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Lemon Crystals
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 		 Octavio Coleman
I thought the name "Octavio Coleman" was familiar but i didn't know where i had heard it before until the other day, when i was organizing my closet & came across the zine "Orange". In "Orange" which seems to be produced by the same person who called themself "Uzi Reptoid", that is Sean Aaberg/Goblinko, also a founding member of the actual Nonchalance with EPWA/Nonchalance producer Jeff Hull, there is an insane review panel of every orange soda in existence. One of the reviewers is Octavio Coleman, but it isn't the Octavio Coleman in this game, it looks like Jeff Hull/Bobby Peru. I thought it was very strange that he calls himself Octavio Coleman in this piece. I need to check out my Oakslander Lakeside Gazettes & see if Octavio Coleman makes any appearances in those. Outside of this just being interesting, this might also play into the story in terms of Nonchalance & the EPWA not actually being opposed forces.

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Lemon Crystals
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In doing further research i came across this older zine by Sean/Goblinko/Uzi Reptoid.
Go Megazine
SYNTHETIC CULTURE
* * * * *

Go Megazine started off as an ultra-futurist, synthetic culturalist journal of social and spatial engineering with the hopes of creating a new and complete urbanism based on the art and philosophical movements of the 20th century.

As time wore on, the serious tone of the magazine was replaced by a maddening foray into the worlds of post-modernist non-structuralism, misappropriation of the English language as used by the Japanese and French, Pop Socialism as was found on 1980s synth-pop records, and a modern pop surface, as written entirely by puppets and cartoon characters.

Go Megazine is perfect for anyone who experiences culture as a fluid, boundless energy that flows throughout the world instead of as a coherent pillar of reality. Go is the creation of Katie and Sean Aäberg.

http://wonderella.org/publications/archive/go.htm

I don't have any of these zines but i feel that they might develop some kind of back story for this whole Nonchalance thing. They seem like the products of the Jejune Institute to me.

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Lemon Crystals
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Just noticed that among the reviewers in Orange is someone who looks remarkably like Kelvin Williams as well.

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 		Lemon Crystals, you get hella gold stars for all that research. I can't remember if we've talked about it here before, but there's an Oaklandish zine where Torry Hotprune makes an appearance. It doesn't surprise me that more of the characters from this tale -- or at least their names -- are mined from the past creative endeavors of all involved. They've just been up to crazy creative stuff from BEYOND TIME. BEYOND TIME.

Okay, weird, my world's getting smaller again. In the last few months I've come across Wonderella at least twice. Once at Alternative Press Expo where I got to see so many lovely Wonderella cardstock models and prints and things I wanted to give a home to, except my apartment barely tops 500 square feet so I gotta be careful as to how much is coming in and taking up space. I did pick something up though. The second time was at the Goteblüd Zine Gallery on Valencia in the Mission, I got a tiny zine from some croquet club, about what they'd been getting up to.

Anyway, the moral of the story is that on some weekend soon you should go visit Goteblüd and go through the zines, because for all we know they have copies Go Megazine and the Oaklandish zine and if they don't, there are still tons of other treasures.

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Rewind '99: http://www.sfweekly.com/1999-04-14/calendar/night-crawler/

"Lemon Crystals." Like!

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 		The Jejune Institute
So Wonderella does Occultism & Croquet? I suppose there's a connection. Hmmm. Wow, small apartment Jason! What i'm thinking though is that the "Games of Nonchalance" might be something the Jejune Institute would create itself, do you get what i'm saying? As if the game was a reflection of something that happened in reality or further, that it is a social experiment running as a product of something not unlike the Jejune Institute.

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 		Re: The Jejune Institute
Lemon Crystals wrote:
So Wonderella does Occultism & Croquet? I suppose there's a connection.

Now that you mention it, the zine issue I have breaks up into three sections (maybe four, if you count a game-tracking device included as a centerfold): one on the editor's outing to an exclusive event of sorts, one on a variant wicket set-up, and one for a tarot spread done to divine a rival team's performance over the coming year.

