tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50392259892784685972024-03-17T20:03:31.730-07:00Mondo ErnestoERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.comBlogger931125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-26574116523746368472024-03-14T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:00:00.137-07:00IMPRESSIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqwibH-KTLKx73-hmBsLYNsV-7GtmCyC5zQd1vFIwRdgH2WPaDBFUPfA5_Sf-rQ2hmqIW3IaTILg_UFJN0z0v5pYsXFcd2VEhzFSnwLlbXWxBQWzVVBZagmEGgZZnIqUOyWK3AExpYFbINpUTVGllyjV9hPLn-XBMcsJEf4kq_uD1fgynIAzAe1LqKFq5W" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqwibH-KTLKx73-hmBsLYNsV-7GtmCyC5zQd1vFIwRdgH2WPaDBFUPfA5_Sf-rQ2hmqIW3IaTILg_UFJN0z0v5pYsXFcd2VEhzFSnwLlbXWxBQWzVVBZagmEGgZZnIqUOyWK3AExpYFbINpUTVGllyjV9hPLn-XBMcsJEf4kq_uD1fgynIAzAe1LqKFq5W=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If Emily and I don’t go on a road trip every once and a while, we
get cranky. We just did one up to Sedona, through Jerome, and back through Prescott.
We discovered a great restaurant, a fantastic beer, and a kick-butt hot
sauce, among other things. And took a lot of pictures. </span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidTF9w002ptXciPBwgYiMfreg0075xN6_Kgc8WC-suWL8DpVwslShAJXAi-OIizyTMQ6IByBgRM_HxNi-0uyDs0yxk7t6xVj9RjnfBYQmuoL8Ps_W4BgxYsvFeSYyZG0vzAaIP_TJnQl8DSGfHLeBtUG3BgVvIdisVV53Li2puF1gXUhnRn0WYEj58nqOb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidTF9w002ptXciPBwgYiMfreg0075xN6_Kgc8WC-suWL8DpVwslShAJXAi-OIizyTMQ6IByBgRM_HxNi-0uyDs0yxk7t6xVj9RjnfBYQmuoL8Ps_W4BgxYsvFeSYyZG0vzAaIP_TJnQl8DSGfHLeBtUG3BgVvIdisVV53Li2puF1gXUhnRn0WYEj58nqOb=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I could show them in order with a blow-by-blow record of it all,
but that can get boring. It’s the mistake most people make when doing
travelogues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifJ4FQCcipyQDPZGuHYD-thfYEW2LWRa6BnzuuO_RYf6AArnwN_-_oEVaHLbGmdu3fjRKq8K4ubQwSc_RiWjNJly_MLVTSVXKqnfhsfVIqQm962IeId-O7n1nhmKSEumAF7GyPznUq0VF8hC29hNYVHijWc7k2NVocJwmaQdIA92DUPmLiqeekcKETXe2C" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifJ4FQCcipyQDPZGuHYD-thfYEW2LWRa6BnzuuO_RYf6AArnwN_-_oEVaHLbGmdu3fjRKq8K4ubQwSc_RiWjNJly_MLVTSVXKqnfhsfVIqQm962IeId-O7n1nhmKSEumAF7GyPznUq0VF8hC29hNYVHijWc7k2NVocJwmaQdIA92DUPmLiqeekcKETXe2C=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What I’m doing here is mixing it up, writing some sideways
thoughts, and putting it all together like a surrealist collage.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnN9_iWkbip4dGqu0vxKlv549vSlbF0-t7JJHzlMG1_KzWywZ7NuAWTwy7ZpMWzvckyV3cR_NmXDyEL-tav2sNavJXd3XYAgtJAK7AbZeK0nuj2E7mWwdLCRFIxWJUtIvOW092vn11Dpmoi5lL3hfuBqosvMT6OIMY1yI2mGqkfJ2dh-YOKWNVRmjBPB_2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnN9_iWkbip4dGqu0vxKlv549vSlbF0-t7JJHzlMG1_KzWywZ7NuAWTwy7ZpMWzvckyV3cR_NmXDyEL-tav2sNavJXd3XYAgtJAK7AbZeK0nuj2E7mWwdLCRFIxWJUtIvOW092vn11Dpmoi5lL3hfuBqosvMT6OIMY1yI2mGqkfJ2dh-YOKWNVRmjBPB_2=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Surrealism is a hundred years old. Journalists use the word to
describe current events. Pay attention, mon amis, Le Revoluçión has just begun.
Muhuhahahahahaha!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnQzS5Dl5PMJQf98JqfNT9L4rN5ZaeOzPPoU6ofn2aOzWyuFypsEmabbubvpOgWb4GU_WT5t-vcUauQZMy0pcDia_v0Snq1iqhDbBL1GX6tsE1PObUcK5dA2EQD6bpLZ8rxLHYFl-um1gOuoJx8sm3E9Nti0GM26QY3gleFdu1msWJioXNTPdeGbYDLWzt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnQzS5Dl5PMJQf98JqfNT9L4rN5ZaeOzPPoU6ofn2aOzWyuFypsEmabbubvpOgWb4GU_WT5t-vcUauQZMy0pcDia_v0Snq1iqhDbBL1GX6tsE1PObUcK5dA2EQD6bpLZ8rxLHYFl-um1gOuoJx8sm3E9Nti0GM26QY3gleFdu1msWJioXNTPdeGbYDLWzt=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love when a road trip is like exploring a surrealistic
landscape. Arizona is good for that. I learned that from Mexico—it makes
Salvador Dalí look like an amateur.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-HSC1ZI6A8foAaNN0nT0kY8NV4mJSWK2KummNzbCcvdcVM-UilSe6SLf_2h7kFoAXdK6nV0100QD7cooHm7M9w5y_rFe9t0gfVTjCaRIDmafRW05h_0esRrLTlsFdPdC0aPDYZ4be4sfiCLvz4KjSg9Pj5wjG0qIPG3s2HahbPOVaOYPg3hPCnCDZM9Mj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-HSC1ZI6A8foAaNN0nT0kY8NV4mJSWK2KummNzbCcvdcVM-UilSe6SLf_2h7kFoAXdK6nV0100QD7cooHm7M9w5y_rFe9t0gfVTjCaRIDmafRW05h_0esRrLTlsFdPdC0aPDYZ4be4sfiCLvz4KjSg9Pj5wjG0qIPG3s2HahbPOVaOYPg3hPCnCDZM9Mj=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It can also get stark, raving sci-fi. Futurism new and old, Pre-
and Post-Apocalypse scenes, impressions of intergalactic,
transdimensional, and time travel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOTBkZkt-mtCRI07_Et_3gEQmdDicQ1-0JqzQGv0LSAvNIFOjRgphRoLG4irEVtrX5GQ6nW5zHqycxd4Bcvrm3235BzYOCASpdGOinQ5mzxsoo1y9pyM1OL089zwaj_-tGm3wV7Z_tud2XKi3-1NQEe6NU9SLNvupBG0bJy-YCto5YsXssNxkcZ0r5R8My" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOTBkZkt-mtCRI07_Et_3gEQmdDicQ1-0JqzQGv0LSAvNIFOjRgphRoLG4irEVtrX5GQ6nW5zHqycxd4Bcvrm3235BzYOCASpdGOinQ5mzxsoo1y9pyM1OL089zwaj_-tGm3wV7Z_tud2XKi3-1NQEe6NU9SLNvupBG0bJy-YCto5YsXssNxkcZ0r5R8My=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Guess it helps to have a killer imagination.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBdPac27XdZyZG_O8d4_3_nfJ9qsB29wkytMLK0AMc_dduJ098ITPatiMSfPik-cGrVwYCC9BWoiEm5vsf6H-GuakbRLqj5yV2rMHRu7zbwcEHsZfrCGz3X-W3MQlJx4O_PZJNNEX2Uy_ToU85xmwCOpr92ae1lgpo9uvfq0BoXrmbcglvolKw5GvFMWFr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBdPac27XdZyZG_O8d4_3_nfJ9qsB29wkytMLK0AMc_dduJ098ITPatiMSfPik-cGrVwYCC9BWoiEm5vsf6H-GuakbRLqj5yV2rMHRu7zbwcEHsZfrCGz3X-W3MQlJx4O_PZJNNEX2Uy_ToU85xmwCOpr92ae1lgpo9uvfq0BoXrmbcglvolKw5GvFMWFr=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And no drugs are needed for these kind of trips.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5Tz_pvNWFmeflGXBixGN2juXBo4NsmZf0Sql3rK0pe-7eB5weCUMNFklVgu8eGJmmrGx_QQH-Cv71HgkOraqDHYsujuFdPJPW2GDxnp3yiANDgC4SqB_aGEu8COggdIkM7kAW97qpbtjvONs0_Jd2qnjBplPxUfGRBzg5UA9Q_fysWBlFXL0HuVnTSlPz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5Tz_pvNWFmeflGXBixGN2juXBo4NsmZf0Sql3rK0pe-7eB5weCUMNFklVgu8eGJmmrGx_QQH-Cv71HgkOraqDHYsujuFdPJPW2GDxnp3yiANDgC4SqB_aGEu8COggdIkM7kAW97qpbtjvONs0_Jd2qnjBplPxUfGRBzg5UA9Q_fysWBlFXL0HuVnTSlPz=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like when we end up in one of those shopping centers that keep
popping up along the highways that crisscross the wide open spaces. Install all
the usual corporate franchises and the suburban sprawl will grow around it
like a cancer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7C4Goq43vo1EO4HxZ2Qh5uEcuY2rQ-Pds5k-jrOrNHMD7oRK7Pr72fPvYJZQ79MS5WvPZpjr001AcoF8nYqJgtCKOvAXmxqdT3zNHtXfCaG-KjMTuDHjUdsI0keVg7babHlpc5EKzzybGwC0iTyesWjoCXDaUgKvzeF_ZHPQwomoQObS8LAyUsGBJrqja" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7C4Goq43vo1EO4HxZ2Qh5uEcuY2rQ-Pds5k-jrOrNHMD7oRK7Pr72fPvYJZQ79MS5WvPZpjr001AcoF8nYqJgtCKOvAXmxqdT3zNHtXfCaG-KjMTuDHjUdsI0keVg7babHlpc5EKzzybGwC0iTyesWjoCXDaUgKvzeF_ZHPQwomoQObS8LAyUsGBJrqja=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is probably how it’ll happen on Mars. Monstrous,
sharp-toothed machines will be sent in advance, chew up the real estate, and
shit out printed stores, restaurants, and parking lots. They will also build
robots, who will welcome and provide customer service to the first astronauts
who will argue over which fast-food joint should host their press conference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbIUxU0W4dEpuxRGfcPBGMDGPZ9PNzCXwwu-RweD2lQfIfroPngAAg381y7-0vSFM-UXPPGOlOwmkN8-utLgo98o02QOQETUQkhAWSfiFFdAR4BJVLcawkxsMs_-HJxnymCUJE58E1vqVN2DSBuD5lHx5md1tlwdhTK5SVxhdwKyMxK5HE-xSNnVKODteb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbIUxU0W4dEpuxRGfcPBGMDGPZ9PNzCXwwu-RweD2lQfIfroPngAAg381y7-0vSFM-UXPPGOlOwmkN8-utLgo98o02QOQETUQkhAWSfiFFdAR4BJVLcawkxsMs_-HJxnymCUJE58E1vqVN2DSBuD5lHx5md1tlwdhTK5SVxhdwKyMxK5HE-xSNnVKODteb=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />How long before the robots will look at the humans, and ask, “What
do we need them for?”</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyTc1oAn_wXdpsYy5SKFG7iS3_UK7_wQgwPiwT-NqSzGzOZOxA7zG-bzf2GfdzKE37I7tMLm_kFq1NS8T_5jdpdHR3S1BymRHwdn-A1VEDiAT5f-aXby7GtQxFhOptiw3RZO3UiCckWKGrWvg_AJYRsPfBc_waVoubuh9Hgfqlsa4q9b8AD1JZAtASy4Uj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyTc1oAn_wXdpsYy5SKFG7iS3_UK7_wQgwPiwT-NqSzGzOZOxA7zG-bzf2GfdzKE37I7tMLm_kFq1NS8T_5jdpdHR3S1BymRHwdn-A1VEDiAT5f-aXby7GtQxFhOptiw3RZO3UiCckWKGrWvg_AJYRsPfBc_waVoubuh9Hgfqlsa4q9b8AD1JZAtASy4Uj=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Within a generation, young “natives” will be dying of boredom,
lusting after something to consume that will make them feel alive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL1xLVzbvLB4vAVAi9qJcZ0oxnnG9KpCiftcWnt2so2Aqqo55UrkLdxHGn18um0dhduYj2h7wybNTS9umSQ0ftRCOl3shX3UzBFNeL_Hj7MIws4RU_hAxaKA3nROPNHwJ2ehkT9vNfs2eG0F50PV3ArbMuNVMpdZawWDLxPNOQAQAOSgUOKW_h4GnGyfby" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL1xLVzbvLB4vAVAi9qJcZ0oxnnG9KpCiftcWnt2so2Aqqo55UrkLdxHGn18um0dhduYj2h7wybNTS9umSQ0ftRCOl3shX3UzBFNeL_Hj7MIws4RU_hAxaKA3nROPNHwJ2ehkT9vNfs2eG0F50PV3ArbMuNVMpdZawWDLxPNOQAQAOSgUOKW_h4GnGyfby=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, others will be going on cosmic road trips, keeping
