM history.

Team PoM-pedia!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 3, 2008 7:59 pm

How do you feel about anyone coming in to help on "Project Persistence"? Could we add anyone, or would you feel it would intrude on our personal pet project? In saying this it makes it seem as though I already have someone in mind, but I don't, just asking ahead of time, I guess.

Re: Team PoM-pedia!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 3, 2008 8:01 pm

Also, I just realized this Wiki's been up for only three months, less than that actually, but still, we've done quite a lot of work in that time.

Re: Team PoM-pedia!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 3, 2008 8:22 pm

I dunno. Brenna seemed really interested in it...

Re: Team PoM-pedia!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 5, 2008 1:38 pm

I'm typing this from Astronomy class right now. And yeah, I think she may have wanted to try writing a part of it, because she showed interest in the ghostwriting thing we'd do. I'd like to get someone else in on this, if only for a fresh view on a project we've become very accustomed to, new eyes could be quite the help.

Correspondence 11/10/08 21:12 - 21:25

   We try our hand at being existentially philosophical, as is the custom, but crash and burn. You could totally see me and Cailin as the only two characters in some kind of existentialist drama, though, couldn't you.

Now What?

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 9:12 pm

Now What?

Re: Now What?

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 9:13 pm

What do you mean exactly?

Re: Now What?

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 9:14 pm

There's nothing to do but go on in pointless conversation.

I know! Let's be philosophical.

Re: Now What?

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 9:15 pm

We could do that, but there's no point...

Re: Now What?

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 9:15 pm

The world's just so complex and in shades of grey that it's almost impossible to function without seeing things in black and white.

Re: Now What?

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 9:19 pm

Well, that's true, I try to cope by not thinking of myself as a moral compass of any sort, or an indication of the norm, makes me see a bit clearer.

Re: Now What?

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 9:16 pm

Exactly!

It's cold.

Re: Now What?

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 9:20 pm

It's only been cold for as long as we've been able to feel it.

Re: Now What?

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 9:21 pm

Being philosophical sucks. We should leave it to the professionals.

Re: Now What?

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 9:22 pm

Yeah, that'd be good. I think I'm going to go lapse off into sleep now.

Re: Now What?

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 9:23 pm

I though vampires slept during the day...

<<horrible uncontrollable shudder.>>

G'day ...Er... Night.

Re: Now What?

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 9:25 pm

Day and night are in constant occurrence, using this loophole, I can be awake or asleep whenever I please, going beyond my vampiric limitations. Good night.

Correspondence 11/10/08 18:56 - 20:26

   Continuing the conversation of naming OREM (we did a lot of discussion over names in the early days, and sometimes later on, as you'll see with the naming of the Mad General, introduced in book 2.) I broke this one into chunks, because as you see, some of the conversations, even on the same topic, get pretty long. So the conversation previous was before we settled on a name, and this conversation is after I realized what it would be (Lynx, now since given to OREM's rival resistance group, Lynx.)

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:56 pm

Oh oh oh oh oh!

Link, which suggests bonds, is also Dutch and German slang for sly, cunning, or dangerous! Plus it's another Matrix reference!

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:59 pm

Oh my yes!

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 7:22 pm

Link, Linker, Linken Park, L.I.N.K., Lynx? I really like Lynx. Lynx? L.Y.N.X.? No, that's stupid. Lynx? Lynx is the name of a very faint constellation in the northern hemisphere... The only star to have a name in it, 31 Lyncis, is called Alsciaukat, meaning "The Thorn", and Mabsuthat, meaning "The Outstretched" or "The Extended". These are Arabic names...

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 7:24 pm

Lyncis maybe?

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 7:27 pm

The lynx's urine was said in medieval times to harden into the gem carbuncle, which today we call garnet, which derives its name from the Latin word for Pomegranate...

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 7:28 pm

And this all means what...?

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 7:39 pm

You know, like PoM? Persistence of Memory? Dude, you still there?

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 7:44 pm

Yep, I thought it was kind of neat too. And sorry, I'm kind of only sort of here today.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 7:46 pm

Lynx then?

Lynx, Lynx, Lynx...

You know, the scientific name for the Eurasian lynx is Lynx lynx? You probably already know about gorillas... And the Manx Shearwater, whose calls sound like the cackle of the devil, is called Puffinus puffinus. They aren't even related to puffins! (Besides being birds, of course...)

