# borderland oildrum fires billy 4 by western centuries now plays in the lab background live from a post quantum holostimulator deep inside a reality maze of the bsz hypercorporation owned company iehp institute for the exploration of humalien potential it was in the shadow of a transecting concrete freeway overpass on the edge of the 4th sector industrial warehouse district that the researchers set up their strange imaginary play state they played until dusk in wild knee high grasses behind a rusted pedestrian fence set against the occasional overhead rumble of automated trains carrying unsuspecting commuters home to the apparent safety of gated suburbs and the lukewarm brain soaping comforts of channel zero typical quote about this group: it owns a large field speaker which upon encountering the frenemy automatically emits wonderfully unfamiliar indigenous music and words of peace these practitioners of speculative sci fi persistently imagine varied post urban futures say abandoned desert filling stations and other unplaces of transition in which inhumalienity's near complete disregard for their environment leaves a vacated iron tablet of desiccated silent anti nature as grey as the abandoned smart concrete superstructures of their long abandoned megacities one such future has been gone for so long ago now it arrives back to / at them is warped form of an acute nostalgia for the sokalled near future retro 80s unexpected incongruous appearances of nature amid the dim neon crackle of rough urbanity gives forth interdimensional portals which unfortunately researchers too rarely look at let alone pass through instead they choose to lay on their muscular martial backs in the long grass and wildflowers among rusted food tins discarded hypos and tangled masses of crunchy dead twigs lowest rung of a nearby bioelectricity pylon is now a home for a colony of impossibly green parrots which were native to once temperate regions of south amerika wild colonies of these birds are firmly established in other parts of country handsome and vivid with long tapered tails they find such power towers good places for their nesting instincts deep within the megacity unlimits parrots swoop and chortle in air over herds of synthetic horses grazing in an interstitial slipway between two of most traveled thoroughfares in the city for researchers who can slow down long enough to widen the aperture of their psychedelic senses be sure to take in the rich astounding light of this new day dawning example keywords: wild grasses / interstitial fringes / urban exploration / reality shimmer chain link fencing / overpasses / strange imaginary play states / transitional non places sitting around in summer with friends on low slung city kerbs with nobody else around chatting with serious emotional intent about the end of the world of the word while feeling the early late late afternoon sun on one's lonely skin organ faded western astral desert highway memory visions of forever // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]