Charybdis Buffet

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a seascape with a narrow passage between two stone outcroppings. In the foreground the top of a mobile phone or 5g tower pokes up above the waves. In the distance there is another one.
Scylla and Charybdis

Being hunted by robots and spiders from the future makes it hard for us to hold down steady jobs with predictable hours. So we have launched a new enterprise—selling limited edition prints! We have vast library of images from our-past/your-future which we are curating and sending back in time through the Spacerex feed! We haven’t set up an online store, as that would open us up to cyberattack. We prefer to meet you in a parking lot where there are human eyes and the safety of pre-apocalyptic meatspace. If you’d like to buy a print call or text our burner phone: six o seven 379-9509 and leave a message (we don’t answer unknown calls) to set up a secret meeting.

#spacerex satellite transmission, space rex
figure 1.

As Spacerex liaison in the con-temporary United States, Will Dailyrest builds and maintains technology to receive satellite transmissions from the future. He also deals with the prosaic business of earning a living in the 21st century. On top of all that he’s begun ordering prints, entering art exhibits, and doing custom framing for the god-like intelligent protoplasm that lives/will live in the basement parking structure of our building (figure 1.) in the future.

Thus we are able to deliver stunning images of the wrecked planet, framed in carbon-neutral scrap lumber, to pre-apocalytes. Get yours today!

High Tide at Charybdis Buffet

$400 for a framed print (postage not included). On exhibit as part of group show, Odyssey-Ithaca, April 5-27, 2024 at The Petrune Gallery in Ithaca NY.

A town under 70 feet of water. Only the cell towers are still visible abive the waves, lit by a full, peaking under a greenish cloud. The camera shows underwater and above water from the surface of a choppy ocean. A pair of sharks drift down Main St. toward a billboard advertising "Charybdis all-you-can-eat BUFFET."
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The important thing is that they still have wireless. It is the yardstick. I mean they had scuba divers retrofitting those towers to work underwater while they were still recovering bodies.

The dead here were mostly sheeple who followed the wrong conspiracies. You can practically hear them shouting from the rooftops “fake news!” or “alleluia!,” as the waters closed over them. There was plenty of time for people with better theories to reach the hills—if not the moral high ground.

Those who got there first, or who took it from those who got there first, generally had weapons and a pronounced sense of entitlement. The Big Correction happened not so much in peaceful underwater towns like this one, but at the shrinking borders and coastlines that the refugees from these lowlands fled to.

This all happened a long time ago, from our perspective, before Cytostrux, the Belleforest, or Fat Baby Food LTD.
But that’s what we used to call “water over the bridge.” Stay tuned for updates.

Will Dailyrest hawking Pop-alyptic corn and CheezGASM all-purpose cheese powder.
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