Lexx

  • prisoner transports over a stadium...

    Before I get back into the movie, here are a few screen caps going back over the sheer monstrosity of size that the Cluster is. The three most noticeable structures are the Lexx toward the upper back of this pic, Cobalt Stadium on the right, and the docking port on the left.
     

     
     The flight path for the prisoner transports goes right over the stadium, which gets highlighted on big screens inside the stadium. This is cryptic foreshadowing for what comes later.
     

     
    You might not notice at first how very huge the docking port is. My first impression is how tall the structure is, but once this particular transport enters into docking bay 511, you see it travels a long way in, I'd guesstimate at least half a mile, which would put it deep inside the building, and remember later just how much stuff goes on inside this building. In the second pic, the prisoner transport is obviously kind of small looking once inside, but it has just flown past us in the third pic, and you get the feeling that place is even huger than that, on a scale of ginormous. This is grand central for space docking on the Cluster.
     

     

     
    I will be hosting all my screen caps on a public page going forward, and as always, all my Lexx pix are available for your personal use. Feel free to direct link to other sites if you'd like, and I really don't care about getting credit. *Anyone* can get screencaps, it's just a matter of taking the time, and my bandwidth is already paid for regardless, so it's no big deal if you use it.
     

  • why am I taking so long posting more Lexx?!?! >=(

    I know!  What's taking so long????  Well, I keep getting distracted.  You know, life.  Stuff.  I also come across as terminally lazy, but I'm really a workaholic burying myself in ten different projects, and this one happens to be something I plunged into as a sort of braincation and it's trying to take over.  I finally just slapped myself silly and I'm now getting screen caps of my own the RIGHT way.  These click out if you want to grab them.  Use my bandwidth, I don't care.  You wouldn't believe how much I have laying around that I don't use, even with all my blogsites.

     

    This could easily turn into a massive project that amoebas out all over tumblr, pinterest, and everything else I'm into (and then I'd truly have a League of 20,000 going again...silly), so I'm trying to hold myself down and not do that.  I have the capability to go bionic, but I need to stay focused on real life.  I keep getting distracted with toys, too.  Like eventually I'll be hosting my own Lexx cursor and whatnot, but for now, I'm just shaking myself and yelling "Snap out of it!  Back to work!"  And I whine back, "But they're so cute, I would have some really cool Lexx toys!"  And then I throw myself out a window and stomp back to work.

    Sometimes I catch a break and have time to kill around town, like yesterday when I was waiting to meet someone.  I get more writing done at the library than anywhere else.  This is my creative process.  Fortunately for you guys, I actually really worked on Lexx stuff because too much other stuff was on my mind to concentrate on stuff that makes money.  shocked 

       

    Dang, that looks like I'm getting ready for a college level test or something.  I'm almost afraid to think about how huge this might look a year from now.  I know there are reams of stuff on livejournal still occasionally debating this or that issue, and there are still people on tumblr loading up cool stuff (check out those Lexx shoes).  It's still alive out there.

     

  • I Worship His Shadow- part 2- The Cluster

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    With our hero dead only 6 minutes into the movie, which way do we go? That's right, we skip forward 2000 years.

    The first thing we see is The Cluster filling the screen, the home planet to His Divine Shadow, and like it says, capital to the League of 20,000 Planets. Planet watchers may notice this particular planet is a chunk of rock, like an overgrown asteroid or moon, and the Cluster is carved into it and shielded with a ceiling built into the planet's surface. You're also going to notice several other things about The Cluster as the movie moves along- no green things growing anywhere, no open sky besides complete cloud or city cover, and no decor. The Cluster is pure form and function.

    The Cluster as Capital City is a sealed and highly monitored compound. These groups of buildings house the Lexx and a complex judicial system. The outer accessways of these rows of big pyramid styled buildings is worker housing for what look like prisoners.

    The first person we see sleeps in a tiny box, his only living quarters. He is awakened with propaganda and a computerized image sentences punishment for not reporting for work on time. Note that there is no volume knob or off switch, a scene very much like Big Brother on roids.

