A War Wake Up

The first email I opened this morning asked me what I thought of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies. The emailer was obviously well-informed on the subject so I didn’t try to get cute, given my ignorance of all things IT. Still, my answer, in retrospect, was maybe exactly what he needed to hear, and reflected the level upon which I instinctively think about HTWRW. I wrote back:___blog carrington event

I can sum up any ‘wisdom’ I might have on the subject with two words… no, wait… three words:

Carrington Event…Overdue.

Which reminds me: Last night I really had a tough time dropping off, then finally woke up… with a feeling of real dread.

I have to back up a bit. As I may have mentioned, I haven’t watched TV since I hit the road around July 4, 2014. None whatsoever. I keep track of developing world events via other means. Then AT&T offered a deal that involved more gigs of fast data and an iPad (rental) for less than I was paying (b/c of my roadie style I access the Net strictly via cell phone).

___blog carrington event2

How’s bitcoin doing now, Jackson? No electricity world-wide. Me, I have some gold and a bag of old silver coins.

Plus – and this would lead to my morning’s dread – the iPad came with an app called ‘Watch TV’: 30 channels of commercial TV plus either HBO or Showtime; the data drain of the latter would not touch my fast data. In other words, unlimited TV.

Now, theoretically, I have less than zero interest in the commercial (broadcast) channels, but being a ‘good story’ buff I was interested in Showtime. The talent involved in long-form story-telling on networks like HBO and Showtime has improved considerably since my H-wood days. Like Showtime’s Homeland. I’d viewed the first 4 seasons via DVD and was curious to see how they’d keep the conceit going (a female CIA operative with severe bipolar disorder).

I’ll soon have more to say about this type of programming (take the word literally), but right now something else is on my mind. CNN. Last night my means of nodding off was to fire up CNN on my new iPad and let it drone. I figured to be gone in 60 seconds (a movie title, right?). Whoa. Not so.___blog trump

You all are likely aware of what’s going on with Trump, his antics, and the media. As you might remember, before the election I blogged what I thought was the obvious: Trump would be installed as president by the same PTB and for the same reason as Obama, i.e., the toppling of the U.S. as a world power in order to install a world government. Obama would be the set up, Trump the pay off, via the chaos/division he would cause.

I really did think this was obvious; the final proof that the alt media is run by the PTB was their ridiculous meme that Trump’s election was not only not part of a long-range plan, but was some sort of ‘victory of the voters.’ As I said before and which now must be über-obvious: Anyone who backed Trump without serious warnings (Alex Jones anyone? Fetzer?) was under direct orders to do so.

The West Wing?

The West Wing? Now, children, can you spell ‘Martial Law’?

Point being, though, is that I had no idea how far along the plan now has come. Last night I went from eyes half-mast to starkly alert as I noted (via a 4×5 card next to my bunk) that, in less than 10 minutes, Carl Bernstein uttered the following words/phrases in referring to our Commander in Chief:

‘does whatever is necessary to keep the people frightened’…‘creates fear’… ‘appalling deceit’… ‘greatest threat to National Security’ (twice)… ‘deceptions’… ‘not fit to be president’ (twice)…’dictatorial’… ‘impeachment’… ‘unstable’… And so forth. Patti Reagan (Ronnie’s daughter) came on telling us that Trump is a flat out ‘enemy of the people.’

Someone else compared Trump to Hitler and likewise called for impeachment. And on and on it went and it was worse than this even sounds and I was… staggered… that it’s already come so far. I dunno. For you guys, did this… creep up on you or were you completely aware of it?

How far have we come?

How far have we come?

I recall in In Search of Captain Zero I had a chapter wherein I was in San Jose (Costa Rica) watching television for the first time in a year, likewise CNN droning, me muttering, ‘Has all this been going on without me?’ This was when Clinton was in the White House. Christ, Clinton, the Underboss of Crime Lord H.W. was The Good Old Days!

Speaking of long-form TV, imagine, as a producer, pitching ‘The West Wing’ now. How would that go?

I’m sorry, really sorry, if what I’m saying here is old news to you, but if not: There’s a flat out war going on, folks, a meticulously planned conflict between branches (not factions) of the government and the media and that is meant to end with the destruction of (what remains of) our society. And it really does appear to be coming to a head. I thought it would take longer.

I have to say it again: What’s happening now with the government/media clusterfuck is exactly what they planned, well before Obama. Maybe as far back as 1947.

