'Steganography is more ancient than codes and ciphers, and is the art of hidden writing. For example, a message might be written on paper, coated with wax, and swallowed to conceal it, only to be regurgitated later. Another way is to tattoo the message on the shaved head of a messenger and wait for the hair to regrow to cover up the ink. The best stenography uses innocent everyday objects to carry messages. A once-popular technique in England was to use a newspaper with tiny dots under letters on the front page indicating which ones should be read to spell out the message. Some people would spell out a message using the first letter of every word, or use invisible ink. Rival countries have shrunk writing down so that an entire page of text becomes the size of a pixel easily missed by prying eyes. Steganography is best used in conjunction with a code or cipher, as a hidden message always carries the risk of being found. There is a secret message encoded in this post.'-- collaged
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p.s. Hey. Tomorrow aka this weekend we'll have a very special post-cum-event-cum-project-cum-invitation for all commenters and readers of this blog via the great UK-based theater maker Chris Goode. It's quite exciting, and I hope you'll all make sure to check in here and give the goings on your full attention, thank you! ** HyeMin Kim, Hi. Okay, understood. I don't know if I've read Bataille's theory of religion, but it seems like I must have at some point. I'll go find out. I hope your allergies diminished as instantaneously as possible, and that your journey was as fresh as you hoped. ** Bitter69uk, Hey there! Nice to see you! Thanks about the MW paean post. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Mary's so great. She's a pal of mine, although I haven't seen her in ages. Never enough Mary indeed. Everyone, as an adjunct to yesterday's Mary Woronov fest, here's David Ehrenstein writing on her, i.e. get yourselves over there. ** Matthew, Hi, Matt! Really good to see you, man! Welcome back! Thanks a bunch for being among the pair of hands that passed my book around. Yeah, the movie project is pretty exciting. I hope to be able to reveal more about it here before too long. And I hope you're doing really great! What's up, what's going on? ** Sypha, Hi, James. Happy if the Coover post helped get you reinvigorated re: your postmodern writers reading jag. And I hope the RS guy gets back to you as soon as his deck of marriage is cleared if not before or during. ** Empty Frame, Uh, ... Empty-ster. Boy, that's an ungraceful mouthful. I'm doing excellently, sir, thank you. I liked 'Swimming ... '. Her fiction books are really very good too. Serpents Tail published them. You'll see what the Chris Goode thing is tomorrow, but it's pretty fantastic, be assured. You're writing! Whoa! That's superb news, naturally. I miss typewriters until I actually remember what it was like to type on them and use Liquid Paper, etc., at which point I become very grateful for computers, but I'm a very messy writer at the first draft stage. I think I'm so used to writing this way now that I do the 'save' thing without even knowing I'm doing it or something. Good to see you, buddy. I hope getting trashed served you regally. ** Steevee, Hi. I suppose you're right. 'Glee' probably passes for a high quality taxing of gay brain cells these days, which is very sad. Oh, so there is a new '24' season, and I'm not delusional. Thanks a lot about the tip on the torrent sites/Hanoun front. I'll get 'A Simple Story' asap. ** Heliotrope, Mark! I saw on FB that it was your birthday, like, yesterday? The day before? I'm on this 'no birthday wishing on FB' kick at the moment for no particularly good reason, so, if it was your b'day, happiness galore after the fact! Oh, we will for sure visit or five when I get back there again, you betcha! That's so great that you're still free of the headache monster. Wow, that's crazy great! You sound really perky and passionate and stuff, which is GbV to my eyes. I'm really good, really busy, co-making a film, writing a novel, co-writing another film, writing a theater piece, and more. Lots, and every lot is really great. Kirk is 60?!? That kind of freaks me out when I realize that I don't think I've actually seen Kirk in the flesh since we were both 19 years-old. Holy crap! I miss you too, man! We should Skype or something, shouldn't we? You have Skype? You could so easily if you don't. Tons of love! ** Kier, Hi, K! You got 'Cool Planet!' So did I? But two days ago, in my case. I'm so, so, so glad you're feeling better. I loved your altar so much! I showed it to Zac and he loved it so much too! It's so beautiful, and the music playing over it is so perfect. It's a mini-masterpiece. The altar and the video. Love, me. ** Keaton, North Paris is nice. I'm in the north, or the center-meets-north. The south is okay. I don't get over there all that much, but it seems perfectly pleasant. Play your vegan cards right, and you will be super thin. Like I'm sure I've mentioned before, back in the days when I would go vegan for 6 to 8 months every couple of years, my friends thought I was dying, I was so thin. They actually have Baskin Robbins over here, which really surprises me for some reason. Baskin Robbins seems like the distant past to me. