Monday, September 27, 2004

"Are your lives so bereft of meaning and import that you keep trying to revive a decade that sucked farts from dead cats the first time around?" --Sclerotic Rings

"I think Kerry still has a chance of winning, but he has to somehow use the media to send the message to the population that the Bush crew is 1) robbing us 2) killing our children for no reason 3) poisoning our air and land 4) raiding our retirement funds 5) systematically bankrupting and weakening our country. Can this be done in the current media landscape without threatening people's realities to the point where there's a backlash within the population, causing them to retreat into a violently self-disempowering fantasy space where they have not elected a maniac, putting their poetic imaginations to use in the face of an unpleasant and unflattering reality?" --Overlap

An alternate history story in which all the things feared that would happen for Y2K, really happened. There would have been no airplanes flying & no September Elizzle; & though we might have been thrust back into an early 20c technological era, i think it wouldn't be hard to write the story to make it seem better than what we ended up with...

Now my blog is getting hits & cites from phantom (robot-generated) blogs--& when i trackback on them they get a whuffie...

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