Allan

I should have something to say about the enabled comments and how that’s going but I don’t want to distract you from the above. And, again, I apologize if this is old news. For my own sake I’m wondering how I let myself be so vulnerable, living the way I do. Something snaps or a button pushed and Gus and I could get scooped up just for being on the loose.

A last minute addendum: A portrait of Cuz the Elder, my Rubber Tramp buddy Logan’s pup, who passed away recently. Logan is Gus’s godfather.

Not all dogs are... good. Cuz wuz.

Not all dogs are… good. Cuz wuz.

  48 comments for “A War Wake Up

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  3. August 20, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    I get an eschatologal sense here, end times. Isn’t there a religion built on a prophesy that the world would end in 1844? And aren’t the 7th Day Adventists going still?

    The world, country, the way we are … none of it will end with Trump. Herd management is ongoing, calling for creative plot twists and turns. People are looking for hidden meaning. There is none. It is just creative distraction.

    From what, you ask are we being distracted? Using our brains. That is the ongoing objective, to keep us as we are.

  4. Ric
    August 20, 2018 at 4:34 am

    Who do you consider the PTB’s? (Powers that be – I presume) Big Oil? Big Pharm? new here am just trying to catch up

    • August 20, 2018 at 7:48 pm

      Yes, a nagging question. I wish I could actually name names but can’t. The most important thing to remember, though, is that there is more than one faction, and they don’t always get along. This is good for us: As they battle it out they tend to spill interesting information about each other.

      Snowden is probably a good examples of this. Simplistically, for example, Snowden can be seen as the CIA poking NSA. It’s likely more complicated than that but you get the drift.

      Ditto Assange. Another op but who also provide valuable intel.

      • M
        August 21, 2018 at 2:15 pm

        yeah this is exactly how I see it. There of course are more than one and they don’t all get along. I guess this is good. It’s the money men of the world. Not BIll Gates, though hes powerful as hell, but i mean guys that CONTROL shit tons of money. Like the patriarch, of an old money banking family, people who control trillions. I guess the places where they also happen to be the leaders of the country are places like Saudi Arabia.

  5. Adam
    August 19, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    Allan,
    Have you been absent for all of the “QAnon” drops? Never heard you mention any of it. “They” have been crtitical of Elon Musk. Suggesting he assisted NK rocket program.

    QAnon started on 4chan at the end of Oct 2017 and then migrated to 8chan. Was not reported on until the past month after Trump’s Tampa rally. The MSM is frothing at the mouth over it. It’s a rabbit hole worth investigating though it will likely consume a bit of time if you look at it from all the angles. Attempts to tie many threads together in the web of lies we know of as history.

    Adam

    • Marty
      August 20, 2018 at 2:40 am

      Your “attempts” will be more successful if you can do the math. Then you can read the script. It´s coded. By the numbers. It tells you the who, the how, the when, the where and the why. The “WHY” can be found in the forgotten text of the Talmud, written in Hebrew, which like the first “language”, Greek, originated as NUMBERS.

      For example 9/11 paid great tribute to the Jewish day of remembrance for the destruction of the two temples, known as Tisha B’Av, 1:19 in the Talmud…. September 11th is 11/9 in Tel Aviv! …Tisha B’Av (Hebrew: תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב‬, lit. “the ninth of Av”) is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon’s Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.

      “Tisha B’Av is regarded as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar and it is thus believed to be a day which is destined for tragedy. Tisha B’Av falls in July or August in the Gregorian calendar.” – Wikipedia
      Recall, it was September 11, or 11/9, that reshaped the U.S.A. by the numbers.

      And so on…

      • Chris
        August 20, 2018 at 6:31 am

        Gee, I’m convinced. *eye roll*

        • Marty
          August 21, 2018 at 12:21 am

          Dismiss everything with an “eye roll,” CHRIStian Zionist par excellance!

    • August 20, 2018 at 7:50 pm

      I know. I should look into it. Time. Part of the agenda against us is to bury us in ‘stuff we should look into.’

      • Marty
        August 21, 2018 at 12:44 am

        I´d quote Voltaire but you know damn well what I´m talking about.
        Shalom suckers! It is the REST that is a waste of time. Know thine enemy* and do something about him or circle jerk yourselves to your ignominious graves.
        You will never get into the mind of an Intuit if you don´t speak his language. Neither will you ever catch a fish. Don´t get my metaphor either? Tough! Many, MANY others do.

