Thu - September 24, 2009
At Least I Quit Cigarettes
This is for Brugh Joy, who is battling a
particularly lethal form of cancer right now. I just talked to some friends who
studied with him in the same group as I did. They are on their way back home
today from Rex Ranch, where our groups have been meeting. Brugh is a pattern
level psychologist as well as an extraordinary dream interpreter and a doctor of
internal medicine. The nature of the patterns of the collective unconscious I
learned from him. The ending is from a song by the Geezenslaw Brothers, "She Put a Jukebox in the
Bedroom."
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Thu - September 10, 2009
In Germany Before the War
Today I was looking for one book and, as often
happens, found something else which had been lost. It was a 1978 issue of
Psychological Perspectives, which contained an article by Joseph Henderson in
which he described a dream he had while near the Austrian border with
Switzerland, before WWII. I have recalled this dream from memory a few times,
and was interested to look at it and see how much I had recalled and how much I
had forgotten.
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Fri - September 4, 2009
Political Rant
Once in awhile I have to have a political rant.
I am thinking about how hopeful we were when we elected Obama, and how it turned
into one of those tug of war games. One side tries to drag you in their
direction and the other side tries to drag you there. Because so many
Republicans voted for Obama I thought there might be some unification of the
country so that we can get some really important things done.
Posted at 08:00 PM Read More
Tue - August 25, 2009
Unvetted Sources
The news has degenerated into conversation. This
conversation is held in salons, and there are clubs anyone can join, just like
the Catholic Church or, if you're too lazy to go out, the Jehovah's Witnesses.
They will come with the good news, which is that you need to join with some
other people like yourself and believe the same things together. You have to do
some social testing to find find out who's one of us and who's one of them. I
think that was the motive behind the Spanish Inquisition. So today a doctor
social tested me during a skin exam. "What do you think of Obama?" she
asked.
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Fri - August 14, 2009
Chief Red Scare
And now it's time for an some advice from the
toast of the Creek Nation, Chief Red Scare. The chief does in fact get toasted
before giving out advice, though he abhors hor d'ourves the way dog nature
abhors a vacuum cleaner. It's a phobia and gets activated by the mention of
toast, pate, finger sandwiches ... that sort of thing. The Creeks had an
abstract sense of humor when the white man arrived, but got depressed after a
short while. They considered it rude to say anything without injecting humor,
which means Red Scare combines in one personality what in Europe required both a
King and a Fool. Ironically, his advice is generally worthless.
Posted at 02:13 PM Read More
Mon - August 10, 2009
Shibumi
I remembered this book at for the seventies, but
as it wasn't copyrighted until 1979 it barely escaped being part of the
eighties. That was a daring escape from mediocrity for a book that was itself
a daring escape from mediocrity. When I started reading it it seemed like a
genre CIA thriller, but as it unfolded it was much better than that, and defied
genre. Recently I mentioned to Karen, who was in a seminar with me, that I was
re-reading it, and to my surprise she mentioned that she had read it back when
it was published.
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Wed - July 29, 2009
100 mph
I am beginning to like this series! It could be
expanded and worked into something if I get myself down to some dedicated
writing. Having the guitar in my hand makes it easier to read, for some reason.
Maybe it's like knitting or using worry beads.
Posted at 06:16 PM Read More
Mon - July 27, 2009
 With this Ringtone ...
... I totally screw up your morning hike
...
I took Sammy the curious dog -- and
he took me -- out for our morning hike over Thumb Butte. I was on a schedule
because I was meeting Victoria, for whom I serve as a glass mule (I'll explain
later) to breakfast at the St. Michael Hotel at 9:30. I had an hour to get over
the butte, but that's plenty of time if I don't let Sammy sniff the same bush
for ten minutes. There was a ringing, or more specifically, a ring tone, in the
bushes.