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 7:48 pm

It's OK. It makes me feel smart...er.

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 7:49 pm

I think Lynx would be a little too... I dunno, something? I guess I just don't like animal names, but it could work.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 7:55 pm

Yeah, I know...

Lynx, lynx, lynx...

Did you know that in the rest of the English-speaking world, Lynx is the name of Axe body spray?

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 7:59 pm

That's true. I put Lynxes in my armpits once. Didn't end well.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 8:00 pm

LOM!

(Laugh Out Medium!)

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 8:20 pm

The Lynx? Maybe if they were a larger organization. Lynx...ers. Lynxing. Lynx Resistance, Incorporated. Lynxx. Lyynx. Lynxes. Lynx. Lynx? Lynx! "Lynx." Lynx* Lyn*. L*nx. Lynx... .

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 8:21 pm

Lynx Resistance sounds pretty good to me, actually! Not too wordy, so it doesn't seem pompous or anything.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 8:25 pm

The Lynx Resistance.

Are they resisting against Lynxes?

Hmm...

Sounds good. Secretive. Clandestine. Cool.

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 8:26 pm

It's a classy name!

Hobbit

   Ha, I guess I'm missing the Hobbit movie. One week after I go out. Drat. Not that I was excited for it or anything. I'm okay with missing that, because that film doesn't look that good anyway. (Not that it looks awful; I just said it doesn't look "that" good. I still plan on seeing it. In maybe a decade or something, say the distance from right now from when the original Lord of the Rings movie came out.) So, um, I really don't care.

   The Denny's Hobbit-themed meals are pretty good, though.

Correspondence 11/10/08 18:32 - 18:44

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:32 pm

I was looking up a name for Rem's group. Haven't found any yet, but did you know that Heimlich is a German word for Clandestine?

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:34 pm

Really? I've never heard that before...

And I am deferring responsibi-I mean leaving the task of naming his group up to you!

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:37 pm

Mistikos is pretty good. It's Greek. Something like that. Mystics, Mystix, Misfits...

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:39 pm

Of course it'd be written μυστικός, but still.

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:40 pm

Awesome, I sat and thought about it for a bit, and though I was not certain at first, it seemed oddly quite fitting afterward.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:40 pm

Clam is a form of it in Latin. Clam!

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:41 pm

How silly!

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:43 pm

I'm now going of the "mystic" idea, but Wiktionary only has the Croatian translation.

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:44 pm

Well, get back to me on that then.

Correspondence 11/10/08 17:41 - 20:16

Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 5:41 pm

I have begun to download a program that should help me make a truly epic map. If it doesn't work, I'll have it done by tomorrow anyway.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:15 pm

Tomorrow there is no school for Arbor I mean Veteran's day. And I am familiar with the program of which you speak. (I am a dabbler of the constructed worlds, as I am majo-torially into the sci and the fi...)

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:28 pm

Which program then?

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:29 pm

The one... with... the... globe?

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:30 pm

Maybe? I'm downloading it as a torrent, so it'll be a while before it's done, so I don't know if what you're saying is accurate or not.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:30 pm

I dunno. It's just that I've read the Wikipedia article on making fictional maps.

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:32 pm

PS. I did some arting a while ago, and I may have come up with a possible T shirt design.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 6:34 pm

As long as it's in, like... Not those garish colors. White on Black would be pretty cool. And change the typeface Kite's name is written in.

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 6:35 pm

I agree with you, and I'll get around to changing it.

Re: Maps

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 10, 2008 8:15 pm

You got that thing downloaded yet?

Re: Maps

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 10, 2008 8:16 pm

Nope, it's only a fourth of the way done, torrents take forever.

Correspondence 10/28/08 19:48 - 11/2/08 13:23

   So, uh, here we go. We'll start with some Persistence of Memory stuff, but it won't all be that, for reasons of it's mostly spoilers. But this one isn't spoilers, so I feel comfortable sharing it. In this one, we don't know what to call the capital of the Persistence. Steinway, it's called now. But back then, we didn't know. Naming in this series is very important, and we needed to come up with something good. (Steinway doesn't really have any real symbolic significance, but it sounds cool.) But, anyway. It's kind of short today, but these do get a lot longer. (Well, obviously the conversation is ongoing, but I'm arranging them into posts based on the subject matter we discuss in each one. Today's subject matter is the name of the Persistence capitol.)

