{"id":3294,"date":"2024-12-02T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T22:43:34","slug":"lbdg-commentary-20-start-choppin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-20-start-choppin\/","title":{"rendered":"LBDG Commentary 20: Start Choppin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Part IV of <em>Local Boy Done Gone <\/em>is titled &#8220;The Kids are Alright,&#8221; respecting the greats in The Who while signaling Local Boy&#8217;s two kids will be just fine even though the sequence of their births may have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time the Timmons family tree had some leaves unnaturally re-grafted. In <em>Timely Persuasion<\/em> meddling by Local Boy&#8217;s son transformed his own appearance while making his sister into his brother. The biological hypothesis there is <em>same egg + different sperm = different body, same soul (or at least &#8220;same mind&#8221;). <\/em>It&#8217;s a touch hand-wavy, but it is rooted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auctoresonline.org\/article\/the-nature-of-consciousness-a-channel-of-a-frequency-wavelength#:~:text=in%20Paul%20C.-,Mocombe's%20consciousness%20field%20theory%20(CFT).,is%20both%20local%20and%20nonlocal.\">in the actual Consciousness Field Theory<\/a>. I&#8217;d not heard of this when writing the original TP back in 2008, but it aligns with a lot of the concepts of &#8220;in head&#8221; time travel explored there. Another place to give credit to my future self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the chapter title, credit half goes to my past self and half to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=3223\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3223\">J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr<\/a>. &#8220;Start Choppin&#8221; was one of Local Boy&#8217;s stolen songs in <em>Timely Persuasion<\/em> and made its way into this alternate timeline too. All the chapters in Part IV are song titles that end with an apostrophe. Please ignore the fact that even though <em>choppin&#8217;<\/em> could\/should have an apostrophe, the official song title doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Last time I teased how twins was a retcon I didn&#8217;t love. So I immediately undo it here, writing it off to a faulty reading by a new-to-the 1970s ultrasound machine and\/or a real condition called <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/diseases\/23023-vanishing-twin-syndrome\">Vanishing Twin Syndrome<\/a>. The eventual answer will be revealed as more timey-wimey&#8211;but what&#8217;s important for now is thinking there would be twins wasn&#8217;t just a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZbkypX1OhZ0\">cheap trick<\/a> of a chapter cliffhanger.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When the main plot became 27 Club focused I became obsessed with figuring out a way to have the sister character die at the same age to tie the books together, and eventually came up with this change that both followed the precedent of <em>Timely Persuasion<\/em> (&#8220;yes, the book allowed for some unpredictable copulation fluctuation mumbo jumbo&#8230;&#8221;) while giving it a different spin unique to <em>Local Boy Done Gone.<\/em> A win-win, won one if you will. The birth order switcheroo turned it into a fun plot point instead of retroactive continuity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If I (and\/or Local Boy) was better at writing songs, I&#8217;d totally do the <em>Ifsandsorbuts<\/em> concept album for real. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In <em>Timely Persuasion<\/em> the only character with a name is Nelson (and maybe Bowlingus if nicknames count), but the narrator does repeatedly refer to his sister as &#8220;Sis.&#8221; Revealing her full name as Sistine was a fun little &#8220;you always sort of knew her name&#8221; moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maxanne Sartori is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.massbroadcastershof.org\/hall-of-fame\/hall-of-fame-2018\/maxanne-sartori\/\"> a real-life DJ<\/a> from Boston&#8217;s WBCN for the bulk of the 1970s. Her claim to fame was championing local musicians, so having her spin &#8220;Won One&#8221; isn&#8217;t too big of a stretch. Respect the great DJs!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Remember that version I recorded at Barnstormer Studios? Pulled it out of my personal archives and submitted it to every radio station in a fifty mile radius. Local DJ Maxanne Sartori started spinning it on her show and \u201cWon One\u201d went from gathering dust to climbing the charts as a minor local hit. Set a record for call-in requests\u2014mostly from people I didn\u2019t know.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=850%2C850&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxanne-Featured-Image.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The real-life radio show where fictional Local Boy became a one hit wonder with &#8220;Won One&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Writer&#8217;s confession: I used to (incorrectly) believe <em>till<\/em> was an incorrectly abbreviated version of until. Since learning it&#8217;s legit I still refuse to use it in favor of the more casual <em>&#8217;til<\/em>. A great little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/grammar\/should-you-use-until-or-till-or-til\">primer on the history from Merriam-Webster<\/a> ends with this awesome line: <em>&#8220;And if you use&nbsp;till&nbsp;in writing and someone tells you that you have made an error, simply take the extra&nbsp;L&nbsp;off the end of the word and poke them in the eye with it.