The Common Places of Siliconía
1 min readJul 18, 2024

Whirleygigs

The measurement for being stoned is whirleygigs. The utter absolute highest is 128 whirligigs. Past that is schizophrenia.

Then 64 whirligigs. That’s really high. Most people aren’t this high. Ever.

32 whirligigs that’s a good, leave the earth stoned. Fucking this high is awesome. Unless it goes negative, then fucking duck.

16 whirligigs is fun at bars. I still can’t manage a regular law bound situation. Here. My OODA loop crashes Goose’s neck against the canopy glass.

8 whirligigs is probably the legal limit.

God, I’ve forgotten the world of Kung fu. I never left and look back on it very fondly.

4 whirligigs is this “It stands to reason that in a world run by women, their oracle would be a man, a Python, himself.”

2 whirligigs: My kung-fu style and attack method and attack animal is the Python Method. https://imperialcombatarts.com/python-kung-fu.html

0 whirligigs: A writers discipline is herding, harnessing, and corralling inspiration.

wrangling thought to the ground

Biting it on the lip

Wrestling its horns in the dust

Carving it up into nice juicy tenderloins

With the full expectation

Of protestation for the gussied up use of a Cowboy metaphor.