Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

The Town and People of Beetlebottom  [ images by ChatGPT and Mike Pearson ] Installment 1. These people and this town are unknowingly affected by small amounts of noxious gas emanating from a fissure in the earth. Where once upon a prehistoric time, hot volcanic fury poured out of a crack in Mother Earth...now just a silent trickle of stupid juice ( a blend of nitrous oxide, methane, carbon monoxide, radon and the gas from partially rotted dinosaur teeth) oozed out and settled about ten feet deep in the atmosphere of a small town called Beetlebottom. It took about 10, sometimes 15 years for a resident of Beetlebottom to be fully affected by the low concentrations of mind altering emissions. But for sure, after 15 years of exposure, the DNA and brain fibers of all humans in the area were forever altered...and not for the better. The residents of Beetlebottom were completely unaware of the effects. They had no clue that the long arc of increasing stupidity and dense thinking was caus...

A surrealist fiction with A.I. generated illustrations.... by Mike Pearson  Undercover agents of a future fore warned by the ancient voices from the backroom of the universe.  Sumerian newcomers marvelled at what had come before. The vastness of forever laid out before then. Songs of Forever  Swimming in salmonella rivers with tangerine laughing ghosts that have seen it all before. In awe and dusty tears of gratitude and fear. Entropic corroded gears and levers work feverishly to keep up with demand for horizons , zeniths and molecules.  Death had to be invented when the curiosity got too overwhelming and someone volunteered to go into the black cranberry night of electric soul magic.  We have been waiting ever since, killing and starving in feverish fervour .....in hidden hope that someone might get in touch and ask us to stop sending souls to the time grinder Looking back behind the horizon Welcome to the arrival of yesterday yet again Against the fence as hi...

  A Collection of News Articles About Sam Fitzpatrick's 2009 Death on a Kiewit Project Squamish Chief Newspaper https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/squamish-man-dies-at-toba-inlet-3338076 The WorkSafeBC report on the Sam Fitzpatrick workplace death on Kiewit project http://thetyee.ca/Documents/2013/04/07/Toba Inlet Worksafe Report.pdf Sam Cooper/ The Province Newspaper https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-province/20120513/281655367103737?srsltid=AfmBOoqo12MWnxyhX_L0rJuuBG2Sj0Bf1uA9_hpqJ3GAayAoEeIpXs1e Construct Connect https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2009/03/kiewit-rock-scaler-dies-at-toba-inlet-project-dcn032848w The Tyee https://thetyee.ca.nmsrv.com/Analysis/2019/09/02/Death-On-Job-Criminal-Trial-Contractor/ CBC Bethany Lindsay https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-sam-fitzpatrick-death-kiewit-eleventh-anniversary-1.5469468 Construct Connect https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/ohs/2021/09/timeline-the-case-of-kiewit-and-sam-fitzpa...

I wrote this song several years after my friend, Brian Fitzpatrick died. Press play in the above Youtube video. For my friend, Brian Fitzpatrick ( Fitz) by Mike Pearson Brian's son, Sam Fitzpatrick was killed on a Kiewit corporation project in the steep mountains of Toba Inlet in 2009. Fitz and I went into battle against the giant American corporation when they refused to take any responsibility for Sam's death. Fitz fought heroically, and with dogged determination. The battles with the WorksafeBC system...The very flawed WCAT appeal process all took a toll.All the challenges were met with intelligence, good humour and the belief that we were on the right side. After years of bureaucratic struggle, Fitz finally persuaded the RCMP to lay charges against the company and two supervisors, Tim Rule and Jerry Karjala. This was a game changer...nothing like this had ever happened with a workplace death in BC. Sam Cooper's 2012 article in the Province Newspaper....this story g...