        • Marty
          August 21, 2018 at 1:01 am

          P.S. Why are my two (most informative) comments still “awaiting moderation?”
          How do you expect me to MODERATE hard math?

        • Todd
          August 21, 2018 at 4:46 pm

          Is this possibly what you are thinking: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”

      • B. Müller
        August 21, 2018 at 7:09 am

        that’s exactly the half of the purpose. We have to fear the insecure future and diligently go work every day to make the world a better place and some savings for our retirement. And “they” make sure, our savings will never suffice, so we’ll want to work some more, etc. And for the time between sleep and work they feed us with all kinds on nonsense.

      • M
        August 21, 2018 at 2:20 pm

        so many people in “truther” land say Q is bullshit. I tend to feel the same. It’s just so kooky, and ridiculous. I don’t remember what all was discovered but basically some say Q was real for a little while and then taken over by larpers… others say he’s alwasy been a larper or various larpers that met up at some nerd convention. I dunno.

        There was one guy on those boards that freaked me out in 2015-16, call ” FBI Anon”. I thought that guy seemed legit and the things he said seemed legit and scary.

    • August 21, 2018 at 5:38 pm

      I’m taking a better look at Qanon now. Hang in…

  6. Todd
    August 19, 2018 at 9:00 pm

    Thanks Allan. It’s now coming up on two years since Trump has been elected or should I say foisted onto us. CNN, especially, hasn’t let up one iota then and is now completely in overdrive mode. By Trump claiming that MSM is ‘fake news’ made this situation even worse causing the left-wing nuts to come completely unglued to believe anything outside of MSM is now Russian/N.Korea/(insert any ‘bad guy’ here) propaganda. When in reality, it’s quite the opposite. So sad to see friends and family completely brainwashed by all MSM sources.

    TV at home is now sparingly used for sports and movies. This too is sometimes a bit of a struggle as sport are most certainly rigged.

    • Marty
      August 20, 2018 at 1:06 am

      Indubitably Todd. To the box-score. To the hash mark.

  7. Jean-François Aubry
    August 19, 2018 at 8:30 pm

    I dont trust crypto-money one second…you can lose all your money in a blink of eye, if you lose your key, if a virus attack the Bitcoin system (something like a corrupt index) and like you point a solar burst of energy can wipe your electronic wallet…nothing like solid gold and silver…personnaly i only watch CNN or Fox title on Internet to watch where the clown are going, Trump selection was so easy to predict…as soon he said he will be in the race i was sure he wil be the next POTUS…by the way Mussolini before dying curse the crowd hanging him and swear to come back as a US President.

  8. August 19, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    Hello Allan,

    I’ve been following your writings for some time and for the most part have enjoyed them.

    This writing this morning really struck and stunned me. I didn’t think I could really be surprised anymore but you managed it. I’ve been aware. of course, of the extraordinary hatred and divisiveness that is existing in the US concerning right and left, Trump vs everything else, etc. (Albeit I spend most of my time in Latin America and so am insulated from most of it), and aware of people choosing to be deaf and dumb in the face of indesputable facts, as in that clip you made concerning 9/11 and your photographer friend viewing clips.

    BUT, I’ve been baffled by Trump, believing on the one hand he is simply more of the same and on other hand hearing so many believe he is endeavoring to rebuild the US rather than allow its destruction to be furthered more and more daily.

    But first I listened a something by a woman from Northern California about the destruction of Santa Rosa and her revelation that PG&E is owned by the Rothchild gangsters and is therefore of course operating congruently with Agenda 2020 or whatever its latest version is, and then your reflection that Trump and the press and the enflaming of the citizens of the US is really just another psy-op of the gangsters to the end of ripping the country more asunder so that the one world order can more easily do a complete take over….very similar to the civil war in the US where the entire south was destroyed and the north debilitated and the carpet baggers and the money men easily took over….this being of course on such a much larger scale.

    And finally, the crypto thing….and of course…its only viable if there is a power grid! and if the gangsters totally control that grid (witness Rothchild) then this concept of alternate currency and freedom from the banksters is a bitter joke.

    Thanks for your writing altho I also believe endeavoring to write a daily column is too much! 2 or 3 times a week would suffice for me and I would imagine, you!

