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NOTES FROM THE BUNKER…
Alternate reality in ‘The Zone’, that special extension of the California State Mental Health Facility where my pre-frontal cortex is held in perpetual trust as an unwitting captive of the parallel universe I periodically escape to. [As you read this, do not be alarmed as various Black Cross Volunteers pass among you to make the obligatory smudges of ash on your forebrains that indentify those who have somehow irreverently slipped off the verge of reality and find themselves in the….shall I say it?….Twonk Zone of Actualised Disengagement.]
NOTES FROM THE BUNKER
This is being tappety-tapped at Underdog’s Fortress of Solitariness on the North California Coast, at a secret set of coordinates located roughly between Fort Ross and Fort Bragg (i.e. in the Sonoma Coast area). As much of an unfan of the whole Superman shtick as I am, I still acknowledge the fact that in one specific of the Superman story, Marvel Comics Group had it right! Superman’s Fortress of Solitude was a wizardly plot invention in the Superman storyline. While I am not sure whether all men value solitude as much as do I, from early puppyhood onwards I have had a strong need for a well-hidden kennel of refuge to which I can venture in periodic retreats from the stark insanity that so often passes for American life. In being of this particular sentiment, Michael Moore could be my older, smarter brother, since our…
