Fortuitously, being at the bottom of Groom Lake in Area 51 has given us a short, but welcome break from Operation BlueBalls, which is currently taking us on our biggest mission yet . . . Ireland.
Doctor Sternum met up with Troy Tempest yesterday, who gave us a brief taste of the exciting things that go on in his world.
I asked Troy Tempest if he would mind stopping in for an interview. He is here now, helping me formulate this post.
He just mentioned he has an Aquaphibian to speak to, as do I . . . . OK, done.
He has to go out to smooth some waves now, but will be back later on to speak with us.
Here is a brief synopsis of Troy Tempest’s main gig: Stingray.
James Garner and Jim Rockford‘s characters were modelled on Troy Tempest. A cowboy named Bret Maverick bore a strong resemblence to James Garner, often confusing wikipedia authors . . . they attribute his escapades to Troy Tempest! This has been an endless political nightmare for Troy Tempest, as he gets no royalties from Maverick re-runs and is basically tired of suing Warner Brothers, Universal, and also ITV for his acting work. So confusing . . . should he now sue ABC for acting work he supposedly did?
He now feels copyright is confusing, unmanageable, and a bad joke . . . He thinks paid personal appearances and one-off paid Multi-Media video events should float artists’ boats for a more even-keeled approach to entertainment. The old re-runs should be free to view as advertising for the appearances.
The swashbuckling style of Troy Tempest is renowned throughout the world and is now feared by the underwater self proclaimed small “k” king Titan himself. Titan’s Aquaphibians, although still programmed to constantly try to attack and kill Troy and Phones in their ship Stingray, are now a little more scaleable when it comes to communication . . . some Aquaphibians want to talk about peace now. They are getting smarter.
So that is what Troy Tempest now does most of the time . . . talks peace . . . no strings attached.
Until Troy Tempest returns, here is an episode where Troy does his low viscosity fall into DreamLand. Enjoy!
Source: stingray – raptures of the deep 1/3
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Hi everyone,
It’s been a long wait, but Troy Tempest has finally finished his meeting with some Aquaphibians and is now back with me in the studio at our home just north of Toronto, Canada.
Welcome, Troy.
Glad to be here, Agent Weebley. How was your mission today?
Nothing compared to yours . . . why do you ask? My life is not half as exciting as yours.
Come on, Agent Weebley. I’ve been waiting here patiently all day . . . for you!
Your wife, Lucy is very nice, by the way. She reminds me of Aquamarina, except she is not cursed with keeping silent . . . if you know what I mean.
But we’re here to talk about you . . . not me.
No problem . . . if you can’t speak the truth . . . no matter.
OK, OK . . . it’s my Mum’s birthday in a couple of days, and was my Dad’s birthday today. I was with Steve and his wife. We took Mum out to dinner and a movie to celebrate my Dad’s life . . . he looked like you, you know . . . ruggedly handsome straight talker.
Speaking of straight talking, what do you think the current state of affairs is, with respect to the people begin able to take over The Crying Game ARG and begin to play other ARGs, such as ARG MetaPhoria?
You guys are making pretty good headway . . . but you are coming in from behind . . . underdogs . . . possibly a good way to do it.
How did you do it? You made excellent inroads into freedom of thought.
I have had Gerry Anderson guiding me the whole time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Anderson
Agent Joe 90 speaks very highly of Gerry Anderson. So Gerry still pulls your strings?
Not really, but he tends to pull your strings, doesn’t he, Agent Weebley?
He has a massive imagination. Your show aired when I was 3. I watched them all. I had my own Stingray, you know.
One thing about you guys here at ARG MetaPhoria is that you flip constantly from one thing to another. I lke the way Agent Joe 90 has evolved. I think Gerry Anderson would like it if he saw it.
But, as I said before, he probably hasn’t seen this site.
Underdogs, remember?
But things are going to change soon. amanfromMars gave me the key to exposure.
A Catch-22 key.
How so?
The Orwell Prize . . . I self nominated us.
You did, Agent Weebley?
OK, Steve did . . . but I told him to do it.
Really? Are you sure it wasn’t the other way around?
If I was to say yes, then I would be admitting I was not free.
Is it that important to you . . . who controls who? is it even about control?
I, myself, don’t worry about that kind of thing.
You seem to expend a lot of energy trying to disengage yourself from him . . . but you can’t, can you?
I guess I could say that Steve Munster and I are one and the same. No biggie. But it ruins the ARG.
No it doesn’t. Do you care that Agent Joe 90, and I are both really Gerry Anderson?
Putting it that way . . . no . . . I enjoy each of you separately and distinctly.
Tell me more about why this Orwell Prize is the key?
OK, Troy, who is interviewing who, here?
I’ve been around the block for a lot longer than you have, Agent Weebley. You need to condense your thoughts into a coherent message.
Why The Orwell Prize?
When we began this blog/blovel on January 16, 2011, we had no idea about The Orwell Prize. We just wanted to change the world.
This is what George Orwell wanted most in his life:
“Values
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art.
My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience…. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.
George Orwell, Why I Write
Orwell was a self-conscious writer: he cared not only about what he wrote, but how he wrote it. His assessment of what makes for good writing – and bad writing – is as relevant to writing and journalism today as it was when he was writing, and as such, should underpin the Prizes awarded in his name.
‘Political’ is defined in the widest sense; as Orwell wrote in ‘Politics and the English Language’:
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.
Entries should show:
Political purpose
Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after (Why I Write)
Clarity
Good prose is like a windowpane (Why I Write)
Intellectual courage
Intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face… If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear (Proposed Preface to Animal Farm)
When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink (Politics and the English Language)
Freedom of the intellect means the freedom to report what one has seen, heard, and felt, and not to be obliged to fabricate imaginary facts and feelings (The Prevention of Literature)
Critical thought
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment (Proposed Preface to Animal Farm)
Artful writing
Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed (Why I Write)
Entries should avoid:
staleness of imagery… [and] lack of precision… by using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself (Politics and the English Language)
Above all, entries should share Orwell’s ambition:
to make political writing into an art.
http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/how-to-enter/values/
But why The Orwell Prize? And how and why do you want to change the world?
The Orwell Prize will give us the exposure we need in the UK.
And especially . . . Ireland.
Why Ireland, Agent Weebley?
My Dad was Irish. I grew up In Coventry amongst other Irish or half Irish kids, like myself. I know what they have gone through. I want to help them first.
How can you all change the world here at ARG MetaPhoria?
With our trading game. We can form a Meritocracy and print Limited Edition MetaFlorin to support the site, which supports the people playing the game. They get the MetaFlorin for free.
I’m getting tired.
We can pick this up tomorrow. Are you sure you are tired?
I would say . . . yes.
OK, where can I crash?
There’s a spare bedroom beside Nerfy’s room. It’s just a single bed though. I hope you don’t have low viscosity dreams . . .
Funny, Agent Weebley.
Goodnight.
As you can see, Troy Tempest seems to be interviewing me!
If anyone would like to pose a question to Troy Tempest, please feel free.
Goodnight everyone. This interview will continue tomorrow.
Source: stingray – aquamarina song
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