BloodStar's End of the Year Letter for A. D. 1998

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End of the Year Letter

1998

Yes, Earthlings and Fellow Aliens, it’s time once again for:

The Traditional Annual End of the Year Letter
Of which this is the first

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This was a very busy year, friends, family and fans.

During the first half of the year, I was engaged in activities so stunning, so amazing, so utterly incomprehensible to the human mind that...uh, gee, maybe I'd better not tell you. Wouldn't want to blow your mind, would I?

"Tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
--Sri Syadasti, quoted in the Principia Discordia

But in June and continuing thereafter, I designed my first website, which you are sitting on this very minute (if you get off of it, you'll be able to see it better). With no instructor, no textbook, no help and no idea what I was doing, I did it anyway. And, of course, in my friendly but still alien way, I've helped others design their web sites. And I still don't know what I'm doing!

By the way, this site now has over 40 pages--not bad for someone who's working offline 60 or more Earth hours a week and doesn't know what he's doing, eh? I doubt you've seen them all. You may not want to see them all, but I'll dare you to try!

I established a Secret Earth Identity this year. I can't talk about that too much, either.

"So," you ask, "what's the point of having an end of the year letter if you aren't going to tell us anything? What are you doing in reality?"

"I have seen reality, and reality is illusion."
--The Gamemaster of Florin, The Book of Lies and Other Games
(website may appear in 1999)

OK, let's just say I'm working on a few projects, including writing a screen play with a friend for a really bad 1950s America style Sci-Fi B movie. You know, one of those black and white ones with corny dialog, spooky narrator (we may get Dr. Sinister Craven himself!), awkward exposition, terrible editing, night shots obviously shot in the day with a filter, lousy monsters, no budget but including one or more Women in Skimpy Costumes. Well, at least skimpy for the 1950s. Don't look for it in theaters. We'll be lucky if it goes straight-to-video.

I suffered a major set back in my explorations earlier this year when I let a few visitors into my ship, the StarShip Lorelei. I won't say their names, but they started pushing buttons at random, and, well...let's just say I was stuck on Earth and had to take the bus for awhile. Fortunately, my backers' insurance covered the damage (neither I nor my backers are human, so I listed it as "hostile alien attack.") Now, however, the controls are much, Much, MUCH harder to access. Plus I added a jacuzzi, so it wasn't all bad.

I did spend some time in an Earth hospital (yes, that's true), but fortunately your technology was enough to put me back together, and I'm back in space!

Also fortunately, I was able to visit my family back on my home world HandL. And we had a new addition! I'll tell you more about them sometime later, but will let you know one of my favorite relatives is my niece Jorky Girl.

I'll also let you know that I'm working with adults, children, youth, and am corrupting the minds of our young people. I have these radical, alien ideas: accept individuals as individuals and not stereotypes; the individual has responsibilities to others, as in "love your neighbor as yourself;" if it harms none, do what you will; children have the right to be raised by disciplining but loving caregivers; and it is better to include differences in harmony than to exclude them for unity.

Believe it or not, some of my actions in that regard have resulted in a death threat against me (also true), not to mention a whole lot of "coincidences" that have caused me serious problems (part of the reason I play "secret identity" games, don't you know. Plus I like games anway). But hey, let's face it:

"If you promote war and start winning, they make you a hero.
If you promote peace and start winning, they try to destroy you."
--Reverend Loveshade

Oh, I would be remiss if I didn't mention my traveling companion Binky the WonderSkull. For this holiday season, he has some Christmas in July Pages he's very proud of. (Yeah, I know, it's not July. Tell him). Personally, I think they're...well, judge for yourself. Besides, who am I to talk when I'm purposely co-writing a bad movie?

Well, I guess I'll close this thing out. But I suppose I should leave you with a departing thought, something deep, profound, and awe-inspiring:

"Don't eat too much fruit cake!"

Uh, no, I don't think that will do it. This being the season we think about "Peace on Earth," I'll leave you with this section from "A Sermon on Ethics and Love" in Principia Discordia, in which the GODDESS ERIS has appeared to a very fearful and tormented Malaclypse the Younger:

"I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of
pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet
is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of
their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while
brothers war. O woe."

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT,
IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

"But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!"

OH. WELL, THEN STOP.

So, if you celebrate, have a Happy Christmas, Wonderful Hannukah, Merry Kwanzaa, Blessed Ramadan, Cool Winter Solstice/Warm Summer Solstice (depending on hemisphere), and Great New Year (if I left out an Earth holiday of this time of the year, let me know).

I remain,

BloodStar

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