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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSjRAnR3Hrw
Happy Birthday Norma Jeane Mortenson. June 1, 1926. We miss you!
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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Monday, March 02, 2009
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Current mood:  exanimate
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Monday, January 19, 2009
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Current mood:  knighted
Category: Automotive
Radio Panspermia: The Four Who Fell by Joan d'Arc
Is my shorty story, written in early 2008, a prophetic warning?
Read it and decide. ..
http://www.huntergatheress.com/pdfs/RadioPanspermia.pdf SPOILER ALERT! You might want to read Radio Panspermia at the above link before you read the following spoiler. InRadio Panspermia, the radio "pod" floats down to the "bottom" of theuniverse, which in the 13th century (Dante's Inferno) was known as"Hell" – to the third circle of "Inferno" - which represents gluttony. The radio pod lands on the "White House" lawn, which is the center of"gluttony" in every way, and four entities emerge from it, who can'tstop "eating" and talking crap and threatening to blow things up.
Butit turns out, they're just "kids" who escaped the "mother ship" - aneven bigger radio. On a deeper level, the "kids" represent chaos orentropy, or radio noise - the ec-static - or dream state. The radio hascrashed the border or boundary of pure order/pure chaos (or heaven tohell). The familiar characters (the Beatles) begin to blur as in adream to become four famous poets of the Medieval era, who have droppedfrom Limbo to the third circle of Hell, to perhaps "innocently" eatturkey legs and to play the lyre on the lawn of Kthonia. Once here, chaos ensues. In the "thick" of things, we get the feeling "Obama" – whoever he is – is being played like a harp. Artist, John Moore, has really captured this idea with Obama as figure in foreground and the White House in the background. Obama is waving his hands in the gesture of speaking. The Word from the White House is only lies, no matter whose mouth it comes from. ..
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Saturday, December 06, 2008
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Current mood:  thirsty
Category: Life
TikiBunker is a Parody of Tiki Culture (a parody of a parody) that merges beautiful drunks with Armageddon butt ugly. The title actually comes from a room I have in my basement called the TikiBunker. The story takes place in Las Vegas and the people have survived a nuclear holocaust. By law of Uncle Tiki they have to drink their quota of Tiki cocktails. They have boils all over their bodies and on their faces they wear masks of movie stars. Their pastime is spoken word, or Kerouake.
TikiBunker merges my Armageddon catastrophic sensibility with what I learned from Bob Dobbs, Marshall McLuhan and James Joyce about the printed word (the eye vs. the ear). The alphabet and printing press vastly changed humanity, stealing from us the oral traditions of minstrel and memory.
The star of TikiBunker is Jack Kerouac, who was traveling from Big Sur on a railcar when the nuclear bomb hit. I really wanted a happy ending for Jack. And this is the happiest ending, the happiest beginning and the happiest everafter I could give him. Jack Kerouac was a slave to the printed word, lugging all his notebooks on his back, obsessing about putting his entire life into a book. So his paradise or "kingdom" is where the printed word doesn't exist and memorization and minstrel returns.
In Candide, Voltaire's character, Pangloss, repeatedly states, "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Imagine that the world is made of good and evil. The best possible world would have the most good and the least evil. The world of TikiBunker is a peaceful world that is anti-technology, anti-violence, anti-meat eating, (in fact, anti-eating, because drunks on bar napkins don't eat). I have engineered away the potential for violence.
From the dust of one split atom, a new Adam!
I'd welcome any thoughts and feedback on my social engineering project.
TikiBunker art is by Nick Ivins. TikiBunker is also available in HunterGatheress Volume 2, at www.huntergatheress.com Sold at B&N, BooksAMillion, and other indie book stores.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
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Current mood:  apathetic
In bad economy, boat owners abandon their vessels November 13, 2008 3:28 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO - From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants.
Boats have long been a barometer of consumer confidence, disposable income and the overall state of the economy. Now, marina and harbor officials are reporting a sudden increase in the past year in the number of deserted pleasure boats and working vessels.
In Antioch, a town about 45 miles east of San Francisco, harbormaster John Cruger-Hansen showed up at his marina one day last spring to find the horizon changed overnight. On the San Joaquin River, he saw an old crane, a rusted barge, a tugboat and an assortment of other junked boats, all of which had been hauled in and left illegally.
"Boating is a pure luxury and one of the first things to go when the economy turns south," said Cruger-Hansen, who expects to see more abandoned boats by year's end. "If it comes to the point of putting food on the table or paying the boat slip fee, it's the boat that goes."
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Current mood:  crunk
UN: Pollution haze could lead to extreme weather, harm farming. Beijing - Thick brown clouds of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threaten health and food supplies in the world, the U.N. reported Thursday, citing what it called the newest threat to the global environment. The regional haze, known as atmospheric brown clouds, contributes to glacial melting, reduces sunlight and helps create extreme weather conditions that impact agricultural production, according to the report commissioned by the U.N. Environment Program. The huge plumes have darkened 13 megacities in Asia - including Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, Cairo, Mumbai and New Delhi - sharply "dimming" the amount of light by as much as 25 percent in some places. Caused by the burning of fossil fuels, wood and plants, the brown clouds also play a significant role in exacerbating the effects of greenhouse gases in warming up the earth's atmosphere, the report said. "Imagine for a moment a 3-kilometer-thick band of soot, particles, a cocktail of chemicals that stretches from the Arabic Peninsula to Asia," said Achim Steiner, U.N. undersecretary general and executive director of the U.N. environment program.
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