Carrcasses 04

From facebook again:

In tune with Karl’s “Simultaneity II” post presently just below this one, I’m going to throw out some ideas that may represent a replacement for a new podcast. However, unlike the 2007 podcast I think I can share some digital synchs this go around, and if so that makes the prospect more attractive. Various people seem drawn to the idea of my “tiling” so I’ll have a go at that again.

Resonance is so important. I was reading up today a bit on Randy T.’s theories about setting up synchs…

http://viralmediaart.blogspot.com/…/viral-media-art-what-is…

Randy synchs the famous Sing’n in the Rain sequence with Billy Idol’s Dancing with Myself. He calls it a 1 Drop Synch, “in other words, like “The Dark Side of Oz” it has only one start point and runs the continuous length of the piece.”

In my terminology, when I talk seriously about synching every once in a while, this can be called a tile, with one cue point — the one degree of manipulation (cuing music with video) that creates or reveals the synchronicity. One can call this a tile because it can be fitted into a larger concept composed of several or even many such cued regions. For example, I’ve also created a tile using Gene Kelly’s dance in the rain, a “1 Drop Synch” (drop… rain… good one Randy!). The track is ELO’s Stand’n in the Rain, and I found it about a year and a 1/2 ago after some experimentation with the Sing’n in the Rain movie as a whole down through the years now. It’s one that I knew would work even before I mashed them together in reality. It’s also a tile in the relative middle of a larger work of tiles — central in several ways.

Randy also talks about centerpoints in discussing his Sing’n in the Rain synch: “Like most of my syncs I have what I call a center point and my ultimate goal is to edit the video or music as little as possible. I look for a major “wow moment” where both mediums connect into something more than just a random moment of coincidence and line them up in my video and backtrack from there. In the case of what I call “Dancing In The Rain” the center point comes near the beginning just as Gene opens his arms in that big Ta-da moment and as Billy Idol’s song hits the 1st title chorus… “Dancing With Myself.” A true 1-drop sync, no editing just that one start point, wind it up and watch it go!”

I believe this is a natural way to cue up these 1 Drop Synchs or straight synchs as Karl may call them. These natural cues can come at the beginning, the end, or anywhere in-between in the tile or “cued region”.

So let me go back to DSotR (aka Dark Side of Oz) since that’s the one people will be familiar with. The standard cue for this most popular of all a/v synchronicities is the 3rd roar of MGM mascot Leo the Lion. However, to me if we look at it closer we have a nifty internal cue (this is what I’d call a “”wow moment” to use Randy’s word turn) where the bike riding Gulch appears right as the cacophony of bells begin in the DSotM track “Time”. If DSotR was crafted on purpose, this seems like the primary cuing point.

So is Leo’s 3rd lion roar just a kind of random element that someone traced back to or backtracks from Gulch-Bells to properly align DSotM with TWoO? This appears *not to be the case*, and that’s where we can pass from conscious creation by the syncher (or possibly the musician or group of musicians who consciously created the synch, if you’re using that angle) into something else. Logically a tile does not have 2 natural cues or 2 degrees of manipulation. It has one: “1 drop”.

From here we can go into the differences between synchronicity and synchronization.To me, tiling is still synchronicity through and through. Each tile is a “1 Drop”, but also linked to others to create a kind of *rain* of drops. There — I figured out where *that* was going.

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Carrcasses 03

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Carr.:

At least you will have one synch at a time, at least, for others to see.

bb:

I’ve got it figured out. From the old ones we’ll have The Rainbow Sphere, Messiaen Trek, Piper’s Nightmare Christmas, Full of Secrets, MessiaenSphere, Pink Vertigo, Walt SIDney’s Fantasia 2000, Horton Hears The Who, and The Point of The Wall.

Carr.:

Good. How can I help?

bb:

Just keep on keeping on.

—–

[15 minutes earlier]

Carr.:

Kerch, no you can’t have Skillet since I have Spider now. (inaudible talk) Oh… you already have Skillet. (inaudible talk) Had him since Wednesday, eh. (inaudible talk) Ransom?! How much?? (inaudible talk) That’s more than all the prims in Collagesity, Kerch. Now come on Kerch. Just give him back. What will Alice think when she returns? (inaudible talk). No Kerch, Alice isn’t dead and you didn’t kill her. I just talked to her before you rang up. She warned me about some of this. Not the ransom — and, oh look, there’s Skillet, just walking into the temple. So you have a clone or something. (inaudible talk).

The temple blew up, and Baker Bloch wakes up. He’s in the Small Gothic Castle still. On the floor. Sweating.