The Capitol

From Persomem to POMegranate   Oct 28, 2008 7:48 pm

What is the Persistence capitol called? I'm not sure what to call it. Also, for a denonym, would Persistants work?

Re: The Capitol

From POMegranate to Persomem   Oct 31, 2008 8:45 am

Neither am I...

and very cute.

Re: The Capitol

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2008 1:23 pm

I'm thinking a ''the'' name would be good. Like "The Prague" or something. Even though Prague doesn't have an article in front of it.

Correspondences

   Shoot, I don't have much new stuff. Well, I do, but it's not going to go as far as I need it to go to cover two years. I do have a bunch of old archived correspondences with Cailin. I think I'll start to share them here, as

1. It'll give you some insight into our creative process
2. Cailin and I are just two great tastes that taste great... together
3. It's fun to go through other people's correspondence
4. I just need something to post, and a lot of this is good filler.

   A lot of it is spoilers, so I won't be sharing those with you. A lot of it is also pointless ramblings. I will share those with you, not only because it fills up a lot of space but also because it showcases how both of us are too clever for our own good...s. A lot of it will be edited for spoilers, and to make conversations easier to follow since often we had more than one thread going on at the same time. And sometimes we misspelled stuff, so I corrected most of that. So now, it'll look like we're smarter than we actually are. Revisionist history is a-okay.

Robin Hood Challenge

   Come to think of it, how am I going to do the Lion King thing, when I do get around to it? Rewatching Robin Hood, which is almost exactly the same length as The Lion King, just from watching it once I think I got about a good half a month's worth of posts. I'm truncating it here, of course, so you don't see all of them now, but all of that's just from one watch-through. I'm not sure what a year of Lion King would do to me.

1. Sheriff has five fingers in certain shots
2. The raccoons- I see what you did there. They are sparsely used, but effectively.
3. Trigger is the one with the helmet, Nutsy is the one in the hood.
4. Sir Hiss is a pervert!

   Also, this one, which is by far my favorite. Little John reaction shot to Robin's apparent death:

How Much is That in Blog Years?

   So, uh, here I go through with it. Two years. Yep. Just one year of Lion King is a lot of Lion King. Two years of posts is exactly one more "a lot" of a lot of posts. Two years, 365 times 2, 730 days. 730 posts. If I could crank out one post a minute, that would be six hours just to do a year's worth. 365 minutes, a little over six hours. Six hours, five minutes, yeah? Pretty simple math.

   Alternatively, think of that as 24 months. 24 hours in a day. If I were to schedule two years' worth of posts in a day, that'd be one every two minutes. Six hours again, doing twice as many, in twice the time. Also simple math. There's any sorts of ways I could break this down. No, what's really going to be difficult is deciding not what but when. When which post will go where. The jostling of the scheduling.

The Most Wonderful Year of the Time

   Huh. I realized that I've been just so anxious about this thing, counting down the days until I go out, I've had no time to count down or be anxious about anything else, like, for instance, the impending Apocalypse. Now it's my first day, and I'm out, but that's probably the only thing that's been on anybody else's mind. Except for Christmas, maybe. Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays just keep getting bigger and bigger. Though maybe that's in anxiety of our impending doom.

   Well, that's not what I've been anxious about.

DECEMBER 2012: THE PERFECT TIME TO GO OUT ON YOUR MISSION.

And So It Begins (New Profile)

Here I go out today, and the prescheduled posts have begun. To reflect this change in status, I have decided to update my profile information. Exciting, I know, right? Old profile (you may be familiar with this one): I am as of yet a professional student... of life. In my spare time, which is roughly all of it, I like to arts, crafts, and wonder what the heck the existence of Christopher Nolan means for the rest of us. New profile (for the next couple of years): Amateur everything. Daily blogger. I'm on my mission now, but new posts, scheduled beforehand for the most part, will keep on chugging on out.

Well...

   Well, frig. I thought I was over Friendship is Magic, but... The third season is really really good. Quite possibly the best so far. While the bronymoon continues being long over, there's something new and interesting here: they seem to be making more references to, not the older fans of the show, but... the toy line of all things. Drawing those twin properties closer together, I guess, as perhaps they've drifted too far apart. Well, it's not like they're doing that so much as the exact same thing they did to the bronies: winks and nods and references. Or, at least, that's what I see in it. Sweetie Belle covering herself in luster dust in One Bad Apple clearly(?) represents glitter pony toys. What else could it be? It only makes sense. So the third season is good. Great. But...

