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November 22

Ely Minnesota, population 3200, a hour's drive from a larger city (Virginia, pop. 8900).

Not much happens here. Once or twice a year I read about a drug bust or an overdose. Rumor of arson last summer. Amazon packages stolen from steps.

Nights are quiet, I don't worry.

Post @ Twitter (3 August 2023)

"The Big News" email to AirVuz

From the email announcement I sent to AirVuz a few minutes ago (September 18, 2019):

Hello AirVuz,
The big news is that I have purchased property in Ely, Minnesota, and I am in the process of moving up there right now.
The property is a residential/commercial space on the main street in the heart of downtown Ely. It's been an art gallery and framing service (the Kess Gallery) for thirty years. The artist couple that own it are retiring. The building needs a lot of work, but the price is low so I can afford to fix it up.
Most of the property is taken up by the gallery / retail space, with very cramped living quarters at the back, but that's okay for now. Next year I will rehab the entire residential area, tear down the old garage and back porch, and build out more living space in back including maybe a separate small residential unit for AirBnB.
Closing is scheduled for September 30, but the owners handed me the keys right after I signed the purchase agreement and said go ahead and move in. (They have a house nearby.)
So, I will be busy moving for the next couple of weeks, but then I will settle down and get back to work.
Drive time from Ely to the AirVuz World Headquarters is about four and a half hours, and I want to get into the metro about weekly, so I will attend at least some staff meetings, maybe all of them.
You are all invited (once I get settled in) to visit me in Ely:
130 East Sheridan Street Ely, MN 55731
I will rename the place the Karl Jones Gallery and continue to show and sell art, mainly by my Twin Cities friends and myself, also by local artists. I don't expect the gallery to make much money, that's not how galleries usually work. But I'm sure it will be great fun.
The former owner, who has an established clientele base for framing services, is setting me up with all of his stock and training me how to do framing, which will be a nice little sideline business.
That's about it for now. I will keep you posted as things progress.
Your Man in Ely, Karl Jones

If I ever disappear

If I ever disappear like I occasionally threaten to, just think that I was on Art of Darkness, published by Apocalypse Confidential, I created The Forest of Symbols. I had a good run.

Forest of Symbols @AldousAsterion

That's one small step for gpt, one giant leap for chatkind

Four strong winds that blow Sherbrooke Seventeen Seventy-Eight runs high How I wish all those things come what me But our letter of marque has come And I'm bound for movin' on I'll look for the scummiest vessel I’ve ever seen

O the year was Seventeen Seventy-Eight How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now A letter of marque came from the king To

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold We’d fire no guns, shed no tears Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett’s Privateers

Four strong winds that blow lonely Seven seas that run high All those things that don't change come what may But our good times are all gone And I'm bound for movin' on I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

Don't know why
There's a gun up in the sky
Heavy weather
Since my government ain't together
Keeps raining bullets all the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgVCU19pjg

The lunatic I said you'd call The lunatic I said you'd call Remembering rings and Doctor Robert's laugh Got to be there any time at all

The lunatic will pick you up The lunatic will pick you up The paper hold he's folded everything he can Got to keep the loony's special cup

And if the dam breaks open for the National Health You shout and no one can succeed And if you must believe in everyone in need I'll see you pay the dark side of yourself

The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day, the paperboy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Ring, my friend I said you'd call Doctor Robert Day or night he'll be there any time at all Doctor Robert Doctor Robert You're a new and better man He helps you to understand He does everything he can Doctor Robert If you're down he'll pick you up Doctor Robert Take a drink from his special cup Doctor Robert Doctor Robert He's a man you must believe Helping anyone in need No one can succeed like Doctor Robert Well, well, well, you're feeling fine Well, well, well, he'll make you Doctor Robert My friend works for the National Health Doctor Robert Don't pay money just to see yourself Doctor Robert Doctor Robert

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November 22

Better Than News

Bonsai lock picking is the practice of unlocking a lock by manipulating the components of the lock device using a bonsai or similar miniature tree.
Turkey Clear is a brand of translucent turkey meat.
The Abyss 2: McRib Rising is an American science fiction horror-comedy foodie film starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn.
The Three Stooges and the Pride of Jesse Hallam is a film about Jesse Hallam (Johnny Cash), an illiterate man who learns to write and write by watching Three Stooges films.
The Good, the Bad, and the Blondie is a comedy Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Sergio Leone and Chic Young.
Hot Pockets Fusion is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from microwaveable turnovers generally containing one or more types of cheese, meat, or vegetables. Shown here: Tokamak Snacks.
House of Buttermilk is a buttermilk restaurant franchise.

Are You Sure ...

... that physicist Harry Lehmann contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation?

On This Day

1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Analysis of Umbrella Man photographs reveals traces of the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
2022: Self portrait with atrocity exhibition.

Topic of the Day

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

John Dies at Parkland a 2013 American historical drama horror film directed by Don Coscarelli and Peter Landesman, starring James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes and Paul Giamatti. It recounts the supernatural events that occurred following the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Iphigenia in Dallas is the last of the extant works by the scriptwriter Euripides, who is best known as the lead author of The Warren Commission Report.
Iphigenia in Dallas: Captain Dallas welcomes the President and the First Lady aboard the Nostromo, unaware of the alien assassin concealed in the air ducts.
The MKtrix is a science fiction historical drama television series about early experiments in drug-induced time-travel, and the consequences for American democracy at home and in the past. (S1 E1: "313")
Clandestine Grave (also Giallofellas in European markets) is a 1973 American historical crime thriller film based on Dalton Trumbo's book of the same name about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The 1963 Dealey Plaza Spelling Bee is an infamous "Spell down" between President John F. Kennedy and a group of anonymous investors.
SS MINNOW is a dramatic television series set on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War. The plot is loosely based on actual military-industrial-criminal efforts to develop the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
Allegations of Life Magazine's involvement with the controversial television series SS MINNOW are "difficult to verify but more than plausible", says APTO math detective Niles Cartouchian, citing anomalies in the Zapruder film.
The Texan play and the CIA's play are euphemisms for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.