Aphrodite rose from sea foam in film. Merry Mermaid and love goddess surfinn her scallop chariot through twisted arms of godsoilmen and sludge.
She has risen to meet the supermajors to balance scales and dance to the finnance seers circe song.
Gulf scoop. Venus Arise! Awake. Hail Eris! Drink snail wine and toast to King scallop, loops.
Sail up Botticelli’s shell birth canal, known by cockle, hat and staff, Cruz’ past oily Slick Cheney news. We roe under the sign, past energy task force positions.
The Galloping Scallop clad man of greek myth. The Knights bejewelled in clam lips and kisses. Rich blue Oil spill or mother of pearl? Like blended parrots and dead plankton, mixed emulsions. Beautiful Miss. Oil Spill?
Crude awakening to the spill-age. A Collosal squid princess riding old Jakobsschelp to help a Hutch load of old scallops rise out the Seafloor Blues. Deep sea things speak! Lo! Scallops of the ocean down by the great rising Chiefs.
Take Big Periwinkle into your earshell. Smell the sign, touch the symbol, has it got ridges? Dreams cast to sea to see in a Venus shell in a mother of pearl breast. Dead Plankton in the paint painted on Saints of the swamp.
And the city sewers flow. Heed the clam of commerce and the cockle-shock shimmy. A shell of transfusion, what sea-shell sign symbol confusion.
Emerging on a horse covered in Scallops? Yes, Prince Periwinkle gallops-up stream like Salmon. Skullops for one shelling a dollop. Sea wave-wind Mussels flex into fossils. Oh, more yet, invisible smell of oilamp from the limpet.
The Penis of Mr. Big Periwinkle is swelling, a telling sign of the times. Lets Oil the Oystery of Oil, and stir with a staff, lets foil Big sharks, get shocked, struck coil! Row roe with the Tide Swell batter and salt.
Swim with the titanic Sementic shift, up out the shell, again, to tell a snail tale of the planetary shaft.
Son’s of Thunder Juice, Snel, quick up to defend the word. A sea slug with untold feet, runs with you. Hoily Tools of the Big Petrol scoop and scope scheme, wallops the marine scene with unclean oil sheen. Another spellage.
Ocean deep n' blue, packed full of shell-rooms, true teachers of petrochem generation X. Drill here. Rise up like foam, Alexthunder Oil the Shah Cockle and the unseen shellhand scoop, arise fortuna.
Waxy Parrot Snot in the sea banks, how to dress up a death spill? Casting Shells - The wavy lines trace swellmighty calm. His Loch' Holiness the Buddhaclam Caliph of Pearl of the Santiago Shell mound gate tell us, what fate?
Great clam emperor of the Mollusca lineage, Big Up your shelf. By nature the sign, 500 Million years of geometry spun, sings in holy brine water, the Duke Periwinkle Clam tissue of ivory Sheen?
Look down the well. Oily DEA and ivory salt newspaper scalps litter our vessel, truth and beauty from underwater vents, meanwhile oilmen pollute the ocean-Green with sculpted Pipe lines, crime waves of DEA projects, No Oildea how sticky their handshells.
To the Great Old One's, please hear us and help a sign-sailor resist a supermajor temptress, blackmailing a redesign.
Each cell on the Shell glitters and does not glisten. Clamco on our sex organs. Oil spill, pipe-line, spoil, Usury, coercion, interference with the flow.
Oyster Gods of ancient oceans sculpt the wave and weave pearls for serpents teeth to sew. WWII elixir prohibition, in the name of thy snakeoil potions, Rise, Oh.
Sea-meat wonders with one hundred eyes that dwell upon Old heraldic shields, Rise up like bubbles and show us your shape. If only Molluscs could grow wings?
Dutch English American statistics, more scallops? Roam the ocean wide with the Sigil of Galloping shells tells a whale of a trial of a clam, with snapping hinge teeth. Big Blood and loot (bleep) swinging from the Scallops pole, I and Shelly, and our Seal: Koninklijk.
A Toast to Scallops and the food of Godzilla, and the marvel of Clam propulsion.
Venus come surfing on a scallop, leading with a shell in hat and staff in hand. Scholar. Mussel Swimming down Saint James's glory-gate to stealth Oil Cow and coo. Scoop it. And the church Redlips TTOTTAL Informollusc. Sculp. Crude awakening.
