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|| -------- -- ----- A E R I E O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- OSOAWEEK--ISSUE 053--7/28/95 <------- || OsoaWeek || Issues || Book 5 || -------> (Cup OWis053, Created v1 (4/27/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [[BEGIN053OW]] [[01053CV]] * * * O S O A W E E K 0 5 3 * * * July 28, 1995 "The weekly ezine of Obliviana Super Occult Amusement!" by Frank Edward Nora INSIDE THIS ISSUE 01 053 CV--Cover 02 053 LA--Lord of Obliviana 03 053 NH--Nihilistica 04 053 SU--Superior 05 053 SA--Severe Repair Almanac HMM! GOOD STUFF! THINK I'LL READ IT! YEAH! INFORMATION: OsoaWeek053, July 28, 1995. Published weekly by Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, obliviana@aol.com, 1-800-OBLIVIANA. All contents copyright 1995 Frank Edward Nora. This release is Predatorware--you are free to make digital copies, so long as they're not altered or sold. All other forms of reproduction require permission. You're Prey unless you get a Predator Deed for this release. Contact us for more on this concept. Check out Obliviana on the WWW at: http://www.obliviana.com/~osoa Character count: 38423 / Line count: 1177 *OW* [[02053LA]] Lord of Obliviana Monday, August 28, 1995 Obliviana Year One is done. Let us now ignite the campaign of Obliviana Year Two! Yes indeed. Finally, OYO is completed. Now I embark on a new quest--establishing Obliviana on the WWW. In fact, this just occurred to me now--the goal of Obliviana Year Two is to create a successful Obliviana WWW site. Huh. It feels so weird to have finished OYO. Should it be OY1? Nah, I like OYO better. This one'll be OY2. But yeah, it feels strange. Just think--I never have to go through those unbearably tedious stages of uploading anymore. I can start from scratch and develop techniques that make sense. Cuz like, that previous process was full of compatibility problems, vis-a-vis Mac/DOS/Windows. But no problem--HTML, the language of the WWW, is a universal format for delivering text. Not only that--it allows people to (dare I use the term?) "surf" through all of Obliviana, rather than having to download and decompress 3MB of text (so far). So now I'm in Book Five. Okay. The idea here is to catch up quickly. But in this issue, I have to present OsoaWeek Super Stats including Book Four. Gotta get this issue done within a week, though--can't go getting LATER with Book Five issues! One stat I already know is the cumulative ASCII character count total--3,283,773. Three MILLION. Got that? THREE MILLION!!! One thing I'm thinking of doing is making a TIFF file out of OYO. It's not that hard to do--you just gotta open a text file AS RAW in Photoshop, then you can save it as a regular TIFF. It just looks like noise, but open the TIFF file as text and you got OYO in all its glory! You can also do other cool stuff--like rotating the TIFF file 90 degrees, say, then opening it up in a word processor--it's REALLY WEIRD! I "sideways" of a piece of text. I gotta try it--who knows--there might be secret messages in it. And hey--why not try the technique with other texts? Like, uh, The Bible for instance. The Sideways Bible--it has potential! I guess the standard here is to make the TIFF file a square, meaning that the square root of the number of characters in the text file must be a whole number. So, doing a few rough calculation here, the OYO TIFF will be 6x6 inches at 300 dpi, grayscale. I wonder how big The Bible would be? LATER I did a sideways-text test on an edited version of OsoaWeek039, and got some cool words--sypbego, omewray, sewcoii, ethehee, and Brody. No kidding--the word "Brody" appeared, with a space before and after, capital B, and all other letters lowercase. Neville Brody is a famous British graphic designer, who's also done a bunch of typefaces. But so what? Yeah, it's weird. I guess the enormity of OYO is just starting to sink in. I thought of another cool thing to do with the TIFF version of OYO--rotate it 90 or 270 degrees, so it would appear as gibberish to filters. Also, I could release the text file "sideways"--making it very hard to decode unless you knew how. But no--as a TIFF file, folks wouldn't know it was a text work. Huh. It could even be split up like a puzzle. Yeah... really encode it deeply... I also just thought that maybe I could do that with the United States Constitution. It's be cool to encode it into a TIFF file. I've heard of a program that embeds digital information into TIFF files in a different, more subtle way, but I forget where I read it. By the way, these encoded graphic files COULD be run-length encoded, like a PICT or a GIF, but due to the nature of the info, RLE wouldn't save very much. As far as JPEG and other forms of lossy compression, I've tried it, and the text comes back full