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The Chance event made the front page of today's (11/11/96) LA Times with a color photo of Baudrillard who "... reads a difficult, fatalistic text about humankind's loss of destiny... Responsibility is not dead, it has become violent.... Unlike truth, credibility cannot be refuted... No event can put an end to what happens..." JB champions LA as a cultural desert that yields valuable social data at the end of reality. Baudrillard's mumbled monotone was indeed difficult; at times indecipherable. Fury or Fear. The casino as pergatory: you play-out all your options: either returned to your hellish life or afforded an illusive chance of a new beginning. Loose Change. Psychic Network. An important event is immanent. Pretend that I'm not here. Warp Coil. Drilling Phazers. Freezing Tropical River. Buffalo Baudrillard. Castle in the Desert. Curbing your curiousity... all the things I would like to tell you. http://www.artcenter.edu/events/chance/chance.html http://www.primadonna.com http://www.rafsco.com Spare Change. Not wanting to be trapped in the slow lane. Homelessness: a display of hope. Weapons Specialist: the burning zone. UFO's as a consideration of the present by the future-- alter the past. Multi Race Keno. You may play up to 1000 races on one ticket. If you play one to 20 games Federal Regulations require that all winning tickets must be collected after the last game is over. But if you choose to play 21 to 1000 games you have up to 365 days to collect. A conveening of the mediocre. Does the possibility of Chance only encourage an addictive dependence on attempting to determine outcome -- the very presense of Chance? Why is it best to assume that any known details of the future are better left unknown? Bay Bridge 580 East 5 South 46 East 99 South 58 East 15 North Vicki served me the 99c breakfast. At breakfast time you get to see all the busted and disparing gamblers who have presumably been up all night trying to recover their losses. Play the ice machines in the hotel hallways. Continuous Varied Forums. Not Art Forum. Driving Religiousity: that easy, gentle drifting exchange between the passing lane and the slow lane-- But at the outskirts of the Bay area, all of a sudden there is an immediate density and tension and haphazard manoeuvres. A certain determined and tested velocity needed to escape from this vortex. Big cities really make little sense; although curiously they regenerate a cultural anedote for the mutually oppressive conditions encountered in the Big Heart City (circulation). Inefficient valves. Is this the 'mutual destiny' that Baudrillard seeks? John Goodfellow proffered old appliances to be repaired. Technology and the Production of Meaning. http://www.wolfenet.com/~jmg A few tables of books for sale: what you'd expect; SmartArt Press, Semiotext(e), etc. http://www.loop.com/maggot.mania.html Scary creative-writing students and vulture-teachers (many of the predatory career-feminist type). Much smoking of cigarettes. Chance: a product of overdetermination. Back-in the City: I squeezed my sub-subaru into a parking space (that few other vehicles could negotiate) between a graffiti-washing truck and a motorcycle. A transient offered to watch my vehicle (and to shoot anyone who came within 200 feet of my car); he was very pleased that I talked with him. I took a chance parking here. No Fear. No Chance. Yarrow Stalks. Language of the Oracle. Theatre of Disappearance. Dispersion. Central Tendency. Standard Deviation. Unnecessary Risks Yield No Rewards. Fallacy of Unitary Opposite. Extraordinary Delusions when Explaining Collapse. Captured and Killed (Bonnie and Clyde Death Car in the hotel lobby). With Certificate of Authenticity. And the restored Dutch Schultz-Al Capone Gangster Car. Plus the 1700 foot monorail connecting Whiskey Pete's with the Primadonna Resort across Interstate 15. 4000 slot machines. 100 foot ferris wheel. 2 motion simulator theatres. Adventure Canyon Water Flume Logride. Buffalo-shaped pool and spiraling water slides. State-of-the-art video arcade. Hangman's Bar with animated singing and talking lifelike cowboys. The world's tallest and fastest roller coaster: the Desperado hurtles screaming riders all around and into the casino itself. 24 hour security. Stopped off I-15 to take blurry/windy, spatially compressed photos of individual plants in a filed of cactii. May be inserted as part of The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project. Zzyzx Road. Turtle Ditch. Dale Ditch. Mobi Ditch. Hot Wash. Sunshine Gas. (How long does gasoline 'keep?' --retain its volitility? An extensive collection of authenticated, vintage blends from various vendors could command some monetary value in connection with lawsuits, environmental, health, consumer issues. Would the gas have to be stored in tinted or opaque glass containers? ) Malfunction Voids all Pays and Plays (disclaimer on slot machines). Indifference--Negotiation--Distraction I 'wore' ear-plugs much of the time: Volume-- a cocoon of layered sounds: clunking coins and electronic beeps and whirls. Much music at Chance was bad and stupidly loud. The Butoh performance on the other hand was excellent. Pulp Fiction. LA Noir Pop. Wishful Thinking. Mutate-Adapt. Dispair and Chaos. Patterns/Recognitions. I-Ching = Binary Code = Genetic Code = Hopes and Fears (Memory Pockets). Illusion of Choice. Idle Spurs. Iron Wash. Winking bits of broken glass in the desert sun. Turtle Wash. Cache Creek. Earthquake Retrofit. California Cotton. 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