Here's a thought.

 How are parallel universes categorized? I mean in Multi-World Theory if you take that to mean that multiple universes that split from each other are actually a fundamental of existence. They don't think that, for the most part, but a lot of pop science books have been written about it. I personally, lack the Latin to make this decision.

 Not like in comic books, which seems to be relatively scattershot. DC and Marvel both have multiverses, neither company has had a consistent policy. I want to say Marvel would name realities based on when the comic was released. I'm not going to look it up, but it's like the Ultimate universe is Earth-2001. Mainstream Marvel is Earth-616 and was supposed to show how relatively unimportant it is. It is, but you know what I mean.

 DC seems to like having a noted Main Earth. Earth-One, New Earth, etc. It's had a couple of universal reboots - i.e., a chance to rewrite the entire line, a la fan fiction - in the last 10 years, so I don't know how they're doing it now. Again, I'm not looking it up.

 They're universes are decided by editorial fiat and regular cosmic occurrences, or if you like, crises. Marvel, on the other hand, says universal split occurs at certain points that make for good storytelling and/or covering up something that's just embarrassing. They had a DC-style reboot a couple years ago, but I think the only thing that actually change was to bring certain popular characters into the Mainstream line. Again, fan faction.

 Anyway. Who knows how they do it now? It's interesting that Human Marvel - like the people who spend time with the MCU or the Spider-Verse - is introducing their whole multiple universe thing at all, much less this relatively quickly. The Squadron Supreme was nearly 10 years into the line and Marvel's always had that connected universe.

 DC really didn't do it all that much until the '60s, basically following Marvel's lead. Batman in the Jusrice League could be doing something entirely different in his own books, his World's Finest team-up with Superman book, and just wherever he wound up that month. Same with everyone, really. It's why Superman and Batman teamed up with Jonah Hex and the Haunted Tank so often and Wonder Woman teamed with Beowulf.

 The problem with their mashing into one coherent world came when the Barry Allen Flash meet the Jay Garrick Flash, even though only a couple of years separated them. Like '47 to '52, admittedly a lifetime in comics. It was a pain because just about every character was owned by the same people but not the same company, if that makes sense. Flash Comics and All-Star Comics and National Comics and Action Comics and Detective Comics were all their own little worlds. Wildcat, Ted Grant, was inspired to become a mystery man after reading a Green Lanter, Allan Scott, comics.

 Marvel was even less organized than that. Some titles only lasted one issue and the next issue would have a completely different name. Indeed, their Marvel Comics was renamed Marvel Mystery Comics after one issue and introducing most of the characters Marvel uses as their "Golden Age," like the Sub-Mariner and the original Human Torch. It later became Mystery Comics and finally Marvel Tales, which became a horror anthology. It later was a reprint mag, mostly for Spider-Man.

 But I ramble. So DC squeezed all these books together and spent the second half of the century acquiring the rights to every other long-underwear character that Marvel didn't own. Like Plastic Man and the Spirit came from Quality Comics and the characters Allen Moore based his Watchmen characters own (Blue Beetle, the Question, etc.) came from Charlton Comics. After suing Whiz Comics for bullshit reasons and won, so they got Captain Marvel, who I refuse to call Shazam.

 They all came from different universes or went to different universes. The Quality characters, for example, went to a universe where the Second World War was still going on. The others were squeezed in with the Crisis On Infinite Earths which also got rid of their multiverse for a couple of decades. In theory, anyway. They keep making such a dog's biscuit out of it, they have to keep turning the universe off and turning it on again. Undoubtly, the success or lack thereof from the DCCU will have some impact if it hasn't already.

 But none of those count in this thought experiment. Would categorization determine number? Like, maybe the South won the Civil War and ceased to be quite as awful or won the Civil War and became that world's Nazis. Both from Harry Turtledove, too. Suppose those worlds exist somewhere in the cosmic static. If you could travel through them, how would you chart them?

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  I think I had something this morning, but I don't know. I took a head-kicker of a nap this afternoon, so I came out from the other end not having a clue. So I don't know.

 This, then, is a placeholder. I've got the Therapist tomorrow, but I really don't care anything about talking to anyone. Might as well get it over with, I reckon, and then I won't have to talk to anyone for another month.

 So there's that there, then.

Could be worse.

  I confess I don't get NFT's. Then again, apart from making it easier to buy drugs from certain sources, I really don't get the appeal of digital currency. Both seem like modern manifestations of the Tulip Mania, basing something intrinsically worthless on its perceived value. Granted, things like diamonds and the stock market, in general, have always struck me as a scam, so maybe I'm not the best person to pontificate on such a thing.

 However you want to waste your money to make yourself happy, go for it. I bought yet another harmonica yesterday, a Hohner Marine Band 364/24 in the Key of C. I already had one with soloist tuning but this one has Richter tuning. Apparently, Sonny Boy Williamson II played one. I got the solo tuning by mistake, and I'm not quite sure how this tuning works out, particularly on the draw notes. I don't think it's the same as a Lucky 13 in C.

 Anyhow, one of the recent quirks in the NFT world is pictures of a cartoon lion modified with different colors, clothes, etc. It's a hit on Twitter and, no, I'm not going to link to it. I don't want to encourage this behavior. The selling to-and-fro is getting as much play from the Kids These Days as day trading. A couple hundred bucks for a picture of a cartoon lion. It's not even a particularly good or unique cartoon. It looks like King Leonardo to me.

 As for the cryptocurrency thing, every time someone waxes rhapsodically it sounds more and more like a cult. Several years ago a co-worker tried to talk me into it and I asked him, "Can I pay my rent with it? Will my pot dealer take it? Can I buy groceries with it? No? Then I've got no use for it." Back then, that's about all I spent money on, but I still don't have much use for it. I've always lacked a certain amount of ambition that I figure must be there for that sort of thing to have any appeal.

 You see those guys - often the same guy - who are gung ho about busting ass to make money, to the point where not wanting to make a lot of money is considered a character flaw. I don't know why they feel it's necessary to be so contemptuous of others, because I honestly don't care. Again, I ain't the one. One of the main reasons I wanted to be a writer when I was a kid is that it struck me as an easy way to make rent. It might be, but getting there is a booger. Never did figure out how to do it.

 Speaking of writing, I decided to not worry myself about Gibberish anymore. If I have something on my mind, like this, I'll write something. If not, I won't. And I'm not going to stress about meeting the 500-word count. I get what I need out of the News, even though that will never bring me fame and fortune. This was supposed to spur something else and all it's doing is making me miserable. That don't help nobody.