Relaxing as myself — LeslieAnn — on summer vacation — the rest of the year was spent as a boy.
I didn’t like life as a boy; oh, sure, you got all the rights and privileges and perks of being a boy in a man’s world, but I had to constantly hide my gender. I bound my breasts down, wore socks to make a bulge and luckily or unluckily, my voice was naturally deep, like a 60 year old cigarette smoker — like, really deep.
My girlfriends used to make fun of my voice, and even though I could sing high harmonies in a perfectly fine soprano voice — and I can still hit the high notes today — I couldn’t make myself speak comfortably in a high squeaky voice, and I never did. Continue reading →
My airbrushed photo of Aunt Sophie at our summer home, the Old Zena Mill, Woodstock, NY
Aunt Sophie was an artist who thought the human body was just another thing to paint, draw, sculpt or photograph. She spent several days with me developing a portfolio of simple photos taken with my simple Ansco Flash Clipper and later a borrowed 35mm pre-war Leica III-C which I still have in my XXth Century Camera Collection. I’ve airbrushed a few of my photos of her and my other aunts, so I could share them here. If I’m wrong, I’ll take them down. Continue reading →
Dave Prowse was a prime participant in our London Sci-Fi Fantasy Cons — he lives with his wife & 3 children in Bristol, UK.
Gravity is often thought of as one of the few “forces” that travel through the universe, pushing, pulling and getting in the way of everything, cluttering up the whole thing with their interactive interactions, as it were.
“Modern” science knows nothing of forces — what they are, why they are here and where they come from. Some scientists think they’ve isolated four major forces that govern the Einsteinian Universe — The Strong Force, The Weak Force, Electro-Magnetism and Gravity.
Shit, Gravity ain’t even a force. It’s an effect of Space-Bending, which is itself a result of information imposed upon or embedded within the Space-Time Matrix, which is a phantom projection oriented on the grid, with “objects” placed where an effect is to occur.
Weak Force, Strong Force — who named those two things, anyway? Some addle-brained super-scholar must have hit on those…
“Say, I’ve just discovered the two most fundamental forces in the universe,” exclaims Scientist. Continue reading →
My Kodak Brownie photo of Aunt Bertha adjusting her slip, Sand Dunes Vermont, 1949.
I started with a Kodak Brownie, like every other kid on the block. It was a one-focus lens and a slow, slow shutter speed. The only thing you could do with that camera is what you see here — get about ten feet away from subject for full-body, three feet for closeups, and snap away, hope for the best. You had to send your film to Kodak in Rochester, New York to have your photos processed and printed glossy with gnarly deckled edges, making it hard to insert them into a photo album, but who cared, as long as the pictures came out. Continue reading →
Kurt Russell signed this photo, one of several dozen cast-signed shots from the production, including a signed original script. I’m trying to get Kurt or James Hong to sign one for Amy — it’s her favorite film!
Teena, if you read this, please ask Jim to sign & send photo, thx.
Yep, I did it; I went into ALL my Diablo II accounts and refreshed them, upgraded characters, settled the contents of backpacks and stashboxes, and in some cases took the character up a level or three, to make sure I wasn’t booted out for switching games too fast, although that did happen a few times in spite of my care.
In all, I’ve rescued about a hundred D2 characters, representing some $2,000 in value of what they carry, and another several thousand hours of gameplay over the past decade or more to bring them to that level.
So, they’re all fine, all doing well, none of them lost, none at all, including my level 77 HARDCORE chars in the EUROPEAN server and another 50 HardCore chars on the EASTERN server and still more, about fifty, in the WEST server, so I’m ready when you are to do Bardo Safaris in D2, and to hand out tons of great drops to those who join safaris. Continue reading →
Tiffany in Red Hearts handpainted dress, & Gorby in LeslieAnn Cowboy Hat, during photoshoot for tattoo-fashions.com
“Information, information, information…without good information, Gabriel, how can I possibly make good decisions???”— Lord God, Creation Story Verbatim
Anytime you add or subtract information from the surface of a Primitive Object, which is what most things are, no matter what they look like, including me and you and Tiffany here, it changes the object, “Heisenbergs” it, in a way… I’ll explain:
Take an object, any object, and describe it as a simple undifferentiated cube with no distinguishing characteristics at the moment.
Okay, now stuff the cube full of something — anything. It goes into the “contents”, which is to say, it is added to, and distributed by negentropy into small groupings or “bundles” and embedded into the surface — not the skin — of the cube. Some part of these “instructions” or “information” says that the cube now looks like a sphere.
All Particles (Cubes) act as Black Holes in respect to incoming information by accumulating the information and distributing it unevenly within its surface.
We can add yet more or entirely different information and make the cube look like Tiffany, or Gorby or both, but that’s another story involving quantum mechanics like the kind of calculations and theory that you would be forced to confront in a final exam. Information can be “stacked” or layered.
Information embedded in the surface of the particle isn’t necessarily flattened, but it can be, in the interest of Conservation of Information, a standard that Stephen hasn’t yet broken, and he won’t ever. The Conservation of Information is not destroyed by a Black Hole, the observational evidence isn’t yet in to support my position, but it’s on the way shortly. Continue reading →
I’ll bet you’re wondering how to get started on the Tattoo-Fashions road to success, happiness and a non-ink future for your kids & grandkids. It’s totally easy.
