The Symposium Returns
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Posted:Jul 28, 2016 10:22 pm
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The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic
We’re baaaaack! General Douglas MacArthur famously said “I shall return” when he abandoned his troops in the Philippines. humorlife said nothing of the kind. He just left without a word. Probably not by submarine in the dead of night, but still….To his credit, he came back a hell of a lot sooner that Dugout Doug did, and he didn’t make a movie of himself doing it. Wading through the surf as if he were some conquering hero. “Virtue vindicated!” Should humorlife make such a movie, I’d like to suggest he do it with more élan than MacArthur and make said return a la Bo Derek in the movie “Ten”, crashing through the surf semi nude, with dreadlocks. Even “From Here to Eternity” would work better as a model than MacArthur’s film. But I insist on semi nude with dreadlocks.
Indeed, the Virtual Symposium has returned. This will be the twenty first. The topics to be voted on are chocolate, surrealism, cats, teachers and as always, if you absolutely MUST vote for a losing third party candidate, you can write in a topic of your choice. So write in Jill Stein. She’s a great candidate but she ain’t gonna win. And you can go down in history as having voted on principle before being beaten up by fascist thugs in the street like a stray or a minority.
It got a little heavy in here, didn’t it? How quickly things can turn! But there IS a point. The Symposia are a community effort. It’s a time for us to express ourselves as individuals who are at the same time members of a larger group. In this case it’s a group of disgruntled and oversexed perverts who are seeking like minded intransigent and sexually obsessed misfits with whom to make the beast with two backs. We are all of us unique, and at the same time we’re all very much alike. The Symposia are an opportunity to come together as a group and express ourselves as distinct members of a distinct tribe. I’ve stressed this over and over in promoting the Symposia. You can’t say it too much- we’re all in this together. The Symposia aren’t exclusive- they’re inclusive. We all belong. These blogs are what we make of them, and the Symposia make us better. They lift us up. We listen to each other and exercise our own voices. It’s chaotic and even discordant and it’s music to my ears. The aggregate is healing and unifying.
Visit The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic in humorlife’s blog and vote for a topic. The details of how to participate are there. It’s easy! Just write a post and submit it on or about midnight Sunday August 7. Send a link to humorlife, or simply let him know that you’ve posted. He’ll add your post to a list of contributors to be found in his blog. You can post in any format you like- prose, poem, photo, song or dance. You can interpret the topic as broadly as you choose. But do compose an entry. This is the best community building enterprise the blogs could ask for. It brings us together.
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Wicked beautiful...
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Posted:Jul 13, 2016 2:43 pm
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There’s a writer here who I love to read- wickedeasy. Her posts are often short prose poems, and her language is evocative and brilliant. I use so many words to tell a story and she manages to bring color to life and words into motion with one or two. I so much admire that in such spare prose she shows so much. Her post yesterday is lovely and elegant, like her subject. It’s called HNW the little red dress. I think wickedeasy writes the way most women sing, softly and tenderly. Not much remains of the Greek poet Sappho’s work- only fragments- but I imagine that she wrote this way. I’m so smitten with her post that I asked to promote it here and she consented. We all have different readers and blog watchers. I want to share her post with readers here. It’s exquisite.
HNW the little red dress
‘Sappho’ (1877), Charles August Mengin
HNW the little red dress
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Red for Nicelipss 20 July HNW
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Posted:Jul 11, 2016 9:38 am
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[blog ethicalslutMissy], who sponsors the Half Nekkid Wednesday group, has designated the theme for Wednesday 20 July as Red for Nicelipss. It’s a terrific idea and I hope everyone will participate. You can read Missy’s post [post 3853810] and comment also. This is a terrific way to show support for nicelipss. sexysixties2 commented that nicelipss really rocked that red dress and did she ever! Missy posted a couple of pictures of nice doing just that- rocking our world. Nicelipss was a lover and we miss her terribly. Ordinarily HNW is for the HNW group members, but all site members are encouraged to participate in this special tribute to nicelipss. You don't need a blog- you can use a profile pic if you like.
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nicelipss- come back! We need you!