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Thanks about the MW post. Film's consuming and going well and almost if not quite hitch-free so far, which is weird. Cave coding ...oh, coding in a cave, right? Cave coding sounds nice, though, whatever that would be. A 'one year after Snowden' group of events': only in Berlin, or for some reason that seems like a really 'Berlin' idea. 'The Magical Secrecy Tour' is a nice title. No such events here, I don't think. Although I think I'm going to try to go see Slowdive and Loop at the Villette Sonique festival on Saturday. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. That ABBA meets MRI sound mash-up has got me excited. If I can find an MRI noise sample online, I'm going to try it. ** Chris Goode, Hi, Chris! Could a post serve a greater purpose in life than to inspire an inability to have seen it coming? Maybe not. Yeah, very excited for the weekend! Do, do, do keep us here updated in lieu of a live feed. A mini-film festival ... suggestions? Huh, like, Cooper-esque type things or, like, DC's type things? Sky's the limit? Top of my head is a sufficient fount? Uh, okay, in addition to the Bresson, let's say ... hm, Resnais''Providence', Rohmer's 'Perceval', a Ryan Trecartin of your choosing, 'Enter the Void', and ... err, James Benning's 'Two Cabins'. Not that you need to actually watch any of those. You got 'GONE'. I haven't gotten mine yet. Oh, wow, thanks! I'm so curious to see it. It's kind of hard for me because the crude censorship/defacement of the scrapbook behind my back by Fales Library kind of infuriates me, but I'll be okay. Right, it's Falstaff in 'Chimes at Midnight', not Lear, duh. My brain. Yes, Skyping would be great and fun. I'll need to figure out when to do it with you in the next couple of days because Zac and I have to train to Le Mans to check out one location for our film on one of those two days and visit another location in Paris during the same time, but, if you're flexible on the hours, we can definitely do it. That would be very cool. Sure, let's check in about the timing over the weekend when I will know our schedule. Great, tomorrow, great! Love, me. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli! Awesome that your trip went so splendidly! Wow, sounds great! How were Loop? I'm thinking of going to see them here on Saturday. Welcome back, my friend! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff! Yeah, her Warhol memoir is very nice, as I recall. It's been a while. She's quite a charming writer. Wow, that is some disparity re: your novel's opening. That's why I'm so overly careful about showing anyone my novels before I'm 98% sure that they're working. Um, well, I guess in that situation, which I have been in to some degree, all I can think to do is to really try to evaluate the individuals who gave you the responses and determine the validity of their responses based on previous experiences with them regarding your work and based on what you can understand of their aesthetic preferences? It's a tough one. I think you should really think it through as best you can before you do a big revision or anything. The 'ruined what follows' response makes me suspicious. Ruined, how? A guest-post would be so great and so welcome! Thank you! The blog is being a bit tough to keep up to speed for me right now. Sounds great! Thanks, Jeff. And happy to talk more with you about the confusing response to your novel's beginning, it that would be helpful or useful. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Oh, I would have been happy with a very lengthy trip report, man, be assured. But I trust your instincts when it come to representation. Ouch, re: your neck. I have that pillow thing too. One pillow only, always. Even two fucks my neck up for days. Looking forward to reading your story! I just want to find a time when I'm not encroached upon by duties/worries/distractions about the film project. Bon-est day! ** Okay. Let's see ... oh, the secret code post. Yeah, there it is up there. And it has a secret message encoded in it that I doubt you'll be able to decode, but you never know, and that I'm not going to reveal unless someone has nothing better to do than try to figure it out and guess correctly. Not that I'm suggesting anyone become crazy enough to do that. Bla-bla. See you tomorrow.