An imaginary place in a reactionary time
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For those of you who haven’t heard, there will be no New Years celebration at the Whale this year, or ever again. As good as it was, Kenneth was completely done in by the wanton destruction and disrespect that occurred during the Halloween party and decided to go out with a bang. He has cancelled all parties, for good. Forget about the finger pointing and blame game, just let that sink in, look at what a few (hundred) imbeciles have cost us. No more Pig Roasts. No more St Pat’s.
No more New Years.
This I find especially grievous, since Tim and I hosted it when Kenneth was in Jackson for back surgery. And we pulled it off (yes, for one brief shining moment I was One Half Of Kenneth-with all the attendant honors and responsibilities, and almost all of the back pain-one hell of a thing for a nerd to attempt, especially one who had thrown all of 2 parties in his life, the first of which the guest of honor didn’t show for (Dan Howie, where are you?), the second of which no one showed). I know first hand the emotional, physical and financial cost of throwing a party at the Whale. I also know the tremendous reward of a party well done. For the host it’s exhilarating after the fact. For the party goer it’s a thrill a minute. The worst Whale New Years is a still a great fucking party. Shit, I almost got laid one New Years. I’m also dependent on New Years for generating a few hundred megs of photos every year. I took a proprietary interest in all New Years after that, and the Pig Roasts. Shit, I’ve even stopped fights before the swinging started, and jumped in between to break things up when punched have been thrown (so what if i regret each incident, there is no fighting at The Whale). Throwing away other peoples empties, calming the dogs, tending the Pig Fire, removing clueless people from the workshop and keeping people from throwing bottles or barfing off the roof has become part of all the fun.
So be it. I no longer have a camera. And Kenneth will no longer have parties. He’s in an unenviable position, since some people will no doubt not get the word and show up anyway. I recommend he board the door, kennel the dogs and hire security.
There are no plans for alternatives. From now on your on your own. Let’s see if you can up with anything as grand as a Whale New Year.
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John Unger has done it again. He’s Treehugger’s “Weird Eco Habits” contest winner: read the interview here. And his American Guernica project is in the Columbia Journalist, even sparking off an accusation of theft from open source advocate Eric Raymond. Read it here. And John informs me that there is more media saturation the way…
This popped up in the mail:
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FFEJWORLD is still reeling from the cold/flu that infested it Thanksgiving. Plus it froze it’s nose the other night, and it has run out out of local bandwidth to connect to the website. So posting which was already erratic because of despondence is going to get increasing sporadic. Sorry about that.
If you were of a certain age in the 70’s, and were into synths or electronic hobby kits or music, you knew about PAiA, the legendary electronic music kit company. You might even have known how to pronounce it’s name (pie-ya), or if you were like me you just spelled it out. They made the Gnome minisynth, Oz mini organ, the legendary Programable Drum machine-Peter Gabriel had one-among other things. John Simonton founded PAiA in the 60’s, first as a convenient way to order parts and data sheets for him and his dad, and later (67) to sell kits. They’d had a resurgence of late, with new kits and higher volume.
John passed away November 30th, after battling cancer. Because of bandwidth woes, i just found out.
As you might know, I’ve been designing an imaginary synth. This seems to be a peculiarly middle aged thing to do, as most of the guys on the DIY synth list are my age or a little older-the age of people who were 8-15 when “Switched on Bach” or ELP’s “Lucky Man” came out. I was planning on using his 9700 series oscillators, VCA’s and filters in my synth. They are cheap and feature packed, full of subtle engineering. Shit, that line scans like shit. The 9700 series has the most bang for the buck for synth kits, yet is still full of cool and useful features ($350 gets you a rudimentary analog modular (2 oscillators, 2 filters, 2 VCA’s, 3 envelope generators and a ring modulator) with a MIDI interface).
This has been a shit year for synth geeks.
PAiA’s obit, and the Hall of Fame.
Matrixsynth obit.
One of photos is gracing an entry at Tirepaddle.com, you one stop source for spanking supplies. No, it’s not the spanking picture of the day, but it’s a nice photo, with a nice blog entry. So without opening a whole new can of worms, I present your own personal bed of nails.
Here at FFEJWORLD we don’t drink. We don’t hold booze or drugs in low esteem, the editorial we are just a little too poor and fragile for heavy recreational chemicals. We have enough problems trying to manage our caffeine and nicotine addictions (let alone our food and shelter addictions). We’re not prudes about it and we don’t care what our friends or relatives imbibe. As long as they don’t operate heavy machinery or invade a foreign country while under any influence. None of which explains why the only two humor podcasts we subscribe to are about booze.
TIKI BAR TV: The videocast tale of a doctor, who’s converted his apartment into a cut rate Tiki bar, inhabited by a bartender and a cute barfly. Imagine the Doc writes a lot of prescriptions for Tiki Drinks. Imagine this is very very funny videocast, because it is. Start at the first episode and work your way through all 10+ episodes, they’re short enough, and watch the camera work and writing get better exponentially. Not every epsiode is part of the continuity, which is even better.
THE REAL HAPPY HOUR: Their motto is “You Can Drink With Us!” A podcast about drinking, done as a parody of AM radio programing, with a large cast of fictional characters. Some good voice acting, lots of funny bits. It sounds like WGN run amok, with producers punching in, wallyphillips on gin sound FX, faux announcers. Some lite political satire such as the recent plot thread about their corporate takeover by EverClearChannel Communications. Go listen to episode 12, because this review doesn’t do it justice. Has a 312 area code.
I’m still not at full speed. The net is going up and down, I forgot to charge my phone for a few days, I can’t find anything, couldn’t sleep at all last night, I just spilled the last can of beans all over my last clean shirt, and it’s fucking cold. Welcome to Pilsen, here’s your tiny violin…