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Posted:Jun 22, 2016 11:29 am
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It was great having nicelipss here. She was honest and always pleasant and polite. Her posts were straightforward and in good fun. She wouldn’t back away from a quarrel but she certainly didn’t start any herself. I’d love to see her back here, although I doubt she’d want to come. She was hounded for being transgendered from the minute she became popular until she just got fed up. Her complaints about the harassment fell on deaf ears. She was ignored by the very people here who might have helped her most. It was refreshing to see someone who was simply herself and blogged for the fun of it. My friend [blog damnedvixen] has written a post about nicelipss- [post 3844832] (There's NO-ONE like Nicelipss - 66 - clickety click as we say in Bingo...Please CUM BACK)- that you really ought to read.
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Smeary mess parts 10 and 11
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Posted:Jun 19, 2016 11:28 am
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This themed chain blog was started by mystelle. She tagged doe_ra_me who tagged PassionCork who then tagged spunkycumfun who then tagged joisygirl, who tagged kinkyfem73 who in turned tagged HermanG67, who then tagged MissKissin. MissKissin tagged Bill, and Bill tagged me.
References
[1] mystelle Chain blog [post [3821719]]
[2] doe_ra_me messy; a chain-game thread, second act [post [3839462]]
[3] PassionCork’s A Grip Of Your Baton . . .[post [3841674]]
[4] spunkycumfun’s SMEARY MESS, PART FOUR [post [3842419]]
[5] joisygirl's SMEARY MESS, PART FIVE [post [3842528]]
[6] Kinkyfem73's ~~~Smeary Mess~ Part Six~~~[post [3842583]]
[7] Hermang67 -- Part Seven [[post [3842868]]
[8] VenusRising11 --- Smeary Mess, Part Eight
[9] MissKissin -- Smeary Mess, Part Nine
[10] kzoopair- Bill
[11] kzoopair- Pam
I have included the post titles and the post number, this way the rest of you won’t have to reinvent the wheel, just copy, paste, post. I hope it works as well as it did for Herman...I am not so talented with technical things.
Here’s the story so far:
"He looked in the mirror and with a steady hand applied more of the red gloop, staying carefully within the lines, to avoid making yet again another smeary mess.[1]
Malted Milk Blues; in heuristic dance slyboots picked across terrain of smeary mess.[2]
The terrain was a pitch in France, green was the field on which men strode like peacocks, but, after 90 minutes elapsed those with more balls will strut whilst the rest are laid bare, their faces a smeary mess of tears and hair gel.[3]
After the game, and amidst the flares, the men with lion-size balls danced with joy as if they had slain a dragon generously smeared with freshly sautéed leeks grown in the lands of daffodils, rain and sheep.[4]
Speaking of men with lion-size balls has reminded me of a man I once knew with a noble name, my German lover, mein liebling Reich Friedling, who bet me the result of his wank could hit the mirrors on the ceiling and I know that’s absurd but he was true to his word, now mein liebling is gone, but his memory lives on though far less appealing… because all that remains are the spunk and stains where Friedling once came on the ceiling and there it resides more or less... quite the smeary mess. [5]
As I enter the room, something catches my eye....can it be....surely not....ohmygosh yes it is....I laugh right out loud....theres soooo many other great places to leave such a smeary mess.... [6]
Like a star burst the memory of the smeary mess left on Riech's handsome face after the tongue bath he so expertly administer, flashed into her mind as she gazed around the room [7]
Lion-sized balls have captured my mind in this nonsense invention of messes,both smeary and large. But messes on handsome faces after tongue lashings duly provided leads me in another direction.....right to parts unknown and possibly other smeary messes. [8]
As the couple gazed about the room and all the smeary messes left behind from former visitors, torrid lovers intent on leaving their mark... they decided that they too would leave a smeary mess of their own. Always intent on leaving a positive mark on the world; displaying their passion and fire. [9]
It is a tale told by an idiot- full of sound and fury, and a fucking smeary mess! [10]
I do not like a smeary mess
I do not like fresh watercress
I do not shave my furry chest
Now go away, I've done my best. [11]
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I am tagging KItkat1415.
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Free beer and topless women!
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Posted:Jun 10, 2016 2:44 pm
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I had to get your attention first.
There’s a comparatively new blogger at FriendFinder-x- [blog zxv1357]. He began about a year ago, and nearly packed it in, but decided to stay after all, and has resumed blogging. [blog SweetCirce] gave me a heads up about him a few months ago. I'm in her debt for that. I've enjoyed every post I've read. She has good judgment! I was in a similar place after blogging for a spell, and didn’t think I was making any headway. I got some attaboys from my friends and hitched up my britches and stuck around. I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun since then. There are some very entertaining blogs here, and some very good writers. [blog zxv1357]’s a fine writer and I really appreciate his ironic sense of humor and his point of view. I recommend that you wander over to his blog and have a read. You have some very good reading ahead of you, so keep an eye on his blog.
