It has been three years and ten days since I'd written a previous version of 'Loaded with Obscure References'. Three years is a long time. My thoughts have been formulating, thinking up ideas on how to kick start this thing. What is this? Do you know where the references themselves are hidden? What is it exactly that is hidden? Who knows.
It has been about a year since I've written anything of major length. The short pieces generally come out through Twitter and TwitLonger nowadays. Fourteen months since any major blog posting. (The Double-Feature on the Tweeter blog wouldn't count; just a few posters and a few times, some of which didn't happen.)
I'm feeling something. A theme for this episode. Not Sword and Sorcery. Not Robert E. Howard. Not Phillip K. Dick. Not Sci-Fi (or that crappy Syfy!), none of those things. Not even Zombies. What I'm feeling, as a theme for this episode of Loaded with Obscure References, is Failure.
Three years and ten days between episodes is a Failure, I'd say. I didn't slack off, no! I've had ideas floating through my head, some of which have gone nowhere, some of which have come to fruition. Yes, fruition. The first episode was written around my testing out and reviewing the newly released/updated Google Sites. I used Google Sites for a while, creating an index to my webcomics posted at Strip Creator, Witty Comics and the late Gnomz. After that, eh. I dropped Google Sites. A good old-fashioned dot com probably would have done me better. (I stick by my review, it's a great learning tool for novices.) But one major item it lacked: Deep connection.
Youtube allowed that for a while, at least when I was actively posting videos. Xtranormal had gone to a mostly-pay service, with nigh impossible downloading of those videos made with sparse free content, thus stopping my video output. AudioTool within the last year and a half or so has given me some deep connections. Twitter, from just before the first episode, is the deepest yet.
If Failure is to be the theme for this episode, then I should put AudioTool and Twitter up as successes. Most connections I've made in the last two or so years have come from those sources alone. Many good people on Twitter (to offset the bad) and AudioTool. Writing has been a Failure, and much as I predicted, it was replaced by the audio/visual aspect. I'd dare say I'm almost as successful on AT than I was on RACC.
My success on AudioTool is from hardcore perseverance. The first four comments I ever received were: I hate you. I hate your music. I hate you and your music. I hate you and your music. I hope you die. All that from users who are still active on the site. After, there was roughly a two or so year gap with virtually no comments or likes. I didn't know where any of the crap was coming from. But I stuck with it. Now, I'm getting the best comments and most hits ever! In every sense of the word! If you see a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel, you have to stick with it. You have to persevere. If that light shows failure, pick up the pieces and try again. You were on the road to success once, you can find it again.
On Twitter early after the 2012 Presidential Election, I reached 875 followers. I've fallen back some, to around 860. New friends and followers abound. Maybe they would get a few ideas for their own stories; maybe they'd rip a few off. Who knows? What I put out there is free. It's what people do with the information that matters.
Honesty is the best policy. I've been one-hundred percent honest on the interwebs and in real life situations. Sometimes it hurts. The Twitters knows my health struggles since March of this year. I'm getting better, honest, through prayers and well wishes of Twitter friends and friends everywhere. I've got a condition that wont go away, some cases of which are cancer-related. I do not have cancer. Eventually, it will take my ability to walk on my own away from me. Winters are roughest, they lock me in completely. I'd like to say its only been since March, but it is rather likely this has been an on-going issue for the past two to three years minimum. Perhaps as long as five. Keep praying, there WILL be VICTORY.
It's not how or if we fall off the Success Wagon, it's how we pick ourselves up from the Fail Grounds.
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We have to connect. We have to unify.
www.breitbart.com
Breitbart fought a War of Exposition. Expose the corruption, they cannot afford to operate in a similar fashion. From easily corrupted NGO's to biased MSM and each political and big-bucks backer.
It was seen most recently in the elections. Split almost right down the middle, including the family of this writer. We /were/ a party once, now we're barely afloat. Boston, Lexington, Concorde and God knows where else freedom can be felt. A tradition of freedom begun with a Tea Party. This has been a wild ride, wouldn't you say? The Obamanation wants you to forget that now. Right now. Fifty percent of America.
