It has come to my attetion that "Days of Future Past" is an album by the Moody Blues, which I was previously blissfully unaware of. I'm uncomfortable with being associated with the Lords of Wus Rock, particularly when it looks like I was homaging them by using the name in the first place, which is clearly not the case. Furthermore, I've just been informed that there's a "Tales of Future Past" website here http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm which covers a lot of the same stuff that we're doing in this column, and they got here WAAAAAAAAAAY long before I did. It's only fair, therefore, that I change the name of this feature. Only common decency. SO what I'd like to do is have you guys post suggestions for new names for this column. The best one will be the new name. Until we've got a new name, however, I'm gonna' call this feature "Retro-Future Fun" as just a kind of interim title until one of you clever little bright-eyed types comes up with something permanent.
Nah, on second thought, there's probably not enough interest in this feature to justify a contest, and "Retro-Future Fun" is both kinds of gay, as titles go. I'm just going to rename it after a Pet Shop Boys song. Nothing gay about the Pet Shop Boys, right? Am I right? I'm right, aren't I? I'm not?
DAMMIT, what an irritating day this has been...
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Comments
1 June 2009
15 hours 41 min
How about something that is both a Shakespear quote AND a Star Trek episode: "All Our Yesterdays"
Or something simple like "Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today!"
Or poignant like "Lost futures of Yesteryear"
27 December 2008
13 min 30 sec
So go over here http://www.republibot.com/content/things-seemed-good-idea-time-probably-... and vote as to whether you want to get rid of this damn Pirate filter ASAP, or keep it running until midnight.
16 July 2009
6 days 14 hours
Especially since I've been listening to Abney Park's Airship Pirate on continous loop for the last couple of hours. A couple more suggestions would include The Past's lost Futures or This Could Have Been the Future.
27 June 2009
7 min 38 sec
Funny guys very funny.
27 December 2008
13 min 30 sec
I was thinking something along the lines of "The Future Ain't What It used To Be," but I'm not totally married to it...
27 June 2009
7 min 38 sec
Calm down R3 and take a deep breath and go to your happy place; visualize your 50 foot war bots advancing on the city center as the people run screaming in fear. No wait that’s my happy place, well anyway how about retro futures that never came or old time future fun or where the hell is my flying car. And you know they promised us a paperless office where is that you tell me that, I want my flying car and paperless office!
Damn now I have to go to my happy place.
16 July 2009
6 days 14 hours
How about the Retro-Futuristic Survival Hour? That sounds manly right? Or maybe Retro-Futruism; a Perspective? Kind of studious and serious. On the other hand it might help if you have a direction you could point us in as to what you want.