SHIBUMI

Hobo Go
Originally uploaded by greyaenigma.

THE CRANES ARE IN the nest.

LOOK IT UP.

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COURTESY: Glen

BLACK SQUIRREL INVASION

A DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT LINES of the black squirrel invasion that apparently was WRITTEN BY A CAT.

THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL.

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Courtesy: Catymology

POST SCRIPT: I must second the cat's fondness for this CANADIAN SONG celebrating "Vicky," the black squirrel of Victoria Park, London, Ontario, CANADA.

CO. THE DETROIT EDISON

"Detroit Edison" would be a good hobo name...
Originally uploaded by Kodamakitty.

I HAVE BEEN REMISS in calling attention to my favorite photographs of manholes and other things.

FORGIVE ME, Kodamakitty, and thank you.

THAT IS ALL.

I'M SORRY, IAN, NO

TO RESPOND QUICKLY TO IAN, from the comments, I am not in Boston to do any readings. I am only here to do some writings.

THAT IS ALL.

THANK YOU, ADRIANE

THANK YOU, ADRIANE, from the comments, for the link to STUBHUB.

A VERY USEFUL RESOURCE; if, in the future, I ever have need to see a sporting spectacle again, I shall turn there, and think gratefully back to your help.

THAT IS ALL.

THE BOSTON RED SOX

AFTER DISCUSSING IT WITH INTERNET GURU "COULTON," I have decided this is the best way to do this.

AS YOU KNOW, I DISLIKE SPORTS; however, certain members of my family who are too young to know better have started professing a like for the YANKEES BASEBALLERS.

I HAVE TRIED REPEATEDLY to explain why this is an error.

NOW I AM BRIEFLY IN MY HOMETOWN OF BROOKLINE, MA, and my only
hope for reeducating the youth of today is via DIRECT FENWAY PARK IMMERSION, which is to say:

I REQUIRE THREE TICKETS TO THE HOMETOWN BALL GAME TOMORROW (SUNDAY), the 2:05PM game against the LOS ANGELES ANGELICS.

I AM WILLING TO PAY FACE VALUE for these tickets. I will meet the current owner of these tickets at BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH where I will pay in cash or check, and I will also buy that person a copy of my book (IF IT IS AVAILABLE) and sign it IN INK.

SUCH IS THE TRANSACTION I PROPOSE. You know how to reach me. I regret to have drawn you all into this family vendetta.

THAT IS ALL.

.28 SPEAKS

I REGRET I have been away for so long. I have been traveling and without a steady stream of ELECTRONIC INFORMATION PACKETS DELIVERED VIA THE AIR.

BUT NOW I HAVE THEM, including this very interesting packet from one who claims to be ".28", a numbered member of the mysterious EARONS. From the comments...

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

" .28 said...

"Anonymity is a great thing. At this point of my musical journey, in order to get a record deal, what you look like and the color of your skin determines the genre that you’ll be put in. That thing we call musical category. For me, music has always been universal. The concept of The Earons was designed to listen to the music and forget whether we had long hair, green hair, “punk” hair, black or white, listen to the music, and have a good time. I will always be grateful to Chris Blackwell for taking us and giving us a chance at Island Records to explore this concept we call The Earons.

"Were in a Land of Hunger, a land of waste, kinda makes you wonder about this place.

"We not only hunger for food but we hunger for love and understanding here on earth.

"PEACE TO ALL, ( .28)"

END QUOTED TEXT

.28 IS STILL MYSTERIOUS, but obviously welcome here should the WHITE MOTORCYCLE HELMET OF DESTINY ever wish to make contact again.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE, members and non-members of the EARONS alike.

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FURTHER EVIDENCE

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

...THAT THE HOBOES are the new pirates.

Thank you, LAD.

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BLOGROLLING IN OUR TIME

SORRY TO BE ABSENT, especially since Jane Espenson wrote such a nice thing the other day.

DESPITE HER RIDICULOUSLY NICE PRAISE, the little apple grace-note to this line is about as fine a joke as anything:

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

"If you follow this link, you'll be taken to his blog entry which then links back here. Theoretically, you might never get out of the loop, so bring an apple."

END QUOTE TEXT

AND SO THE MOBIUS BLOGSTRIP continues. Awk-ward.

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IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WEBSITES THAT ACTUALLY FUNCTION

THEN MAY I RECOMMEND Jane Espenson's blog about writing and lunching?

YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE SOME KIND OF CRAZY PERSON not to read, enjoy, and profit from her good advice.

I HAPPEN TO BE AN ESPECIAL FAN of her recent post on the subject of punchline abuse:

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

"I have it on good authority that no fewer than three of the new pilots for Fall series use "That went well" as a punchline. Nooooo! Have I accomplished nothing?!

I also hereby call clam on these mollusks:

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

And

(sing-song) "Awkward!"

And

"I said, 'good day, Sir!'"

Really, people, even in real life, don't use these! They're past their expiration date and they will make you ill. An excellent rule of thumb is "if you've read it, don't write it; if you've heard it, don't say it." Adapt it, sure. Or make fun of it if you want -- use it ironically. But don't expect a genuine laugh.

END QUOTED TEXT

But do read ON.

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www.areasofmyexpertise.com

I AM NOT SURE why the main website is failing, but I am

LOOKING INTO IT.

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HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS THING CALLED THE "YOU-TUBE"

APPARENTLY it is a video service devoted to AMAZING NATIONAL TREASURES.

This one is named GREG PATTILLO.

The DOUBLE-GUITAR SAVANT from the earlier post is named ZACK KIM.

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DOUBLE BOING BOING

I HATE TO POACH from Boing Boing twice in a day.

