Celestial Display

by :-) Fri Aug 12, 2005 13:31

If you find one you can sell it.
It is best to look on either snow or desert landscapes, as the remains of the meteorite is typically green or black in colour. If the meteorite has what appears to be any strange looking letters written on it, or if it appears to have little windows or a gangway DO NOT TOUCH IT.
phone the local gardaí instead, or the local licensed minister of publick religious worship.

an example meteorite.

by vegetarian Fri Aug 12, 2005 22:36

On account of the little windows, and the strangely familiary runic sort of writing above the little door which with a hiss opened to reveal greenish light within and a gangway which unrolled as a lizard's tongue but slower to touch the ground.
I (and my partner), were speechless. "Its very small", said the partner, and I had to agree. We decided that the local licensed religious minister of publick worship would make a better first contact than the Gardaí, it was a hard decision to make. They have both terrible reputations, and we weren't sure which would be worse.
My partner's mobile didn't work. She had "lost reception". Now at this stage, I started to get worried, but didn't want to go looking for my own mobile, as that would mean leaving the beloved on her own waiting for someone... or something to walk out of the greenish slimey light and down the gangplank.
I've found the number of the imam called herself, he's licensed, never made a critical comment of the local government or the capitalist system or any type of prejudiced sermon against the wisdom of our western habit of defending our interests by encouraging other people to have a war.
"hmm, thats good, but your mobile doesn't work". Yep, she replied, as bright as tungsten burning in the night-time sky, but I'll send him a text message it will still get logged een though my reduced coverage doesn't allow a phonecall, and his email address is in the "choose a good school for your western kid" commujnity defence pamphlet *they* posted us last week.
"hmm, they, yes my dear, its they, and them again" I muttered under my breath. The light has changed slightly gone from slimey green to a sort of blue and i'm sure i can hear music in the background, yes I'm pretty sure its coming from the "meteorite".

One or either of us will stay online till contact is acheived. & then you'll know all about it, for free, coz this is important, and we're not going to sell our story to syndicated press. But the photos yes.
Might sort out the rent.

by iosaf Fri Aug 12, 2005 22:45

& to make it worse its not even a useful map.
I'm wasting the licensed minister of publick worship's time by making up stories. Still it will catch on,
Kathurlick Kids! next time you get a shit contrition* at
confession report the licensed minister of publick worship for fomenting treason against the realm.
Just explain to the local garda/psni that the priest is a terrorist. Proddie kids! don't feel left out. Go through the speeches of pastoral unionism, you'll find some incitement.

*anything more than 3 hail marys and a good deed.

I am seriously here for anyone who has a close encounter with any kind of e.t. craft tonight and during the whole perseid storm.

You publish your story, and I'll read it.
its quite a big lump of hash though isn't it?

by concerned. Fri Aug 12, 2005 22:59

I've noted you mentioned your cellphone reception was affected by the EBE and that at least one of you is hearing music. Are you hearing this music "in your head" or is it more sort of ambient? Why do youthink its coming from the EBE transporter pod?

I reckon on experience basis you've done the right thing in not calling the Gardaí, an imam or a curate is generally much better at this type of thing.

You should probably be "ok" if your contact hasn't exceeded one hour yet, but you need to realise that every moment wasted, is a moment w-a-s-t-e-d.

Get busy, make a tin foil hat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil_hat
http://www.stopabductions.com/

by the partner. Fri Aug 12, 2005 23:04

& we have already sorted out the tinfoil hat thing, but the local licensed minister of public worship hasn't shown up, its just indymedia ireland and himslef and me, the partner, and..,
Should we leave food in front of the gangplank?
I'm not a vegetarian, we could leave it some turkey fillet thats in the fridge cooked in a supermarket sauce.

we had it left over from Czechtek 2005. The gig that put us off Gardaí for life.

by duine eile Fri Aug 12, 2005 23:17

ach-
b'fhearr libh beo.
go bhfuil an contúirt istigh, anois.
tog a bog é.

an bhfuill ocras air an "EBE-transporter-pod"?

by vegetarian Fri Aug 12, 2005 23:46

But to be honest, its all a bit freaky. We've made another tinfoil hat, we've widened the search on the licensed public worship thing and are prepared to make do with the only drug dealer who does house calls at this time of night on a weekend in august, and our gaeilge pronunciation isn't up to the welcome céad mile failte trans-national message.
¿is beo pronounced the same as bó?