their eyes out for the weird.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif2Z-nsXw-M5zkfOyoshSIdKNPu1czCINJMlD3xuWvjyi3rAzosqjbGFtpbNOmMFEM0eFoN7eFZCeDR1ZdCagOlp28lJvc_2I-5r_vkQ08Ic__SiH72DrPDk62QjPyIHEbToovsV3b92xXtond19E3tO2Rmk_DrD0JwU4-Ml0bGbd1ciAsq71lorYsD_sX" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif2Z-nsXw-M5zkfOyoshSIdKNPu1czCINJMlD3xuWvjyi3rAzosqjbGFtpbNOmMFEM0eFoN7eFZCeDR1ZdCagOlp28lJvc_2I-5r_vkQ08Ic__SiH72DrPDk62QjPyIHEbToovsV3b92xXtond19E3tO2Rmk_DrD0JwU4-Ml0bGbd1ciAsq71lorYsD_sX=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><p></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-34821993243191137182024-03-07T23:00:00.000-08:002024-03-07T23:00:00.138-08:00CHICANONAUTICA SENDS DISPATCHES FROM ARTSY-FARTSY COWBOY LAND<p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-LWjLQCwSE-dCh8jfmBSwSLsaQ26OKr1yEHz6xGbJ-7ULCcsT5AykNRN9rQ-9QrOyu9zPU06ZBXAOEyng8Y3TnhcvqI6AWoizEmHOBoQ4MvT5bUlLh3Mo3L12KOv2Eggsypxq-DWxXqFyANnWXzBn1KRILFtGrSFHIdr7JlW0yM3DKsWPmOzCoBqvheL/s360/Calacanaut.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="360" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-LWjLQCwSE-dCh8jfmBSwSLsaQ26OKr1yEHz6xGbJ-7ULCcsT5AykNRN9rQ-9QrOyu9zPU06ZBXAOEyng8Y3TnhcvqI6AWoizEmHOBoQ4MvT5bUlLh3Mo3L12KOv2Eggsypxq-DWxXqFyANnWXzBn1KRILFtGrSFHIdr7JlW0yM3DKsWPmOzCoBqvheL/s320/Calacanaut.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/2024/03/chicanonautica-dispatches-from-artsy.html" target="_blank">Chicanonautica</a> reports from Sedona
and Prescott, over at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Post-New Age shop-a-rama:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Southwestern Art Deco
splendor:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Political theater:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Is it the medium or the message?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-91155519550535894172024-02-28T23:00:00.000-08:002024-02-28T23:00:00.137-08:00GUERRILLA MURAL REVIEWS AND REACTIONS <span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix8WMupo6vQyrtQlJg2Qyf4qsBJJR4Omijpzrm3AKBXR2hdOUKwJASF3TahMICESB_a287sPjJkBTBNx5FtQIIxOEh0l8HlzIJ4DP7eiGZoAHqyoB8Jhz1QbeCWTY7WbQZOT3kBPkLSfEGXuoCEXHv_jgTUJPj_tcDMgScqC8S_DoBQ19PX1202L2gVclG" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix8WMupo6vQyrtQlJg2Qyf4qsBJJR4Omijpzrm3AKBXR2hdOUKwJASF3TahMICESB_a287sPjJkBTBNx5FtQIIxOEh0l8HlzIJ4DP7eiGZoAHqyoB8Jhz1QbeCWTY7WbQZOT3kBPkLSfEGXuoCEXHv_jgTUJPj_tcDMgScqC8S_DoBQ19PX1202L2gVclG=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ever since Tor failed to send out review copies of <b>High Aztech </b>for
mysterious reasons, I get anxious about reviews.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeing reviews, like holding a copy of a book in your hands, is
more solid proof that, yes, this chingadera actually has been published. I’m a
“real” writer, not some loser scribbling away for my own deranged amusement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So far, there has only been one review of <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/GUERRILLA-MURAL-SIRENS-SONG-Science-ebook/dp/B0CLKZCNHM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LL3OZK1XILWI&keywords=guerrilla+mural+of+a+siren%27s+song+kindle&qid=1707939589&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C152&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song: 15 Gonzo Science Fiction Stories</a></b>, on Amazon, and it’s a good
one:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ernest Hogan is one of the best fiction writers you've probably
never read; which is tragic, since you inevitably need more of what he has,
guaranteed.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is one of the best single author short story collections in
the past decade.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There's cyberpunk, werewolves, Aztec gods, culture recomboid
nuttiness, and just plain wild flights of imagination.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Non-stop fun, not a boring story in the collection.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cheap at twice the price; Ernest makes fiction fun again!</span></i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Paulie</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My favorite kind of review, a string of quotable sentences. You’d
be surprised how academics can write an entire paper, and not come up with one
phrase that I can exploit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just one review, and two ratings on Amazon, and one rating on
Goodreads. I need more. . .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yeah, I understand that it takes time for professional reviewers
to get around to something, but reactions are important to me. Writing isn’t
alive until it’s touched someone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank Tezcatlipoca for the social media. Just while I start
feeling down, I get feedback.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here are some from Facebook:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like a Madhatter’s guided trip thru a kaleidoscope!</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - Laura Crawford</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Congratulations to Ernest Hogan on his new collection of 15 gonzo
science fiction stories, <b>Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song</b>. And I would be
remiss not to mention the first edition of his novel, <b>Smoking Mirror Blues</b>, is
<a href="https://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/hogan_smokingmirror.html" target="_blank">still available</a> through Wordcraft of Oregon. Read him and find much delight.</span></i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- David Memmott </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjSSTZQrUP1I_Dwy6uwE5fQZ96MvYHJxYbrmrRFw90iddYBwVAznXusimRnUwgRs-1RBmizmlTtn8Z9o4cM613vwL-Ohr0xKpY10xWVsJSspCvQ701NLYUQ2hXGDToRLfRsCLNNkjjsaFCZnXHh339k0FHQVUus-FRwXqcFPp5QRYwCOH5mp7ia1eFnDAb" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="692" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjSSTZQrUP1I_Dwy6uwE5fQZ96MvYHJxYbrmrRFw90iddYBwVAznXusimRnUwgRs-1RBmizmlTtn8Z9o4cM613vwL-Ohr0xKpY10xWVsJSspCvQ701NLYUQ2hXGDToRLfRsCLNNkjjsaFCZnXHh339k0FHQVUus-FRwXqcFPp5QRYwCOH5mp7ia1eFnDAb=w253-h400" width="253" /></a></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I ordered this 3 days ago. Two days ago it was created in Monee IL
and shipped, and it arrived today. Great stuff!</span></i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Chris DeVito</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In case you were unaware, <b>Guerrilla Mural of A Siren Song</b> is on
the BSFA Award longlist for Best Collection.</span></i><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just bought it so I can read it before I make my nominations.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I used the title story, "Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's
Song," in my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Contact-Marty-Halpern/dp/1597802816" target="_blank"><b>Alien Contact</b> </a>anthology, which was published by Night
Shade Books in 2011.</span></i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Marty Halpern </span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht7_vWxcOiALy3a_9Ac0xZX4uUAqaIbrGlfh4Xz1XoZoHodaHE1MvC7mqMGNy6M6fbPPfCJYpH9dDbAaO_iLiXDKs27Bt-ElMv2E7i_oD1zQjvFWL8bs4Iv1bf4F-VHNiqzNQxx8r3M7Tn15r2jKYKpdW8ArST8gLLp0BZVz5RSmJy_BxZ5dMBZoQGFmU4" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht7_vWxcOiALy3a_9Ac0xZX4uUAqaIbrGlfh4Xz1XoZoHodaHE1MvC7mqMGNy6M6fbPPfCJYpH9dDbAaO_iLiXDKs27Bt-ElMv2E7i_oD1zQjvFWL8bs4Iv1bf4F-VHNiqzNQxx8r3M7Tn15r2jKYKpdW8ArST8gLLp0BZVz5RSmJy_BxZ5dMBZoQGFmU4=w267-h400" width="267" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love it! Fun, offbeat tales from a Mexican future. The old Gods
are made new, the old haters find new tricks, and the vatos always find a path
forward. Beautiful lush prose and crazy diversity in the storylines and
characters. Thank you for enlightening and entertaining me. Your intros offer a
revealing look into your twisted mind and in themselves are worth the price of
the book.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - Tom Banger</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's apparently Ernest Hogan day at the US Latinx Science Fiction
Collection, and why not? His collection arrived among new books bought for
archiving. It's been longlisted for Best Collection by the British Science
Fiction Association and the stories I already know here are excellent--you
should get your hands on it! I was also responding to edits on a chapter I
wrote for Los Angeles: A Literary History, forthcoming from Cambridge
University Press, on Science Fiction in SoCal. I was happy to point to native
son Hogan’s achievements--his novel Cortez on Jupiter (1990) is the first US
Latinx sf novel from a major genre press--beside local sf luminaries from the
LA Sprawl like Octavia Butler and Ray Bradbury. I'll be teaching his funny and
profound "Chicanonautica Manifesto" next week in my Afro- and
Latinxfuturisms course this term. And I know a student will pick this book for
