----- arThouments of onTonca -----

sTomach virus and pharThou

onTonca — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:04:15 GMT

i picked up this stomach virus while attending Gaian Mind this past weekend.... projectile vomiting, a very confused state of mind, obsession with laying down and not going anywhere, and a plenTy of pharThou...... oh goodness, i hope i get over this soon.... awesome FireFly is coming up, and we shalt be making our appearance! we shalT be the "private room" of SMGU! arThou loves all of y'all !!!

we are disarThowing our planeT!

onTonca — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:21:57 GMT

the ice is melting. zim's plan of doom to humans is coming true afterall! maybe dib was right? http://www.news.com/2300-11395_3-6235636-1.html?tag=nefd.also if you have links to other relevant knews, please post here also!

heineken and rocksTar -- THE BUBBLY ARTHOU

onTonca — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:12:14 GMT

Lufher got me into drinking beer, and my favorite beer is heineken. Rocky got me into drinking rockstar. and one phine day i got this crazy idea to mix them.... the result was astounding!!! the bitter taste of heineken, and sweet taste of rockstar add up just perfectly!!!! and they are both carbonated, so there is no shortage of bubbles in the resulting drink! here is the recipe: ==> in a glass of any size and any type, mix any amount of heineken and any amount of rockstar. ==> (i usually do 1 part rockstar, 2 parts heineken). ==> drink immediately and feel it foam in your tummy!!! ==> then repeat as long as you can handle more arThouness. ==> enjoy responsibly, frequently, and certainly arThowably! NOTE: the regular rockstar (not blue, not any flavored) works best for this. NOTE2: doing this also helps to make your drink unique. i can always tell my drink just by its taste. if there are many bottles, someone will pick up a random bottle and take a sip. based on the expression of the person's phace, i know if they had picked up my drink! this recipe is royalTy free and entirely covered by GPL open source license :-) the only thing i ask is that whenever you make it, please call it: THE BUBBLY ARTHOU love, peace, and a plenty of arThou! -onTonca

phace bewek!

onTonca — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:32:16 GMT

dear tribe, please forgive me! i cheated on you with facebook! this confession comes just as i realize that i love you, tribe.net, and not any other! what do i love about you, tribe? i love you for being true. for not selling out. for making it happen despite the circumstances. and if you would just not have your epileptic seizures causing you to go unconscious, while putting up the infamous "donut phreak out" disarThoument page..... please tribe, get it together! love, -sincerely yours (still same different) onTonca

BM v2.0

onTonca — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:00:11 GMT

this is the infamous business 2.0 article about BM: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117064/index.htm BM 2.0 is a more stable operating system. your applications will run more smoothly and predictably. FUCK THAT! take BM back to v0.1 when anything could happen! put radical back into radical !

