Thank you to the Ghost-to-Ghost Network
About 12 people will get this reference, but as boys we all loved the Three Investigators Mysteries. LOVED, as in all caps. Especially the ones where Alfred Hitchcock appeared, to mentor the three boy detectives who solved crimes out of a junkyard somewhere near the California coast. Sometimes, working on projects here at Buzzquarters, or hitting the road on the campaign trail and having other adventures here in Boystown, the lot of us feel a little like Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Green, the Three Investigators.
One of the narrative tricks the writers of these books used to move the stories along was the “Ghost-to-Ghost” network, where the boys would employ a telephone tree to get an answer to a question or help solving a problem. The Investigators would each call 5 people, ask the question they needed answered, and then those five people had five others to call, and each of them had five others, and so on…with the tree expanding until someone out there, coast to coast, found the answer and called the Investigators back so they could solve the case.
This is pre-Internet, clearly, in the days when working on a report for school meant calling the library to talk to a reference librarian who could look something up in an encyclopedia for you if you couldn’t make it down to the library in person. It’s alien to remember those days, before computers, when knowledge and information was hard to come by.
It’s truly marvelous what the Internet has done. Instead of making use of a “Ghost-to-Ghost” network like the Investigators (so called because the boys would not know who all was part of the tree, or who would be calling them with the answer to the question), we can just run a post on any question we have or political mystery we need solved, and one of you out there, whom we will probably never meet in person, will have the answer for us, usually by the end of the day.
It’s a pretty incredible thing.
And, it’s a humbling and awesome tool we hope continues to grow in strength through the years, forever to be used in service of America and its best interests. Coast to coast. Ghost to ghost. Buzz to buzz, as it were.
The Left is much better at using technology to achieve its aims, but we have a feeling if conservatives, moderates, and independents continue to grow their own networks, share information, and form communities committed to rescuing America from socialism, that in the end we’ll overpower the radicals. Our network will become stronger than theirs, reach more people, and bring the Left down…like the two-bit thugs they most certainly are.
We just want to let you know how much we appreciate you all. We wish there was more time in a day to thank you personally, as individuals, and carry on more private correspondence and get to know more of you as friends, but we are very grateful for the potential HillBuzz has to fight hard for America in our own way.
Thank you. So very much. We’ll keep the lights on at Buzzquarters doing our part…if you keep up what you are doing in the dark in so many thousands of homes coast to coast.
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Goodness gracious, you just took me back 35 years. You’re right, it was really cool when Hitchcock was in the story.
My 8th grade history teacher lived across the street from me, and his wife made him throw out his entire Playboy collection (about 5 years) but he gave them to me instead. I loved the articles, for sure. But in the bottom of the box was the very first issue of Playgirl–the one with the Lyle Waggoner centerfold…SCORE!
As Miss Jane Pittman would say, “Thanks for the mem-reez”.
The dark forces of the left used electronika to win in 2008. They caught everyone sleeping, but they also woke everyone up to the power of electronika. The left is smug and arrogant. They believe they have complete monopoly on the power of electronika, the written word, the spoken word and all things passing for logic, debate and, yes, entertainment.
Arrogance is the narcotic of the left, the MSM, and all their advance men, shills and apologists, and in the end this will be their undoing. It behooves all of us who were blind-sided in 2008 to work toward helping them achieve their demise. You guys at Hillbuzz have this dead-center in your cross-hairs. Good for you! Don’t sell yourselves short. How can we down here in Tejas help?
In America individuals at great distances from one another who publicly declare their readiness to partake in concerted action are espied from far off, Tocqueville once wrote. (With much more elegance than this rough paraphrase.)
As true today as it was a hundred and eighty years ago.
Oh dear, I seem to have gotten off to a rough start today, I need more coffee evidently. Amend the name on the above posting!
It hasn’t shown up yet, it’s still in moderation!
Oh my gosh, I’m one of the 12…LOVED the Three Investigators books! When I tell people about them I generally get a deer in the headlights look because they’ve never heard of the series. Nancy Drew was good too, but the boys always had more interesting sleuthing adventures.
Anyway, back at ya with the compliments. You were my wake-up call to what a fine person Hillary Clinton is (and yes, I told her so via email). Sure, as a conservative I have some policy differences with her, but that doesn’t take away from her as a person. I was floored at the persecution she got from within the Democratic party. Know that you have a friend in South Florida (keeping an eye on Crist and Rubio).
I loved those books when I was a kid. Also, Encyclopedia Brown as well as The Mad Scientist’s Club.
BTW there is a tv show & movie coming up soon. Here is the link for The Three Investigator’s Facebook Fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Three-Investigators-Mystery-Series-US-Editions-Collector-Site/297488790179
Check out the official website:
http://www.threeinvestigatorsbooks.com/TheThreeInvestigators.html
And the wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators
I’m another one of the twelve! I LOVED those books. Now I’m going to go to the library and check them out.
Nothing I could ever do would beat the work you all put in
The power of the internet and the new media, within the backdrop of cpac and conservative gays
http://bigjournalism.com/bcarroll/2010/02/23/the-homocon-tipping-point-why-cpac-was-a-milestone-weekend-for-gays/
originally portrayed as cpac against gays by the media, forced to back off their “little” lie
Bob Andrews, not Bob Green. : )
And it is a marvelous series.
Robert A. Heinlien said in one of his books that he was (IIRC) 7 phone calls away from THE world expert in any subject you could think of.
Of course being the best American writer since Mark Twain helped, but, still….
Another of the twelve! I think I read every one of those my junior high school library had.
I’m just glad to have fabulous folks like you fighting for the common cause. And did you hear that an anti-gay speaker at CPAC got booed off the stage?
http://minx.cc/?post=298553
http://race42008.com/2010/02/20/my-fight-with-ryan-sorba-the-kid-who-denounced-goproud/
Greetings guys,
Your reference to “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators” stirred up some very deep and long slumbering memories, dating back to the late 1960s. Jupiter Jones, et. al. were some of my favorite reads as a boy growing up and I’m amazed at how much I recall from all those years ago. Those and the Tom Swift Jr. stories were my two key series when I was still a pre-teen.
I came across your blog when I saw a reference to it on Michelle Malkin’s site. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it. I’m a white, male, straight, Southern conservative so we don’t agree on everything. But even on those points where we disagree (which are few), you state your position with thoughtfulness and understanding and I find it refreshing, unlike so much else in modern political discourse (particularly on the left). Along with Camille Paglia’s columns on Salon.com, the differing perspective is very much welcomed and appreciated.
Keep up the good work and I’m looking forward to additional stimulating posts in the future.
Paul