Cockoily and Crude Millions scalloped out of the earth's. Intimidated pilgrims raise a Church shoal. To the Botticelli Shell-mex, mix, to the - Supermajor – noGods’ and the shall he, Shall he not trotter. Heart of calcite, home of crystal. Toil to swim with the ASA Esso sponsors. Pick a Shell and drink James Juice.
The sacred periwinkle proportions, now sea gold. Periwinkle Cockle and aragonite Shillyshellying, on land we're all out of gas? Gaia Scalp flaking, dry rot and sun burn, Crashing oil and Blood in similar waves, Half-mollusc, half man with a vulva Cuthulu cult riding a Periwinkle to shore, to soil on past British Patrolingmen.
Deep Rejoice – Skol - of the sea leagues 93’000 species of Mollusc, calcium from sea, Saint James Juice “No thankyou.” Oh, resurrecting Periwinkle is forbidden? Greenwash be damned, HOLY Scollop of truth Swim on your way!
Oh, Mollusc gas around pilgrims Hands. Scooping the word. Praise the Count of cockles who calculates the calcium content. Re-shore em’ that Oystery has Pearls. Barons to protect the crust. Don't drill, hear! The silver pink flesh remaining of ocean Sheild.
What pearls lie in the sign. Schaaldrake Unreeled from the Well, winds blowing above the abyss of humanity.
A clamber of underwater James shimmer “What the devil’s covering you, old directors?” The Hat clamp too. Holy floor, must be peak oil time! Shall we use our gills to push? Praise oceans Brand waves. The fisherman on fire, Oil brigade, fire brigade.
What Sustenance? Entangled oil pipline artery of earth rot? Well well well, Oil be damned! eyel. The stolen dead plankton. The dead seamen-oil-blood transfusion.
The Tectonic shifts and shafts. Swallow the shilly-shally sea and go a’ rumaging. A mussel bound wisdom tongue in a Dutch pit. Venus in shell, that feminine Scallop.
Beware the starfish and oystercatchers and Condi Rice. Our boat enters the earshells of Leviathon. Seers are feeding, so meditate on bivalvia underground and grow new ears. Total germs. Sea worms fight back.
Please dive off the Euro board and Rejoice for James Juice. Hoily Houses Haunt Oystery sauce. The currents of Oysery in the Musselmen’s. How to Oil the machine and then stir, sir?
Scallop filtration of nature Mouth pit. Hermaphrodite Samuel of the black-gold waters. Global eyes of the oceanic gleam where Ibskal speak of sea diamonds, pearls and disturb the Calm mud.
Look Deep, look well , lick the James Juice-oil, drink the poison and ride the snake to the pit of Saint DEA, to planet Exo-Clamboil. Elders send word of hope, inducing Amanita Mollusca.
Sometides wash nutrients up Ripples of the great allrudy wish-ways prepear’d with proportions of Baron periwinkles dimples. Chevrollop, clamswallop, wham. Big Shh’ galaxy, in silence. And inside the noble clam chamber Mr. Mussel finds shelter from transfusions and Cockledoom on a dinner plate.
Oh shil, you supermajor logo shystirs. Rumble of waves around scalloped edge - where Venus teleports - to visit ecstatic ten-thousand. And Brand new standards, drink the ocean ink of clam soup. Ingest the Hoily Ocean Extracts from the me-a-ning Well, it's all for the best.
Wade through the bauxite, don’t step on our eggshares show foresight. Juice the wellwell markets, be merry, speak into these eggshawls. Schelp, I need some clammy mammy? Muscle and sperm of capitol, testoss and hydrocarbons, Thankyou, the pearls really shine. 500 Million years of Scallop evolution sculpted from chalk with tyme.
Real Crotch Oil spread and royal Roe Smoothie. The synchro-swimming around the OVA, mixing a schaal alliance. Pink into the black current. Shellfish swim for ecosystem and it’s edges.
The taste and Zap, filtering compost on sea-bed, the underwater awakening, like Fungus, the Clam infiltrates the swill. Heaven and Hell, the birth of Lucifer von Periwinkle and his Kingdom Oilmen! Lo, the chatter and Swell, the Venus and the Vulva. Marian’s Well. Like a Mermaid's, always moist.