Anyway, we'll just stick to playing a bit of planxty in the background. We've decided they're probably not hungry, if they were, they'd have landed in a bin tax paying - non precarious neighbourhood, though I know we're sort of plutocratic having the back garden and all.

Did I mention the partner is a migrant?
Ah, I suppose you, my new found friends, those internauts of the cyber revolution [excuse me I just heard a voice telling me to type that] will understand, that I would have called the gardaí, or the appropriate state bodies to assist us in this [what is probably fairly regular] inter-species and trans-planetary contact. But we don't feel that comfortable with them.

We just heard over the radio, that there has been a government change in Peru, Brazil is finally seeing the corruption thing hit hard on Lula's regime, and that there has been a high level assasination in Sri Lanka and a number of religious leaders have had their license revoked to preach publick worship in the United Kingdom.

This isn't so important to us though.

We're waiting on the meteorite to do something.
Bit silly really, it has done something, its touched down in the back garden, extended something, and played us music. & most importantly of all, it has brought both of us, (and the only local dealer prepared to do house calls on a weekend in august since he's enthralled) to what might be one of those articles on indymedia that became a book, it has indeed changèd our life.

by S. oros Sat Aug 13, 2005 00:21

I'm the dealer. Now its pretty certain why I entered the thread, I'm the dealer, the one who answered the "this time of night on a weekend in august" call.
Bring me to your dealer, or in this case, your dealer comes unto thee.
I've got a few secrets too, the plutocrats, (vegetarian and techno tinfoilhat partner) have a garden, and well its.., been "arranged", that is to say, for a long time now, we have under the guise of grass roots ecological activity focussed all our energies on the careful planting in geometrical patterns of various vegetables and some root footstuffs in the hope of being the ones who make contact.

Other than that, they've both realised they're "hungry" and have spent the last 45 minutes "eating". I'm using the """" because I know this is a family website.

aum shin rik yo a licensed minister of publick religious worship.

by Clear headed Sat Aug 13, 2005 00:32

Good to see you are back on the mushrooms, iosaf. When you come down please do a translation for us so that we get to know what you are trying to say, and what wonderful visions you have seen.
Have a good trip.

by ¿moi? Sat Aug 13, 2005 00:57

During the night of May 26-27, the North Cork Militia burned the church at Boolavogue. The arson attack drove Father John Murphy (1753-1798) becoming one of the leaders of the rebellion in Wexford. After the defeat at Vinegar Hill (21 June), he escaped but was eventually captured, executed and burned in a barrel of pitch.

Come all you warriors and renowned nobles
Give ear unto my warlike theme
While I relate how brave Father Murphy
He lately roused from his sleepy dream
Sure Julius Caesar nor Alexander
Nor brave King Arthur ever equalled him
For armies formidable he did conquer
Though with two pikemen he did begin

Camolin cavalry he did unhorse them
Their first lieutenant he cut him down
With shattered ranks and with broken columns
They soon returned to Camolin town
At the hill of Oulart he displayed his valour
Where a hundred Corkmen lay on the plain
At Enniscorthy his sword he wielded
And I hope to see him once more again

When Enniscorthy became subject unto him
Twas then to Wexford we marched our men
And on the Three Rock took up our quarters
Waiting for daylight the town to win
The loyal townsmen gave their assistance
We will die or conquer they all did say
The yeomen cavalry made no resistance,
For on the pavement their corpses lay

With drums a-beating the town did echo
And acclamations came from door to door
On the Windmill Hill we pitched our tents then
We drank like heroes but paid no score
On Carraig Rua for some time we waited
And next to Gorey we did repair
At Tubberneering we thought no harm
The bloody army was waiting there

The issue of it was a close engagement
While on the soldiers we played warlike pranks
Through the sheepwalks, hedgerows and shady thickets
There were mangled bodies and broken ranks
The shuddering cavalry, I can't forget them
We raised the brushes on their helmets straight
They turned about and made straight for Dublin
As though they ran for a ten pound plate

