Free Will Flux: a novel? Metaphysical fiction by Sage Kalmus

QuickQuiz: Time Travel Movie Sequels

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:16:00 +0000

Take my latest free QuickQuick and find out how much you know about popular time travel movie sequels and series'.

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QuickQuiz: Famous Figures in Time Travel Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:52:00 +0000

Can you figure out which of these famous dead people made appearances in popular time travel movies?
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Quick Quiz: Objects Used for Time Travel in the Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:02:00 +0000

I've just created a QuickQuiz - Time Travel Devices in Movies: How many objects used in movies as time travel devices can you recognize? Play this QuickQuiz now and find out. Sorry, your browser does not support iframes. &amp;lt;a href="http://www.freado.com/QuickQuiz/game/227/time-travel-devices-in-movies" target="_blank"&amp;gt;Click here to continue&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;

Apocalyptic Novels Hangman - Free!

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:15:00 +0000

How many of the following end of the world movies can you name?

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Hangman: Psychic Powers & Mutant Abilities

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:23:00 +0000

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Trivia: Time Travel Film Adaptations

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:04:00 +0000

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Hangman: Time Travel Movie Adaptations

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:02:00 +0000

How many of the following movie adaptations of time travel books can you name?
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Trivia: Time Travel Books Made into Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:02:00 +0000

From a list of time travel books, choose the one that wasn't made into a feature film.
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Hangman: Time Travel Books Made into Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:18:00 +0000

How many of the following time travel books that were later made into major motion pictures can you name?
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50 Fireworks Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Fireworks, Piermont, NY, July 4, 2010

Just posted a new album of 50 fireworks photos to my Facebook profile. CLICK HERE to go take a look.

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:34:00 +0000

Doppelgangers, Anyone? http://ping.fm/z94Wi

Doppelgangers, Anyone?

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:48:00 +0000

Photograph by J. Kyle Keener for National Geographic

OK, so really it's the annual Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio (as photographed by J. Kyle Keener for National Geographic). But it's inspiration like this that gives me some of these ideas I come out with like...

(spoiler alert! don't click if you don't want to know)

...various aspects of a single soul living separate lives until random or free will flux brings them together.

Photograph by J. Kyle Keener for National Geographic

Isaac Pressman - A Free Will Flux Character Biography

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:27:00 +0000

Isaac Pressman was born in a Queens, New York hospital to Martin Pressman, a traveling industrial supplies salesman and his wife, Abigail (Gail), a sometimes substitute schoolteacher, sometimes one-woman child day care center, and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Isaac grew up a confident, if unsentimental, child, frequently having to share his mother's attention with several other random children, yet always being the hub of all playtime activities (as it was, after all, his home, his toys). Also contributing to the development of Isaac's self-contained (if aloof) personality was that his father was rarely at home.

When it was learned that Isaac's father was spending his time away with various regular girlfriends who peppered his northeastern regional sales route, Isaac's mother did the then unthinkable deed of filing for divorce. She got the home, custody of Isaac, and a tidy alimony. Isaac saw his father even less after that.

A naturally bright young man who spent much of his alone time reading books on history and National Geographic magazines, he attended Princeton University for his undergraduate degree in Journalism, under a partial scholarship and working random part-time jobs for the remainder of his tuition so he didn't have to accept his father's money. It was there at Princeton, while in his junior year beginning the coursework for a minor in Acting (he thought, as it happened correctly, that it would aid in his one day becoming a famous television news anchor) where he met the woman who was to become his wife, Paulette Anderson (though her friends always called her Piper for her luscious singing voice) a sophomore in the Musical Theater department.

Graduating one year ahead of Piper, Isaac stuck around taking a job as an editor's assistant at a local newspaper until Piper could finish school and join him on his cross-country relocation to Los Angeles to get his Journalism Masters at UCLA. Their plans got delayed by an extra year and a half, however, as he helped Piper battle, and thankfully triumph, over breast cancer. Upon her recovery and completing of her undergraduate studies, it was off they went to California, an extra bundle in tow, which they didn't discover until a week after landing.

In Los Angeles, Piper took little short-term singing gigs, like recording radio commercial jingles or playing Mrs. Claus at the mall every winter, so she could stay home raising their son, Caleb (or at least keep him close), while Isaac completed his masters degree and immediately landed himself a job writing briefs for the weekend anchors at WNN TV, the cable television arm of World Network News, the world's largest news media network. Three years later, Isaac had climbed his way up to become the network's (and the nation's) #1 weekday and prime time news anchor. Of course this left him little time for his family, and when his wife's cancer returned, and this time won, the world's most famous newsman was left a bereft husband and the ill-prepared father of a bitter and confused pre-adolescent boy.

At the start of Free Will Flux, his son 14 and his wife gone near 5 years now, Isaac is 46.

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:45:00 +0000

Wow - I want to do this! Walkway over the Hudson. Mom & Dad's 2010 Labor Day Weekend Sunday Activty. http://www.walkway.org/

Deleted Scene: One Small Step For Otto

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:04:00 +0000

Otto Tannenbaum stood before a swelling hole in the iridescent sky which hovered above a desert swarming with the desperate vestiges of mankind. Beneath these heaving dunes of flesh, not a grain of sand was visible.

