the white bread cancer |
"Everyone will live in their own personal cathedral. There will be rooms more conducive to dreams than any drug, and houses where one cannot help but love. Others will be irresistibly alluring to travelers. . . .
An event for the main business district of any U.S. city. Infiltrate the largest corporation office building with life-actors as nymphomaniacal secretaries, clumsy repairmen, berserk executives, sloppy security guards, clerks with animals in their clothes. Low key until the first coffee-break and then pour it on.
Secretaries unbutton their blouses and press shy clerks against the wall. Repairmen drop typewriters and knock over water coolers. Executives charge into private offices claiming their seniority. Guards produce booze bottles and playfully jam elevator doors. Clerks pull out goldfish, rabbits, pigeons, cats on leashes, loose dogs.
At noon 1000 freed beings singing and dancing appear outside to persuade employees to take off for the day. Banners roll down from office windows announcing liberation. Shills in business suits run out of the building, strip and dive in the fountain. Elevators are loaded with incense and a pie fight breaks out in the cafeteria. Theater is fact/action
Give up jobs. Be with people. Defend against property.
Completed Tasks
Friends
- qwerty uiop
- Ian Kizu-Blair
- Sean Mahan
- Orion
- Endive Breakfast
- Zoo Monster
- sfosegine errorelli
- Corrigan NnN
- mariano mellpenne
- prokop
Tasks Created
- Billboard Modification
- Furtive Interiors
- Aggressive Desublimations
- Life Hacking
- Snakes On A Plane
- Osama CAN Come Break Into Your WiFi
- Burn A Flag
- Everything's In InterCaps
Terms
(none yet)Texts
spooky. "Oh, she's eight. We get that all the time. She's uncanny."
yeah, I also really like "CXL ALL"... total amnesia, there is only the future. and there are four of them.
man, I'm not about to X you. well played, and till tomorrow.
>And on top of that, I was trying to poke fun at public protest in general. I just dont think that it accomplishes very much.
alright, now you're being cynical. FUCK BEING CYNICAL
>You are probably right... My backyard isn't public, however since I was protesting the task (or at least I thought I was) and that task is only specific to this virtual community, I would say that posting it here in reasonable detail makes it about as much of a public flag-burning as we'll ever have and one that reaches the widest possible segement of the intended audience.
Any task that is specific only to 'this virtual community' is a task that should go. At best, it's just fun fluff like defile a profile or whatever, at worst it's this sentiment you've just articulated--that we do it all to ourselves, for ourselves and nothing else--the game as self-referential (and largely self-congratulatory) circulation. And if the game is just an echo-dek for white kid fake real art-therapy affect, then it has failed--then it IS a 'virtual online community' and not a GAME. What are we supposed to be gaming? To game, to be gamed, to game (___): there is the measure of your impact on the game and the game's impact on you, but also of yougame on the world at large--what will it be? Here, all I see is this insidious loopback where I make a task and you critique it in your backyard at 2:30am and nothing comes of it--the whole interaction is carefully sequestered from the city, other people--nothing's risked. It's too easy and sort of pointless.
also, online is not public. that's just how I feel about it.
wait, you don't have to do anything? just tell about something that's already happened? not sure I follow..