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The chapter title is a little on the nose here since Local Boy &amp; Local Gal are not so subtly acting out the lyrics in their vaudevillian lead up to playing the song at open mic night, fulfilling the <em>Start Choppin <\/em>alternating singer duet version I&#8217;ve dreamt about for years. The acoustic version below isn&#8217;t a duet, but aside from that sort of mirrors how I hear the Local Boy version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53bPy9n4VEw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Check out <em><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/b\/lbdg\">Local Boy Done Gone<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part IV of Local Boy Done Gone is titled &#8220;The Kids are Alright,&#8221; respecting the greats in The Who while signaling Local Boy&#8217;s two kids will be just fine even though the sequence of their births may have changed. This isn&#8217;t the first time the Timmons family tree had some leaves unnaturally re-grafted. In Timely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-R8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":216,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/local-boys-second-set\/","url_meta":{"origin":3294,"position":0},"title":"Local Boy&#8217;s Second Set","author":"LBDG","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"For awhile now I've been trying to figure out the best way to integrate some of Local Boy's songs into these blog posts.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazon links, Apple iMixes, and Last.fm journals were used in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 Recently I discovered a new service called 8tracks that seemed worth a try, especially considering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3292,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-19-wrong-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":3294,"position":1},"title":"LBDG Commentary 19: Wrong Way","author":"LBDG","date":"November 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Originally this was part of the previous chapter, but a desire for shorter sections with cliffhanger twists earned it a number (and title) of its own. The namesake Sublime song is fitting1, with \"Wrong Way\" coming on the heels of the \"wrong girl\" reveal. The scene here is mostly an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Sublime_Wrong_Way.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3375,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-25-livin-in-the-woods-in-a-tree\/","url_meta":{"origin":3294,"position":2},"title":"LBDG Commentary 25: Livin&#8217; In The Woods In A Tree","author":"LBDG","date":"January 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Nerdy, encyclopedic musical knowledge comes in handy when you have a chapter set in a treehouse in need of a song title containing an apostrophe. Bonus points that it's also the title of Sybil Rosen's memoir of her life with Blaze Foley (though she and\/or her publisher added the missing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5b00be098b143.image_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3146,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-12-the-new-abnormal\/","url_meta":{"origin":3294,"position":3},"title":"LBDG Commentary 12: The New Abnormal","author":"LBDG","date":"August 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The title of this chapter comes from the 2020 album by The Strokes, featuring cover art by 27 Club member Jean-Michel Basquiat. Here it represents Local Boy's reluctant return to (ab)normal life after losing time after his adventures with the redhead. It's also the term I used to describe COVID\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Basquiat-Bird-On-Money-1981.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3092,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-9-hit-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":3294,"position":4},"title":"LBDG Commentary 9: Hit List","author":"LBDG","date":"July 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Part 2 promised a van & a list. Here you get both. Musically a hit list is a ranking of top tunes\u2014but there\u2019s also a more nefarious, entertainment agnostic meaning. The list becomes Local Boy\u2019s obsession for the rest of the novel. Tidbit List: Learning the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cma_scoobydooad19690913_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":262,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/shoppers-paradise\/","url_meta":{"origin":3294,"position":5},"title":"Shoppers&#8217; Paradise","author":"LBDG","date":"December 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Echo Park Time Travel Mart gave me a bit of inspiration. The Problem: Time travel is my favorite genre, but it's almost always lumped together under the generic \"Sci-Fi & Fantasy\" category.\u00c2\u00a0 That means when I'm seeking out new time travel entertainment fixes I have to resort to either\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Time Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Time Travel","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/time-travel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Time Travel Mart","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0132-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}