Hey 93! When the Kurzweil singularity strikes, we’ll be singing Steely Dan style about smoking hot great grandmas and grandpas. Imagine wisdom walking in ripped surfer bodies. That’s just around the corner.  Actually right now. If you’re already young, there’s nothing to see here, move along. Because Bruce Sterling spelled it out in Holy Fire. Young people growing up after the singularity will be slightly screwed. Science fiction – guidebooks from the multiverse, everything is already happening somewhere. Read all about it.

Daughter of Godcast, Season Two, Crowd Creation, Episode 093, Low Level. For the last 22 episodes, we’ve been flitting about among the clouds, godlike, gazing down upon the movie making process from way up high. The scenes we’ve seen so far are nearly complete, mostly comprehensible, quaffed. we haven’t really gotten our hands dirty or hair mussed. I’m thinking now we’re ready to go deeper, thrust our paws into the loamy soil, wallow in the mud, melt back into the primordial ooze of creation. Let us prepare for the ecstatic descent, for a grounding, a wriggling of naked toes in the fallow earth. But first…

Feedback for 092 After At Last

From our two most Best Beloveds, Seamus and Jil.

Seamus was snagged by the words Plague Ship writ large on the side of the big boat. He conjectured…

“I draw two possible interpretations from the words, “Plague Ship’ scrawled on the side of the boat. One is that the characters had been either medical personnel or patients/inmates on the quarantined vessel, and that they now roam free after the plague has gone.

The other possibility is that it never was truly a plague ship, but that someone who lived on the boat (I suspect Jerry) had scrawled that there so he would be left relatively alone. This suggests a somewhat antisocial or introverted disposition, or a lack of trust of strangers. Given the shattered glass sound, perhaps there’s a reason to be distrustful.”

(snip)

I replied

(snip) “About the scrawl, I’m leaning toward your second interpretation. How to make pirates think twice? Subterfuge and camouflage are themes in DOG, as in RL. You and I are not we what seem to be, Seamus.”

There’s plenty more planned for this sequence, PLAGUE SHIP is the vanguard of a much trippier treatment. I’d rather be showing than telling but I’m very glad you caught the gist from this impoverished hint.” (snip)

When you start your own Daughter of Godcast, here’s some sage advice. Rarely talk about the future, what you’re planning to do. Because making promises and keeping promises are two different things.

I have grand plans for the introductory sequence, Welcome Aboard. We’ve already done 3 episodes on this and gotten more clear to be sure, but execution has lagged. Now, since I want to avoid making promises, I can’t say I’m never going to talk about the future, so instead let’s say were going to emphasize the present. The process. Low Level.

This too from Seamus

“I also learned that Christina has a magic coat that reflects green light under an all-red lamp.”

Yet another piercing insight disguised as a sarcastic quip by our man in Ann Arbor. I paried…

(snip) “Maybe physics inside the boat is different than outside. Could Gerry be tinkering with forces hitherto unfathomed by scientific inquiry? Has he somehow steered the boat into dream space?”

I’ve hinted that Gerry’s got his own agenda in past episodes and most recently in a May 3 FB p