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Addiction
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Posted:Jun 4, 2016 9:50 pm
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CravingsAddictionsObsessions Is The Topic For The Twentieth Virtual Symposium
I’ve had addictions. The hardest one to break was smoking. I smoked for over forty years and it took sickness to break the habit. But I had quit smoking many times over those years, only to take it up again. The final time, the straw that broke the camel’s back, was when I couldn’t walk uphill hiking without being out of breath. I couldn’t run with my dog. I packed up all my pipes and tobacco and put them away, and have never picked them up again.
All I need to keep me from smoking again is to think of that feeling of suffocating when I tried walking up hill, or chopping wood. It’s not so much humiliating as it is depressing, and disappointing. Why the hell could I have not done that forty years before? Partly because it was always so easy to get, and partly- probably- because there are actually some benefits to smokers that anti-smoking groups refused to acknowledge could exist. It was condemned as a pure evil without any research into what compels people to smoke. They were written off as weak and stupid.
But there are benefits to the smoker. It’s clear that the benefits are outweighed by the harmful effects, but people continue smoking even when they’re aware of the damage they’re doing. They aren’t stupid! Studies have shown that smoking stimulates pleasure centers in the brain and enhances other pleasures that you experience. The same pleasure centers in the brain that are affected by morphine and heroin are activated by nicotine. And for years smoking was a socially accepted vice, like alcohol.
Opiates were never socially acceptable. It was the drug of the ghetto and used first by Chinese immigrants and then found its way into working class and racially segregated black slums of the big cities. On the tail of prohibition and its dismal failure as a social experiment, religious zealots and moralists went after free love, public lewdness, including that depicted in films of the time (which frequently featured nudity), and drugs. All the intolerance of non-smokers today was then directed at the supposed moral weakness of hedonists and drug users who were seen as substandard, and this of course could be attributed to their belonging to inferior races and economic groups. They just weren’t as strong and upright as white Europeans. They didn’t have our inherent moral fiber. White youth were warned to resist the siren call of hipsters, to preserve the purity and natural superiority that was their birthright.
In the sixties, when young people began rejecting the values of their parents’ generation, a reassessment was in order. White were using drugs! That was a problem, and had to be explained by the destabilizing influence of rock and roll, the devil’s music, and the coddling of negroes in our modern culture. This couldn’t be allowed to stand- our white youth were being corrupted, and along with that our position as the natural rulers of lesser races was being threatened. Parents were said to be too permissive., and drug addiction and moral degradation was the result. if there’s anyone who doesn’t realize that this is pure and unadulterated bullshit, let him stop reading here.
President Nixon declared a war on drugs.
The already vast federal bureaucracy would see to it that no drugs would enter the country. They’d make drug use impossible by eliminating illegal drugs. I won’t attempt even a cursory history of the drug war. Anyone who’s been paying attention can see how well that’s worked out. You’d think that Americans of all people would understand the law of supply and demand, especially after our experiment with prohibition. The bureaucracy that was created to stop the flow of illicit drugs is dependent on the flow of those drugs for its existence. Smuggled drugs are their livelihood. We passed, state by state, tough laws, habitual offender laws, called three strike laws, to lock addicts up for being convicted more than twice of possession of controlled substances, but we can’t control the demand for more drugs no matter how many people we lock up. We incarcerate more people than any other nation on the planet. A great number of them are imprisoned because of drug related offenses. And very few rehabilitation programs are at all successful at curing addicts of their addiction.
The British began a heroin maintenance program to try to fix their own problems with heroin addiction. Addicts would register and be given a daily dose of heroin. Eventually they would die out and Britain would be free of addicts. But after about twenty years heroin from the continent was again showing up on that sceptered isle. A new generation had grown up unexposed to heroin, and they represented a brand new and lucrative market for smugglers. There was a new market and a new demand.
