You Bet Your Bippy

[LHX]

"ride the hot hand"?






Is that some sort of porn-type lingo?

hahaaaaaaaa naw i think its from sports

baseball in particular



tho in all honesty, porn has been on my mind a lot lately


there is something to that idea of naked ladies providing the backdrop of a philosophical discussion

[LMNO]

We need to film a philisophical debate against a green screen, and then merge it with choice clips from Deep Throat, or something.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Wouldn't be discordian without a subliminal-ish flash of goatse. I bet when that fella made his bunghole smile for the camera he never figured he'd become an institution.

[AFK]

That's probably why the pamphlets seem so... unprofessional.  Since no one really wanted to play editor, we pretty much threw it together and said, "go".


What the Prof is doing (honest criticism of another's work) is pretty ballsy, and I appreciate the effort.

Personally, I like the "unprofessional" look of the pamphlets.  As far as organization, it seems part of Discordian nature to really not be able to formally organize in any way.  But, I don't think that's a bad thing.  It is clear we have a nebulous-core of people dedicated at the very least to chewing on the ideas.  We just need a couple of people who are willing and able to put the ideas together from time to time, hopefully with not too much time elapsing in between.

[Jenne]

Well said, RWHN.  The organization of the thing overcrowding the purpose is usually the heralding of the end of the purpose altogether.

But don't let me alarmism creep in, anyway, because I've got spoiled goods when it comes to organization of anything of this nature.

[LMNO]

I was also thinking about it, and I kind of like the idea of leaving undefined "Discordian" words/phrases in it.  Kind of like "A Clockwork Orange".

If there are strange words sprinkled throughout, it might make people curious.  At least, it would make me curious, and I kind of want to be appealing to people like me.

[LHX]

good things take time to prepare

especially when you are looking to do things that nobody did before


and so you have no point of reference to work from

I was also thinking about it, and I kind of like the idea of leaving undefined "Discordian" words/phrases in it.  Kind of like "A Clockwork Orange".

If there are strange words sprinkled throughout, it might make people curious.  At least, it would make me curious, and I kind of want to be appealing to people like me.

maybe we could link that up wiff the SSOOKN notions we had floating around on the BIP forum before the crash

[LMNO]

Remind me of those...

[hunter s.durden]

I was also thinking about it, and I kind of like the idea of leaving undefined "Discordian" words/phrases in it. Kind of like "A Clockwork Orange".

If there are strange words sprinkled throughout, it might make people curious. At least, it would make me curious, and I kind of want to be appealing to people like me.

Yeah that goes to the target audience thing.
Make them hungry. If they look for the food, they are kindred spirits.
If they need to be force fed they wouldn't really belong anyway.

That's how bobbies are made.

[LHX]

Remind me of those...

i cant really remember fully

Mang talked about some sort of compendium - i cant remember the word he used for it tho

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

That's probably why the pamphlets seem so... unprofessional.  Since no one really wanted to play editor, we pretty much threw it together and said, "go".


What the Prof is doing (honest criticism of another's work) is pretty ballsy, and I appreciate the effort.

Personally, I like the "unprofessional" look of the pamphlets.  As far as organization, it seems part of Discordian nature to really not be able to formally organize in any way.  But, I don't think that's a bad thing.  It is clear we have a nebulous-core of people dedicated at the very least to chewing on the ideas.  We just need a couple of people who are willing and able to put the ideas together from time to time, hopefully with not too much time elapsing in between.

I think the "unprofessional" look of the pamphlets unfairly target the anarcho-identity crowd.

I want to appeal to a wider audience and that means some graphic design and illustration,Äîwhich I'd be more than happy to do or collaborate with other so inclined parties.

Graphic design is a nonverbal appeal that isn't particularly conscious, and goes towards your credibility.  It's also a lot of work that I'd volunteer for. 

Of course, I didn't quite get a toehold in the BIP project so who am I to steer it's reception?  Well, nonetheless, I like you guys and would like to facilitate your messages getting out there.

I think not being able to formally organize is an impediment.  I think some of you sockfuckers don't want to reach a wider audience and deal with the problems of increasing our collective numbers.  Probably because on some level you're happy with the social dynamics that work with a smaller group.  It's cozy.  That's why you're more than willing to produce a booklet in a style easily written off as "leftist whack-job" from the very first glance.  I should know,ÄîPortland, OR is fucking full of similarly styled zines only more about aBoLiShInG pRiSon! or boring ass interpretations of situationism or bad poetry.

Or maybe I'm off base here.  Might as well get it off my chest.

[LMNO]

Net, I hereby charge you with producing illustrations for the BIP and the Machine,Ñ¢ pamphlets.



LMNO
-sock fucking master.

[Mangrove]

Remind me of those...

i cant really remember fully

Mang talked about some sort of compendium - i cant remember the word he used for it tho

crap...i can't remember. gimme a moment or too. [sigh]
seems that i keep saying things on the internet and then not remembering them.

[LHX]

That's probably why the pamphlets seem so... unprofessional.  Since no one really wanted to play editor, we pretty much threw it together and said, "go".


What the Prof is doing (honest criticism of another's work) is pretty ballsy, and I appreciate the effort.

Personally, I like the "unprofessional" look of the pamphlets.  As far as organization, it seems part of Discordian nature to really not be able to formally organize in any way.  But, I don't think that's a bad thing.  It is clear we have a nebulous-core of people dedicated at the very least to chewing on the ideas.  We just need a couple of people who are willing and able to put the ideas together from time to time, hopefully with not too much time elapsing in between.

I think the "unprofessional" look of the pamphlets unfairly target the anarcho-identity crowd.

I want to appeal to a wider audience and that means some graphic design and illustration,Äîwhich I'd be more than happy to do or collaborate with other so inclined parties.

Graphic design is a nonverbal appeal that isn't particularly conscious, and goes towards your credibility.  It's also a lot of work that I'd volunteer for. 

Of course, I didn't quite get a toehold in the BIP project so who am I to steer it's reception?  Well, nonetheless, I like you guys and would like to facilitate your messages getting out there.

I think not being able to formally organize is an impediment.  I think some of you sockfuckers don't want to reach a wider audience and deal with the problems of increasing our collective numbers.  Probably because on some level you're happy with the social dynamics that work with a smaller group.  It's cozy.  That's why you're more than willing to produce a booklet in a style easily written off as "leftist whack-job" from the very first glance.  I should know,ÄîPortland, OR is fucking full of similarly styled zines only more about aBoLiShInG pRiSon! or boring ass interpretations of situationism or bad poetry.

Or maybe I'm off base here.  Might as well get it off my chest.

in the latest issue of one of Toronto's weekly newspapers, the feature was about independent magazines that garnished all sorts of awards and accolades and respect, but ultimately shut down because the people running it got no financial support from anywhere, and the romance of producing a publication ran out after a little while

we have no reason to walk that path


i like the idea of producing things and broadcasting messages, but this would require some serious discussion to avoid pitfalls



PLUS
we have to maintain the all important element of maintaining that revolving door ability that we have so that people can jump in and slip out as they please

[LMNO]

As someone who was a music editor for a zine, I can attest to the fading glory that independent publication producing.



Fuckin' brutal.  Fun for a while, tho'.