Now, some crossed Donnybrook and more through Blackrock
And some up Shankhill without wound or flaw
And if Barry Lawless be not a liar
There was more went groaning up Luggela
To the Windmill Hill of Enniscorthy,
The British Fencibles they fled like deers
But our ranks were tattered and sorely scattered
By the loss o Kyan and his Shelamaliers

The streets of England were left quite naked
Of all their army both foot and horse
The Highlands Scotland were left unguarded
Likewise the Hessians the seas did cross
But if the Frenchmen had reinforced us
And landed transports at Baginbun
Father John Murphy, he would be their seconder
And sixteen thousand with him would come

Success attend you sweet County Wexford
Threw off the yoke and to battle run
Let them not think we gave up our arms
For every man still has a pike and gun.

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We do like the Q&A format.
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Q. Was your great great great great grewat great grandaddy who begat yourgreat great great grewat great grandaddy a believer?
A. no he wasn't! He was begat of a look the other way type.
Q. Realising your human potential and limitations and noting your lack of institutional support from either religious figures or law and order professionals, can you be sure you can on behalf of humanity, keep a constant eye on the "meteorite"/"EBE transporter pod" all through the night and not just get bored, fall asleep and not notice it sailing back off effortlessly into the infinite unknown?
A. No, not really. & to be honest its not so important.



bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.
:-) good to be back.

a typical EBE yesterday.

a typical EBE yesterday.

by Taurus Sat Aug 13, 2005 01:09

.. with extra terrestial toppings. If you look closely you'll see definate signs of anchovy type cherubim. Granted, astro-physicists in Cambridge this evening are in a crisis meeting - previously they had been sure this annual visitor was the more benign meteor shower, known as the so-called, 'polenta pie phenomenon'. But Americans at NASA want the Cambridge crowd to shut the FU about that. Conspiracy theories are rampant but THE most credible is that it may well be a stellar advertising campaign mounted surreptitiously by McDonalds who are DESPERATE to improve their image by menas of a single globallly visible advertising campaing. Meanwhile the Russians, determined not to be outdone, are lighting up the top of the world with a million tinfoil hats in the sky - just to see what they can see by daylight right there on the ground. Funny old world...

by iosaf - ;-) the meteorite just fked off, day after nothing but empty lager cans and spliff ends. eerie! Mon Aug 15, 2005 23:30

Someone reported in our othewr press section that an Irishman had died of natural causes at a festival, whilst I was mostly offline, teh article above was a celebration that I was back..
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71371
It now emerges that man was one of this year's victims of recreational drug misuse. & there have been quite a few, the drug taken by Finbar Kelly a 27year old, was blamed for the ingression to hospital that same day of 25 other recreational drug users.
The drug is called "liquid ecstasy". & the spanish state government got well pissed off above it. as reported in the Irish commercial press last week. The autonomous region of the Balearic islands promised a "crack down".
http://www.unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=27&si=77568&printer=1

And perhaps as a consequence the Catalan national police, (a different autonomous region) arrested a 23 year old man identified as David G.G. on Saturday night last, for dealing the drug, and the commercial media throughout Spain happily blamed him for putting 6 people in a coma, though some noted the ecstasy was "degraded" or adulterated. For their part the catalan police thanked witnesses who helped their inquiries... You will understand this same _drug name_ is now attributed to 1 death 6 comas and 25 other emergency resucitations.
http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/noticia.aspx?cod=20050815144000&tabID=1&ch=73

Mr David G. G. has now been released on bail, he is reported as having previous, but I seriously doubt he supplied Ibiza from Girona, or is the only entrepeneur with this product in all of Europe.

What can I say to ye?

