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[Yo-L]

[xomunkixo]

I knew I remembered something about the native Americans. And they have that sunrise gathering every year. I wonder if that's going to coincide with that Sol theme we had?

For the wiki, I mostly want to see the blogs and contact info for each character on the character pages, but you're probably already doing that classi. Haha.

[classical]

[Grady Martin]

the square tower in brightman1.jpg may be a square tower at Hovenweep

http://www.k-state.edu/audubon/archaeoastronomy/square_tower_hovenweep_6938.jpg

[Tempestdevil]

If anyone is interested.. I don't know if the song itself is relevant at all or not.. I found a crystal clear copy of Twilight Time on youtube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUQduCNgK4

[Grady Martin]

ha - this is rich - it's a coincidence, okay - it's only a coincidence

say you're driving from Los Angeles to Hovenweep

the last paved road you're likely to enjoy is U.S. Route 491, which from 1926 to 2003 was known as U.S. Route 666

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and to extend this connection further, The Tower (16) follows The Devil (15) in The Major Arcana

[Grady Martin]

that's Tony Angeles's version of Twilight Time - beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZocVb_edbs

one of the original Platters was named David Lynch - don't worry - i know that is OOG

[windup angel]

OOG

Lyrics to I'm Sorry by Jessica Riddle from Key of A Minor - doubtfully in game, title just happened to have a bunch of keywords that had come up so far (kind of like grady's Lenny Bruce Live at the Curran album), and I needed a laughs.

And speaking of OOG (and laffs), since I started over (the other day) Right From The Beginning, I thought the clue bat (same day) was hilarious cuz of this. At this point, doubtfully in game, and doubtfully of any meaning except to me... but I just fell like sharing some of my laughs at this point...


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edit late Sun afternoon... up to p36, so I'm almost full circle now. Just got to the CptHolly stuff... not sure what to make of it cuz IMO that is 99% oog stuff. Makes me wonder if there are supposed to be "anti-Watchers" (ie, people doing what the Watchers are doing, except not helping us?) Given the "clue bat" the other day, that wouldn't seem to make sense, though. The 1% that seems to maybe be ig is

[Grady Martin]

i checked a few volumes of early 70s Complete Crumb last week - nada

there were dozens of active published underground cartoonists in the early 70s - the description given by CptHolly could fit the work of practically any one them

a generous archivist offers his collection online - he's up to G - i've downloaded many of them, with no luck - i've also asked about the comic in question in the comments to the "G" post - no reply - (personal fave - Rory Hayes's Boogeyman Comics - sick)

i have a couple of other queries out - nothing definitive has come back

and again, as far as meta-klews go, while i agree that Turnage herself and the character she portrays in real life are both probably way way OOG, some or all of the material she investigates might be relevant, as could the material prepared by Brian Bricker for the EMT Instructor's Manual, which is available as a free .pdf download to "verifiable instructors", which i am not, but i suppose, for example, an art instructor at a junior college has the credentials required - i'm just sayin'

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[windup angel]

Grady, acknowledged, but we're gonna have to agree to disagree... remember, "keep it between the ditches"... wayback machine's got that Turnage page mentioning bricker archived back in '99 - so it is def not a clue planted for the game. So, it is only "background" if CptHolly is in game, because AFAICT this first comes up in CH's email to Aki.

Given the clue bat the other day, we can (I believe) safely assume that the PMs have not been actively encouraging people to abandon the game. Based on that, we can assume that CptHolly is not in game, and consequently that Turnage is completely "outside of the ditches" (meaning it is neither directly nor indirectly related.)

I could be wrong about that, but before I spend even a second looking at Turnage, I'd need a better argument in favor of Turnage's validity than simply that she "might be relevant" in some unspecified way.

... and digging through obscure underground comics looking for shadows labeled "rage", girls named "Jenny", or "Konig Harbor" sounds like a needle in a haystack. Zilch comes up in google searches for any of that (except what's been spawned off of here). (And I've read more than my share of underground comics in my time, and this rings no specific bells.) If somebody has gone through all the 72-74 Crumb Comics (should start around v8 and go for a few volumes) with no positive ID, I'd recommend abandoning that as outside the ditches also...

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[Grady Martin]

i don't think we should take too literal a reading of the trucker idiom "keep it between the ditches," which simply means "good luck" or "drive safely" - where exactly are the "ditches" in a text like TGATT or the ambiguous "clue bat" of a few days ago? - we're looking for something in a beater RV full of dancing girls and dudes with typewriters and Dennis Hopper at the wheel? - what does that mean? - is anyone here really pickin' up on what they're layin' down?

so here's something - Brightman Institute of Mental Health is referenced in the Wikipedia article on the Works Progress Administration - here's the diff showing the article pre and post BIMH insertion, which occured on 1/21/09

[windup angel]

[Grady Martin]

i knew you were going to say that