of changes, all messed up. Could be cool, though--you could do a JPEG version of The Bible or something. Huh. Dude, I'm like a cypherpunk now. But y'know, really, all these encryption people are up a creek without something cool to encode. So who knows? Maybe someday Obliviana will be banned--then they'll really have something worthwhile to cypherplay with. So what have I gotta do? Let me see... I made a list last issue... let me retrieve it, shall I?... 1) Read all of Severe Repair and complete the Almanac 2) Read all of the rest of OsoaWeek Year One and take notes 3) Create Obliviana WWW Edition 2.0 4) Create "The Balbitype 26" 5) Get an overview of my non-digital archives (ie, notebooks filled with writing, drawing, etc.) 6) Write plenty of OsoaWeek material so that Book Six will go smoothly 7) Above all, have fun! I just turned my PowerBook screen all the way, cuz I remembered you're supposed to totally run out the battery every month or so. So I'm going for that, running the sucker out. Okay, so the list. One omission is doing the Super Stats, which hopefully I'll get done tonight. Gotta do Severe Repair Stats, also--gotta see how many pages SR in OYO is--750 maybe? Scroll ahead to see how close I am!!! So. I gotta read all of Severe Repair. This may sound funny, but there's a lot of Severe Repair that I've never read. Cuz like, I just write it, spellcheck it, and it's zunked into the Digital Superworld. (Just made up that word, "zunked", kinda like zapped and dunked? I dunno.) So there is some Severe Repair I never ever read. It's weird, cuz like I remember reading some SR many months after I wrote it, and like I didn't even remember writing some of the stuff. But 750 pages--it's gonna take me a long time to read it, man! Okay, what else... Read all the rest of OsoaWeek! Yeah. I especially gotta check out all the Nihilistica, Trick Sojourn, and Lord of Obliviana sections, where I make all those grand announcements about future products and services, which never manage to materialize. One thing I really wanna do though is Modern Sapling. I know it's a physical object, but it's just too cool not to do. I wonder--how much of it did I describe when I announced it? Lemme use that great program Locate to see! Wow--it's all the way back in OsoaWeek002! Let's take a look, shall we? MODERN SAPLING These are cool little fake potted plants which can brighten any surrounding and also cause a great deal of concern. Coming in a variety of models, get a Modern Sapling for every room, vehicle, and secret place in your life! All right--I didn't describe the actual artifact at all! Huh--I usually don't give a crap about the possibility of someone stealing my ideas--but this one--it's just too good. If I described it, someone could definitely steal it--it's just too simple and awesome. But I have to wonder--what about the issue of going all-digital? Well, I just have a thought--artifacts can be extremely limited--not sold in a mass manner. Hence, the physical artifact is digitized for universal free use, with perhaps digital artifacthood also--but the digitization and digital popularization of the artifact would make the actual artifacts themselves extremely desirable--I could charge an arm and a leg for them, and everyone would be happy! Huh... This sounds like a real good idea. Like, a Modern Sapling might cost like $50--there may be only like ten of each model. Huh. This idea has possibilities... But the thing is, with Modern Saplings, they're just so cheap and easy to produce--I mean, they're sold in an extremely basic way, in three little plastic baggies and stuff--you just put 'em together, in like a minute. Okay, okay. Whassup? I don't know. I'm travellin' into new territory here. Gotta figure it all out. Monday, August 28, 1995, 10:20:31 PM Just saw "Alien Autopsy: Truth or Fiction?" on Fox, hosted by that damn Jonathan Frakes. My guess--the alien autopsy footage was created by Stan Winston, Hollywood F/X master who was interviewed as an expert, analyzing the footage along with doctors, film experts, and such. To bring you up to speed, I guess this supposed film from the Roswell incident (a supposed UFO crash in 1947 I believe) surfaced somehow, and was shown for the first time on this show. Caught it about halfway through. The autopsy footage IS quite remarkable, but it's pretty clearly a hoax. For one thing, it looks like 30 fps video, not 24 fps film. Another thing, there's a kind of fake "graininess" video effect applied to the footage. Another, the "doctors" are two guys wearing radiation suits that fully obscure their faces--pretty convenient, eh? And the lighting and camera angles--way too Hollywood. The alien body is just... I don't know... too neat. It doesn't ring true. My best guess is that Stan Winston did the footage, in collaboration