I mentioned Sixgun last week and then later realised I should probably mention that The Nile Journals take place inside my alternate reality Unfolded Earth setting. Sixgun will give you a decent grounding in the weirdness of the Unfolded Earth and then for some extra credit you should check out The Last Sane Cowboy, which collects the rest of the short stories set in that universe (the book even features an introduction written by none other than Mr. Nile himself – there’s that pesky continuity again).
3. Movements In Space And Time
Transcript
Week 3: Thursday – Saying goodbye to the old neighbourhood.
Nile: Ah, memories.
Spooky: You barely lived here a month.
Nile: Look! Over on the corner there – that was where I pushed that insurance salesman into traffic. And that dumster! That’s where we disposed of those Jehovah’s Witnesses. And the park – Ha! Remember that thing with George Bush and the egg whisk?
Spooky: Mmm. Remind me why it is I agreed to share another apartment with you?
Week 3: Friday – Moving day.
Spooky: Thanks for helping out, Ignatz.
Ignatz: No problem. Where do you want this?
Spooky: What’s in it?
Ignatz: I think it’s some sort of bubble of condensed space, containing what that looks like a miniature version of your old apartment buil-
Spooky: Nile’s room.
Week 3: Saturday – First hangover in the new apartment.
Ignatz: Your brain appears to be occupying multiple simultaneous points in space-time.
Nile: Uh-huh.
Spooky: How are you doing that, exactly?
Nile: Well, if I knew that then I’d know how to stop doing it, wouldn’t I?
This really made me laugh, but… what’s a dumster?
A dumster is a comic artist who forgets to spellcheck his comics before uploading them.
A dumster is where I dispose all my Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Well done Internet of 2010! But I must say, Internet of 2003, I am disappointed. Why did none of you spot this error seven years ago? Bad 2003! Bad! No biscuit!