Anachronistic phrases, or blues in my fantasy.

[VirgilCaine]

I'd go with Orson Scott Cards advice: If it isn't different from blues, call it blues. No need for a new word for something we know about.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

(where's my post? Weird.)

For an original bluesman, I sugget Robert Johnson. His albums shouldn't be too hard to find.

"Woke up this morning, and my cohort was not there..."

AR

try #2

 

[Len]

"Woke up this morning, and my cohort was not there..."

"Durin' the night he had a random encounter with a bear..."

I'd go with Orson Scott Cards advice: If it isn't different from blues, call it blues. No need for a new word for something we know about.

I agree. Otherwise, what do you call a "hat" or a "bear" etc.?

 

[Psion]

If you play Second World (as in the Second World Sourcebook), it can actually BE blues music. It was just imported from First World AKA Earth.

 

[JEL]

Watch Samurai Champloo... may not change your mind, but its fine show and a great example of how gleeful historical inaccuracy can be...

Besides, since elves are fictional, why can't they be skilled w/breakbeats, or on the wheels of steel, for that matter...

I also immediately thought of Champloo when I read the first post in this thread. I think what makes it work in the show is that they don't pause to acknowledge the huge anachronisms (other than the disclaimer in ep. 1). It also helps the show that there is a surprising amount of historical detail outside the anachronisms as well.

 

[Mallus]

I also immediately thought of Champloo when I read the first post in this thread. I think what makes it work in the show is that they don't pause to acknowledge the huge anachronisms (other than the disclaimer in ep. 1). It also helps the show that there is a surprising amount of historical detail outside the anachronisms as well.

The disclaimer had me howling with laughter.

Yeah, it works because the playfullness of the anachromisms don't negate the other aspects of the show; the classic samurai storyline and the impressive level of period detail. Which is a really tough to do.