an assigned end of term video review! I advise you to check this book out!</span></i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></span>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-32173268161687429532024-02-22T23:00:00.000-08:002024-02-22T23:00:00.131-08:00CHICANONAUTICA ZOOMS INTO THE MEX FILES<p><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnveHcy-st0BszjJ5b3oGWiUHskf5bMgvrGE2s7H8OxcNv17UY1_sNnj7TFAdfOOyC7K57Ocp3a2MY55BWNSk-kpTWrMobXY0to0BfXLEaT79ML9Maqyycz27cVUIlCOJdyuqMrHD7qwAEMPEsC6azzWtL17S9vK4jVPyKCmSFFFYuHBxhk5AtCbQ0J6KD/s360/Calacanaut.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="360" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnveHcy-st0BszjJ5b3oGWiUHskf5bMgvrGE2s7H8OxcNv17UY1_sNnj7TFAdfOOyC7K57Ocp3a2MY55BWNSk-kpTWrMobXY0to0BfXLEaT79ML9Maqyycz27cVUIlCOJdyuqMrHD7qwAEMPEsC6azzWtL17S9vK4jVPyKCmSFFFYuHBxhk5AtCbQ0J6KD/s320/Calacanaut.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
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about me on Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files, at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-77922397312913730022024-02-14T23:00:00.000-08:002024-02-15T06:20:45.591-08:00GONZO AND ME<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">Some people feel sorry, that I must have been traumatized. No, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words . . . I eat them with every meal, chew them up an spit them out in new, distorted forms, all over the landscape. I survived by cultivating a nasty attitude.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZzdh3b8j5iM94x3oRRZgYGLZOS2jw97q6Wj6I9zXKDCJKMXy9KglVhqFgTo9IyJAqTKlJ0HA23S6atinNk8esPmpALGkPhO5NNazc972194MLvGS8MSIIlaFOFQxtweKzpVecSrPRBH-MxkmyGmOiOGoRxNUB4RaP1twbzec-SdzNWC0wP_C2h-Qb0ztj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZzdh3b8j5iM94x3oRRZgYGLZOS2jw97q6Wj6I9zXKDCJKMXy9KglVhqFgTo9IyJAqTKlJ0HA23S6atinNk8esPmpALGkPhO5NNazc972194MLvGS8MSIIlaFOFQxtweKzpVecSrPRBH-MxkmyGmOiOGoRxNUB4RaP1twbzec-SdzNWC0wP_C2h-Qb0ztj=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">And I laugh at the concept of political correctness.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">So, I don’t care what people call me. Those poor bastards, their limited knowledge and experience hasn’t prepared them for encountering a creature like me. Their vocabularies fail them, so they reach for the something they know, that doesn’t fit, but will make a handy placeholder for now . . .</span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">I often let them live with their misconceptions. It gives me the power to, when the time is right, give them a taste of my reality, and blow their minds.</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"> I also don’t care that I’m known as a cyberpunk, even though I am not now, nor have I ever been a card-carrying cyberpunk. It gives a rough idea of what I write and gets attention. Once the conversation is started, we can go on from there.</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeZLZp9wDR0tckM9_ydsZv8XkWmDVDBsUzny4zhfI80g_FJpSy1RqtI47Mt-6rVolhPzSO7I08FUYzDkNU9Q1hjVc6X9EBIj4PHNzJOwvy7uIz7ZTWzQQL5CT4I3pSzv2seNOSxiUC_TLHFMXXv37SMth_kr28iEIhuihRGy1Ua_FSwtFurS0_u5lwj6Pj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeZLZp9wDR0tckM9_ydsZv8XkWmDVDBsUzny4zhfI80g_FJpSy1RqtI47Mt-6rVolhPzSO7I08FUYzDkNU9Q1hjVc6X9EBIj4PHNzJOwvy7uIz7ZTWzQQL5CT4I3pSzv2seNOSxiUC_TLHFMXXv37SMth_kr28iEIhuihRGy1Ua_FSwtFurS0_u5lwj6Pj=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">I was writing things that could be considered gonzo, long before I
discovered Hunter S.Thompson. I experimented with creative nonfiction in my
notebooks (these days they would be called journals, but I find the word used
that way a tad pretentious), inspired by Norman Mailer’s </span><span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Of a Fire on the Moon </span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">when it was serialized in </span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Life</span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Harlan Ellison’s </span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Glass Teat</span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> as it appeared in the </span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Los Angeles Free Press</span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">When I finally got around to reading </span><span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, I had been at it for years.</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">No wonder academics keep seeing me as a successor to Oscar Zeta Acosta.</span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">Eventually, I started using gonzo style and techniques—observing and taking notes on the real world, then reconstructing them into something quite different from straight reportage—in my fiction. It manages to let some truths become self-evident that would have otherwise been missed. It’s also a special kind of vicious fun.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I called my early online serial </span><span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.mondoernesto.com/2014/04/brainpan-fallout-introduction.html" target="_blank">Brainpan Fallout</a></span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> a cybergonzo thriller in my own flyers.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">Another more recent, deliberate experiment in gonzo science fiction
appears in </span><span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/GUERRILLA-MURAL-SIRENS-SONG-SCIENCE/dp/B0CN3KBXC2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1707076295&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Guerrilla Mural of a Siren’s Song</a></span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">: “Uno! Dos! . . . One-Two! Tres! Cuatro!” It’s probably the most gonzo thing I’ve written—so far.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">So, yeah, I can be Señor Gonzo Sci-Fi, and teach my <a href="https://www.mexicanos2070.com/spring-2024-palabras-del-pueblo" target="_blank">online “Gonzo Science Fiction, Chicano Style” class</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">The only problem is some people are going to think I’m on drugs, but then if it sells more books . . .</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJdnxUR9LM0lOx7Jb3rhJIUQeE7e718LYjMUuVGMSWem5vkZYOhsbKMFj1wNcYKKH6_T6W75fXz1TZmKgizmitoAeB3ji_wHHmZLi8dUNRvZlZa-nU-zTCT2AC9LHPkmFc_VUJqe5CYPo0GfnbZoRu16VTwF_Ehfe3c07c3iIKd66dMLHwCUl3KDCalHfl" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1427" data-original-width="1179" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJdnxUR9LM0lOx7Jb3rhJIUQeE7e718LYjMUuVGMSWem5vkZYOhsbKMFj1wNcYKKH6_T6W75fXz1TZmKgizmitoAeB3ji_wHHmZLi8dUNRvZlZa-nU-zTCT2AC9LHPkmFc_VUJqe5CYPo0GfnbZoRu16VTwF_Ehfe3c07c3iIKd66dMLHwCUl3KDCalHfl=w330-h400" width="330" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What? My new book, <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/GUERRILLA-MURAL-SIRENS-SONG-Science-ebook/dp/B0CLKZCNHM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706122979&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Guerrilla Mural of a Siren’s Song: 15 Gonzo
Science Fiction Stories</a> </b>is not only out, but on the long list for <a href="https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist?fbclid=IwAR3lAOV4-R3RqZsi3W8Jgh-6hzNtqMMLesT1xPWRbQtSvHvT2ZrTvGE2-aA" target="_blank">British Science Fiction Association award</a> for Best Collection. I do have friends and fans in the United
Kingdom but wasn’t expecting this.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there was a bump in sales—which is the important thing—and
something else to use and go around self-promoting with extreme prejudice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking of which, I was on <a href="https://lumpenradio.com/?shows=mex-files" target="_blank">Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s radio show <b>Mex
Files</b></a>. I read the beginning of the story, “Uno! Dos! One-Two! Tres! Cuatro”
which actually is an experiment in gonzo science fiction. It will be available
as a podcast soon. Stay tuned for details.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking of gonzo, I will be teaching an online “Gonzo Science
Fiction, Chicano Style” class for the <b><a href="https://lumpenradio.com/?shows=mex-files" target="_blank">Spring 2024 Palabras del Pueblo workshop</a></b>, Somos
en escritos’ way of encouraging writers in the Latinoid Continuum to go
stark, raving sci-fi across our troubled planet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also picked the winners in the <b><a href="https://www.somosenescrito.com/news-anuncios?fbclid=IwAR3z2wq4jX_WKGYmkNfZLJdzDjbBOdyH8f0t1to-ccHenpHQ6GH3QP6AAgM" target="_blank">Somos en escrito Extra Fiction Contest</a></b>. Once again, it was a close race. All of the finalists deserve
recognition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, I’m trying to get help peddling my new novel, <b><a href="http://www.mondoernesto.com/2019/07/zyx-tweaked.html" target="_blank">Zyx; Or, Bring Me the Brain of Victor Theremin</a></b>, to a big time publisher. I have
these mad dreams of making money and retiring from my day job and devoting more
time to writing all these book and stories that are festering away in my
twisted brain . . .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, people keep getting back to me about pending projects.
