I've got a collection of Cam-related links I've been meaning to post. Now, because it is Saturday evening and I am too damn lazy to go out into the cold despite the plethora of good live music to be had in this city tonight, I present to you:
1. Join Me. Over at unfiction, BennyH does some follow-up on a Shelley Innocence detail that many of us probably noticed, maybe meant to get back to, but never did:
...She claims to be reading 'Join Me' by Danny Wallace. For those who don't know, that book is by a man who posted an ad in the local paper which read 'Join Me', and to cut a long story short, the 'join me' thing spread like wildfire and became a bit like a cult. He then went to many different countries to meet 'joinees' who said miraculous things had happened to them after joining...
Do we have another title to add to the Neurocam Reading List? Or just an atrociously designed web site?
2. Publish or perish. There's been a fair amount of talk lately about the fact that Oulios has only made contact with Neurocam operatives who are blogging about their Cam experiences. Some count this as evidence that Oulios is a fraud; that he only has access to our email addresses because we've made them public. If you follow that last link you'll see an anonymous commenter has pointed out the obvious hole in this logic: Both Maxwell Knight and Oulios himself have either stated outright (the former) or implied (the latter, see paragraph four of his letter) that OI is "not a representative,
nor operative, of Neurocam International." So it would be out of character with the stated mythology for OI to have email addresses of Neurocam operatives who have made those addresses known only to Neurocam "officials."
If you've already perused the publish or perish link you'll see where I'm headed. Neurocam wants us to blog, to blather away about all things Cam -- emails we receive from them, from each other, from mysterious spooks (and I use that term most affectionately, Oulios ;) with names Latin and other. This is how the mythology and the narrative is built. Those who don't blog aren't really getting the most out of their experiences; they're not going to be engaged on the same level as those who blog. Because Neurocam is a collaborative narrative, whether or not it was originally intended to be so. My only question is: Why have they stopped requesting new operatives to maintain a blog? Because it's assumed that they will?
3. The mysterious Q. Knows more than he says. If you can't see the mischievous grin and the gleam in his eye when you read Cam comments by Q, you're not reading him right.
Right. Link #4 just turned into its own post. It could take some time to put together. Fortunately it's a Saturday night and I'm a loser. Time for a glass of wine -- I'll be back in a while.
if you don't mind, i may quote you in my blog about neurocam wanting us to blog.... thanks, cp
Posted by: cp | 17 January 2005 at 06:18 AM
No problem. I linked yer site under "operatives" -- so much for the life of a private blogger, ey? :)
Posted by: lady j | 17 January 2005 at 10:18 PM