    "Only a thin dimensional barrier separates us from the festering evil, malignant depravity, and alien chaos of the Dark Zone. The Dark Zone is not separate like two different planets. The Dark Zone coexists in the same space as our universe, in the same place at the same time. The Dark Zone has no rules, no sense, no order. We give thanks to His Divine Shadow for his ceaseless vigilance, protecting our universe of Light and Order from the horrors and disorder of the Dark Zone. We worship His Shadow. Long may he reign."

    "Good morning. Security Guard Class 4, number 47632943, Department 511, Level 4. This is your third wake up call. If you are late, you will receive 7 demerits. You already have 991 demerits."

    A lot of other people seem to be going through the same thing. A whole lot of people sleep in nothing more than tiny little boxes and literally own nothing but the uniforms on their backs.

    Meanwhile, the same obnoxious computerized face, apparently used as an interface for all menial communications, kicks off a redirect alert in a prisoner transport bound for the Cluster. (By the way, nice visual pun, a face as an interface, not sure if that was intentional, but we later realize the weird macabre style doll face most certainly was an intentional slight against humans, once we see the extreme species prejudice in the fourth movie.)

    "Due to a bulkhead malfunction, Prisoner Transport 58K603, you are being diverted from Gate 417 Punishment Level 2, to Gate 511." All the numbers are read off individually, like five-one-one.

    It is never indicated or even hinted at, but I believe the audience is supposed to realize as the story unfolds that the bulkhead malfunction was a deliberately premanufactured plant by Heretics as part of a much bigger plot. Or it could just be that particular transport had such a famous guest on board that it was diverted directly over for entertainment purposes, but I don't think so, given the plan that was carried out. A lot of things happen in Lexx that are never explained, you either miss it or put the puzzle together on your own, which I feel is a compliment, the film makers assuming that we have brains and don't need to be spoon fed, like so many scifi shows feel the need to do.  Good editing does the work of explaining everything. winky 

    These guards are being awakened out of stasis while the prisoner transport is remotely rerouted into a different flight path among a whole flock of other prisoner transports. All prisoners wind up on the Cluster.

    (Incidentally, have you wondered yet why in the world it's called The Cluster? You can look up a definition for cluster and it all looks about right, or you can go a step further... hint- some insects cluster, and rows of egg follicles are called clusters. Season 2 will go into why this might be a better image.) (And if you are remembering that part 1 said the Brunnen G defeated the Insects in the Insect Wars, you get a star on your forehead.)

    My first question upon seeing the inside of the prisoner transports is how costly must it be to run all those small vessels from other planets with only a few prisoners in each one. Wouldn't a larger cargo ship carry them all more efficiently?

    Two things, slavery and psychology. Cost doesn't matter if you're running a spartan slave society, and keeping prisoners bolted to slabs and isolated into very small groups for processing kills hope and diminishes the success of subversive efforts for rescue.  At any rate, prisoner comfort and human rights aren't a consideration.

     

    "It's your day of justice, Thodin!"

    But still, this seems to be an overly elaborate way to handle prisoners. What is the point? *IS* there a point? Remember I asked this when you watch the fourth movie later.

    The prisoner transports are guided through an opening in the roof of the Cluster and over a sprawling metro complex, a mega city in perpetual darkness. I have thought so much about this city, a model society completely controlled by His Shadow. No creativity, no choice, no autonomy. No escape.  Model citizenry based on ratting out your fellow man, entertainment wrapped around a heinous judicial system, government as religion, sucking up to Big Brother, in this case, His Shadow.  If Orwell ever gave you the willies, Lexx will melt you in fear, especially when you think how close some of our own histories have come to stuff like this, or still could.

    One of the first things we see as the transports fly into the Cluster is the Lexx, housed in a huge hangar overlooking the city. The transports fly past Lexx and over a giant mega stadium to an even taller docking port. I'm not sure I can estimate how many stories high these constructions are, but they are massively impressive.

    A security guard with 991 demerits is almost late reporting to work at Department 511 Level 4. A prisoner transport has been diverted to Gate 511. This is Thodin's day of justice... 

    Ok, you have to imagine that last bit with my tongue so far in cheek that it's sticking out my ear.  You've NEVER seen a movie like this one.  I can't wait to start obsessing over part 3.

