"Book of Days": April 2019

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

"...dumplings"

I just had a thought about the unknown details of history. Perhaps an afternoon in the life of James Baldwin, and his running into Walt Whiteman. This outside of the 42nd street Library.

The story goes from there.

They later meet John Donne in Chinatown.
Our heroes decide to have a light breakfast of dumplings, and green tea. It's a crisp early fall morning in September 2001. This unlikely meetings hardly surprises them. They being mystics all assume such is to be expected from time to time.

Sez Donne,..."This vibration this electricity how you so depend on it."
"I saw it's beginnings" said Walt.
Lighting Chesterfield. "My damned bill is overdue" James grumbled.

There was a sudden rumble the floor shook.
They looked up.
A flying machine has crashed into one of the great towers.
The sky was on fire.

"This is where I came in" said Donne not at all surprised.

( I might pitch this to Hulu as a min-series.)

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

"History Watches"

Old gent in a 1932 trainyard reads a strange article.

It goes, "...As you read this people all over the world

in the year 2019~AD will be watching you.

Somewhat befuddled he looks around, and sez,

"...I'll be damned."

"Smile"

Fuck this evil shit!

I wanna live in another timeline.

Ya know the one we were supposed to fucking have.

Yeah that one with the space stations coming out of our butts.

The one with free education health care easily affordable houseing.

All the normal boring crap an advanced society would have as a matter of course, and not be insane radical dreams like here.

I want to live there.

We bleeping all earned the right to live there!

That place where I can wander to the library while Black, and not be roughed up by cops. That or have to live in fear I can't get my meds.

That or be killed for fun by Nazis.

That place where the world works just slightly better than here.

It wouldn't take much. It really wouldn't.

Say the $5 Trillions of bucks they spent on the Terror Wars.

Ya know that war that just made everything worse?

If it was spent on our own country.

Fuck! ...we'd all be living like the Jetson's now.

I want to meditate in the Temple of the Holy Boy.

Spend my retired summer afternoons in green plazas.

Watching youths, and boys bathe in the public fountains.

This while wandering string quartets play fucking Mozart.

Him Fat's Waller, and the frigging Beatles.

I want to drive cool Tomorrowland 1950's wheels like the above.

Cars would look just like that too

If the prosperity of that time never ended.

Which it never had to.

That was all a deliberate act of economic genocide.

This to stop the middle class from expanding to everyone.

Ending the hegemony of the One Percent.

Okay time to stop.

I'm sweating, and drooling a bit here.

Yeah I get overwrought.

I'm going into conspiracy again.

Good night.

"~\FIRE/~"

"We are Slaves to Fire"

"~\N/~"

Mr. Spock from the "Cloud Minders" episode.

"The destruction of art is a loss to all"

"World Ends"

"Notre Dame Burns"

True grace beauty, and sanity is so rare.

The loss of any of it is so hard so brutal so tragic to bear.

Part of my heart went with it.

"...to go"

Fire just so much of it these days. Living in a large city one hears fire engines 24/7 365. This town is a smoldering pit. As I sit here posting I hear them. There's an urban sense we have.

This is being able to tell if the fire engines or cop cars are coming towards you or away. When they get loud then the siren winds down in front of your building you're fucked.

This happened to me exactly a year ago this week.

Fucking big fire in the digs right below mine. The guy was running his contracting company out of his place. No big deal I mean people do that now. The economy is diffused. Plenty of local digital, and manual self employment everywhere.

Nine to five work is as distant as functioning public education or free access to former public parks. Btw there was an attempt to make libraries have an admission fee a while back. Fuck'em to hell.

As in early 1900's NYC the last time home industry was common because of an busted economy,...fires. You set up shop at home shit can, and does happen.

The new economy which is a result of the New Climate is a fiery one. See above a snap sent me by a Facebook comrade. As she drove to town the grasslands are already enflamed.

This out in Kansas. Their great blizzards barley over already the land has dried up, and is burning.

Aw well.

Meanwhile I'm realizing I'm too fucked up to do that jury duty thing after all. I went to visit dear pals. It was so swell to see them. We were radio pals on the air together for a few hundred years.
However the trip so exhausted me I was in bed for two days.

No way I could go everyday to court on some case for a month...it might actually kill me. I wouldn't mind, but I'd rather Croke here at home. Not on a bus subway or courthouse.

I mean ya know.

Anyway so I'll plead insanity or age or something.
I think my out is that I'm somewhat incontinent. Thanks' to the medical dramas since December. Which I just realized is about six months now. Time flies when your guts are hanging out onto the floor.

The last decade has been bad for my health. The last three seriously.

Fuck it I a want pizza, and a fucking coke to go.

"Seven Earths", an Alternate History

Former President John F. Kennedy who held the office from 1960 through 1968. Is seen here in a portrait taken by the BBC for his last public interview in 1992. Kennedy remembered for the events in October 1962 when the world was on a knifes edge of nuclear war.