Unheralded, a man named Bruce Alexander, a professor of psychology in Vancouver, noticed something interesting about how rats behaved when exposed to drug laced water supplies. A rat is put alone in a bare cage with two water bottles. One bottle is clean pure water. The other bottle is loaded with heroin or cocaine. The rat will use the drug laced water supply until it kills him. So Alexander built a different kind of cage. He called it Rat Park. He put many rats in the cage, with plenty of room, and there were enough female rats to make life interesting for the most sauve “ rat about town”, to quote Johann Hari, who wrote about the experiment with Rat Park in his book “Chasing The Scream: The First And Last Days of the War on drugs”. The rats had plenty of diversion, including colored balls to roll and play in. Apparently rats are crazy about playing with colored balls. Who knew?
The rats tried both water supplies, and knew what the effect of each would be. They avoided the drug tainted water and drank the clean pure water instead. In Rat Park, they had everything a rat could want- toys, tunnels, and plenty of rat pussy. When hearing about this experiment, I was immediately reminded of something William S. Burroughs , a lifelong heroin addict, had said: that given the absence of any strong motivation or interest in another direction, people will gravitate toward drug use. The implication is significant and large. If people have decent, interesting and fulfilling lives, they may experiment with drugs but they will steer clear of relying on them to the point of addiction and death.
I can personally vouch for this. I wasn’t just a smoker, I was a heroin addict. I won’t write about the time and the details of when I think I hit bottom. But when my life finally changed for the better, I was able to quit. I knew plenty of people who weren’t that lucky. The results of the Rat Park experiment ring true to me, just like Burroughs’ remark years ago had before. If they have the basic necessities to survive, some social support from their own kind and even a chance to prosper, most people can handle the rest on their own.
Participants List For the Twentieth Virtual Symposium CravingsAddictionsObsessions
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The topic is Cravings/Addictions/Obsessions
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Posted:May 31, 2016 11:47 am
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CravingsAddictionsObsessions Is The Topic For The Twentieth Virtual Symposium
“Cravings/Addictions/Obsessions” Is The Topic For The Twentieth Virtual Symposium
The Twentieth Virtual Symposium is approaching off the port bow, and the topic is Cravings/Addictions/Obsessions. At the stroke of midnight on 5 June entries are due, weather permitting. The Invasion of Normandy was all set for 5 June 1944 but Eisenhower had to postpone that event due to stormy weather. I figure this one will come off as planned. The site has had flareups which could be compared to stormy weather and they’ve thoughtfully managed to stage those flareups so as to interfere with past Symposia, but unlike the Allied Armies in 1944, we forged ahead and stormed the beaches anyway. If it helps, think of us as the Western Allies and think of the site as the Third Reich. Festung Europa. The U.S Army Rangers scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc and seized the fortifications there at great odds. Let us follow their lead and take inspiration from them. Not to mix metaphors from different wars and different administrations, but…bring it on! Currahee and all that!
The Symposia are about us, both the individual and the collective us. We select a single topic by vote and then attack that topic from all directions in the hope of enveloping it like a blogtown Cannae or Tannenberg. You can post on that topic in prose, verse or pictorially, and let your imagination run with it. The result will always be that we meet new blogging members, listen to different views and get to know one another better. It’s both an individual and a collective act that effectively makes as stronger allies. And, you never know- you might just meet one blogger in particular with whom you will form that ultimate alliance of body and spirit. There IS a fraternization rule here- you are encouraged to do so, as often as you can manage.
Visit humorlife’s post CravingsAddictionsObsessions Is The Topic For The Twentieth Virtual Symposium (“Cravings/Addictions/Obsessions” Is The Topic For The Twentieth Virtual Symposium) for details, and do submit a post. This is a hell of a lot of fun and brings us closer as a community.
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Re: Petition to Stop Transsexuals from Using Female Profiles
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Posted:May 13, 2016 8:15 pm
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Re: A “Petition to Stop Transsexuals from Using Female Profiles”
North Carolina’s legislature recently voted to bar transexuals from using public bathrooms other than the ones that correspond to their birth gender. This has never been a safety issue. We’ve all been sharing public restrooms with transgendered individuals for years. We’ve all been sharing the same restrooms with homosexuals as well. None of us are threatened by that. The state tried to make a case that they were protecting our from dangerous deviants. Their case is bullshit. Pedophiles overwhelmingly identify as heterosexual males. Most of them are WHITE males, which coincidentally is just the demographic that comprises the majority of both houses of the North Carolina legislature. I’m not implying that the bulk of North Carolina legislators are pedophiles. I’m just pointing out an interesting coincidence.