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  • Lexx 1: I Worship His Shadow, part one

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    "I am Kai, last of the Brunnen G.   Millenia ago, the Brunnen G led humanity to victory in the war against the Insect Civilization.  The Time Prophet predicted that I would be the one to destroy the Divine Order in the League of 20,000 Planets.  Someday, that will happen.  But not today, because today is my day of death- the day our story begins."

    There is no way I can cover the whole first movie with the screen shots I want to highlight, so I'm breaking "I Worship His Shadow" down into several posts.

    Images in this post click back to original sources.  Some images are thumbnailed for loading convenience, they will click back to original source or to full size if it's mine.  I still want to add a little more detail (in some shots the characters might be blurry, but the Insect tech will be more sharp, etc), so I am doing what any fan on the planet can do, I am using my Nikon Coolpix 10X wide FullHD camera to take pix of my Vizio 1080P FullHD TV screen and clipping them down so we can see some really cool stuff (so yeah, you'll see the pause button in some of them).  I'm also running my dvd through the blu-ray.  My only frustration is the room lighting and screen reflections, but overall, I'm pretty satisfied with what I'm doing.  I have equipment, but I like to play.  As fans or as film students, The Lexx series is well worth the extra study because it's so different, fresh, and timeless.  It's incredible what you see frame advancing on pause, because this show sometimes goes so fast, and they don't slow down and explain anything.

    Ok, sorry, back to I Worship His Shadow.

    We open with a battle scene as a few warriors leave Brunnis 2 to take on His Shadow's planet killer, the Foreshadow.  We get more details later in season two's episode "Brigadoon".

    The Brunnen G have Insect technology, but it's never disclosed throughout the series where they got it from or how long they've had it.  All we know in the beginning is that they are an ancient race of romantic dreamers.

       

    Kai is in command of the tiny squadron, and is the only one to evade annihilation and make his way to the Foreshadow's control pod, while Brunnis 2 burns in death throes behind him.

    In a last ditch move, Kai ducks through the power grid and follows one of the Foreshadow's main arms to the central command deck.  This is a very quick but very detailed scene, well worth the frame advance so you can catch his strategy and all the detail along that arm.

    You can see the command center (the control pod Kai is talking about) is at the heart of the Foreshadow and facing toward the planet it is destroying.

    The collision is horrific, and the control pod is, indeed, smashed open to space, the Insect gunner that Kai is piloting shears into pieces and lands upside down, skidding through shards and fire, and Kai is violently thrown out at His Shadow's feet while the control pod shields automatically close to seal off the venting atmosphere and stabilizes the command center.

       

    Although Kai's body is broken and he can't move, he remains defiant with his last ragged breaths.

    Kai: His Shadow.
    HS: His Divine Shadow, yes.
    Kai: The Brunnen G will defeat you.
    HS: I don't think so.  The power of Order has destroyed your planet.  The power of Order will destroy you, and you were the last of the Brunnen G left alive.
    Kai: The Time Prophet has seen your Order destroyed by the Brunnen G.
    HS: The Time Prophet's vision appears to be flawed.

    His Shadow draws a curved dagger and slips it into Kai's body.

    Then His Shadow takes Kai's memories.

    "This last specimen of the now extinct culture of romantic dreamers merits punishment beyond death.  Transport it to the bioscholars."  This Cluster symbol is a big deal, and you find out what it represents in the fourth movie.

    And then His Shadow finds it curious that Kai's shattered ship was an Insect.

    What does it all mean?  Where can it go from here?  The hero is already dead!  The bad guy won only 6 minutes into the movie!

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  • The Lexx

    You are on the Lexx Index Page.  Images in this post click back to original sources. Scroll down for the Lexx marathon index, Lexx fun stuff, and links to other Lexx sites. This index gets updated regularly.

    If you could fly away on the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes, would you do it?

    One day you're sitting there stuffing your face with tons of fresh meat and growing at a phenomenal rate, like you always do,

    and next thing you know you're being hijacked by a group of rebels and then stolen by escaped prisoners and flown over a stadium full of screaming people. #veryexciting

    Lexx is a very big bug, designed by bioviziers on the Cluster for His Divine Shadow.

