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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 more than 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 Seventy Fifth time since September 1995.
(Over 14 web years old, as for how many actual "Realty Updates"
written in more than a decade and uploaded 'in between' the *at least*175 monthlies? Dunno, except that
its way way more than 420, this is FER SURE the most often overwwwriten webpage in
all my
cyberspace
;O)--~
Historically speaking, this
reality update feature was one of the main clauses written into the
2 year contract I signed in September 1995 (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 September of 97 when the contract was
finished and I.R.C.S.A decided to step aside, I kept the website with it's 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 thrusters 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 might look in 14 years later in the March of 2010, it is definitely and significantly
less impossible now than it was 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)--~
2010...
Getting on to 15 years online... this time fifteen years
ago I had a box of pens and 2 notebooks full of poems and ideas, I didn't
own or really know how to use a computer and/or how to write a book. 16
years ago I
had finished one finger typing up the manuscript that ultimately became
the novel that this entire webspace is constructed "upon" on a 386 with 4 MB
of RAM and was actively engaged in the promotion of the novel. 15 years
ago, the BiG BonG TheorY was selling in book stores all over Sydney
and 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 March 2010 Reality Update.
Anyhow, as I said above, I up date this
page on the first of the month and over write it during the month if
something is actually happening, and, well, not much will be happening in
March, but I can talk about what I did on the 27th of February..
BIG JOINT goes to the
Sydney Gay and
Lesbian MardiGra
2010:
By car, by bus, by train, by truck and on foot, the team
assembled with random precision in the A.C.O.N (Aids Council of NSW)
basement at 2.30 o'clock. At about 2.31, the Big Joint Inflation device
blew up in such a way that it ceased to blow up. Unbelievable. It was
working fine when we left Nimbin. There we were, with only 1 %of the BJ
inflated and it was suddenly looking like we had all come a long way for
nothing. I cannot speak highly enough of Peter Smith, he had organized
everything with outstanding attention to details and when a problem
arose, (like this one,) he solved it with alacrity.
Gary the butcher and Pete zoomed off in Garys Ute looking for a
replacement leaf blower, by all accounts it was a mad dash from the
centre of Sydney stopping at every hard ware store. They got to Ashfield
before they found one and they only made it back just as the 4 O’Clock
LOCK DOWN locked down. We then inflated the other 99% with out a problem
and were all good to go by 6.00 PM at which time, we moved the BJ up to
the marshalling area into our spot…. Directly behind about 150 gay
police men and women! Yep, the AFP all marching hand in hand behind a
bright red police car with flashing lights, which was right behind a
music truck with a gay policeman mixing up the music and a contingent of
NSW gay police as well.
7.55. As the sun went down the wind sprang up, gusting to 15 knots and
there was real concern amongst the parade officials as to the safety of
our float. The Obama banner with its bamboo frame was judged too
dangerous unless we cut ‘wind slits’ into it, which we were not prepared
to do and so, Obama was out. The parade officials then became concerned
that the BJ could ‘get loose’ and hurt some. You can imagine the scene
dear reader, the parade is less than 5 mins away from starting and the
wind was getting windier. I said to the dude, tell your boss that the
combined weight of the people carrying the joint exceeds the weight of
the BJ by a significant factor, well over 20 to 1, it can’t get away
from us, we’ve got hold of it with ropes. After a few minutes the word
came down from ‘upon high’ that we could participate if we added more
ropes, which we did.
The BJ was the 27th in the procession; there were at least 100 more
floats behind us, which meant the crowd was still relatively fresh and
impressionable when we walked by, they had yet to reach a point of super
sequin saturation and still had plenty of lung power left for cheering
and since a lot of those lungs was connected to plastic whistles, it
resulted in the loudest concentration of sound I have ever been in. That
crowd definitely loved the BJ and more to the point, the vast majority
of them signaled that wanted the law to be changed, by waving and
yelling out LET IT GROW and similar slogans, leaving me in no doubt that
including the Big Joint in the G&L parade was a superb public relations
exercise for the HEMP movement. Well done everyone, well done. And thus, having run out of stuff to talk
about and link to for the 'turd'' month of twenty ten, the only
thing left to tell you at this point in cyber space and time dear linear
scholar is that you can find me most days of the week being "active" in the
H*E*M*P*Party Bar... maybe you
can find me in the drugsense
Chat Room or on the Pot
[r]evolution Bill Boards plus, if you have facebook: check out
facebook.com/BigBongPeacePipeProject.
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 The
video images of the BigBongMobile @ Mardigrass are in the BIG-MOVIES
Sector at BigBong.org
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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