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Collagesity Changes

Small Gothic Castle comes to Collagesity.

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Great views within. Had to be here for now.

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World of Collage formerly occupying the spot moved to where the Sam Parr Library and Gallery use to be, since deleted. Yes, the college appears to be no more. Instead the official gallery for the Sam Parr collage series will be the Red Umbrella (basement). The gallery is shopping around for a good dehumidifier.

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Smaller but important changes. And around 300 prims still to play around with now (!).

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Carrcasses 02

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[joined in progress]

Carr.:

… good to have that off your shoulders. Or potentially. How’s the wife?

bb:

She’s fine. I’ll work on the woods.

Carr.:

Do that. Kerchal’s been ringing me up each and every hour inquiring about a move.

bb:

Well, that’s not going to happen Carrcassonnee. Not if I can help it.

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Earlier that day, Baker Bloch revisited the sim sized Kerchal forest on Sansara, the oldest Second Life continent. He was drawn to the number of trees. “Maybe Kerchal *is* a superior woods to Rubi,” he thought, countering his last judgment.

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He was surprised to find the 3 “Uranus” cubes still within, since he thought he remembered owner Torley Linden saying these were deleted several years back. And right after Carrcassonnee compared herself to Uranus in the present.

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Back to the present, then:

—–

Carr.:

That’s where the curse started for poor white and pink Baker Blinker. The noise.

bb:

And where it ended, as I recall. 12 Oz Mouse. Carrcass-1. You.

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Abominable, 2

I also wanted to talk about Burning Life. My theory, Hucka D., is that Burning Life is represented by Jay Cutler [likewise standing in for John Elway — see below], and the burning car in his hand is the central sun or Burning Man of that event. Now at his *feet* we have the marble that represents the planet Uranus, the most distant planet depicted on the roller coaster [starting with Mercury, which is the same as the roller coaster cart directly below the burning car/sun]. So my new theory is that Uranus is found in the Kerchal forest. Just like the Uranus planet you can *just* make it out on the map if you know where to look. And this Uranus is 3 cubes, 1 being transluscent. They’re set at full glow. *Barely* make it out, [just like Uranus is barely discernable to the naked eye, if you know where to look.]

http://www.maineskies.org/uranus.html

Hucka D.:

You think this is the opposite of Burning Life, then. Brightest verses the very opposite, so dim it lies on the very edge of perception. This is a contrast of opposites.

bb:

That’s right.

Hucka D.:

Hand high and feet low. Hilo.

—–

Carr.:

I cannot be just one forest, sorry. Kerch calls me all the time. He proposed last week, even though I was already married. He forgot he was also wedded to Alice. They’ve been touching each other for a long time. Since near the beginning.

bb:

Kerch or Kerchal is mad.

Carr.:

Yes. Looney bin mad. Kerch was Shakenstein. The real one, and not that fake propped up over there [Carr. points to Master Shake in the north cove of the temple].

bb:

Now the carrcasses are going to be explose, perhaps. The positive ones. The negative ones will remain hidden for a while, like Uranus and beyond.

Carr.:

That is correct my friend. Excitement in synch land. Sunklands. That’s where you end Your Second Lyfe.

bb:

Thank you.

Carr.:

Shakenstein will return.

—–

Chance Upon Bushes

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Shake ‘N Bake, I suppose

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Carrcasses 01

First off, the synch is Carrcass-1.

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Carr.:

Yes I am 12 Oz Mouse. But reborn. I have Spider instead of Skillet. I have one eye instead of two. I’m not drunk… as much. I am larger. And, most importantly, I am *you*.

Baker Bloch:

Meaning baker b.

Carr.:

Switch.

bb:

There.

Carr.:

Okay. I can see you!

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bb:

Spooky!

Carr.:

First, I am also Don. I stepped outside. It felt good to be alone. Peanut goes away. Golden Joe. Just me and Skillet left. That was about the last of me as 12 Oz Mouse. The conversion happened. I returned… in Sunklands. Carrcass-1 instead shows a loop. I return to the beginning. Can I help *you*, ha. But back to toward the end. We have Greenup and Yellow Down. This was in a recent collage. Pull up the pic… could be important.

bb:

Sure.

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Carr.:

The cyan horse emerges from the hole, as 12 Oz Mouse, me, looks on. This is in the desert of[ Episode] 21. Osmos… you know that too. You knew it then, I mean.

bb:

Yes. The country called Osmos which was half desert, half mirage. Siwel on the border between the two. This is where Greenup starts and yellow downs. Ends, I mean.

