| 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 TWO HUNDREDETH and Nineteenth time since
September 1995. (18 continuous web years old, as
for how many actual "Realty Updates" written and uploaded 'in
between' the *at least* 219 monthlies and over 18 years?
Dunno, except that its way way more than 420, this is FER SURE the
most often overwwwriten webpage in all my cyberspace and prolly, in all
of cyberspace as well ;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 18 year old 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 19 years later in
the January of 2014, 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)--~
2014...
18 years online... this time 20 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. 19 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. 19 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 January 2014 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 whilst there
is nothing much "Big Bong" planned for January
2014, I am still at wwwork on www.Little-Car-Stories.com
- which you will remember (I do) was the focus of the January 2011
bblog - sheesh that was a quick 3 years! Anyway, it's keeping
me busy while I wait for the changes in the law that trigger either
the roll out of www.BigBongBurgerBar.com
and/or the construction of Bongzilla..... Speaking about little car
stories, since the 28th of August 2012, the stories have been
available as an Android Phone App! To check it out, go to www.littlecargame.com -
which is hot linked to www.inimitablegames.com
which is where you will find details the app and the link you need
to follow to the Google Play Store where you can
download it....
Speaking about google, over the last
months I created www.google.com/+BigBong.
Looks like my old mate the google bot, I say my old mate the google
bot because google bots been botting my cyber space since the first
google bot was born and I suppose I had better tell you how
that came to be. As you ought be aware dear linear scholar, rebelart
is my cyber nick, has been the beginning, anyway, when the google
bot was born, I was 3 cyber years old and the web was millions
of times smaller than it is today, for example, there were
only xxx,xxx cyber citizens on earth back then, not the
xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx we have today and in 1995, 1996,1997 Big Bong Cyber
Space was a stand out piece of cyber artistry. Sure the content was
mostly about it's self, but thanks to the reality update/blog
component Big Bong cyber space was an ever evolving web and exactly
the kind of thing that every search engine bot was hoping to find
and when web camera imagery was added in 1998 and 99, well, I gotta
tell you, there was no web space quite like Big Bong Cyber Space.
Still isn't. That said, one way of looking at Big Bong Cyber
Space is as a testiment to 18+ years of commitment to
successful manifestation in the cyber wwworld and 19+ years of
failure to do so "in the real world". Like I often say in the
real world, one needs judge one's successes by what one has to give
up in order to acheive and/or maintain one's successes and
I could - and prolly will - go happily to my grave with out
ever actualy building a Big Bong in the real world and I doubt very
much that my last words will be - If only I had of built a Big
Bong, LOL, I hope I can remember or have enough time to
say.....So long and Thanks for all the Spliffs. Hmmn, that's a
thought, maybe it's time I impended the demise of Max
Stone on facebook and migrated over to google plus.
Speaking about 420, which I
wasn't but I ought, I know that I independantly decided to
light up my scale model 'Big Bong Peace Pipes' in front of my
web cam at 4.20 pm as part of the weekly 'BBt-PPP
Global Gatherings' in 1998 and so does Cannabis Dave
the www.undatoka.com who used to
meet me online at that time, I know that when I got to Nimbin I
started asking people to join me to light up at 420 in front of
my web cam in 'the peace camp' - the activists at drugsense.org
and mapinc.org to name a couple and I know that for over a
decade Cannabis Dave and/or I sat in the Nimbin H*E*M*P Bar
inspiring thousands upon thousands of other locals, back packers and
aussies to light up at 420 and every www.nimbin-marijuana-march.420-web-hosting.com
since the very first one in 99, which was celebrated by,
you guessed it, Cannabis Dave and me, has lit up at 420 and I
also know that of all the people I have ever met - on line and
off -none of them was 420ing before I was. Point being, so what, so
what if I been 420ing longer than anyone, 420, like the google bot
and the internet, all evolved around me, I was there to watch it
grow, I got the benefits of being in the vanguard of those who was
helping spread the mythos of FourTwenty - and
every MardiGrass since 1999 the number of people sharing 420
with me has increased. Mission accomplished ;O)
And thus, having run out of stuff to
talk about and link "to" (do have a quick check at www.BigJoint.org -
never know ;0) for the "first" month of twenty fourteen, 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 sitting at
the POLITE table on the back veranda of the Nimbin H*E*M*P* Embassy
(or in the H*E*M*P* Bar),
in the drugsense Chat Room or
perhaps on the Nimbin
H*E*M*P*Embassy Forums or, plus/and if you have access to
facebook go to facebook.com/BigBongPeacePipeProject.
FaceBook ID = Max Stone.
till next
peace
;O)--~
P.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.
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