Yo. Brothers and sisters. Can't we all just get along? OK, well, maybe not . . .

Words have gone to and fro, between he and she, about this and that. But things still seem as messy and muddled as when we all first stepped onto this big dusty stage.

With this in mind, the borg4 thinks it's high time to grab the mic and announce:

THE BORGVERSE PEACE SYMBOL SMACKDOWN


Here's the gig . . .

Borg2, borg3 and borg4 (the artists, spectators and ravers respectively) clearly have some issues to work out. We people of PLUR aren't much for conflict, but given the current impasse, we think it has sadly become time for a direct physical fight. Well, not really a beat the crap out of each other fleshy sort of fight. More like a thoughtful physical confrontation- maybe even a nice snuggly one at that.

What? Yea, I know. Ok, check this.

The borg4 proposes a co-produced conflagration and fundraiser held in a large space, with a GIGANTIC PEACE SYMBOL painted on the floor, dividing the place and energy space into thirds. Each camp sets up there wares and woes in their third of the pie, and does their thing in rotation throughout the evening, at 30 minute intervals.

We start at 10:00PM with borg2 providing 30 minutes of snotty artistic excess, of whatever form and volume they can still manage. Then 30 minutes of intense and focused drunken spectating by borg3. Then 30 minutes of wicked and wrighteous raving by borg4. Round and round the peace symbol it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows.

But stop it will. And where it stops is at 1am, after 30 minutes of simultaneous, Arting, Spectating and Raving by all three borgs. Whoever has attracted the most people to physically occupy their third of the pie by 1AM wins the big kahuna. Whomever ends up with the least in their pie slice at 1AM is banned from the Porta-Johns at the event this year. And whomever finds themselves in second will be heckled shamelessly and assilimated by the UBERBORG.

But the masses might be open to manipulation and bribing you say? Musical borgs might not accurately reckon who, in fact, should be declared uber?

Well yes, peeps have suggested you might in fact be right. Borg4 is not really too sure about this whole voting thing. Maybe a more direct physical reckoning is in order. I believe all of us peaceniks here are above a direct physical fight, but we certainly are not above--- THE THUMBDERDOME.

Yes, the thumb wrestling version of the larger version. A mere 20 inches high, instead of 20 feet. We'll put it right at the center of the peace symbol, at the intersection of the 3 lines. Combatants from each borg can vie at thumbs in THE THUMBDERDOME all night, with a running tally of the outcome kept by inscrutable talliers of score. Claiming the title of UBERBORG will require a stacked victory in both pie slice population density as well as accumulated thumb wrestling tally at 1am. Yhou dig? Word . . .

More than a mere competition of borgs, THE BORGVERSE PEACE SYMBOL SMACKDOWN is also a fundraiser benefiting two borgs which are as of yet undetermined. We propose to split the gifts from the door and elsewhere 3 ways- 2 shares go to the borg declared UBER at 1am. 1 share to the runner up borg. And 0 shares to the vanquished borg. High risk and high reward are at hand for those who decide to play.

So borg2 and borg3, are you ready to enter the PEACE SYMBOL with borg4 for . . .

. . . THE BORGVERSE SMACKDOWN!!!!!???


MoonDoggie and Smokey, still trying to bring the people together