Carr.:

The hole was in Wallace in Greenup, but Wallace is also on the edge of Brownie which is a buffer zone between Greenup and Yellow Down in the Land of Green Oz. I put the hole there. And the dragonfly. And I was the light at Face Rock. Is that what you called it?

bb:

Unsure without checking, Carrcassonnee.

Carr.:

So I see the weakness, the Achilles heel that is the Achilles hole. Will you fall through?

bb:

No. Not now.

Carr.:

Make sure of that.

bb:

I will.

Carr.:

Because I don’t want to have to tell you again, you see.

bb:

I see.

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Carr.:

So… the cyan horse is Don, me, again. And Rhoda in 12 Oz Mouse. Rhoda appears in Carrcass-1 too. The song Rhoda appears along with Rhoda. That’s synchronicity. That’s me again.

bb:

You created Carrcass-1.

Carr.:

Yes. The first. The first of mine. I took over from Pierre, who died in Piers Gill, England in the Lake District. A tragedy. But he will[ also] be reborn in Gills Pier, Michigan.

bb:

In, let’s see, 2052.

Carr.:

Thereabouts.

bb:

Carrcassonnee, we have so much to talk about in Carrcass-1.

Carr.:

T-ford is a promoter. You are not use to that. Karl is afraid he will not like your work, but he likes you. So he keeps a distance. It’s understandable, you see. He is not comfortable with you being a syncher as well. He wishes you to be an administrator still. To be a stable hub. Like Town Hall. He does not want a gallery from you, let alone 5 (smiles). But he’ll like Carrcass-1 nonetheless. It has Tangerine Dream, it has Close Encounters. He just posted about these. He’ll like.

bb:

I would think so. I would *hope* so.

Carr.:

But even if he didn’t, it doesn’t matter. I am Maria von Trapp.

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bb:

Those are from 2006 I believe. Several years before Carrcass-1. I foresaw (!).

Carr.:

Yes. What do you have at the bottom of the roller coaster, that blue marble?

bb:

That’s Uranus (!)

Carr.:

Right. That’s the planet that’s on the edge of visibility. That is the first of me. Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Limit. Edge. Rudolph.

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bb:

Spider is Spider in 12 Oz Mouse, playing the piano and playing Booger Hayes. Old Booger Hayes. *That* is sooo weird.

Carr.:

It doesn’t come from this world. Tonal to atonal. Outside. Extraterrestrial. Booger Haze.

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/12-oz-mouse/piano-music/

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Carr.:

Thank you for coming back. So Boger Haze. This is Rutherford B. Hayes, the first president…

bb:

… to never be president, yes. He was part of a triangle. 333 perhaps divided into 3 111’s. Triumvirate. This is the hole into another dimension. Rat trap.

Carr.:

Rat trap? Those are my lines!

bb:

Sorry.

Carr.;

Apologies accepted. What times are it?

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Norubi Turtle waits patiently outside to speak next with Carrcassonnee.

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Carrcasses 00

I posted this to an audiovisual synchronicity related Facebook group today. Yes, my planned weekend vacation in Second Life is already over… which didn’t happen in the first place of course. My cabin is real enough, however.

I’m back after a shorter than expected vacation. The starfish was tough, the everpresent sun hurt my eyes, and the water tasted like air. I couldn’t sleep on my hard, virtual mattress, so I just decided to abort the thing. I think I’ll be alright in Real Life now as long as I stay indoors the remainder of the weekend and don’t look through the windows at all the white outside. And be thankful that at least I don’t live in a place named Whitehorse or Yellowknife.

I’m very excited about recent progress here in synch or sync world and I hope we can get to know each other better in the coming months and years. I personally haven’t made a decision about doing an updated podcast. I’m certainly looking forward to Dave Bytor’s upcoming one, as I enjoyed his 2007 (2008?) entry so much. I think Karl should do a new podcast — it seems he still has a lot to say and challenge us with after all. 🙂

One thing that I think would benefit all of us is to find some way to post synchronicities online in a group pool for potential sharing. Karl and I recently discussed Dave’s Being Geddy Lee, and I think that one would be a target for such a pool. I have a feeling Dave would agree.

If we don’t have access to the work that others are doing — at least *one* work 🙂 — then the group will fail, or at least be severely limited, even in comparison to the old days of tape trading. So I think this is our main challenge, and it may be up to the more technically savvy of us to figure out a solution (hint: this is *not* going to be me, har). And I don’t feel *just* samples of synchs are going to be enough.

