Plan For The Worst, But Hope For The Best

Welcome to 2017 at the Quirky Muffin, a grand new era of extemporised gibberish masquerading as sensible and reasoned gobbledygook. We have a whole year to ramble on about inconsequential things, the imponderable questions of the universe, and how both relate to banana peel. I wonder of what they were thinking in the great Celestial Fruit Office when they devised the banana... Do you think it was a multiply layered joke of some kind? A joke that incorporates a gag that incorporates a prank? Or was it intended to be one of nature's most perfectly designed packaging?

What will this year bring? There are no predictions for the upcoming world outside this blog, but within these internal ravings we are due for some sort of resolution to 'The Ninja Of Health', some book reviews, and an ending to at least one more story. There will also be more Phrontistery posts and less political nonsense. The political nonsense is over now, no matter what happens, except in the purest of theoretical senses. Non-partisan blathering is acceptable, yes? No? Okay, then not even that. Thank goodness. It's better to be optimistic and aspire than to carp and criticize.

Oh, we'll probably get through many, many more posts about 'Star Trek', 'MASH', 'Night Court' and even 'The Mentalist' or 'Quantum Leap' before the end of the year. Movies will be examined. Books will be reviewed. Stories will elongate, compress, be built and be knocked down, and we'll go through all kinds of bizarre experiences together. If a cruise is successfully saved for then we'll have an extensive travel log, and if not then an exploration of pre-incarnation as a viable made up supernatural process. If people can talk about REincarnation then why not PREincarnation? Also, in speculative blather, if we supposed that were only a finite number of souls to go around, then wouldn't a booming human population mean that there wouldn't be enough left over for the other animal orders, causing all the extinctions? Of course, that would mean that some kind of prioritising is going on somewhere, but it's a topic for another day. Where do all the souls come from, and are any new ones being made?

Now it's time to roll over back to the world of 'Conan The Barbarian', as told by Robert E Howard, or 'Joan of Arc' by Mark Twain, or even begin book two of 'Journey To The West'. That last one has been on the backburner for a little too long. There's just one more day of official holidays before we kick back into full work mode.

Welcome to 2017, gentle readers. It might be a nice year, despite all our fears. Let's plan for the worst, but truly hope for the best.

O.