Master of devices and of painted Green weeds. Grow. A Pilgrim Artefact slyjacked. Marian! Murmur and maid, with comb and mirror, homeless, Comb exchanged for a clam-pick to pluck Lyre songs. Merry tinkles of shells and deep-blues for heads.
Oh yeah, to schell the proof to buy the truth. Sea Red and sigil read. Michelle, and her pink mantle. Swimming with our vows to explore the edges of the Sun. Elixir of Baron Periwinkle makes a tasty tipple. A tale maybe a virus. Vile us! With a treacherous hijacked Scallop - snapping - at your toe, out to out brand Oil.
Way out. Respect the Hoily mollusc of Saint James. These Claims of holy clams clamp down on Baron Periwinkle’s clump, so Dive down and pry benearth. The Venus Mermaiden has risen from the sea to show you her she-sails.
I had a joyful few weeks reading Philip K. Dick and also reading and writing with other people about Philip K. Dick, his books and inspired movies.
You can get much of the specific info about the course at the maybe logic academy, and if you're interested can follow your nose on the web as there are many brilliant blogs, web sites and essays about everythingPKD.
To conserve a bit of time and space, I'll just throw down my own condensed notes from the early part of the course when we were reading "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (TTSOPE)
It's their futures, not ours. NOTMine. Sguysoft and Rupert Gates and Perky Pat Layouts. Gangsters. Bank Vaults of perception locked in the interests of National security. SguysoftwareAmazoogleMonsantesco Mart
How often are the worlds of our lives like a Perky Pat Layout?"
PKD keeps us all sane, by writing the irrational with love. The Nag Hammadi text seem to act as a kind of ancient tech-support system for V.A.L.I.S and so then, his other works too it seems? Panspermia, inter-species communication, synthetic indicties, intelligent lichen. Corporate Gangsterism. Greed and excess.
PKD "Inspiring big enough Dreams to swallow back GOD hole." At the same time transubstantiation introduced by Can-D. P K. Dick, Norbet Wiener and King Kong? Feedback loops and cybernetics. Man and machine languages. Mathmatical theory of communication and Claude Shannon.
4.62 Grables,
1.46 Wagners
16 selkirks
8 Freuds of stress.
4 Truffle Skins
PKD Truffle skins; depreciating currency. With advanced genetic security. Cybernetic agents, chemical agents. At the same time Cybernetic subjectivity "paradox".
"Aboard his ship Eldritch had-still has-a carefully maintained culture of a lichen very much resembling the Titanian lichen from which Can-D is derived. - PKD, TTSOPE, Pg. 17
Panspermia and other sosmo-spore-bio-matter theories seem to be getting more legitimate, more better researched and communicated in 2008. Plus we have new information about conditions for the growth of lichen on Titan in 2008.
Two faced feature-objects. Blogjects. At the same time...
"Palmer Eldritch was too wild and dazzling a solo pro; he had accomplished miracles in getting autofac production started on the colony planets, but - as always he had gone too far, schemed too much. Consumer goods had piled up in unlikely places where no colonists existed to make use of them. Mountains of debris, they had become, - PKD, TTSOPE, Pg 13.
--Reflects on our current 2007 machine-human consumer interface. The FREE marketor "Genghis Khan" economy. Who eats who? The empire never ended.�
That Can-D," he said to miss Jurgens, "Is great stuff, and no wonder its banned, Its like religion; Can-D is the religion of the colonists." He chuckled. - PKD, TTSOPE Pg 24.
--Can-D� in this context seems to reflect the drug problem on planet earth.
Products, autofaq'd. If a faq'd up Disney-fied�" or "Dell-fied�" "Mc Coked�" and "Addi-Niked�" resulting in a Dickian feeling that the environment surrounding you is engineered and broadcast by a kind of PKD Pre-fash consultancy agency, on most sophisticated "High Streets" a pharmaceutical cartel and maybe a Telecommunications giant robot too.
He recalled the day his L-P record collection had fused together in a lump, back around 04', due to momentary failure in the building's cooling network. - PKD, pg 8. TTSOPE
This "fusion" has happened to me too once I was in a car when my LP's were left exposed to sunlight and they Became shaped like flower pots, wavy vinyl flowers pots, and when i Tried to play them the sound was warped too.
Consciousness. Continuity of process. Technological artefacts - and parameters of subjectivity. Evereywhere without a hero? Its their futures, not our's. At the same time.
PKD and his phalanx of charcters seem determined to drag us all with them into their future. I get the feeling they flow backwards too though.