   I am not a fan of My Little Pony. Let me make that clear. My Little Pony is a fan of me, is what's going on there. And now they're airing it alongside Littlest Pet Shop, which is more embarrassing to admit you watch, but I like it. I don't know what the verdict is on that, and I don't care. It's... sexy. (In the way that poodles are sexy, don't arrest me.) It's exciting. Though it lacks the audioporn of the voice casting (Eric McCormack!) in Pound Puppies, which I guess I'm also (admitting?) I watch, it's still really... I mean... but I... sigh. The entire thing is an exercise in not being ashamed of being a fan of good television. You don't see this kind of thing for Adventure Time.

   I've got a theory, though. The very popularity if it is tied to the fact that it is what it is. Not popular because people start watching it "ironically" at first but then discovering its quality. (That seems bitter, putting that in scare quotes, but it's not bitter and that's the only way I see fit to describe it. Not irony. A sense of... curiosity? No, that's another reason entirely.) It doesn't draw viewers because it's My Little Pony- now pay attention, this is a fine distinction- it draws viewers because it's good, because it's My Little Pony.

   Back to the SWAT Kats thing (full circle?)- a fine distinction in how the show wasn't cancelled by the network for being violent, it was cancelled because it wasn't selling toys by the network because it was violent so they didn't want to push the action figures (remember, this was back in the '90s, when everyone had to find something new to be paranoid about after the fall of Communism so they focused on entertainment for a little while.) So here we've got the opposite situation, since obviously not only is it selling toys but it's based on toys, so the show sells the toys instead of vice versa and it's not being cancelled by the network.

More Bedding Stuff

   I talk about that a lot. Perhaps I should make that a new category or something. There was my bedsheet...

Bowser...

...well, never mind, that's pretty much it. But I had a wonderful (early Christmas?) yesterday, and got a new quilt I customized myself.

   Isn't it handsome?

Namaste

Aside from my own news, there's a bunch of other news that's not about me and not about what my own news is about. It's all on the same topic, which my own topic can't even be about for a couple of years, and even though I'm getting ready for something, that's kind of superseded by all the other news all in the same vein and all to everybody else. I mean, it's like everyone is getting hitched and popping out babies now except for me. Sometimes doing both.Which brings to mind...

I wonder if Cailin's really going to wear that traditional Indian wedding garb she said she wanted to. Namaste, future wife, indeed.

Wow. I'd make a list here, but I'm afraid I'll leave somebody out.

The (Final?) Countdown

Yeah, it's coming up, pretty quickly, isn't it. I'm almost good on my promise. I mean, I've got the major chunks planned out. The tough part is maneuvering the chunks around the other chunks, as the features can either smack into each other or mesh together like cogs. But it's frightening how easily this is snapping into place. Maybe I should talk about something else. Fair enough.

My parents had kind of (jokingly??) suggested doing one last 24-hour comic this week, and now that Cailin's at least still alive and with a less busy schedule, who knows? I was going to watch DKR on the DVD (it comes out tomorrow) with subtitles on. Yep.

Emissary

   I had questions about the book all throughout November, but Cailin has been sort of insanely busy lately, and couldn't get to me in months. She broke her silence just in time for the end of NaNoWriMo, though. It's nice to see her back among the realm of the living. Congratulations, by the way, I suppose, are in order while I'm on it. I think the post I was originally considering posting today was an imploration for her to contact me, but I guess I don't have to do that anymore.

   But with a little under a week left, that kind of puts me in an awkward spot. I'm not sure wht questions I still have for her, or she has for me. But now that she is herself back in the land of the living, she shall be my emissary for it while I am out of it.

Wow

   Just a week now. Y-yikes. And I'm leaving the day before that. Heh. I'm going to miss you guys, I guess? Hopefully, though, by Monday, you won't have to miss me. Yeah.

Yeah...

   Okay, so that's a nix on that podcast, as instead they're (?) planning on going onto other people's podcasts to spread the good word. I told you about the podcast yesterday so I wouldn't have to do that today, but now I have to tell you about it today because the news has changed, so if I wanted to avoid having to tell you the news I could have done that yesterday. Something something something IRONY.

