River:
The central river of Center County shall be named not Orange, not Alexfin or Bentmore, not Main or Hub or Apex or even Center or Middle itself. It shall be called Heart. Heart River. Unless it’s Middle River.
Category Archives: Middletown
Goth Hill
Another successful and satisfying time spent in Middletown/Ashville this past Saturday. Now I wish I would have gone one more day during this long holiday weekend. The primary objective was a place I’ve renamed (“mystified as”) Goth Hill, formerly Richmond Hill. I’ll let fans of the IT Crowd figure that one out. Hint: You can most easily reach the park by following Red Door Road. It’s fairly hard to find — you have to know exactly where to look. I missed the mark not once not twice but 3 times. The park is close to downtown, but seems quite isolated still.*
Speaking of which, here’s an isolated lemon yellow colored rock discovered along the railroad forming the northern border of the park. Could it be related to the yellow skull found on Google Earth at Alexfin just the day before? Close to 1/2 of the park is now in private hands, perhaps soon to become a housing development. The yellow rock belongs to that side of the park. Is it a resonant “death skull”, then?
Red berried vine found nearby.
Isolated river rock; photo taken once more from the railroad bed.
Yet another picture of rocks along the rr, this one including an old hornet’s nest.
Yet another. I like the isolated “Y” remaining from the mostly erased graffiti.
Prison spied from across the river. This is not the Alexfin prison mentioned before containing the northern point of the Middletown Pyramid (Alexfin-Future Home-Bentmore), but the older one further south which it replaced starting in 1989. It now serves as a prison laundry.
But the most interesting spot along the railroad was probably this double underpass allowing Rich Smith Creek to reach the Middle River from the south. This stream is also the largest in the park by far, and just the small part I explored at the mouth contains a number of interesting features.
More Rich Smith underpass graffiti. Notice the “Cold Feet..” on the angled part.
Cap that has merged with brown muck at bottom of Rich Creek next to the underpass. Pretty cool shot, actually.
Tire found in Rich Smith as it approaches underpass.
Another tire in seeming better shape lies nearby.
A bit furhter upstream I found this unusual rock, appearing almost like a broken off top of a table. I’ll be examining this again sometime soon.
examination table
Still on the Middle River, the final photograph of this post is from a small riverside park called Walnut Island just below the northern border of Center County.
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* About the only other “Goth Hill” I could find is a former location for the Algonquin Radio Observatory.
Filed under Canada/Tungaska, Middletown
Toy King Pics?
Is this the actual Toy King of WW?
http://inside.warren-wilson.edu/blogs/echo/2010/10/the-mystery-bus-explained/
I think so, but not 100 percent sure. At any rate, he’s bussed off now to unknown dimensions and I am the new Toy King, or Baker( Block or Beach) is (Martel very close to Mattel). I have chosen to assume that Mantel; take up the charge. To expose the sole Loch Ness islands for what they are: man and dog united forever and ever. Caledonia be dammed.
Gene Fade The Mossman will probably push Baker (me) to become the new Toy King. Gene Fade is part of the Masters of the Universe, as he is conscious of at least now. He wishes to join his colleagues’ fight against Lego. He might even wish to help with the projected MotU film. Why wouldn’t he?
http://www.thekarachiite.com/2014/09/lego-crowned-the-undisputed-king-of-toys/
Hucka D.:
The Mmmmmm’s go where Gene Fade and The Mossmen go. The latter may have even created the former — we’re not sure[ yet]. And then the marbles roll along as well.
bb:
Thanks, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
I’ll claim this[ one]. Lula Barbee is Rich. She even owns The Moon.
bb:
The marbles are from 3rd life. Ensouled avatars, once more. But 3d and real, unlike Second Life avatars. Strange that First Life, obviously, is real, and 3rd Life seems to be real but Second Life is not. Baker Block, I suppose.
Hucka D.:
Marbles got sick of Second Life avatar do-ups and went to 3rd which turned out to be first. Through the back door.
bb:
Rolled out again, eh.
Hucka D.:
Uncyclopedic. Awesome.
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bb:
Hucka D., the spheres of the Russell related animation I reproduce here…
… remind me of the marbles Little Bill holds on a fork in Greenup 11, revolved around by 8 tulips.
‘Cept here they are red, green, blue instead of red, yellow, blue. Same idea, though.
Hucka D.;
You will hold the same in Dumpport, out above The River. Orange you glad you asked.
bb:
It’s apparently the same 3 marbles as in Greenup17, also pictured above. Those are the only 2 collages of the Greenup series featuring marbles, and both of the red, green, and blue variety. These are perhaps the 3 original or Ur marbles.
Hucka D.:
Correct.
bb:
Later they join forces with yellow, actually, to form the true TILE waterfall pictured in Newton09.
