Something New in Town

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Leslie Ann presents the new Isiris Mausoleum installation at Old Town, 3200 metres — following is a transcript of the builder’s description of the Mausoleum:

THE MYTH WE CALL “DEATH” —

Isiris Mausoleum is more than a simple crypt, indeed it is a palace dedicated to the great beyond. It is designed to be an experiential journey through the afterlife based on ancient, medieval and even more contemporary myths. As you enter it you are greeted by traditional omens and symbols of passing to the other side. As you explore you will find traps, ghosts, and clues about your journey.

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In the lowest level of Isiris Mausoleum you will encounter the Underworld where Charon will carry you on his boat along the River Styx to continue your journey to the higher levels.

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What is Level 99???

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Screenshot of Gorebagg achieving level 99 Measured against all competing Assassins in West Ladder. You will note that all other Assassins are at level 98 at this time. Gorebagg was the very first competitor at level 99, three seasons running!!! How you can tell that Gorebagg was the very first player at the 99 level is that there are no other assassins at level 99 at this time — the closest Assassin competitor is at level 98 — a close second, by the way.

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Here’s Gorebagg, momentarily at the World Champion #1 Position. Note that almost all the nearby competitors are Paladins. Just try the same thing with an Assassin and see what brutal really can look like! Without the Pallys, there’d be no 99s on there at all, and LOH Obama really helped a lot toward the end, as did so many of my D2 buds.

But what is it really like to be a Level 99? The answer in a nutshell is: “I go where I am needed and I do what must be done.” When a Level 1 can do the job with bull-headed wrestling and weight-pushing, why not use a Level 1, and that’s my favorite player position, but we can’t always get what we want…oooh, that gives me an idea for a song.

See You At The Top!!!

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Hunting Gear

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We all know the effects of aging, but if you’re out there on the ever-popular Mate-Market, age effects are anything but welcome. Let’s generate a short list of the biggest problems… okay, first on the list would be age lines, which includes crow’s feet, cracked lips, worry lines, frown lines and just plain pits, crags and crevices.

Then comes a parade of concerns: sagging breasts, butt and tummy; puffy eyes, mottled skin, corns, moles, cellulite, varicose veins and a variety of personal tragedies in the form of self-imagined “imperfections” and “blemishes”.

There are many thousands of remedies available to the elderly mate-hunter; first and foremost would be cosmetics, which can transform a person into someone they aren’t, as any movie-goer can tell you. In daylight, of course, the pumpkin reverts to type.

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GoreBagg 99 is Back in Town

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My deleted level 99, GoreBagg, is back in business, currently sitting at level 91, after a strong opening two weeks ago. Taking my time leveling, I’m also doing a lot of magic find for the folks coming up the line. We’re running lots of D2 safaris now that it’s very clear that we won’t be using D3 anytime soon. Had we known that Blizzard intended to scrub out any vestige of what made D2 charming, we’d have saved ourselves the trouble of the download and install, but we gave D3 a very fair chance — it was Blizzard that wanted to kill the game, and they managed to succeed eminently well. D3 is dead, long live D2.

See You At The Top!!!

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A Viral Video For Your Thoughts…

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Viral Video department…how can i help you???

Oh, you want to know, without taking up your precious time and exerting all that effort and trouble to find out which are the most popular blues-rock and straight blues songs of the past 50 years?

Hey, i got nothin’ to do for the next 22 hours…. Hang loose, i’ll be right back…oops, this is the 21st century, isn’t it? So what i meant was, “brb”.

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The Crystal People

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Something about crystals fascinates and attracts people. You probably know this already, and crystals do have an attraction for you, but I’ll bet dollars to donuts you don’t know why. It’s no secret unless you don’t happen to know it or grow up around folks who do know the secret of crystals. Secrets remain secret only until they’re published on Facebook. It is a Big Secret only because The Secret Keeps Itself, but hey — I’ll be only too happy to reveal it to you forthwith:

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Heed My Admonition

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Heed My Admonition, to wit:

It’s All In The Marketing.

I’ll explain briefly, then elaborate at this morning’s 6:30 live forum… In a word, merely showing up at the Ashram is enough to elevate the soul at least a little, out of the hole it’s in. That having been said, there’s lots of room for improvement at that level of participation.

You’re on the Bodhisattva Path. Okay, what exactly does that mean? Think Mother Theresa, and you’ll have only one tenth the answer. It takes more than being a wandering healer to make a Bodhisattva, but the Root Idea, the Fundamental Principle, is the same — first you have to find someone who needs and wants healing. The “and wants” part is the thing that most allopathic doctors are trained to ignore. My doctor is a rare exception to this generalization, and I hope you’ve found one like that yourself.

