Auuuuuhhhhh...
Aug. 2nd, 2006 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauSorry, but a formless wail/sigh/groan is what does it for me right now.
I have been so busy the last two weeks! Aki has been here for 18 days and goes back to Japan in only 23 more. We've been having a lot of fun, he was kind of subdued the first few days but has adjusted. He actually beat me at chess the other day, after we went to see the new pirate movie, what's its name, uhhh... anyway, he was proud, and rightly so - I don't throw games.
Kids are a lot more resilient than I thought, or at least more than they let on (you ever notice how, when they fall, they look around to see if anyone's watching before they start wailing?).
Lianne is back today, after more than a month in Sault Ste. Marie! Details will not be aired at 11. I am not anticipating any Aki/Lianne problems - he met her several times last year, at his request.
Leaving for Nevada in 24 days. PANIC PANIC! This year we will borrow my dad's pickup truck with camper, so we don't have to fuss with a tent, and can just pick up and go. But there are so many other things to do -
- write stuff for the Black Rock Beacon,
- check and service equipment (Pantzooka, water pump, bicycles, stoves)
- assemble stores (tools, food, sleeping bags, rope, chairs, carpet, water, gasoline, clothing, other gear)
- make new casting molds (thoughts: vampire fangs, better bat head, Golem head, Herman Munster head, suggestions?)
- do some actual casting (I had 45 pieces on consignement at "3 Crows Music and Notions", a store around the corner from the Starbuck's in Cook St. Village, then the place closed and I don't know if I can get them back - that's a day's casting), fortunately I have a new load of Cerrotru metal,
- and so on and on...this does not even mention "paid" work, and there is so much of that I am unsure I can get even a fraction of it done...
I have been so busy the last two weeks! Aki has been here for 18 days and goes back to Japan in only 23 more. We've been having a lot of fun, he was kind of subdued the first few days but has adjusted. He actually beat me at chess the other day, after we went to see the new pirate movie, what's its name, uhhh... anyway, he was proud, and rightly so - I don't throw games.
Kids are a lot more resilient than I thought, or at least more than they let on (you ever notice how, when they fall, they look around to see if anyone's watching before they start wailing?).
Lianne is back today, after more than a month in Sault Ste. Marie! Details will not be aired at 11. I am not anticipating any Aki/Lianne problems - he met her several times last year, at his request.
Leaving for Nevada in 24 days. PANIC PANIC! This year we will borrow my dad's pickup truck with camper, so we don't have to fuss with a tent, and can just pick up and go. But there are so many other things to do -
- write stuff for the Black Rock Beacon,
- check and service equipment (Pantzooka, water pump, bicycles, stoves)
- assemble stores (tools, food, sleeping bags, rope, chairs, carpet, water, gasoline, clothing, other gear)
- make new casting molds (thoughts: vampire fangs, better bat head, Golem head, Herman Munster head, suggestions?)
- do some actual casting (I had 45 pieces on consignement at "3 Crows Music and Notions", a store around the corner from the Starbuck's in Cook St. Village, then the place closed and I don't know if I can get them back - that's a day's casting), fortunately I have a new load of Cerrotru metal,
- and so on and on...this does not even mention "paid" work, and there is so much of that I am unsure I can get even a fraction of it done...
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Date: 2006-08-02 07:49 pm (UTC)No big surprise that they closed. We tried to buy a CD and it took -- seriously -- 15 minutes to do the transaction. Sucks that your castings are held hostage though... hmmm.
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Date: 2006-08-02 08:33 pm (UTC)I ran into one of the guys who set the place up and my pieces aren't lost - they are probably in a box of stuff somewhere. I don't care about the $$$ for any that might have sold, I just want to get my pieces back so I don't have to make as much Burning Man Schwag.
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Date: 2006-08-02 09:15 pm (UTC)Heavily laboured explanation, culled from past discursions:
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Account of first year at Burning Man, 2003:
The Pantzooka
Lancelot wrote some stories for the Black Rock Gazette, the daily news sheet of Burning Man, under the pen name Gothalot . One thing he saw that bugged him intensely was the number of men walking around with T-shirts on but no pants, all a-waggle underneath as it were. So he came up with the idea of the Pants Cannon , which Joe and I quickly modified to the man-portable Pantzooka . We took a 5 foot long cardboard tube that had been used to roll up a carpet, duct-taped a bicycle pump to the side so it looked like firing handles. We needed a subject, so we recruited Steve, one of the swingers from next door. Steve was all over it and rigged up his air compressor so it would fire a blast of fine dust out the end of the tube (wrong end for a recoilless weapon, but we weren t going for complete verisimilitude). We set up the photo so Joe was the gunner and I was the loader, and Steve was walking down the street with no pants on. When Lancelot snapped the shutter, I released the air and Steve s wife threw a balled-up pair of shorts at him from off camera so it looked like we were firing pants at him!