Well, basically, if you're going to a party especially in a different climate and are intent on using recreational drugs, you must learn a little before hand on what drugs might be offered to you, unless you are prepared to risk the criminal penalties if caught importing your own drugs.
and remember to drink water- lots of it, there are an awful lot of psychoactive chemicals on the market, and for various reasons not a lot of testing really gets done. Indeed you might just be the tester.
If you consume a "liquid" version of a psychoactive drug, you must be very careful not to mix it with alcohol. & you must admit, no matter what your hippy old uncle may tell you, MDMA (ecstasy) does not normally come in liquid form. It might say ecstasy on the bottle, the nice new friend who is selling / giving it to you may swear to you its ecstasy but just remember you're very far from a laboratory, but just close enough to a hospital, keep a small sample on your person so the emergency staff know what they're dealing with.

If you're on the other side of our committed readership, and would never dream of taking illegal psychoactive substances, you must remember to abstain from taking your normal medication whilst drinking yourself into a cheaper coma in hot countries whilst on holidays. You really need to drink Water.

If you're amongst our very small but irritatingly stupid readership who play a rôle in shaping public policy on such things, you really ought remember that when statistics in Spain alone average 500 serious incidents related to psychoactive drug use a year, with many tourists featuring in the "treated" (thus it may seem relevant to note there are many millions of tourists every year) that people of any age or appearance who are using / misusing any substance need to treated with understanding and respect.

I know what I'm talking about.
Been there done that.
I'd now like you to think about what it felt to be a poor holiday maker in the Czech republic when the cops came in mid dance / snog / the precious moment you think you'll remember but you forget like the rest of your youth all too quickly.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71268

by more advice Mon Aug 15, 2005 23:39

into any bottle that looks like a water juice beer whiskey bottle etc

it always ends in tears, puke and confusion (and as iosaf has pointed out it can be worse than that)

by +ve vill have none of ze incidents+ Tue Aug 16, 2005 14:19

Now many of you are thinking you want to see Ratzinger the Pope speak to the young, as the number one licensed minister of publick religion and the only one who is officialy a head of state, other than the very popular Dalai Lama who is a bit pagan and won't get you into heaven only get you reincarnated. This really is the YOUTH gig of the summer.

But where will you sleep?

Well news is that some of germany's protestants will be happy to put you up throughout the gigs in Köln from thursday to sunday but not all. Don't take a protestant's hospitality for granted.

just remember,

*pick up your lagar cans afterwards,
*don't drink and take liquid ecstasy at the same time.
(see above last comments)
* don't go wearing rosary beads on your bikini.
* obey the german police, they'll be really sensitive.

by chemist Tue Aug 16, 2005 14:46

"Erowid is a member-supported organization providing access to reliable, non-judgmental information about psychoactive plants and chemicals and related issues. We work with academic, medical, and experiential experts to develop and publish new resources, as well as to improve and increase access to already existing resources. We also strive to ensure that these resources are maintained and preserved as a historical record for the future."

They have just re-issued an interesting if a little bit technical (t-e-c-h-n-i-c-a-l not tekno) article on "The Neuropharmacology of Hallucinogens"

I'm grateful to the Daily Grail ( http://dailygrail.com/ )
for adding this to their suggested "kookie" reading material this week. Cheers!

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/pharmacology/pharmacology_article2.shtml

I am genuinely interested in this "liquid ecstasy" story, (which killed an irishman recently and is reported in the comment third above) and would appreciate any information on experiences, price, colour, packaging, composition, basically- info.
Is this product in Ireland? Are there any users online? Any stories? Has anyone used a tester kit?
be it user type or technical, contact me through the contact box at top of the screen if you've any info. -

Iosaf

by not iosaf Tue Aug 16, 2005 15:14

Do NOT use the 'contact' box to contact "iosaf". It is a public list. If iosaf wants to be contacted he should put up his own e-mail address.

by ipsiphi Thu Aug 18, 2005 15:57

I just got a phonecall, not on my mobile,
(0034636105231) or even my usual house line (0034934120021) but on what I call the piano line, because the telephone sits next to piano where I play mozart and bach and beethoven and sure it keeps me out of mischief, Ye don't get the piano line its a secret number.

Anyway, the phone call was brief, to the point as they say, "turn on the telly", is what the caller said. So I did.