And just to be complete about this, they only clearly appear together in one other Art 10×10 collage: Newton07.
And the most recent TILE Waterfall and perhaps the truest has been discussed in this October post, Hucka D. And on Bill Creek. Queer[ once more].
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/bill-creek/
Filed under collages 2d, Middletown, Toy Avatars
Toy King Pics
Related links:
http://echoreverb.tumblr.com/post/4158184703/back-in-the-wild-by-mariah-parker
http://kingoftoys.blogspot.com/ (not same King of Toys)
https://kingoftoys.com.cy/en/ (not same King of Toys)
http://mattwatier.deviantart.com/art/The-King-of-Toys-40885604 (ditto)
http://www.antiquetrader.com/features/donald_kaufman_toy_collecting_king (ditto)
http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2008/06/marvin-glass-legendary-toymaker.html (ditto)
2014: Lego becomes “king of toys”, surpassing Mattel.
http://www.thekarachiite.com/2014/09/lego-crowned-the-undisputed-king-of-toys/
According to the Wall Street Journal, Mattel lost out to Lego because of the decreasing interest in their Barbie brand. Lego capitalized on the hit blockbuster film ‘The Lego Movie’ that released in February of this year to much critical acclaim.
Lego may have won the battle against Mattel but the war is far from over… Their recent victory was a slight one, so Mattel still has a fighting chance. Does a Barbie film sound like a good idea?
There have been reports in the media about a ‘Masters of the Universe’ film currently in the works, which would be a reboot of the 1987 film of the same name. With the recent success of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’, Mattel may consider the ‘Masters of the Universe’ franchise to appeal to a more male demographic. If they can make a series of films on these two classic toy-lines, then the California-based company can take the fight straight to Lego.
For now however, Lego is the undisputed King!
Now the *real* King of Toys, or one I call simply the Toy King…
Filed under Middletown, Mossmen, Toy Avatars
This weekend…
… will probably head to Ashville/Middletown again. My thought is to revisited Dead Center Hill, perhaps making a crude map, even. Yes, that sounds like a good idea. Visit island below hill in Wilson River. Go to WW College and look for signs of Toy King. Also want to go to Richmond Hill mentioned in a recent blog post on the subject. Don’t think I need to head to Alexfin or Bentmore again. Save some surprises until later. The new Walter Russell- Swanna-nowhere tie in is a surprise. Another possibility is visiting the controversial land near Bill Creek, the one that may be developed. See what’s there; take pics. Go through or across TILE Falls.
Filed under Middletown
Another Middletown
Filed under Middletown
No Where 02
“Bunk”, har har.
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http://www.svpvril.com/Cosmology/cos8.html
Figure 8.7- Colors Represent Relative Frequencies
Red = C = Thermal Rays
Yellow = E = Light Rays
Blue = G = Chemical Rays….
8.5 – Dynaspheric Shells – This faster vortex will be the inner most envelope which will be enclosed by the second spinning vortex and the third vortex will enclose the first two. Imagine an orange with three peels each one covering a band or width of the equator sealing the area not covered by another enclosed band. The poles of each spinning equator will be open. In Figure 26 the black areas of each shell are the spinning sealing areas of motion. The colored areas are the open polar zones. The three concentric peels will effectively seal the entire surface area of the orange according to its velocity of rotation which translates directly into force of compression and density. The end result is a highly compressed “solid” sphere of matter. These dynaspheric shells correspond to Russell’s “caps” that seal and hold an atom together. See “Atomic Suicide?” for more details.
Figure 8.9 – Dynaspheric Shells and Attractive Poles
Filed under Middletown
Orange
“It’s easy to see that the *Orange* River drew the much, much, much younger The Way and Interstate 30 to Center County. It has a much more powerful influence that the last 2. Actually it doesn’t, because *all 3 are 1*. It is the 4th that again holds the key. Does it travel at zero time? Or does it travel the speed of light?”
bb:
At any rate, it’s the Orange again.
Hucka D.:
Right.
http://tmbw.net/wiki/asheville
Trivia/Info
Also known as The Orange Peel (in the original concert setlist).
The Orange Peel is in Asheville, NC and somewhat close to the French Broad River mentioned in the song.
Besides the venue (and the fruit), a possible source of inspiration for the theme of the song could be playwright Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, in which Willy Loman pleads with his boss, “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit!”
Twenty days prior to the TMBG show at the Orange Peel where this song premiered, the French Broad River flooded horrifically, doing terrible damage to the city’s art district.
Unlike all of the other regularly performed venue songs, this track doesn’t have a studio version. The rendition on the DVD/CD is from the soundcheck.
Colourmovie designed and animated the video for this song.
See also here:
Filed under Middletown
Sunklands 