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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 Twenty Fifth time since September 1995.
(Over 10 web years old, as for how many actual "Realty Updates"
written in more than a decade and uploaded 'in between' the 124 monthlies? Dunno, except that
its way 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 February of 2006, 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)--~
2006...
Over a first decade
online... yeah, this time eleven years ago I was one finger typing up the manuscript that ultimately became
the novel that 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 February Reality Update =
BBacktracking a bit = In September 2005 I organized the "Nimbin sector" of the Global
FREE MARC EMERY PROTEST, a protest that is
still 'active' as I write this, so do bookmark it and keep it in mind dear
linear scholar. I dint take the
BigBongMobile down for the FME as promised - instead I went
into action on the www.peacebus.net
- which was a delightful change and so much easier than 'spending favours'
to borrow a trailer and tow vehicle. The
FME was a
nonviolent peaceful affair and all European linear scholars ought keep
their eyes on ARTe as there was a documentary crew in Nimbin that weekend
and they recorded the event. Both the
BigBongMobile and the 'stump'
have been planted with seeds struck on the August moon and the
video images of the BigBongMobile @ Mardigrass 2005 in the BIG-MOVIES
Sector at BigBong.org are proving more popular as each month goes by and
last, but by no means least, check out the webspace I built for a good
friend of mine... Pot-Art-Tattoo,
I won't be entering, I'll be helping judge it!
>> and thus - calendar-ish-ly - we find ourselves at the
beginning
of 2006, and the end of 2005 - yet another year of 'not' building the Big Bong Peace
Pipe. There is some good news on the 'movie side of things'. As all linear
scholars will be aware,
the novel
upon which
the movie is to be based starts out with a hitch hiker being picked up
by a 1921 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. When I wrote the novel 10 + years ago,
I picked a 'Sliver Ghost' to star in the book and the movie for lots
reasons, the first of which was that my uncle owned the exact car
described in the novel and I knew he wasn't going to be selling it. What I
didn't count on was that Mathilda - that's the name of the car- would
be off the road from March 1997 till December 2005 getting first an entire
repaint and then her engine rebuilt. Sure I could have hired another
'similar' Rolls or rewritten the script to feature a different car, but -
and it's a big but- I love Mathilda almost as much as my uncle does and
there is no way I was (or am) going to make a movie with out her, plus I
figured that when she came out of the workshop that she would look and
sound even prettier than she was when I wrote the novel. I mention this
because now she is back on the road and thus one of the BIGGEST obstacles
has been surmounted. Yep, the plan for the first part of 2006 is to make the
'first part of the movie' which acts as the 'promo' for the reality
construction of the movie set of the Big Bong Peace Pipe. This promo movie
will run 'visually' very close to the novel and will end at
Chapter 8.
What I mean by 'visually' close to the novel is that the basic plot line,
hitch hiker picked up by rolls, dropped off at small party that turns into
a BIG PARTY will be adhered to, what won't be the same is the words the
characters say, the names of the characters and some other things, things
I don't know about yet, things that I will have to change once I start
making the changes. How good is this news dear linear scholar? I would be
extremely excited if it wasn't for the fact that I am only all too well
aware that there is many a slip twixt cup and lip >> and
nowww, having run out of stuff to talk about and link to for this month, the only
thing left to tell you at this point in cyber space and time dear linear
scholar 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.
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