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Somehow, I feel that using an AI Content Generator to Write my Blog is Wrong. My Readers Deserve to Read My Own Words... I tried using a Blog writing program and YES... IT DID WORK... but I'm going to continue to Generate Text the Old Fashioned Way...

"Take Drugs and Type Like Crazy!" - That Technique worked for Philip K Dick, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack Kerouac and Lewis Carroll and... uh... Wait a Minute... I'll think of something to say in a minute... duh... OH YEAH! That's Good Enough for me!


The real trick for Blog Writing is to Post TEXT that is not published elsewhere on the web... ORIGINAL WORDS... and The Google Search Engine Defines Original Words as Text that it can't find ON THE WEBSITES IT HAS SEARCHED... Well... There is NO Evidence that it Searches FaceBorg... SO... Copying and Pasting Paragraphs that I Have FOUND HERE... is All Original Text... and WORTHY...

and always remember to include at least one Picture... Readers Love Pictures! and They have a Tendency to CLICK on Pictures... and TEXT that is Embedded in a Picture is NOT Read by the GoogleBot... so Plagiarism is Not Noticed! For Example: This Timothy Leary Quote...

and CSH Said:
Be brave. Write on!

ALSO... It's interesting to read my words years later... and Modify the Blog Posts as I Learn and Conditions change... I wrote an Entire Novel that Quickly Became totally out of Date! It was all about Eco-Warriors that traveled Across the Country to Assassinate President Donald Trump... Well, Once he became "The Former Guy" That book Became Dated... So I Added a Disclaimer at the Beginning! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-violet-overgrow-by-gregory.html

It was interesting to do research for that novel... I wanted to know IF a sniper could hit the President if he was in the Rose Garden and the Sniper was Standing on the Roof of a 15th Street Building... YES HE CAN! The Internet has Information about the RANGE of Sniper Rifles and Google Maps allow people to Measure Distances! [SPOILER ALERT] - In My Novel, The Assassin Was Unsuccessful because the Secret Service Guards standing on the Roof of the White House SHOT FIRST and Killed the Sniper before he made the shot... What an Excellent PLOT TWIST!

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Reading the News Today:
I was Motivated to Say...DEFUND the Space Force... The Chances that Earth will be Invaded by Aliens in Flying Saucers is Remote... and They would be so far advanced that ATTACKING Extra Terrestrials would be a VERY BAD IDEA!

https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/its-not-about-where-u-s-space-command-goes-but-whether-it-should-exist-at-all/

Great Books that Everyone Should Read - Just to Help You Understand What's Happening in the World Today. Insight & Wisdom - Free at the Library!

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Ed Abbey
The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz
Remember, Be Here Now - Ram Dass

Start with these Five Books... They Explain a Lot... Continue With These Classics!

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Silent Spring - Rachael Carson
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
Alice in Wonderland
Thru the Looking Glass
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Whole Earth Catalog
Treasure Island
The Old Man and the Sea
Moby Dick
Robinson Crusoe
The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
Steal this Book
Revolution for the Hell of It
I, Robot
Foundation
Caves of Steel
Grapes of Wrath
Tortilla Flat
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Man in the High Castle
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Still Here
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Stranger in a Strange Land
Slaughterhouse Five
Cat's Cradle
Don Juan, a Yaqui Way of Knowledge
America's Bogus Wars
The Violet Overgrow (an Eco-Warriors's Journey)

The Great Gadsby
The Armies of the Night
Trout Fishing in America
Island
The Psychedelic Experience
Fahrenheit 451
The Doors of Perception
Ender's Game
The Cult of Cthulhu
Dune
Chariots of the Gods?
Autobiography of a Yogi
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
All Quiet on the Western Front
Catch 22

Everything By Edgar Allen Poe... Steven King...
and...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds...

Just for FUN... Write Your Own List and Post it on Your Own Blog... or FaceBorg... It's a worthy Exercise in Self Introspection!

If there are any Classics I Forgot, Email Me at gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)Com



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and then on FaceBorg SC Posted:

Can you remember the time when you were lying on the floor, cushy earphones against your ears, listening to The Who's keyboard solo fly through your brain from your right ear to the left and back again? Your consciousness standing stock still, with its mouth ajar, just being present with the music?

Can you remember summer nights, running with bare feet, clutching a glass jar and trying to catch fireflies as the adults pack up the floats and picnic debris into the station wagon? And, if you were lucky, riding home in that station wagon sitting in the rear, back-facing seat with a sweet exhaustion taking away everything but being right here, right now?

