As above so below,
Every part is also a whole,
Every whole is just a part,
Without below, above falls apart.
In the main offices of Green Pastures, a highly political grassroots organization based out of Madison, WI that lobbied for the use of sub-divisional housing as communal, self-sustaining, creative living centers, sat a stunned Larry Bobkkins. Larry was the director of Green Pastures and co-founder of the sub-divisional take back movement along with his best friend Bob Larrkins. Larry had just been handed a piece of paper from one of his aides that informed him that the head of the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development had granted them an entire subdivision on the outskirts of Milwaukee, WI called Maple Ridge. The paper explained that the subdivision was an incomplete project of BloomsTown Inc., a subsidiary sub-divisional home manufacturer of Settleburg Homes; the largest subdivision architects in the country. It consisted of forty completed homes and several homes that had been destroyed by a gas explosion during construction, along with three additional acres of undeveloped pasture. Larry finished reading the paper several times to be certain of what he was reading then quickly got his political machine working.
That afternoon, a press conference was held in front of the Capitol with the governor of Wisconsin who personally hated the idea of a bunch of hippies being given homes for free, but spoke of the great breath of life this would add to the lungs of the creative arts in the state. His speech was brief. Larry Bobkkins was also given the opportunity to speak on behalf of Green Pastures. His fiery speech inspired and elated the large crowd of supporters, protestors and homeless as he ended his declaration, ‘One day there will be no subdivisions! There will be no divisions at all! We will exist amongst each other and live as one creative force! One creative mind! One creative love!’
This impassioned speech had widespread coverage, and created a sweeping movement across the country for sub-divisional reform called One Mind. However, with this great success came a breakdown in the friendship between Larry Bobkkins and Bob Larrkins. Green Pastures was flooded with donations from across the country supporting One Mind and Bob was unhappy with how Larry was spending all of that money on his cross country campaigning for sub-divisional reform, and none on the development of the Maple Ridge project that they had worked so hard to attain in the first place. Tensions were further strained when Bob Larrkins found out that Larry had made a deal with the Settleburg Home Owners Insurance Division to appoint Frank Rizo as director of the Maple Ridge project in exchange for a future stake on available subdivisions; this had been the post that Bob had held. Bob was so enraged by this betrayal he drove to Minneapolis, MN to confront Larry, who was giving a speech on the opportunities for college students to live in subdivision communities for free. Bob was denied access to Larry and in fact was physically removed from the site of Larry’s speech at the Univ. of Minneapolis by Dan Pancowitz, former student at the U. of M. and currently working for Stonewall, a personal security firm based out of Minneapolis.
After his expulsion for possession of narcotics Dan Pancowitz, an ill-tempered troglodyte of a man, moved back to his home town of Hudson, WI; a small border town on the Wisconsin/Minnesota border. Once returned he went to work with his father at the Pepsi bottling factory on the outskirts of town. It was a menial and thankless job with long hours and little pay, but Dan, with his simple mind and incredible stamina, excelled at his work. After some time he was promoted to supervisorial role of the quality control line, where he had to make sure enough Napisol was added to each vat of soda.
Napisol being a pharmaceutical by-product which caused lab mice to grow grey-green mold-like fuzz all over their fur and was deemed illegal to dump by the EPA. Rather than lose millions of dollars storing this waste, Kilemall the pharmaceutical company that created this little toxic sludge, had the FDA approve the inclusion of Napisol at highly diluted levels in just about anything that was edible. It’s highly addictive qualities were very attractive to the soda/energy drink industries and Kilemall’s supply of Napisol sold quickly; so quickly in fact they continued to produce it for direct sale to the Food Manufacturing Industry en mass.
This promotion for Dan put him in supervisory role over his father, who having worked for the bottling factory for thirty years had never managed to get a promotion, due to his low level of intelligence and high level of functional alcoholism. This caused some tension in the Pancowitz house hold and Dan, for the sake of family morale, put in for a transfer to the Shipping and Packaging Dept. on the other side of the plant. The foreman for the Shipping and Packaging Dept. was Hollister Rimes, father of Scott Rimes who Dan Pancowitz had beaten to unconsciousness outside of the Purple Onion Cafe in Dinky Town years earlier. Dan had long forgotten about the merciless beating he gave Scott, however, Hollister Rimes knew Dan Pancowitz all too well, and from the moment Dan started working he made his life a living hell.
After weeks of abuse by Hollister Rimes, Dan Pancowitz could take no more and punched Hollister in his chubby face several times. Most of the workers in the Shipping and Packaging Dept. weren’t terribly fond of Hollister and only attempted to stop Dan beating him to death when the Plant Manager came to see what the problem was. Dan was immediately fired and Hollister was quickly hospitalized at St. Barthelme’s for severe head trauma. All of the workers in the Shipping and Packaging Dept, said that Hollister had tried to kill Dan and Dan was merely defending himself, the investigation afterwards showed no evidence to the contrary and Dan was off the hook. He was quickly offered a job at StoneWall Personal Security Firm as a body guard by Carmine Fitzino, brother of Randy Fitzino a truck driver and long time friend to Dan’s father.