From: ajd@itl.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
Subject: Your friendly information service
Organization: Finchhaus 
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:01:21 GMT

Okay, here's the story...

  Not too long ago, I bought a goose down blanket, and I'm very fond 
of it.  It's warm, it's snuggly, it keeps me toasty, it crinkles 
endearingly, and I like it.  The problem is that the weather here in 
Ann Arbor, Michigan has not been consistent enough to guarantee that 
I can use it every night.  And I would dearly like to use it every 
night, but when I try to sleep under my precious goose down blanket I 
sometimes get covered with sweat and I have to throw the thing off 
and fetch the flannel sheets instead.  I know that, with time, I 
could use the comforter every night as the weather would get colder, 
because it is the nature of things.  But I want to use it now.  And i 
have a solution.

** The Great Intercontinental Climate Concert **

  I know that my own hopes and prayers are too trivial to have any 
effect on global weather patterns.  [The] God[s] will not hear the 
pleas of one mortal, or alternatively, my psychic powers alone are 
not going to be strong enough to change the vast energies which cause 
the weather to be as it is.  But I then quickly realized that the 
simultaneous prayers, chants, dances, yoga, hopes, dreams, &c. could 
work.  So I plead with everybody reading talk.bizarre to pray to the 
diety of choice / exert their psychic energy at 10 PM EDT. on 
Thursday, October 1, 1992.
  Here is what I would like to have you ask / envision:  Cool, 
crisply clear nights in the low to middle 30s centered over Ann 
Arbor, Michigan.
  If response to this request is overwhelming, it is possible that a 
microclimate could be established over the old west side neighborhood 
in Ann Arbor with cold nights, and a warmer, clear upper 40s located 
over the downtown and North U. areas so that ljd can wear a tank top 
under his leathers and show people the tattoo he got in memory of his 
brother.

* It's Not For Me Alone *

  Plan the sort of weather you'd like to have around you for the next 
couple weeks.  Write it down; hard copy is important.  When the 
spiritual/psychic force is at its peak, recite the microclimate you 
would like to retain around your immediate vicinity.  The massive 
shift of air necessary to give Ann Arbor good weather is going to 
rearrange the weather patterns over much of North America, if not the 
whole world.  And so, as the heavens/cosmos briefly become pliable to 
the hopes of everybody that night of October 1, announce your 
favorite weather for this time of year.  Envision not only cold 
nights in Ann Arbor but custom-tailored microclimates everywhere.  It 
is not important that we all know what everybody's favorite skies 
are.  Our God[s] / mental energies will burst asunder the chaos of 
the weather patterns and allow anybody to desire, and get, the 
atmosphere of their dreams.
  No long-range requests, please.  If we are successful with this 
first concert, the sessions can be held every two weeks.

* The Skies Of Your Dreams *

  So you will be able to get the skies of your dreams for an entire 
fortnight without imposing it upon anybody else.  Don't you think 
that it's time to stop talking about the weather and to start doing 
something about it?

Remember:
10 PM Eastern Daylight Time
1 October, 1992

AjD