In Infictive - XVII

A review of monitored events and research notes for the fourth week of August 2012.

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Today is Monday, August 27, 2012, and if your life seems chaotic, and if the world looks like it is pure pandemonium, you are seeing things correctly. Now for some stories from last week.

• [UPDATE: Mik from Simpso, a volunteer fire-fighter, has provided facts from the ground at the Lope Lake Fish Fry in the comments. Thank you for clarifying the situation, Mik. ]

  Protests and counter-protests erupted into a full-fledged riot at the Lope Lake Fish Fry in Simpso as activists representing Fish Rights, Sasquatch Rights, and the "Law Applies to All Life" movement converged on the town to present their perspectives to the townsfolk. There were some reported injuries and extensive damages to the lakeshore facilities and nearby buildings, in addition to large quantities of solid waste left behind. The county sheriff's estimate that there were more protesters, the majority of them bussed and hitched in from Portland and Sacramento, present in the town at the peak of the event than there were residents, forming a mob that proved completely overwhelming to the local authorities. In a statement, the mayor of Simpso told reporters that the town will pursue all available legal remedies in order to cover the costs of the clean-up and repairs, condemning the protesters for their destructive and unruly behavior.


• A jury in California has found in favor of the plaintiffs in the 28% Concert Riot case, awarding damages of nearly one hundred million dollars to the participants in Lonnie Lentine's class action suit against the Quick Nods and the concert promoters. The band plans to appeal the verdict, which will tie them up in the Golden State for weeks, if not months, longer. In consequence, a series of concert dates have been cancelled, to be rescheduled for a future tour, and production of what was to be their first film, "Magafungo", has been suspended indefinitely.


• Kooks everywhere rejoice: an unpublished manuscript by Ermine Dollarman, entitled "Symbolic Representations of the Metamorphose ZAM Wave", was found at an estate sale in the Milwaukee suburbs, and has been generously donated to the Starry Sky Research Foundation. The papers contain original pictograms and instructions for building a ZAM contact machine, among other notes and field reports, including some long thought lost and destroyed.


• The Race to 100 sustains its speedy pace as Mystery X's tally leaps from 94 to 96 with the release of albums "The Scarecrow Prince" and "Secret Hour Television".

And this has been the week that was In Infictive. We extend our cordial invitation all readers to join us at the Colombiana Hotel on the night of Friday, August 31, to honor and send off retiring Fnordham professor and unofficial director of the Infictive studies group, Macsen Wallace.

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