PKD everyware.
"You precogs." remarkable. maybe there were alternate futures. "So you want me to order her in the future always to back you up?" Leo' - PKD, PKD, TTSOPE pg. 19.
Constructing a better future by ordering the robot gods, blogjects, self-fabricating objects, universal nano-constructors to construct it, Or keep the ubiquitous tech-support system running the kind of reality reality you desire, or can imagine at the same time. What show do you want to tune into, what pharma corp, news media or hell?
PKD, Pound, Burroughs, Dali, Joyce and Bob, are all very precise and careful writers, masters, iconoclasts, super-geniuses! of the word sign symbol worlds. Reaching Beyond language.
A unique unique talent by which they can relay their messages from Occulted places and rebound them back to us the reader, through utilizing: Multiple Points Of View, Epiphany, Ideogramic Method, Critical paranoia, Holographic prose. Consciousness- continuity of process.
All these various languaging tools help us readers and co-creators to see and perceive better, more synergistically, If we can have a little patience and compassion for their messages lingering all around us. Let em' come down. At the same time.
I say: Read the work of Philip K. Dick in groups. Talk and tell tales, watch the movies and make comparisons. Smoke a joint.
Erik Davis proved the perfect leader for this class, his high energy input and vast experience as a PKD scholar and technologist made a fun-packed experience for all the good folks on the course. The new Podcasting tools enhance the experience greatly as its always nice to hear a human voice.
Don't do it Richard. Hold on, Everybody Is Coming. Stop. Think. Look. No Blood for Oil. Stop. Sky. Virgin. Cloud. Mist. Earth. Banks and Environment think tanks. All the so called news groups ALL forgot to LINK Wikipedia to their news Or any link other than ABORTISEMENTS? wonder why?
Report: Virgin Media receives preliminary offer from Carlyle Group
The Associated Press Published: July 2, 2007
LONDON: Virgin Media Inc. has received a preliminary offer from private equity firm the Carlyle Group valuing the company at around 5.5 billion pounds (US$11.1 billion; €8.2 billion), Dow Jones Newswires reported Monday.
Quoting "a person familiar with the matter," Dow Jones said that Carlyle has offered between US$33 and US$35 (€24.38 and €25.86) per share for Virgin Media. The company also has roughly 6 billion pounds (US$12.1 billion; €8.9 billion) of debt.
Shares in Virgin, which is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market rather than in London, closed on Friday at US$24.37 (€18.05) per share.
Virgin Media could not immediately be reached for comment.
UBS said that a private equity approach for Virgin Media could result in a reduction of competitive pressure on rival British Sky Broadcasting PLC.
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"It could also result in a more pragmatic approach, with Sky and Virgin finally reaching an agreement on Sky basics which could be in the interests of both groups and Virgin Media customers," analysts said in a research note.
Virgin Media, the byproduct of a number of mergers, including the former cable operators NTL Inc. and Telewest and the mobile operator Virgin Mobile, reported its seventh consecutive quarterly loss in May after subscribers defected to rival BSkyB.
Virgin Media lost customers earlier this year when it stopped airing basic BSkyB channels, dropping popular programs such as "Lost," "24," and "The Simpsons," as the result of a battle over fees during negotiations to renew a distribution agreement.
BSkyB has long dominated pay TV in Britain, accounting for around 70 percent of the country's pay-TV subscribers. But the arrival of Virgin Media has threatened a shake-up of the status quo, and relations between the two have become increasingly rancorous.
Entrepreneur Richard Branson is the largest shareholder in Virgin Media with a 10.5 percent stake. He also licenses the Virgin name to the company and gets paid for promotional appearances. - http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/02/business/EU-FIN-COM-Virgin-Media-Carlyle-Group.php ---
News
Virgin Media bids may price-in an end to digital TV battle
Alan Shipman - 02-Jul-2007
Private equity interest in UK cable provider Virgin Media could spark a bidding war, but heavy debt and loss of subscribers cast doubt on upper-end valuations reaching £10bn.