   I guess instead there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXMZ7deMDO8 which is just a video saying the same thing that I said yesterday (and yes, it is "just" that- there is literally no new information there. But, uh, hey, the IAmA is tonight. I guess. That could, you know, clear up any lingering questions.

   Am I... Am I done? I should really move on, but I've reported all of those things and felt the need to follow up on them, because all of the information I've given you has been incomplete, or incorrect in some way. This is ongoing, so there's been a lot of follow-through I've needed to go through with, but I think I've told you enough for you to be able to make you own decisions. I guess that I'm saying, I'm done.

   This'll teach me for making a coincidentally timely reference while talking about bronies.

   EDIT: New video to replace the other video, about the new, old petition which is old but it works better so it's the new one (yeah, pretty complicated. Do you see why I have to make so many updates and corrections in the first place? Anyway, the new video for the old petition is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdQuDXOgtb0&feature=plcp

Re: SWAT Kats Petition

   Maybe I spoke too soon. There is a petition that came out (yesterday, after I had said that this isn't a petition, so maybe not,) but I'm alright with it because that's really only in coordination with the official Tremblay-brothers bits, and is not some independent kid-from-his-garage thing. The petition and the names thereon simply are meant to signify that there's quite a widespread group of people who are interested in seeing SWAT Kats return. In case any major studios (namely, Warner Brothers) are interested in picking it back up, they know they'll have a built-in fanbase.

   There's no contractual obligation to WB there by the Tremblay brothers, but, I suppose the new show is going to need some producer/distributor, so why not the original network. I would prefer not to have Turner involved in the revival since they're the ones who screwed it over in the first place, so there's that. And I had thought that SWAT Kats was being resuscitated anyway, regardless of whether WB carries it or not? Hmm, maybe that could be a question for the IAmA tomorrow.

   This could go nowhere, but that's the news I'm obligated to report. You can check it out for yourself, here:

http://www.change.org/petitions/time-warner-inc-get-new-episodes-of-the-swat-kats-produced

   Also, keep your eye peeled for the SWAT Kats Revival Podcast, which I'm telling you about now so that I don't have to take the time out to report on it later.

Radical News

   Sweet, sweet, sweet, exciting news. You know how just a few days ago I told you about how the SWAT Kats fandom is still healthy after all these years off the air? I might have been wrong about that. Not about its health, I mean, but about how SWAT Kats has been off the air. Well, it has been off the air, too, so not that either. I guess it's both of those combined. It's healthy, in spite of being four years off the air.

   Ha ha, no, wait. Not four years. I'm not sure where I got the number four, it just flowed out of my fingers. Freudian typo. I think it's from the presidential term length, as, in between composing this post, I was just reading some old posts of mine that I never got around to publishing and that now I can't post because the election season's over and they're old news. Four years, yeah, right. (Obama's been president for four years now. That's, like, several lifetimes internet time. So far. I don't know. The internet's slowing down, right?) 

   Anyway, no, it's been far longer than four years. It's been, what, seventeen years now? Seventeen years. Wow, has it been that long. Thirteen more years since Obama's been in office. But! It's healthy, the SWAT Kats fandom, in spite of the show being seventeen years off the air. That healthiness transpired to be a good thing. (Looks like the Big Bird thing didn't pan out (whatever that even was in the first place.)) I had done all my research on the SWAT Kats fandom previously, and wasn't really in a position to know any of the latest news on that front when Bro... Pony? was published. But, boy was the latest news exciting.

   Yeah, you can probably guess what the news is, from all of that. Even if you hadn't already heard the news, you probably could have guessed. After seventeen years off the air, they're trying to bring it back. Officially, I mean, trying to bring it back. This isn't some kid drafting up petitions out of his garage. (I love how you can get as political as you want on Facebook and have absolutely no one call you out on it. It's a place for friends (no, wait... that's... some other thing,) so even if you disagree with someone you still see them as a person I guess?) It's the actual creators of the show, those with the actual rights to it. The only question (besides when) is how.