with the show's producers. But I think there's more going on here than just a hoax to grab some quick cash--I believe that the people involved in the show/hoax actually believe that such an autopsy occurred at Roswell--and they believe that by presenting this audacious footage, they'll force the government to finally tell the truth about what happened. But of course, this is just my take on the show. The reason I suspect Stan Winston is that he is CAPABLE of creating the footage. And there's a scene in the show where Mr. Winston and his F/X crew are sitting around with sh*t-eating grins, him saying "If I did this, I'd be real proud of it." I think he did do it, but then again, that's just me personal observation. If this is fake footage in the interest of getting the REAL footage, it brings up a bunch of interesting moral dilemmas. I mean, the show's producers will still have made a bundle, even if the government caves in and tells the world that yes, they've been hiding this whole alien thing from us. Yeah. Like they're really gonna do that. Like that's not gonna open a can of worms where every supernatural discovery the government has made is gonna come out. You know what I think? I think that if the government blabs about UFO's, they're also gonna have to spill the beans about how outer space doesn't exists, how the moonshots were phony, and how UFOs and aliens come from an alternate realm on our own world. How do you think people are gonna take that? Not too well. A thought: Maybe the atomic tests back then opened up ways through Obliviana for these aliens to come through? Interesting. Here's a big question about me and Obliviana--if the moonshots were fake, and UFOs are real, the government probably has some knowledge of what I call Obliviana. I mean, if there's no outer space, and there are aliens, where have they come from? It's interesting--there's been talk of an "inner earth". This sounds like a rational way to describe multiple realms coexisting on one world. Hmmm... So am I putting myself in jeopardy telling all of you about Obliviana? Hard to say. I'm fully aware of the crackpot/loony nature of what I'm saying to you. Seems like a lot of insane people babble on about aliens, government conspiracies, personal grandeur, etc. Only thing is, I'm not insane. And even if I am, hopefully I'm a darn entertaining psycho. But no. I don't think that the premise here is so hard to explain. Once the US government got to space, they realized that their preconceptions about it were totally wrong. Maybe they even reached the firmament--the solid ceiling above the world. Whatever--only a few people would know the truth. What good would it do to reveal this information? Think of the havoc--the discrediting of astronomy and so many other sciences. Plus--who'd believe them? So they covered it up, and faked the moonshots. We're talking 1969. That was 26 years ago. Look where space travel has gone since then--nowhere. The space shuttle stays so close to earth that it's well within the firmament. Beyond that, what would be so hard to fake? The Voyager Missions? Viking on Mars? Come on. I don't know why I'm so into this issue. I guess it's just that people have had the wool pulled over their eyes for so long--but I don't know. Maybe it's good to keep the wool right where it is. Maybe I am just a kook. Maybe all the space stuff the government is telling you is true. I don't know. Maybe just forget all the stuff I've been saying. I find conspiracy theories quite distasteful, and this space one is the only one I'm getting into. I don't wanna get all weird on you, now. So I don't know what I'm saying. Maybe just, like, open your mind a little and CONSIDER what I've been saying, at least to broaden your thinking. But like I said, I don't feel that the truth is necessarily a good thing in this matter. It could cause great negative social change. Plus, it could give me alotta competition in the search for a way into Obliviana! I do sound nutty. I know that. It's just, well, I think I'm right, dammit! But the Alien Autopsy footage? A total fake, in my book. Nice work, nonetheless. At least it gave Jonathan "Riker" Frakes something to do besides hang out with the virginal thirtysomething fiends at those damn Star Trek conventions. Tuesday, August 29, 1995 5:52 PM My PowerBook kinda died this morning, but somehow I resuscitated it back to life, albeit with System 7.5 now, as opposed to 7.1.1. Change is in the air. Had a psychic battle last night--haven't had one of those in a while. I've been getting really fed up with the damn kids at my apartment complex, and I called the management to complain, and I even got information on breaking my lease and hightailing it outta there after being there only three months. Yeah, the winds of change. They're blowin'. Well, my