This is indeed the case. However, here in The Middle Room, we have numerous methods of time travel at our disposal, which we've used to travel the multiverse and explore alternate time-lines and possibilities. For two centuries now, we've explored rising machines and nanotechnology, the psychology of superheroes and villains, and now we've returned, to this time, to carry on as we always have.
To you, dear reader, no doubt stuck in a three-dimensional existence, we offer a strange happenstance:
This is also, by complete coincidence, our two hundredth post. At least in this time and this reality (we're still on 189 on Earth-3). Granted, many of these were nothing more than notifications of toy reviews going up in The Clearance Bin, a policy we stopped after our infamous falling out with their editorial staff.
At any rate, in celebration we thought to look back at The Middle Room so far, at where we've come from and where we hope to go. We have been to the future, and we assure you it is indeed bright (mainly due to the detonation of plasma bombs occurring in our forthcoming war against the machines, but its still a pleasant metaphor if you don't think it through).
We begin with a glance at our favorite pictures posted over the years. As is customary in this era, we will select our 10 favorites, rather than the "Top 8", favored by the cold logic of the mechanical minds which rule many of our possible (and likely) futures:
10. Our first picture hails from Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, posted February 13, 2009:
9. Next, we present a picture from the classic post, Who Reviews the Reviewers?, first published on March 8 in the year of our lord, 2008:
8. We believe the quality of photographs has grown, as of late, as evidenced by the following, from An Evening at the Theater, posted September 26 of this year:
7. Let it not be said that The Middle is unwilling to engage in social commentary. This was posted as part of The Spirit of the Holidays, posted on November 29, 2008:
6. The following first appeared with The Time Before, published on October 1, 2008:
5. On July 18, 2008, The Middle Room had little choice but to take the British to task over their unforgivable attack on Black Canary in The Values We Hold:
4. Another recent addition, the following accompanied DVD Review: Hulk Vs. on September 13, 2009:
3. This was used to introduce Movie Review: Coraline on February 7, 2009:
2. The Middle Room remembered Gary Gygax in Final Respects, posted on April 9, 2009:
1. Finally, one of our most recent images may be our best. This accompanied The Lord of the Rings: an Annual Viewing, part 3 of 3, posted September 25:
We leave you with this, a re-post of our very first post, which explains who we are:
The Cool Kids Sit Elsewhere
(originally posted March 9, 2008)
Welcome to the middle room. We have plenty of chairs here, plenty of seats, and all are of course welcome to join us. But before you do, know this: ours is a strange path, and there are many who would choose to avoid it. If your love is for sports or shoes, then you may want to press on to other stops in the vast abyss that men call... the internet.
For here you shall find none of those things. Here, there is only the geek. The oddity. The icosahedron lies within, and it is ever turning. Do you dare gaze into its many faces? If not, deer reader (or elk reader: all Cervidae are equally welcome), do not venture further.
There are other things here, as well. Stories of those who are more than human. Stories of Gods, proudly clad in spandex armor, lie within. Stories of beasts, a hundred feet tall, with nuclear breath shall likewise be considered.
And, should they fight, who amongst us to claim to guess at the winner?
Join us, if you would. Pull up a seat at our table, or one of the other nearby tables, if ours is already full. But know this: this is neither the front room, nor is it the back.
You have entered the middle room. It lies between the other two, and the cool kids sit elsewhere.
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