I’ll be redoing these soon but here’s what I have now…
“Bixby Shuffle”
Will redo these later…
“Bigfoot”
Category Archives: MAPS
Bossmo 02
Bossmo 02a
Bossmo 02b
Reference:
Bossmo (01)
Hint: they point to the exact same objects in each case.
Filed under collages 2d, MAPS, Missouri, Toy Avatars
Good
See below for more on Foote. It’s already come up here in terms of the Mississippi location. LINK Foote also resonates with the name Bigfoot, as in “bigfooted” Actually there’s an earlier mention of Foote, MS here, and in that particular post a Foot in White Co, TN is discussed.
Goodland, Goodwater, Boss-Bixby-Buick
http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_iron.html
Place name: Foote
Description: A post office from 1888-1902, near East End. Named for E.L. Foote, superintendant of the Sligo Furnace Company. It was the site of the first white ware pottery in Missouri and one of the earliest in the Mississippi Valley. Known as the Pool pottery, it was operated by potters from England. It had long since been obliterated, according to Wheeler, writing in 1896. (Postal Guide; Wheeler (1896) 178; W.H. Copeland)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. “Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
Place name: East End
Description: At the eastern end of the Sligo and Eastern Railroad; hence the name. The railroad is no longer there. (E.E. Brand; B.F. Crocker; O.A. Crocker)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. “Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
Place name: Good Water
Description: A post office since 1876 in Dent Township. Named from its good spring. (Postal Guide; Campbell’s ATLAS (1873); Campbell’s GAZETTEER (1874) 262; E.E. Brand; B.F. Crocker; O.A. Crocker)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. “Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1944.Place name: Goodland
Description: A post office since 1886 in Dent Township. Named from the good land in the vicinity. (Postal Guide; E.E. Brand; B.F. Crocker; O.A. Crocker)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. “Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
And one more…
Place name: Clones
Description: A post office from 1888-1892. Nothing could be learned about the origin of the name. (Postal Guide)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. “Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
Wild [Billy J. Thornberry]:
Well, you know I’m a clone of course, in that I am an actor playing [cloned] roles. Many of my wild, wild friends, hehe, worried that I was actually killed by Hater the Cow during the production. But of course that was a stunt double… er, stunt dummy I should say there.
Clone/sv (all)
http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_reynolds.html
Place name: Clones
Description: A post office from 1893-1908 serving a sawmill camp in the northwestern part of Carroll Township; presumably a personal name.
Source: Hamlett, Mayme L. “Place Names Of Six Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1938.
So Reynolds County has its own Clones, which could be the same as the one in Iron County just north of it? Who can tell sometimes with clones.
Filed under MAPS, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee
Bossmo
http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_dent.html
Place name: Boss
Description: A village in eastern Osage Township. A post office since 1902. Named after Marion Nelson, who was “Boss” of the lumbering crews. (Postal Guide; Plat Book (1933); W.L. Nelson)
Source: O’Brien, Anna. “Place Names Of Five Central Southern Counties of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1939.
http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_iron.html
Place name: Bixby
Description: A small town in Dent Township, with a post office since 1910. Named for William K. Bixby, official of the American Car and Foundry Company. David Cureton obtained a post office at Red Point (1887), so called because it was located on a hill of red clay. In February, 1906, it was moved to Bixby, two and a quarter miles east of Red Point. (Postal Guide; R.M. ATLAS (1939); W.H. Copeland; F.D. Cureton)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. “Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
Place name: Buick
Description: A town in Dent Township, with a post office since 1921. Named from a Buick car, the first one brought into this part of the country. (Postal Guide; R.M. ATLAS (1939); W.H. Copeland)
Source: Zimmer, Gertrude M. “Place Names Of Five Southeast Counties Of Missouri.” M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
Boss Man Hanks showed up in my forest (Rubi) just after I finished this post. No lie. He was riding a horse apparently, and is hidden in the photo by the interface. He’s very old! (2003)
I was there attempting to figure out if I wanted to sell a 4096 parcel next to the forest. An avatar offered me $5000 lindens for it today (*not* Boss Man Hanks). What does his appearance mean — one way or the other? He decided not to enter my land (green) and rode north instead, following the east border of the forest. He stayed in the woods.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, MAPS, Missouri, Rubi
Bigfoot Rivals
Simpsons to the rescue!
