Saturday, April 18, 2009

More About Fireflies

fireflyAn excerpt from The Flyover Bug Entomology by Gen. Myron T. Hooch (ret.)

The one of the biggest problems we're going to run into in trying to get a handle on things is this group of creatives, these fireflies. Several years ago, we had them contained for the most part, in places like New York and Los Angeles, with a few in Miami and Orlando, not much to speak of in Chicago. Things are changing. Even after we ran most of them out of Colorado in '92, we're finding that they're migrating back. Hell, there have been musicians, writers, artists (like we haven't seen since Boulder in the 60s). Next thing you know, they'll be making movies in Colorado again.

Somehow, we need to get a handle on this, and do it fast. It's difficult to control a group of people spread across the whole damned country.

Writers for crap's sake, and fiction writers at that. Next thing you know everybody will be reading about things that never happened. How're we going to control people then? Well have people actually believing that they can control what's happening to them.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Financial Districts - the Mosquitoes

An excerpt from The Flyover Bug Entomology by Gen. Myron T. Hooch (ret.)

Nothing gets built, nothing gets produced, and nothing gets created. Big mossy green puddles of cash float around in circles and every time it passes by these creatures suck a little bit out. Some of it goes back into the system, while a lot more gets set aside for a millenium's worth of rainy days, much of it in offshore institutions. Sometimes, sucking out just a little bit every time the puddle passes just doesn't seem to be enough. If they stay to long at the same pass of the puddle they grow fat, can't fly, and get squashed.