This will be a busy, crazy year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To be continued . . .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UPDATE: The <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/lumpenradio/g%C3%B3mez-pe%C3%B1as-mex-files-01-17-2024-chicano-latino-futurismo-the-other-sci-fi/?fbclid=IwAR2qvF2OkhltvkOPN-6phBG1xSPSTfflWwWRjYc7rfmqIo3EQBcS0I2KQRI" target="_blank">Mex Files episode podcast</a> is available! <br /></span></p>
ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-9998902474027800722024-01-25T23:00:00.000-08:002024-01-26T16:54:47.231-08:00CHICANONAUTICA GOES HOME THROUGH PLANET NEVADA<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIgGVH9PaXbyecRNxe0zZtBcGx_aYSYPMiUyUF0UpFDSK0GFoPwLcNzPLmIEY1P_wCV6uaaMGCqtV8Rkds7wE3d2b8E_t367SuYrhr3I29MNcudTYk3hHhHyxtx3c5DStMHkZCKb4zD_043evHbXL7g7P0iXC1mki07rATj5pfyO-6A5D-HJlExAmOnPU/s360/Calacanaut.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="360" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIgGVH9PaXbyecRNxe0zZtBcGx_aYSYPMiUyUF0UpFDSK0GFoPwLcNzPLmIEY1P_wCV6uaaMGCqtV8Rkds7wE3d2b8E_t367SuYrhr3I29MNcudTYk3hHhHyxtx3c5DStMHkZCKb4zD_043evHbXL7g7P0iXC1mki07rATj5pfyO-6A5D-HJlExAmOnPU/s320/Calacanaut.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">The
last leg of an epic road trip in <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/2024/01/chicanonautica-homeward-through-planet.html" target="_blank">Chicanonautica</a>, over at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Back
through Planet Nevada:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p>
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<h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h1><h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;">Cattle country:</span></h1><h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h1>
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<h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;">The Valley of Fire:</span></h1><h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h1><h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"></span></h1><h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EtgThF47cPM" width="320" youtube-src-id="EtgThF47cPM"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></h1>
<h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;">And there are plastic skeletons:</span></h1><h1><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h1>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-27182891001933052382024-01-17T23:00:00.000-08:002024-01-17T23:00:00.132-08:00UNDER THE RAINBOW AND SILLY INTERSECTIONS<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuOJI0s17rVWdq3d13yt9KBwbX1JL3VhCOLYnVwKTUSfE4prlSmgLuAOl6B6Yelrlp_Z2ZhFLt9vYhOvNdolfUG24pUsJ2SpnD30rjEH7r34z15wmLy1gib6ZcLzSqBbd0heBJci1C99O_7dk_oZjq6FjtD0THIuh5fVpm-fbYRC4jKRI_-HGOneBxykxS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuOJI0s17rVWdq3d13yt9KBwbX1JL3VhCOLYnVwKTUSfE4prlSmgLuAOl6B6Yelrlp_Z2ZhFLt9vYhOvNdolfUG24pUsJ2SpnD30rjEH7r34z15wmLy1gib6ZcLzSqBbd0heBJci1C99O_7dk_oZjq6FjtD0THIuh5fVpm-fbYRC4jKRI_-HGOneBxykxS=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">At Wallowa Lake, in Oregon, while taking pictures, we saw a rainbow.</span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIeh6QVX1lIBmTFaXFd_cEclVSLosu25LkLvInTMYYzdruuTr4RP1ZoG1QJlD-mmnJ0CtWO_jMbPZNNdSYtp5ZpA5hco-IuhoA-GG46Xt2lozCnyOeJZ3gnqc8U_5I-UpC0HNSQbhTmTW9-NfTrbubGtzm-S3PZ02guL8u3EX1axGMcUjBO-z3SyiScQuh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIeh6QVX1lIBmTFaXFd_cEclVSLosu25LkLvInTMYYzdruuTr4RP1ZoG1QJlD-mmnJ0CtWO_jMbPZNNdSYtp5ZpA5hco-IuhoA-GG46Xt2lozCnyOeJZ3gnqc8U_5I-UpC0HNSQbhTmTW9-NfTrbubGtzm-S3PZ02guL8u3EX1axGMcUjBO-z3SyiScQuh=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Then Emily saw lightning.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2Dnb0f4v5_4vxqXiqXUXdUdBsq6IpLpzAbjBP829RnsSMhv29rLRvZp-In0EU33h9tlqjiZX8E79O5Df_QeVCHKU-IMJboXa73JwM2ahB4j1uA8BwGJGjtIa7-6bIIFhBTPCJe7EYcCr1mkCGwOjQFmGhEHomKRw0AXfloVvCplqFRSn0wEK8vTr9vFfn" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2Dnb0f4v5_4vxqXiqXUXdUdBsq6IpLpzAbjBP829RnsSMhv29rLRvZp-In0EU33h9tlqjiZX8E79O5Df_QeVCHKU-IMJboXa73JwM2ahB4j1uA8BwGJGjtIa7-6bIIFhBTPCJe7EYcCr1mkCGwOjQFmGhEHomKRw0AXfloVvCplqFRSn0wEK8vTr9vFfn=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Then thunder—that I could feel—rolled all the way across the gray, overcast sky. We got out of there just in time, as it started to rain—gentle at first, then it pounded, soaking the mountain landscape.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Next stop was Hell’s Canyon. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Mossy trees and mountain bones sticking out at the top of the world.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8JoBaIADp6q6fWZSIkrJT3V8jxQW20Y0e95c16yK0TG6tpdoGrFkPmJHjkT4SNyG-0CJo5Y8slV_vysFr9yQs-7Lhgy5q_t1KZuiCFd-eKYAbh4V6ikHeteCOpQ0107CTlGcVDlJHlWOKO5tFFqq3M_krSBYSql3jDj-QRavAg_BdbBokXnE1H13rqC5p" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8JoBaIADp6q6fWZSIkrJT3V8jxQW20Y0e95c16yK0TG6tpdoGrFkPmJHjkT4SNyG-0CJo5Y8slV_vysFr9yQs-7Lhgy5q_t1KZuiCFd-eKYAbh4V6ikHeteCOpQ0107CTlGcVDlJHlWOKO5tFFqq3M_krSBYSql3jDj-QRavAg_BdbBokXnE1H13rqC5p=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">There was another rainbow.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzt1bCkdj2qXo6dQly4V_2hgrliald1rjjGnaG3pDIW37dy1-ZRJckno4Cgii5Hc5ObvJ1D6pz1rlyHVGcZ1NoIk8ylBPZGAw7W69tRWwazC4FDUzlIVskb5ojtZs1gutJg6ECgyG2HlT7m4x8ZLLsEFWU5608qLzSkFrt-D1i4nKI7h56hJebTgpeZUCO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzt1bCkdj2qXo6dQly4V_2hgrliald1rjjGnaG3pDIW37dy1-ZRJckno4Cgii5Hc5ObvJ1D6pz1rlyHVGcZ1NoIk8ylBPZGAw7W69tRWwazC4FDUzlIVskb5ojtZs1gutJg6ECgyG2HlT7m4x8ZLLsEFWU5608qLzSkFrt-D1i4nKI7h56hJebTgpeZUCO=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">That kind of day, and more Halloween yard art. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Yeah, art. Not just decorations.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Who knows about what looked like a dead body in a black garbage bag hanging from a tree . . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">After some confusion on the roads that twisted through the
mountains, it got dark and the half-moon rose. It lit our way as we crossed the
bridge over the Snake River into Idaho.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">That night I dreamed that I was traveling on a colonized Mars. It was a lot like the 21st century Wild West. The view out the window could have been from my dream, or one of my stories. What planet was this?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The next morning, it was still dark at 7:12 AM. What time zone was this?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was another Super 8, this time in Idaho.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was decked out for Halloween.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj66D8cl8UOnPBP5jA1PKH4BNmjdnFBUrM5RaEylpRBt7EHYovVrinhEV0bfQGeNn5VrShzRweNEqr_Z8dZ31_C963VeUqG7q4DG8exNKUmxJaNg0A7e2726T7srzKHzdNRg3DMxtV7JNmWoGoEJRfyB_l5F0guxsK7qtWL46viFgUrD4QQUhtIC7gyJMiy" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj66D8cl8UOnPBP5jA1PKH4BNmjdnFBUrM5RaEylpRBt7EHYovVrinhEV0bfQGeNn5VrShzRweNEqr_Z8dZ31_C963VeUqG7q4DG8exNKUmxJaNg0A7e2726T7srzKHzdNRg3DMxtV7JNmWoGoEJRfyB_l5F0guxsK7qtWL46viFgUrD4QQUhtIC7gyJMiy=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">An ornament–or maybe it was an offering–that resembled a dead child tied up in a bloody sack hung by the door . . . </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV4qkm9fCyrpjochsSunpTFKbdWTVp-Du9CfBysbf7cjaQGW3X4jYJWSOcCgc12mHMvB1apOKGL5LS-HOZFRtx71QZL7GyMe8eRff1rzh_aacETzDaAtMD7Nwp3umoT9iIG23w0CJSQGyIpca1Qds5usdv5ARNS4Yajn5hDd-PVhTPZrFsB22bOuFobELr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV4qkm9fCyrpjochsSunpTFKbdWTVp-Du9CfBysbf7cjaQGW3X4jYJWSOcCgc12mHMvB1apOKGL5LS-HOZFRtx71QZL7GyMe8eRff1rzh_aacETzDaAtMD7Nwp3umoT9iIG23w0CJSQGyIpca1Qds5usdv5ARNS4Yajn5hDd-PVhTPZrFsB22bOuFobELr" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Plastic skeletons and other store-bought items were all over. Even a lone calavera in the rafters.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQcgXr8Vz-WE6sFqYrhiJqG7X34LLauenHc_56TZw30RKK8M5ol7mZZvNqUQTbAUp6hX-tKU9FmVlqHC3Sq0afjt44fCWu9GcWlJ0ncdnBvDqP0qFRoXKojoKMwpZNMz4KK9l__I4GTwdcZdQqvJmoG7iAKIvR_J43RoGhL1LJzCxS9FVPqVM-zOc9gXui" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQcgXr8Vz-WE6sFqYrhiJqG7X34LLauenHc_56TZw30RKK8M5ol7mZZvNqUQTbAUp6hX-tKU9FmVlqHC3Sq0afjt44fCWu9GcWlJ0ncdnBvDqP0qFRoXKojoKMwpZNMz4KK9l__I4GTwdcZdQqvJmoG7iAKIvR_J43RoGhL1LJzCxS9FVPqVM-zOc9gXui=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">One dummy in skeleton pajamas sat on a swing. I had no head. I took a picture of it. A woman appeared with a head and attached it. I told her that I thought it looked better without the head. She avoided eye contact and pretended she didn’t see me.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">And they had soy milk in the breakfast room.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Cascade, Idaho, had murals celebrating the logging industry at a bar,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi36zFcX-fAkUe8hXBYUExSOQTtz-o_kNeg9tplhvYsx12VBOLwhoHTeKAXOz_m2NlaqRhE0-ki6f92evZ1LSf9nkKbs1guFkuolcrlpTISWVgNitsFlQkh57Vsdgh_N8Oo8KmhbNl2AEw0q_cuYN2pY-gqCWC5sT68X9z4I9vtAHY-z3vIzZDR7G70eC1a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi36zFcX-fAkUe8hXBYUExSOQTtz-o_kNeg9tplhvYsx12VBOLwhoHTeKAXOz_m2NlaqRhE0-ki6f92evZ1LSf9nkKbs1guFkuolcrlpTISWVgNitsFlQkh57Vsdgh_N8Oo8KmhbNl2AEw0q_cuYN2pY-gqCWC5sT68X9z4I9vtAHY-z3vIzZDR7G70eC1a=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">a rock and roll scarecrow,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ5CJ5Yk7es6PUEx_3NmcLPLF7-sxgEDge-SkyhtXQKZUGHCz7r642CnLp-u3Ih01xnHwbBfdpb_Uymibv89tEVkMjN1tIEksvEzJjB17EDAdgVPC1e6MfcJrgqAjX6S5hawDUtm2ByvK6WNVwCEZJX8QDPnpkDmW86QycYyHJJLjHBhkTdMnooZKqKLvi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ5CJ5Yk7es6PUEx_3NmcLPLF7-sxgEDge-SkyhtXQKZUGHCz7r642CnLp-u3Ih01xnHwbBfdpb_Uymibv89tEVkMjN1tIEksvEzJjB17EDAdgVPC1e6MfcJrgqAjX6S5hawDUtm2ByvK6WNVwCEZJX8QDPnpkDmW86QycYyHJJLjHBhkTdMnooZKqKLvi=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">a wonderful neon hotel sign that blazed in broad daylight,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">and a quaint sign for a park.