    The Lexx is the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes. He likes to blow up planets.

    Lexx can be commanded only by the person who holds the key.

    His Shadow wants the Lexx back, even if he has to defy ancient prophecy to make it happen.

    Welcome to my Lexx episode and character review navigation page. I'll link more Lexx review posts below as I marathon through the four seasons of Lexx this year, so ignore the date up there, this page will get updated a lot. I don't think I've watched any Lexx since 2007, so this will be a trip down memory lane. I have an age rated caution on this blog so I hopefully don't have to moderate comments.

    Lexx Online Marathon

    Lexx Movies, Season 1
    Lexx 1: I Worship His Shadow, part one 9-13-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 2- The Cluster 9-29-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 3- Stanley Tweedle 10-12-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 4- His Divine Shadow 10-22-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 5- The Time Prophet 10-30-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 6- The Big Bug 11-7-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 7- Termination  11-25-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 8- Zev Bellringer  12-1-12
    I Worship His Shadow- part 9- Thodin 1-10-13
    I Worship His Shadow- part 10- the bug bomb 3-13-14

    Lexx TV Series, seasons 2,3,4
    (coming soon, because we can't wait to see Xev, Lyekka, Mantrid, the Milk Fed Boys, Prince, Bunny, Priest, and more!)
    Lexx- Season Two 8-26-13

    My Own Lexx Reviews and Character Articles
    Why Lexx Is Important  12-7-12 (Season and character philosophical breakdown summary.)
    You Can't Handle Watching LEXX 12-30-12
    the sounds of LEXX- info, downloads, soundtracks 1-25-13
    Lexx Review at NerdMovie 2-15-13
    How big is the Lexx? 2-26-13
    Why Lexx Is Personal 3-23-13 :edit: 4-2-13
    The Dark Zone and the Cycles of Time 1-17-14
    Last of the Brunnen-G: Sci-fi's Favorite Zombie 2-3-14
    Heresy in the First Degree- Thodin of the Ostral-B Pair 3-29-15

    Shout Outs
    Janika Banks gets Xanga Bombed 11-2-12
    The Lexx Revival Project 3-19-13 :edit: 4-2-13
    The Dead Do Not Snark 4-9-13
    the coolest LEXX t-shirt in the world 5-14-13
    Ellen Dubin interview with Wormhole Riders 5-26-13 (this page has been removed due to conflict of interest 3-28-16)
    So, Lexx... 9-5-13
    Stats for Lexx fans, and waving to the U.S. AirForce 9-30-13
    Little Lexx 10-7-13
    Where can I watch Lexx?- 4-15-14 Echo Bridge Entertainment followed me
    Lexx on twitter 5-15-14
    Whatever happened to the Line Major? 6-18-14

    Lexx Fun Stuff
    why am I taking so long posting more Lexx?!?! >=(  10-11-12
    prisoner transports over a stadium...  10-11-12
    Lexx- opening sequence  11-13-12
    Any particular reason why Florida?  11-18-12
    "Dare" Lexx Sex Survey 11-18-12
    Lexx and psychological health, perhaps  11-20-12
    Lexx on Droid 11-25-12
    Da Lexx- Rapdicted  11-27-12
    What, NO Lexx???  11-28-12 (Syfy didn't blip Lexx once on their anniversary special.)
    Lexx ecards  12-4-12
    Lexx traffic  12-12-12
    Holiday Lexx  12-14-12
    End of the World  12-21-12
    Lexx on Netflix 12-23-12
    Kai on the River Kwai 12-23-12
    Lexx- wallpapers, icons, pix 12-27-12 (updated 4-9-13)
    glitchy guestbook 1-9-13
    Stanley Tweedle (video) 2-2-13
    3-13-13 3-13-13
    Lexx Twitter Challenge 3-18-13
    the making of Lexx 3-24-13 :edit: 4-2-13
    Lexx actors on twitter and facebook 3-28-13
    Lost Lexx Art 4-12-13
    Print Your Own LEXX Magazine 6-17-13
    But the dark zone is full of depravity and evilness and darkness 11-6-13
    Valentine Lexx 2-4-14

