Well, if you're at this point, Mojo City's probably a new place for you. We're on the northwestern section of Oregon, sort of on the path you'd take to get to the ocean from Portland. We've got ourselves set up just inside the mountain range that's close to the Pacific, in a mountain valley floor that has Slightlybent River running out of the mountains and through our city here in the valley.

It's new! Check out the University of Google, anticipated to be located right here in MojoCity. Right now, it's named the University of Google in order to get the attention of the Google lawyers. We figure in a couple days after the legals get hold of the issue, the actual idea will filter up to the Big Boyas at Google, and they'll see the brilliance of the idea. They've already shown how smart they are when they see a good idea. We figure they'll see this one for what it is. You can check it out by dropping by The University of Google.

The University of Google has absolutely not relation to Google itself, other than acting as a way to get past the layer of people like ourselves who have great ideas and need to reach people in power who set up layers of protection to insulate themselves from ideas that come from people like ourselves.

In other words, the people in power unfortunately need to make themselves as difficult to reach as the people they themselves were once trying to reach.

Anyway, check out the University of Google. We think you'll apprciate the idea. It's a whole new concept in what a university is, and what is should reach for.

And the town ... if you've ever been to Boulder, Colorado, you've got a pretty good handle on us. We've got about 120,000 people making a life for themselves here. That's counting the ranching and farming community in the area. Most of us, though, are in the city. The people run the range of the poor and broken, to the wealthy and spiritually crippled. And economically, we run the range from those looking for a bottle of cheap wine for a night, to those who buy only the best wines for a night of relatively cheap sex.

Downtown's snuggled right up against the mountain range where the river flows out of the hills. The university's in the center of town, and the community college is down on the south edge. There's some bad blood between those two, and they've taken to doing everything they can to steal the better students from each other. And there's that small problem about the community college illegally offering a four-year degree. We're ... working on it.

City council has been under assault by leftist students of the sixties since the early seventies. They've managed to get a majority of their people elected to council, have elected the mayor from their own, and have embarked on a social program of "enlightened guidance" in which they are attempting to make their values the society's values. This, of course, means passing laws that infringe on the personal rights of many citizens. But, it is for the people's own good, of course. A small, but vocal opposition group is beginning to make itself heard. It calls itself The New Way.

Left. Right. From our position at Mojo City News, we figure it's all pretty screwed. We have yet to see a city council member or one of the New Wayers who has been able to remove him- or herself from the confines of their particular political doctrine and seek instead, to enhance and enforce the rights of the people. Left. Right. Frankly, it all seems the same. The people get the short end of it all. Left. Right. They're just different ways to get to that short end.

Religion-wise, we've got a mix of liberal and conservative types. The ultra-conservative types, the Third-Most Baptiste Believers, at the corner of Wilkins and Third, are at the throats of the alternative religions, of which there are a small number, made up of small numbers of people. These are mostly passive groups who are trashed by the TMBB, and there've been some mysterious incidents of food-poisoning at some of these smaller-group meetings.

We think some people are working on bringing in a group of Falun Gong refugees from China who are now really being mass-arrested across China. This group coming to us is one small band of people who escaped from a prison in Bejing and got to the US with the help of a prominent, unnamed Chinese-American.

Our economic base is made up of a variety of businesses much like what you find in any small college town like this. Record stores. Clothing stores.
And we've got a shitload of millionaires who've made their dollars and bones on the Web. Cashed out before it all went to hell. They've created a secret organization of themselves and are planning to buy their way into the votes needed to take over the city council. They intend to increase the greenbelt surrounding the city by condemning a huge number of buildings at the city's perimeter, and rather than expand the greenbelt outward, they plan to bring it further into the city. Thus, the impending destruction of some of Mojo City's outlying homes and businesses. When the people come to find out, through The Mojo City News of course, there's going to be some ugly stick distributed.

But most of all, the people of Mojo City are just like everybody else, interacting with each other much in the same way a soap opera develops. Sex, sleeze, betrayal, fortunes made and destroyed, horse heads in the beds ... just the same old, same-old.