Otto raised a foot. The desert held its breath. The foot that bore the weight of the world breached the threshhold of the rift. Otto glanced back, flashed a tenuous grin. His foot was gone where no man (presumably) had yet, and he was still breathing.

Then the rift gulped him down like tossing back a shot, smacked its lips and sealed them tightly.

Otto and his so-called "Bridge" were both gone. The shepherd had deserted his flock and the sheep went wild.

Freak Show (Why No One Is Not One)

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:37:00 +0000

It's time to dispel a common myth that poisons our culture and tears at the very fabric of civilization itself, and that is the myth that there is anyone out there who is not a freak.

Society's idea of a civilized mind

tries to comply with a

contrived

media derived

modus operandi
noses, hands, and eyes

up tight, up to

the window display to find out

who they're about to be today.

See most folk follow

the familiar model

stand in line like you're told

buy the lie that's sold

in a glossy tri-fold

it's the most current event

your TV's ever sent or

ever will, it's Heaven

spent a fortune on

producing this commercial

a thrilling composite of the most

prevalent denominator's

predominant perceptions

modeling manufactured models of

how to be the best at

fitting in

at the latest convention of the

latest convention

of the latest trend.

But it's all pretend, friend

to belong

that's the swan song

and it echoes on and on and on…

Everyone's a freak show

everyone's a wacko

there are no conformists, only
better liars

everybody's eyes are on

someone else's prize

so take that freak flag out and

let it fly!

Everyone wants to be liked

now whether everyone will admit it or not is

a bit of a knot,

a trip over a twist of plot in this story, but

that everyone wants to be liked

you can be sure.

Everyone wants to be like

each other

brothers and sisters

misses and misters

since kidhood twisted

by a vivid reflection of

what brought approval and what

brought rejection

so we learned to fake it to

make it

up to

do whatever it took

to survive to

pacify

the culture vultures, and

it all ends up whether we're

being up front or

putting up fronts

we settle.

But no one is

the image they project

a circumspect disguise

so memorize

the lies of the

politically correct but

be warned

no one is the image

they project.

So how long

before the freak

in each of us

drops off the bus

while reaching

for expression?

Someone's religion is my superstition

someone's poison is my medicine

my criminal is someone's hero

my oppressor is someone's leader

sin is a virtue and

virtue a sin

treasure is trash and

trash is fashion

a lunatic's a genius

and the ordinary is freakish

cause

we all hearken

to the march of different

drummers that thunders

in our skulls

its pulse ingrained in our

brains and bones

for we alone

to hear alone

each a unique

variation in vibration

each dancing to

our own private

but only in private

and hiding it by

calling it out in others first.

That which is most you

will break through

will burst from beneath

the superficial sheath

still worn like a

torn and tattered uniform

what norm to

conform to?

What's hot or not

who's in our out

who cares about

any of that clap-trap

you'll make yourself dizzy

trying to keep up

give up

looking anywhere outside yourself to

find yourself

give up relying on

other people to

define you

to tell you who you are, based on

who they think you are

defy the fads that try

to lock you in a box

take a lesson from the fool

the exceptions are rule

preconceptions are impossible

to satisfy

and that's damn good

why

because if not life

would be unbearably

boring and more

it would be unnecessary.

If I were you

you wouldn't need to be

so just keep on being you

and I'll keep on being me.

By simple merit of being human and alive

we're already so much alike without even trying

but it's that part of you that's always been

most different from everyone at all

for as long as you can recall

that piece of you

that makes you distinct

that is your gift

and your power is to give it.

Could you imagine if everyone let their freak flags fly? If everyone let out for the whole world to see, their most genuine, authentic, original, uncensored selves? What a freak show the world would be then!

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:12:00 +0000

Credit:NASA/GSFC/Cynthia Cheung.

Random Flux Alert! Rocks Move On Their Own in Death Valley Desert. NASA geologists have been trying to explain this for 4 years. http://ping.fm/Fpdt2

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:29:00 +0000

NPR just introduced me to this great site: ProPublica http://ping.fm/IwYGk

Responsibility

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:04:00 +0000

We are born innocent but we are not born alone. From the moment we come into this world we affect the world. I breathe out, you breathe in. You breathe out, I breathe in. We are all interconnected, each the butterfly's wing that shakes the earth. What I do affects other people. I am responsible for my words and actions. Only I am responsible for my words and actions. By taking care of myself, I take care of others. By loving myself, I make myself capable of love. My responsibility to the world is to be responsible for myself. When I gaze into the mirror, I see more than me.

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:13:00 +0000

AFP/AFP

Sci-Fi Inspires Engineers To Build Our Future : NPR http://ping.fm/rbxvD

Unexplained Beam: What Could It Be?

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:54:00 +0000


'Unexplained phenomena' captured by Dr. Eileen Palmer

Is this what a rift in space-time might look like? A portal to an alternate reality?

