Stories About Stories - Post 1

When I was a child I would jam instrumental operas on my Casio. Each character had it's own octave. Evil Villain would have his origin notes in a very low minor chord. Helpless Damsel In Distress found her voice in the highest notes using the "harpsichord" setting and of course Alpha Male Hero was middle C.

The plot would always be rather abstract as this was more like a Grateful Dead jam than your average Tchaikovsky. The theme was, however, entirely unoriginal and always satirical. You could almost hear Evil Villain stroke his thin mustache and the screams of Helpless Damsel as she lie tied to train tracks awaiting her inevitable death when Hero would swoop in with only very manly major chords to save our heroine.

And yes, at age 7, I was fully aware that I was making fun of an ageless, trite theme. The end usually saw Helpless Damsel running off to “find herself” (ala Molly Ringwald circa the times) or some such silliness while Evil Villain and Hero finally expressed their love for one another.

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Originally posted on June 11th, 2009 1:30AM

I am one of a hand-full of people who own their own time travel machine. The list is short and includes J J Abrams.*

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In about twenty years there will be a symbol invented to stand in for the "a" in an acronym containing the word acronym. By 2110 the the word acronym is spelled with the symbol in front replacing the letter.



* I cannot get too detailed at the moment, but I can tell you that my existence is actually a direct result of J J Abrams' abuse of time travel. More later.