Quite possibly, I'm revealing dings in my pop-culture armor by confessing I have yet to see Avatar. However, I did delight at finding this little sound byte from director James Cameron in which he cautions us against pigeonholing Avatar into any one genre. Genius! From the James Cameron school of genre-identification, I give you the genre for my work in progress:
A-sci-fi-ish exploration of a fantasy-based spirituality set in an alter-historical world of a seaside pier where time travel rules and love prevails.
James would be so proud.
Those of you considering your higher education opportunities for 2010 might want to consider the "Mastering Time Travel" class in New York City at the Shelter Theater on January 31. Apparently, it's the "only place you can learn Time Travel on this Earth." Topics include: How Many Times of Time Travels to the Same Era, Who is Famous in Time Travel (John Titor, anyone?), and Introduction of the Time Machine: How to Use It and Its Miracles. All of this in 2.5 hours! For $125, it sounds like an afternoon full of win for someone seeking enough giggle-worthy blog fodder for all of 2010.
While in New York, why not visit David Anderson's Time Travel Research Center on Long 
Island? In a two-hour interview on December 23, 2009, Anderson Institute director and physicist Dr. David Anderson outed himself as someone with extensive, first-hand knowledge of the government's top-secret time travel research conducted at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. This follows whistle blowing in mid-2009 by Andrew Basiago, a lawyer from Washington State, who crusaded for government disclosure that members of the United States Defense Community achieved teleportation in the 1960s. I just got a tingle up my spine, the likes of which I haven't felt since my what-was-I-thinking preoccupation with another David: Duchovny.
Island? In a two-hour interview on December 23, 2009, Anderson Institute director and physicist Dr. David Anderson outed himself as someone with extensive, first-hand knowledge of the government's top-secret time travel research conducted at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. This follows whistle blowing in mid-2009 by Andrew Basiago, a lawyer from Washington State, who crusaded for government disclosure that members of the United States Defense Community achieved teleportation in the 1960s. I just got a tingle up my spine, the likes of which I haven't felt since my what-was-I-thinking preoccupation with another David: Duchovny.Since we're stumbling over preoccupations and no blog post would be complete without some kind of bookends-cyclical-type ending, why not read this superb TV Guide interview with Josh Holloway where he waxes nostalgic on LOST's amazing run coming to an end.
Have a great Monday, everyone!
7 comments:
AWWWW jaysus woman you time sucked me in again with the article link.
If them who have control transport me through the Tesla Time Travel Technology to NYC I will spend the saved airfare on taking you to lunch AND a damn movie theater.
I like your world, L.A. It reminds me a lot of the Chocolate Factory (either version--Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp.)
Not much time to follow links today. School is about to start again.
Time travel technology? I honestly had no idea. Hey, how come you haven't written a story with a whistle blower hero? And now I've got the time warp song stuck in my head. Come on L.A....you led me there, so join in...it's just a jump to the left...
Oh, and this weekend I totally thought of you because MacGyver and I were watching MythBusters - do you ever watch that show? - and the whole show was a tribute to MacGyver and trying to recreate many of his escapes! It was great! I don't know if you remember (what am I saying, of course you remember) the episode where he makes a plane out of bamboo, trash bags and an engine from a lawnmower to fly him and a guy with a broken leg to safety. Well they recreated it and while it moved pretty decently on the ground, it didn't take off like it did in the TV show. Busted!
@walkingman-I live to time suck :)
@Pam-I'll take the Johnny Depp version :)
@Charles-Have a great start to the school year!
@Robin- I TOTALLY remember that eppy and I have seen the Mythbusters episode, too. Awesome!
...and then a step to the riiiight... :)
Put your hands on your hips...
Hmmm, so the article says Dr. Anderson saw a boy's feet sheared off? Why didn't he go back in time and prevent this accident! Or maybe he CAUSED the accident with his space-time shenanigans. The poor lad ...
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