Ask yourself what the mainstream in America ever did for you about anything. If you came up with an answer, you're way ahead of the Rockhouse and we have been watching them for sixty-five years. Like George Carlin said, "It's a club ... and you're not in it."
There's no need for an extended diatribe as the changes in Ithaka are part of that since it's not likely the material being pushed out here has much draw for the mainstream. They can concern themselves with what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are doing but hopefully those two will have the grace to keep their business private.
Social networks are as mainstream as it's possible to get, what with Mark Zuckerberg and his nipple bans, etc. Those environments are patently ludicrous but they exist in whatever form they enjoy and that makes the mandate to keep them out of anything else. See above about what the mainstream adds to anything.
There's a harsh boundary on the blog and, to a large extent, it's to keep people out. The Silas inside Ithaka is not at all the Silas you may find elsewhere. The Ithaka Silas is better (larfs). The Silas anywhere else is definitely a prick and deliberately so. In part that's payback for thirty+ years in the workplace being hammered daily with their bullshit 'support the war' for whichever conflict of the day they fancied. They're evil, dangerous, and we don't want them here. Their idea of success almost invariably comes with a body count.
There's a great deal of thinking that 'bigger is better' and 'success is more,' etc but that thinking is false. It requires mainstream cooperation and consequently subservience to mainstream ways. We will never give that and there's a long cold wall in Washington which gives fifty-five thousand reasons we will never submit to the mainstream. They sat by and did nothing that time as well.
Ithaka won't get any better if more people come as I don't even know who the people are now and they don't buy CDs so what good are they, Dagwood? It's how mainstream does as they only want something for nothing but y'all regulars are different from that, aren't you. After thirty or forty years now, I'd say, yep, y'all are. It's cool that the Anonymities find interesting things in Ithaka but really y'all regulars, all four of you, are the reason I've done it from the start.
Cat is one of the regulars as well but it's virtual since, even after these years, it's not likely we can meet each other. The sadness of that is likely obvious but all of us know the general anomie of existence now and all of us know the feeling of missing distant people. We're not going to get all melancholy on you since, in some ways, missing in that way brings out the best of us. It's so adult to understand there are things we can't have ... but it still fuckin' sucks (larfs).
Note: there's still the hope since I know the cost of living in Bulgaria is much lower than an EU country, particularly Germany. It also has beaches with water above room temperature and a nice warm Sun under which to enjoy them. It's too expensive to be able to survive in Germany but maybe Bulgaria, man.
(Ed: do you ever stop?)
Nope.
Putting the science-y content out here may be more interesting in content but it's also more impersonal and I don't recall Mystery Lady having a huge enthusiasm for genomics. Don't read that as patronizing as you've got to watch out for those Geminis; they've got a whole other mind doing stuff and you won't even know what it is. As far as I can glean, neither of the Geminis cares particularly about genomics.
Something which dawned is recording something isn't for me and that realization is good since I was thinking if it's just for me then there's no reason to do it. The circle of long-time Ithaka regulars isn't that large so willfully dropping out of it is not an acceptable thing without exceptional circumstances. Sometimes the circumstances get that way but that makes it all the more important to do a Paul Delph when circumstances permit.
Note: 'doing a Paul Delph' is standing up to play no matter how shitty you feel and you deliver a show in which no-one can even tell anything is wrong. He has my undying respect for that.
I'm due for a tubbing tomorrow anyway so perhaps that makes it a good time to try to record. Some other things have been complicating that but the focus is clear doing it is not as stupidly selfish as it seemed. Getting you pictures of those Meerkats at the Zoo has turned out to be difficult, mostly due to heat, but recording can happen so do it.
We're coming up on the end of the month so hopefully that means some 'free minutes' and some talk time with Mystery Lady. How about I start SIRI so we can ask her stupid questions??
SIRI, can God make a rock so heavy he himself cannot lift it.
Note: thank you, George Carlin.
There's no need for an extended diatribe as the changes in Ithaka are part of that since it's not likely the material being pushed out here has much draw for the mainstream. They can concern themselves with what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are doing but hopefully those two will have the grace to keep their business private.
Social networks are as mainstream as it's possible to get, what with Mark Zuckerberg and his nipple bans, etc. Those environments are patently ludicrous but they exist in whatever form they enjoy and that makes the mandate to keep them out of anything else. See above about what the mainstream adds to anything.
There's a harsh boundary on the blog and, to a large extent, it's to keep people out. The Silas inside Ithaka is not at all the Silas you may find elsewhere. The Ithaka Silas is better (larfs). The Silas anywhere else is definitely a prick and deliberately so. In part that's payback for thirty+ years in the workplace being hammered daily with their bullshit 'support the war' for whichever conflict of the day they fancied. They're evil, dangerous, and we don't want them here. Their idea of success almost invariably comes with a body count.
There's a great deal of thinking that 'bigger is better' and 'success is more,' etc but that thinking is false. It requires mainstream cooperation and consequently subservience to mainstream ways. We will never give that and there's a long cold wall in Washington which gives fifty-five thousand reasons we will never submit to the mainstream. They sat by and did nothing that time as well.
Ithaka won't get any better if more people come as I don't even know who the people are now and they don't buy CDs so what good are they, Dagwood? It's how mainstream does as they only want something for nothing but y'all regulars are different from that, aren't you. After thirty or forty years now, I'd say, yep, y'all are. It's cool that the Anonymities find interesting things in Ithaka but really y'all regulars, all four of you, are the reason I've done it from the start.
Cat is one of the regulars as well but it's virtual since, even after these years, it's not likely we can meet each other. The sadness of that is likely obvious but all of us know the general anomie of existence now and all of us know the feeling of missing distant people. We're not going to get all melancholy on you since, in some ways, missing in that way brings out the best of us. It's so adult to understand there are things we can't have ... but it still fuckin' sucks (larfs).
Note: there's still the hope since I know the cost of living in Bulgaria is much lower than an EU country, particularly Germany. It also has beaches with water above room temperature and a nice warm Sun under which to enjoy them. It's too expensive to be able to survive in Germany but maybe Bulgaria, man.
(Ed: do you ever stop?)
Nope.
Putting the science-y content out here may be more interesting in content but it's also more impersonal and I don't recall Mystery Lady having a huge enthusiasm for genomics. Don't read that as patronizing as you've got to watch out for those Geminis; they've got a whole other mind doing stuff and you won't even know what it is. As far as I can glean, neither of the Geminis cares particularly about genomics.
Something which dawned is recording something isn't for me and that realization is good since I was thinking if it's just for me then there's no reason to do it. The circle of long-time Ithaka regulars isn't that large so willfully dropping out of it is not an acceptable thing without exceptional circumstances. Sometimes the circumstances get that way but that makes it all the more important to do a Paul Delph when circumstances permit.
Note: 'doing a Paul Delph' is standing up to play no matter how shitty you feel and you deliver a show in which no-one can even tell anything is wrong. He has my undying respect for that.
I'm due for a tubbing tomorrow anyway so perhaps that makes it a good time to try to record. Some other things have been complicating that but the focus is clear doing it is not as stupidly selfish as it seemed. Getting you pictures of those Meerkats at the Zoo has turned out to be difficult, mostly due to heat, but recording can happen so do it.
We're coming up on the end of the month so hopefully that means some 'free minutes' and some talk time with Mystery Lady. How about I start SIRI so we can ask her stupid questions??
SIRI, can God make a rock so heavy he himself cannot lift it.
Note: thank you, George Carlin.
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