The wife and I visited the local Dollar Tree tonight. 4 out of 5 Simpsons purchased (minus Marge — soon!), and also what appears to be the arch-nemesis of Taum Sauk in the continuation of the Bigfoot art/toy/junk happening (“Afterfoot”?).
a good guy?: batteries-not-included (bni)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Missouri_Lead_District
Boss MO (= Boss Moss!):
4.23 miles from both Buick and Bixby in neighboring Iron County. Not chance.
Red Point, MO in approximate center of 3B Triangle (Boss-Bixby-Buick). Reinforced by color *green*.
4/1/12
“Bossmo”
Filed under BIGFOOT, Blue Mountain, collages 2d, MAPS, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Toy Avatars
Bigfoot Thoughts
Then of course there are the Mossmen…
… and Mmmmmmm’s, the original toy avatars I suppose you could call them. Both first appeared in the Jonesborough Toy Happening of 2008, the base event for the whole toy avatar phenomenon.
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Hucka D.:
The Mmmmmmm’s came from Mythos, specifically Edwardston. You’ve figured that out, haven’t you?
bb:
Maybe. So it’s backwards from what Grassy wanted to do: fly the First Goodmobile (Firstmobile) to Edwardston and Mythos. The [Firstmobile] actually *comes* from Edwardston. Makes sense.
Hucka D.:
Sense it makes. They are the last living toy avatars in Mythos, after everyone else is gone, let’s say. But maybe they really come from Whitehead Crossing and its own Edwardston and Green Turtle and such. It remains a maze[ of meaning].
bb:
I haven’t figured out exactly what Whitehead Crossing is. I’ve been so focused on Blue Mountain and Bigfoot and Rediscovery this summer and, so far, fall.
Hucka D.:
It will all even out.
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So Hucka D. had to buzz off to unknown destinations. Mentioned something about Burger King at Point-0, actually. Back to explaining Mossmen. So the purchasing of the first mossman, or the only mossman I still have, follows the pattern of other toy avatars such as Billy J. Thornberry (Billy Bob or B. Thornberry now?), because it cost me a dollar or less. The purchase took place about 25 years back at a Big Lots in this case, and I recall there was a whole wall of mossmen for sale. Shame I didn’t buy more at the time. Thus the source of the expression “there’s a big lot of ’em” sometimes spoken in my blogs concerning the creatures.
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Hucka D. is morse coding me from Burger King now. We have more information on the actor who’s slowly but surely becoming as much a star as mmmmmm Grassy Noll and mossman Gene Fade before him. Toy avatar thespian Billy *Bob* Thornberry hails from Henrietta, Texas, with a brother or father named Charlie who runs — hold on — a company called Zigzag, which is a, um, buyer of peanuts? No: pumpkins. Pumpkins or peanuts — maybe pumpkin seeds. Hucka D. remains unsure.*
And a brother or son named Dean who sometimes dresses up as Jolly old St. Nick on Labor Day and as a, er, turkey — *not* a pumpkin, Hucka D. is reinforcing — on Halloween. Interesting.
Located further away are cousins Joy, Shannon, and Jimbob, with the latter some kind of softball oddball twin to Billy Bob and who once played 4th base for the Montreal Penguins womens’ oddball softball team. I think that means he was the catcher.
Then there was mother/sister/daughter Henrietta whose story will have to wait. End transmission.
Jimbob caught pretending to be second cousin Dean robbing the Thornberry’s house on Labor Day.
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* In checking the region of Charlie, Texas, there is a large *pecan* farm (and Wicked Andy’s Insane Acres Haunted House!). Maybe that’s what Hucka D. was trying to interpret.
Zooming further out in GoogleEarth, we get this interesting moire effect from the bordering, square shaped plot. More signals?
Additional interesting sites from GoogleEarth in Charlie:
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http://www.earthimmigrant.net/minipeter/meet.html
http://www.earthimmigrant.net/minipeter/adventures/minimozo.html
Filed under BIGFOOT, Blue Mountain, MAPS, Mmmmmm's, Mossmen, Texas, Toy Avatars
Bigfoot Reference 01: Real Brian Head name origin
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/625000/Brian-Head-has-it-all-sans-crowds.html?pg=all
Dear Editor;
I think I understand what’s keeping people away. It’s the name. Brian HEAD? Who wants to visit the Head? Not me – unless I have to.