Do you remember going under that scraggly crabapple, grabbing that stringent fruit and chomping on it as you ran through the wood?. Galloping on the path that you, along with the boys next door, created with your pounding feet? The sure sensation that your stride keeps getting longer, and longer, until you are literally flying ten, fifteen, twenty feet between footfalls?

Can you remember the feeling you had in these moments? Can you re-live it? The awe of discovery? The state of satisfaction? The inner peace?

My childhood was wonderful! I wish I would have known it wasn't going to last. I wouldn't have been in such a hurry growing up.

and then I read on Rhoney Stanley's Faceborg Page: 

"RIP Robert Hunter Robert C. Christie Hunter born Robert Burns June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019 Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78 One of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists was literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation Robert Hunter, the poet and writer who provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics, died Monday night. He was 78. No cause of death was provided. “It is with great sadness we confirm our beloved Robert passed away yesterday night,” Hunter’s family announced in a statement. “He died peacefully at home in his bed, surrounded by love. His wife Maureen was by his side holding his hand. For his fans that have loved and supported him all these years, take comfort in knowing that his words are all around us, and in that way his is never truly gone. In this time of grief please celebrate him the way you all know how, by being together and listening to the music. Let there be songs to fill the air.” Considered one of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists, Hunter was the literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation. His lyrics — heard in everything from early Dead classics like “Dark Star” and “China Cat Sunflower” and proceeding through “Uncle John’s Band,” “Box of Rain,” “Scarlet Begonias,” and “Touch of Gray”— were as much a part of the band as Jerry Garcia’s singing and guitar. 

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https://doubleblindmag.com/meet-rhoney-stanley-underground-lsd-chemist-behind-the-60s-psychedelic-revolution/

Rhoney Stanley, underground chemist of the 1960s, cultural icon, and psychedelic pioneer, shares stories from the early days with her partner, mentor, and LSD chemist Owsley "Bear" Stanley, The Grateful Dead, and their heartfelt mission behind promoting psychedelics for transcendence and universal consciousness.

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Ghost over the Misty Mountains

The Day the Power Went Out [Speculative Fiction in the What If? Genre.] - Note: This was written by hand in pen on paper.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter Zero ~~~~~~~~~~~

 It was 4:39 AM according to the clock in the van.  I went back to sleep. When I awoke in the morning the power was still out. It stayed out.

About 3/4 of the World's population died over the next few years.

All the money in all the bank's computers vanished. No oil was pumped. No computers, telephones, TV... No gas for trucks to bring food to the city... The people that lived off the grid survived and thrived. All the stuff survived... Thank God for the Bic Lighter. Fire is Good.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter One ~~~~~~~~~

It started to get cold. I started writing this diary using a pen on paper. (a mostly blank report from Merrill Lynch - USPS Junk Mail).

I can hear little birds. The police drove into King Salmon and Flashed Red, White and Blue Lights then drove away... A PG&E Truck drove by and then drove by again going in the other direction. Doing Recon. At this point in time I do not know if this is The End [link to doors song]

The water works at home. No Phone, No Computers, No Cooking, Heat? Unknown. Battery backup on thermostat? No Electricity.

It was rainy and windy last night but not excessively so. I could see the blinking channel lights in the bay but King Salmon was Dark.

I wonder... What IF the electricity went out worldwide forever...
Would I be one of the survivors of a Techno-Industrial Collapse? What can I do to thrive in the Post Apocalypse? What can we do?

"After the Global Economic Collapse You and I will breed a new race."
"Oh Boy! That sounds like fun!"

Or we could build Sailboats with fishing poles. Three masted schooners with large nets. Great for catching fish in a world without electricity. Feeding the People.

Or we could grow our own...

~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Two ~~~~~~~~~~

Time Passes... (What else would Time Do?)

"Well, look at that" says I staring at a glowing lightbulb...

It looks like a UFO hovering near the ceiling... and then it flew away...

Note the Turtle's Shadow on the ceiling...
as If the Turtle is Riding the UFO! 

So, This individual level 5 catastrophic event did not come to pass this time... Will Our Hero Learn from this experience and Thrive in the Post Apocalypse techno industrial wasteland?

As it turns out... NO... a couple of days later, the internet went out for a day...

Suddenlink to the rescue! Three trucks and a PG&E truck too.

Official PG&E Outages Webpage Searchable Map.
http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/
at the time I typed this story, We were at the center of a known outage caused by equipment overload. Possibly an indoor marijuana farm using grow lights... Makes you wonder...