A DAY IN THE LIFE
Gale, Bob
A DAY IN THE LIFE Editor's Note: Last July, The Progressive published the first installment of Bob Gale's illustrations of and ruminations on the Autonomik Republik of Uralia. "The exact location...
...In hell, the customers serve themselves...
...How's your Kredit-Ura Rating...
...Museum officials have withdrawn all artificial personnel from service pending an inquiry...
...Last month, a malfunctioning security guard exploded in the Hall of Fame, injuring several children...
...A Conversation in the Kafeteria "It's premature burial if you ask me," says Boriz, removing his headphones and seating himself at one of the long benches in the Urakem Kafeteria...
...Once a week he visits the Integral Fitness Center for an aerobik workout, clocks twenty kilometers on the stationary bicycle, or simply lies under the lamps in the solarium...
...Urakem's down ten points this month...
...No, no—he was a State-Registered Idiot...
...The same storm toppled a 200-kilowatt wind-turbine tower near Zmegna, crushing an agronomist on his Ve-loped...
...How they decide these things is a mystery to me...
...This segment deals with lifestyles...
...Kroda meets the Vlotny Megatropes tonight...
...It's the same at the Central Supply Store—dial a number, stick your Kredit-Ura Kard in the slot, and out comes the wrong product...
...He is a small cog in a large project—trying to decipher the nonsense in genes...
...Now we're all slaves of the Kredit-Ura Index...
...Marine foodstuffs now account for 75 per cent of the average Uralian's protein intake...
...The ten millionth kelp pie emerged from Marine Processing Plant No...
...It is nine months since he was last on the surface, spending Uralian New Year with his aging mother...
...The same Org that supplied the Museum with cleaners, security guards, and tour guides also manufac-turered the defective pigeons still being found on rooftops and under park benches around the city...
...The Uralian Integral Euphonic Ensemble will attempt a live concert performance of Zteklo's Toxic Anabasis-1, which has previously been heard only in drastically reduced form on Radio Uralia, since the full work requires more than 20,000 trained participants and a vast array of electronic equipment, most of it airborne...
...Zmek deployed in a flexible attrition mode for Injury Time, but with Kroda adopting a solid crunch on the transit ramps, the interplay was dense and rigid...
...After 2:10 minutes of Extra Injury Time, the entire critical zone lapsed into Gridlock...
...I've applied myself...
...News Briefs Three more survivors were reported from a floating Algae farm that sank in heavy seas off Baluga Bay last week...
...no new shoes for me and no new headphones for the kid...
...They're considering my credentials...
...Microwaved kelp pie again," he continues, "and Zondol tranquilizer capsules...
...Precise offensive management secured a capitulation on the central sector after only 8:32 minutes of Main Time...
...At a special ceremony to inaugurate National Kelp Pie Week, representatives of the Marine Resources Authority and the Regional Production Section of the Kontrolburo joined members of the Plant in tasting an enormous Memorial Kelp Pie, weighing 250 kilos and standing more than two meters high—enough to feed a Uralian household for a year...
...In the Kold Room, Zkaz works the first eight-hour shift of the day, injecting radioactive tracer into chicken embryos...
...I'm on the old powdered issue, compressed into a solid cube," she says...
...The exact location of Uralia," he explained, "lies in the mind's eye of the beholder, beyond the boundaries of East and West...
...Thank God they've run out of Thanatol...
...The Square Egg, they call it—just drop it into a little boiling water and add stock, also in a cube, stir, filter . . ." ". . . and serve...
...18 yesterday...
...Things go better with Integralism...
...I remember the sign that was outside the Orthodox Bazilika when I was a kid: We are all the slaves of god, whether we know it or not...
...Each year a larger segment of the central city's workforce shifts under-groundf The Future Lies in the Suburbs...
...He is addressing Yula, sitting opposite...
...Like many Teks of his generation, Lazarus is steadily adj usting to life below the surface...
...The Kroda Urateks showed their form last night in a series of masterful convulsions which wrecked Zmek in the last quarter of a grinding game, generating the highest casualty count of the season...
...In his spare time, he cultivates hydroponic vegetables on the walls of his modular apartment and watches a variety of programming projected on his video window by Uratele-kom...
...Wherever you are," she has told him, "remember this: The sky begins at your feet...
...Uratelekom Channel X will provide live coverage with digital display on overlay...
...That's what my father used to say, but then he'd have a few zvaks too many and tell me, 'It's the same shit—only the flies have changed.' " "And then he was Relegated to the Central Desolate Zone...
...That's what I call real home cooking—none of this Kafeteria stuff...
...Uralians at Work: A Radio Report BY BOB GALE he day begins at midnight for Lazarus Zkaz, a Grade-Three Biotek at the Institute of Pro-blematiks somewhere below Central Vlotny...
...The cybernetic wing of the Artificial History Museum in Central Varsk is closed for repairs after a cleaning robot ran amok during an electrical disturbance Monday night...
...Zteklo, Uralia's greatest living composer, is currently supervising rehearsals of Toxic Anabasis-2 with elements of the Uralian Integral Defense Command somewhere in the Central Desolate Zone...
...That first chapter focused on Ura-lia's political institutions—"The State as a State of Mind...
Vol. 46 • December 1982 • No. 12