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">For some reason, a truck stop past Boise had an impressive variety of decorative skulls. Maybe a Halloween thing, but there were so many of them. Was there some arcane reason the truckers needed such accouterments in these parts? Maybe to appease a local deity . . . Could be that the occasional bagged dead adult or child wasn’t enough . . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2QWbzFyXNX_To-RL2cC1G83gXFvcAI9jvrWnoiy9b_PUf4_oipeEdcffX7UzJHKVenhe0TDQ4DtEQsgSpH3c2hra9cA8m7FYcQ5cTLVAZe6ePrA04OwHafAkMxWpEXD46d84ik5-26RFOVdTew0TlCKUqvonZV_RvBkqmH0BN4P8wkLl4XqVGyVGU7PdW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2QWbzFyXNX_To-RL2cC1G83gXFvcAI9jvrWnoiy9b_PUf4_oipeEdcffX7UzJHKVenhe0TDQ4DtEQsgSpH3c2hra9cA8m7FYcQ5cTLVAZe6ePrA04OwHafAkMxWpEXD46d84ik5-26RFOVdTew0TlCKUqvonZV_RvBkqmH0BN4P8wkLl4XqVGyVGU7PdW=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Further along Highway 20 the classic wide-open spaces</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXgA-vcZioqfc8elbqEYdA53BMYH13TVLymbB1CgOaixJpT8m9lozhBHFq1jIX9Lkpah2tAS_37qiD670Y4wUEwT7LPrRYZYVktb9nNN14D_uBEWmhCN9vYStIAfisw7_PB-DYXU-_4_uD5Su3G_d4IO96Ta33xKLS6TaLuHbav3KhfaG33eaZhV-jVfw_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXgA-vcZioqfc8elbqEYdA53BMYH13TVLymbB1CgOaixJpT8m9lozhBHFq1jIX9Lkpah2tAS_37qiD670Y4wUEwT7LPrRYZYVktb9nNN14D_uBEWmhCN9vYStIAfisw7_PB-DYXU-_4_uD5Su3G_d4IO96Ta33xKLS6TaLuHbav3KhfaG33eaZhV-jVfw_=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">were accessorized with relics and ruins—some with graffiti—</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">abandoned cars,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">ovens, and washing machines that gave it a post-apocalyptic feel.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">One spectacular tableau was fenced off with a gate, but there was no lock, just a sign asking to close the gate, so’s not to let the livestock out. We didn’t see any livestock.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPFegNA_rXjvJjBjoU231ADNBG9qdWNoIhzzIg6Jtm0yB7O537r1Aqc3YiFDIJIq7gRr7i4xC-aD0xKtuDKE5eYcT9hki-W8vG6IvESeQwW2fmFOxncSxF9ZDywZ4OBnXyiQ2H29hufjh0SU7IALTtiKRLKlk8AUrTwo8phaWVN7I2nM2OaV8tWc008cuz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPFegNA_rXjvJjBjoU231ADNBG9qdWNoIhzzIg6Jtm0yB7O537r1Aqc3YiFDIJIq7gRr7i4xC-aD0xKtuDKE5eYcT9hki-W8vG6IvESeQwW2fmFOxncSxF9ZDywZ4OBnXyiQ2H29hufjh0SU7IALTtiKRLKlk8AUrTwo8phaWVN7I2nM2OaV8tWc008cuz=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">We rode the edge of a storm for a while. When it caught us, we stopped and ran out into the rain to get some shots of more rusty mechanical monsters.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmhQQZgr0VmlXZQ2838_kHEY_a9nmLXgYVPSZ45hUgmI4YyhWUpWrVctyLH9fuCrOGvFCclJhGdBiuXJjsW0jicUmeNbX-qz3ZzJT8vP9IYbvl1_1UfQmSQNIcQOBIyHldGi6EGZuCb6Xls_hD42NdRO1uk6Y-cHb3LtGKxHUv56ZkZPHP4n4qO1pFx2SS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmhQQZgr0VmlXZQ2838_kHEY_a9nmLXgYVPSZ45hUgmI4YyhWUpWrVctyLH9fuCrOGvFCclJhGdBiuXJjsW0jicUmeNbX-qz3ZzJT8vP9IYbvl1_1UfQmSQNIcQOBIyHldGi6EGZuCb6Xls_hD42NdRO1uk6Y-cHb3LtGKxHUv56ZkZPHP4n4qO1pFx2SS=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">They are all over rural America. Monuments to dying technologies. Wonder what will come to replace them?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Soon we were heading homeward.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">I dreamed of dealing with all kinds of people and technical difficulties. The real, workaday world looms, chewing on my subconscious.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">In the news I read about the discovery of another lost world: Zealandia, or Riu-A-Māui in Māori.Things like that make me happy.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Later, we were behind a truck with two stars and bars decals—something from another lost world. I tried hard, but just couldn’t get a shot of it and Michael in the stars and stripes sunglasses he found at one of our sightseeing stops all in focus. Some things are not meant to be, I guess . . . </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">And I should mention that in Idaho, gas was mostly below $3 a gallon.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">When we asked for directions, a gas station attendant said, “There’s a lot of silly intersections around here.”</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-18355027799041603842024-01-11T23:00:00.000-08:002024-01-11T23:00:00.135-08:00CHICANONAUTICA VISITS VARIOUS INTERSECTING BORDERLANDS
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of various kinds, at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s cheap motels:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Evergreens turn yellow:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">And a specter is haunting
Sasquatchlandia:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bx4xfP33rZ8?si=7E5Qa6Ptn3UKkYJ_" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-30265417887733582232024-01-03T23:00:00.000-08:002024-01-03T23:00:00.129-08:00ZIGZAGGING INTO SASQUATCHLANDIA<p><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQADAI8Dv_pJB6lvlOtL66Qwyj2yvzquP3zIGCGyB8gdZu9nBHhtnsXOUbA0-LuhFYMa7sy5oYoirEnWkuNsMcfP9cnuMGeasXWYgnNYu4Bz3wGslwsjrv1DJ-E2g5-81jSuGHWmvMaYKMaQRQ5qEJnn_9wibV1ShPVu9R5bdrMlyavHwNfC5mZRH5iFg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQADAI8Dv_pJB6lvlOtL66Qwyj2yvzquP3zIGCGyB8gdZu9nBHhtnsXOUbA0-LuhFYMa7sy5oYoirEnWkuNsMcfP9cnuMGeasXWYgnNYu4Bz3wGslwsjrv1DJ-E2g5-81jSuGHWmvMaYKMaQRQ5qEJnn_9wibV1ShPVu9R5bdrMlyavHwNfC5mZRH5iFg=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As we were leaving the motel in Crescent City, a woman got
our attention with a two-armed wave. Was there something wrong? Without saying
a word, she pointed. There were elk grazing on the trees and bushes at the edge
of the parking lot.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We were heading out of California, into Oregon, and
Sasquatchlandia. A different state.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A different region. Different flavors of weird.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Across the border in Brooking, gas was less than $5 a gallon, and
there were a helluvalota cannabis places.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We grabbed doughnuts at the Honeybee Bakery. That is, after making
our way through the building’s mural-festooned maze.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Driving through the marine-layer fog, we found a coffee
stand and it had decaf!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrC2ZFR7f-gRI_rPGMlvAdbjCHKOYK4X_JAD_k0ah7ikFPacGO62xJr_myNhpUw5pLQQlHaLG03YguQs08ySQqGkOAUjsFdKy_RCbhE9Inl2SvR1kcMwtR8Ojj92A-LFHqdGabVpK8wgvEZQAj8LE1q_zt8yGJwjEaBu8OiWN8Jr9QfUGpWm1fKP_2xqjQ" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrC2ZFR7f-gRI_rPGMlvAdbjCHKOYK4X_JAD_k0ah7ikFPacGO62xJr_myNhpUw5pLQQlHaLG03YguQs08ySQqGkOAUjsFdKy_RCbhE9Inl2SvR1kcMwtR8Ojj92A-LFHqdGabVpK8wgvEZQAj8LE1q_zt8yGJwjEaBu8OiWN8Jr9QfUGpWm1fKP_2xqjQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then we headed through the mountains on our way to Bandon past
Prehistoric Gardens.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Suddenly, the roadside was crowded with a lot of fantastic wood
sculptures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We stopped and took a lot of pictures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was a wide-open barn turned workshop that looked abandoned—</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it made Mike sad to see all good woodworking equipment rusting and
covered with muddy dust.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In back were some shipping containers converted into what looked
like a later-day hippie commune—</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">some of them looked abandoned, others seemed occupied, but
crumbling.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A UPS truck pulled up. The driver wandered around, quickly
realizing we were tourists. A guy who looked both hippie and nerdish staggered
out of one of the shipping containers. When the driver asked about the occupant
of the barn/workshop, the answer was: “Oh, he’s here. Sometimes he answers. Sometimes
he doesn’t.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once again we stopped at the place that sold Bigfoot Nuts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We were in and out of fog all day.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Coos Bay, I found a book on the mound builders, and we had
lunch in a well-muraled Mexican restaurant called Pueblo Nuevo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back on the highway, I saw a truck flying a huge flag. I could
make out the word FUCK, but it was flapping so hard I couldn’t read if it was
meant to insult Trump, Biden or some other poor sucker.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then, in a seaside antique mall guarded by a statue of
Godzilla, one of the vendors has a bedsheet-sized JOE BIDEN SUCKS sign. Out of
his radio, I heard: “I’m beginning to think we don’t deserve Trump.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later, back on the road, the news of the trials in Washington D.C.
