I must admit something. I did not know when I started writing this what the significance of "Nemo" was. I knew the word was evocative of characters and had a long literary and mythical tradition, but how it applied to this post industrial world was still a mystery to me until I thought about the history of the world, and the general attitude of people to unreasonable authority.

Welcome to my Brainstorming/Development of "Nemo", a post-industrial, non-apocalyptic, slightly hopeful look forward at the world in 500 years. This is imagined as a series, whether it ends up in book or screenplay form depends on the whims of fate. I will say, National Novel Writing Month is starting in a few days, and It may help the process for me to publish the chapters here for a bit to work out the first draft.

So, I really enjoyed the feedback that I got for my series Idea. So much so that I wanted to continue writing on it, jotting down some ideas, and working on the series "Bible" as it were for writers in the world. (All series are eventually a "Shared Universe" and IMHO work best when everybody's on the same page with regards to what's going on in the world)

So today I figured I'd share a bit of my Stand-up Material... Yeah, I do it, but not often, and usually only when I get a babysitter and open mic night to line up properly...

So, I present you, The ABC routine:

There's an old saying "It will be a great day when the schools get all the funding they need and the Army has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."

You ever stop and think what that would actually look like?

For all you Christians out there, Happy Easter Sunday. Yes, I'm aware of the bizarre twists and turns this completely Syncretic holiday went down. But at least you get a combination of Martyr complex with a Germanic Goddess of fertility. That would make for some really weird Fanfiction, I must say. Either that or the next big Tween Love story.

Well, this has been a crazy week hasn't it? Last week my OT was the first one after a major server upgrade, and now We've got at least 300 new people since then. Welcome, to all! Come and join the Throng, just help with the washing up afterwords.

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Monday 10/19/2015

Selective review of October 19 in history, cherrypicked from Wikipedia:

Not a good day for Carthage. In 202 BC during the Second Punic War Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage, at the Battle of Zama. Then, in 439 the Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, took Carthage.