Other states are now considering bathroom bills, including my home state, Michigan. Another interesting coincidence comes to mind when I think of this- my state’s legislature is majority Republican, just like North Carolina’s! I suppose we have our pedophiles too. Whether they’re in our Capital or not is anyone’s guess. Maybe I should do some deeper research. Our governor is a mass poisoner, so anything’s possible. This ain’t much of a revelation. Wherever civil rights are being rolled back in America, you’ll find conservative Republicans, and you’ll usually find that they’re doing so for two reasons- they’re tossing out hunks of red meat to their base, and they’re trying to create a diversion from real and pressing issues facing both the state and federal governments.
We have increasing inequality of wealth, decreasing economic opportunity, rising healthcare and education costs, wholesale purchase of legislative bodies and corporate control of elections and election coverage in the media. The corporate parties and their puppets in the major media dangle a shiny object, like the rights of gay people to marry, the right of transgendered people to use whichever public washroom fits their gender identity, the right of women to reproductive choice- which by the way is the law of the land- and they distract the voters with these so called issues to divert our attention from the real and tangible problems that we want our governments to address.
And now we’re seeing a cheap and transparent attempt to cash in on trans bashing on this site by a formerly popular blogger who is very much put out that she’s no longer the top blogger. She apparently despairs of ever retaining the top spot on her own merits so she instead is trying to trash and tear down the current top blogger by insisting that the current number one is deceitful about which gender she identifies with. It ain’t so. Our current top blogger identifies as female, and her readers know that. She is honest about being transgender, and her readers know that too. The only deceit going on here is by the blogger who’s pretending to be concerned for our safety.
That blogger posted a “Petition to Stop Transsexuals from Using Female Profiles”. So, in the supposed interest of protecting us from being deceived by another member, the former top blogger is deceiving us herself about her own motives. It’s nothing more than bitterness and sour grapes. It’s mean and spiteful and it can’t work except with the most stupid and bigoted of members. And this is just what certain state governments are doing- trying to create a distraction in the hope that if they tear down the rights of others they can accrue more for themselves. It’s shortsighted, stupid, petty and wrong.
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Gracie Gets a Dog
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Posted:May 11, 2016 12:22 pm
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We invited an immigrant into our home. Sometimes when couples split up there are casualties, orphans. PD brought one home Saturday after helping out in a move to a new apartment. She called me from South Bend and asked if it was OK with me to bring Marco home. I like the little and we both worried about what might happen to him if we didn't adopt him. He got here about six forty five and he's made himself right at home. He and Gracie hit it off from the start. She has the patience of a hundred and ten pound saint and he's a five pound pervert. He gets very excited and anxious and tries humping everything in sight, but all that got transferred to poor Gracie. She's been very tolerant of him, if at first a bit confused.
I think he needs to set his sights a little lower. Gracie's a lot of female for him to handle. I do believe he thinks he's died and gone to heaven. It's said that once you go black you'll never go back, so we'll see if he can get past this. He's not much bigger than a dildo, and he has been acting a little like one. He takes rejection well, but he comes right back for more later- in case she changes her mind. I've heard women on this site gripe about similar behavior.
Now they're playing and chasing each other around the house. He follows her around both inside and out- Gracie's the only I know who has her own dog. After a short time outdoors he went right through the fence. My fence is a cattle fence- I built it for a Malemute, so it isn't squirrel proof. I was hoping he'd stay right by Gracie's side and respect the boundaries but he failed that test miserably and went on the lam straight away. So now he's on a leash, in protective custody, when he goes out.
He doesn't lack for spine- he defends his treats and makes a lot of noise doing it. Gracie didn't waste much time stealing them so he had to take a hard line with her about that, and issued a strongly worded statement. She's cool with that. Rather than force the issue, she's very nonchalant and the minute he isn't looking she just takes it anyway. PD bought him a little squeaky ball and she took that too. She was very pleasant about it, but in her view possession is nine tenths of the law, and size matters.
We've been correcting him for humping, and as he gets more comfortable he's settling down. He's very well behaved and obeys easily. We had thought we might try to find him a new home but PD is already getting very fond of Marco so I think I can see how this is going to turn out. Before we can try him in the forest he has to get some medication for ticks and parasites, and I suppose he'll have to learn to ride in a shoulder bag. I'm not sure he can do three miles and he might have to be carried. He's funny to watch- he darts around like a little water spider and only his head and tail stick up out of the myrtle.
It looks like Marco is here to stay.
