'They who can
assimilate the past, can synthesize the nowww, they who can synthesize the
nowww can maximize the potential of the future'
Quote = Eric Blair +
;O)--~
First up webstuff = all
sublinks open a new w window
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 Eighty Sixth time since September 1995.
(15 full web years old, as for how many actual "Realty Updates"
written and uploaded 'in between' the *at least*186 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 16 years later in the February of 2011, 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)--~
2011...
16 years years online... this time seventeen 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. 16 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 February 2011 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 "Big Bong" is actually happening, and this month is mostly going to be
spent like the last few months, recovering from and receiving the next skin cancer surgery. It's not a
terminal illness, just an
interminable one
that has been afflicting me for the last couple of years. A 2 inch
circular patch right in the middle of my chest that ulcerated and
restricted my movements quite dramatically. I haven't mentioned it in here
because, well, I never mention much personal stuff in here, this
particular web space is all about the Peace Pipe Project, it's not about
me and how I am feeling each month, for example my son Journey was born in
2002 and this is the first time I mentioned his name in here, indeed, I've
done all sorts of things in the real world that I have never mentioned
entirely because, that isn't my style and this isn't that kind of blog.
Not, I hasten to add, that I know what kind of Blog this is, mostly I know
what kind of Blog it isn't and since this is the second one for 2011 and
since that means that it's still virtually a new year in the real world, I suppose I had
better get busy on the many projects I have planned for 2011.
Almost all said and done for this month
and now is prolly a good time to mention that the absolute favorite event of 2010
for me was the.....
Global Marijuana March 2010
And thus, having run out of stuff to talk
about and link to for the 'second'' month of twenty eleven, the only thing left
to tell you at this point in cyber space and time dear linear scholar is
that maybe you
can find me in the drugsense Chat Room or
perhaps on the
Nimbin H*E*M*P*Embassy Forums
or, plus, if you have facebook: check out
facebook.com/BigBongPeacePipeProject.
FaceBook ID = Max Stone.
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
ever hear about the arrest for the
cultivation of the Cannabis Plants that were to have been the focus of the 2001 webshow.
Scene of the first Big
Bong WebShow. April 1996
The Big Bong Shop on the corner of
Cleveland and Abercrombie Streets
Surrey Hills Sydney Australia. .