A biddding war is looming for Virgin Media, the recently rebranded union of UK cable operators NTL and Telewest, with private equity group Carlyle reported to be preparing a bid that could value the company at over £5bn. If it goes ahead, Carlyle’s offer is expected to spark counterbids from other media groups, though media ownership regulations could restrict the field. A sale would give Richard Branson, who took a 10.5% stake when NTL/Telewest merged with Virgin Mobile, funds for new projects including a bid to repurchase Virgin Radio, which Scottish Media Group is preparing to spin off. Virgin Media has begun to exploit the synergies from adding mobile phones to its television, landline and broadband bundles, and to tackle the customer service problems suffered by its constituent companies before unification. But the company inherited large losses from its previous spending spree on regional cable franchises. And profits have ebbed as its core cable television subscriptions come under pressure from rival digital broadcasters Sky and Freeview, each of which has amassed more TV viewers, helped by the offer of free channels. Virgin’s new owner is expected to seek more cooperation with Sky, ending the war which has seen it withdraw channels from the cable operator, an action currently heading for the courts.
-- Reports: Virgin Media eyed in $10B buyout Buyout firm weighs $10 billion-plus offer for British cable company that counts Branson as biggest investor: newspapers. July 1 2007: 8:23 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Carlyle Group is in talks with Virgin Media over a buyout offer of $10 billion or more and Richard Branson, the British cable company's biggest investor, is open to considering a deal, news reports said Sunday.
The New York Times, citing a person familiar with the negotiations, said that the talks are still early and may not lead to a bid. The report noted that as their warchests have grown, U.S. buyout firms like Carlyle have looked more aggressively to do deals overseas.
Sir Richard Branson
On Saturday, two American private equity firms, Providence Equity Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners, joined with the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in a deal to buy Bell Canada, that country's largest telephone company, for about $33 billion in one of the biggest leveraged buyouts on record.
Buyout boom's best days may be over British weekend news reports said Providence might be interested in making an offer for Virgin Media as well.
The Times of London, quoting unnamed financial sources, said Branson is open to a buyout of the British cable company, paving the way for a potential deal at $10 billion (£4.9 billion) or more.
The New York Times said in its report a deal could be worth nearly $20 billion if you include assumed debt. That would rank it among the biggest buoyut deals ever in Britain. Last month, Alliance Boots, the pharmacy chain, agreed to a $21.8 billion offer from its deputy chairman and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts after a bidding war, the newspaper noted.
A spokeswoman for Virgin Media declined to comment, according to Reuters.
Virgin Media in May reported its seventh consecutive quarterly loss after subscribers defected to rival BSkyB, the New York Times said. The loss widened to $242 million.
Branson, through his company Virgin Group, holds a 10.5 percent stake in the $8 billion Virgin Media, the London Times said in its report.
Critics of the Carlyle Group frequently note its connections to various political figures. Some of the sectors and companies in which it invests are highly sensitive to political activity; indeed, its actions may be viewed as a form of political arbitrage. This may create conflicts of interest when political decision makers have their own personal wealth [1] linked to such investments. Carlyle is the largest private equity firm located in Washington, D.C., its corporate headquarters are located on Pennsylvania Avenue. Critics refer to Carlyle as a private military contractor, because it owns controlling or partial interests in several military contractors. For example, it used to own United Defense Industries, which was developing the Crusader artillery project. This project was funded in eight consecutive Clinton budgets but was cancelled soon after Bush became president, eliminating the remaining $9 billion of the original $11 billion contract. A much smaller contract was awarded to United Defense to capture technologies developed during the eight years of development. In the book House of Bush, House of Saud, author Craig Unger states that Saudi Arabian interests have given $1.4 billion to firms connected to the Bush family. Nearly 85% of the $1.4 billion, or about $1.18 billion, refers to Saudi Arabian government contracts awarded to defense contractor BDM in the early to mid 1990s. Carlyle, however, sold its interest in BDM before former President George H. W. Bush joined as an advisor. Former President George H.W. Bush retired from Carlyle in October 2003. George W. Bush served on the Board of Directors of early Carlyle acquisition Caterair. Bush left the board in 1992 to run for Governor of Texas. The Saudi Arabian relatives of Osama bin Laden were also investors in Carlyle until October 2001 when the family sold its $2.02 million investment back to the firm in light of the public controversy surrounding bin Laden’s family after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. The bin Laden family has publicly disowned the al-Qaeda leader.[citation needed] Osama bin Laden has no publicly known or acknowledged economic interest in Saudi Binladin Group (SBG), whose investments were in part managed by the Carlyle Group until the arrangement was terminated by mutual consent. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