   There was a Reddit IAmA last night 10:00 Eastern time, here, discussing possible plans, but (luckily?) SWAT Kats co-creator Christian Tremblay is sort of new to the whole Reddit thing and had some technically difficulties with it (again- he couldn't even figure out how to show up for the first planned IAmA,) so they broke it off prematurely in order for him to maybe gain some practice with it and not waste so much time fiddling around trying to figure everything out like he did the first two times (the first one time?) (Is it irony or destiny that Obama used Romney's "47% of the population wouldn't vote for me" dig as almost a guarantee that 47% of the population wouldn't vote for him?) This lack of Reddit prowess is, like I said, a blessing in disguise, because now they're doing a second 90-minute IAmA this coming Thursday at 10:00 Eastern, which I can report in time for you to experience live. That's twice the SWAT Kats goodness. And, you know, hopefully you can check this one out in time.

   Isn't it great that whenever I'm late reporting for something like this, it doesn't matter because something goes wrong anyway? (see: the Chicon 7 live feed thing.) They're doing a Kickstarter sometime... soonish, to get funding for whatever it is they decide to end up doing. Really, if you've got any other questions on it, just check out the IAmA.

Alright

   Lincoln is out, which is about the ratification of the thirteenth amendment; during the trailers of which one for Django Unchained coming out soon, which is about a slave-turned-bounty-hunter; and having recently rewatched Holes, which is about digging for the buried treasure of a woman who turned outlaw after they killed her boyfriend for being black... I'm thinking God is trying to tell me not to be racist. Well, thanks, God. I wasn't planning on it.

   The year is 1863. The Civil War has just ended; a new battle has begun: The Reconstruction of the United States itself. The Union had broken up during the Civil War by separatist states, forming the Confederate States. When the Union won, the nation had to be mended, in an era known as the Reconstruction. But, right as this is beginning, the President was shot. Would Southern Reconstruction been more successful if Abraham Lincoln had not been assassinated? It’s pretty clear that Andrew Johnson was a bad president (he was impeached,) but would even Lincoln be good enough for the enormous task?
   If Reconstruction had been done by Lincoln, would we still have quite as much racism in the South? Would blacks not be restricted by segregation later on? Would we still have the black power movement? 

Hot, Fat, and Link'd

   Surprising news. That Red Dawn remake actually doesn't look too bad. Not good like Lincoln good, but good like "ha ha awesome stuff blowing up get those commies!", except slightly more cerebral than that. You know, fun. It's got Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson... is that Josh Peck? I... I guess that's Josh Peck. That is Josh Peck. I hardly recognized him. Hey, that's Josh Peck.

   Yeah, I knew he did voice work in Ice Age, and so that he was still acting. But, seeing him here is still surprising, as now he's all... skinny. Skinny Josh is weird. Josh Peck's looked kind of weird ever since he lost all that weight. But, uh, Moviefone ranked him the nineteenth hottest under-25 actor in 2008. Josh, hot? I suppose you can see it if you try not to compare him with "fat Josh." I mean, let's try looking at it, shall we?

Josh Peck.

   Josh Peck. Okay, trying to picture him as hot. Ignore "fat Josh." It's now, "hot Josh." Alright, hot Josh. I guess I can see it. In fact, he kind of looks like...

Link Neal.

   Aargh. I can't unsee that. Seriously, what the? Just... They've got the same hair and everything. I don't even...

Bro... Pony?

   New pony stuff today, you say? I'm okay with that. I'm kind of okay with being defined as "that brony guy." Oh, man, in fact that's probably making it up on my Wikipedia page. But I've got no investment in the third season. It's probably just as enjoyable as ever. I don't know, I haven't seen any of it, even though I said I was anticipating it. Holy crap, though, that's little girl stuff. Something's changed. Maybe. The Bronymoon is over.

   Don't get me wrong. It's still, you know, good. And I think it's going to continue to be good.

   It's not a fad like some say. I don't think bronies are going away. SWAT Kats has been off the air for twenty years, yet there's still a thriving internet culture dedicate around that. It didn't even make it past the second season, and Friendship is Magic is already well into its third with no signs of flagging. And as sad as the SWAT Kats fandom may or may not be (it was an awesome show; come on) you can't deny that it's quite healthy.

   There's a bit of a (fallacy?) there that humor comes in "layers" for differing age groups, and there need to be different layers for everyone to enjoy for everyone to enjoy. On the other hand there are those who would find it- trying to remember the exact phrase, it was something like "wrong and twisted"- to throw in more mature humor.  It's true that different age groups might prefer different deliveries of their humor, but outside of basics like timing it right there's not much behind that theory.

Tommy Westphall

"I don't understand this autism.  I talk to my boy, but...I'm not  even sure if he ever hears me...Tommy's locked inside his own world.  Staring at that toy all day long. What does he think about?"