It was afternoon newstime. I flick through the channels, wow! thought I, as I see a little penguin, "pingui" waddling along in front of a line of polished shoes, the camera pulls out, the shoes belong to soldiers, norwegian soldiers, this little "human interest" clip on catalan telly is about the norwegian army's mascot, a penguin. Aha! thing I. very sweet, a militarised pingui for the fans of linux based systems, wonder how many of the afternoon time mammies and grannies waiting on their soaps and morality discussion shows (you know the type - "she's pregnant, we don't like him, he hasn't a job, what do we do?") will understand the symbol.
Then the next item, last night's riots in the annual Gracia street festival in Barcelona, "radical members of the okupe collective in street battles with the guardia urbana till six in the morning, thrashed the street displays, one year since the death of a young punky (roger) at the hands of skinheads."
-hmmm think I, well you know- its what youngsters do, many of them had parents who at some time, perhaps, indeed most probably with better reason threw stones at the security forces, (I've just been showing the movie bloody sunday to friends and comparing with the "kale borraka" = streets of fire, protests in the basque which see the 17 year olds attack the ancient enemy last weekend shocking the tourists).

I start flicking between the catalan and spanish tv stations, the caller didn't tell me exactly what it was I was supposed to be looking for...

Next item, also barcelona, (generally bad when the spanish tv focusses dwells on bcn) rumanian kids are running riot in the centre robbing shops! but they're all underage! and the police claim that as soon as they reach 14 they go back to close relatives in rumania to escape prosecution, a new type of problem what can they do?
(i've just been shown "the rose seller" a movie on the street children of Colombia which sees kids of 12 and younger live on the streets, doing what they can, and sniffing glue to forget what they could)

I flick back to the catalan tv, oh! am I getting it now?
its the liquid ecstasy story. quickly back to spanish tv, yep its there too. Its a national special for the mammies and grannies on the new drug with a twist on an old name which is sending kids into comas, into kidney collapse, into premature diabetes, into hospital and/or a premature grave throughout this summer.

Last year's antidrug TV campaign advert in the spanish state was one of the best, it showed a baptism. Priest holding a baby,
"& now I call on the parents to come forward and the godparents" - they do. "& now I call on the best friends, and primary school teachers" they come to the baptismal font.
"& now the secondary school teachers, producers of childrens tv, the lead singer in his favourite pop band, the designers and writers of his favourite computer games and the writers and designers of his favourite websites". The little baby is surrounded by people who look less and less prepared for the responsibilities of caring for the kid. "we all play a part in education" the final message.

No-one is going to stop angry poor kids throwing stones at police and attacking banks unless the underlying injustices they perceive from their parents are righted.

Very few in the west have any idea of the poverty in the third world or the esat of europe, even amongst the activists the most popular documentaries focus on the "politics", on the route to and from power of individuals like Chavaz, or the exemplary activity in Chiapas. But few are aware of the depths of deprivation by those who are untouched by such political progress.

No-one is going to stop kids trying to get high, or pushing their own limits, taking risks be it by sniffing glue or dropping pills, but many of us can offer simple advice, possibly based on the risk assesments we have made after observing the behaviour of our own generation, friends and others. - When recreational drugs might have just risked a paranoid collapse or worsened depression.

If you take a drug, you must think of the dose.
The dose varies from male to female metabolism, the ability to excrete toxins (depends on your skin area or kidney efficiency) and your body weight.

The availability of very cheap psychoactive chemicals in liquid form (at around 5€ a bottle) which is not associated with paranoia side-effects, is actually a real disaster for the young who don't think about such things, get high, and want to get even higher and simply have no idea of the russian roulette they are playing, a game which is killing kids all over Europe this summer, for absolutely no reason. It is odd, that drug paranoia, (the focus of this years spanish and french tv anti-drug campaigns) served a useful function of dissuasion. Anyone who has had a bad trip, is once bitten and twice shy...

quite simply :-

Don't take liquid drugs with alcohol.
Don't take multiple doses of a liquid drug.

Pass it on.

however suits you, do a stencil, hand out a flyer, add it to your website, tell your wee brothers and sisters. Coz I'd rather get messages which prompt me to report issues which may be addressed politically you know the "leaked" news and stuff to add to the long list of things that occur in far-away places which get conveniently forgotten.

(((I'm going back to my piano now.)))

with a well placed message well worded you might actually save someone's life this weekend.