Being on the Bodhisattva Path, the first thing you’ll notice is that it’s not for your benefit. That’s actually a definition of the Bodhisattva Path. So you need to retrain yourself to find folks that need The Work and deserve to get into it, have the will to complete the training and the heart to apply it. That’d be a good definition of you, if you’ve read down this far.

You clearly don’t lack the heart or the will, but you might yet lack the skills to actually do the job, to get folks coming to the Ashram for healing, deep meditation, reincarnation awareness and shamanic skills training, movement classes, and directed prayer training clinics and Advanced Learning Retreats (ALRs), especially those involving advanced acrobatic flight…and of course, the InterDimensional Excursions and Familiarity Runs in L315a and other similar AEs (Advanced Environments).

Enough said. More at today’s 6:30 morning work session.

See You At The Top!!!

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Gods Phone Home

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What did the ancients know about Trans-Dimensional Voyagers and contact with Extra-Dimensional Beings? First of all, you can bet dollars to donuts they knew how to contact them, because they were given specific instructions. See, the CR, or Contact Ritual, has to be complex enough to signify to the receiving end that you really mean it, that it wasn’t a dumb accident of nature that set off the contact signal. Consequently, a rather complex set of ritual actions, sounds, aromas, emotional triggers, etc. which activate the Trans-D channel of choice, determined by type of ritual and significant changes in detail, such as copal incense instead of another plant-resin or herbal incense, or a significant alteration in costume, activities and time of day the ritual is conducted. All these details make a huge difference in whom you contact, why, and the outcome of said contact. In the case of the Egyptians, the contact was with the Orion Group, for the purpose of tribal welfare in exchange for the performance of certain rituals necessary for the Other Side’s welfare as well as the well-being of those on Our Side, as it were. The Work is a coop effort, and it takes help on the Other Side to accomplish anything at all anywhere. You need the direct help of Higher Beings, but you must earn it; one way to dig yourself into a Place in the Work is to be of use in a Trans-Dimensional Ritual Contact…but Egyptian Temples are sooooo expensive, and sooooo hard to come by these days…

Ah, wait, I have it…what about meeting in a Quantum Space Egyptian Temple? So, I’m building it now. Not the Second Life kind of temple, which doesn’t take into account a four-across march through the thing. I’m building Temples that have enough room and no odd collisions, barriers, or sticky places that push you backwards or sideways as you try to walk. These are temples for daily TDC (Trans-Dimensional Contact) usage, and they’re built to take the traffic. I’ve loaded them with a SuperBeacon Complex and Matrix System, so these are real XD and TD Bangers!!! Of course, you’ll get no local result without an ammy — the ammy of choice for this effort is the latest in our ammy offerings: The BiT Ammy. BiT — Upper Case “B”, Lower Case “i”, Upper Case “T”, stands for Bodhisattva-in-Training, and that’d be you, if you’ve read down this far. Each chamber has its own enactment, triggering a specific co-action at the receiving end of the Quantum Entanglement Connection established by the Temple design and usage. So, we’ll be talking about this stuff all through this weekend’s Contact Con, and I hope you’ll be there! If you can’t attend in person, you can attend online. If you can’t make all the training sessions, get there whenever you can make it, nobody’s keeping score! If you can’t afford the convention, talk to Yanesh and work something out! You do NOT want to miss this Urth-Shaking Event!!!

See You At The Top!!!

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Bill Lucking

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Bill Lucking, actor friend, starred in Lou Shaw’s production of Barbara Garson’s MacBird. He looked the Kennedy part and played it to the hilt, but he’s known for many acting milestones beyond MacBird. These photos are from a series of photo sessions with Bill and other actors of the Pasadena Playhouse, Player’s Ring Gallery, Moulin Rouge, and other L.A. live stage venues. I have many more shots with Bill in them, and will be rummaging about in my negative files to find them. The negs finally turned up after four decades of “missing in action”. They were discovered in storage, in a perfectly logical “Perfect” hiding spot. Here are a few shots from a session at Norton Street.

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Maya the Dance of Illusion

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Here’s what I’m working on for release sometime very very soon. This was my first complete 3D game, but was never released, because the technology didn’t allow me to do certain things. Now I can, so here it comes to you in just a few days time. I’ll release it in stages of completion, allowing you to save earlier versions if you like, to see how I develop the levels out. There are a total of 12 levels, seven of them “named levels” with levelups and powerups, and side missions galore. It’s a huge map with lots to explore, and NO straps whatever! It’s all one big map with instant teles ONLY!!!

See You At The Top!!!

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