BEg2 chapter 7 ramblings

[Michael Bailey]

(Probably even less coherent than usual - did a bodacious faceplant from my
new Razor scooter, normally it’s safe as milk but got distracted greeting
the neighbors while trying to whiz by deftly - 10
Meters per second per second eats up the way to the ground so fast! -
probably nature’s way of saying stop and chat a bit. Did have a good chat
while checking teeth - still there so that’s good…)

Deep Archer reminds me of Myst, had a quasi-business friend who invited me
over and clicked all over the place showing really nice graphics I thought.
I heard they came out with another one, Obsidian? While this isn’t a
shooter, it didn’t quite grab me, dunno why. A-ludo-thymic?

Melanie’s Mall - instantiating girlie-with-a-gun in this digital
consumerism primer is the kind of havoc that I remember finding really
funny as a pre-teen.

One also thinks of Che and Prairie.


Trainwreck strain of marijuana is not fictional (although as part of the
PSU or Pynchon Schlemihl Universe, the trainwreck there may not be exactly
the same as in ours…or maybe it is! Or maybe there are similarities and
differences)

https://www.wikileaf.com/strain/trainwreck/

This strain was supposedly the creation of two Californian brothers back in
the late 1970s. It is a mix of three other strains Thai
<https://www.wikileaf.com/strain/thai/>(Sativa), Mexican
<https://www.wikileaf.com/strain/mexican/> (Sativa) and Afghani
<https://www.wikileaf.com/strain/afghani/>(Indica). In its true form,
Trainwreck is ninety percent Sativa and only ten percent Indica. As the
story goes the two brothers had to pull their crop early because there was
a nasty train wreck that happened near their grow site and they didn't want
it discovered, thus the name.


So you got the “2 brothers” idea relating to close partners like Justin and
Lucas and the “nice things grown in proximity to a nasty train wreck” idea
which is of course the kind of scene we are looking for since as we
Travelers know, 2001 does contain a nasty train wreck, which we seek refuge
from in the PSU.

So it seems like an apposite and fitting strain of weed for Lucas to bring!