Posted on March 8, 2015 Posted by John Scalzi 34 Comments
Can you guess from the photo above? I suspect not, as the picture to me looks like an Alien coming down from the ceiling to hug me with its teeth. But guess away, and tomorrow I will reveal the truth.
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You fell down a rock-face?
LSD.
Looks like a sunset photographed from a moving car. Travel by car, perhaps to visit family?
Had images taken of your innards?
You visited Dormammu in his lair and plotted the domination of all humankind?
You took pictures with a camera with a slow shutter speed.
Eh, it looks more like running away from a hungry Allosaur or similar carnosaur than an Alien to me.
Though I suppose it could be a Dragon, also.
Glad to see you survived the experience.
You really did it. You blew it up. You maniac!
You blinded someone with science!
given your fondness for dramatic sunsets, my money is on that!
You were piloting a Jaeger at the bottom of the ocean and didn’t let us know? :O
Or I’ll vote LSD with JJ.
The photo is a selfie taken after you were possessed by the demon Pazuzu.
Do we get a prize for being right?
Is it this:
https://offworlders.com/docs/Scalzi-Image.jpg
That is – that Devil Day picture of you superimposed onto a vivid sunset that was then run through a Photoshop filter on steroids?
If it’s not that – I got nothing.
You finally unleashed the Titan missile from your rural Ohio silo and took out Cleveland. To be fair, they’ve had it coming for years.
First bonfire of spring? Bit early, given the equinox isn’t for another two weeks. Maybe it’s the last of winter, then.
Well, at least it’s not a boat.
I hope…
It’s Godzilla, isn’t it?
You finally threw away that thing at the back of the refrigerator.
The End of All Things? or maybe the Big Bang?
One and the same (Ouroboros)?
Looks like a typical picture of central Ohio on your drive back home.
I like the Dormammu guess, because this absolutely IS the palette for the exotic-extra-dimensional-Doctor-Strange comics, but what everyone so far appears to have missed is that you are almost certainly riding a horse.
Now *why* you’d be riding a horse is a darned good question, but that’s beyond the scope of the game….
Fire walk?
You went ant visited a volcano!
You finally discovered the time vortex, only to find that as you stared into it, it stared into you.
Yep, looks like someone (with a good amount of hair) is riding a horse.
I’m going to guess – spelunking.
Experiments in tie-dye? (Just to offer up an unusual option – I’d certainly purchase fabric which looked like that!).
I would go with stargazing but if so, you really need to stop hand holding your camera on those time lapses.
Whatever it was, hope it was fun.
Looks like you dropped some really A grade acid, dude.
You went to a re-enactment of the Hindenburg disaster.
My guess would be dirt biking or jet skiing…
http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww260/steventrapani/JS_Rotated_zps74d78dea.jpg
Old Aggie get a prize?
I saw two faces on the right side of this picture.
it seems abstract to me!