    Finding Lexx
    Watch Lexx Online - TV.com
    Watch Lexx on Hulu
    Watch Lexx Online | Netflix
    Echo Bridge Entertainment - Lexx
    iTunes - TV Shows - Lexx, Season 1
    Amazon.com: lexx: Movies & TV

    Lexxtraneous Stuff
    Group LEXX watch twitter party (#LexxWatch2013 Jan. 19 on twitter pending playoff scheduling) 1-5-13
    LEXX WATCH PARTY 6-15-13
    Lexx fans video chat 12-13-13

    Links to More Lexx (and more to come!)

     Angelbacchae's screen captures > Lexx

     Brian Downey on Facebook

    Debbie Emerson Art Doll Galleries

     Echo Bridge Entertainment - Lexx

    Emerson Art

    Flamegrape's Xev Picture Archive

    Kai, Last of the Brunnen G

    IMDb- Lexx (TV Series 1997–2002)

     Lexx Domain

    photo lexxfanclub.jpg Lexx Fan Club

     Lexx | Get Glue

    photo Lexxlight.jpg Lexx- Light Zone (Russian)

     LEXX Light | 790 (originally written by Janika Banks)

    photo lexxmuseum.jpg LEXX MUSEUM

    photo lexxnet.jpg Lexx Net (Russian fan club)

     LEXX Revival Project

     Lexx Soundboard - Android Apps on Google Play

     Lexx t-shirts by blackdalek | Redbubble

     Lexx wiki dotorg

     Lexxicon wiki dotcom

     Lexxplorations

     Lexxverse

     LexxZone

    photo lexxzonelogo.jpg LexxZone on Tumblr

    Lisa Hynes - IMDb

     Little Lexx Bored

    Nerd Movie- Lexx

    photo norajean.jpg Nora Jean's Lexx Index

    photo sadgeezer.jpg Sadgeezer- Lexx

     Sci-Fi Talk interviews with Brian Downey and Michael McManus

     Sci-Fi Updates Lexx TV Series Wallpapers and Desktops

     Sci-Fi Updates Lexx Gallery

     SF Series and Movies Lexx

     SF Series and Movies Lexx Characters

     SF Series and Movies Lexx Episode Guide

    photo lexxgallerybanner.jpg SR Series and Movies Lexx Gallery

     SF Series and Movies Lexx Info

     ~~* The PIC Bug *~~ Your online source for Lexx screen captures

     Vel's Homepage- Lexx Video Game

     Watch Lexx on Hulu

     Watch Lexx Online | Netflix

     Watch Lexx Online - TV.com

    I no longer archive or follow current events, so I'm not recreating a fansite. This is still just one of my personal blogs. However, after being blown away by 800+ views in only a week when I brought Lexx out of the closet last month, I thought hmm, a lot of people really like Lexx and want more, might be fun to have a little Lexx fling here and there, just for kicks when I get a day off. And if anyone would like to take advantage of my site traffic and pile on, you're welcome to email your Lexx linx and site names to me so other people can get to you while they're here, and I will arrange them alphabetically. I will not link obvious porn or spam, but I will link your art and writing pages if you want. I know, I deleted it all before, why wouldn't I do it again, right? Well, lemme pose you this one- what if an EMP shut down your national grid and you didn't have any technology to see it with for months anyway? Or what if, heaven forbid, 790 showed up and told the Lexx to blow us up? See, I actually had the nerve to do that... But yeah, I don't think it's going away any more.

    :edit: 10-28-12 I'll also be adding links I've used in Lexx posts, and links that have faithfully sent regular traffic to me all these years, even when this site closed and my Lexx stuff disappeared.

    2-5-13 Ok, I give up, it's gotten out of hand, I'm just adding links I run into regardless. There is a LOT of Lexx out there.

    DISCLAIMER- No one is paying me to list here. This site is a personal blog and part time fansite, it's not here to make money. I have never made any money through anything Lexx, and the only money I ever got for a raffle from MegaCon '07 in which I donated all the items involved went 100% to charity. I am happy to list everyone who is a Lexx fan or involved with Lexx in any way.