Good work all, once more! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to all the new podcasts, with still a couple to go. I still plan to work on a group history and help save at least the transcripts of the old podcasts, which I enjoyed very much as well. Ideally, I’d like to have transcripts of the new ones, but that may be too much work for someone — we’re all limited in time and have other interests pulling on us. I think the first batch are important to retain because when we did them, we were considerably closer temporally to the excitement of the original, sharing process, which probably culminated around 2002 I suppose, or about the time of Shared Fantasia.

Group energy is very important.

Here’s a link to the the older set of podcasts mentioned about. These are all my “syncher” friends. I’ve made some new ones in the last half year, but it takes time to build trust. I’m baker b., obviously.

Interviews, Etc.

—–

So here’s my follow-up comment to the above post coming several hours later:

I haven’t read the latest comments but I’m figuring stuff out. Just got up from watching a synch and a number of things just clicked into place. Details soon hopefully. Thanks all!

So what happened?

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Characters

I obviously hadn’t logged in Baker Blinker since the summer days of Collagesity, Noru. She appeared near the hollowed out spot that use to contain the pond of Drunk Man’s Ridge. Sad to see it go, but not too much so. She didn’t linger long…

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… because it was off to the new Collagesity next to the Rubi Forest. Exciting! Entering at Town Hall she more or less directly heads over to the Temple (of what, now?) to take a gander at Carrcassonnee, recently united with Head of Perch. But upon entering she understandably felt anxious about the nearby presence of Master Shake. Carrcassonnee kindly and gently told her to come back a little later and they would speak further. “I’ve got to do something with Shake and Boxy Brown”, Carr. then thought. “But what? And what of the name of the temple now?” Carr. had much work to do in the coming days and months.

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Baker Blinker explores more of the town. “This is not a really pleasant sight,” she determines. “Hope it doesn’t stay around long.” Perhaps she was also repelled because it had the same basic colors as the dreaded Master Shake. But her attached curse is over, correct?

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She goes into the diner and stares at her pictures. At that time, in VWX Town, Rubi, she agreed that she should remain in the background and Baker Bloch keep control of the Baker Family. She has no reason to change her mind now. But through most of 2008 it was different. *She* was the head.

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After re-examining her inventory and finding nothing of extreme importance for the family, she logs out and lets Hucka Doobie have a go at Collagesity, Minoa. To be honest, I forget the place he manifested at, which I assume would be the last spot he was logged in as well, just like Baker Blinker. But he, too, soon made his way to Minoa and Town Hall.

Startlingly, he allowed me to change his appearance. Does he want to be inworld more now? We’ll see!

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Message to Facebook

Weather making me cranky. Spending the weekend in Second Life where there is none. Will not have access to Facebook at the cabin I’m staying. “See” some of you next week. Happy snowboarding!

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That’s my new cabin I set up about 250 meters from Town Hall. You can see part of Collagesity in the background. But, no, I probably won’t be spending all my time there this weekend. I’m going to try to be away from Facebook all the same.

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Carrcasses

“Quick chat tonight, Hucka D. I’ve been involved a lot of the day [on Facebook] with talk and visions about audiovisual synching. Now in this blog I often call the products of such *carrcasses*, obviously related to the name Carrcassonne. Big Carr. has assumed the mantle of town deity, and united with head husband Perch and also dispelled at least one attack on the village from the outside, maybe 2. Carrcassonnee took over rulership of the carrcasses — they started to be called that when she came into power — about 2008 I guess. I just watched what could be considered the first carrcass, or the last non-carrcass in one. It’s a 2-n-1, again. It’s complicated.”

Hucka D.:

I’ll help. You are talking about the base carrcass, or Carrcass+0 and Carrcass-0 together. This is both carrcass and non-carrcass, just like zero is both a number and not a number. It is a base. Within you have many of the characters that now also appear in Collagesity, including Master Shake, including the Plutonian and Moonite, including the giant robotic town smasher suggested as an invasion deterrent by the Plutonian and Moonite jointly. This is the Insanoflex gone totally wrong and wonky. The missing piece shaped like an “M” was inserted to start this whole mess. It stands for “Men”… “Man”. These are also the Ancients described very early in your blog-creating, the Baker Blinker Blog to be specific, the original blog… the original baker b. blog.

bb:

Yeah. We have Oglethorpe at or near the beginning, controlling Baker Bloch in some kind of ill defined master-servant relationship. That’s the second Plutonian of Aqua Teen. And then the 2nd and last Moonite also appears early. And Master Shake of course. These Ancients controlled the early section of the blogs because Carrcass -0/+0 had just been created, and represented the last and latest audiovisual synch, Hucka D. These kind of synchs control the text of the blog in an undercurrent fashion. So when the first true carrcass came along, Carrcass-1 as I called and numbered it, then *that* became the default control[ of the blog]. There’s something a bit different about Carrcass-1.

