Hippyville... - June 23, 2008

...it is divine.

Last night I met an ex-physicist with whom I had a rational and wonderful conversation about Decartian dualism, versus emergent materialism--he sides with materialism--before he pulled out a computer chip with English numerals on the side of it and told me he found it on an alien spaceship.

"They have clock radios on alien spaceships?"
"No, no. This is from an alien device called an Annosyniciser."
"What's it do?"
"It emits love."
"Well that sounds like a wonderful machine."
"Oh it is. A major advancement."

Posted by The Bunny at 4:15 PM

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Sometimes I wonder if people like that genuinely believe that they have alien artifacts or they are yanking our chain in some sort of Kaufmanesque prank. Either way it's pretty amusing.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 23, 2008 05:31 PM

The mind-body problem is my favorite thing to argue about. I like to argue for idealism since there is no way to disprove it.

Posted by: Sasha at June 23, 2008 08:48 PM

People like that really fucking exist?

Posted by: Karisa at June 23, 2008 09:02 PM

Must be refreshing to be around interesting people. Meanwhile, back here in the "modern" world, teenage girls are making pacts to get pregnant. Jesus.

Posted by: Toni at June 24, 2008 08:45 AM

Have you yet to have any deep discussions about Planet X?

Posted by: Cartigan at June 24, 2008 03:49 PM

The more I read about Hippyville, the more I want to know where it is! I have had the misfortune of being born and raised in Tampa, Florida, a place I remember you posting about ages ago, so the thought of a place where people seem decent, fun, and harmlessly nuts feels like a revelation!

Posted by: Erik at June 24, 2008 09:09 PM

Bunny, where exactly are you living? Reality sucks; I wanna move where you are.

Posted by: Brendon at June 25, 2008 10:44 AM

Also, some magazine recently named the city you are in as a great vacation spot. Cosmo, I think. Beware!

Posted by: Toni at June 25, 2008 02:12 PM

I wanna move there....
Maybe I could give up on binge-drinking and blackouts as therapy.

Do they have a nice hospital there? I could find a job and spend my free time being hippy-like.

Posted by: Katie Jones at June 27, 2008 06:10 AM

yeah, but when you touched the chip did you feel the love. If not, he was probably scamming you ;)

Posted by: emmak at July 7, 2008 09:36 AM

what happened to your other posts?

Posted by: michelle at July 8, 2008 05:48 AM

Yeah, where did your other post go? Also, what city are you in? As someone suffocating in the bible belt I'm always looking for places to go that are 'less worse'

Posted by: STALKYOU at July 8, 2008 03:39 PM

So - I commented here before I left for WY. Something about this particular post made me want to share the Rainbow Gathering with you. Did you go?!? I noticed my comment was never published, that's probably good /don't publish this one either. If you didn't make it - try for next year, it will be in New Mexico. You won't even believe it when you see it. Like I said before- gutter punks, wanderers, hippies, city normals, city crazies and workers of wonder/healers- every kind of Rainbow (technically a Rainbow is someone with a belly button but I've met one without) all living together on the land for a week. If you can handle the idea of a slit latrine, you should come next year.
Much love,
Tina Marie

Tina

Posted by: tina at July 14, 2008 10:39 PM

You know ... among physicists, the "I met aliens" line means the date is over and never call again ...

Posted by: NoThanks at July 28, 2008 03:32 AM