BUT I AM TELLING YOU this is the most beautiful thing I've seen since The Earons first debuted their smash Braxtonian hit "Land of Hunger."

THAT IS ALL

ENIGMA-UPDATED LINK

WE TAKE A BRIEF PAUSE our previous enigma to bring you...

AN ACTUAL ENIGMA

Courtesy: BOINGBOING.

(Sorry for the bad link before).

NOW BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED EARON MINDFREAK.

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THE EARONS ARE NOT THE RESIDENTS

THIS I KNOW for sure.

BUT FRIZELLE is correct: I am losing my mind.

MEANWHILE: an Earon progress report from the comments.

THE ACRONYMED T.A.M.S.Y. turns up an extremely plausible theory re: the true, non-numerical identity of several of the Earons...

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT:

The good news is that the all-seeing eye of the Google has indeed unmasked the true identity of the Earons, although it took a bit of squinting. The band appears to have been based in New York — or anyway, three of its presumed members previously played with bands based there (Melvin Lee, Kevin Nance and Alonzo "Lonnie" Ferguson comprised 60% of the disco-funk band Machine; Nance also played with the eccentrically punctuated B.B.&Q. Band, a.k.a. the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens Band). The other two members of the band appear to have been Henry Pizzicarola, who has mysteriously vanished, and Percival Prince, who is a British airplane.

END QUOTED TEXT

THIS IS A PROMISING LEAD, yet even unmasked, these Earons remain mysterious. Where are Lee, Nance, and "Lonnie," now, and what are they wearing for head protection these days?

AND HOW DID HENRY PIZZICAROLA DISAPPEAR?

Several others, including JESSE, pointed out the allmusic.com/wikipedia standard text...

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

"A band whose gimmick proved more intriguing than most of their music, the Earons were a funk variation on Sun Ra's cosmic mythology approach, with a little bit of Anthony Braxton's mathematical obsession added. They claimed to come from "Earon Earth," and all the members were known only by numbers. They did have one outstanding single, the hard-hitting and musically arresting "Land of Hunger" in 1984. It deserved a better fate in R&B circles than its ultimate stalling out at number 36. Still, this was the only one of three Earons singles that even made it beyond number 50, and they soon disappeared, probably returning to "Earon Earth."

END QUOTED TEXT

BUT LISTEN, I was a freeform DJ at WMFO in Medford, MA. I know me some Sun Ra and I know me some Anthony Braxton.

APART FROM GENERAL, BEAUTIFUL NUT-JOBBERY, what is it exactly about masked men in white jumpsuits saving blonde white people from moving tiny levers in an abandoned oil derrick that suggests the work of Anthony Braxton?

OR DOES THE AUTHOR OF THIS CITATION KNOW MORE than he/she is letting on? Does he/she have access to primary sources other than this video? And who is the author anyway.

DOES HE OR SHE HAVE A NAME? Or a number.

The internet awaits the answers.

As do I.

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KIND OF MAKES YOU WONDER ABOUT THIS PLACE

THIS WEEK I will be commenting exclusively on this video.

IT IS CALLED "Land of Hunger" and it by the EARONS.

YOUR EYES ARE CORRECT: the members of this band are wearing matching white jumpsuits and matching white full-faced motorcycle helmets.

As if that is not enough, THEY ARE ONLY IDENTIFIED BY NUMBER.

VERDICT: THE BEST.

If the Internet was designed to remember only one thing, HOW COULD IT NOT BE THIS BAND?

AND YET: literally for years, I could find no information on them, nor even confirmation that they existed.

I HAD, YOU SEE, forgotten their name (hint: it's "The Earons.")

AND ALL GOOGLE SEARCHES for "white jumpsuits white motorcycle helmets" proved fruitless.

AFTER ALMOST A DECADE (yes: true), I had to conclude either...

a) I had hallucinated the whole thing;

or b) this band was the one bit of cultural ephemera to have escaped the internet.

FOR as anonymous singers wearing face-obscuring headgear are wont to do, THEY SEEMED TO HAVE DISAPPEARED.

Until this past weekend.

Thanks to the aid of two friends with better memories than me, THIS VIDEO CAME TO LIGHT, and I am very grateful.

YET THE VIDEO IS INCOMPLETE, and still many mysteries remain...

WHO WERE THEY?

WHY DID THEY DO THIS? WITH THE HELMETS AND THE JUMPSUITS?

WHY IS THE APOCALYPTIC FUTURE POPULATED BY PEOPLE DRESSED LIKE OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN, AND WHY DO THE EARONS NEED TO CHANGE INTO MATCHING WHITE TURBANS TO SAVE THEM?

AGAIN: WHY?

If you or anyone you know has further information on this band or this song, I URGE YOU TO PLEASE POST IT IMMEDIATELY IN THE COMMENTS.

WE WILL SOLVE THIS MYSTERY TOGETHER.

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THANK YOU LARPERS

166. Dora the Explorer
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

THANK YOU LARPERS for responding to my question of yesterday.

NOW: DO ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH THE CENTRIFIGUAL CASTING OF D&D MINIATURES?

Because that would be awesome.

MEANWHILE: Lad's eerie photo of a DORA THE EXPLORER "ICE" "CREAM" "NOVELTY."

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ALL EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS

SinkH.jpg
Originally uploaded by HoboGirl1.

Courtesy: HOBOGIRL

I have a question: do LARP battles ever take place at Ren Faires? Or IS ONE ANATHEMA TO THE OTHER.

Please advise.

THAT IS ALL.

ANOTHER APE-FOUND "H"

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

That is all.

'I BET THIS OX WAS DELICIOUS"

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

COURTESY: lad

Minimal internet this week, but I SHALL TRY.

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