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CaptKing
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 		Well, I guess there is more to the program, I must have missed alot! I will go back and see what I missed.

Also, any one else get the "Sound of Ascension" CD? It's actually quite important to our mission. Make sure to check out ALL of the tracks.
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Rolling Eyes guess I'll just have to wait. Have the CD in the meantime.
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 		coinage
we actually asked the half-bearded TV gentleman, but he knew nothing. we totally thought we were onto something.

i will check back again for the teeth maybe today and i guess we should keep our eyes on the &_coin info for more direction. liz and i also got the CD, but i haven't listened to it yet.

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CaptKing
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 		Re: coinage
darlingville wrote:
we actually asked the half-bearded TV gentleman, but he knew nothing. we totally thought we were onto something.

i will check back again for the teeth maybe today and i guess we should keep our eyes on the &_coin info for more direction. liz and i also got the CD, but i haven't listened to it yet.


[content omitted... I dont care what people say]

Send me an e-mail brettlowersSPLATgmail.com and I can tell you more.
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 		For any of you that know the contents of the CD, and wish to save yourself work on the thing at hand,
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I'm working on figuring out the exact path that is described in track 16


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CaptKing
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 		I think, sense alot of this discussion is against UF's ToS, I think we need to move the discussion to another forum.

I'll see what I can set up, and we can try to move everything over there.

Monotony wrote:
For any of you that know the contents of the CD, and wish to save yourself work on the thing at hand,
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I'm working on figuring out the exact path that is described in track 16


Actually, I suggest:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Take the route while listening to the track, it adds so much more too the experience... also, it's important we support the creators by purchasing the CD... none of this can be cheap.

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much better idea. I thought that there might be some sort of symbol that the trail made, but i'm not so sure, and havn't gotten around to it.


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CaptKing
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 		Nonchalance Flow Chart
Good day,

Below is a flow chart, connecting all of the pieces we know so far.

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http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nonchalanceflowchartun8.jpg


If you wish to check out more about nonchalance, make sure to read this article, it gives a great history about nonchalance and what it means:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/vsgsa/history/candidates/jespinosa/Nonchalance_Tribe_abstract.pdf (from the nonchalant cards)

Also, I would like to give a little theory of what this all means as of right now...

(warning, big spoilers about the current act are included, DO NOT read if you have not listened to "The Sound of Ascension" and followed the secret track)

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Nonchalance is the idea that we are all one, we are all a community of people who work together for a greater whole. Though some may see Nonchalance as a culture that does nothing but promote laziness and uncaring, it actually allows us to become closer with one another. Though the methods of the Nonchalant's seem strange to some, they are actually living the life they want while not worrying about what others say... a type of inner peace if you will. Eva Lucien is the human incarnation of this idea of nonchalance. Years ago, many people came together to share this view, creating the Savants. The Savants and Eva metaphorically represent what San Francisco USED to be. A city full of culture, anti-establishment, and nonchalance (you see this in the current act when you are asked to look into a little window and see San Francisco... little Eva says that is her).

The Jejune Institute's ultimate goal is to deliver artificial Nonchalance (or False-Nonchalance according to EPWA) to the masses using polywater, and other devices. A corporate bastardization of Nonchalance if you will. This parallels the cultural "destruction" of San Francisco via corporate invasion of small neighborhoods, such as the big box store moving into the Mission District. Seeing that the culture of Nonchalance was beginning to disappear, the last remaining Nonchalants came together and created the Elsewhere Public Works, looking to Eva as their "savior." Eva could be viewed as a possible "jesus" of Nonchalance.

Ultimately, I believe when/if we find Eva, we can bring "nonchalance" back into the city of San Francisco and make it the community it once was... well at least in the Lore of this experience. All the while, we become part of this "nonchalant" world by exploring areas of San Francisco and appreciating the culture that has been lost to our corporate "jejune" world.


Too Long; Didn't Read version:
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What are you doing?! Just read it, you Jerkalope


*EDITED FLOWCHART TO INCLUDE MORE CHARACTERS/FIX SOME ERRORS*
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 		Well, this community sure isn't going to go very far without some coinage to move the story along. Anyone have any luck getting any hobo coins? Still nothing on th epwa.
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CaptKing
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JTony wrote:
Well, this community sure isn't going to go very far without some coinage to move the story along. Anyone have any luck getting any hobo coins? Still nothing on th epwa.


