| WEB TRANSLATORS NOTE: All streaks must come to an end and by the beginning of Spring 1998, Glitter had logged almost 60,000 Ks of accident free hitch hiking, statistically speaking, he was over due. When last we looked in on Glitter, he was busily spinning a web under the H.E.M.P. Embassy in Nimbin, his web cam was inoperative, he had limited access to the phone and his qwerty was on its last leg, so if ever there was a time when Glitter needed to be in one piece this was it. The major problem with the space beneath the Hemp Embassy was its lack of a bath room and after a week of unwashed web weaving it could be said that he was high in more ways than usual, as you can imagine, when he was offered the use of a bath house in the bush and a comfortable couch to overnight on, in a warm and comfortable room, he fairly leapt at the chance, the fact that the room had qwerty connections was as totally bonus as was the fact that the bath house owner wanted to "see the internet," so an evening of web integration and peace pipes looked unavoidable. Perhaps it's best to let Glitter describe what happened next, the following word assembly was cobbled together from notes he made in the first few days of Spring, tucked away "High in the Hills once more". |
Webgreetings Dear Linear Scholar
I have found a destination, a place at which to pause, the kind of place you can only stumble across by accident, the kind of destination that can only be serendipitously revealed as if by the enchanting spell of a fairy princess, anyway, as I was trying to say, I found my way here, to this wonderful place, not by design, but by accident, and I mean accident literally.
On the way here, the horse-less carriage in which I was passengering intersected with a dude who was already and quite busily, having an accident all on his own, you know bouncing off the ARMCO guard rails, bending body panels and doing other impacting things like that, the accidental dude in question was first sighted inside a ton of out of control metal, glass and plastic that came sliding sideways down the hill towards us, BOOM, he cue balled us off the road directly towards some really big trees at, what was potentially, a terminal velocity, and I use terminal in the mortician-ary sense of the word.
Fortunately the accidental dude happened to be the latest in a long line of inept assassins and I escaped with out a scratch. The driver of the horse-less carriage was not so lucky, she did not escape scratch free, the poor dear, her ear was scratched, which was weirdly coincidental as the inept assassin happened to be "hearing impaired" and was wearing a hearing aid.
It was like that scene in Pulp Fiction, where all the bullets miss and the first non-rational explanation that comes to mind is that the hand of GOD intervened, in our case, carefully and gently settling us down on all the thumb sized twiggy inertia retardant bushes NEXT to the big trees as opposed to allowing us to crash INTO the BIG trees at terminal velocity.
They say that surviving a near death experience tends to make one reassess ones life and in this case they are right. This reassessment is busily taking place as I wwwwrite, so it is hard to encapsulate all of the thoughts that are freight training their way through my mind at the moment. Couple of things are clear however, firstly Im gunna put a PPPause Page in the web zone, then tell all the Linear Scholars what has happened, then re-wwweave the web zone to accommodate the fact that I have found the perfect place to start an entire new strand of PPPotential wwweb content, after all the primary reason behind the event was to provide the required gadgetbudget to create a situation such as I now find myself ensconced, so situation-ally and gadgetbudgetingly speaking, I no longer actually NEED to do them at all, or at least not yet.
Instead I can use this time and energy to catch my breath, I been running so hard, for so long, that I think that I forgot what it was I started running towards, or should that be I forgot what it was that I started running FROM, in the first place? See? Like I said, I forgot what was the what, and so have no idea as to whether it's either, neither or both.
If nothing else, here could be where a circle closes and a new one begins, Hmmn, 4 and a half years of walkabout tracks are stretched out behind me and had the latest inept assassin been more "EPT," then this quixotic quest would have already ended, incomplete and with the story largely untold. Mind you it wasn't all that close a call, but as they say, surviving a near death experience tends to make one reassess......
The plain words are; Ive got a private six month sub-lease on a shed that is hermit-ically tucked away in the rain forest in the hills above Nimbin, it has qwerty connections already "Turned On" and if the web cam was working, I wwwould show you where the view around where the backpack is temporarily unpacked, in the "dear little tin shed" where it seems Im to spend the spring and summer working. There is a 15+ person Campfire, (With logs to sit on and others ready to burn ;O) that's already set up with-in web cam range, a caravan is on the way for living quarters and a tepee as well, not to mention plenty of hot water, a bath house, an out house and a main house, in short the most perfectly located Camp Site, Headquarters and potential Movie Set I found in almost 60,000 k's of location scouting, in fact, I can scarcely believe that this situation is real, mostly cause its so right. ;O)
So where does that leave the long line of linear scholars who are following these words in real time? To those of you who turn up to read the weekly wwwords don't worry, if anything there will be more wwwords coming your way, after all, I normally spend a couple of days a week, on average, standing by the side of the road waiting on lifts, that time will now be spent on "WWWriting and other Web Stuff," but not just yet.. ;O)
The event is still "Kind-a" going forward, except with a much reduced cast, prolly only 15 or so, which, from "Your" global perspective, won't make much that difference, in fact if anything, it should make the whole thing a tad more wwwatchable.
Truth be known, this is a far better way to ease forward, not to mention the fact that it is a lot easier to organize & cater for 15 ppparticipants than 300. The 24 Footer is still "Kind-a" going forward, it's just not going forward as a content stream any time soon, let's just say it is stuck in the preliminary approval seeking phase.
What else?
Im thinking 6 months is plenty of time to make a no-budget movie in both video and web formats, Yeah, and rather than follow all the words as wrote in the novel, start a new script, based on and around the stuff that is actually going down, I dunno, what do you reckon dear linear scholar?
I suppose this most recent passage of content will one day end up in the Cyber Trash Museum, hehehe, under the heading; "The Great Non Event for 1998" but that remains to be seen, as I said earlier, this is a pausing point not a stopping point and when all is said and done, this most recent development is a such a quantum leap forward in so many facets of the BBt-PPP that it's true value is incalculable, to the conspiracy in general, and myself personally.
Anyway, I've stuff to organize, I'm thinking about making a new edition Propaganda Pamphlet for release at the Visions Festival, then there is the finalization of the design for the TEE-Tickets, not to mention trying to fix the web cam, what ever, a whole new future is unfolding and I'm real glad to be still a part of it.
Well that's about it, upon re-reading these words I am not too sure if the bottom line is totally clear, that's the bottom line of the current situation, not the bottom line of this page, that just leads to the chat room, the bottom line is that this is a PPPause, a regrouping, a re-re-prioritization and delineation of the material available and future methodology that may be utilised in the strategic campaign to attract the attention of the evolving cyber space colony on planet earth to the ongoing story of the attempt to commit a blatant act of wwworld peace by the broadcast of the construction of the first purpose built symbol to wwworld peace.
WWWhat more can I say after a bottom line like that? Besides long sentance, huh? What where the last last words I was gunna write? Oh Yeah, the BBt-PPP Chat room will be active randomly from here on out, drop by and I'll tell you what's happening, personal like. I think it worth mentioning that the BBt-PPP Chat room is where the preliminary "Campfire Auditions" will be carried out, as I said, drop by and I'll tell you about the exact "NEXT" personal like, we can discuss the PPPart you want to play in wwwhat ever comes next :o)
See you else web,
Peace G.
"High in the Hills" in a little Tin
Shed
somewwwhere in the Bush near Nimbin."
P.S. I am thinking of changing my name to "Mosquitos Last-meal," the only thing that seems to keep the nippy little bastards at bay is copious amounts of SMOKE ;o)
If IT ain't, HERE is wwwhere
you'll find the next wwwords ;o)