|| -------- -- -----  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 101--6/28/96 <-------  ||  OsoaWeek  ||  Issues  ||  Book 8  ||  -------> (Cup OWis101, Created v1 (4/27/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [[BEGIN101OW]] [[01101CV]] * * * O S O A W E E K 1 0 1 * * * June 28, 1996 "The weekly ezine of Obliviana Super Occult Amusement!" by Frank Edward Nora CONTENTS 01 101 CV--Cover 02 101 LA--Lord of Obliviana 03 101 LM--Life Mysteries 04 101 SU--Superior OsoaWeek101, June 28, 1996 Tenth issue of OsoaWeek Book Eight Written by Frank Edward Nora (except where noted) Published weekly by Obliviana Super Occult Amusement obliviana@aol.com 1-800-OBLIVIANA http://www.obliviana.com/~osoa All contents copyright 1996 Frank Edward Nora Regarding this file, you are free to make digital copies, so long as they're not altered or sold. All other forms of reproduction require permission. An Obliviana Cup containing this file will be available. Stay tuned for more details. ASCII Characters: 4835 / Words: 877 / Lines: 149 Days late: 37 *OW* [[02101LA]] Lord of Obliviana Sun 8/4/96 * 2:46 PM * home * Tarb 4432? The Superiors got out of synch at issue 93 where Superior 524 was repeated. I will correct this by presenting 5 Superiors in the last issue of Book 8, 104. Thank you. Get all Obliviana. *OW* [[03101LM]] Life Mysteries LIFE MYSTERY 9 "Blade Runner Therapy" by John Nora Today eating sushi at the mall I felt cool in a pair of white painter's pants, but had a definite, close fantasy about having a lovely girl sitting across the mall food-court table, as if I was on a date with her, and tonight on the phone I find out everything is hellish. Boy, I really sat there wondering about whoever that was sitting across from me, my chopsticks downed like a babylonian kite amidst my Alaskan Roll. There is a scene in the 1982 movie Blade Runner where Harrison Ford is seemingly sharpening his chopsticks on one another, ridding them of woodchips, I would deduce. So I did this today before eating my first sushi and then just waiting a minute before my imaginary lunch date. My loneliness weighs on me like nothing I can imagine, so why not watch Blade Runner again tonight. Its not my all-time favorite movie, but its in my house and Harrison Ford plays a fucked-up lonely tough-guy which of course I can relate to. He eats with chopsticks like I sometimes do. There is heavy synth music from 1982 which brings to mind a nostalgia and the idea of an impossible, haunting loveliness...it would seem others must share in this idea. Sure, of course they do! In the movie it is constantly night and raining. All that rain feels nice. My loneliness is my only problem. It is a common complaint. The phone conversation was about how everybody's sleeping with everybody. My friend seemed annoyed with me. I was drunk at the party, he said, even though I felt I'd done okay. There I was, he claimed, making taffy-long pulls at his sweater, tugging. *OW* [[04101SU]] Superior SUPERIOR 556 * 7/20/96 Flowing a word into an exit, highway exit, pure old televisions in abandoned supermarkets, knowing California and London only from magazines and movies, we are like radios, she said, and I didn't understand her. Talking about the metric system and cigar boxes. There are three forces, she said, and I didn't get it. Get at it, she said, and I kissed her and she got mad and said she only wanted to be friends. SUPERIOR 557 * 7/20/96 There was a precious moment before, in reality, I had my old red robe on and nothing else, a few days growth of facial hair, and my hair wild and unbrushed and I heard the doorbell and I answered it, my hairy chest exposed, and I faced a woman in her fifties, and she said something like "We are visiting people, and talking to them about important questions in their lives, like if the Lord loves them, and if he does, why is there such corruption in the world." I stood there, I must have looked like a real psycho, and I paused... I've had a lot of fun talking to Jehovah's Witnesses before, but I wasn't in any state to do so. So I said "I can't talk right now.", and she said "I understand." And I closed the door. SUPERIOR 558 * 7/21/96 Water. Coming from the computer precious resource, big and small and she is on drugs and cannot tell the difference, Dwayne. Shooting monsters on the screen. Very precious the age of the viewer, and we are all going there today, it is a temporary setup, like a Halloween hayride, but this is different. Coming with me? I have a collection of granite cores, my father is into granite cores. SUPERIOR 559 * 7/21/96 From here to knot yessing the town the town, forget it, I am mapping K-Marts and Caldors in the back of my mind while in prison, I am travelling the sting of the aisles of Toys'R'Us, I am there in my mind and I am wandering, massive dose of coffee working its way through my system, disorienting myself, spending money I barely have, and all of this to avoid reality. But in time I got past that. *OW* [[END101OW]] -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----