In accordance to our theme, who is failing? Is it the Obamanation, who live to bring Desolation to the Land of the Free? Is it the Magical Power Mormons, praying that Space Gods can come out from the sky to rule over us? Or is it those Fat Cat people behind the scenes, flinging monies hither and thither, 'Lead OUR people! Lead them MR. PRESIDENT!'
I don't know anymore, America. I do know that I DON'T want Loaded with Obscure References to be overly political. Some is fine. But this election... the same can be said of 2008, 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976, 1972, 1968, 1964, 1960, … Where does it end? I've heard speculation: 'It ends in 1917.', 'No, 1913!', 'Aww, crap! 1870 ya fools!' 1870 was the first full year of the Ulysses S. Grant Administration. Third in a solid line of Republican Administrations going back to Honest Abe Lincoln. A solid line of Republicanism dating back to the foundation of that party. Where does it end? The Whigs? Democrats? Certainly not there.
Breitbart wanted a War against the Mainstream Media, against the corrupt NGO's. It goes beyond those factors, minor players really. Where does the #WAR begin?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/30/Can-the-Republican-Party-Avoid-the-Fate-of-the-Whigs
I found this to be a very interesting article. It's the exact same environment politically as it was back then. The only difference is the presumptive death of the Republican Party is happening in super slow motion. You might only get four or six or ten election cycles, so make every blow count. -thud- -thud- -thud- Sickening.
Immediately after the elections, there was talk of forming a Breitbart Party. Is there a better time? The possible slow demise of the Republican Party? The modern Tea Party, too weak to live, to strong to die. Dependent on the mainline pols to sustain itself. Can we bring ourselves to abort a political party/movement? If we're going by history, the books don't lie. Yes. I have faith in that lil fella the Tea Party, praying fiercely that it may overcome. But, if push comes to shove, there HAS TO BE a clear second option. Without that second option after the Tea Party, I don't think they, the GOP or Democrats or America can survive. I really don't. I hate that.
What can we do, America?
Just some thinking outside the box, beyond normal thinking, et cetera, et cetera.
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A Twinkie in My Eye (full press release following:) Hostess Brands is Closed. We are sorry to announce that Hostess Brands, Inc. has been forced by a Bakers Union strike to shut down all operations and sell all company assets. For more information, go tohostessbrands.info. Thank you for all of your loyalty and support over the years.
HOSTESS BRANDS TO WIND DOWN COMPANY AFTER BCTGM UNION STRIKE CRIPPLES OPERATIONS Friday, November 16, 2012 at 7:00AM
Irving, TX – November 16, 2012 – Hostess Brands Inc. today announced that it is winding down operations and has filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking permission to close its business and sell its assets, including its iconic brands and facilities. Bakery operations have been suspended at all plants. Delivery of products will continue and Hostess Brands retail stores will remain open for several days in order to sell already-baked products.
The Board of Directors authorized the wind down of Hostess Brands to preserve and maximize the value of the estate after one of the Company’s largest unions, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), initiated a nationwide strike that crippled the Company’s ability to produce and deliver products at multiple facilities.
On Nov. 12, Hostess Brands permanently closed three plants as a result of the work stoppage. On Nov. 14, the Company announced it would be forced to liquidate if sufficient employees did not return to work to restore normal operations by 5 p.m., EST p.m., Nov. 15. The Company determined on the night of Nov. 15 that an insufficient number of employees had returned to work to enable the restoration of normal operations.
The BCTGM in September rejected a last, best and final offer from Hostess Brands designed to lower costs so that the Company could attract new financing and emerge from Chapter 11. Hostess Brands then received Court authority on Oct. 3 to unilaterally impose changes to the BCTGM’s collective bargaining agreements. Hostess Brands is unprofitable under its current cost structure, much of which is determined by union wages and pension costs. The offer to the BCTGM included wage, benefit and work rule concessions but also gave Hostess Brands’ 12 unions a 25 percent ownership stake in the company, representation on its Board of Directors and $100 million in reorganized Hostess Brands’ debt.
