A review of events for the majority of January 2013.
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Today is Monday, January 28, 2013. Yes, we have all made it through to the other side, and it is nearly the end of the first month of 2013. Twenty-Thirteen, the International Year of Quinoa, Water Sharing, and the Cheese Mite. Huzzah and horray. We've fallen dreadfully far behind in our schedules, and so, to make up for lost time, we will now quickly and sparely cover the events of January 2013.
- The marking of Foundation Day on January 9th was a quieter affair than usual, owing to terrible infections and public health concerns that have plagued the county all month. Rumors of an outbreak of group psychosis at Infictive District Hospital, said to have been brought on by shared bacterial infection, have been strongly denied by local authorities. Representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who briefly appeared on-site offered no comment.
- Andrew McFing, former Prime Minister of Japan? Like many others, McFing himself was baffled by the story that he had been appointed to serve as the Prime Minister of a new Japanese government. His reign, which lasted some thirteen days, is now being reported as a hoax perpetrated by "computer hackers and anarchists", potentially including many elected members of the National Diet. Japanese police are continuing their investigation of what can only be described as a massive, systemic breach of local electoral and political bodies, acting for unknown purposes to disrupt the function of government and confuse the public.
- Worse news for Andrew McFing this month as several lawsuits are being brought against him over the contents of his last book "Egregores can kill you". Plaintiffs are seeking full recompensation for money and time they spent building mental escape-pods and other technological solutions to "get out of their jars and back in to reality" before the timeline reset to 1920 described in the book. Many are alleging they put their whole life-savings into schemes to ensure they would "break the hold of the Great Alarm and make it to 2013". McFing will not be alone at the defense table, as co-defendants in several cases include the likes of Starry Sky Research, Star Chitin Mail Order Company, Wes Unruh, and others who helped spread the word or sold equipment.
- Already Stoned Mazagine has scooped entertainment press rivals by publishing an extended, exclusive interview with the Quick Nods. The band discusses their long-running legal problems (blaming everyone else), their views of the state of pop music and entertainment in general (overwhelmingly positive), the place of indie studios and the internet (confusing double-talk, weirdly ignorant), and announcing a new album, as yet untitled, to be released later this year (reggae-fusion concept, pop guests). All in all, it was an awful interview from a shoddy magazine, but, but, exclusive.
- Having only recently completed preliminary cuts to his latest documentary, "Holiday Gangs", it seems that documentarian Michael Morgan Burnsheim is already preparing for the next one. His studio partners have announced this week that Burnsheim's next project will be an expose on the rogue satellite-station OSK, tentatively titled "Satellites and Free". According to the PR, the new documentary promises to show never-before-seen interviews and testimonials on the notorious black sheep of the Wilkins Plan, and reveal the connections that have made it possible for the renegade OSK comptrollers to maintain in orbit for so long without support from major space agencies.
- Fellow documentarian and film-maker Alan Smithee is also preparing for his next project: a feature-length movie about the life and disappearance of Dick Lickley, mystery leader of underground band The Dick Tricks. Though it will be a dramatic re-enactment of Lickley's life and story, Smithee claims there will be no embellishment of facts or episodes and that "the story will be as close to reality as human viewers can understand and tolerate."
- 董玉晶 : Omega beast a \ Jaffa orange night \ White cauliflower situation
So went the month In Infictive. Except for the few days that remain. And the things we've left out.
Today's banner image: ——"We are such Stuff As Dreams are made of——" (gutenberg.org; PD)
