Thursday, April 28, 2005

Central Valley Pirate Radio

Damon and I were driving to Chico; I was moving, he was attempting escape. Around 3am, somewhere along the Central Valley section of I5, where there’s a lot of dirt and remote sparkles of scary little cities, we were searching through the radio stations trying to find something. Down by the low end numbers this robotic voice came through the speakers. It said:

“The Tellon Corporation is working towards destroying the world with nuclear balloons. The world will be destroyed in T-minus 348 hours, 16 minutes and 30 seconds”

This message would repeat over and over again, ticking off another 30 seconds with every repetition. It was sort of funny in that hallucinatory, we’ve been driving a long time and smoking too many cigarettes on this empty road kind of way. However, after about 20 minutes, not so much. Surrounded by empty highway and dry fields in the middle of the night, this turned into some spooky shit.

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