Boston.com – If you’re living in China right now and want to enjoy a nice quiet evening on the sofa watching the classic 1960 film version of “The Time Machine,” you may be out of luck. The New York Times recently reported that China’s State Administration for Radio, Film & Television has issued new guidelines as to how TV shows should treat the issue of time travel, saying that shows that involve rocketing through time and space lack meaning and promote an unhealthy belief system. The Times reports that a press release in Chinese says that these shows “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.” While plots involving time travel have been part of western culture for centuries – from “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” to “Back to the Future” – TV dramas with plot twists involving time travel have apparently been on the rise in China. One such show, “Palace,” involves woman traveling back in time to the Qing Dynasty and falling in love with several princes. Such shows are deemed by the Chinese media administration as insulting because they are “treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore,” according to a Time magazine article.

I saw this article at 10 oclock this morning. Its now 3:30 as I write this. Thats almost 6 hours of time to write this blog that is right in my wheelhouse and I got nothin. Serious Blogger’s Block. All that keeps popping into my mind is like half a joke about Tiananmen Square. How is that possible? I mean the 2 things I write about the most on this blog are Asians and the possibility/benefits of time travel. Yet when you combined them, I ironically can’t write a single thing. Its like James Bond’s chewing gum – when both things are separate you’re fine but smush the two sides together and boom, shit blows up.

All I know is that whether you’re black, white, yellow, brown, whatever – depriving someone from the movie Timecop is a crime against humanity.

Manzo’s Note: Still better than my joke about The Lake House