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webgreetings
Dear Linear Scholar,
First time here? If so, first thing you need to know is that we been bumped up
at a
pause point for a couple of years now, wwwaiting for
the Law to change and the next thing you need to knowww
is that Big Bong Reality
has been Updated Monthly for *at least* the One Hundred and Fifteenth time since September 1995.
( 9 + web years old, as for how many actual "Realty
Updates" written and uploaded 'in between' the 115 monthlies? Dunno, except that
it way more than 420
;O)--~
Historically speaking, this
reality update feature was one of the main clauses written into the
contract I signed (with I.R.C.S.A) for the
first BigBong
website Clause = Author (that's me) to supply a reality update
every 2 weeks for duration of contract (2 years) - which I did, they figured (rightly) that
without me to write fresh words, the Big Bong web site wouldn't be a
'proper" website. In late 97 when the contract was
finished and I.R.C.S.A decided to step aside, I kept the reality update
going and have never missed upgrading this page, which, I suppose makes this one of the
longest running blogs on the web, of course, I write way way way more words per
month than what you can see in here - most of the heavy duty blogging I do/have
done is viewable at the
teXt-files, I digress - mostly to illustrate the continuity nightmare that blogging can create when a 'first timer' hits a blog and all the
information on display requires prior knowledge.
METAphorically the Big Bong web
construct can be likened to a solar powered space craft, each sail
is made of <html> shaped in such a way so as to powwwer the web
construct through cyber space, kinda like a sailing ship through the ocean. Since powering up the webcam can be likened to firing
up the 'prime thruster' of a rocket ship and since the BBt-PPP Cyber Capsule
was designed to only light up the prime thruster at the start of
construction and since there are so many sails powwwering the BBt-PPP, it has
made sense to let the 'good ole' BBt-PPP Cyber Capsule voyage blurbingly
along its eccentric tangent towards materialization at a future point in
space and time whilst I went else web to construct other smaller more
maneuverable constructs powwwered almost entirely by web cam imagery,
portals originally designed as tug boats for the BBt-PPP which were
designed to morph into 'retro rockets' with the passing of time.
Thus you know some of the wwwhy why this page morphed into an elseweb portal page
over the last few trips round the sun, a book markable sign post page that is
never more than a "mouse click" away from
wwwhere-ever the wwwords are being
wwwoven in the now.
Thing
is, that I never set out to become a Big Bong builder or a Cannabis Law Reform Activist, I set
out to become a writer and as you can imagine dear linear scholar, after
such a long time of not being able to manifest all of the myriad
requirements that obstacle me in reality you would think I would be some
what discouraged, not so, I mean, I knew from the instant that I had
the idea that
actually building Bongzilla (my nick name for the Big Bong Peace Pipe)
was going to be somewhere the other side of highly impossible.
Thing is, I am not discouraged, because no matter how
impossible building a 420 foot high Big Bong Peace Pipe
looks in April of 2005, it is definitely and significantly
less impossible now than when I first had
the idea on the 29th of June 1994, not to mention the
fact that the writer/artist in me has had plenty of outlet weaving
what amounts to an entire sector of cyber space, which is why, when
all is said and done, I am not discouraged by Bongzilla
being bumped up at
this pause point, not when there is so much happening
in the real world of my highly subjective reality ;O)--~
2005...the start of the calendar year that ends my first decade
online... yeah, this time ten years ago I was typing up the manuscript that ultimately became
the novel this entire webspace is constructed around on a 386 with 4 MB
of RAM. Internet was a word I had heard on television whilst 'back packing' in the U.S.A (91-94),
of course, I had been reading about global computer networks in science fiction novels since I learnt how
to read, but 'reading about' and 'writing with-in' are entirely different things,
which loopingly brings me to the main point of this word assembly, the "weblog"
component of this April Reality Update = Couple of Big things
have happened in the "Macro", firstly the "Big Bong Peace Pipe" was featured on
Australian national television in September 04 as
part of a Documentary of Big things and secondly - and far more
importantly,
BIGBONG.ORG was created at
420-WEB-HOSTING.COM. The creation of both of these was long over due, mostly because I kept
putting it off due to the fact that >> slipping back into the metaphor of
a sailing ship >> I dint really feel like checking the stitching on every
sail, indeed, I am still finding flawwws and holes every where I check
and so I think I will be scurrying along the 'rat lines' for a few months
yet. During April 2005 the focus will be on
the growth of illegal
outdoor cannabis and the preparations for the
www.nimbinmardigrass.com and
the
www.nimbin-marijuana-march.420-WEB-HOSTING.com - there is no live web show happening at the moment,
unless you count the live web cam images I upload whilst working Mondays, Tuesday and Fridays in the
www.nimbinHEMPbar.com >> and thus >> having run out of stuff to link to for this month,
the only thing left to tell you at this point in cyber space and time dear linear scholar - besides
have a reminder to check out the
growth of "this
years" outdoor cannabis - is
... maybe I'll catch you in the
BBt-PPP
Chat Room...
till next
peace
;O)--~
P.S. the sound you "might be
hearing" is a snippet from
The Man in the Dark Sedan by Snakefinger and the Residents.
P.S.S Did you
hear about the arrest for the
cultivation of the Cannabis Plants that were to have been the focus of the 2001 webshow? |
