Peabody here. Now that I have some spare moments, I can also catch you all up on other things which have transpired in the past couple weeks. Sherman, set the Wayback Machine...

I saw Swarm with Curt, hoping for some kind of darker Batman or something. It was pretty juvenile. Definitely aimed at teenage boys and computer graphics geeks. The CG was really good most of the time. Swarm's cape billowed in a comic book fashion, but it look real. Very cool. The scenes in "hell" are best left unmentioned.

I turned 29 two Mondays ago (the 18th). I had cake and stuff. It was cool, but I don't know if I'll have a 30th birthday. 29 is fine by me I'll just stay here if that's all right with all of you.

Last weekend, Ed (a friend from the IST era) and Bob were out visiting the left coast. I met up with them and Curt and Lorry and wandered variously around San Fransisco. (Hint to teenage MGD drinkers at Hemp Rallies: just because someone's head is shaved and they're wearing earrings doesn't mean they are a drug dealer.) A major highlight of the trip was going to Twin Peaks.

Twin Peaks are these two very tall (the tallest, in fact) hills a little south of downtown SF. I had never really heard of this before as a tourist spot, but I would recommend to anyone "doing the city" to follow the signs to it. The top isn't developed, there's just a big overlook. SF just wraps around your feet. To the left is the Golden Gate bridge peering over the Presido. Sweeping right, you can see the high-rises of downtown, Market Street, and then the Bay Bridge and Oakland. Turning a bit now, you can see over the southern part of SF and right down the bay. Turning a bit more, you look into the sun and are blinded for life.

Easily, this is one of the coolest views of SF and the Bay. The other really cool view is on 101, just north of the rainbow tunnel and the GG bridge. At night especially. You get this great big panorama of Oakland, the Bay Bridge, SF, and finally a bit of the Golden Gate Bridge. The problem is that as you're traveling north, you need to turn your head to look out the back window to see this. Perhaps it's safer to look at when traveling south. I'll try to remember that next time.

Back to Twin Peaks. To the left of the Golden Gate in the view I described is a great big tower, ostensibly for TV or radio or microwaves or something. I believe that it is used to drain and transmit our essential life forces to Cthulu. This thing is clearly the most Evil object I've ever seen. It's very tall, much taller than Twin Peaks. It cuts into the sky with the tips of its three prongs and slices malevolently through the low flying clouds, birds, kites, and puppies. We won't even discuss spooky the shadows that it was casting into the clouds; let's just say that a portion of my senses were irrecoverably destroyed when I saw them.

Take a look yourself and behold its forbidden energies.

Beware of anyone giving the sign of the Prong. The hand is upraised with the little finger held down by the thumb. The remaining fingers are curled in a crude simulacrum of the unmentionable Prong itself. Being powered by Evil anyway, it came as no surprise that Curt was familiar with this sign. (Hmmmm, odd how the Boy Scout hail is much like this nefarious gesture. I'll have to think about that.)

Enough for now. Have a sloth-like Labor Day.

Novus Ordo Seclorum,
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