BigBongBBlog / Reality Update
August - 2016

'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 TWO HUNDREDETH and FIFTYTH time since September 1995. (Over 20 continuous web years old, as for how many actual "Realty Updates" written and uploaded 'in between' the *at least* 250 monthlies and over 20 years? Dunno, except that its way way more than 420, this is FER SURE the most often overwwwriten webpage in all my cyberspace and possibly, 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 20+ 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, a constantly overwritten 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 more than 21 years later in the August of 2016, 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)--~

2016...

Who'd have guessed it? 20+ years online and still alive and uploading content... this time 22 years ago I had a box of pens and 2 notebooks full of poems and ideas (only one of which was to build a Big Bong), I didn't own - or really know how to use a computer and/or how to write a book. 21 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. 21 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 2016 Reality Update.

Anyhow, as I said above, I up date this page on the first of the month (or as soon after as I can - web connection and the lack there of has always been a significant factor in uploading these updates over the years) and I over write it during the month if something "Big Bong" is actually happening - 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 5 years, and yes, I am still working on book 3! 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, because it's actually quite important in the now, now, I know that I independantly decided to light up my scale model 'Big Bong Peace Pipe' 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' shut down in March of 2000 I moved the web cam set up into the Nimbin H*E*M*P Bar = 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) have 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 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 just in case ;0) during the "eighth" month of twenty sixteen, 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 more likely, acting like a barrista in the H*E*M*P* Bar, in the drugsense Chat Room or, if you are one of the cyber citizens who decided to a part of facebook then navigate your way 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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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. .


I am very very very much in favour of medical marijuana for the sick and
even more in favour of preventative medical marijuana for the healthy ;O)
Quote.. Max Stone..