“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,” said Gregory F. Rayburn, chief executive officer. “Hostess Brands will move promptly to lay off most of its 18,500-member workforce and focus on selling its assets to the highest bidders.” In addition to dozens of baking and distribution facilities around the country, Hostess Brands will sell its popular brands, including Hostess®, Drakes® and Dolly Madison®, which make iconic cake products such as Twinkies®, CupCakes, Ding Dongs®, Ho Ho’s®, Sno Balls® and Donettes®. Bread brands to be sold include Wonder®, Nature’s Pride ®, Merita®, Home Pride®, Butternut®, and Beefsteak®, among others. The wind down means the closure of 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers, approximately 5,500 delivery routes and 570 bakery outlet stores throughout the United States.
The Company said its debtor-in-possession lenders have agreed to allow the Company to continue to have access to the $75 million financing facility put in place at the start of the bankruptcy cases to fund the sale and wind down process, subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval.
The Company’s motion asks the Court for authority to continue to pay employees whose services are required during the wind-down period.
For employees whose jobs will be eliminated, additional information can be found athostessbrands.info . The website also contains information for customers and vendors. Most employees who lose their jobs should be eligible for government-provided unemployment benefits.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I would rather see Hostess continue on for another 82 years, than die out with a few thousands of workers who got way too greedy. To the point of death. (Since 1913, corporations have the same power and effects as do LIVING individuals. – SCOTUS) Ha! Use their own laws against them! Murderers! I hope Twinkie the Kid gives you a butt whooping before Heaven or Hell!
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Call of the West: he got the high sign so he jumped a bus and along the roads that wind on through the hot mojave and the jericho / he'd start his whole life anew and what he'd left behind he hadn't valued half as much as some things he never knew he got dropped off on a street in town where a grey old man looked him up and down and said, "son this ain't no western movie matinee and you're a long way off from yippee yi yay 'cause i can tell at a glance you're not from 'round these parts. got a green look about ya, and that's a gringo for starts sometimes the only things a western savage understands are whiskey and rifles and an unarmed man like you."
and then the old-timer pulled him close and said, "you've come a long way, i know, you got a longer drive ahead through the bones of a buffalo, through the claims of the western dead and just like the spokes of a wheel you'll spin 'round with the rest, you'll hear the drums and the brush of steel, you'll hear the call of the west." / call of the west you'll hear the call of the west / call of the west
(the conflict:) harshly awakened by the sound of six rounds of light caliber rifle fire followed minutes later by the booming of nine rounds from a heavier rifle, but you can't close off the wilderness. he heard the snick of a rifle bolt and found himself staring down the muzzle of a weapon held by a drunken liquor store owner. "there's a conflict," he said. "there's a conflict between land and people...the people have to go. they've come all the way out here to make mining claims, to do automobile body work, to gamble, to take pictures, to not have to do laundry, to own a mini-bike, to have their own cb radios and air conditioning, good plumbing for sure, and to sell time/life books and to work in a deli, to have some chili every morning and maybe...maybe to own their own gas stations again and to take drugs and have some crazy sex, but above all, above all to have a fair shake, to get a piece of the rock and a slice of the pie and to spit out the window of your car and not have the wind blow it back in your face."
now from the high timber lines to the deserts dry who'll risk dangling on some hangman's tree? to stake their claims on these prairie plains while they say this lunch is not had for free? just like the spokes of a wheel who'll spin 'round with the rest? they'll hear the drums and the brush of steel and i'll hear the call of the west / call of the west i'll hear the call of the west / call of the west
("i used to be somebody! i used to be somebody, do you hear me? do you hear me? i...i've been there! i used to be somebody, goddamn you! i've been there before! don't walk away!")
Call of the West A warning to leave by bus. Some signs are all around us. We may not recognize those high signs, sometimes in the lowest of places.
Roads are all around us, but do we know where to go? Travel through; what roads do we have to wander down to find what we're looking for? Aren't all roads mostly the same?
