Welcome to 2024, hold onto your butts...

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Well, we made it. Here we are in 2024, I waited a couple of days to make sure it was legit. Apparently it is, we have passed through another segment of time to the next micro-epoch of the 2020's. With how weird it has gotten since 2016, its anyone's guess what's next. I mean, it's been escalating in weirdness for a while now. One of my favorite authors is Kurt Vonnegut, I have read his catalogue of strange stories and oddities, the man's entire collection of works. Some of the most interesting and down right bazaar stories. But I have to say, not even he could have prepared me for how strange the future actually is. 

So, here comes 2024, strap in and open your mind, things are about to get stranger, especially because it's an election year here in the good old U-S-of-A, and that means "double-play" for the circus monkeys and spin doctors. The stories we might encounter could just break us. All you creators out there might find your self lacking next to real life. I know I get real self conscious at the turn of the year, I find my self feeling like the world is somehow more creative than I am, or at the very least has a better since of irony, satire, and better descriptors. 

I hope to see you through out the year, stay tuned because more posts are on the way.

And now for your regularly scheduled program.

Cheers!
Location: Pike Place, Māngere East, Auckland 2024, New Zealand

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