an essay on symbolic sabotage

onTonca — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:08:09 GMT

hello my dear and wonderful arThous, the essay i present below was written by Doctress Neutopia. it is highly relevant to anyone who gives a shit about burning man and what it stands for. it is also very well written. i strongly encourage you to read it and ponder it. love, -onTonca _______________________________________________________________________________________________ [reposted from http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/gsf/2007/08/the_gonzo_burner.html#comment-33230 ] Two Flames: The Story of Green Man 2007 by Doctress Neutopia http://www.lovolution.net/ September 03, 2007 17:00 Burning Man’s founder, Larry Harvey, picked the theme for the annual 2007 festival as “Green Man,” which meant the ecological man. Artwork on the playa was designed to reflect the theme, building a world which lives in harmony with nature. Actor and retired lawyer, Paul Addis, has been charged with a felony for lighting Burning Man’s “Green Man” effigy on fire before the official scheduled time of its burn, September 1st. Instead, he chose to light it to coincide with a rare total lunar eclipse August 28th at 3:00 am. Lighting the fire to coincide with the lunar eclipse, defied patriarchal time, and moved us toward recovering our sacred alignment with the cosmos. So, what were the reasons why Addis torched the Man? According at Wired interview he said, “The celebration of individual expression and community-building at the core of Burning Man has been lost in recent years as the event has become too "suburban." A spontaneous act like prematurely burning the Man was an attempt to recapture some of the original spirit of the event.” By lighting the fire, Addis became the personification of Green Man. Burning the effigy during the eclipse took our collective memory back in time to the Neolithic era when the great festivals at architectural monuments such as Avebury, Stonehenge, and Newgrange were held in celebration of cosmic events such as lunar eclipses. The defiant premature burning of the Green Man reminds me of the story of Saint Patrick. He realized that he would not be able to change the chiefdom system of Ireland by converting one person at a time to Christianity. He needed to make a big statement that would broadcast news about his Christian god, an action that would be talked about around the country long after his action occurred. During the great annual festival on the Hill of Tara, Ireland’s spiritual and political center, the custom was for the king to light the paschal fire. Everyone in the valley was informed not to light a fire for the night until the king lit the festival’s bonfire. The fire symbolized his power and chiefdom. Patrick went to the Hill of Slane, a hilltop in view of Tara, and gathered wood to light a huge bonfire. Before the king could light the huge paschal fire, which could be seen for miles around, Patrick lit his fire defying the king’s authority. Immediately, the king ordered his army to ride with him to the Hill of Slane to fight the army that was responsible for disobeying his word. When he arrived, he found one man, Patrick, who said he lit the fire to tell the world about the light of the love of God within him. The king was so impressed by his bravery, that instead of killing Patrick, he converted to Christianity. So, you can see that I am in support of Addis’ brave action. Setting the effigy on fire before Larry Harvey lit the match challenged his authority. Addis torch was the shamanic art of shifting energies. Perhaps Addis’ performance has stirred up the Burning Man ashes so much so that something new and more meaningful has a chance to grow. Responding to his unscheduled burn, bloggers voiced complaints similar to Addis in that the annual celebration has lost touch with radical self-expression and its spontaneous, subversive roots. I can testify to the above sentiments because I was suppressed by the Burning Man establishment. In 2001, after attending Burning Man, I wrote a short story about my journey through the Nevada Test Site to Burning Man which ended on September 11, 2001. The theme of Burning Man that year was “The Ages of Man,” so my piece was an ecofeminist look at the Burning Man project. After posting the story to my web site, I sent the link to the Burning Man editor, so that she could add it on the Burning Man web site page designed especially for stories that participants had written. But my link never appeared on their site. After sending numerous emails to the editor, it became apparent that my story was being actively ignored or censored by the Burning Man establishment. My essay, and now, my campaign, is about moving the Burning Man festival from northern Nevada’s Black Rock desert south to the Nevada Test Site. The move is not only a symbolic protest against the immortal and stupid war in Iraq, and the commercial culture that supports it, but a protest for changing the direction and funding of the military industrial establishment away from war and armament production toward building a prototype arcology, an architectural theory developed by architect Paolo Soleri, one of the experts in Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour. In a world that is heating up because of