Keeping up with papers isn’t one of my skills but fortunately some of my trees are sprouting leaves.
Music I Used
Freedom Theme I and II – Rocco John – Internet Archive – Free Domain
Leaving Ship – Ocean Piano – Internet Archive – Free Domain
Tag: Fun
Submitted by J.D. Newsman – Free Car! (Creepypasta Sorta) – Part III
Alan improvises.
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https://www.patreon.com/TheFractalJournal – Tipjar
Fractal Radio| Episode 24 – GNUsmas!
Did you ever notice that Samsung backwards is GNUsmas.
For you normies out there GNU = GNU is not Unix. Recursive acronym joy!
Topics
Gnusmas!
Projects and plans
Russia/Trump
Ideological Bubbles
The Word Gay
Silicon Valley Mythology
Vanity Fair uses too much Axe Body Spray
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Weird Weir’s Guide to Stoner Rock
I’m bored, and tired, and avoiding research…so I’m listening to Stoned Meadow of Doom…which…ok I’m gonna…I gotta…here we gooooo………….!
- Vaguely Ominous Geometric Patterns
- Words like silent, luminous, orb, pillars, equinox
- Slide guitar, pentatonic scales, microtones
- Wear a fez
- Solemnly mutter adjective heavy things
- Robes
- Skeletons or skulls or both!
- Egypt lots of Egypt
- Neopaganesque nude women cause fertility or something
- Witch…say witch or talk about witches especially if the witches smoke ganja
- Subtly hint a greater awareness than the average sober meatpuppet. You are afterall in the great traditions of shamans because you read a couple of McKenna essays and have a rad tikiman bowl from the headshop
- You are the Ipssimuss no question
- Chant like a monk that got lost on a tour of world religions
- Echo effects mean mystery
- Say consciousness a lot
- Plagiarize the Doors the more often the better
- You know what Vietnam was like you’re a stoner band it doesn’t matter if the oldest guy was born in 1992. You ARE WOODSTOCK plus Satan because Satan is edgy and knows magic that involves a lot of complicated geometric patterns that help compensate for you micropenis. Micropenis Macrocosm is a great stoner band name.
- OM!
Announcing – The Strange Life of Artemus Foe (Again..)
So, I have decided to pursue this steampunk webcomic idea. Which is explained in a voicememo/youtube video below. I know I already introduced it but here’s some more concept art! If you can call it art. Concept doodles…but I had a blast…look forward to making this…with maybe a storyboard coming out sometime this weekend.
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Drink the Wine (Poem and Song)
So you’ve got some wine and you’ve got some time
But you just won’t drink it in
Cause you’re always waiting for some dream to begin
Yea excuse you need an excuse for each and every use
Cause tasting grapes for the sake of life
Is a foul abuse
So you take a knife
And cut a portion
Carefully and gingerly
To keep up with the notion
That you’d better be so very spare with joy
Because you can’t stare at the common fact
That we’re a million miles from Troy
And each and every act Is a circle and a line
So you’ll sit and wait and wait and wait
And you won’t drink the wine
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The Dangers of Hipsterism
If you don’t watch the biggies like Game of Thrones – and anything with that much support is just too mainstream for your latte-stained beard to handle, you run the risk of accidentally plagiarising (sic).
Ok, this is a really ‘tongue in cheek’ post but as I do research for my book: Sketch of Sam Monroe, which you can read for free, as I write and post it, provided you’re old and mature enough to handle adult themes. I can’t help but keep stumbling onto references to a show called Stranger Things.
Like here: (Post by A-Train Sports)
“Remember Stranger Things? Eleven’s mom was supposedly one of the MKUltra patients.
*Should be noted that the involvement of these men in the Nazi Party was wide-ranging, some were forced to work for Hitler, others were the voluntary card-carrying Nazi Party members.”
Just a few seconds ago.
There is also a really weird indie film on YouTube
which mentions ‘The Montauk Boys.’ Funnily enough, the Montauk Boys thing seems to play into Stranger Things as well according to some post I don’t remember.
Sure, drawing from a similar cultural well isn’t really plagiarism. But it still chafes my Chucks!
…I’m literally drinking craft beer right now….and I am ashamed….
TFJ Vlogs: Bavarian Mood – Metaphysical Backbone
- In this TFJ Vlog, you will find a discussion of the need to develop physical and metaphysical stamina. Public discourse and effective inquiry require strength and character. Both of these are inextricably tied and I give some quirky examples of how to attain them.
- Mortality and the prosaic nature of megadeath are mentioned as a call to greater vigor and reverence for the potential lost.
- There is also some discussion of the environment, especially water, and agriculture and how profoundly it affects our lives.
- Due diligence must be given to such weighty issues and I just don’t see it being done on a large enough scale. So I raise the need for a more public engagement.
Links
The Poem – Typical (Poem)
Mr. Ramanujan – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
Banqiao – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
Wernesgrüner – https://www.bitburger-international.com/de/wernesgruener/brewery/
https://www.bitburger-international.com/de/wernesgruener/brewery/
TFJ Vlogs – Creative Confidence
I talk a bit about how to gain momentum as a content creator. The key I think is to have a good idea of your format. So if you’re a talk-show, vlog, or reporter: ask and answer good questions. Knowing simple things like this will help overcome the psychological hurdle of ‘is it good enough?’ Which too often leads to ‘why bother?’ Go forth and create!
Omega Alpha (Poem)
Pictures and these memories will turn to dust,
All these pictures and all these memories will turn to dust.
…and yet the stars are made of such a thing and so I still trust…
…and yet the stars are made of such a thing and so I can still trust…
Animate
Inaminate
Animate
Inanimate
These pillars dual
Are guards attending
In a formation perpetual
Whether we’re pretending
With information in our head
Or are proceeding in formation
Towards wherever the gardens led
That’s the operation
And I no longer fear
Because the stars likewise are made of dust
Yes, I see this very clear
In death, in life, in eternity I trust
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