made us smile.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the forest-y area near Florence, we came across what looked
like a wild Halloween party in bright colors and broad daylight.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only no one was moving.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They were all frozen in place, like statues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That was because they were statues of a sort, scarecrow-like
figured in masks and costumes, murderous clowns, witches, werewolves, lots of
skull faces, and pop culture references.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No doubt someone’s continuing art project, with more figures being
added every year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One fine day, there will be so many of them that they will seem to
have taken over . . .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further north, gas was $3.89 a gallon. It just kept getting
cheaper.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a motel in Lincoln City, I had a vision: Oz overrun by suburbs
and corporate land developments. The funky and fantastic stuff is relegated to
junk yards, thrift stores and museums where tourists shop. Wizards and witches
are unemployed and homeless. Winged monkeys beg and steal in the streets.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lincoln City was dripping wet when we left. Even the air. A
strange, cold humidity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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covered in dew beads, like a peculiar Christmas decoration. Did the spiders mind
the cold? Do they shiver?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The heavy mist covered the farmland.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Hebo, the crossroads of the Nestucca valley, Mike bought us
coffee at the Yellow Dog Espresso.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Garibaldi, we saw the first Trump sign of the trip. It was
small, low key and managed to be tasteful, as was the house it was mounted
on.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the mist, that had become a heavy fog, became a light
drizzle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Rockaway Beach we came across more Halloween yard decor that
included a vehicle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Seaside there was a big sign advertising TSUNAMI MARIJUANA.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There were still a lot of espresso places along the 101, though most
of the yoga places we saw last time we passed through didn’t survive the
pandemic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Westport along the Columbia River, there was a weird sticker
tableau. Orwellian signage and a mutation of Charlie Brown. Dystopian small town
dada. Couldn’t tell if it was a statement or just spontaneous juxtaposition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then we crossed the bridge into Washington.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was an urban sprawl along the I-5 with signs for all the
usual franchises peeking through tall trees. Generic corporate America, except
for a hand painted sign with Uncle Sam asking: “How many Americans will we
leave behind in Ukraine?”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I kept seeing signs with the names of tribes I had never heard
of. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The traffic got heavy in Seattle. The graffiti showed skill, the
colors were more conservative. More media than message. Not very arty. Mostly
tags.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then in Conway we found a wacko junk art place, bristling with
character, creativity, and craziness. That spirit lives here too.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-8084722956419106662023-12-28T23:00:00.000-08:002023-12-28T23:00:00.132-08:00CHICANONAUTICA FINDS THE INFO WILDERNESS AND THE MASKED MARVEL
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an info wilderness and finds out about a masked marvel at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;">The new wilderness is where
there’s no cell coverage:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;">It’s where woodcutters have
ancient wisdom:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;">And a masked marvel:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Like Mike says, the further north in California, closer to Oregon, the far edge of Aztlán, the more it becomes like Hobbiton. I must admit that the cooler weather, mossy, misty forests, and the relaxed, post-countercultural rural communities have a Middle Earth feeling. No hobbits, but images of Sasquatch are everywhere.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It definitely felt that way in Petaluma, though in places it was more like an abandoned Oz than one of the high-rent sectors of Middle Earth. There were murals,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">a memorial to an arm-wrestling journalist,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">and some funky stores</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">—including a bookstore where I found an old book that I was looking for, that often happens in these trips (really, it’s as if someone was putting them there for me to find), and the Thrifty Hippie,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">where I saw the subtle flyer advocating the legalization of magic mushrooms.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Could that be the next step after cannabis culture in California? How long before classy shops will offer upscale, pricey, FDA-sanctioned psychedelic products that can do everything from warding off bad vibes to putting you in a kaleidoscopic intergalactic freefall for the weekend? And, of course, there will be unforeseen side effects . . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Then there was the fabulous, abandoned Petaluma fairgrounds. Rusting fantastic sculptures towered over a wall with a weather-beaten sign calling for a movement to save the wonders while a winged lion and flying saucers rusted in the sun.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">We arrived in Santa Rosa after their thrift stores had closed, but
we did find a good Chinese restaurant. Then it was wine country, and into the
redwoods, under the marine layer. The fog was thick. We finally ended up in a
Super 8 in Fort Bragg.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-70226579351980911182023-12-14T23:00:00.000-08:002023-12-15T06:30:53.248-08:00CHICANONAUTICA GOES UP THE PACIFIC COAST OF CALI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgVDavyUrTg1KDD24lhKgV03OswVZw2XkSWPeZTNa_SyrH6aVDr7RyZZrSvkblYN5KmHLF8xHQXBT9YEC9Vxj_vv0lbjZx1VdoWBPmuARbdL4Qca5nBPMS3Fe26rcjXu9Ez-aiaTYA_xuIbQjFhir5ck4BVBMIZG4A3I-S6MDmwlTXW5A_51avDFR1iLlV/s360/Calacanaut.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="360" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgVDavyUrTg1KDD24lhKgV03OswVZw2XkSWPeZTNa_SyrH6aVDr7RyZZrSvkblYN5KmHLF8xHQXBT9YEC9Vxj_vv0lbjZx1VdoWBPmuARbdL4Qca5nBPMS3Fe26rcjXu9Ez-aiaTYA_xuIbQjFhir5ck4BVBMIZG4A3I-S6MDmwlTXW5A_51avDFR1iLlV/s320/Calacanaut.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Further up the Cali coast
in <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/2023/12/chinanonautica-up-pacific-coast-of-cali.html" target="_blank">Chicanonautica</a>, over at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga.</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Things are changing:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">We saw a lighthouse:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Mayan cuisine is taking root:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">And it’s earthquake country:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-77791770499540430092023-12-06T23:00:00.000-08:002023-12-06T23:00:00.138-08:00UNCHEAP THRILLS IN NORCAL<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqFWk1w6M9Ep5NFTI1Z-26XcA_tw2CxwUDCsh9ZJ-v8UN3oTaxhw1-M5k1WO2OuaacdYwkkk2bmHsrHq87JA281ixsMCRvfxnkYEYHlc2dWPSpBzYcBevKpVEDTEZFDaCjtRIJEl1BmtF5JOT38RyOSApACtGX5GGGm7GqCk8LF3j7jN7XvFBPbRf6O5B/s5712/IMG_0090.jpeg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqFWk1w6M9Ep5NFTI1Z-26XcA_tw2CxwUDCsh9ZJ-v8UN3oTaxhw1-M5k1WO2OuaacdYwkkk2bmHsrHq87JA281ixsMCRvfxnkYEYHlc2dWPSpBzYcBevKpVEDTEZFDaCjtRIJEl1BmtF5JOT38RyOSApACtGX5GGGm7GqCk8LF3j7jN7XvFBPbRf6O5B/w300-h400/IMG_0090.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">I passed on the free raisin snails at the motel, we went to a bagel shop in Carmel, where Clint Eastwood was once the mayor.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">I thought I heard an elderly woman say, “A friend of mine got a new arm.”</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">(Later, Emily told me she heard it too.)</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">This was at the edge of an upscale shopping center. What kind of sci-fi lives did the people have around here? I’ve said that the SoCal I grew up in was like a collaboration between Philip K. Dick and the Firesign Theater spiced with some Cheech and Chong, the same seems to go for contemporary NorCal. How long before all of California starts to look like a backdrop for my stories?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The shopping center seemed to have roots that go back to the pre-mall era, kept up by a robust local economy. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">There were some thrift stores and a bookstore that Mike liked.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">There were also signs announcing a prohibition on dogs relieving themselves on the premises.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsv2a1vvm6j9XDbC7J1_hGWpUVNUNoU4zmuA8ofpamm2E-uAjOAmMnheWxuEWqxSEFKekj44Z44WT1pJUMzUFNB7hBru4VEDOctD4qH5DBSt2WRHU0uvQn9pMW_z2aexx0jxRdVlu3lBZofUAfEowDdDOupc8I8-361scM8MTiVe0bSGw2SBs2ATr8RHb/s4032/IMG_0093.jpeg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsv2a1vvm6j9XDbC7J1_hGWpUVNUNoU4zmuA8ofpamm2E-uAjOAmMnheWxuEWqxSEFKekj44Z44WT1pJUMzUFNB7hBru4VEDOctD4qH5DBSt2WRHU0uvQn9pMW_z2aexx0jxRdVlu3lBZofUAfEowDdDOupc8I8-361scM8MTiVe0bSGw2SBs2ATr8RHb/w300-h400/IMG_0093.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">This one place had a big sign: SYNCHRONICITY HOLISTIC. We wondered whatthehell kinda business that were in, then there was this slick, subtle, wordless sign: a marijuana leaf. Or should I say cannabis?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFi6JLlbGwah4vY0V1I6nZyj3BdpWz4Qt4Z4x-iDtBZjw3JgBgrxCpj9n8V2BXdTJmSiPNAMM9H82vufjEIPRxrXJsEAWakD5S6LmTme4FKq9iUIpLJUGBU8uHJIjbdwk5Z8-g74URdz-09G2QHbNUCNNsMeGWISH-PnXHOxnWLqqMIzDpV3-5OcDS7dG/s5712/IMG_0095.jpeg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFi6JLlbGwah4vY0V1I6nZyj3BdpWz4Qt4Z4x-iDtBZjw3JgBgrxCpj9n8V2BXdTJmSiPNAMM9H82vufjEIPRxrXJsEAWakD5S6LmTme4FKq9iUIpLJUGBU8uHJIjbdwk5Z8-g74URdz-09G2QHbNUCNNsMeGWISH-PnXHOxnWLqqMIzDpV3-5OcDS7dG/w300-h400/IMG_0095.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was closed, but when I put my face close to the tinted windows, it looked like a bank: plush ultramodern furniture, plants that may have been artificial, and velvet ropes in front of a high counter where you could purchase high-price products that would make you feel synchronic and holistic.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was right out of the New Wave spec fic I read in my youth. I imagine a time travel situation where I could show this to spaced-out hippies from 1969. Would they be delighted or horrified?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">A short stroll away was another place: BIG SUR, CANNA + BOTANICALS.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Another place offered LASER AESTHETICS.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Who knows, the place that sells new arms was probably not far away . . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Next it was historic Cannery Row, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Parking and getting in was a cyberKafka labyrinth. The bay area is a dense tourist area, and the parking meters were hard to figure out. You can’t just walk up and buy the expensive tickets to the aquarium and get in. Employees with hand-held gadgets told us we could only do it online, they helped, but . . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The aquarium was a blast once we got in. Not just a bunch of fish tanks, but recreated ocean environments, deep sea, kelp forests, tide pools . . . alien environments with strange lifeforms, and they’re right here on this planet. In fact, most of this planet is ocean. We surface dwellers are a minority.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was fun, but then, like the octopus clinging to the glass, gripping a piece of PVC pipe, not moving, I felt uneasy. Most of the jellyfish were swimming upside-down–was this normal, or a reaction to the unnatural situation? How long before all natural environments are locked up in artificial recreations like this? The creeping Disneylandization of the planet. Pay the high price for tickets, stand in line, be part of the crowd, a cell in the economic organism, consume what’s left of the ecosystem . . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Or maybe we are already a worldwide zoo/aquarium, and alien tourists whizz by delighting in our crime, wars, and self-destruction . . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Later, in a thrift shop in Pacific Grove, I a copy of André Breton’s</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Manifestoes of Surrealism</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-29979007593682129062023-11-30T23:00:00.000-08:002023-11-30T23:00:00.138-08:00CHICANONAUTICA CRUISES THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT AND ZAPOTECAN CALIFORNIA<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmesoTJBNHQQz-h9k8yEgO-vMWCfqYJmcHvydWMZmpgCurTYuoFhroxjS0ljj96WoO8wX-4PuGo3jYzm9ZkVAzxnK1vvqq8oV8afbhh2QZ1UNsxkZl8tCoi2Cl6w8OFqEw0u98ijZU9iITAhG7akeJIloMp9JalnINjv-d4F1Efs9cLkfyq7PNchGGYrzo/s360/Calacanaut.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="360" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmesoTJBNHQQz-h9k8yEgO-vMWCfqYJmcHvydWMZmpgCurTYuoFhroxjS0ljj96WoO8wX-4PuGo3jYzm9ZkVAzxnK1vvqq8oV8afbhh2QZ1UNsxkZl8tCoi2Cl6w8OFqEw0u98ijZU9iITAhG7akeJIloMp9JalnINjv-d4F1Efs9cLkfyq7PNchGGYrzo/s320/Calacanaut.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s earthquake ground zero
and a new colony in Cali in <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/2023/11/chicanonautica-san-andreas-fault-and.html" target="_blank">Chicanonautica</a>, over at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Will California be a new Atlantis?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Or is it a chunk of Lemuria crashed
into North America?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s a Zapotec influence:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">And new kinds of Mexican restaurants:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Suddenly, I’m officially gonzo!
