Now I know Seattle has finally made it--it's on Neatorama! :~) Just one small correction--it's at Historylink.org (History Link, rather than History Ink)
How can we gaze upon the Corpus Clock without giving a respectful nod to esteemed novelist Tom Robbins, (currently 72 years young)?
"Take now the clockworks... The clockworks, being genuine and not much to look at, don't generate the drama of an Earth-tilt or a flying saucer, nor do they seem to offer any immediate panacea for humanity's fifty-seven varieties of heartburn. But suppose that you're one of those persons who feels trapped, to some degree, trapped matrimonially, occupationally, educationally or geographically, or trapped in something larger than all those; trapped in a system, or what you might describe as an "increasingly deadening technocracy" or a "theater of paranoia and desperation" or something like that. Now, if you are one of those persons... wouldn't the very knowledge that there are clockworks ticking away behind the wallpaper of civilization, unbeknownst to leaders, organizers and managers (the President included), wouldn't that knowledge, suggesting as it does the possibility of unimaginable alternatives, wouldn't that knowledge be a bubble bath for your heart?"
~Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1976)
Is the voting closed? Or how teh heck do you vote? I just popped in from Hobotopia to vote, and absolutly, without question, LOVE teh neatorama dog, (o elegnt dog, we noes what UR name spells bakwards an' we loves UR polkadot ball) Can U vote 4 me? (But if U chooses me for teh shirt, iz mine, k?)
Mebbe astronaut haz so many votes cuz his iz teh only acive link?
I'm packing mai honeymoon bindle now.
Kthxbai
"Take now the clockworks... The clockworks, being genuine and not much to look at, don't generate the drama of an Earth-tilt or a flying saucer, nor do they seem to offer any immediate panacea for humanity's fifty-seven varieties of heartburn. But suppose that you're one of those persons who feels trapped, to some degree, trapped matrimonially, occupationally, educationally or geographically, or trapped in something larger than all those; trapped in a system, or what you might describe as an "increasingly deadening technocracy" or a "theater of paranoia and desperation" or something like that. Now, if you are one of those persons... wouldn't the very knowledge that there are clockworks ticking away behind the wallpaper of civilization, unbeknownst to leaders, organizers and managers (the President included), wouldn't that knowledge, suggesting as it does the possibility of unimaginable alternatives, wouldn't that knowledge be a bubble bath for your heart?"
~Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1976)
I learnd my spelling from Ape Lad. If U sees hiz Hobotopia.com site, U'll noes what I mean. (Warning: is addictive, and UR spelling may B ruint 4evr.)
Is the voting closed? Or how teh heck do you vote? I just popped in from Hobotopia to vote, and absolutly, without question, LOVE teh neatorama dog, (o elegnt dog, we noes what UR name spells bakwards an' we loves UR polkadot ball) Can U vote 4 me? (But if U chooses me for teh shirt, iz mine, k?)
Mebbe astronaut haz so many votes cuz his iz teh only acive link?