    Steven

    • Marty
      August 20, 2018 at 1:16 am

      It´s called “Agenda 21”. It was signed in Rio de Janeiro* on June 13, 1992, where 178 governments voted to adopt the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7As3d9NgDyk
      Don´t start a blog until you learn how to use a SEARCH ENGINE Steven, but I´d say you´re on the right track.

  9. jnan
    August 19, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    Keep up the good work Allan….. The addition of comments is a major + ! :}

  10. Gregory Oberman
    August 19, 2018 at 5:09 pm

    I was wondering about your silence on Cult 45 and his fan club. It seems he got a population of citizens (seemingly all big fans of World Wrestling Federation) to forget what it means to be a citizen while the rest seemingly sit around with their jaws open in shock about the latest tweet from the Twitterdent….ever see that Back to the Future when BIff is the Mayor of the town….we are living it! The merry -go -round of a cosmic joke is moving fast in front of our eyes;)

    • Marty
      August 20, 2018 at 1:39 am

      I quote my comment above: ” 93, the number symbolizing Saturn and time, which Trump’s campaign length had a lot to do with, as well as his presidency number, 45, which is the sum of the “Magic Square of Saturn”. At the same time, let us not forget the number of Presidents who were eliminated by the “Saturn code” if you will.
      (9 attempts. 4 successful. 5 unsuccessful. 5-5 would bring balance and is a treasured number in the Billionaire Boys Club!) Here´s the magical cube of Saturn. 15 totals in every direction:

      4 9 2
      3 5 7
      8 1 6
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9MBvWIIq40&t=26s

  11. Kimberlie
    August 19, 2018 at 5:02 pm

    Allan~ This is what I emailed to you a few years back……………. remember the TV show Outer Limits introduction?….. “There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now in control of the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousands channels, or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.”

    The PTB control HTWRW. All it took for you to advance to the next level of awareness was to watch TV last night. Now that you are UTD (up to date), ‘things’ are really gonna go fast for you! “Monkey Fluff” is what I call it – ALL the division, lies, distractions are being orchestrated by the PTB. Your eyes are wide open, Allan. I thank you for your ability to see the truth and for your eloquent ability to share it. To me, without a doubt, you and former KGB agent, Yuri Bezmonov, gave me the courage to seek the truth and cut through all the Monkey Fluff of the PTB! I ……………….Thank you! You are a blessing to me. I’m sure you are a blessing to many others who were once in the dark.

    May God richly bless you through the Lord Jesus and keep you safe,
    ~Kimberlie

    • Kimberlie
      August 19, 2018 at 5:15 pm

      Re: A last minute addendum: A portrait of Cuz the Elder, my Rubber Tramp buddy Logan’s pup, who passed away recently. Logan is Gus’s godfather.
      …………Cuz the Elder was a beautiful dog. Thank you for sharing his picture with us!

    • Kimberlie
      August 19, 2018 at 10:50 pm

      Correction on the actual wording of the introduction for the 1960’s TV series of the Outer Limits. Here it is: ~Quote: THE OUTER LIMITS

      There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to… The Outer Limits.
      ~Unquote

  12. Bluedog
    August 19, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    Concur with previous commenter on *not a diabolical plot going according to plan*…this may simply be you projecting your wishes of ultimate chaos and anarchy onto an agreed upon reality, I do it all the time. Nothing interesting happens during periods of peace, and the human monkey knows this.

  13. FastFreddy
    August 19, 2018 at 1:28 pm

    Countries have little control over their monetary policy under the global and independent central banking system forced upon them. Go against this system and you will be hit with sanctions , subjected to regime change or invasion (war). Turkey is in trouble today. Previous victims are Greece, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya. Yugoslavia under Clinton (remember the lie, the soundbite – Clinton lied but nobody died? Many thousands killed. Country destroyed and broken into 3rd world statelets.)

    • FastFreddy
      August 19, 2018 at 3:16 pm

      Unless a sovereign country agrees to surrender its finite resources, selling them wholesale to multinational corporations; it ends up in “crisis”. This phenomenon underlies all global conflict – war, “partitioning”, suffering, rape and murder.

