Astral Time Travel to June 2003

Today I used the Hyper Dimensional Resonator to Astral Travel to June 2003 in an alternate timeline. The HDR sent me to a line close to the one we are on now, but not exactly. The surroundings were close to what they are here, but not the same. My house was painted a different color. And get this Dubya had long hair! Yes he was not wearing a suit and tie, but a dirty T-shirt with an eagle on it. Most men on TV had long hair and women wore dresses and high heels.

I had trouble listening to the broadcast due to static (storm) but on the news pres bush was talking about cutting taxes, no mention of the "T" word. NYC looked pre 2000 and Chicago had the tallest building (sears tower). There was no petronas tower because a man has jumpped (Skydiver) from sears tower and he also wanted to jump from NYC towers.

The US & China were not friendly, but we had a lot of problems. It seems that China had annexed Taiwan and Korea, but not yet Japan. There was a showdown with India over some territory too.

On the lighter side there was talk of a new comedy show that featured celebrity look alikes.

I got to see that cars on the street looked like real euro, close to a Mini Cooper, but not as fancy - more boxy and smaller. Also men did not wear suits and ties to work, T-shirts were OK. Like X-treme casual all the time.

A lot of the shows on TV were old B&W 50's shows due to copyright running out. The pres passed into law a bill that said no copyrights after 40 years because he said 40 years is enough to make money off an old show. By that time most of the actors are dead anyway.

So TV stations ran the old shows for free rather than pay for new shows. Also radio stations were on the 50's rock kick. No rap on the air, but a lot of big band and jazz. Stores had a lot of B&W movies for sale too, all in DVD, BTW.

Another thing I saw was that women did not have nose rings or tattoes. Instead the wore fancy dresses and had bright red lipstick. A lot of clothes were in dayglo colors like florescent green and hot pink were faves for women.