Word: alienness
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...getting neurotic. The weather makes me, shall we say, existentially nervous. Partly, this may be a spinoff from the self-important millennium, which spilled inarticulate little anxieties here and there in the mind. The anticipation of the world crossing a line and changing irreversibly - transformed into an alien place where nature is haywire and old rules (even familiar cycles of seasons and temperatures) no longer apply - all that seems unofficially confirmed by wild meteorological swings...
MOST BAFFLING REQUEST "Please send me A.S.A.P. the story from a while back about the thing you can download to track alien waves from space...
...maybe the ribbing is a little unfair. Despite NASA's can-do public attitude, expecting a perfect record when you're sending machines across 50 million miles of empty space to an alien world would be naive. But trying to do it in a slapdash fashion doesn't help. "There's a difference," grouses John Pike, a space expert with the Federation of American Scientists, "between cheap and cheaper...
...There's a personality factor too. In the previous show, David Horn proceeded to play a flute line that he plays frequently, and Shawn proceeded to attack him with his "alien simulator"--his pitch shifter--and that's something you can't get across unless you're there...
...stretch of overpass in the invisible industrial outlands, unmarked, the Brickbottom Gallery is in a most unlikely location. But, in a building where more than 150 artists live and work, the gallery is self-sufficient, needing no urban foot-traffic. The exhibition space shows artists both resident and alien, often in a salon format...