everyday life in future times
Oct. 21st, 2015 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaGreat Scott! It is at this moment, 7:28 Pacific Time, that Back to the Future II is set entirely within the past. Unless they abolished time zones in the hypothetical future and just use Greenwich Meridian Time for everything, which doesn't make any sense, because I'm pretty sure 7:39 GMT is daylight in California.
Wait a minute, Trump is running for president and there aren't hoverboards everywhere and the Ny Mets are up 6 to 1 in Game 4 of the National League championships and it isn't even the World Series yet. We're actually in the bad alternate 2015. And while Canada may be turning away the right wing, it doesn't mean the rest of the west will join them. It seems scarily possible that Le Pen will be the next president of France, or worse, Le Pen won't get the presidency and the far right will blame the refugees.
There were people walking home from school, and some of them were wearing ties but nobody was wearing two ties at once.
Clothing palettes in general are more subdued than in Back to the Future. I actually think that's a good thing. Check out my sketchbooks to see what people are actually wearing in 2015.
It wasn't an ordinary day, it was actually a bit more exciting for that.
Courtney fed the raccoons pumpkin goop. They love the seeds, apparently. Yeah, we still have about 4 raccoons left.
A woman who carved pumpkins once spent an entire summer camping out in the backyard in a tent and mentioned raccoon sounds.
A kid said he'd love to be a raccoon: getting fed pumpkin goop and presumably playing with garbage.
I tried to copy a skull template but it was too large for the pumpkin so it looked like a chimpanzee skull and it ended up looking like it needed jaw surgery because Andrea left behind paperclips when she tried to use an owl template and part of it fell off and I suggested pinning it there with a nail and I had to reattach part of it somehow. I also carved Bob. Bob looked good. He had no pupils but jack-o-lanterns aren't supposed to have pupils, damn it. If jack-o-lanterns were meant to have pupils, pumpkins would be ferromagnetic.
Courtney tried to make scales on a skinned pumpkin so the light would shine through but she couldn't tell how thick the pumpkin was.
Kira tried to make a Minion, but it ended up looking like that guy from Monsters Inc. instead.
Jacob made a first aid cross, or perhaps it was a gravestone.
Jack made a sailboat. Then he vanished. Then he got poop on his shoe walking the spooky trail and decided the best way to get it off was to bang it against the ground repeatedly and not with a paper towel. Then he came back to carve a guy wearing a crown.
Some students at Amelia's school carved a giant pumpkin eating other pumpkins.
Amelia says most of them fail at carving pumpkins.
Waffle dug up a rock from the spooky trail and took it with him.
It's funny, I thought Megan looked familiar (she wasn't) but I didn't recognize Amelia (Tyler's sister) or Sarah at all, although Amelia remembered that I showed her pictures of all the wildlife center's animals but thought I had hedgehogs and ferrets.
Kira tricked Megan into coming to the wildlife center to clean and wash dishes with the promise of Movie Night.
Tyler said they were going to release a bat soon.
Amelia was talking about a macaw who's owner has him watch things like Sesame Street so he'll learn things like that instead of swearing at people.
He's still a jerk, of course.
Burning question: Where's Jaws 19?
Wait a minute, Trump is running for president and there aren't hoverboards everywhere and the Ny Mets are up 6 to 1 in Game 4 of the National League championships and it isn't even the World Series yet. We're actually in the bad alternate 2015. And while Canada may be turning away the right wing, it doesn't mean the rest of the west will join them. It seems scarily possible that Le Pen will be the next president of France, or worse, Le Pen won't get the presidency and the far right will blame the refugees.
There were people walking home from school, and some of them were wearing ties but nobody was wearing two ties at once.
Clothing palettes in general are more subdued than in Back to the Future. I actually think that's a good thing. Check out my sketchbooks to see what people are actually wearing in 2015.
It wasn't an ordinary day, it was actually a bit more exciting for that.
Courtney fed the raccoons pumpkin goop. They love the seeds, apparently. Yeah, we still have about 4 raccoons left.
A woman who carved pumpkins once spent an entire summer camping out in the backyard in a tent and mentioned raccoon sounds.
A kid said he'd love to be a raccoon: getting fed pumpkin goop and presumably playing with garbage.
I tried to copy a skull template but it was too large for the pumpkin so it looked like a chimpanzee skull and it ended up looking like it needed jaw surgery because Andrea left behind paperclips when she tried to use an owl template and part of it fell off and I suggested pinning it there with a nail and I had to reattach part of it somehow. I also carved Bob. Bob looked good. He had no pupils but jack-o-lanterns aren't supposed to have pupils, damn it. If jack-o-lanterns were meant to have pupils, pumpkins would be ferromagnetic.
Courtney tried to make scales on a skinned pumpkin so the light would shine through but she couldn't tell how thick the pumpkin was.
Kira tried to make a Minion, but it ended up looking like that guy from Monsters Inc. instead.
Jacob made a first aid cross, or perhaps it was a gravestone.
Jack made a sailboat. Then he vanished. Then he got poop on his shoe walking the spooky trail and decided the best way to get it off was to bang it against the ground repeatedly and not with a paper towel. Then he came back to carve a guy wearing a crown.
Some students at Amelia's school carved a giant pumpkin eating other pumpkins.
Amelia says most of them fail at carving pumpkins.
Waffle dug up a rock from the spooky trail and took it with him.
It's funny, I thought Megan looked familiar (she wasn't) but I didn't recognize Amelia (Tyler's sister) or Sarah at all, although Amelia remembered that I showed her pictures of all the wildlife center's animals but thought I had hedgehogs and ferrets.
Kira tricked Megan into coming to the wildlife center to clean and wash dishes with the promise of Movie Night.
Tyler said they were going to release a bat soon.
Amelia was talking about a macaw who's owner has him watch things like Sesame Street so he'll learn things like that instead of swearing at people.
He's still a jerk, of course.
Burning question: Where's Jaws 19?
