i 17, 2008

 

 

| LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

BJJ: Uh, well they have a new system called the Wii
now... it’s much better. than the SNES of your time.

   
 
  
   

LJJ: What does it do?

BJJ: Well, it can play SNES. games, which is what I
mainly use it for. But there are new games too, where
you get to shake the controller and the graphics are
all 3-D and stuff.

LJJ: Like in ReBoot?

BJJ: Uh, yeah, sort of. Oh, and there’s this new
. game where Mario and Sonic have sporting
_ adventures together at the Chinese Olympics.

LJJ: You’re a liar, Sega is the enemy.

BJJ: No, actually Sega went bankrupt or something
a while ago so they now make games for Nintendo.
_ Do you ever wish you could go back in time and Mario and Sonic are =)
have a conversation with your former self? What
. would you say? LJJ : N...no!
Big J.J.: Hello youngster. ' BJJ: Also, in the future, our Game Boys have two
screens!
Lil’ J.J.: Hey, who are you? :
LJJ: 1 guess that’s kinda cool. So do I still have all
Big J.J.: Why, I’m you in the year 2008. the same friends?
BJJ: Well, basically all the friends you have now
end up going to different high schools and then
move away to other provinces. But they invent this
thing called “the internet’ and then this thing called
“Facebook” so you still talk to them once in a while
when they have birthdays. :

LJJ: Wow, is it illegal to cut your hair or shave in .
the future?

BJJ: Shut up, brace-face. I — you words from
the future.

LJJ:-Oh yeah? So what kind of Nintendo pames do

vith the past —

LJJ: Do I have a job designing video games yet?

" LJJ: Geez. And this is when I’m how old?

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5

BJJ: Uh, well no, you kind of give up on that dream
around Grade 10 once you realize how ill-conceived
and nerdy it is.

LJJ: Alright, So I assume I fell into my backup
career then: famous animator, righ?

BJJ: Er no. That industry’s too hard to get into. But

you do get to be the editor of a reasonably successful
college newspaper!

LJJ: (silence)

BJJ: Hey, it’s not that bad. It’s better than the
minimum wage dead-ends most of your dork friends
wind up in.

LJJ: Do I still live in Coqutilam?

BJJ: Still with mom and dad, in fact. In the same
house.

BJJ: (cough) 23. But I have a good feeling that this
will be the last year!

LJJ: Wow, I'm lame. How about a girlfriend, do I at
least have one of those yet?

BJJ: (nervous laugh) Uh, yeah, about that...

J.J. McCullough
Editor in Chief of the Other Press

 

 

 

  
    

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