Back II Earth!

MORTALS—our 300th show sits firmly in our elaborate “rear-view” mirror, but WE REST NOT. Onward! Friday we shall unfold episode 301, BACK II EARTH, where we begin our exile-sojourn back to all of thee. Join us for our first INTERCALARY SHOW, with WONDROUSLY ESPECIAL GUEST MARY HOULIHAN, this very Friday at 8PT!

Aye, the intercalary shows—the days between the months, the shadows in the calendars’ eaves. Modern mortals rarely observe this concept in action, but before modern clocks & modern managers demanding modern control of all workers’ lives, calendars only counted some days. & so until we find a new quest, a new calling, our episodes live between seasons!

A perfect way to travel leisurely back toward that benighted globe ye call home, I think! & what better company on this first intercalary show than Mary Houlihan, recently returned from a humanitarian flotilla to Cuba?

For a long æeon we have been away from the Prime, from Earth; has much changed? I compiled a list with Summersbane, of some of Earth’s qualities we have missed most! Find them here, below the most recent map of Earth I had in my possession:

Pining for Earth
Amable Terrestrial Qualities We Miss

‘T has been such a while away, I fear our memories may be somewhat rose-colored. & as immortals, time is strange to us, anyhow.

Tell us, mortals, is life there still as we recall ‘t?

Do the aspects we long for, survive there still?

• Stable climate, suitable for mortal life in most parts of the globe

• Relatively free flow of food & trade goods, ‘pon the Seven Seas

• Two poles, full of ancient ice

• Hamburger (denizen of Hamburg)

• Hamburger (food)

• Hamburger (comedian)

• Italy

• Affordable university education

• Affordable hamburger

• Affordable life

• Ireland

• “CATS” (musical)

• “CATS” (prose)

• “CATS” (legislation)

• A global economy which be NOT built around pumping trillions into fake products from un-profitable companies which are all on the verge of collapse—& all are aware, yet who takes action? As we recall, that was NOT the situation.

• The beguiling, plaintive cooing of the dodo bird

• The noble, stalwart Manicheans—dedicated to the peaceful spread of the words of Mani—the world’s hottest new religion

• The puissant, well-funded, impossibly successful, Works Progress Administration

• Dough-nuts

• The Principality of Andorra

• A general aversion to genocide

• A general aversion to denying genocide

• A general aversion to imprisoning, deporting, or bludgeoning people for demanding that someone stop denying genocide

• Winter

Thank ye for reading—& thank ye to the growing cadre of generous mortals who can & do support our works here with coin!

I hope ye shall join us Friday for BACK II EARTH with Mary Houlihan! I shall write ye again Saturday afternoon, with the May forecast! ‘Til then—be safe, be well, & I hope the dodo are o-kay…

Cheers,
Amoenus Franco
Wizard, Writer, Intercalarian