Gobs and gobs of strange and wonderful and terrible things are happening in this universe right now, and I am pretty sure it’s gonna get a whole lot weirder before this year is out.

You can see a stellar nursery with your bare eyes and I think that is pretty goddamn fantastic. It’s easy to see, too. If you can find the constellation Orion, the Orion nebula is right there, that line down from the belt. It looks like a couple of stars and some fuzz, like a cloud is smearing the view a bit. There IS a cloud there, just light-years away, filled with baby stars and planets and who knows what else (your local astronomer friend or website can help you with those neat and vague details).

A freaking nebula, and you can see it! It’s not much, granted, but once you spot it you will forever see it after, and it stands right out as a fuzzy object in a sky full of mostly blight specks and black (the occasional jet or satellite or comet breaking thing up a bit).

Things are so strange nowadays people half expect a superhero or supervillain to emerge; in the very least, if you saw in the news later today that some kid has a bit of control over magnetism, enough maybe to move a nail across a table or something, would you be terribly shocked and incredulous, or cry out in delight and compare the wunderkind to a little Magneto?

Tad out, tadlings.
Tad Greely
Class of Forever

Today I awoke from a deep sleep! It was so deep that I thought it was maybe a whole day had gone by, but it was like half a almost a freaking year!

I did not know what to expect after I read election news, so I read the rest of the news and things were pretty much what I expected, and celebrities went crazy or killed themselves by accident and wars and arguments were still going on too, just like normal!

UGHGHGHGHGH I said and was shocked to find a Wii in the living room! ROOMMATE I yelled after turning it on and finding the store, THERE ARE NEO-GEO GAMES! I yelled.

PEWVIS< he yelled back>They are all games I have never heard of!

I looked at the Wii list and found none of them to my understanding. GODDAMMIT I JUST WANT TO PLAY 1945 OR METAL SLUG ANYTHING OR SAMURAI SHOWDOWN OR KING OF FIGHTERS WHAT THE HELL?!?! I yelled, GODDAMMIT THE NAM GAME ISN’T EVEN LISTED FUCK!

I went downstairs and found my weird spacecar hybrid thingie, so that was still the same! I looked around and there was still a red button but it was taped shut? Also there were small holes beneath the bottom of the car, right around the edges.THAT IS KIND OF FUCKED I thought to myself. I decided it was a better idea if I did not get in just yet. I decided to walk up Broadway and get coffee after a long walk.

As I walked up past the pretty cars I looked up by the Cadillac dealership and saw a blimp!

OH AWESOME I AM IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE! I thought excitedly. There was no way a blimp would be in the air unless this was an alternate universe. In science fiction people always see a big blimp and then they know that they are now in another dimension or reality or whatever, it is usually also followed by the thought OH NO THE AIRSHIP HAS A SWASTIKA ON THE FIN FUCK!!

Thankfully there were no Nazi marks on the blimp so I knew I was not in a Nazi reality, especially if presidential candidates like I thought would be presidential candidates are bitching at each other over retarded things!

S after I drank some coffee and looked at weird lower condo prices I realized I was in a better world than when I went to sleep over nine months ago! I am not sure what will happen next but it will probably be exciting. Hopefully soon it will be a world with a reasonable president and a nice list of games for the Wii Neo-Geo emulator and tons of old systems for a new secret project, I will not tell you about it except that it is called, STARDROPPERS, INC!

Sincerely,
Ted “Tad” Greeley
Class of ’98