PowerBook is runnin' outta power--used alotta juice troubleshooting, y'know. Still twixt New York and Newark. I gotta get this goldarned Unifired Field of Obliviana figgered out... 6:32 PM Just read a lengthy article about Molly Ringwald in Movieline magazine. I wasn't able to write this morning, and as I read J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (a Penguin "60"), I wondered what I would have written had the PowerBook not flipped out. By the way, I spelled "Unified" wrong three paragraphs up, but I'm keepin' it the way I misspelled it. Gotta go pick up my Jeep now. Power very low. Till later! Tuesday, August 29, 1995, 8:31:04 PM Just watched an episode of Full House and realized it brought me a half-hour closer to death. But is this true? Maybe not--watching the sitcom could have slightly altered my perception of time, resulting in me GAINING time, death receding. Looking at all this junk around me, knowing that I won't have to worry about it after I die... So why not just throw it all out, you ask? No way! It's good stuff! Um, I gotta get goin' with this stat stuff. I'm still in hypercreative mode, and I gotta slow down. My brain needs a rest. I mean, I'm only human. No matter what I once was, or what I truly am, ultimately, right now I'm just a human being like everyone else. You know, I feel a little self-conscious saying stuff like that. But then I realize, like, no one else is saying stuff like that, so at least it should be interesting to you. Also, it's straight from the heart, no bullsh*t. Know what I mean? When OsoaWeek began I was struggling with my writing "voice". Now though, I feel pretty comfortable with the voice I've eased into. It's taken a long time for me to become a good writer. I gotta get this issue done by Thursday--two days from now. Cuz all weekend I'm gonna be at Kerri's brother's wedding in Morristown. Morristown--only a few miles from Drew University in Madison... I realized before that in ten years I'll be 37. Pretty scary thought. 2005. Obliviana better be big by then! I really have to take a break from hypercreativity. At least for a few weeks. I feel like I'm going nuts. Almost midnight, almost September. Got to work this morning at 8, worked till 9 PM, then went to a party till 11:15 or so. Now I'm on the train, ready to go home , try on a tuxedo, and pay bills. Oh, also I have to finish up this issue within 45 minutes. Okay. What the hell. This is Book Five, it's loose. Just gotta finish up the stats. Ah, who'm I foolin'--no way is this issue gettin' done tonight. But I did want to talk about Obliviana Year One. I just finished it today--putting all 52 issues of OsoaWeek so far into one huge text file. Just had a little nap. Met the sax player from "Dog Eat Dog" before. I am very tired. Think I'll get back to this on Sunday, this being the first hour of Friday. Tuesday, September 5, 1995, 7:32 AM Long weekend. Alotta stuff happened. A breakthrough in 209. I'll tellya all about it. Lemme see--just an overview--Friday I got to work late, went to Bengal (where I worked several years ago) to visit the people there--I'd been meaning to do this for a long time. Left work early (4'ish), got a cigar, and walked down the West Side Highway. Got to a new park right by the World Financial Center. Cool sculpture garden there, all these little humanoids everywhere. Went to the park bathroom and my cigar fell into the toilet. I wanted a deck of Tarot cards to do 209, so I went into the WFC's Wintergarden. They didn't have any Tarots, so I got a Penguin 60 book of Jack Kerouac poetry. Then I crossed over to the World Trade Center, to the bookstore there, but again, no Tarot. Interesting. Then I went over to J&R and bought a $20 Walkman, since I hate my current Walkman and wanted just a basic one without a million buttons that eats batteries like Chex Mix. Then I got these foul tiny cigars called "Whiffs", then I got a tape of Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin right before J&R closed. So I smoked a Whiff and listened to PG and headed for the ferry. Oh yeah, also I got a Gen-13 comic, #4 I believe. I folded it in half and shoved it in my back pocket. To hell with near mint--this baby was gone from any collectibility in seconds! So I took the ferry to Hoboken, got Five-Alive, pistachios, and Chuckles. I had Five-Alive on my very first 209, way back in November of 1986. Kinda means somethin', eh? I took the train to Morristown, where my girlfriend Kerri's brother was getting married the next day. I stopped by one last bookstore, and they DID have a Tarot deck--but it was one that was in a package with a bunch of other stuff, like a book, a layout mat, etc. Plus, the cards had no numbers on 'em! So forget that. So I met Kerri and her family. Had a little conflict and wound up going to see "The Usual Suspects", a totally awesome movie, top notch. On the wedding day me and Kerri had a bite to eat at a Blimpie, where some Greek f*ck kept trying to sell us roses. He handed out little Teleflora promo sheets, and I made an origami iris out of it. Then Kerri had to go get her hair done, so I wandered off toward yet another bookstore. Back to the present moment, gotta tellya what's going on. I got on the train at Princeton Junction, now I got off at Metuchen. See, I didn't cash my paycheck on Friday, and my monthly is $249. So I was just gonna buy a one-way, cash my paycheck, then buy the monthly in New York. But what happened, see, there was this gihugic line at the train station, so I figured I'd just buy it on the train. But the conductor never came. So I just hopped out at Metuchen! I guess I coulda lied to the guy and said I got ON at Metuchen, but I'd still hafta pay the $3 penalty. So I hopped out and got my ticket here at Metuchen, and I'll be gettin' a train soon. Then I'll go to Newark, and take the PATH from there. There's a meaning to all this--the 209 I generated over the weekend is still affecting me, big time. I've known about this sort of momentum for a while, but this confirms it. In fact, a lot of stuff that's happened over the past few days has served to confirm a bunch of 209 stuff. So back to Morristown. I was headed for another bookstore. Oh yeah--before I get to that--gotta tellya that the trouble started the night before AS SOON as I had a sip of a bottle of Guinness. This REAFFIRMS my previous observations that alcohol TOTALLY DESTROYS 209. It turns things BAD. Anyway, back to the next day. I was headed for this bookstore, and I saw this person--it looked like an attractive young woman--but she was like covered in mud. Not here clothes, mind you--just her face, hair, hands--all that. She had a short '80s new wave kinda haircut. She was mussing with her hair, looking into the window of a store, then pacing over to the corner, then back to the window again. There were a bunch of bags leaning against the store. She must have been some sort of homeless person, but hell, she sure did seem to be from another dimension! Well, I got to the bookstore, which I though was a used bookstore, but it turned out to sell new books, so I skipped it. I turned around and passed the extradimensional visitor once again, then I had an idea--why not use ordinary playing cards as a Storm Codex. Turns out this was THE idea. 9/6/95/8:05/AM Today, I really don't give a sh*t about anything. Donno what it is. Just feeling like, "f*ck everything". What? So what's up. I'm a good guy. I'm not losing my mind. I know this. I'm not your average entity, though--you gotta know that much, if you've read this far. MTV Video Music Awards tomorrow at Radio City Music Hall. I could go up there and be among the throng gawking at celebrities. Could be cool. So like this issue is 41 days late I think. Yup, it is. Whatever happened to this "loose book" theory? Yeah. Maybe I should wrap this one up and continue on in the next issue. 9:6:95:10:28:PM I just manufactured 30 prototype Modern Saplings at work. They came out awesome! I wanted to continue my 209 experience from above. Okay. I was in Morristown last Saturday, and I realized I should use a regular deck of playing cards as a Storm Codex. So I got some "Always Coca-Cola" cards (the only ones they had at the drug store) and set a Storm. I went for a haircut, and it was totally 209. The hairdresser got a letter from a guy in jail who wanted to go out with her. She did little else but comb my hair and put hairspray in it, and she charged me $25. Then I went to the wedding, and I changed the Storm every couple of hours, based on how the Storm was feeling. I can definitely feel 209 energy at this point. I also smoked several cigars, and they seemed to really fuel the 209ing. I was careful not to drink, cuz the disastrous effects of combining 209 and alcohol are well known to me, from a number of instances. The worst was in college when I was 209ing and drank a beer. It was midday, and I just started having sex with my girlfriend--just entered her, in fact--when a fellow student knocked on my door and told me they were towing my car, so I better go out there quick and give them some money. Pretty bad situation, eh? I went out by the way, interrupting the lovemaking. Wouldn't you? So anyway, the next day, Sunday, I had a fight with Kerri over something stupid and wound up heading off on my own, planning to take the train home. I was supposed to get together with my old roommate John Rosta, but he was disappeared (I later found out he had a good reason). So I took the train to Madison and wandered about Drew University. It was a really nice day, and I sat on a rock in the arboretum for an indeterminate period