  14. Ray
    August 19, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Allan, Thank you for your blogs. Amazing ! Is it not ? The fraud perpetrated on not only the American tax payer and the world with fake moon landings and the on going Space X fraud that must add up to trillions of dollars that have disappeared over time. Of coarse we know trillions have gone missing from the Pentagon over the years and of coarse the untold billions to bail out the banks after 2007. My assumption would be black ops to fund drug running, money laundering, human trafficking including children, illegal wars, bogus foundations, the buying of media, political hacks, judges, the alphabet agencies, false flags, governments, and anything else that has a pulse. Still, all that would not touch the amount that has gone missing. Where is it and who has it ? What are these disgusting SCUM that planned and executed all these crimes? What is their goal ? The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know .

  15. August 19, 2018 at 12:26 pm

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    • August 19, 2018 at 5:41 pm

      Mike, apologies for my silence about you and your efforts. Now that you’re ‘publicly’ here I will try to make amends.

      Do not be offended but as always I worry about who you really are. Provisionally, to anyone reading this I suggest you click on Mike’s Penn Magazine link and give it a look. I love the format and reading bits realize I need to read more.

      I worry about Jim Fetzer (and your closeness to him). Many reasons for this, one being how I begged him to read The Most Dangerous Book in the World and even physically sent him a hard copy (yes, in the mail!) and he apparently would not read it. Or did and refused to respond. His unqualified support for Trump… AGW… a lot of etceteras here.

      So I have to wonder about you. Again, no offense meant. I realize that this sort of ‘paranoia’ is exactly what ‘they’ want, but what’s a boy to do in these lunatic times? Having said that…

      Good info is good info and you have been the source of a lot of it. For that I thank you.

  16. mellyrn
    August 19, 2018 at 12:36 am

    Couple things —

    1) If you’re going to fall asleep listening to what you know is BS, why not listen to *good* BS? How about falling asleep listening to youtube clips of Alan Watts discuss zen Buddhism? His sly sense of humor (he clearly gets the Cosmic Joke) might hook you into paying attention instead of sleeping, though.

    Or Tibetan bowls, or something. Just not “news”. Don’t you wonder what might be subliminally in there?

    2) If you think current world conditions are someone’s plan playing out perfectly, you have waaay more faith in planning (planning *anything*) than I do.

    Seems to me, TPTB are a) aliens, in which case all bets are off; b) human but all supergeniuses, and again all bets are off; or c) ornery human cusses like the rest of us (apart from that wanna-control-everybody thing).

    You are a damned fine storyteller (I am purging my belongings to The Bare Necessities; _Cosmic Banditos_ is in that select category). And you must have heard this one: “Of course truth is stranger than fiction — fiction has to make sense.”

    You are on a quest for a real-world narrative that makes sense. The physical world will (mostly) reward you that way. But I’ve never met a human who makes sense, myself included. E.g., we know damned good and well that we ourselves respond to praise with a desire to do it again (praise being to a human like meaty tidbits to a dog), maybe even do it better for an even bigger treat/compliment — but we act to others as if *they* will slack off, “rest on their laurels”, unless we point out their shortcomings for them. (Seriously, they wanna end racism? Start holding marches *celebrating* how far we’ve already come! Bash me for “microaggression” and I think, “Eh, no pleasing *you*” and I quit listening.)

    You’ve read Asimov’s _Foundation_ Trilogy? It wouldn’t work, you know. Chaos, and all that. The best-laid plans of mice and men, yada yada. No one in 1947 foresaw Facebook — we know that because the Pentagon had a project called LifeLog, where they hoped to capture every step we took, every move we made. Lifelog was finally cancelled “in 2004”. Facebook was launched . . . Feb 4, 2004. So, yeah, they got people to report on themselves — but the existence of LifeLog *at all* implies that “ooh, let’s get them to spy on themselves!” was a late idea. “They” may be able to “catch a wave” (like the Internet); they may even be able to stir one up — but they are not, and cannot be, the creators of *all* the waves, and they are as much at risk of a “wipeout” as anyone else, or of just missing the surge.

    3) Trump — if you’d like to see a different story, Scott Adams (“Dilbert” cartoonist) wrote a bunch of stuff on Trump during 2016 with a *whole* different narrative. I ain’t saying his story is “true”, so please don’t read it as if I am saying that. Adams himself makes the point that “we the audience” are seeing two completely different “movies” in the very same “theatre” watching the very same action. CNN (indeed, all the corporate media) pours out vitriol on Trump — and yet there are a lot of Trump “fans”, and they are *not* racists who’ve been let out of the closet by the New Hitler. What are *they* seeing — and how did they get that different message?

