Real life dribbles
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kippurbirdTuesdays my mom and I have dinner together at some restaurant. So, it was yesterday that my mom and I ended up in IHOP for breakfast and dinner (She had a breakfast and I had dinner). We talk about the what's going on in our lives. During last night's dinner I ended up talking about my up-coming paper for Comic Con. I'm having some mild issues because part of it is dealing with an abstract subject -> responsibility.
Obviously this required describing the events that I was discussing. We used the little creamer buckets to mark the major story beats. It was quite entertaining, actually. I explained what the retconing did to the previous two story arcs. She kept on getting confused, before finally getting it.
When she did get it, she looked at me and asked, "So you have to go back to these issues (*points to the earlier coffee creamers*) and cut out all the pages that say differently because of this now?" *points to the latest coffee creamer.
Pretty much.
At one point in our discussion I was explaining why Hal decided to sacrifice himself to restart the sun which was being eaten by the appropriately named sun eater. Kyle came to him and said 'hey you used to be a hero, we need you to be a hero again.' My mom's response?
"He found Jesus then?"
This required a moment's thought where I allowed a, "Yes, I guess it could be considered that."
She got all excited and talked about how Hal became a born again Christian and how she would love to be able to write a paper about the religious aspects of the story line. She was a comparative religion major, you see.
In the end, I don't think we solved my paper problem but I did expose my mother to the joys of retcons and ass-pulls.
Obviously this required describing the events that I was discussing. We used the little creamer buckets to mark the major story beats. It was quite entertaining, actually. I explained what the retconing did to the previous two story arcs. She kept on getting confused, before finally getting it.
When she did get it, she looked at me and asked, "So you have to go back to these issues (*points to the earlier coffee creamers*) and cut out all the pages that say differently because of this now?" *points to the latest coffee creamer.
Pretty much.
At one point in our discussion I was explaining why Hal decided to sacrifice himself to restart the sun which was being eaten by the appropriately named sun eater. Kyle came to him and said 'hey you used to be a hero, we need you to be a hero again.' My mom's response?
"He found Jesus then?"
This required a moment's thought where I allowed a, "Yes, I guess it could be considered that."
She got all excited and talked about how Hal became a born again Christian and how she would love to be able to write a paper about the religious aspects of the story line. She was a comparative religion major, you see.
In the end, I don't think we solved my paper problem but I did expose my mother to the joys of retcons and ass-pulls.
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Date: 2010-07-08 12:49 am (UTC)So, not the sun that was being eaten by Solaris, the Tyrant Sun and rescued with the help of a sun-eater, then? ;)
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Date: 2010-07-08 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-08 01:37 am (UTC)When she was originally getting her music BA way back in the 70s she was going to get married to this guy (not my dad) and she wanted to finish a degree before she got married so she transferred to a Comparative Religion major. Then many years later she got her music BA finally.