the book of biff /beware the bog -6

I had a feeling this was going to be another "What if We Had a Weapon and Nobody Knew" speech and I was right. Another damn urgent morning meeting in that airless boardroom .We collectively moaned when Caroline's assistant wheeled in the TV .Caroline Macy telling us that today we would be watching an old videotape of Professor Nathan Sumner's concerning Blogs -as it was one of our jobs as online shills to encourage Targeted Individuals to write blogs about their experiences that focused on their real time decline physically and mentally.According to Caroline the weapons used against the targeted individual were to instigate the TI to not keep quiet about their distress but to shout about "it" from the hilltops as to sound insane . Caroline said many TIs were beginning to ignore the point of their targeting as laughing stock and had begun instead writing of their circumstances either metaphorically or as fiction.According to Caroline one of the TIs had encouraged all the TIs to stop writing next Wednesday until the TIs were paid to do their Public Service announcements.And still another TI had begun telling the TIs to begin only writing about the Voice to Skull as "a Unique Gaming experience going so far as Instant Messaging his fellow TI's elaborate scripts that hailed the experience as enhancing and therapeutic

.Somehow -of course this was our fault as shills not the TI's handlers obviously not hurting them enough.

Caroline was concerned stating that -the use of fiction to circumvent the topic of direct energy and neuro weapons sounding outlandish helped demonstrate the target's sanity.
Worse ,Caroline said the act of storytelling often empowered the subject who in the process of knitting the circumstance into something like "product" counterpointed the desired outcome of much of the psychological operations - to leave the target with nothing in terms of money,social standing ,possessions or self worth .
"To have something tangible in your hands,on paper that you have crafted that shows you have taken into account that the actions done to you are and will be perceived as myth and next use that as a jumping off point forfeits the entire reason for the targeting.

Story telling rather than giving a firsthand account of electronic harassment means you have the ability to see your situation through the eyes of the only audience you truly seek -an audience unfamiliar with neuro weapons and misinformed about the realities of human testing ,gaslight renditions etc."
Caroline said," we need the target to focus only on the very point of their targeting in making them come across as absolutely batshit crazy - and not just to family and a few close friends but to many people.And how do we do this people? Caroline asked
In unison we said " Online"
"And why do we need the targets to keep posting unaware of how they read?"Caroline asked
And once more in unison we yelled,"To keep weapons contracts"
"What's our bread and better around here people ."
"Keeping weapons contracts " we yelled in just the same manner we did at the 8th Floor Social Media summer picnic .
I half expected Caroline to ask us to get up and fall backwards into each other's arms and run a potato sack race round the boardroom.

"Remind the Truther and the target that nobody reads books anymore and that their concerns need the immediacy of the internet, Caroline Macy said ,' Remind the target and the Truther that 'the here and now 'of their concerns requires one post whatever information they feel is pertinent in a manner that negates the misspent effort to package a book. Suggest that packaging is what THEY do to hide the 'truth" and feed on their understanding too well that nobody in the mainstream media discusses their targeting or issues ..remind the Targeted Individual that what we contend with are issues part of a media blackout .Say anything to keep them from walking away from the computer and writing something that in fact might mean anything whatsoever to them or anyone else . '

Caroline Macy dimmed the lights and Marcus yelled "As a consideration to others please turn off your cell phones "and
the Memfis Ohio University Professor's ruddy ,scholastic face filled the screen

Saying -
The bog destroys the very tenants of form and composition
Think what you the writer are being asked to do when an empty bog page appears .
except disregard linear narrative
The box of symbolic paper separate from yesterday's topic and theme is saying 'Hey ,never mind what you wrote before LOOK at the cursor blinking
quick quick
times a wasting
'What's on your mind?'
don't reread what you wrote
yesterday
and certainly not 2 weeks ago.....

Marcus yells "Baba boo eee"'
and Caroline Macy snaps 'shhhhh"

.......The bog is saying forget the reader
forget how you yourself read
forget that the point of writing is about transporting the reader from A to B to Z with ease..

what is an empty blog page doing but inviting you to forget the wholeness of the reading experience that a reader asks the writer to take them on

the bog is about dismantling cohesion not creating it

Denise I hear whisper to someone "THIS is why I dropped out of college "
Marcus makes a loud yawning sound and than a "Z-z-z-z-z-"
I can see Caroline in the blue light looking around the boardroom and force myself to look enraptured with the old windbag and see Macy smile at me .

"Shhhhhhh," I say to Marcus

...unless one is a POW in hole somewhere
rarely does what is occurring to you day to day mean that much to another
we are already hyper saturated with daily logs of 'captured footage"
of celebrities and non celebrities alike

yet that footage is carefully edited into something vaguely palatable
to a presumed audience
in the way most blog writers cannot even emulate if they tried to
as the very medium of bog
seems to promote unreadability

The bog writer himself or herself has a difficult time finding what they wrote yesterday much less 10 days ago
as the blog makes it difficult to
'check in ' on past entries
one must
scroll down to open a box
close a box
open the "published" site
close the published site
in itself these actions set a one of fragmenting the author's mind rather than integrating it

it's funny that the very shortcut
the bog has created with it's invitation to only see the symbolic "sheet of paper " before you without the mess of actual pages to consider and peruse through
now becomes the behemoth one so very much wanted to side step at the enormity of the task of writing a "real book"

let us look at the bog layout aside from the topic therein
and think how off putting the task of reading such can be to another in a way a book is not
first of all
the bog reads backward

to ask someone to come upon what always seems to be a 'last page "
is psychologically jarring to the readers very sense of cohesion
in terms of what one expects when they come upon words
and story

..let's look at the book and subsequently the Parasol Pictures film that made blogging become conceived as a reasonable means of communicating ..thereafter encouraging an entire generation of would be ,could be writers to throw away the age old page one page two page three...
of narrative

"Auto Parts " a novelization of Gerard Fitz's blog ""Grand Dent Auto " concerning Gerard writing about 365 common car troubles that could be fixed without a mechanic was released in 2003

"Kimmie Baker's first tittie scene ," I hear Marcus say.
and next Ryan says ,"Adam Parker was so hot back then"

...Nobody seems to remember that Mr.Fitz novelized his blog as to actually read front to back
"Grand Dent Auto " inferred " that anyone could be successfully be heard and therefore read by bypassing entirely traditional narrative structure. Certainly writing a day to day account of car maintenance trouble shooting mixed in with Fitz's anecdotes about his father's bout with Industrial Disease was a very,very unique story that might in fact work in individual passages separate from one another. The book after all was essentially a recipe book about easy to fix car troubles.
At the time I was teachIng creative writing courses at the Memphis Ohio Lake University and overnight the students decided to abandon the idea that working upon a short story required one to craft their work painstakingly into a suitable final draft that a publisher might chose .Over night it seemed the notion of the " provincial"means of having to mold a story that might pique the interest of a publisher was replaced by the notion that "these days" one could successfully self publish their work and this work might become a vehicle for some Adam Parker movie .When I tried to explain to the students I could place a cat 's paw on a keyboard and fill the bog page with random letters and "hit" the "button" that says post I too was self publishing -the students I assume thought I was putting a pin in their balloon. The next year my class size dwindled 50% as I was a redundancy 'Creative Writing" now an impasse to raw creativity.....

"Raw!," Marcus yells at the TV

.,,there is something to rereading what you have written previously that allows one to build upon story that requires easy access to page by page by page .If a student says to me -read my blog. I say print it out
stack it in order and bind it together
than you read it and tell me what you have there ..
A bog tricks you into thinking one can write in a manner that disorients time and space ...the bog is good for one thing it teaches you to communicate and write  wrong.