On Twitter, Dr. Wendell Howe, Temporal Anthropologist, is running a #TemporalTues hashtag. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it. If you don’t know, you don’t need to know.
In general terms, what it means is that everybody is invited to jump in a time machine and go anywhere they want to go.
I’m in the 1960s. What year is it, exactly? Dude, if you have to ask that, you aren’t really here, you dig?
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On another note, here is a recipe I picked up at the family get-together on the 4th. I don’t know the name of the recipe, so I call them:
GOOPY THINGS
1 package cream-filled sandwich cookies
1 8-oz package cream cheese, softened
melted chocolate
Crunch up the sandwich cookies as fine as you like and mix with cream cheese. Form into balls and refrigerate until firm. Dip halfway into melted chocolate and place on waxed paper. Chill until chocolate coating is firm.
I’ve been giving this some thought, and I believe I might do this with peanut-butter cream-filled sandwich cookies and make quick and easy Buckeyes. There are lemon-flavored ones, too, which would be nice dipped in white chocolate. They make mint-flavored chips now, and butterscotch ones…. This is getting interesting.
MA
writing prompt: If you had a time machine, when would you visit and what would you do?
Here is where I ramble on about whatever happens to fall through my mind. I also have a 
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July 9, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Dr. Wendell A. Howe
Thank you for mentioning my experiment, #TemporalTues. Everyone seemed to have fun and want to do it again next Tuesday! I am currently trying to round up all the trips, put them in order and put them on a blog. It appears we have a lot of potential recruits for the Association of Temporal Anthropologists.
July 9, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Scablander
Okay, here’s the truth! I’m Dr. Wendell Howe’s”feminine side”. Wendell is a character in a series I’ve written that I hope to get published. Publishing has gotten so crazy nowadays that you have to have a fanbase to even get printed! My husband wanted me to go on Twitter and promote myself. Problem is, I’m boring! So I started tweeting as one of my characters, placed four years before the book takes place. I was trying to show how dull and boring his life was before he met Dr. Serendipity Brown. Backfired. Wendell now has all these Twitter friends and they think his life is exciting!
People keep tweeting Wendell telling where they would like to go. I don’t know how many have begged to go along with him. He has to politely turn them down, for while he would like the company, the Institute of Time Travel would never allow it. Not to mention it would mes up the story in my book. It was while I was explaining this for the upteenth time, that an idea hit me. I bounced the idea off a few people, and they loved it. So I had Wendell announce on Sunday that everyone was getting a Time Machine of their own on Tuesday. They could go anywhere they wanted, no rules except that they had to type in #TemporalTues so everyone else could see where they went.
The reason I announced it two days ahead of time was, Wendell hinted at (couldn’t say directly without falling out of character), this was a chance for all the writers out there to get people to their blog or website. They could say I would like to go wherever and put in a link to their site. There they could have a short paragraph, a story, or even their published book waiting for the visitor who had now discovered the writer for the first time.
You suggested this as a writing prompt. Go back in time and discribe a scene. Talk about a famous person you would like to meet. If you could go back in time and talk to yourself, what would you say? It’s wide open here. Not only is it an exercise in writing but it could bring you some new followers. Shameless promoting accepted…just don’t write how you went forward in time and found out you were a millionaire because you had followed this simply scam by sending money to this Money Guru who is really you. (Unless you aren’t serious and it’s funny.)
Scablander
aka Jeanette Bennett