[UA] Autumn and the Plot Against Me

[Timothy Toner]

James Knevitt wrote:
> A Vanity Fair Associate Editor's year-long quest to find a single,
> anonymous location featured in a Windows XP desktop image.
>
> http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/features/2007/02/autumn200702?printable=true&currentPage=all 
>
>
> ObUA: The whole thing. How far do you go to find your obsession?
>
Oh, it's much more than that.  Imagine--how many hapless souls spend 1/3 
of their life, staring at a monitor in a windowless cubicle, their only 
hint of a world beyond the fabric barriers that surround them the 
indelible image of...something.  Someplace.  It's _got_ to exist, 
right?  But what if it doesn't?  What if people just assume it does, and 
imagine somewhere in their subconscious what it must be like to live 
there, to walk down that road to that distant barn, and somehow all that 
yearning is harnessed and focused into a tool, a weapon, a... something.

I smile every time I see Vasquez Rocks, the outcropping of rocks where 
Captain Kirk fights the Gorn in  Star Trek, used in some other TV show 
or movie.  I wonder how it is that some place can be so well known to so 
many people, and yet completely anonymous.  And there's gotta be 
something UA in that.

tt

-- 
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. 
   -Anne Lamott, writer (1954- )