If not, we may have to live in a Hellish landscape. Where is it that we can make a home for ourselves? Doesn't the old saying go: 'Home is where the heart is'?
He left his old life behind. He was terribly alone in that life, others alone in wandering in that old lifestyle invading into his flowering existence.
He wants to know and experience new things in life. This is the Nuclear Age. The future is less guaranteed than ever. So many floaters wanting the same thing, life in that society was death itself.
He was deposited in an unknown land. The Town, at the backwaters of the Nuclear Age. Will he find like-minded individuals, or the floaters?
A dirty old man gives him a look, saying, This isn't a movie or a book. This is real life, The Old West has been dead almost a hundred years, You have the look of a Nuclear Age Yuppie, A young NAY'er, not even from the old man's country, The old man is a warrior of times gone by, Guns, booze and wanderers like the young man are clearly recognizable. Again, recognizing the signs play importance here. Are you in a movie? A book? Is this real life? History is in the making. What's past is going to remain there. The future is on its way. You've forgotten the ways of your fathers and forefathers back through the generations. The Old Man, he's closest to those times. He heard first-hand stories. Some things have remained the same, however, as the Old Man tells three things; guns; booze; and wanderers have come and gone even from those long past times. Is the Yuppie any different?
He pulled him close and said, You're young. You've lived a good quarter-century, with another half-century ahead. The Olden Timers weren't the first ones here. The Buffalo were the very first. Everyone else followed, claiming their land. What you want isn't out here. You'll just go around in circles thinking what you do want is right around the corner. You've left it all behind for a fading dream. This will anger you. Raging and pounding your war drums will send you into a frenzy. Words wont do; you've followed that feel, kind words from strange Old Men. Where nightsticks and blackjacks fail, gun-steel becomes the law of the land.
THE CALL OF THE WEST
("i used to be somebody! i used to be somebody, do you hear me? do you hear me? i...i've been there! i used to be somebody, goddamn you! i've been there before! don't walk away!")
(We've read this in the history books. The newspapers. The scandal rags. Boom and bust out in the Wild West. We see the boom, thinking to ourselves, I can do that! I can become a winner in this town! I can be the success I've always dreamed of being! The stories write themselves. Living a humdrum life, the Yuppie sees the stagnation in their lives; they've got the job; the girl; the car. They want something more, yet it is entirely unobtainable. It's like waking up from a bad dream. Thrashing about, the Yuppie says to himself, I want this!; or, I want that! He's just woken out of a terrible nightmare, thankful to be in the present moment of realization. Write your dreams down Yuppie, in your elegant dream journal. The same as it ever was. This is it; the Yuppie will either live free or die trying. THE CALL OF THE WEST. Wake up. I'm going out west. I don't know when I'm coming back. This is an adventure. I'll write it down in my dream journal. When I don't have that anymore, I'll write it in the dust on my dash. The same as it ever was. THE CALL OF THE WEST. I'm going to make it! I can feel it! Thunderclap on the horizon. I never really knew this land. Wild and weird. Get your kicks on Route 66. All he's got left is enough for a bottle of booze, a broke six-gun and some old man telling how it once was. The same as it ever was. Another broken bottle for the graveyard. Revelation? Nope. I want to go home. I want to be somebody. The dust blows forward and back, one last nickel for the jukebox. Hook, line and sinker. The drums are so loud. Why is everything the same everywhere? Banging away, living for the future. The voices become so restless. They've all been here before. They've experienced this, to one extent or the other. The same as it ever was. Right? Yuppie Journal, sweet dreams meandering in black, blues and reds. I've been there before. Don't walk away. Thirty years? A generation? Painless Parkers' seen it all before. The beat generation, hippies, now yuppies. The drums beat. A glint of steel. The same as it ever was. Look where my hand was. Orange claws its way through the night. The same as it ever was.)
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The Weirding Has Begun
@amish_man: sugar pops brain damage travelin up my bony fingers final frontier under the stone chandelier brain pop RT @Obscureskies: sugar daddy heroin
Where are you, Tony Telephone?