    3-13-2014: I took about a year off updating my marathon film review posts. Time to come back and work some more on what looks like may turn out to be the biggest Lexx film review in the two universes.

  • ok, let's drag Lexx back out of the closet

    I was surprised this morning to accidentally run into this little article, mostly because I wasn't doing a search on anything Lexxy at all, but was even MORE surprised that NO ONE had commented and there were only 2 facebook likes.  I went ahead and pinned it, commented, and liked, but dang, Lexx fans, where are you?  We used to be so hard core, we used to fight tooth and nail to get this stuff out the fastest, and this is already 3 months old and it looks like not a soul cares.  While I have constant surveillance on this blog from diehard fans and webmasters all over the world, this guy got nothing, so what say we help him out, make it WORTH HIS WHILE to actually write about your fave cult scifi show ever, show some actual internet support (yeah, I know, this coming from the person who tore down one of the biggest fansites on the North American continent), and give crap back to the critics *outside* of your message board comfort zones.  Click to go, like the old days.  And if you need to comment here, I promise I won't delete, say whatever you want, I'm just staying out of it.

    The cult sci-fi series LEXX comes home - Dallas TV | Examiner.com  

     The discussions are still alive in slo-mo, if you a determined enough lurker.  Waiting For the LEXX Spin-off

     For those without a clue- Lexx - The Full Wiki

     

     :edit: 8/20/12  Someone just asked me about the Lexx video game, is there one, etc.  I remember I used to have a link to this one.

    Lexx Video Game

     :edit: 8/25/12  I honestly never expected this much traffic on a single post in only a week's time (817 views).  I can only imagine what would happen if I were to rebuild my old Lexx stuff.  Since sitemeter isn't catching this particular page-specific landing point, I'm the only one that can see my internal xanga tracker, so I just wanna give a shout out to Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, UK, Thailand, Malaysia, Ukraine, Indonesia, Philipines, Netherlands, Sweden, Egypt, Belarus, New Zealand, and what the heck, a couple of you in the U.S., and that's just in the last 24 hours.  In the last 48 we can add France, Austria, Columbia, and Brazil.  Earlier this week I saw Kuwait, Singapore, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece, Ontario, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Switzerland, Italy, Bandladesh, Venezuala, Argentina, and Finland, all coming specifically to this Lexx titled post.  If there is any doubt in anyone's mind that Lexx is dead, you couldn't prove it by this response.  The U.S. NEVER airs it, but we still have our avid fans here, too.  So big wave to all of you, thanx for stopping by, might get screen snips of all those hits for posterity.  Love those fans!!!!

    p.s. I'm wildly curious how some of you are getting into 'Events', since xanga dismantled that years ago and the only way I can get into it myself is through following your footprints, and once I'm there I can't edit or change a thing there.  I don't think it's supposed to show up at all.

    I'm way out of the loop now, but I guess it's still alive at Hal-Con 2012, and thanx to sites like http://hellexx.narod.ru/transcript_interview_with_MM.html and http://www.lexxdomain.com/links.php, I'll keep seeing some of you drop by.  Keep Lexxing.

     :edit: 9-6-12 > *wow* this stirred memories, dug out my Lexx cds yesterday, and it looks now like I'll be doing a marathon of all 4 seasons as time permits over the coming year.  If you wanna follow along and/or put in your own two cents, click this little button to go to my Lexx navigation page.

                         

     

  • I did the unthinkable

     

    I've had this blog for 8 years. It morphed from a silly personal college group to public fandom, and then disappeared. Over that time it garnered 13,500 site visits from over 80 countries, and nearly 33,000 total page views. Unfortunately, I never paid for premium on my site meter, so the statistics and details disappeared during the year I had this blog locked down and the site meter went dormant. I know, right? It's all gone.
     
    Long before I was Janika Banks in the Lexx fandom, I was Yablo, moderating onelist groups in the Sliders and Xena fandoms. Since 1994 I've owned over 40 websites, writing my own code and hosting all of them on my own dime. A lot of people from a lot of places have contacted me, including authors, publicists, actors, artists, and musicians. Fans have included all ages from all walks of life, very rich and very poor, some handicapped or terminally or mentally ill, all beautiful to me.
     