STEP ONE — Contact Yanesh or use the contact page on this website for information about how you can participate in the Space-Bender Project.
STEP TWO — Refer to Step One.
What is Tattoo-Fashions?
Amy’s Upper Back Tattoo was hand-drawn by her — note the intricacy and detail achieved in this blue ink skin tattoo.
First of all, I DON’T create my designs in Photoshop. I hand-draw and hand-paint them, and so does Amy. I’m so amazed at her hand-drawn upper back design, truly a work of art, not a mechanical “art” tattoo as you’d see in the standard blue-ink parlors.
Neither Amy nor I depend on mechanical drawing in Photoshop or anywhere else, to get us where we want to go, and we’re sharing our skills with our tattoo-fashions students at women’s creative workshop.
We just don’t use mechanical drawing for anything, not for any reason whatsoever. If you ain’t got it in the hands, you ain’t got it, baby. Continue reading →
“Fresh Space-Bender Tramp-Stamps For Sale Here Today!!!” — that’s what I told the sign-maker at Staples yesterday afternoon that I wanted for a sign over my street booth, because this will be my 36th year at both the Victorian Christmas in Nevada City, now also in its 36th year of Christmas Cheer & Tradition, featuring roasted chestnuts, gas lighting in a quaint 19th century atmospheric setting — the town is basically as it was 150 years ago.
I’ll also be, as usual, in my booth at the world-famous Cornish Christmas celebration in Grass Valley, which began in 1967 as a way to preserve Grass Valley’s Cornish traditions and history. Food & drink from Gold Rush Days are served, and strolling musicians, jugglers, fire-eaters and belly-dancers abound, as well as Cornish Choir and the Tommyknocker Cloggers, an amazing and popular act.
I’ll of course be doing my contact juggling, hoop work, stick twirling and the ever-popular 2,000 year old Miracle of the Chinese Linking Rings and my Atlantean Crystal Ball and Lemurian Floating Zombie Ball. I will also undoubtedly want to bring along a few Houdini Lights and a change-bag full of health-food candy.
“So, LeslieAnn,” she replied, “you want a sign that says ‘Fresh Space-Bender TempTats For Sale Here Today!!!’???” she smiled, obviously ready to make the sign the moment I nodded “yes”.
“Okay, that’ll be $80, is that ok? It’s $10 a word, and I can count Tramp-Stamps as one word, because it’s hyphenated.”
Have I got a Wormhole for you!!! Here are my Tribal Style Space-Bender TempTats. Well, not all of them — they now number in the high hundreds, and I’m working hard to get them up online so you can see them and order them. The ones I’m showing can be worn just about anywhere from lower back or tummy to arms, inner thigh, spine, shoulder, and even face or as a choker necklace tat. All of the positions work, and each position has its very own unique Quantum Effect.
Which tattoo is best? Which position on which body part should I wear it??? Continue reading →
Tiffany Models my CUSTOMIZED “Folded Space” Copper Waking State Trigger Necklace, $225 plus tax & shipping.
There are a number of ways for an Exploratory Voyager to go XD — Trans-Dimensional, and to actually travel to a different dimension. Some of those ways involve basically just standing or sitting around waiting for it to happen, sort of like standing on a train-track thinking nothing will ever come along. Another way for you to go XD and move over to another dimension, reality zone or time zone is to use your standard galaxy-wide XD vehicle, the ever-popular UFO.
Problem is, there are only a few local Urthside manufacturers of UFOs, and most of them are on contract with Pan Am and Mercury Records, for two different reasons — Pan Am is planning commercial UFO round-trips to the moon, Mars and Asteroid Belt. I’m hoping they’ll put Europa and Vesta on the tour, because I’ve already got two incredible light- gravity nightclubs operating there; I’m currently in immortal combat on building permit issues with Solaria, nevertheless I’ve got bulldozers ready to break ground on Ganymede to handle the crushing crowds of XD Clubbers, but I could always use more business — who couldn’t???
Speaking of business, I realize now that I haven’t even brought up yet the subject of this blog. Terribly remiss of me; I’ll do my best to correct it, starting out with the Standard American Apology: “My Bad”. I can’t get the etymology of this baby, but my best guess is that it came out of a university undergrad trying to be cute.
No college student is cute except to a sex-clouded mind. Babies are sometimes cute, although I’ve seen my share of ugly babies. Some adults are especially ugly, yet they all seem to find enough partners to make a lot of ugly babies. Love is blind. So is sex. So is greed. So is stupidity. So is sociopathic psychosis. Don’t get me started on Humans of Planet Urth; I can go on about them all day long and never stop laughing.
There’s no better way to learn to handle SkyWalking and Bardo Running than to use my special XD HIKING, CAMPING & SURVIVAL TOOLS to walk through and around and across many dimensional boundaries in a single day and, yes, Virginia, there is a way of actual travel, not just with the vision, but you need the tools and the survival skills before you try to go too far across the dimensional boundaries.
Einstein knew how XD Voyaging would be accomplished. Here’s how it’s done: Continue reading →
