Living in a Chinese curse

May You Live In Interesting Times. What can I say? The American crime empire ain't trying to hide it anymore. And we chumps? We Munchkins waiting for a Dorothy? We are just going to put up with it. How Russian of us, and I mean that in a good way, like "Russians can handle suffering". Your average candy ass American not so much, except through not so quiet desperation.Regardless, I have to continue to make things. The cool thing about me is I'm a process not a product kind of guy. If stuff I make gets recycled, thrown away, I don't care.

Art is not an escape from living but it helps. I'm retiring, which means I am going to make a shit ton of stuff. Metal stuff of course. Here we got the latest but I want to go big. I want to cast art in steel. That requires electricity, the miracle of the Modern Age, the Monkey Singularity. Anyway, latest wax works.

Same theme, Monsters Are People Too. But miniature versions of earlier works. The monster can be gravity cast with ceramic shell. The figurine needs to be centrifugally cast. Here's my rigging for a flask. 

The flask is too big for our spin caster, so I fabricated an arm for the bigger flask. I think I just need to build a big ass spin caster, which makes me think about a wheel caster with a central crucible, and that is a very dangerous spring. Here's a shot of my kitchen workshop with ongoing shit and unfinihsed business.

Monsters are people too

Comet 3I/Atlas is on its way out on a hyberbolic course to, I don't know where. I do know that 1I/Oumuamua is heading for the constellation Pegasus, and came from the direction of the bright star Vega. Maybe the Vegans are invading Pegasus.

There are three known interstellar obects and who knows how many we haven't noticed.

The really sad thing is each time it happened, people were hoping it was aliens. Wow. Are we that bored and lonely?

When I was a kid and the planets were smudges through telescopes, we all knew it was common sense that there was not only life, but people living on those moons and planets. This wasn't a modern idea either. For thousands of year, we've assumed the universe was populated with all sorts of fanciful beings. Many looked like monsters. Eh.

Monsters are people too.

I wrote a short short story which I will just tell again. 

In 2017, the first interstellar object detected in our solar system, dubbed 1I/2017 U1, later called Oumuamua. The object was unusual and prompted speculations that it was an alien artifact. It sailed on through in a hyperbolic course towards the constellation Pegasus.  

In March 2028, one hundred million Oumuamua objects arrive from the direction of the bright star Vega, and sail on through our solar system at a hyperbolic course towards the constellation Pegasus. The stars making the constellation are all ridiculously big stars hundreds of light year away. The target is undoubtedly closer, probably 51 Pegasi b, which is a known extrasolar planet.

We expected a fleet of Oumuamua objects to split off and check us out, but that didn't happen to the disappointment of some. I guess we were too small to notice.

Oh, also I sold some art. The awkward thing is I was paid a few hundred dollars and was thrilled, while I have a rich friend who just rented his art out for tens of thousands of dollars. One thing I liked about NFTs was royalties.