of time, mulling everything over. Kids were just moving in for a new school year, a fresh and energetic feeling in the air. I had a disk with OsoaWeek 1 thru 21, which I was gonna give to John. But since he was nowhere to be found, I wrote "Check out this disk." on a piece of paper, wrapped it around the disk, at put it on a ledge behind a video game in the arcade. I hope some cool computer geek freshman got a hold of it and is even now becoming a fan of Obliviana, of course getting all his friends into it, too! Eventually I headed home. Oh, but there were a few cool things in Madison. When I first got there, there was this weird puppet show going on, with really loud speakers and a bunch of bored children. Then, on my way out, there was this bookstore which was closed, but had a whole wall of books outside--3 for a buck--ya pay on the honor system. I slipped a Susan B. Anthony under the door and got "The Minstrel", a stupid fable about reincarnation and Elvis, "My Life in Astrology", a dull-looking autobiography of noted witch Sybill Leek, and "Better Homes & Gardens New Home Ideas" from 1982. The train suffered an inexplicable power loss as we were getting into Newark. Lasted a few minutes. I noticed that the Leek book had been in the library of the "New Jersey Society of Parapsychology" or something in Morristown. Wonder if they still exist. Heard about 'em before, but never found out about 'em. So I ripped out the page with the Society of Parapsychology address, and trashed that book in Hoboken. I left "The Minstrel" by a payphone, and kept the magazine as I headed for the ferry back to New York. I figured I'd just take the WTC PATH line from over there, making for an easier ride. But the Path was f*cked-up--I had to get out at Jersey Ave., take a free bus to Journal Square, then get back on another PATH train to Newark, and from there I went home where Kerri picked me up and we made up. Before, in Morristown, I was crying uncontrollably alone in my hotel room after my fight with Kerri. It felt awfully damn good to cry like that. Anyway, here I am. Modern Sapling is a reality. I'll describe it fully next ish, maybe. Right now, I got like 45 minutes to finish this sucker. I mean, it shouldn't be that hard--it's done when I say it's done, after all! So tomorrow is the MTV video music awards. Around 6:30 there's gonna be a big hullabaloo in front of Radio City Music Hall. Did I tell you about this already? Lemme see... Yup. Hate it when I do that. Anyway, I wanna go check that out tomorrow, so I don't think I'm gonna bring my PowerBook in with me. That's why I wanna finish this darn issue up! Okay. I think I'm just about there. And you know, I could never finish up a Lord of Obliviana segment without saying those magic words we all love so much... GET ALL OBLIVIANA!!! *OW* [[03053NH]] Nihilistica ***OSOAWEEK SUPER STATS FOR YEAR ONE!!!*** *CHARACTERS* BOOK ONE Total: 901690 Highest single issue: 99382 (001) Lowest single issue: 55828 (013) Average per issue: 69361 BOOK TWO Total: 808973 Highest single issue: 84266 (016) Lowest single issue: 52117 (020) Average per issue: 62229 BOOK THREE Total: 801724 Highest single issue: 90434 (030) Lowest single issue: 52217 (033) Average per issue: 61671 BOOK FOUR Total: 771386 Highest single issue: 141986 (052) Lowest single issue: 33230 (042) Average per issue: 59337 CUMULATIVE Total: 3283773 Highest single issue: 141986 (052) Lowest single issue: 33230 (042) Average per issue: 63149 *LINES* BOOK ONE Total: 24550 Highest single issue: 2863 (001) Lowest single issue: 1366 (013) Average per issue: 1888 BOOK TWO Total: 23526 Highest single issue: 2708 (016) Lowest single issue: 1390 (018) Average per issue: 1810 BOOK THREE Total: 22220 Highest single issue: 2414 (030) Lowest single issue: 1331 (037) Average per issue: 1709 BOOK FOUR Total: 21143 Highest single issue: 3369 (052) Lowest single issue: 909 (042) Average per issue: 1626 CUMULATIVE Total: 91439 Highest single issue: 3369 (052) Lowest single issue: 909 (042) Average per issue: 1758 *WORDS* BOOK ONE Total: 151774 Highest single issue: 16589 (001) Lowest single issue: 9308 (009) Average per issue: 11675 BOOK TWO Total: 137258 Highest single issue: 14231 (016) Lowest single issue: 8860 (020) Average per issue: 10558 BOOK THREE Total: 138741 Highest single issue: 15606 (030) Lowest single issue: 9060 (033) Average per issue: 10672 BOOK FOUR Total: 132823 Highest single issue: 24070 (052) Lowest single issue: 5765 (042) Average per issue: 10217 CUMULATIVE Total: 560596 Highest single issue: 24070 (052) Lowest single issue: 5765 (042) Average per issue: 10780 *LETTERS PER WORDS* BOOK ONE Highest single issue: 5.03838 (002) Lowest single issue: 4.80960 (010) Average: 4.94216 BOOK TWO Highest single issue: 5.19311 (021) Lowest single issue: 4.56422 (018) Average: 4.89520 BOOK THREE Highest single issue: 4.89893 (038) Lowest single issue: 4.61103 (035) Average: 4.77788 BOOK FOUR Highest single issue: 5.07966 (051) Lowest single issue: 4.63465 (043) Average: 4.80085 CUMULATIVE Highest single issue: 5.19311 (021) Lowest single issue: 4.56422 (018) Average: 4.85402 *DAYS OFF SCHEDULE* BOOK ONE 001: -2 002: -1 003: -1 004: -1 005: -1 006: -1 007: -1 008: 0 009: -2 010: 0 011: -1 012: 0 013: -1 BOOK TWO 014: +3 015: +2 016: +1 017: +2 018: +1 019: +3 020: +4 021: +4 022: +6 023: +4 024: +3 025: +4 026: +7 BOOK THREE 027: +11 028: +9 029: +12 030: +13 031: +14 032: +21 033: +24 034: +17 035: +20 036: +19 037: +20 038: +21 039: +17 BOOK FOUR 040: +26 041: +26 042: +24 043: +24 044: +21 045: +20 046: +20 047: +27 048: +31 049: +33 050: +40 051: +38 052: +38 *FEATURES* Here's a list of all the features from OYO, and what issues they appear in. As far as what's going on in Book Five, I think I'm just gonna have Lord of Obliviana (LA) and Nihilistica (NH), but who knows. AB--Antebellum (1, 27-31) AD--Actuality Destructor (14, 16, 17) AX--Appendix (1-13) CC--Classictronica (14) CN--Contents (1-39) CO--Catalog of Obliviana (1-26) CV--Cover (14-52) CZ--Classic Zope (27-33, 40-44, 46, 49-50, 52) DC--Dashic (27-30, 32)...continued from TN DH--Dehumidifier (14-31, 34, 40) DY--Digital Superworld Youth (14, 15, 17) EF--How to Establish Your Fonosta (1) EM--Your E-Mail is Gonna Come (1-4, 6) FA--Fonosta (14) FE--Friction Enhancer (1-5, 12, 14, 16, 19, 27-30, 40) FW--Fonosta World (2-5)...continued as FA HR--Hemisinister Review (1-33, 36-37, 39-51) HT--Halfevil Times (1-33, 35, 39-46, 49-50, 52) IB--Ibof (14) IF--In the Flowers (1) IS--Into E-mber Severe Repair (40-51) IW--Into E-mber Forge of Wander (40-52) LA--Lord of Obliviana (14-52)...continued from LO LO--Lord of Obliviana Revelry (1-13)...continued as LA MB--Assignment: Mystery Box (1, 4) MH--Masthead (1-13) NH--Nihilistica (1-33, 35-40, 43-45, 52) NJ--New Jersey (1-4, 14, 27-30, 32-36, 39-40, 44, 52) OL--Obliviana Primal (27-32, 39)...continued from TT OP--Obliviana Primal Beat (1, 4) SA--Severe Repair Almanac (27-31, 40) SO--The State of Osoa (1-13) SP--Sneak Preview (1-13) SR--Severe Repair (1-52) SU--Superior (1-52) TN--209 (14, 17)...continued as DC TS--Trick Sojourn (40-52) TT--Tourney Today (14)...continued as OL ZP--Zope (1-4, 14-33, 40-42, 44, 46, 49) ***ZOPE ALMANAC*** *LISTING OF ALL ZOPE COMICS IN OSOAWEEK* *ZOPE* 001: ZOPE & A VICTIM OF BEVERAGE HOSTILITY 002: ZOPE'S VERY LARGE LAWNMOWER 003: GET HARPOON, THE GAME 004: ZOPE AND THE WINE FLAUTIST 014: ZOPE AND THE MYSTERY COOLIDGE 015: ZOPE AND MALL FUN 016: SUPERMARKET ZOPE 017: SCIENTIST ZOPE 018: VIRTUAL REALITY COMPLAINING ZOPE 019: ZOPE AND THE OBSCURE STICKER 020: ZOPE AND THINGS TO DO TO BUILDINGS 021: ZOPE'S WRISTWATCH 022: ZOPE AND THE TROUBLE WITH FANBOYS 023: ZOPE'S NEW DISEASE 024: 9 TO 5 AND ZOPE 025: ZOPE'S MYSTERIOUS RELIGIOUS IDEA 026: ZOPE'S METEOR SHOWER FOLLIES 027: PRETEND ZOPE 028: ABBA ZOPE 029: ZOPE'S HAMBURGER COUGH DROPS 030: ZOPE'S CURIOUS PROPOSAL 031: ZOPE'S NUDITY LAUNDROMAT 032: ZOPE'S BAGHEERA WOMBAT 033: BARBED WIRE EXPERT GUY ZOPE 040: ZOPE'S NEW CATCHPHRASE 041: GALE ZOPE 042: CRAN-JAY ZOPE 044: TRANSCRIPT ZOPE 046: COBBLESTONE ZOPE 049: TV PIX ZOPE *CLASSIC ZOPE* 027--"Zope's Resin Conundrum" (1/17/93) 028--"Game Zope" (August 1992) 029--"Zope's Awl Madness" (2/9/91) 030--"Zope in the Street" (2/21/89) 031--"Van Zope" (5/21/91) 032--"Doctor Zope and the Abdomen Ghoul" (10/21/93) 033--"Zope's Clone Fun" (August 1992) 040--"Cyberpunks and the Wrath of Zope" (11/18/93) 041--"Zope's Ironing Board for Teens" (10/11/93) 042--"Zope and the Horrible Fate of the Monroe Doctrine" (10/11/93) 043--"Zope's Pine DNA Cafe" (1/17/93) 044--"Zope's Blacksmith Craziness" (August/September 1988) 046: "The Comazope Affair" (September 1987) & "Comazope Aftermath" (12/8/93) 049: "Zope's Boasting on Matters of Molten Materials" (11/6/93) 050: "Activision Zope" (2/6/91) 052: "Original Zope in The Mystery of the Big Clock" (11/18/86) ***SONG OF THE WEEK LIST, REVISED*** Song/Band/Album--okay? * indicates songs which I now feel suck 1) Piece of Pie/Stone Temple Pilots/Core 2) The Camera Eye/Rush/Moving Pictures 3) Manta Ray/Pixies/Monkey Gone to Heaven CD single 4) Trampled Under Foot/Led Zeppelin/Physical Graffiti 5) Last Chance on a Stairway/Duran Duran/Rio 6) Kinder Words/The Mighty Mighty Bosstones/Question the Answers 7) Black Blade/Blue Oyster Cult/Cultosaurus Erectus 8) White Lines/Duran Duran/Thank You* 9) The Man Who Sold the World/Nirvana/MTV Unplugged in New York 10) Truckdriving Neighbors Downstairs/Beck/Mellow Gold 11) Get Ready for This (Orchestral Mix)/2 Unlimited/Get Ready 12) Go Insane/Lindsey Buckingham/Go Insane 13) Starship Troopers/Yes/The Yes Album 14) Cotton-Eye Joe/Rednex/Sex and Violins* 15) Popcorn/Hot Butter/Popcorn 16) Mr. Moustache/Nirvana /Bleach 17) Achilles Last Stand/Led Zeppelin/Presence 18) Marathon (Live)/Rush/A Show of Hands 19) John Cleese: Is He Funny?