punchedhitler | (no subject)

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Hi, City.

I know I came in a few weeks ago, but it's been a long haul from home, and I've been getting used to things around here. How long does it usually take to get used to things around here, anyway? Everytime I feel even a little more settled, a curse comes along and the feeling goes away.

But at least I'm pretty sure I have this Network thing worked out. It's not too much different from my radio transmitter at home. Howard would probably love to see this thing, that's for sure.

But I do have a question, and it's going to sound strange, but...does metal around here work the way it does back in your world?

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No need to be sorry. I bet I just need to fiddle around with it. Bet Howard would have it fixed in a jif.

Who's Howard?

[Just playing along.]

Howard Stark? He's a famous inventor, back home. He made a flying car that almost worked.

What was wrong with it? It didn't fly or it didn't drive right?

It only stayed up for a couple of minutes.

Well I gotta tell you where I'm from we don't have that yet so he's doin' his best.

He probably got bored and decided to figure out how to get a man on the moon or something.

[Or he went to fondue with Peggy B|]

[You need to learn your French, boy.]

Uh....it's possible.

....is there a man on the moon?

Hey when I got here I decided I didn't need to know too much shit about what happens in my world.

Does that work?

It's been okay. I picked up how to use these new phones with all the fuckin' features up the ass. And they got movies about dinosaurs that take over a park.

[It takes him a second to translate that to polite English]

Is there a picture house here?

[He's not sure if he wants to know if they have his pictures here or not]

A what?

You know...a place to see moving pictures? News, shorts, cartoons? Full length pictures?

Oh. A movie theater. Yeah we got movie theaters here, not too many though. Most people get their shit from the library or a store and take it home.

[Okay stop.]

What do you mean, most people get their [he pauses here and it takes him a second]...uh....from the library or a store?

[He can't swear]

This place is a couple decades ahead of yours. We got tapes now, you get the movie off the reel and put it on a tape that you can take back home and watch on your own TV.

[Leave Freddy alone he's so glad to not sound archaic when talking about VHS.]

Oh.

[Pause]

Doesn't that seem kind of lonely?

[Sputter.] No. I don't live alone really. And you can talk at home, it's rude talkin' in a theater.

I guess things are different. I don't have a fancy television or anything, though, and definitely not one I can use for pictures. Sometimes I watch the broadcasts in the store window of Woolworths, if the President is talking, or something.

You can still do that here, we got TV shops.

That's what I was doing, I did get a radio, though.

No no man. What you need is a turntable. And records. Lots of'em.

[He doesn't know what a turntable is but!]

Like gramophone records? My pal Bucky has a gramophone, we listen to some records now and then.