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The Silence of the Trees
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Posted:May 7, 2016 6:32 pm
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Science Is The Topic For The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium
“Science” Is The Topic For The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium
“Silent Running” is one of my favorite science fiction movies ever. It was made in 1972. I was twenty one years old, if that helps to date it. The movie starred Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell, a botanist and ecologist on the American Airlines space freighter Valley Forge. The Valley Forge is fitted with geodesic dome greenhouses and is parked in an orbit beyond Saturn. It’s part of a fleet of such freighters and they’re loaded with trees and plants from a dystopian and barren planet Earth, where all natural botanical life has been erased. The project is intended to preserve some species for eventual return to Earth. Freeman Lowell is a bit of a misfit, alienated from the other crew members, and takes his task of the preservation of the trees as a sacred duty. He’s something of a joke to his fellow crewmen and spends most of his time in the greenhouses with the forest and the forest creatures.
The crew gets an order from Earth to jettison and explode the domes so that the freighters can return to Earth to haul more profitable freight. The crew rig the domes with nuclear charges without thinking twice, glad to be returning home. After seeing four of the domes destroyed, Lowell mutinies and resolves to save the remaining domes and their cargo of trees. He kills one crew member and locks the other two in the other dome, where they are destroyed along with the greenhouse in the following nuclear explosion.
Lowell has three robot tenders, maintenance drones, to help him in maintaining his remaining forest dome. He names them Huey, Dewey and Louie after Donald Duck’s nephews, and later reprograms them to plant and care for the trees by themselves, unattended. He then aims the Valley Forge at Saturn and slingshots around the planet, shooting off into space. Louie is lost in the process, but Lowell has two remaining robots and programs them to play cards with him for companionship in addition to their foresting duties. After some time, Lowell is appalled to see that the forest is dying, and realizes that they aren’t getting enough sunlight, so he rigs sunlamps in time to save the forest.
Finally, realizing both that his time is limited and that the robot drones are capable of caring for the forest forever without his help, Lowell jettisons the dome and detonates a nuclear charge, destroying the Valley Forge and himself in the explosion. As the movie ends we see the robot Dewey faithfully nursing the forest with his watering can.
The movie was at least once criticized as being simple minded. Maybe that was part of its appeal to me. There’s nothing pretentious about it. Freeman Lowell is alienated from the barren Earth of our near future and from his crewmates, who see their assignment as a hardship duty and just a lonely and boring job that they’d gladly trade for a less isolated station. It suits Lowell perfectly though. In another life and another time he might have been a forest recluse and woodsman. He was born out of his proper time and place and finds more comfort in the trees and the wildlife it sustains. I could identify with Lowell immediately and although it was hard to watch him murder his crewmen, I could sympathize- there were enough men, too many men- but only just this one remaining precious dome containing what was left of the flora of a once verdant planet Earth. I’ve often been more at home with the trees than with other people and I cherish the quiet and the solitude I find there.
The story of “Silent Running” was uncomplicated and profound only in its simplicity. It came at a time of a recognition that Earth itself is a spaceship carrying a precious cargo, and that cargo isn’t simply us, it’s an interconnected and complex ecosystem that has nurtured us since time immemorial. As much as we separate ourselves from nature, we’re a part of it and it’s in our DNA. When we obliterate it in pursuit of wealth we’re removing a far greater, far richer treasure from our lives and our spirits and it leaves us feeling bereaved. I hope we avoid a future like the one in “Silent Running” but there is some small comfort in the image of the geodesic dome with its forest surely and certainly gliding through deep space, its drone gardeners trundling along with their little watering cans.
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It's Science by Seven!
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Posted:May 2, 2016 12:26 pm
Last Updated:May 8, 2016 7:37 pm
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Science Is The Topic For The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium
“Science” Is The Topic For The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium
Science wins by seven votes. It’s a rare victory these days. Science needed a shot in the arm. There’s a notion that’s been circulating for years now that all theories are more or less equal. Scientific theory doesn’t work that way though. It’s an idea that’s tested through the scientific method- observation and experimentation. There has to be some kind of evidence that the theory is actually plausible and possible. Just because you have an idea and decide to call it a theory doesn’t make it the equal of a scientific theory. It might just be a stupid idea you had while drunk, stoned or otherwise mentally incapacitated.