The story, " Pantzooka Patrol Sighted on the Playa" , appeared in the Thursday edition of the Gazette. Lancelot said later that some guys from Norwegian Radio wanted to interview us. I had a story all prepared about how Joe and I were a Special Operations Team from the Antistatic Section of the Proun Republik Ministry of Culture dropped into Burning Man to enforce the aesthetic/ sartorial diktats of Section Leader Heinmar v. 1.9 Glock, but they found some other story to pursue.
I think this is a joke worth pursuing, whether or not Lancelot and Joe come back next year.
***
In preparation for 2004, I created a spring-powered, man-portable version that shot small cardboard tubes stuffed with a pair of boxerr shorts:
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2.8.2 Gadzook-a, It’s Pantzooka Pix Time! (2004-08-03 16:07) -
Last week Robin came over and we worked on the Jellyfish (which is what I have decided to call the shade structure, from its red centre and the way it pulses in the breeze) and the Pantzooka.
Here is a film of the loading and firing drill with two people - it should have a crew of three since it is a shoulder-controlled weapon, but someone had to run the camera.
http://www.islandnet.com/~ltmurnau/pix/pzkamovie1-1.wmv
Here is a still of the loading drill with two people:
http://www.islandnet.com/~ltmurnau/pix/pantzooka.jpg
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Date: 2006-08-02 09:15 pm (UTC)djmermaid (2004-08-26 00:13:32) PANTZOOKA!!!
Pantzooka is coming back?!?! That’s great!!! Keep up the good work. Last year, friend of mine in Gigsville was telling all the
pantless guys he saw that there was a ”pants free pride” photo shoot going on *right now* and directing them to Pantzooka.
Hopefully you got some business from him. See you out there!
ltmurnau (2004-08-26 16:39:14) Re: PANTZOOKA!!!
Well, the Pantzooka last year was actually a one-off photo opportunity. This year we’re serious! We’ll be roving around
hunting targets, ”tagging” our prey. I read a brief (snicker) exchange on the ePlaya BBS about someone taking exception to
our fascistic, sexist, ageist, etc. crusade against his inalienable right to walk around with his wobbly bits hanging out. Actually, we have no problem with anyone, of any gender, walking around at BM completely naked or topless; it’s the shirt-but-no-pants faux-pas we object to. Eventually he figured out that it was all in fun. Where will you be? perhaps we’ll stop by and say hey.
djmermaid (2004-08-26 17:35:49) Re: PANTZOOKA!!!
I loved it in the paper... no wonder I never saw it when I was out and about. Well, at least my friend had fun attempting to get the pantless guys pantzooka’d. I wonder if there were a lot of them milling around wherever the paper said you were set up... pretty funny in itself. I’ve always disliked the ”Donald Duck Look” as I call the shirt-but-no-pants look. I certainly hope I can see you in action this year!
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Excerpt from the 2004 Burning Man After Action Report, logistics annex:
7. Additional resources summary:
a. Ammunition
Seven underwear-loaded rounds of Pantzooka ammunition were prepared in the pre-deployment phase, as were six rounds of subcalibre sock-loaded ammunition. Four underwear-loaded rounds of Pantzooka ammunition were fired during the deployment phase at various targets, mostly for demonstration purposes. All were recovered.
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In 2005, I had little time to go hunting and saw very few targets anyway. A member of my camp immortalized the Pantzooka in song:
Pants Cannon Anthem #1
- c. Comrade Durgy, 2005
When exposed genitalia
really start to ail ya
Use a pants cannon
If from their shirt down to their toes
They’re totally exposed
Use a pants cannon
It may be harsh that’s true
But you’re spoiling my view
With a range of fifty feet
It’ll cover up bad meat
Pants Cannon! Pants Cannon!
Refrain:
It may be charged with air
Or even TNT
But it’s making the world better
For folks like you and me
It’s a slacks delivery gun
Putting pantslessness on the run
Pants Cannon! Pants Cannon! Pants Cannon!
When you’re seeing a free willy
From someone just dressed silly
Use a pants cannon
If he’s dressed like Donald Duck
But doesn’t give a fuck
Use a pants cannon
When cover up’s the goal
Then call the pants patrol
They’ll get there really fast
To cover the bare-assed
Pants Cannon! Pants Cannon!
Refrain
When a shirted guy is loose
And you don’t want sofas juiced
Use a pants cannon
If you’re looking at a penis
Or somebody’s mons venus
Use a pants cannon
If you cover up your tits
Cover other naughty bits
Please don’t be a jerk
That fashion look don’t work
Pants Cannon! Pants Cannon!
Refrain
***
Now, aren't you sorry you asked?
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Date: 2006-08-02 10:45 pm (UTC)dear god,
Date: 2006-08-09 09:29 am (UTC)amen!
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Date: 2006-08-02 08:33 pm (UTC)