global warming, our only defense is to restructure civilization by building a network of car-free, toxic free, organic, high-tech/high touch, cradle to cradle industrial arcologies. If artists don’t demand our money to be redirected so that we can build a truly creative, awe-inspiring society, who will? Artists of the world need to come together to protest for the right to use our money and our state land to build 21st century arcologies. To begin this process, what better place to start than by “Burning the Man” across from the Nevada Test Site where the biggest and baddest burns have been conducted? Isn’t it time to Burn the Man at a place where the US government has wasted billions of dollars developing weapons of mass destruction, money that could have gone to assure our species’ long-term survival by building sustainable arcologies on Earth and in Outer Space? What greater symbol of peace and love could there be than to take Black Rock City with its population of 40,000 people, to the Gates of Hell—the Nevada Test Site—and demand our money be re-channeled in a way that funds building a new world in an image of paradise? So, it is time for the Burning Man organization to evolve to the next level of development. To do this takes the superpower of the people under the guidance of the “creative minority.” By overthrowing the US corporate military regime and replacing it with a vision of development that builds a model that fuses together sustainable city design (arcology) and radical creativity (Burning Man culture) there is a chance that artists could liberate the world. Bringing Burning Man back to its subversive roots could cause shock waves throughout the world media. Burning Man could truly become a social movement that Harvey dreams about fusing art and politics for the transformation and salvation of humanity. To go up against the global corporate military regime, we need to fight fire with fire, symbol with symbol, religion with religion. But, alas, as in the real world, the Burning Man staff didn’t take time out to reflect and understand the significance of Addis’ wise action. Instead, they called it a selfish publicity stunt. They rebuilt the Man so that the Saturday night’s “Burn” could go on as scheduled. It seems their Green Man effigy was only “green washing.” Rebuilding it to re-burn it only caused more CO2 to be cast into our dying atmosphere and more forests were destroyed to provide more wood for the “Green Man.” Addis writes, “Burning Man should stop the disingenuous Green Man immediately. It's all a lie. If you want to know how much a of a total lie it is, run a Google satellite photo of Burning Man right now and count the number of RVs there. And they're telling me it's an environmental movement? Bullshit. There are people sucking gas up there faster than they are passing it.” Had Harvey, Burning Man’s prophet, actually given up on community building and conflict resolution, and gone for profits as Addis claims? Unlike the tale of St. Patrick, I’m not suggesting that Harvey convert to Christianity, but instead, I’m asking him to find reverence for the sacred Earth, Gaia. Christianity devised the unnatural time system that is not aligned to stellar events which enslaves the world now. It is the Christian judicial system that puts Gaia loving, green environmental activists in prison for acting to save the global ecology. It is the system that arrested Addis and charged him with a 3,000 dollar bail. What I am asking of Harvey is to rekindle his spontaneous, revolutionary, evolutionary, or lovolutionary roots within him, and rebel with all his heart and soul against the nuclear fire that could cause all of us to become burning people. I’m asking him to embrace the green Goddess within him and move on with the next phase of Black Rock City’s development, making it a sustainable model of a utopian arcology on Earth. It’s time for Harvey to follow the themes of the past two Burning Man festivals: the Green Man and the Utopian Man by finding the way to actualize them. If art can’t be manifested into daily life, then the festival is phony. If Burning Man doesn’t have a great social purpose for the good of the planet, it is nothing more than a hedonistic, nihilist week of superficial pleasure for the few who can afford the price of the ticket. For the Burning Man staff, the festival then becomes a ten million dollar a year money-making machine for them to live on for the rest of the year as Earth slowly suffocates. We can transform Burning Man if we allow the royal art of city making to be liberated. By allowing the best and most noble ideas to lead the event, we can find a way to bring an end to nuclear terrorism by rebuilding the world using designs that unite sacred arcologies and radical self-expression. Can you imagine the mass ecstasy and profound celebration of 40,000 people Burning the Man—the Nuclear Man—across from the Nevada Test Site? What a massgasm! The thought makes my mind radiate with supreme joy! It’s fighting the ignorance of poison fire with the intelligence of sacred fire! Addis stated that he torched the Man as a “reality check.” It’s time for a Larry Harvey to cash that reality check, not bounce it. [reposted from http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/gsf/2007/08/the_gonzo_burner.html#comment-33230 ]

