1042 2023-01-07 -0500 once upon a time, long long ago, a horrible villain named 'traffick boss' was iceskating down a cobbled sidewalk in the summer he was a little off in the head, but had a lot of influence from spending decades hypnotizing swathes of cults into thinking of him as an ubergod and pursuing every tiniest one of his whims. [the functioning of the iceskates that iceskate on cobblestones in the summertime is documented in appendix C [edlided]] one day, traffick boss, mu[n]ching on a cigar, skated up to a small store at the bottom of a hill. he sashayed into the store, slamming the door like the place was hi-- 1044 1046 1045 traffick boss is hiding under a bush he looks left and right, to see if anybody might jump 'im he's laying flat he's dressed in futuristic camouflage. little tiny gnomes run around his body, changing the color of his -- 1046 1049 traffick boss is upset traffick boss: "fucking shit!" [sor-- 1049 1051 traffick boss stu-- 1051 1055 idea: maybe it would be clearer to say "psychological influence" than "mind control" because it sounds more real and relates to me being on the list at all ! real things are more li-- 1055 1057 [uhh !!! [before [posting, just typing ! 1057 1116 somebody's playing some ragtimey stuff, hard to describe not often to hear this music, it's looser than i'm prepared for and it's harder to keep body and mind stable oop they stopped 1117 i used to like music like that (casually, only heard it a couple times) 1117 relating music and mind (nowadays i think of music as talking about parallel cognitive processes, either in the mind or in one's community and environment (like people chatting in a crowded room, or birds singing different in wilderness -- things harmonize and separate and have reasons, but have a lot of differences across the genera --- anyway i wonder if ragtime is from alcoholism ;p [biased atm of course] 1118 1119 maybe we can look for ragtime when confused [1119, apologies sn-- 1119 mistake ![!]