| 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 Twenty Sixth time since
September 1995. (18 continuous web years old, as
for how many actual "Realty Updates" written and uploaded 'in
between' the *at least* 226 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 20 years later in
the August 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 any
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 (only one
of which was to builf a Big Bong), 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 August 2014 Reality Update.
From a 'just cannabis law reform' point of view,
2014 has had the best start of any cannabis law reform
year since 1937 thanks to the recreational
relegalization of Marijuana in Colorado and Washington
states. On every TV news show, right after the coverage of the
global N.Y.E fireworks dispays, positive ommentary and vox pops
interspersed with images of long queues of smiling people waiting in
the snow for the doors of the dispensaries to open, every newspaper
on earth with stories and editorials about cannabis law reform and
the overall sense that everywhere on earth we are getting closer and
closer to the day when all governments have recognized the
legitimacy (and use) of cannabis and it is returned to its place in
society.
Anyhow, as I said above, I up date this page on the
first of the month (or as soon as I can - web connection and
the lack there of has always been a significant factor in these
updates over the years) and over write it during the month if
something "Big Bong" is actually happening and whilst there is
nothing much "Big Bong" planned for August
2014 besides the daily FourTwenty.
The older one gets the bigger the numbers on the
milestones seem to become, May 2014 marked my 18th appearance at the
www.nimbinmardigrass.com,
The GoogleQuestion to ask is
2014+maxstone+nimbin+mardigrass+420+youtube, anyways, you never
know, something will/might happen and when it and if it does, here
is where you will read about it first.
Anyways...
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, working on book 3 atm!
Anyway, it's keeping me busy while I wait for the changes in the
cannabis laws that will trigger either the roll out of the 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 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 early 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 in Nimbin in
the June of 1998 I started asking people to join me to light up at
420, I know that in 1999 I invited lots of people to 'light
up' 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 when the 'peace camp cam' shit down
in March of 2000 I moved the web cam set up into the Nimbin H*E*M*P
Bar and starting at 4.20 pm on April 20 in the year 2000, I
know that 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 (until August 2008 when we shut the camera down
after 8 years and four months) and I know that 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, (plus Paris, Ruben
and Felix) 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 most of all I know that
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 - Ya
never know! ;0) for the "eighth" 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 are one of the cyber
citizens who decided to be/stay a part of 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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