That, and his work in overturning American racial segregation support for the space program beginning the process of banning all nuclear weapons mediating the Canadian Quebec civil war, and his founding of the Department of the Arts.

He returned to politics late in life to run, and be the first governor of the new State of Mannahatta. Formally New York City. Mannahatta being the 55th state admitted to the Union in 1983.
This after Guam Fiji, and Puerto Rico became states in 1975.
That, and Newfoundland in 1956.

Former President Kennedy after an illness passed away in 1993.

U.S. flag in the Kennedy lives timeline.

Besides his many legacies to the nation, and the world. He is most revered for his posthumous book, and documentations released in 2018. These revealed the existence, and contact with parallel worlds.

His book "The Seven Earths" changed human history.

The heretofore suppressed discovery, and tentative contacts with two of these worlds was made public by his daughter Caroline. As JFK wished 25 years after his death.

This in a ceremony at the Department of the Arts. At which not only his book, and documentation was presented to the world but also the first known appearance of an individual from one of them.

Earth-2.

Her name is Toni Morrison, and she's an author.

The America of her Earth as Ms. Morrison describes is somewhat similar to ours. Among the exceptions being a more seriously failed Civil War Reconstruction. A longer Great Depression. Also their first moon landing was a success.

She also mentioned unlike here that the United Kingdom is a close allied nation. That, and a different Royal line in the other Britain. They have a friendly Queen not a hostile Emperor.

A another major change from our history came in November 1963. Their President Kennedy was assassinated by a conglomeration of intelligence agencies, and organized crime. After which Earth-2 went on a long socio-economic downward spiral.

That America is now a divided impoverish nation. With homeless poor actually living on their streets. Mass drug addiction armed youth gangs. A stalled corrupt venal government, and worse.

The rest of that world is in a state of confusion wars genocides, and oppressions. Also their planet is suffering a possible extinction level change in it's climate.

The other six Earths are very different.

One is of course ours. Next a pre-industrial hunter gatherer culture. Another is very similar to Mars, and never evolved life beyond simple microbes. The most advanced is a Neanderthal interstellar society.

Yet another is in the long aftermath of major asteroid impacts. This seemed to have happened 1200 years ago. They were formerly in an industrial era. They are now roughly bronze age, and still recovering.

The final world Earth-7 is dominated by Trilobites. These on our world were a pre-historic form of shallow sea crustacean.

There were attempt by the authorities to stop the dissemination of these historic facts. However Caroline as per her father's wishes released all the classified files onto the world net. This with a unique form of incription which makes it impossible to delete or alter.

This the opening to many worlds was President Kennedy's last gift.

*Deleted scenes.

Kennedy timeline 2019 Edsel.

Yeah theirs is a piece of crap too.

*More details of the parallel Earth that Ms. Morrison, from our world, is visiting in the above story.

In the Kennedy history Peter Best stayed in the Beatles.
Ringo died of Polio as a child. George was never born his father having been killed in WW2. Two other artists unknown on our world filled those places.

The Edsel was a mild success. ...very mild see above.
It is 'still' being built by Ford. Newfoundland is a U.S. state. It nearly became one on our world in the late 1940's. India is three different nations. Australia has been a republic since 1994.

WW2 Germany in early 1945 made the components for one functional atomic bomb. However didn't use it. The Russians overran it's construction site before it could be moved. The Russians based on German work were making their own bombs by 1947.

In the Kennedy history only one American A-Bomb was dropped. This on an uninhabited island in mid-pacific to show Japanese observers.

The first internet message was sent in 1964. Five years before our world .

DVD's came a bit early as well. This in the mid 1970's along with CD's, and cheap cell phones.

There are four international space stations.
The Civil Rights Act which ended legal segregation in both America's came sooner in the Kennedy timeline. May 1962.
There was a failed assassination attempt because of it on JFK a month later.

Limited Gay Rights came in 1965.

There was no prolonged Vietnam war beyond a short period of military advisors.

These were recalled in 1964.

The Equal Rights Amendment for Women was passed in 1976.

The Cold War ended in 1983 with the NATO Warsaw Pact Phony War.

The first manned American Mars mission failed with the loss of the crew in 1989.
An International flotilla of ships returned in 2003.
They successfully established bases at the equator, and south pole of Mars.

There was a major flu pandemic in Mexico in the early-1990's. This took many thousands of lives there, and in parts of the U.S. Southwest.

This butterflied away the Cocaine Cowboy Cartels.
Heroin stayed the major illegal drug till the limited decriminalization, and amnesty of non-violent drug offenders in 2007.

There was race tinged sentiment to build a US/Mexican wall to prevent another cross border pandemic. This was refused by the federal government as an irrational response to an international tragedy.

A failed businessman named Trump is currently doing 25 to life.

This for fraud jury tampering multiple statutory rapes including his youngest daughter. Also for being part of a mob conspiracy to murder a federal agent. All this, and selling classified documents to a foreign power.