   A lot of people only seem to remember St. Elsewhere for its ambiguous ending, like the entire thing might have been fake. But St. Elsewhere also broke ground in other places. For instance, it had one of the first butts to be shown on prime-time television. So, you know, that's something. Not that that's anything too shocking. It was, like, Fred Willard's, or something. We all expected it from him sooner or later. But, anyway, the ending is also important.

   This is one of my most favorite subjects. It combines television with confusing canon-y bits with meta stuff. Basically, the ending of St. Elsewhere revealed the entire thing to (possibly) take place inside a snow globe owned by Tommy Westphall, a young autistic boy. St. Elsewhere often crossed over with other TV shows, and those shows crossed over with other shows sometimes, and so on, until a good 80% of everything on television may or may not take place inside the elaborate imagination of an autist. Yes, including that show you're thinking of right now. (It was NCIS, wasn't it? It's always NCIS.)

   No, I wouldn't be able to explain the entire thing to you. A lot of the shows that cross over just frankly kind of suck, for one. I'm not touching that. It's still great, though.

   Anyway, I'm bringing this up now because I recently stumbled across this, which provides logical arguments to claim that all our favorite fictional shows are not necessarily fictional, and provides six points against that. Which is good. A lot of stuff outright contradicted itself, like who the president was and stuff. Be sure to read the comments section there, as there might be some good stuff down there, too, who knows. Maybe you could tell me what's down there, as my brain just kind of switches off whenever someone uses a little question mark symbol for an apostrophe.

http://tar.weatherson.org/2004/10/04/six-objections-to-the-westphall-hypothesis/

Baby, Baby, Baby

   Had my birthday a couple of days ago. Twenty-first, for those of you who still weren't paying attention. To reiterate: 21 on the 20. That fits. Had it been a day earlier, 21 on the 19. More symmetrical. In more ways than one, apparently; my father wanted me to have been born on 11/19/1991. Now that's symmetry.

   November 19, 1991 is also the day U2 came out with their landmark album Achtung Baby. If I had been born then, then I myself would have been one. An Achtung baby. Well, I still might be one. The day after still counts, though, right? It's within a day, so, yeah, I think we're safe, not even counting the time zones and everything.

u2.com

   So, yeah, 21. Awesome. I'm totally ready for a night on the town. Now that I'm legally old enough to drink, I think to celebrate let's go out and let's get everyone a round of, like, Shirley Temples or something. Woo. That's living large. Okay, maybe not that. Maybe, like, some Roy Rodgerses? That's, like, the male equivalent, right? Shirley Temples are for girls.

   Said the brony.

   ...Alright, fair enough. Shirley Temples it is then.

2014

   When I'm coming back. 2014. That's... in a while. I've still got a mind to keep on updating, though. I don't have very many more posts to schedule beforehand as of now, even. Hopefully this will be a productive week in terms of, like, writing some of those down, and stuff.

2013

   As I'd brought up yesterday, tomorrow marks one month till the winter solstice and some ancient calendar somewhere magically winds down, which has been interpreted to marking the end of the world because of the calendar's unusually good ability to predict other astronomical events. Yeah. But today, it is my birthday.

   Yeah.

   I had a dream where it was my twenty-first birthday (so, today) only I was sad. Since this dream was before it was my actual twenty-first birthday (...yes) that meant that I had skipped all that time in between and gone straight from the day of the night I had that dream to today, missing all the days in the middle. Tomorrow marks the day, one month till the solstice and the alleged end of the world. So, I had gone and skipped ahead through all this time and now only had one more month to live. It was a sad birthday.


Everyday I feel as though I’m done for
Every night I feel my time has come
Although I am still very young.

I dreamt it was my birthday
And the world was ending
I had made it to 21
But I couldn't to 2013

Twenty
Thirteen, thirten, thirteen.
Twenty
Thirteen.

You'd set some trends
among your friends
they'd invented a thing and called it love
Whatever keys to fit whatever locks
When we were still very young
We had just worked out the paradox
Of being half yet whole,
Whole yet incomplete,
Of being two yet one.

(Twenty thirteen.
We're gonna have a war
If you don't tell me no.
Twenty thirteen.)

When we’re old, just marking time until we die
Our children will sing us this song,
And they will still be very young.