Reich is gone, but his Orgone lives on

Pops e-mailed me about it first. Asked if it was a neighbor of mine, ha-ha. And I was going to take the high road and not blog it, I really was. Look, it's almost 11 p.m. Look how long I held out! But this story has been internationally blogged about today, so I'm obliged to finally say something.

A home in Sacramento's south Natomas neighborhood is surrounded by sheet metal, and neighbors are calling it an eyesore.

The family lives in the home on Timberwood Court, and claims the aluminium pieces are necessary to protect them from unknown neighbors who have been bombarding them with radio waves and making them sick.

"(It's) a shield to protect against radiation, because microwave radiation is reflected off of aluminium, so it's a protective measure," Sarah said.

Now, I've been to the Natomas area, and I can't say I blame these guys for their concern. Check out this map:

The blackish landmark in the upper lefthand corner is our own Arco Arena, home of the Sacramento Kings. Helluva parking lot from space, isn't it?

The Kings are owned by the Maloof brothers, who occasionally get into a ruckus with our city council. The Maloofs, who are gazillionaires, want Sacramento to build a nice new stadium for them and their basketball team. But the city council hems and haws a lot and brings up this nagging problem about the price tag for a brand-new stadium that is really only guaranteed to economically benefit the Maloofs, who, as I said, are already gazillionaires.

So in an effort to persuade the city council, somebody has been beaming mood-changing radiation rays from an expensive laboratory on the arena roof, right into the heart of the city. [See map.]

And everybody knows the radiation is harmless! Quite harmless! Or mostly harmless, at any rate. It's only meant to change the minds of the council, not the other humans. So it's silly to put up all this protection. I'm sure this misunderstanding will all be straightened out in a few days.

Let the games begin.

Comments

[Anthony]

This sounds less like Wilhelm Reich than it does like your common variety foil hat schizos.
True story: My older sister used to work as a paralegal. One of her tasks was assisting a lawyer who was a patients' rights activist. She told me of one of her "clients," a schizophrenic who said he was recieving orders from a "telephone" in his head. I told her to tell this guy that all he needed to do was get call forwarding and all his problems would go away!
The great Swedish playwright Strindberg went through a similar period of insanity in the late 1890s where he wrote about his landlady trying to influence him with telepathic "death rays" through the walls. Of course, with Strindberg, it's difficult to say if he really was that crazy or whether he was "faking it" becaue he envied the mentally ill their imaginative freedom,as anyone who has ever tried to read The Pelican or The Great Highway can testify to!

[pops]

I have the plans for an orgone box somehwere on one of the shelves in this room. It's next to the schematics for a Tesla coil, I'll throw that one in too if you want it.

The Maloofs also own The Palms in Las Vegas. Once they did an interview with Jim Rome and they said the theme of The Palms is X-TREME! Vegas, Vegas meets teevee wrestling!

After that I started to believed the Maloofs are radioactive.

[Anthony]

Jim Rome has never been the same since Jim Everett punched him while on the show. Come to think of it, Jim Rome has never been the same, ever...