Comments | benchilada: Where aren't you now?

benchilada

Where aren't you now?

Sep 25, 2007 15:21

You could just say, "I'm happy with how everything is now." But there's that other life, isn't there?

So…
TELL ME ABOUT IT.

Tell me where Parallel Universe You is right now.

EDIT: Feel free to be completely "King of the Moon" fictional about this, but I'm most interested in the REAL scenarios. The ones you dwell on some nights...

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evil_egg September 25 2007, 20:39:44 UTC

Alternate Evil Egg, eh?

Well, given the sheer proliferation of the multiverse, literally anything can and indeed probably has happened. So the universe in which I am happiest is doubtless out there.

That's right, one Alternate Matthew is in fact Kyle Katarn. Aww yeeeaaahhh.

benchilada September 25 2007, 20:42:15 UTC

But where's Parallel Universe NON-FICTION Matthew?

evil_egg September 25 2007, 20:43:24 UTC

Eh, who cares 'bout any permutation of me? I suck.

benchilada September 26 2007, 03:07:29 UTC

Stop it.
If you don't stop saying things like that, they'll start to be true.

Thread 7

jimmahgee September 25 2007, 20:44:03 UTC

Can I go back in time and be the saviour of the fuckin' Roman Republic in my parallel universe because that would be properly sweet

jimmahgee September 25 2007, 20:50:16 UTC

I wouldn't even try to show them slavery is wrong. That's what Parallel Universe Jimmy is like.

benchilada September 25 2007, 20:52:04 UTC

P.I.M.P.

benchilada September 25 2007, 20:51:52 UTC

Sure thing.
But what about Only-Ever-So-Slightly-Parallel-Universe Jimmy?
You know, the one who didn't invent time travel?
Where's he at?

Thread 6

anonymous September 25 2007, 20:53:28 UTC

1) we'd be married. we'd have children. our life would be lovely in a quiet, simple way.

2) we'd be married. he'd be faithful. we'd set the world afire.

3) I'd be skinny and beautiful and therefore relevant to others. I'd make a living just off my looks. I would exploit the everliving hell out of it.

benchilada September 25 2007, 20:55:09 UTC

1) The domestic approach,
2) The wild abandon approach,
3) The "We All Feel Like That" approach...

anonymous September 25 2007, 21:01:59 UTC

My alternate is getting married to your alternate. RIGHT NOW.

It's a very lovely wedding, I might add.

benchilada September 25 2007, 21:52:57 UTC

HA!
P.U.B. probably hopes you like Chinese food, then...

mwissa September 25 2007, 21:05:57 UTC

The Alternate me would have been wild and carefree in her teens and settled a bit in college to get a journalism degree. During my internship (which I got because one night at the opening of a new restaurant called sTone I sort of got drunk and ended up making out with a stranger in the bathroom. He was the hiring director/chief editor)at Time Magazine, I fell into a wildly popular column in which I review restaurants and end up being paid very well to travel the world and eat.

I never have kids, but this time I regret it, and I leave 5 husbands in my wake. I always have a 25 year old man slave and I die at 82 with a Bloody Mary in my hand and a smile on my face. No regrets.

benchilada September 25 2007, 21:54:57 UTC

I like that. A lot.
Sometimes my brain wants me to have been more "wild and carefree" when I was younger, and part of me wonders why I don't just fucking do it now.

sTone is, incidentally, in my steampunk hotel.