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Thu - July 23, 2009
Black Mercedes
This is, as are all the Ash Fork episodes, my
practice in writing spontaneously. The hardest thing about not rewriting is
that the story isn't shaped with an always consistent internal logic. It's more
like telling a story off the top of my head, which I began doing when my
daughter was little, and I had the perfect audience. : ) These were more
difficult, but an excellent mental exercise. I am editing for length and flow
now that I am doing them as readings. The original Ash Fork series -- five of
them -- are now in the archives.
Posted at 09:55 AM Read More
Wed - July 15, 2009
Brakes
I had almost forgotten about this Ash Fork
series. It explored the idea of creating rituals to avoid the violence of
unconscious patterned behavior, as well as to create a desired outcome. I
became interested in the creation of ritual as a way of communicating with the
psyche's pattern reading capacity when in workshops with an African shaman who
also had PhD's from Brandeis and the Sorbonne,
Malidoma Patrice Some.
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Mon - July 13, 2009
Shadow Lands
Today Linda sent me a copy of this rawstory.com blog about a conservative blog
called Free Republic, after it allowed a vicious attack from readers on
11-year-old Malia Obama, such as descriptions of her as a "common street whore,"
and speculation as to "... when she will get her first abortion." A complaint
was lodged by a writer from the Vancover Sun doing research on the conservative
movement, whereupon he was accused of "planting hate speech" and his private
information provided to the readers, all of whom are allowed to keep their hoods
on during their fraternal rituals.
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Wed - July 8, 2009
Road's End
This week I went back to the Ash Fork files to
adapt another one for reading. This is from the third series in Ash Fork. In
each series my only rule was that I couldn't rewrite, so I was practicing
writing without content editing. I could edit for clarity and grammar and so
on. When doing one of these as an audio reading, I am editing for length and
coming back around to my original idea, which was to make stories which contain
hypnotic suggestion, as an alternative to the practice of boring somebody into
catatonia with sensory channel overload techniques.
Posted at 01:27 PM Read More
Mon - June 29, 2009
Cybersomatics
I am going to retire Stray Shot sometime in the
not too distant future, and launch a new site, Cybersomatics. It will be an
exploration of the soma in space, which will be an exploration for me because I
have no idea really where it will take me. These two audio segments were
recorded for KOWS in Occidental for next Friday night, when Arnold Levine, aka
El Supremo, will be interviewing Gregory Sams, author of a new book called:
"Sun of God," an exploration of the sun as the
organizing consciousness underlying everything.
Posted at 08:04 PM Read More
Mon - June 22, 2009
Perfectly
Tonight I plugged in the Snowflake and wrote a
song. It came out perfectly.
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Tue - June 9, 2009
Betty Crocker
This is the third act of Trophy
Room.
Posted at 01:24 PM Read More
Blackberry Honey
This is the second of three acts of Trophy
Room
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Trophy Room
I am continuing moving some of the Ash Fork
segments to audio. This one is in three acts, this is the first.
Posted at 01:19 PM Read More
Fri - June 5, 2009
Trouble in Mind
This is from the third Ash Fork series of
vignettes, and centers on the art of healing; more specifically, Phineas
Parkhurst Quimby, who was Mary Baker Eddy's body worker. It was from Quimby
that she learned much of what she put into her book on Christian Science, which
led to her being one of the richest people in the country if not the world. Of
course she did not have ears to hear some of what Quimby was
saying.
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Thu - May 28, 2009
Consumer Society
David Lynch's Mullholland Drive was the
inspiration for this song, which was a lot of fun to write. I have been
experimenting with just telling stories for awhile, and thought I'd throw in one
of my songs to see how the process is coming along.
Posted at 09:15 PM Read More
Tue - May 19, 2009
The Swim
One of my favorite things that Don Juan told
Carlos is that a Sorcerer is an empty man except for a collection of stories
which have a universal application. This isn't in the Ash Fork Series, it's
just a piece combining some different experiences at different times, looking
for the story with an abstract core.