    Adams has taken to doing podcasts instead of writing; here is one:
    http://blog.dilbert.com/2018/07/04/episode-128-why-trump-derangement-syndrome-is-so-strong/

    A pre-election essay:
    http://blog.dilbert.com/2016/06/17/wheres-that-trump-third-act/

    Adams knows about NLP, persuasion, hypnosis. He writes informatively *about* them, and how they get used in campaigning (by both “sides”). He also uses them — and as far as I can tell, points out when he does.

    I like his writing better than his podcasts. I’m sorry he seems to have quit.

    Well, g’night, my friend. And listen to *something* else — audio clips of wolves howling are at least *honest*.

  17. Miles MacQueen
    August 18, 2018 at 11:02 pm

    Did not creep up on me. Was/am/have been completely aware of it. Serves you right for watching broadcast programming…

    I spend a lot of time working at a nuclear plant and cannot for the life of me understand why we have chosen to litter the planet with unsecured lethal radiation. How does that fit into the PTB overall plan? Are they somehow immune to the stuff? We are all coming along on this one, I’m afraid.

    Long form TV does help. You should try consuming a little 😉

    • August 18, 2018 at 11:37 pm

      I’m not sure long form TV actually ‘helps.’ I’ve been meaning to do a post on its effects re ‘cultural engineering.’ Well written and produced shows like Homeland, Breaking Bad, The West Wing (all of Sorkin’s work, really), and the rest (’24’, although I don’t consider it good story-telling) that pervert history and culture while telling a riveting tale. These are the most effective means of ‘mind control.’ When we’re entertained we tend to BELIEVE, because a good story feels so real. It’s NLP for the way they slip in the underlying lies, while ‘you’re not looking’, if you get my drift.

      But I’m weak: I love a good story. Have to keep reminding myself that it’s based on lies. (I just caught two seasons of Animal Kingdom (with still-sexy Ellen Barkin). Very intense, very perverse and damaging, but you have to stay with it to find out What Happens Next.)

      • Miles MacQueen
        August 19, 2018 at 12:25 am

        You’re killing me Smalls!

        That was meant to be funny.

        Just watch The Leftovers already…

        • August 19, 2018 at 12:44 am

          Must’ve been the ‘…try consuming…’ part that confused me. Made me think too much. No matter, I got to make a couple points…

  18. August 18, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    ‘If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.’ Kingsley Amis.

    I would add, ‘Especially if the somebody is a surfer you never met.’

    • Marty
      August 20, 2018 at 3:03 am

      Re: My NUMBERS rants herein: I’ll pour you the first one and after that, if you don’t have one, it’s your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
      – Kingsley Am

      • Marty
        August 20, 2018 at 3:05 am

        Sorry Kingsley….. AMIS. And no quotes. Sue me. You´re dead! And Martin can´t complain. He´s my “tocayo!”

  19. August 18, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    I’m putting this in Comments as a sort of… pre-emptive strike:

    I was recently Net searching for a link to a piece I wrote for The Surfer’s Journal a while back and which is also in CYGAWA; an essay titled ‘A Night at the Cantina.’ I was (and am) going to bring it up in the context of an intro to my German buddy Joachim, who appears in the essay and is still an important person in my life. While scanning I came across a Surfer Magazine forum titled, simply, ‘What do you think of Allan Weisbecker?’ Gave it a look. Here’s an entry I’m fond of:

    ‘Ego, delusion, one-upmanship, bad writing, paranoia, lame surf stereotypes, archetypal hero for every longboarding stinkeye gringo Jerkasaurus Rex trying to sell land in Mex/Central America. This is only the tip of the iceberg for how much that dude annoys me.’ (end quote)

    There were three pages of this, no let up. I chose this one to pass on not because it’s the nastiest (it isn’t) but for its writerly panache. Oh, and for its… passion.

    Anyone cranky about my sorry ass, please relax. It’s already been said…

    • Bluedog
      August 19, 2018 at 3:02 pm

      This is the exact opposite of “you never tell me I’m pretty anymore.” Nice!

    • M
      August 21, 2018 at 2:31 pm

      Haters make a Player Allen, remember that! if you don’t’ have them you ain’t shit. Yes it’s annoying and some people really are sad Effers with the way they get so personal, without having the slightest clue about the person they are ripping, they will spit vitriol because there are no consequences. AH HA!

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