Well, I have an idea what is going on (if you havent listened to the broadcast, make sure to check it out!)

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I called the store that is selling the "teeth" (you purchase them with the hobo coins supposedly) they are going on sale sometime next week. So, I think we should hear more soon. I guess we just have to wait some more (seems like a pattern huh?) Wink

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 		RADIO NONCHALANCE
i miss mix tapes
So I'm sure most of you already heard the broadcast already, but i made a tape of it in case we missed anything. pm me if you need to know something, but really check it out for yourself.
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What’s your SF like?
CaptKing's post got me thinking about SF and how it used to be, I only want to talk about the good stuff like things you used to do or like to do, good memories and stuff that is still good. I'll get things started but please I'd love to hear what you were/are into or are up to.
My favorite things must have been the music venues and shows my friends and I used to go too, Mission Street Music, favorite show- Dystopia, Trocadero favorite show- NEUROSIS, and still going to see friend's bands play Hemlock Tavern.
A good memory would be when I bought my motorcycle from Dudley Perkins; they were nice to me even though I hardly knew how to ride.
And I still love visiting the dirty spoons and hole in the wall joints with my wife, just a few faves are katsu curry @ On the Bridge in J-town, and Jay's Cheesesteaks mmm garlic fries.
Ok now let's hear what you and your friends like to do.
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What’s your SF like?
First off, H, I wanna say that I agree with you on the point of On the Bridge: super-good vegetarian curry and sometimes they'll make it spicy, don't let the one lady tell you different. Unless you try and she still tells you different, then I guess you have to go with it. It's a coin toss.

briareosH wrote:
CaptKing's post got me thinking about SF and how it used to be, I only want to talk about the good stuff like things you used to do or like to do, good memories and stuff that is still good. I'll get things started but please I'd love to hear what you were/are into or are up to.


H, your opener of how you view SF and how it used to be resonates with one of my first experiences moving here. I was out with a friend who was showing me around, and we stopped in Borderlands Books on Valencia, the one with the awesome hairless cat? I love that cat. Cat was just chilling on the register and I went up to him and he'd arch his head out and put his forehead on mine. It was like meeting Wesley Willis but not really.

Anyway, the guy working the store that evening and I were chatting about how I just moved there, and he told me that SF wasn't like it used to be, things had changed. I had no idea what he meant, not having a frame of reference, but I said something like, "Oh, great, thanks for the encouraging welcome," har. But he and the cat were cool. I wonder if he's still working there. The human dude, that is.

My first February here I participated in a march put on by some org that had a name like Take Back Our Streets, which had a goal of reclaiming public space but in this particular instance, it was more of a chance for people to march down Haight and fuck up traffic. But the theme was Love Pirates - something about Valentine's Day - and I'll take any chance to dress up like a pirate, seeing as I loves me some pirates. Imagine about 200 or 300 people marching from GG Park along Haight to Ashbury with some sort of techno pumping out a big amp on a cart and people are dressed to various nines as pirates of various sorts and archetypes. Or just as themselves - but I get it, pirating is hard to break into, I can dig it.

While we're marching and blocking all east-bound traffic, I noticed that cops were walking along the sidewalks on both sides. I thought, "Fucking hell, we're all going to get arrested. We're done for." But no, they were just there to make sure it didn't get totally out of hand. Someone had put a couch out in the Haight/Ashbury intersection and the people on it were smoking pot, the cops did nothing. In fact, the only time I saw an officer do anything was to tell some guy that if he wanted to drink his beer, he'd have to do it on the sidewalk because open liquor wasn't allowed on the street. And then the officer saw that one of the event organizers was nearby and they shook hands.

I'm from Chicago, cops are just not that NICE in Chicago. Not at all. If we tried this sort of thing there, we'd all have police records now. Blew my head open. SF is permissible, to a degree, as you can get away with all sorts of benign things here that would nevertheless draw negative attention in other cities. I still think that's true.

Related to that Octavio and his interest in Breatharianism, here's an interview with Wiley Brooks! http://revision3.com/webdrifter/wbrooks/ Apparently McDonald's serves FIFTH DIMENSIONAL FOOD. WHO KNEW?! AJ KLAK!

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