on this day in really bad premature ejaculation newspaper printing history…

Dewey Defeats Truman!!!!!!!

required reading

New York Magazine’s 9/11 Enclopdiea

honestly forgot all about Satan’s face

and this is our pick of the lot: Sneha Anne Philip – the most mysterious of the missing

+ Stairwell A – the only way out

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s
Search For a Kool Place
Further Afield
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
R | 107 min

Ken Kesey, The Merry Pranksters & that Further bus - for those who have read Tom Wolfe’s Acid Tested book, you probably know a thing or three about the trials and travails of that combo of peoples and vehicle.  For the rest of us illiterate, image craving bunch, probably not so much outside of those names and the fact that they did lots of drugs and stuffs, and bright colors and things!

Well, on the bus’ inaugural trip (Wolfe wasn’t on it!), from Kesey’s Cali home to 1964 World’s Fair in New York, stuff certainly did happen (like LOTS OF STUFF!!!) and all of it was filmed for a documentary… that was never made!!!!  Years later, Alison Ellwood & Alex Gibney took the 100+ hours of film and turned it into something (mostly) cohesive, with Stanley Tucci‘s voice driving the bus

While not eggzactly the most enthralling documentary chronicling 60s hippie dippie life and experimentation, Ellwood & Gibney’s Magic Trip is still a vital and important moving document, which will hold historical value for time eternal (future generations will need to see how people on LSD acted, in a time when it was legal!!!).  Even though sex, drugs and rock n roll are givens we take for granted in today’s society, it was pretty radical sh%t back then.  Educated people jumping on a wildly painted bus, taking boatloads of acid, swapping partners left and right, and to what end? Or to what beginning?

Their destination may have been the World’s Fair, but when they got there, they truly realized that all the eye opening memories were forged on that bus ride.  What a long strange trip it was indeed!  Hop on board, even if the bus has already come and gone

Bus A Don’t Move: there were two editions of the Further bus, and both are collecting dust/rust on Kesey’s farm (where his widow still lives) in Pleasant Hill, Oregon

Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Trip hums along in NY & the SF area tomorrow, on demand everywhere now, and elsewhere elsewhen

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

The idea of deceiving the enemy as to what you are doing is not new. Trying to hide individual items from observation is not new, trying to hide whole factories from aerial bombing during The Second World War was new

After December 7, 1941 the Lockheed and Boeing aircraft factories along the West Coast were put under netting to try and hide them from Japanese aircraft attack. The Boeing plant went even further with fake houses and trees over the factory. The effectiveness of this was never tested – no Japanese aircraft got anywhere near these factories, but it did instill the sense of the war, the collective threat, to the people not on the front lines in those areas

continue reading Hiding in Plain Sight

Boeing video: Demolition of Plant 2 :(

The suburb that never existed

The Boeing Airplane Co. … Bombers and Camouflage

more pics @ HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT

2020 - Texting by thinking!

2042 – Floating Hotels In The Sky!

2079 –  Practical Flying Cars Are Entering The Consumer Market!

2092 – West Antarctica Is Among The Fastest Growing Areas In The World!

2190 - Matter Replication Devices Are Available For The Home!

2240 - Christianity Is Fading From American Culture! 

2300 - Superhuman Powers Are Available To Common Citizenry!

22,000 – The Chernobyl Disaster Site Becomes Fully Safe!

250,000,000  – ADA supercontinent is forming on Earth!

but it aint all happy stuff on the hammazin…

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