Hucka D.:

And even Boxy Brown was in Carrcass-0, to go back to that one. You have to talk to Carrcassonnee about the carrcasses. Isn’t that obvious?

bb:

Suppose so.

Hucka D.:

She’ll make it more interesting to both you and others. That’s a function of the town as well. Collagesity. The hidden power and control.

—–

bb:

Let me give another quick example, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Of course. But then: sleep.

bb:

In Noru this past August, Carrcassonnee became very large just before Carrcass-11 formed, and afterwards became small or more normal sized again. She described it as being hungry and then being satisfied: the hunger caused her to be large.

Hucka D.:

She was pushing you toward the synchronicity. She knew it was coming up. *You* knew it was coming up. It was like a car full of people pulling up for a party.

bb:

Hmm.

Carr.:

Not to worry you or nothing, but I am becoming hungry again. Just slightly but it’s growing.

bb:

Okay. Thanks for letting me know, Carrcassonnee.

Carr.:

You’re welcome. We have another visitor.

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Attack?

Checked out Medici University last night through Baker Bloch. A bedazzled Baker rests at a coffee house. Here’s the official website. Exciting possibilities!

More on the encompassing Linden Endowment for the Arts here:

http://www.lea-sl.org/

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Another Tile Temple in the background?

The next morning, I log Baker Bloch in again and, through his eyes, *immediately* see those ghost lights in the southeast part of the woods.

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But it turns out to be a tank this time, appearing to come from a sim called Nibiru, very similar to the collaged word Norubi, then (Noru + Rubi: see here for first use). Just replace the “i” with an “o” and you have a 1:1 anagram; must be related. But Baker Bloch cannot find a sim called Nibiru on the world grid. Hmmm…

But why would a Nibiru originating warrior want to invade Collagesity? Are they related somehow to Perch’s cousin “Shadow” who just came for not one but several intense visits? A very good possibility, perhaps even a probability.

I’m confident that Carrcassonnee, now wedded with Head of Perch, has enough magic power to deflect any such attack, just like she dispatched Perch’s cousin a couple of days back. And Collagesity is sort of naturally fortified from invasion, with its narrow entrances at each pathway in. Never considered that before.

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Hmmm again…

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

Astronomer Mike Brown notes that if this object’s orbit were as described, it would only have lasted in the Solar System for a million years or so before Jupiter expelled it, and that there is no way another object’s magnetic field could have such an effect on Earth.[33] Lieder’s assertions that the approach of Nibiru would cause the Earth’s rotation to stop or its axis to shift violate the laws of physics.

I just inserted a visitor counter script into the globe of the *Earth* at Town Hall. Collagesity (centered by this hall) = Earth/Earth’s Solar System?

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Mention of [Lieder]hosen also found on the same table. Purposely misspelled?

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Carrcassonnee consults with ambassadors from Pluto + Moon (jointly: Charon or Sharon, Moon of Pluto), about the visitor from Nibiru. Carr. correctly postulates that these 2 beings — one olive colored and jagged edged and the other red-violet and square-ish — are a similar two-in-one partnership like her and Head of Perch. She didn’t ask if they were likewise married to each other legally.

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Carr.’s conclusions for now: Yes, Collagesity stands for Earth and its Solar System, and the Nibiru fellow an outsider looking in, a potential invader or dissenter at least. The latter is the specific word Dr. Hi (olive being) used to describe the interloper. Carr. realizes she is the manifestation of all unseen from Earth, beginning at Uranus (remembering the “up my bottom” joke from previous posts) and extending to at least Pluto. Uranus-Neptune-Pluto, then. So after thinking about it a bit more, Carr. realizes that the 2 visitors are merely manifestations of Perch and herself once more, split off for additional knowledge. So of course they’re married in that sense!

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“Um, we, er, protect from the outside? *snort*”

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My most popular blog post from the past week:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/charon-01/

Nibiru Norubi agents checking up?

Another odd thing that happen today is when I was flying around the Rubi Forest through Baker Bloch about half of it disappeared, and the half next to Collagesity. A reboot solved the problem. Half Rubi and half No Rubi. In this manner, the tank and its driver appeared in the *Norubi* side of the sim.

—–

1:21pm:

The guys from Pluto/Moon also suggested Carrcassonnee insert a fake giant robot (animated) into the heart of Collagesity, figuring the appearance of an already invaded town might deter any actual invasion by Norubians. “Wouldn’t hurt”, they jointly added.

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Their inspiration:

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