Radiation,
Fata Morganas, Mickey Mouse
We really do worry about the Jungle in central Florida. Here, a Sun-baked
paradise is constantly threatened by vines, mosquitoes, gators, bacteria,
viruses, bears, ticks, quicksand, roaches (Yes, they fly.), ants and
lizards. And then there's the Sun. It's a big fat ass ball of radiation
you know? Up there burning billions of tons of hydrogen a second.
You are aware of this in Orlando, where the Sun feeds the wild menagerie
and the jungle threatens to knock off civilization for good under
a pile of knotting vines, Spanish moss and crumbling hotel rooms.
SAKRETE and bug spray
have been successful at holding the Kurtzian savagery of the Florida
jungle at bay. And so we bide our time and precariously build a
civilization. [Insert segue here.] A few of the undefeated in Orlando
decided to investigate this precarious piece of humanity. We recruited
the ancient mystical praxis of psychogeography for this purpose.
Our first psychogeography
venture? Well, the Sun planned to crush us. The wind? Unsympathetic.
We decided to decipher Florida's hippest new neighborhood: Virginia
Heights. A place where: Dadaists, anarchists, poets, philosophers,
comedians, painters, sculptors, activists, old and young congregate
and play at having a piece of city. Psychogeography was a natural.
That first cloudless
day the city bled radiation and brightened our gray matter like
a Tesla experiment. Somehow the psychogeography gods decided that
we should be stuck in a health care compound on the edge of our
fair beatnik village. One of us had vomited that morning, the Sun
was full throttle and our rations were meager. The Sun won the battle
of attrition. It will always win.
After little more than
an hour, we limped back to the air-conditioned comfort of our respected
hovels. What had that hour meant? Or is meaning a corny concept
anymore? Did we forward the cause of Proletarian revolution? Not
a chance. Was it an amusing experiment of some kind? Yes.
So, with the die in hand
and the Sun above, we opened a few doors. It was pretty fun. |
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