As in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/GUERRILLA-MURAL-SIRENS-SONG-SCIENCE/dp/B0CN3KBXC2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" target="_blank"><b>Guerrilla Mural of a Siren’s Song: 15 Gonzo Science Fiction Stories</b></a>—not
my idea, but if the glass slipper fits . . . And it packaged as part of a
series:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The footnote refers to a quote
from the entry on me in <a href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hogan_ernest" target="_blank"><b>The</b> <b>Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</b></a>:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
is a pleasing gonzo energy to Hogan's work, though not to date any sense of any
outbreak into work of radical originality: but he continues to seem capable of
storming into general view.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The only time it’s been said
that I’m not radical enough. As for storming into general view, I’ve been
beating myself bloody at it for decades. Maybe the time has finally come . . .</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Gonzo is a good word to
describe what I do. I’ve been doing stuff like this before I heard of Hunter S.
Thompson. I also was surreal before I knew about Salvador Dalí. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">I am doomed to forever be explaining
myself. People need to label you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">But remember the words of
Frank Zappa:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
will you do when the label comes off<br />
And the plastic's all melted<br />
And the chrome is too soft?</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></span></p>
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this Holidaze, and check out my other novels. A <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3D61U47HJ7ZXI/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1502561697" target="_blank">reviewer</a> did say <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cortez-Jupiter-Locus-Poll-Novel-ebook/dp/B00NMQFUJK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1698850675&sr=1-1-catcorr" target="_blank">Cortez on Jupiter</a> </b>was “</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like
taking a stroll through the mind of a mad Mexican Hunter S. Thompson.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the hero/narrator of my underground cult
classic <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/High-Aztech-Inventive-Underground-Classic-ebook/dp/B01B5BE7GU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1700934753&sr=1-2" target="_blank">High Aztech</a></b> is a kind of gonzo journalist.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmFhHr813UMumB_2q2kcLN-B76FXZR3PvoHE6BuBCSVgdIzKgSE42OcJRHsBoNAtPZoekrLUdtS_V-63G6SXKVTmS8Z5Wbckn89yMs-XjHSv1-JydmN9So4yuKuEGsVXAJWHa7A33e9nOqB95iumAXuyDTHlJ6YjSMYFJrgkQLvaD3dVgsDJgB3xgWQOX/s500/high-aztech.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmFhHr813UMumB_2q2kcLN-B76FXZR3PvoHE6BuBCSVgdIzKgSE42OcJRHsBoNAtPZoekrLUdtS_V-63G6SXKVTmS8Z5Wbckn89yMs-XjHSv1-JydmN9So4yuKuEGsVXAJWHa7A33e9nOqB95iumAXuyDTHlJ6YjSMYFJrgkQLvaD3dVgsDJgB3xgWQOX/w265-h400/high-aztech.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-59473035968260534972023-11-22T23:00:00.000-08:002023-11-25T13:03:28.008-08:00VAMPIRE RUN TO VEGAS AND THE JAMES DEAN GAS STATION
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCCa_9JuKbQ83T6A-OmjVcIzuqAAE45b0mQmRKxYZEMDKF8uJZ_M1Fg3mQEkvuPY6jlYsUnUKUBzCIt9EVimaLCyU1CyryJ_TO8QO51c4Lw3fMDdnaO3_XPJ8vgc97VF3jmhbvuab2sNWM3Guqx_FlFqMmizFSFjh8NckYoya9RFXXuqwgaZXgzORtiTr7" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCCa_9JuKbQ83T6A-OmjVcIzuqAAE45b0mQmRKxYZEMDKF8uJZ_M1Fg3mQEkvuPY6jlYsUnUKUBzCIt9EVimaLCyU1CyryJ_TO8QO51c4Lw3fMDdnaO3_XPJ8vgc97VF3jmhbvuab2sNWM3Guqx_FlFqMmizFSFjh8NckYoya9RFXXuqwgaZXgzORtiTr7=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The day after the eclipse, we left Phoenix as the sun was setting,
heading for Las Vegas. It was dark before we hit the strip of Highway 93 known as
Bloody Alley because of all the accidents that happen there. </span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">My fantasies of a
galactic highway system were tempered by my having watched the Mexican vampire
gunslinger movie <b>El Pueblo Fantasma</b> before Emily got off work. </span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">She also
brought some of her mom’s ashes, after all, we were carrying on the tradition
of the Maggie Devenport Annual Road Trip. Em also brought an audiobook of
Stephen Fry reading ghost stories, to set a spooky mood as we glided through
the interstellar blackness of the dark desert void.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">My writer’s brain noted that a vampire making this drive would be
a good beginning for a vampire story. It would need more, though. Stuff to keep
it from being a cornball, here’s-the-vampire-folks thing. Too bad that James
Dean didn’t live to star in an R-rated, Seventies, “Vampire Run to Vegas.” Or
maybe in the story, he became a vampire, who now drives these roads at night .
. .</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">At one point a pair of headlights came straight at us . . .</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">We gassed up at Kingman. $3.95 a gallon. The Petro station was
festooned in Halloween decorations. The gritty realities of 2023 C.E. were
effectively blacked out. Dime store demons were welcome companions.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">After a while, Vegas materialized as an ocean of urban lights,
triggering my visions of a galactic civilization.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Spent the night in Mike’s Henderson (just out of L.V.) house,
parked our Elantra, transferred our stuff–including Emily’s mom–to his Prius, and
had no trouble getting to sleep even if a neighbor’s air conditioner played a
mechaniod concerto just out our window.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Next morning we whizzed past Las Vegas. The illusions of a
glittering, mulitcolored, neon Oz on the edge of decadent galaxy gave way to
the sun-blasted, post-Apocalypitic deserts of Planet Nevada, its own world of
gambler’s utopia, legal prostitution, atomic testing, Area 51 . . . Hunter S.
Thompson was right, this is the American Dream . . . Ha . . . Ha . . . Ha . . .</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Henderson, and other Nevada towns, are Mars colony-esque. As most
of the arid Southwest–Aztlán, dammit!--is. This region is a dress rehearsal for
what Terrestrial Civilization (if you haven’t noticed, <i>Western</i>
Civilization is an obsolete concept) plans to do to the Red Planet. It’ll be
like Ray Bradbury’s <b>The Martian Chronicles</b>, only a lot more bizarre . .
.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Somehow, I managed to get to California without taking any Planet
Nevada photos. The westward journey mellowed into a different kind of
weirdness. Then when it gets to California, the state of my birth, it becomes
familiar territory, but then we were north of the SoCal of my youth, still
another flavor of strange.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">This popped into focus in Wasco, at the Jolly Kone Drive-In, now a
postmodern archaeological ruin, boarded up with its wind and ultraviolet
radiation-eaten sign, and a mural blending into graffiti in the back. What I’ve
been talking, and writing, about. It could have been part of one of my Mars
stories.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Then, in trying to find our way through farm country, a friendly
highway worker pointed us to the James Dean gas station. It’s a local tourist
spot, the last stop Dean made before he drove off to have his fatal
accident. </span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was selling gas for $6.35 a gallon. There was also a gigantic
store/tourist trap with all kinds of stuff for sale, and photo ops that weren’t
necessarily on subject. </span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Dean probably would have made a great vampire in his old age. Now
one of the cutouts of him stands by the gas pumps, with bird shit dripping down
his face.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxfk8j49STINzlba3ZhASa6uvfT0jjKwAsNUQwGLBGgIIInrrZ63XbOLy0yJ0tvuW3xN8RunLCAymdSjdRZ6l8Vz-mgv1lAzh0J7XI1foWoQd8bZ1fKfMLA-X2QP9rUfenVb5hGB_0m3QUBfDsY1ed3j9gFDFFEHN5r5HSigcJts1LURniE1HvNceLe9RH" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxfk8j49STINzlba3ZhASa6uvfT0jjKwAsNUQwGLBGgIIInrrZ63XbOLy0yJ0tvuW3xN8RunLCAymdSjdRZ6l8Vz-mgv1lAzh0J7XI1foWoQd8bZ1fKfMLA-X2QP9rUfenVb5hGB_0m3QUBfDsY1ed3j9gFDFFEHN5r5HSigcJts1LURniE1HvNceLe9RH=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><p></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-22742412385921005822023-11-19T23:00:00.000-08:002023-11-19T23:00:00.142-08:00THERE ARE TWO ‘R’S IN GUERRILLA<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5Vaoc53Wyr3PDpblabAvxQw17pfrBG7xa6AOU2dNoEYvqrbH6i5dDT7NO7a2jRFsTCBePkQ56AAu8GzWh0m9XMdSx7_5UobZ-Nhdjog4nsBLY2H36heTWEDZIANkUVWJ8VnAJpjkfDodRkbbTNxa7sMU3vnjwuKOjstcVqMMhtJqVqf3gPNohnxZXLZ-Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5Vaoc53Wyr3PDpblabAvxQw17pfrBG7xa6AOU2dNoEYvqrbH6i5dDT7NO7a2jRFsTCBePkQ56AAu8GzWh0m9XMdSx7_5UobZ-Nhdjog4nsBLY2H36heTWEDZIANkUVWJ8VnAJpjkfDodRkbbTNxa7sMU3vnjwuKOjstcVqMMhtJqVqf3gPNohnxZXLZ-Q=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">Things were looking good, </span></span><b><span face=""Arial", sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/GUERRILLA-MURAL-SIRENS-SONG-SCIENCE/dp/B0CN3KBXC2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1700419809&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Guerrilla Mural of a Siren’s Song</a></span> </span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; line-height: 150%;">was up and selling on Amazon, I was busy making noise about it on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ernest.hogan/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NestoHogan" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, when Will Bayer, a friend from my old neighborhood in West Covina, pointed out that the cover was missing one of the Rs in guerrilla. Awk!</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">I took a few deep breaths, and a line from </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; line-height: 150%;">Alejandro Jodorowsky’s </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">El Topo </span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">popped into my head: “Too much perfection is a mistake.” One of the wisest sentences uttered in any movie.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p>
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;">Ever see a happy perfectionist? Didn’t last long, did it?</span></p><p><br />
</p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJP7qTKCCYxhqx6hCkhIVuRg4QSz4_2oubZ3W3dFwG8GsGqyp6PipnAIdgaH0WhVQ73v7fYx0xC82lxZprP3ZsE-kaMiEQIDKGQbnKDblpfdu0uggI0H7SNuSzEIorTkYw0rgfS77rwgI4G1s4x0RAgTsPiYvmnoocKd70sh2YEFdfLMhPQO_1GJHLnKgx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJP7qTKCCYxhqx6hCkhIVuRg4QSz4_2oubZ3W3dFwG8GsGqyp6PipnAIdgaH0WhVQ73v7fYx0xC82lxZprP3ZsE-kaMiEQIDKGQbnKDblpfdu0uggI0H7SNuSzEIorTkYw0rgfS77rwgI4G1s4x0RAgTsPiYvmnoocKd70sh2YEFdfLMhPQO_1GJHLnKgx=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">So I shot an email to my publisher, and she got on it. Thank Quetzalcoatl for computerized publishing! The problem was soon fixed.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">In the meantime, I repeated on the social media that the early print-on-demand copies with the goof were destined to become valuable collector’s items.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">I even started an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ernesthogan42/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> account.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">If you ask me, it looks like another case of Tezcatlipoca reminded me not to act like somekinda chingón.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>
