|| -------- -- -----  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 229--12/15/98 <-------  ||  OsoaWeek  ||  Issues  ||  Book 18  ||  -------> (Cup OWis229, Created v1 (4/27/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ------------------- OSOAWEEK Ezine of Obliviana Issue 229, 12/15/98 by Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Obliviana ----------- ------------------- LORD OF OBLIVIANA ----------- 12/22/98 now. 1998 is drawing to a close, and I can't wait to shrug it off and greet the wonders of 1999, which will not be limited to presidential impeachment, The Phantom Menace, and Y2K. I'm sure 1999 holds a great deal of surprises. On the first day of 1999, Ciffipur Pathways will premiere at www.obliviana.com. Also on that day, I will roll my Jeep odometer over to 43,681 miles--209 miles 209 times! (I have about 175 miles to go at this point, and come New Year's Day, I'm gonna drive as long as it takes to get to 43,681!) 1999 is gonna be the year that Obliviana becomes something real. So the friggin' world better not end with this Y2K crap. That would totally suck, Obliviana becomes popular and then, BANG, the world ends. 1999 is not going to be "just another year". It's gonna be crazy. Let's just hope it's more the good kind of crazy than the bad kind of crazy. There is much good about this world. This paragraph is seriously deteriorating into hackeneyed rhetoric. And, I might add, self-reference. Silly, silly, here comes Christmas. Next Christmas will be T minus seven days before Y2K. And then the decade of the Zeroes. Around 2010 we'll start getting the definitve "Greatest Hits of the Zeroes" music collections. Yeah, man. The Zeroes. Obliviana is gonna fucking kick ass in the Zeroes. 209 is gonna be as ubiquitous as the peace sign was in the Sixties. Yeah! Alright! Cool! (But, um... I think I was talking the same crap back in 1989, that the Nineties would be blah blah blah for Anything But Monday and Halfevil Graphics and Nomadi and all that...) Okay. That's it. Goodnight. I gotta go to bed. Get all Obliviana. ------------------- LUCKY STORM ----------- Lucky Storm 229: 137 (Flip 5, Dire 4, Storm Pelter "Polliwog" (I think...), Voodholo Stormpost 22 & Pilcansas Stormpost 4) Previously: 209: 27, 210: 126, 211: 20, 212: 140, 213: 170, 214: 175, 215: 177, 216: 83, 217: 111, 218: 77, 219: 119, 220: 100, 221: 128, 222:198, 223: 189, 224: 17, 225: 150, 226: 44, 227: 54, 228: 31 Note: The Lucky Storm is drawn randomly, using a deck of 30 cards (called a "Storm Codex"), one for each Flip and Dire. Comment: Finally another eleven! (1+3+7=11) ------------------- SONG OF THE WEEK ----------- Carrie Engdahl, "Crazy Plonto" (Album: "Fuzzy Daupner") ------------------- CARNE'S MOISTURE DETECTION FRIEND Episode Twenty-One ----------- CARNE: My Moisture Detection Friend had an idea for a story with an entertainment building with a dark ride that you go through on your own personal vehicle, going to all these different themed areas, and then stopping for views, dining, resting, etc. Like you control these vehicles somewhat, deciding where to go next, and hotels in there, and you can stay there for days and days. And also, in comparison, like this park, kind of like Washington Square Park in the sixties, with all these people, like at night in the summer, and exploring the idea of the promise that such a situation holds--but instead of the promise giving way to diappointment, you know, like it just keeps getting better and better? Like not the dark side, but that initial sense of the cool stuff that might happen, and then it does? That's what he's talking about. PACER: Cool. ------------------- INFORMATION ----------- Obliviana Super Occult Amusement is at "www.obliviana.com" Send all E-mail to "obliviana@aol.com" OsoaWeek is copyright 1998 Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Obliviana. It may be copied for personal use only. No part of OsoaWeek may be published, either digitally or physically, without permission. The Obliviana Mailing List is currently holding steady at 23 members. ------------------- END ----------- -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----