Posted at 08:05 PM Read More
Wed - May 13, 2009
Laughing Birds
Somando was sent to Ash Fork by $omaCorp to
assassinate the Count. But first he had to get past the security perimeter, a
Mexican by the name of Memphis. If he had solved he puzzle of the laughing
birds he would not have ended up with his circuit board replaced and his funds
transferred.
Posted at 10:24 PM Read More
Fri - May 8, 2009
Road Kill
Moving into Space requires adaptation to parallel
processing. Time is a logical sequence, and there are lots of them. Mostly
they're all screened out except the one being followed, to protect the system.
But when the injectables hit the system it blasts off into Space, and all bets
are off. Like Handsome Jack jilting Marie Laveaux,
Luther took the dowry and split to Space in violation of contract.
Posted at 09:59 AM Read More
Wed - April 29, 2009
Native Religion
A native religion is the soil in which native
people grow. It enters through the bottoms of the feet, gradually absorbing
foreign religions transplanted from foreign soil. Ash Fork is outside Oz (the
Organic Zone). It's a sentient field in Space, and the ground from which native
religion grows is an instrument played with conscious intention by Count
Bergamo.
Posted at 12:47 PM Read More
Wed - April 22, 2009
 Magdalen
Social life among the Ash Fork clones is complex,
because they are a combination of human design and processes, injected with DNA
computers. DNA computing as it exists would be fairly
slow, but this is in a future where they have been integrated into
the tissue of the Ash Fork clones in vitro. The clones are the evolution of
humans into Space. Some of them are eccentrics.
Posted at 07:23 PM Read More
Wed - April 15, 2009
Dream of Love
Nobody in Ash Fork understood why Sophia was
there, saying she was Luther's wife. Nobody but Bergamo, that is. Everybody
knew he was also the Jack of Hearts, who moved in around in the collective dream
without regard for defined and protected spaces. He was the creator, after all,
who brought the dream of love.
Posted at 09:40 PM Read More
Tue - April 7, 2009
Beween the Tracks
The first law of cybernetics is that the system
with the widest parameters is the controlling system. That's why narrow systems
tend toward violence. Their only hope of establishing themselves as the
containing system is to put everybody else in a prison of some sort. The
Priority Chip installed in every clone sent into space is a kind of prison. But
nothing has wider parameters than a sentient emptiness which remains when all
programs collapse.
Posted at 05:53 PM Read More
Thu - April 2, 2009
Limbaughed
Today I was checking the word,
“Limbaughed,” and ran across a comment in reply to one I had left
about Apple computers, which mentioned people who sit on their
“Limbaughed” butts. It was on the occasion of the sale of the one millionth iPhone. Of course I meant
fat asses, but somebody took me to task about how much Limbaugh loves Apple
computers. He said he didn’t know what I meant by the expression. I
guess I should expand on the “Limbaughed” butt, if that’s
possible.
Posted at 06:09 PM Read More
Wed - March 25, 2009
In Formation
Normal is as good as his name. He's one of the
crowd, and he follows along, in formation, when it's time to lift the shadow by
killing an innocent man. But he's got a split side, too, who calls himself
Normal Nuts. He only comes out when it's time to recount the crime that sealed
the story. It is in telling the story that they remember themselves, in
formation.
Posted at 05:19 PM Read More
Postcard From the Hanging
I just read another piece trying to drum up some
potential candidates for a good old fashioned lynching. I’m talking
about the AIG bonuses, of course. The piece I just read was by Bob Barr, a
prosecutorial kind of guy who is ferreting out a culprit. He’s one of the
guys who prosecuted Clinton for lying about sex. If he prevails we'll all be in
jail, because we're all pretty much alike at ground level.
Posted at 03:12 PM Read More
Wed - March 18, 2009
Transportation
In Ash Fork, corporations actually are
individuals, cloned from selected humans. Investor capital goes along with them
in a separate body. And though Bergamo, as the only human to survive injection
of DNA computers into his body, is the most powerful human in the world because
of it, he still needs to stay connected to useful employment once in awhile. He
has no bank, and has to store his wealth in his own body.
Posted at 03:26 PM Read More
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