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Psychoceramics...The Final Frontier
I gotta tell ya, folks, ever since coming across High Weirdness by
Mail by Ivan Stang when I was 18,
I've just been flat-out fascinated by the weirdness some people come
up with. Over the years a few choice items have made their way into
my possession, and now I get to show you my
super-special slide show of strangeness. I think you'll find that
escape is impossible.
- Time Travelers PLEASE HELP! 14993
- The hostmaster at the ISP where I work gets this spam regularly.
Needless to say, it's a welcome change from Penis Enlargement Mortgage
Rate Sluts. The poor guy sounds desperate, so all you time travellers
please lend a hand; all he needs is a red or blue glowing
time warping moon crystal, or a Dimensional Warp Generator wrist watch
(or similar technology).
UPDATE!: Now he's using a server colocated at the ISP I work
for! Sorry, folks -- we're putting a stop to his spamming. But
I have collected another sample for
all y'all. His demands have increased: he now needs a "reliable carbon
based, or silicon based time transducing capacitor". (Nov 12 2002)
SOOPERUPDATE!: He's looking for "a vendor who can offer immediate
suply" of the "mind warper generation 4 Dimensional Warp Generator #52
4350a series wrist watch with z80 or better memory adapter". Get full
details here courtesy of the ever-amazing
tigress. (Aug 9 2003)
EVENMOREPLUSUPDATE!: He needs "a new DWG unit, preferably the
rechargable AMD wrist watch model...with 512GB of SRAM." Full details
here c/o the ever-lovin' Mustang Matt. (Aug 10
2003)
- The Hong Kong in judiciary terror calls for
your immediate attention!
- More spam. I think there's something about a new invention that
could stop Osama bin Laden from hijacking more planes. Lots about how
bad the Hong Kong judicial system is, and even a number to call. Make
a new friend in Hong Kong today!
- Untitled Screenplay
- Wow. I came across a laser-printed copy of this and scanned it in
(OCRd, never fear). It's...profoundly strange. It's set in the old
west, and is mostly about drug-dealing gays and lesbians, though that
doesn't describe half of it. I'm really quite sad that I only have the
first section of it.
- The Ancient Order's Doctors,
The Bessettes, and JFK, Jr.
- "The 3 Bessette women together have `Laser-Ray' in their
names....Many people who know about and use this Laser-Ray system do
not know its true purpose." I picked this up in the U.S. in 1999
while travelling; can't remember exactly where, I'm afraid.
- Midnight Eskimo
- "goldless..MUD. GREY CUP." This person's flyers turn up pretty
regularly in downtown Vancouver; keep your eye out if you're in the
central library. Pretty much indescribable, not to mention
unparseable. Some other examples:
- Yogic Flying
- I'm surprised these guys call it flying...I seem to remember a lawsuit
in the states against the Natural Law people -- someone said they were
promised they'd be able to fly and they couldn't, so the name had to
be changed to "yogic hopping". That said, I haven't been able to find
anything about this on Google, so I may well be mistaken. Anyhow, the
Natural Law Party of Canada ran in
a federal election in the late 90s (can't remember the exact date,
lazy bugger that I am); UBC is the University of British Columbia,
in beautiful Vancouver, BC.
- The Charter
- "Ziegurts Volkenmaar, Prinz von Drachenburger-Regensbrandt,
Coprporation Sole, derives its powers of existence from Our Creator,
The Lord God Almighty, and The Lord and Saviour Jesus, the Christ." I think
it's an attempt to get out of taxation...interesting, because there's not
nearly as much of this sort of thing in Canada as there is in the USA.
- Last Days
- "Eternal
Hell-Fire is a long long time / Searing suffering unbearable eternal
pain." Another regular in downtown Vancouver, the flyers of Jehovah
Tsidkenu turn up regularly in newspaper boxes. Pretty coherent, if
more than a little busy in the design.
- Save us babies
- This guy's stuff is showing up more and more often in downtown
Vancouver. Watch for leaflets (maybe about gay support groups, or
maybe just postcards advertising a fashion show like this one) stuffed
into newspaper boxes, scribbled with diatribes against murderous gays
and female cops who shoot people.
- The Moral Factor
- "Elvis Shrugged". Worthy for that alone. Found tacked to a
telephone pole. "Elvis Shrugged" is a reference to Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand, while Bored Of The Rings
was, if memory serves, a Harvard Lampoon satire. Politically Correct
Bedtime Stories, Holidays in Hell by P.J. O'Rourke and
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia (I think) are also real
books. Not sure about the rest.
- Dogs Driving
- "They stink." Weird graffito I found on a bus stop bench one
day. I was COMPELLED to record it for my many readers.
- Lonely God
- Not exactly psychoceramic, but damn amusing.
- Spamburgers!
- Again, picked up during travel in the USA. Again, not exactly
psychoceramic. Again, what the hell.
- "I want to Aardvark every sexy
girl I see"
- Dudley, you rascal!
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