More About Fireflies

An 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.

The Tension Rises

Throughout the country, tension is rising as a dozen different factions try to determine their best positioning in the power struggles behind the economic collapse. As we travel around the country, we hear dozens of terms to describe "them", "the other side", "the enemy", "those a******s". Most of them seem to equate the members of the opposition to some sort of creepy-crawly insect. So we're copying all of this stuff down in our beat-up old Moleskine journal (been carrying one for years, but still don't write like Hemingway). We're going to be putting up some of those journal entries here over the next few weeks -- or until one side or the other, or the other, or the other -- puts us out of action.

Some military guy by the name of Myron T. Hooch told us over beers at Steady Eddie's in downtown Boulder-Springs, that it was really important that you were able to dehumanize your enemy so you could get your guys to whack 'em. Anyway what he said made sense over a couple of boilermakers. He also told us he had a book in the works about all this, so we built this website as a place to post some excerpts.

Quack ya later.