sad sad sad but true

onTonca — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:16:07 GMT

so i am not going to burning man this year. it's a fact. it's reality. it's true. i am not in denial, though i am very sad about it. I AM NOT GOING TO BURNING MAN. why you might ask? here is why: i am broke as fuck. and i'm trying to get unbroke. looking for an income, and right now my job search is really getting where it should be getting. i had several really good interviews lately, and offers should be appearing shortly. also, there is a psychological principle of reward and punishment. in a way, i am punishing myself for totally disarThowing my life by having too much fun (you might know what i mean)... so what i'm saying to myself is: "you fucked up your life, and now you are paying for it... get your life in order, and you shall be rewarded in the future" so i am not going to burning man by choice. if i go, i would miss out on these offers, and then i'd be fucked for much longer. dont get me wrong, i WANT to be fucked :-) in sexodome :-) in sexovan! by a really cute girl, with who we mutually lust for each others' body, mind, soul, and all the wonderful arThowness that goes with that combo. random burner girl who i meet on the playa and spontaneously decide we wanna hang out and do whatever. i want to roll around BRC in my bike, and roll cigarettes for random burners. but it's wiser to stay here and start a job as soon as the right one is offered. so i am sad, but i know that this is for a good reason: getting my life into order, and being able to goto PDF, and WIldfire, and Scorched Nuts, and FireFly, and all the decoms -- PEX, NYC, Boston, RVA, and maybe even Toronto.... next year i also wanna go to the Gaian Mind summer fest, which i hear is totally fucking amazing. please have fun for me at the BIG BURN OF ALL BURNS, and bring back some playa dust !!! i love and arThou all of you! keep it real, while i keep it real here and get my life into order. arThouness is everywhere!!!!

structurally deficient bridges

onTonca — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:51:27 GMT

heard of bridge collapse in minneapolis? check out this data for NY state: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20099115

kitty in a bag!

onTonca — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:24:39 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WkxJ8un-dI Purr purr kitty, get out of the bag. stop eating my bud! it wasn't grown for you!!!! here is your catnip, dammit!

unifying the virtual worlds

onTonca — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:39:04 GMT

this is so so so interesting! IBM exec envisions convertibility of assets across virtual worlds! http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018502

fundamental ills of society

onTonca — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:52:06 GMT

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P. J. O'Rourke (from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/p_j_orourke.html )

holy shit....

onTonca — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:14:01 GMT

Letters to God found dumped off New Jersey coast http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/02/unanswered.prayers.ap/index.html

this is burning man

onTonca — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:52:22 GMT

this is a thread in the Culture Of Burning Man tribe about the book by Brian Doherty: http://cultureofburningman.tribe.net/thread/4a831090-1000-4ce0-9f66-22747f477bef site of the book: http://www.thisisburningman.com/ read the thread. i'm getting the book asap, too bad i haven't yet!

EVERYONE should review: MOOP MAP

onTonca — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:16:29 GMT

http://bm.tribe.net/photos/14e1b467-d696-40a8-927d-14f99c2de0e5 see if your camp area is classified as clean. if not, perhaps there are some action items for the next year. (do i sound like a project manager yet?)

illuminated keyboard!

onTonca — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:00:17 GMT

about time something like this comes out on the market: http://www.xoxide.com/sunbeam-pro-ill-kb-black.html and mouse too: http://www.xoxide.com/logisys-optical-fan-mouse-silver.html

OVERWHELMED!

onTonca — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:50:08 GMT

i promised you a blog.... but i cant write it.... i'm too overwhelmed. i've met so many family members today, those i've known, and some of those i've never even met before.... when my head stops spinning i'll write more.