/Human League/Octopus 20) Savoy Truffle/The Beatles/White Album 21) Blackout/Lush/Split 22) Walk Like an Egyptian/The Bangles/Best of The Bangles 23) It's a Sunshine Day/The Brady Bunch/Best of The Brady Bunch 24) Jollity Farm/The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band/Gorilla 25) Ghost Town/The Specials/Best of The Specials 26) Tomorrow/Silverchair/Frogstomp* 27) Astral Weeks/Van Morrison/Astral Weeks 28) Good Morning Little Schoolgirl/The Yardbirds/Greatest Hits, Volume One: 1964-1966 29) This is a Call/Foo Fighters/Foo Fighters 30) The Disregard of Timekeeping/Wait For You/Bonham/The Disregard of Timekeeping 31) Against the 70's/Mike Watt/Ball-Hog or Tugboat? 32) Sycamore Trees/Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Soundtrack. 33) Mr. Roboto/Styx/Mr. Roboto 34) Steppin' Out/Joe Jackson/Day and Night 35) Pleasant Valley Sunday/The Monkees/Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. 36) Evenflow/Pearl Jam/Ten *OW* [[04053SU]] Superior SUPERIOR 313 Hint of pepper in the air and she's finally with me. Today for adventure, tonight for sexual adventure. Why are there computer graphics in my thoughts? Dear home, I depart, and must hope you'll survive. You have a mundane life, not here, but at most a day out of a fortnight, like. SUPERIOR 314 Like. The wavvat. Turlington, supermodel. Tile morning, wasn't a bit fennow. It's the way. Truesaid. Have arrow understanding this. Craw Clarendon. My weretime of glock. Yes in it moshin', we bluster do, dawn thorofare. Wunt. Crud. If the world has drains on the floor for souls. SUPERIOR 315 My highname daft. My fellows are within. Trucks are a big part of life. What I give you see today these girls came up to us. If you think, if you have confused, and I knew. I knew, I knew. Dumb landscape, ya know where you are. Escape anytime. SUPERIOR 316 The romance of being very sick. Rap star--Aorta the Final One. Night experience near Columbia University, what was it. That Marjorie! Lying on her mattress with her, why didn't I make a move? I did a lot with her. We coulda gone out, ya know? Ah, f*ck it. That past's fulla sh*t like that. Stuff you woulda or shoulda, or even, coulda. F*ck that sh*t. *OW* [[05053SA]] Severe Repair Almanac SEVERE REPAIR BOOK ONE Chapter 1--"Bastard Dumb Luck Calling"--14 pages Chapter 2--"Map Shirt Goddess"--11 pages Chapter 3--"Goodbye Popcorn"--21 pages Chapter 4--"Awake Fluffy Netherf*ck"--16 pages Chapter 5--"Bicentennial Cane"--16 pages Chapter 6--"You're a Good Man for Crying on the Job"-- 18 pages Chapter 7--"Yellowhaus"--14 pages Chapter 8--"Cup's Club"--18 pages Chapter 9--"Pattern Integrity"--13 pages Chapter 10--"Toggle Joseph"--14 pages Chapter 11--"Fabric Reactor"--18 pages Chapter 12--"80-A Clarity"--13 pages Chapter 13--"Dolthethmen"--14 pages 200 Total Pages SEVERE REPAIR BOOK TWO Chapter 14--"It's Millicent!"--11 pages Chapter 15--"Office Complex of Gumhanshire"--14 pages Chapter 16--"Hypergod Amnifaoz"--16 pages Chapter 17--"Irregular Shirt"--12 pages Chapter 18--"Reality Pickup Truck: Tom Neadows"--12 pages Chapter 19--"Went Nowhere"--11 pages Chapter 20--"Thing Ping"--17 pages Chapter 21--"Peculiar Lather"--11 pages Chapter 22--"Giant Police Car"--13 pages Chapter 23--"Daptin's Land"--13 pages Chapter 24--"Insurance"--16 pages Chapter 25--"Dog and Rabbit"--12 pages Chapter 26--"The Aleche Degrasion"--14 pages 172 Total Pages SEVERE REPAIR BOOK THREE Chapter 27--"Weaver"--11 pages Chapter 28--"Nocturnal"--12 pages Chapter 29--"Greatcoat"--11 pages Chapter 30--"Stormbolthouse Leitmotif"--12 pages Chapter 31--"Foreman Ittener Pier"--13 pages Chapter 32--"Stormbolthouse Lunatether"--14 pages Chapter 33--"Luck"--16 pages Chapter 34--"Powers of the Land"--10 pages Chapter 35--"Speed Limit 85 MPH"--18 pages Chapter 36--"Thiffor"--22 pages Chapter 37--"Ladies"--10 pages Chapter 38--"Deer Express"--13 pages Chapter 39--"To Vixenway"--11 pages 173 Total Pages SEVERE REPAIR BOOK FOUR Chapter 40--"Saving Courier Arbhay"--7 pages Chapter 41--"Gnoboslast"--8 pages Chapter 42--"Finfora"--6 pages Chapter 43--"Truly Makes It"--7 pages Chapter 44--"Belly"--7 pages Chapter 45--"The Mildred Cork"--6 pages Chapter 46--"Manny's Attempt of Suicide"--7 pages Chapter 47--"I Like Snoppy"--7 pages Chapter 48--"Humorless & Wasted, but Still Beautiful"--10 pages Chapter 49--"The Pedestrian Bride"--8 pages Chapter 50--"Winter Stadium Them"--7 pages Chapter 51--"Soot Mary"--10 pages Chapter 52--"Agatha Petunia Wack"--11 pages 101 Total Pages GRAND TOTAL: 646 pages! *OW* [[END053OW]] -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- ----- |