I’ve been nursing a hunch for decades now that neither men nor women are native to this planet, but are the players in a cruel experiment by a superior intelligence in the universe. Men are an apelike species from somewhere out there, it doesn’t matter where, and women from an entirely different planet in a system as distant from the male planet as it is from earth. These alien pricks genetically modified us so that we must mate sexually to survive as a species, and tweaked our chemistries to make us crave but never understand each other. And then they plunked us down here on earth, and sat back to watch the show, sadistic fucks that they are. It’s just a hunch, but I’ve often referred to it as a theory, more in jest than anything else. I’ve simply been trying to illustrate the difficulty of men and women ever seeing eye to eye on…anything.
If any part of this theory can be confirmed, it’s that aliens don’t have to be insectlike arthropods with dripping fangs and an insatiable appetite for human flesh to be dicks. The killer arthropod is even a bit easier to deal with- you see it, you wanna kill it. Simple! The joker alien is tougher, and says it was just having a little laugh, sorry you didn’t get its sense of humor, but it was all meant in a spirit of fun, and if any real damage was done it’s because you just aren’t on its intellectual level. You really should go off and work on yourself and learn to deal with that before trying to deprive it of its right to free expression. It never meant any harm- you’re just too fucking sensitive. You worthless vermin. You really ought to take more pride in yourself. Lose some weight. Get fit so someone will want you.
But it still ain’t the equal of a scientific theory any more than the “theory” that Jesus rode a stegosaurus into Jerusalem instead of a donkey. Or the “theory” that any woman can control her body’s reproductive processes, and turn them on or off through sheer force of her capricious will. That if she gets pregnant, it’s because she wanted to. Women are an amazing organism, but it’s never been demonstrated that they can do that. An interesting facet of this last “theory” is that theoretically inferior women have so much control over themselves- and over men- but that hypothetically superior males are unable to control even themselves at the sight of a short skirt and cleavage. Ignorance can be corrected, but you can’t do a hell of a lot with stupidity.
The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium is upon us. In the wee early hours of the eighth of May, this continuing experiment kicks off its nineteenth installment. It’s a meeting of minds, and with some luck might culminate in the meeting of certain bodies too. Good luck!
Visit humorlife for details.
Science Is The Topic For The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium
“Science” Is The Topic For The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium
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The Virtual Symposium Returns: Let’s Pick A Topic!
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Posted:Apr 29, 2016 11:02 am
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The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic
The Nineteenth Virtual Symposium approaches. It’s party time again!
The topics listed on our ballots are doctors/lawyers/professionals, the 1960s, science, bisexuality and as is customary you can write in a topic, although this is a lot like backing Eugene McCarthy for President of the republic. It’s a statement of disaffection and dissent, but he ain’t gonna win.
I voted for science again and I see it's vaulted to an early lead. I leaned toward the sixties, but I really don't remember all of them. I do have a diploma around here somewhere dated 1969, so I'm pretty sure that happened, or else it's an elaborate hoax, and I can't imagine what would be the point of that. I have a good deal to say about doctors, lawyers and professionals but I can see that degenerating into a rant and eventually a diatribe, and I'm trying to keep an eye on my blood pressure. Bisexuality seems to be enjoying a rise in popularity these days, particularly in Congress. Bi-partisanship has suffered as a result, and I just don't understand that. I would have guessed that the two would go hand in hand, although not in the same bathroom. The Supreme Court would have to deliver a decision on that, i.e., are public spaces and businesses to be required to maintain separate facilities for pitchers and catchers, or can we all just piss in the same place, and have it declared a kind of neutral zone? Sex in public washrooms is featured heavily in erotic writing and in porn video clips, especially where the budget is somewhat limited. You just go into a gas station, ask for the key to the can, and then sneak in the thespians and a guy with a camera. You post somebody big and mean looking outside the door, and you’ve got a potential blockbuster on your hands, and maybe even some other stuff if you join in on the action yourself. You wouldn’t be the only director to do a cameo in his oeuvré.
Anyhow, the Symposium returns. Wander on over to humorlife’s blog and take a look at his post The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic for details. This thing is a lot of fun. This is your chance to shine too. Bloggers get a chance to read disparate views, including your own, on a single topic. You’re going to meet new participants whose posts you’ve not seen before, and you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a bright, witty and entertaining writer at this festival. Some of them are gonna look good to you too- maybe so good that you’ll want to pursue a more intimate relationship with them. Join the Nineteenth Virtual Symposium, meet interesting new members and, with a little luck, fuck them!
The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic, an installment in the continuing ouevré of humorlife.
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