Moscow didn't need me to keep afloat

onTonca — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:32:36 GMT

I haven't been here for 15 long years. I expected this place to be crazy, but it's actually more sane than I remember it! The subway is just as efficient as I have known it. People are actually nice to you, just as nice as new yorkers after 9/11. Inflation had driven down the value of the rouble (the Russian currency). I remember when subway ride used to cost 5 kopeeks (0.05 roubles). Today it costs 15 roubles. The rate is 500 roubles for about USD $20 (to be exact, $1=26.77 roubles). I've been hearing that, as of recently, moscow is the most expensive place to live in the world. I wouldn't say this is true, based on what I see. Cost of a subway ride is 15 rbl=$0.5 -- a quarter of the cost of NYC subway. I just bought a beer (not imported) at a street vendor for 25 roubles=$1 not very expensive. However, some luxury apartments on the southwest end of moscow go for $500,000.... so perhaps it depends on how we are doing the price evaluation. It was brought to my attention that I have to register at the place of redience. I've just passed my deadline, so in theory is a cop (militsiya) stops me on the street, they can arrest me. So I have to get paperwork from the place where I live while staying here, and then take to the police office and then another place and get paperwork proving that i have registered. That's a drag.... but whatever, it's all good. I'm just gonna suck it up and do it. I'm also hearing from my friends that it's really easy to bribe the police here.... of course "easy" means that there is an amount of money they will take to cover up any crime. smoking on a subway might cost you 500 roubles, or nothing depending on how you handle it. driving without a license or inspection will cost you more. hitting a person on the road and knocking them out dead, a few thousand -- NOW THATS QUITE FUCKED UP! a remote friend got busted with some pot in moscow.... he had to pay $10,000 (that's dollars not roubles) to get out!!! today i saw my cousins, who i haven't seen for 17 years!!!! my order cousin (Ivan, or Iosif as his baptized name is) is a russian orthodox priest at a town a couple of hundred kilometers from moscow. he loves it, and the town loves him. he can see himself stay in that role for the rest of his life. my middle cousin (Vasiliy) is married to Liza, and their son (Tihon) is 5. he specializes in making church icons. though it's a business for him, he really sees it as a means of self expression. he showed some of his work, and it looks very neat. he really gets into his work! my youngest cousin (Danil) was not able to come visit because of school work. he just joined a theatre school, and totally digs it. tomorrow is a big day. there is reading of our great grandfather's poetry. i'm assisting with technology, so i gotta be on standby the whole day. it'll be awesome!!!! i'll post more tomorrow, and i'll have some pix also. in the meantime, check out some pix here: http://www.ivan.ru/moscow-panorama05.htm vsem privet! do zavtra, reb'ata!

FROM THE HEART OF RUSSIA

onTonca — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:05:30 GMT

hello to all dudes and dudettes out there! i'm writing from the HEART OF RUSSIA! i'm in moscow for a week. it's my first visit after 15 years. i used to live here. it's only a bit of a shock to see this place. i must say they are taking the market economy very seriously. back in late 80s and early 90s the coutry felt like it was falling apart. right now it feels like it's coming back together. i totally see why people want to invest here: many brilliant minds have stayed here and are working very hard to make the country a livable place. forget food lines; food is in abundance here, and food quality is superb. businesses are doing great. advertisements are all over the city. it's an exciting time for russia, and i love seeing it back on its feet (mostly) and overcoming all the infrastructural difficulties. have to go now, i'll post more later. LOVE YA'LL! drop me a line if you have any questions.

more great pix of the 06 burn

onTonca — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:38:17 GMT

http://www.oz.net/~geoffsi/bm2006.htm awesome shots, must see, and now dammit! :-)

THE MAN and THE SUN

onTonca — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:56:00 GMT

awesome shot: http://eplayansunite.tribe.net/photos/9f497f87-8ef0-4bcb-868f-49b4d3e26ef0

DAMN look at this art car

onTonca — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:16:05 GMT

http://photos.imageevent.com/pmattf/burningman/burningman2004/BurningMan04_101.jpg (though i know someone who is planning an even badasser one)

must read article on the BUЯN

onTonca — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:35:24 GMT

http://www.indypendent.org/?p=553

some amazing pix

onTonca — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:05:07 GMT

these pix were taken all over the world. they are not mine but available for your review: http://pictopia.com/perl/gal?provider_id=38 i used to take this train to work every day!!! this train is the pits, but it gets you into the city fast. too bad your ass (if you are sitting, or your feet of you are standing) hurt like hell when you get there! http://pictopia.com/perl/gal?gallery_id=2376&process=gallery&provider_id=38&ptp_photo_id=ap%3A102152&sequencenum=0&page=

burning man and the greenhouse effect

onTonca — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:46:45 GMT

the man we burn. diesel we burn, lest our light go out. our cars pollute the air. mother nature came to the man and asked why the hell there is so much smog over black rock city? he said, it's because his people like to set things on fire, including himself each year. mother earth said that it's all good, and pretty damn cool to watch... but it makes her cough and takes away from her enjoyment of the festival. she likes to walk around naked on the playa, and go dancing to the waffle. so they sat down, smoked a man, and came to an agreement: http://coolingman.org/ http://coolingman.org/About/Support.html support the green man! and mother earth too. her camp is somewhere between 2:00 and 10:00, between esplanade and hope.