    I've also met interesting people in some of my jobs, including very successful software developers, millionaires, performers, musicians, writers, athletes, all kinds of world travelers and business owners. I bought my second computer from Doug Pitt at Service World. Yes, Brad's brother. I drive by Brad Pitt's old high school at least once a week. I went to the same college as John Goodman and Kathleen Turner. Part of Larva (renamed MorphMan) was filmed in the courthouse of the town where I went to high school. The Blues Brothers featuring Dan Aykroyd performed in a field at a jeep rally 5 miles from my house. Yakov Smirnoff sat only a table away from my group at a Chuck E. Cheese. I could keep going.
     
    I mention this stuff because I never really have before. A lot of people seem to know me in one way or another, not all by the same name. Some people have no idea who I am online, others have no idea who I am in real life. I so rarely mix my identities, have never before integrated my entire life as an aggregate.
     
    I have fairly severe social anxiety. This is difficult for some people to understand since I have absolutely no fear of public speaking. Anyone who knows me will confirm that I don't know when to shut up. My problem is interaction on a personal level, because I have Asperger's Syndrome. I'm very good with the public at large, going so far as to win customer service awards. But I'm sure my internet friends have found me to be a confusing person. Even when the interaction is 100% positive, I'm easily overwhelmed by even a small volume of personal contact and go into shutdown mode, a very typical Asperger trait.
     
    Like Burt on Soap, I need to be invisible. I need my comfort zone. That kinda blew up, I moved to another planet, my stuff disappeared, and Janika Banks dissolved into the mist, as did Yablo before that.
     
    Until Scott and I were run completely off the highway last month avoiding a late night head on collision at 65 mph +(plus) the other car's speed coming the other way (this is where your middle school math skills come in handy, remember those word problems?) and miraculously we all lived, literally missing each other by an inch in the dark at high speed. Yeah, scary. The next day we could see that if we'd gone off the road in any other place a mile either way, we'd have been killed. We were on the only short strip of flat grass between deep ditches, steep drops, jagged flint outcrops, and big trees. It still feels really weird that we're alive, because during that incident with no time to think, we both assumed we were dead. Neither car rolled or wrecked, we both self corrected right back onto the highway, and I'm assuming the other driver went home pretty shook up. All I can figure is that person was coming home from a late shift at work and was asleep with their eyes open, using the headlights of oncoming cars to gauge their position, then automatically self correcting toward our headlights thinking that the further to their left we move, the more off the road to the right they were going. That driver self corrected four times straight for us and didn't jolt awake enough to self correct back until they saw our headlights tilt slightly going off the road, just in the very nick of time, which means their eyes were open and they were sober enough to make a vital hasty decision. We nearly got plowed. That was going to be a really nasty wreck.
     
    My psychologist was very surprised when I told him I'm going public again. He's been working with me for 5 1/2 years on social and communication skills. My lawyer says my IQ is through the roof, but the psychologist assessed my GAF at a 60 on a day I thought was going pretty good. I'm the textbook nerdy geek with lower than average social skills. Scott calls me Sheldon when I get real bad, so imagine what I'm like to live with. I not only have a spot on the couch, but one friend went so far as to politely point out that I nest. He also said that I am to be taken with a tub of salt.
     
    I have had more friends than just about anyone I know, friends who have literally left their homes and traveled a thousand miles just to come see me, but I don't know what to do with that. Alas, it has taken me so many years to understand and appreciate the portent behind that kind of behavior. I'm sorry it has taken so long, but given the Asperger's, I'm probably lucky I've learned it at all. Anyway, really long story dramatically shortened, ok, I confess I set those bombs under all those bridges. But I have a psychologist now. I've been practicing, like this: *ahem* "I'm sorry I ate your pets and used their skins for pillow cases. I hope you can forgive the misunderstandings and gloss over the awkwardness this has created."
     
    And if not, I'll still leave comments open anyway. It's all good in a psychologist's office.
     
    To all my friends who understood my encryptions and accepted who I am: Hello. I'm back.
     
     

     

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