Lemon Crystals wrote:
What i'm thinking though is that the "Games of Nonchalance" might be something the Jejune Institute would create itself, do you get what i'm saying? As if the game was a reflection of something that happened in reality or further, that it is a social experiment running as a product of something not unlike the Jejune Institute.

Funny you should mention that. MrEricSir, Alexia Anthem, Everfalling and I have perhaps been remiss in discussing a recent prose reading given last month by Laura Moriarty and Standard Schaefer, reading portions of their work "The Feralist Papers," a non-linear (ish, sort of... at least told from multiple perspectives) detective narrative of sorts. I refrained from writing about it because it was quite a heady listen and I don't think I could discuss it in a way that did it justice. I'd need a re-read at the very least. But one part of the story was regarding the scavenger hunt/map making up Chapter 1, and how it was an outreach program run by the Jejune Institute to reach new potential inductees.

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 		i don't wanna come off as rude or nit-picky or anything but as awesome as your find is it's awfully meta (for which there is a thread). just sayin. you don't have to move it over there but at least put it in spoiler tags and mark it as META information. TINAG afterall Razz
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 		Re: The Jejune Institute
Jason 7au wrote:

Funny you should mention that. MrEricSir, Alexia Anthem, Everfalling and I have perhaps been remiss in discussing a recent prose reading given last month by Laura Moriarty and Standard Schaefer, reading portions of their work "The Feralist Papers," a non-linear (ish, sort of... at least told from multiple perspectives) detective narrative of sorts. I refrained from writing about it because it was quite a heady listen and I don't think I could discuss it in a way that did it justice. I'd need a re-read at the very least. But one part of the story was regarding the scavenger hunt/map making up Chapter 1, and how it was an outreach program run by the Jejune Institute to reach new potential inductees.


oh yeah. i forgot all about that. i have the video recording of it sitting on my computer. i'll post it somewhere for those who wanna actually sit through it.

edit: here we go

http://vimeo.com/8207129
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 		Thanks for the Vimeo link, Everfalling. I'm watching it right now, and while it's a bit...different(?) than I was expecting, it's still pretty cool and interesting.

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Everfalling wrote:
i don't wanna come off as rude or nit-picky or anything but as awesome as your find is it's awfully meta (for which there is a thread). just sayin. you don't have to move it over there but at least put it in spoiler tags and mark it as META information. TINAG afterall Razz


Whoops! Thank you, next time I'll pontificate over in the meta thread. Are we wrapping meta info in spoiler tags? Is that the etiquette? I can't keep it straight.

Also thanks for posting that video!

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 		Whoops!
Sorry, didn't mean to break protocol, i didn't realize there was another thread for the "meta" info.

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 		hopefully not too "meta"!
I still think my central question or observation hasn't really been explored here, which is that this game has way more levels than are obvious and that if you look at it as a larger body of work it goes back to 1999 and there is alot of stuff that isn't necessarily directly part of the active game structure, there is alot of stuff that probably adds to the whole experience, which i think has been the whole point of the game in the first place.
For instance, Sean Aaberg's zine "Goblin's Armpit" started in 1988 according to zinewiki. http://zinewiki.com/Goblin's_Armpit
On the post about Oakslander it says, "Oakslander featured the Oaklandish approach to local history, which is about the grit, grind and grease of Oakland, stuff that is usually just swept into the back alleys or hidden under cardboard. This technique of edutainment is undoubtedly rooted in the 1970s and the urban renewal program." This is very similar to what Jeff Hull has said about the purpose of the Games of Nonchalance. But, what i'm noticing is that this isn't the kind of thing the EPWA would do, this seems like what Octavio Coleman & the Jejune Institute would do. Yes?

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for anyone that cares, the background song of the newest podcast is by the album leaf =) i love them!

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