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Dec. 11, 2010
Gravity Research Project? (Are you sure
this isn’t a Term Paper?)
So I’m hanging out at the news staff
meeting the other day.
Really, sometimes they let me sit in. We
get to organize ideas and stories for the next issue of the paper.
But sometimes I think they let me stay for
the entertainment value I try to provide.
Like the other day, when I mentioned that
I’ve got this band, the Gravity Research Project, coming to town
this weekend.
And the quips start flying around the
room.
“Man, that’s a really heavy
subject,” someone says.
“Are they, like, less dense than
air?” cries another.
“That story should have some weight
to it, I should think,” says the editor.
I thank my co-workers. I’m just happy to
provide some levity to the situation.
But since this is a serious news meeting,
I don’t even have time to go into the really funny part.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Jim,
now you’re going to tell us some random story about your life that
in some way, shape or form, relates to this band." (To boot, a
band that has been together for only 18 months, by the way.)
Yes. Yes I am.
You see, when I checked out the band’s
website the other day, and scrolled down to the bottom of their
home page, I just had to laugh when I saw what graphic had been
posted on-line.
Let’s go back a ways. Childhood. I’m
probably about 12 years old.
And back then, I spent a lot of time
reading paperbacks. Sci fi, mystery, space, adventure. I’ll tell
ya, Stephen King was a much better writer when you’re 12. The
Stand? Are you kidding?
Anyway, don’t ask me why, but there’s a
book that still sticks in my mind.
It was kind of a small paperback, white
cover, red letters.
“Chariot of the Gods.” It must have been
in every supermarket.
Now debunked, I know, but to a 12 year
old, it was fascinating stuff. Archeological research on the
mysterious clues that could have been left behind by space aliens
– unexplained pictures in rocks that could have been alien craft
landing strips and “evidence” of “batteries” that could be
thousands of years old.
It was all there in black and white.
And, on one page, a pencil drawing of some
ancient Indian dude, portrayed with a bunch of “machine looking”
apparatus surrounding him.
I don’t remember exactly where they said
the drawing came from, but I seem to remember this: The book said
that when this item was found, and they turned the picture around
90 degrees, it looked like a person who was lying on his back,
possibly in some type of rocket ship, waiting to blast off.
Of course, this was thousands of years
before anyone did anything like that.
Or did they?
Was this really a depiction of the first
Gravity Research Project?
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The Gravity Research Project comes
down to Earth at the Waucoma Club, on Saturday, Nov. 20, around 9
p.m. No cover charge, 21 and over. Anti-gravity shoes recommended.
Read the interview with Gravity Research
Project
here:
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