XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 02:36:42 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
      
   > In article <20170630a@crcomp.net>, D B Davis   wrote:   
   >>Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  wrote:   
   >>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in   
   >>> news:osDpx3.KEt@kithrup.com:   
   >>>> In article ,   
   >>>> Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >>>>>mimus99  writes:   
   >>>>>>On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:33:21 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>>>>>> mimus99  writes:   
   >>>>>>>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC), Contrarian wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> In alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk mimus99   
   >>>>>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Seems Northern California got a lot of warm rain in   
   >>>>>>>>>> December, which gave 'em a bumper-crop of _ Amanita   
   >>>>>>>>>> phalloides _, which took fourteen   
   >>>>>>>>>> people out (one died).   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Cali has about 50 cases per year on average, one death every   
   >>>>>>>> other year, liver-transplants frequently indicated.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Where is Cali?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Southwest Coast of the US, on the Pacific.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>like the term 'frisco', it's generally frowned upon by   
   >>>>>locals to abbreviate the state name.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Well, yeah, but you have to choose your battles.   
   >>>   
   >>> SoCal, on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable to those of us in   
   >>> southern California (and expecially so Behind The Orange Curtain).   
   >>> Cuz we like making it clear we have nothing to do with either the   
   >>> drunken, inbred rednecks of nothern California, nor the moonbat   
   >>> crazies of the Bay Area.   
   >>   
   >>Scott, Dorothy, does SanFranCali ring your bell?   
   >>   
   >>Nicolas, the protagonist in _Radio Free Albemuth_ (PKD) starts out   
   >>working at a vinyl record store in Berkeley. Then VALIS instructs him to   
   >>move Behind The Orange Curtain and start an indie record label named   
   >>Progressive Records.   
   >   
   > Haven't read.  The only Dick I've read is _Do Androids Etcetera_   
   > and an oldie called _Eye in the Sky_.   
      
   Oh do please read Clans of the Alphane Moon.   
      
   It's extremely funny and the only PKD novel that I can tell from Ubik.   
      
   Definitely retro-futuristic by now.   
      
   --   
      
   "Maybe you ought to go to Cotton Mather Estates."   
      
   "What's _that?_" Even the name made him draw back in aversion.   
      
   "The settlement of the Deps. Live with them there, in endless dark   
   gloom." The slime mold's tone was mildly chiding.   
      
   "Thanks," Chuck said ironically.   
      
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