There are a lot of theories about the origin of the name, but that’s all they are. One theory has it that one of the rock formations is shaped like a head, but no one seems to know where the rock is. Cesar Munoz, the resident historian and lodge bellman – he came from L.A. 17 years ago to be a ski bum and just never got around to leaving – doesn’t buy that theory. Like others, he says the resort might have been named after Williams Jennings Bryan, a famous politician who made a career out of finishing second in presidential elections. Eventually, the y was changed to an i. Or, Munoz says Head could be a geological term, such as point or cape. Another theory: A member of John Wesley Powell’s expedition was named Bryan.
Whatever. I say change the name. How about Cedar Breaks Resort? By the way, what’s a Break?
Filed under BIGFOOT, Blue Mountain, MAPS, Utah
Bigfoot Contemplations 02
“There’s the main part of Bigfoot, at the head of the swamp and the water inlet. Then there’s a secondary part across the swamp’s inlet. I originally saw that as the place of the main toy happening, Hucka D. But now I think it will be around the spool table.
“All the washers, bolts and nuts on it come from the football stadium stands. Then the smooth white rocks [on the spool table] were found on the track surrounding the football field. I think I just need to take more pictures of Bigfoot. Hold on…
“Then there’s the head of the iron golf club, to match the iron club already present in Bigfoot when I discovered it about a month and a half ago. 2 irons. Abundance of iron. Middle Game (ironing).
“I think all those sports balls are important, Hucka D.
“What else do I have so far? An old fire extinguisher, with basin and nozzle separated. 2 long pieces of fence wire, which I took to the, let’s see, the Green Road and stretched them out. Perhaps I could put washers on them, and nuts. Then I have several other chairs that are just the metal base. Then an old stadium bleacher bench. What I’ll get tomorrow: all that stuff at the baseball field I had to leave on Saturday. More of those tall metal thingies from the stadium.
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Bigfoot originally named Irontown or Ironton or just Iron (or Irons?) because of the, ahem, iron. Taum and Mina Sauk were the first settlers, arriving in 1994. Taum was always complaining that Mina was constantly running her mouth, where artsy ideas cascaded out of her Brian Head brain.
Truth was, Mina might have been in love with Brian Head; always thought Taum too tall for his breeches (but Taum was Brian Head?). The second family to move into the area was named Johnson, who were shut-ins.
The Taum Sauks (conscious) and the Johnsons (unconscious) divided Iron (or Irons) evenly down the middle, as Jesuschrist “Red Line” Superstar’s black family arrived in town. The town was renamed Middle Game after an adjustment period. In 1998 Middle Game became Bigfoot following the completion of an extensive survey of Bigfeet Swamp, and to cover up, well, the middle. The Center.
The Taum Sauks and the Johnsons agreed to purge The Center out of the town’s Holey (Play)book, making it at least partially unholey and leaving only wood shots and putting greens. They did this to withhold information from the masses about a black man currently attending Middle Game High School we’ve already mentioned, who later became Bigfoot’s first sheriff. But the masses were also The Johnsons?
The mysterious Head of Brian or Brian Head is nearby, where a playwright (Julius Cesar) wrote plays exclusively for Kirk Douglas, who also lived in the area as crazed method actor/painter Vincente “Red Line” Manilla, who must have been the same as JCSS, or perhaps took his identity. Little Liza Manilla might have been a childhood friend, whom he shared vanilla ice cream with at times on the condition that they didn’t talk about Judy. Boss Queue Brick could have been lurking as well, kicking around small white stones with round dented heel.
Kirk Douglas talks about going to high school with Jesus.
A square little fellow.
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Filed under BIGFOOT, Blue Mountain, MAPS, Missouri, Toy Avatars
12 Lb Mound
I’ve found what I think is the exact shot from 12 Oz Mouse that is the *source of the mound*. It’s right before Mouse’s head gets pummeled by a meteor, when he’s laying on the pavement after falling down in a drunken daze. Mouse’s green body (on pavement) = the green mound (on pavement). I’ll share the accompanying video clip again at the end as well.
I mention meteors in several other posts of the Sunklands blog, including here:
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/tidbits/
http://www.evmaplink.com/Ferry_County_Washington_by_Pittmon_Map_Company_p/2033669m.htm
Meteor, Impach, Inchelium.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, MAPS, Nautilus, Nautilus City, Washington