Or is it another being, alike or unlike us, flitting at speeds only this much visible to the naked eye or phased out of dimension, vibrationally afar and yet so close?

What do you think it is?

All 30 Free Will Flux Quotes With Bonuses

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:39:00 +0000

For 30 days this summer I posted quotes from the characters in my metaphysical fiction book Free Will Flux, one quote per day, 30 quotes in all--sort of a textual book preview. Today, upon posting the 30th and final quote of the series, I've put them all together into one post, the full text of 30 Days of 30 Free Will Flux Quotes. Read all 30 quotes one right after the other and it may just evoke something of a movie preview...I mean, book preview inside your head.

As a bonus, I've included the character attributions for each quote.

Also, any of you paying close attention to the 30 Days of 30 Free Will Flux Quotes as they were being posted may have noticed that I skipped a day, going straight from Day 20 to Day 22. So make special note of Day 21, since this is the first time it's appeared online. And to make up for my error, this quote will be from a character I haven't quoted yet.

One last thing before I present the 30 Free Will Flux Quotes, keep reading after the final quote and you'll find out what's up next for the Flux Happens blog and get a special invitation.

"If you were around when it happened, I know you thought it was the end of the world." Pressman

"Manu, stop it! Nadie esta' alli'! Manu, there's nobody here! Stop it, please, you're scaring me!" Savannah

"How'd I get into the right lane?" Isaac

"There barracuda in pool! Big, big barracuda in pool!" wrong number

"Redwood Grove is a destination. Nobody passes through." Mayor

"Nothing. I'm looking for nothing, which is hard enough to find without all your goddamned distractions." Reg

"Was it real when you took the bite?" Otto Tannenbaum

"Maybe the world just wanted some attention and didn't know how to ask." Isaac

"Things are really happening, Savannah. Not everyone is hallucinating. And not everyone is going crazy." Otto Tannenbaum

"I just need you to tell me if I'm on all the television stations. I need to know that I'm the one being covered right now by everyone." Otto Tannenbaum

“I think it was a great white. And then the most incredible thing happened. It killed me." Otto Tannenbaum

"Do you know me?" Joe

"Pioneers, gentlemen...and lady. We're the next rung on the ladder. In a word, evolution." Reg

"I know how all this sounds, but have you looked around? What's not preposterous these days?" Reg

"Show of hand in the studio - who just pissed themselves?...Wow. That was more than I expected." Zack Piper

"Look Mama, that lady's walking upside down!" Mira

"Mira, stop making things up." Hillary

"But I'm not!" Mira

"Who's anybody gonna sue? I know, let's take a poll on who we should blame for this, whatever the (bleep) it was." Zack Piper

"I know what it's like to feel like you don't belong. The world is something that's happening to other people, but not to you." Mira

"This is what the world is coming to. We're all forced to live like third-worlders while the third-world itself is already plenty used to it, and they're over there laughing their emaciated asses off at us." Zack Piper

"Do you think I'm blind? I can see everything you can, child. I just prefer not to." Bernice

"These people are like little walking black holes. They're defective. And that's being nice. Their power is to negate power. How much good does that do the world?" Gareth

"So if you don't mind, I'll take you to yourself now." Otto Tannenbaum

"I don't trust him either. But I'll go along with it. Because I think you believe him. And that's not healthy. Someone has to blow this fairy tale apart." Manu

"Get me out of here!" Otto Tannenbaum

"Get yourself out." Savannah

"Lost souls are not escaping anything. They're confronting head-on every paradox of their existence and losing." Pressman

"Why can't I get away from you?" Savannah

"Who's to say I'm not one of the bad guys?" Joe

"How did you find me here?" Zack Piper

"You wanted to be found." Mira

"I'm only trying to help" Otto Tannenbaum

"I know! That's all you ever do is help. That's half the problem." Savannah

"And the other half?" Otto Tannenbaum

"That you suck at it." Savannah

"I think I know where we're going." Joe

Next up on Flux Happens:

Character Bios

and the launch of my Free Weekly Serial Screenplay & Viral Publishing Experiment "The Middle of Nowhere"*. No mailing list sign-up required. By the end of this viral publishing experiment, the full manuscript start to finish will be published online free for all to read.

*the script I was in the middle of working on when I started Free Will Flux. More on this in coming posts. As for the character bios, up first - Isaac Pressman; newscaster, father. Stay tuned. Or better yet, Follow this blog to automatically receive these updates when they're posted.

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:34:00 +0000

30 Days, 30 Free Will Flux Quotes: Day 30 - "I think I know where we're going." Go to www.FluxHappens.com & read all 30 quotes on 1 page.

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:20:00 +0000

29-"I'm only trying to help.";"I know! That's all you ever do is help. That's half the problem.";"And the other half?";"That you suck at it."

Emergence

noreply@blogger.com (Sage Kalmus) — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:50:00 +0000

As the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon a butterfly, may we now emerge from limitation into freedom, from silence into expression, from scarcity into abundance, from illusion into truth, from unconsciousness into awareness, from created into creator.