picture this...

the following story is based on a true...umm....story.

have you ever wondered how many people's vacation photos you're in?

not pictures that you took with your friends and tossed up on the InterWeb. those random photos involving people you've never met. walking around in the background at the county fair, stuffing fried roadkill into your face. staring bewildered at your upside down knott's berry farm map pointing off in three different directions. pulling your sister's hair at your cousin's graduation while your mom swats at you.

picture it...stockton, spring 1994.

after catching an unholy ass whoopin' at the california state academic decathlon, a young man shakes off his disappointment long enough to pose for a photo with his mother, sister and grandmother.

fast forward to los angeles, fall 1994.

the young man as a freshman in college, while discussing his high school experience, discovers his roommate - a person he'd never met until a few weeks prior - was also at the same academic competition...and has a picture to prove it. upon investigation, the young man recognizes a face in the background of one of the photos - his own. he goes home and digs through boxes of photos and finds his picture with his family. sure enough, his roommate appears behind him, posing with friends.

the point of that fractured flashback was not a roundabout way of telling everyone how small the world is. on the contrary, it's still a big world...though we've learned to shout quite a bit louder.

it's more that we're all interconnected. take for instance the fact that i once went to a bar and saw jason patric who was in the lost boys with kiefer sutherland who was in flatliners with kevin bacon.

*ahem*

as i was saying. we're all interconnected and sometimes we're fortunate enough to have our timelines loop around again. it's little quirks that make life so interesting.

or maybe i just have too much time on my hands.

eh, whatever....hey! tremors is on!