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road trip, and the world looks transmogrified, over at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was another search for
America:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">With post-Apocalyptic scenes:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">And utopian flashes:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">That lead to
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is available from Amazon now!</span></span></p>
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Villa’s Flying Circus</b>, but after my publisher commissioned urban artist,
student of the arts of life, traveler, and pizza-lover, EkzaOne, AKA Daniel
Illescas to do a fantastic cover painting, the other title worked better.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Buy and read it now, so you
can say you were among the first.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">As we hurdle into another election year, the term Civil War keeps popping up. It was used in explaining by the rebel Republicans ousted Kevin McCarthy, the January 6 indictments, and the Speaker of the House fiasco. I saw this as my cue to get around to reading </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_Jubilee" target="_blank">Bring the Jubilee</a></span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">, Ward Moore’s classic about a universe where the South won the War Between the States. Or should I say the War of Southron Independence? Maybe there would be some insights there.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">There sure were.</span>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">I had to keep checking the publication date. 1953. This book was not inspired by our current political predicament. The Grand Army is not based on the Proud Boys. The echoes of the current opinions expressed by various characters come out of
the amazing, incredibly detailed world building. And Moore, a Northerner, didn’t seem to have a political agenda. He was fascinated by how changing one small thing could change history, and the world.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">And what changes! The twentieth century is steampunkish (long before steampunk). There are air pistols and spring powered guns. Bicycles dominate the street and airships fill the sky.The North and South have not turned out as expected. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Race
relations are different:</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Popular
opinion was unanimous for Negro emigration to Africa, voluntary or forced;
those who went westward to join the unconquered Sioux or Nez Perce were looked
upon as depraved. Any Negro who didnt embark for Liberia or Sierra Leone,
regardless of whether he had the fare or not, deserved anything that happened
to him in the United States.</span></i></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">This alternate universe is presented in disturbing detail through the eyes of a historian.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">There are nonwhite characters, but they’re more like well-developed characters for our era, rather than the stereotypes common in the1950s, when publishers and readers expected “Negroes” to speak in thick dialect, so they were “authentic.”</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">It’s all made more impressive by how it sheds light on the recent talk of a New Civil War. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">As a kid in the Sixties, I found it hard to believe that there were people who believed that the South should have won. Now I realized that it is not only true, but there are a lot of people would be happy to have the intellectual life of a medieval peasant. This book helps me deal with that disturbing reality.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">It also demonstrates how fragile the course of history is, and how easily it can be changed. That gives me hope, but I do realize that the changes are hard to control, but then if you sit back, do nothing, and it gets worse, </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">and</span></i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> you didn’t even try to affect it . . . </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">There’s that old saying about those who don’t learn from history being doomed to repeat it. Expect to hear it a lot in the near future.</span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">They should be teaching this book in the schools, what the hell, give them something else to ban . . .</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8_U91P-0KA6waRV4lN8plFiKOMSuv8xdKhKFCch_NTpMIr5JgGRZscof3_xx3QGL9jYDttwszYDza9DmyfKRTQDB6bXjrKk_n4UsBRYB9piH5I7SgvrBju8F4LMEnDpkHyJt-fzZP2ERAexuVXAdfx6pXjZwm4Uxyj36TDmWNid1lWBIiBeQciELOLGd9" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8_U91P-0KA6waRV4lN8plFiKOMSuv8xdKhKFCch_NTpMIr5JgGRZscof3_xx3QGL9jYDttwszYDza9DmyfKRTQDB6bXjrKk_n4UsBRYB9piH5I7SgvrBju8F4LMEnDpkHyJt-fzZP2ERAexuVXAdfx6pXjZwm4Uxyj36TDmWNid1lWBIiBeQciELOLGd9=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Its about Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico,
in <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/2023/11/chicanonautica-memories-of-palenque.html" target="_blank">Chicanonautica</a>, at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s in the news:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">My memories were triggered:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It was the home of a so-called
ancient astronaut:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">I was reminded of this story, which
may be the future of Mexico:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a notebook as well as a sketchbook. I find myself keeping
them separate because in my early days, when I was serious, struggling to
become some kind of professional, people who seemed to know more told me, “You
have to make up your mind.” The world where they make creativity into money
doesn’t like it if you’re an artist <i>and</i> a writer, and if you do them
both at the same time . . .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The desire to be a cartoonist isn’t something teachers like. Why don’t you do
real art? Real writing, instead of all this sci-fi silliness?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For years I fought off the urge to be a renaissance Chicano,
writing, and drawing on the same page, with the same tool, pencil, pen, or even
crayon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the the happy rebellion of my school daze, doodling in
the margins of the notebooks while taking notes in class, trying to commit and
master the painful, unnatural act of being a student, I hijacked the educational
materials and space to put some of what’s bubbling in my head into some
viewable form.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnOBfCW1vm0_jigR7ywcetQNAmnaKoxWkpdiKixJ5ZTktHlgoINhdlBZjxxfwYdWz5mW2jlWbFVe056T1zpFgoYm-k2kWhGTOD8of-dE--mYX1eWwoDZNqjGb_M3JN-U4RqvL3LshWgMk-WCwQJ1nivPt-swaIg9_bH_9kKYCCBkitOevdlCwJ8U3hQJCv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnOBfCW1vm0_jigR7ywcetQNAmnaKoxWkpdiKixJ5ZTktHlgoINhdlBZjxxfwYdWz5mW2jlWbFVe056T1zpFgoYm-k2kWhGTOD8of-dE--mYX1eWwoDZNqjGb_M3JN-U4RqvL3LshWgMk-WCwQJ1nivPt-swaIg9_bH_9kKYCCBkitOevdlCwJ8U3hQJCv=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My personal notebooks are where I organize my writer business. I
make notes of daily progress, keep track of my simultaneous projects, jot down
rough ideas. Serious stuff.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These days, I doodle in the margins of my notebooks.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unlike what I do in my sketchbooks, these aren’t intended for
public consumption. I’m not being a “professional” artist. Damn, it’s
liberating.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUcIgV0lNB3FpEZihpX5Mn3zlj-hKhA4jcgkhwoGEA-Z8JWrbTjQoAh_jUF0ErqmnpjIVwmgEjF18U2_XSrB86gHW8zwGqeFqd3eNocsS3BGmaXJGDsQGCgjalFY9X551DHC7OCHrfuX99PfVZvootYReUf64YGwT2eAsXuG0uOK8ojpuS4KDBQlS_qBIH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUcIgV0lNB3FpEZihpX5Mn3zlj-hKhA4jcgkhwoGEA-Z8JWrbTjQoAh_jUF0ErqmnpjIVwmgEjF18U2_XSrB86gHW8zwGqeFqd3eNocsS3BGmaXJGDsQGCgjalFY9X551DHC7OCHrfuX99PfVZvootYReUf64YGwT2eAsXuG0uOK8ojpuS4KDBQlS_qBIH=w400-h300" width="400" /><br /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s putting down the burden of art, the way the Maya speak of
putting down the burden of time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the same time, I find myself reconnecting with drawing, the act
of making a mess with some kind of tool, putting the magic in my mind on a flat
surface.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO1QyYNOCKkM6PTqNnLJzlE2IB-j1tiv325sLtaK_r0YpZRwVYZNS3ryleyN_asj0bDNYRRDtiSoVtqxksUFEZLp-h6ZavsW8itrw-suju8sZeQP-pzMM6vHLRBf3gqEkdQKABUN0O1cT63sw-1ytXYabA_bWPpdrkzUHSpCyZVrALSilxqHeVmA70912I" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO1QyYNOCKkM6PTqNnLJzlE2IB-j1tiv325sLtaK_r0YpZRwVYZNS3ryleyN_asj0bDNYRRDtiSoVtqxksUFEZLp-h6ZavsW8itrw-suju8sZeQP-pzMM6vHLRBf3gqEkdQKABUN0O1cT63sw-1ytXYabA_bWPpdrkzUHSpCyZVrALSilxqHeVmA70912I=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the end, it makes me a better artist–whateverthehell that is.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes I take pictures of these doodles. Some of them are
pretty good. Maybe they’ll somehow make their way into my Work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2y5702XsOe3-fbrMhqqqJApjdy7yfAP2MvWTdjnA7KL6rx1fBkD52M4MPXLsI6ejNuYHpGrYh9oecB_QXNzKXgF0-aUFJARPahLvXylae7jcy2UKy84a8YQ3QrfNHs3OJZpomab28JfR0KK3dW4IhKqzxLf3ziFU-8LcCoRNJiqn4ExTaNc0wmRiKEqBv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2y5702XsOe3-fbrMhqqqJApjdy7yfAP2MvWTdjnA7KL6rx1fBkD52M4MPXLsI6ejNuYHpGrYh9oecB_QXNzKXgF0-aUFJARPahLvXylae7jcy2UKy84a8YQ3QrfNHs3OJZpomab28JfR0KK3dW4IhKqzxLf3ziFU-8LcCoRNJiqn4ExTaNc0wmRiKEqBv=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ERNEST HOGANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039225989278468597.post-69980438200161131372023-10-20T00:00:00.002-07:002023-10-20T00:00:00.148-07:00CHICANONAUTICA CATCHES PANDEMIC NOSTALGIA FROM GÓMEZ-PEÑA’S MEX FILES<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTurEclxVC-OSMm1RrULyfoCOxumbta9r0HFYFYQzuQbiEGzSF_wV4_kxBQoEXqBt1qysYCbCByqyWyCNeCUSkyePCmjsqMdOoXjl-ZbC0bpPbq4IJKG57TqsdSk_32V6xkwV-6ZlvY4bhrTmnAZZLvLD7JqNAvXyw8yjzAj5wJpvlqaIet9ZOJejAjQo/s360/Calacanaut.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="360" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTurEclxVC-OSMm1RrULyfoCOxumbta9r0HFYFYQzuQbiEGzSF_wV4_kxBQoEXqBt1qysYCbCByqyWyCNeCUSkyePCmjsqMdOoXjl-ZbC0bpPbq4IJKG57TqsdSk_32V6xkwV-6ZlvY4bhrTmnAZZLvLD7JqNAvXyw8yjzAj5wJpvlqaIet9ZOJejAjQo/s320/Calacanaut.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Chicanonautica gets infected
at <a href="https://labloga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">La Bloga</a>:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s fault:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RwbXTCJFcoA" width="320" youtube-src-id="RwbXTCJFcoA"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Borders mean nothing:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Everything’s performance:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/COte27w1WcQ?si=CqQVMQc9shMmDxR0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">See the past, welcome to the
future:</span></p><p> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bwr8bKqYg3c" width="320" youtube-src-id="bwr8bKqYg3c"></iframe><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <br /></span></span></div><p></p>
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