Watermelons are stealing the word 'weirding' in replacement of the word 'warming' in 'Global Warming'? Global Weirding due to heat? Are you serious?! I smell Communism, folks!
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Even the Past is Haunting Science now Discovery of a small organism, dating back 80 millions of years, that asexually reproduces by eating other organism's DNA. That makes no sense whatsoever. Why don't I have tens of millions of Amishian Children right now? Why am I NOT the Overlord of the Milky Way yet? I expect the Science Wizards to make some form of retraction, such as was the case with the supposed 'non-carbon based lifeform' which was discovered to be fake several years previous.
The Present is Haunting Science MATHEMATICS
The Future is Haunting Science December 21st 2012 is just over a month away. The French have closed down some mountain that may be a Mayan holy place or a place of some unknown refuge from the APOCALYPSE. Nothing escapes the APOCALYPSE, much the same as a Black Hole. Why would the Mayans have anything to do with France? Maybe it was because they've been historically so quick to surrender, that was the true source of the Mayan's human sacrifices. (They did believe bearded white men in ships from the west would be their saviors and lead them in the new Mayan Calendar ages ahead.) Also, the mountain IS near the Large Hadron Collider. Yeah, THAT Large Hadron Collider! ;)
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News of the Brave Apparently, the Rolling Stones have a new album out. May God Bless their old, brittle bones whilst touring.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/11/18/lovitz-stands-israel http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/11/16/kardashian-israel-tweet-hate
Jon Lovitz and Kim Kardashian SUPPORT ISRAEL What about you, AMERICA?
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A Differenter Spectrum Completely
Twitter: @amish_man twitter.com/amish_man Blog: Everything in Bloggeration everythinginbloggeration.blogspot.com/ Skype: amish_man
In the first episode, I wrote about how I wanted this to be more than a blog. I've kept going back to Ansible as a template for lore; Ansible the long-running science fiction newsletter. LORE, I imagine, is something more than a newsletter. More than a blog. More than a news or fiction e-zine. Well, maybe not more than an e-zine, but hopefully you get what I'm saying. I hope. I believe the news could go straight, or go the realm of satire, much like Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. (Look at that, I spelled his name right! No auto-correct needed!) Fiction can happen too. Poems, tweets, or flash fiction (under 1k words). Everybody has an idea in them. Let it loose. No pay for any of it though. Maybe if LORE goes pro or semi-pro. Maybe if these episodes get a million plus hits a month. Heck, I'd be fine with a year. Almost anything over a hundred or a thousand.
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Final Review I used to keep vague notes of some of my thoughts and interactions throughout the day. Twice briefly: The first from June 2006 to May 2007. The second, from July 2011 to January 2012. I may do that again, as some of these connections, these deep connections I'm looking for, are just SO deep. To reiterate, what I'm looking for is a deep connection, a deep conversation, with like minded individuals. That others may have the same interactions.
Some, believe it or not, already KNOW who they are. They may even KNOW what to say. They FEEL it. There ARE OTHERS right now feeling the exact same way as me, as you. I'm NOT a Failure taking three years to put out a new episode. YOU are NOT a Failure.
Honesty: If one were to look at me on paper, they'd probably count me as a Failure. I don't think that way, neither should anyone else. Each tiny step is a success, no matter how small. I have Hope, Faith, Prayer and Positive Attitude that TODAY will be THE DAY I am successful. If not, then I pray that day for Tomorrow.
(You know 'The Most Interesting Man in the World'? I'm almost the real deal. Perhaps not as traveled as he, but very interesting nonetheless. Some stories, of both fiction and non-fiction, have a secret story behind them. Some, very successful, some not. That is, if you catch my drift ;)
Or this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo_Kramer (Without the eventual racism.)
Success isn't having the most stuff. Failure is waiting til you reach rock bottom.
KEEP PRAYING, THERE WILL BE VICTORY!
Copyright Tim Munn 12.4.2012 Copyrights remain with respective authors
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