I’ve been working on my sci-fi story “Severe Repair” for over 22 years. Today, I have finally the released the WHOLE thing, as “Severe Repair: The Broken Text”.
After years of trying and failing to fit Severe Repair into various different formats, I came to the realization that the text is unfixable - it’s a big mess, a total disaster. But it’s GOOD! Every time I start reading different parts of it I get drawn in and fascinated all over again. So I decided to release the whole thing, in its very raw and very flawed form.
At approx. 1,000 pages, with hundreds of characters, there is a lot to explore. Enjoy it!
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April 16th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Lots going on! It’s been months. I wish there was more opportunity to keep current with all things Overnightscapy. Chasing down miscellaneous little animation jobs - and then doing them - eats all the time in the world. Fortunately, the Nora Media Empire burgeons still.
Wow. SEVERE REPAIR. One of the coolest obscure things ever. It’s a masterwork of “fukular fiction”, now available at a fine young price.
To enhance the SEVERE REPAIR reading experience, I suggest software assistance:
Install the FIREFOX browser. Install the DOG EARS plugin. This plugin will allow the reader to page through the enormous text or HTML file, dropping bookmarks along the way, so it’s no longer hit-or-miss when trying to hop back into SEVERE REPAIR and find where the hell you were. The text file presents a formatting problem in many browsers, so the HTML file is best. Another tip for easy readin’: Load the HTML file into your favorite editor, and change the display from yellow-on-black to black-on-light-grey.
Remember way back, what, maybe fifteen years ago, when I explored the possibility of making SEVERE REPAIR as a low-budget movie or cartoon? Those were the days. There was so much more free time and energy flowing in the air. Now, uh-uh. It’s all I can do to maintain frustrating, incremental progress on my much-delayed REPERKUSSIONZ project.
Anyway, glad to see you’re still wandering around NY doing all kinds of media things.
Did you ever post the full DVD-compliant WEIRD UNIVERSITY and other Nora video files at archive.org? I have fond memories from a thousand years ago of relaxing in the evening with the ZOPE cartoon and laughing at WHERE”S JOEY or whatever it was called.
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Get inspired:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iusTwnBvow