Age: 38
Weight: 172 lbs.
Gender: heterosexual
Vision of heaven: you are surrounded by pillows

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Laura said...

Hi Dr Rich,

Congratulations upon your MoQ PhD.

Do you have any plans to go into academia now that you are no longer a student?

Hugs,

Laura

30 October 2006 03:53 AM

Rich said...

Thanks, Laura. Lets' face it, I have to give academia some consideration. Don't get me wrong, but continuing to teach seventh grade with a doctorite in hand seems like a waist of talent at best and immoral at worst. Older and brighter students await my guideance as they waiver on the precipiece of a malignant metaphysical fermament. I'm tired of blank stairs.

Still, I would miss the stimulation you give me daily and the other educators I come in contact with and there is also the small matter of the high school diploma. I'm not sure if they would ask for that.

Hugs back at ya'.

01 November 2006 12:47 AM

Andy said...

Hi Dr. Rich,
Last night I had a really bad case of diarhhea. I mean, really bad. The kind where your ass makes an announcement, "hey andy, geuss what? I'll give you a hint, you got five seconds--5,4,3,2,1" needless to say, I didn't make it to the toilet. Well, this morning as I was hanging up my drawers after they had been soiled and washed, I noticed an interesting pattern. It was almost beautiful, yet disturbing, too. You know what I mean? Anyway, do you think that actual shit can make art that is high quality?

Thanks, we'll skip the hugs for now,
Andy

03 November 2006 04:24 AM

Rich said...

I do know what you mean.

Hmm. I may be old-school on this, but I say intention begets Quality. So if you tied your undies into a bunch prior to washing them, and they came out looking spookykewl, then its' high Quality art. Defenitly. If you tossed them into the washer like usual, I'm not so sure. (Note to self: add tye-die to 'Hippie Ideas Re-examined')

03 November 2006 05:09 AM

Laura said...

Hi Andy,

After reading your message I took down some art from my wall and ate it. The idea was to see whether art can produce good shit. Anthony recommended Ian a book with a chapter in it entitled: "I Saw my Entire Worldview and Value system Realign". I loved that book. It taught me the value of looking at questions from the opposite angle to the norm, or simply answering 'mu'.

The shit I produced from that art was incredible. Anthony's shit must be breathtaking!

Dr Rich, can you recommend any other art that would produce good shit once consumed?

Hugs,

Laura

03 November 2006 11:48 PM

Rich said...

The art of zen and motorcycle manetenance, when consumed, produces not only exsquisite shit, but tons and tons of it. And it never seems to end! I've devoured this art to the point of excess, but it just keeps on giving! (OK, I'm a little slow on the uptake, but give me enough time and I'll figure it out)

Hugs back at ya'

04 November 2006 02:03 AM

Andrew said...

I'm curious, you give your weight but not your height. Is this mormally the practice of heterosexuals? It seems to me that someone so proudly heterosexual that they would list their sexual orientation would include their height along with their weight along with a reminder that he or she was disease and drug free as well as what he or she was seeking such as friends with benefits. Perhaps you are hiding something, Richard? Not that it matters to me. Or maybe it does. You do look kinda cute in those 3d glasses and in that cowboy hat.

13 June 2007 09:52 PM

Rich said...

I cant' say why I mentioned weight and not height. Maybe its like what a comedian-writer friend of mine once said: "I'm afraid of heights. Not too crazy about weights, either".

Good to hear from you again, Andy. Maybe I'll drop in and comment on your blog sometime.

Rich

14 June 2007 02:06 PM

Andy B said...

Richard-I got some new posts up on my blog finally. Hope you can stop by to visit again soon.

I'm also wondering if you have a facebook account and if you will be my friend.

31 March 2009 09:15 PM

This timeline of Richard Loggins' life is meant to place the vignettes of this website into a temporal context, and should not be mistaken as the product of an obsessive fan or as a cult of celebrity in any way, shape, or form. Dr. Rich is not, afterall, famous. He is not even real.

Year	Richard's Age	Bob's Age	Doing What Where ?	Date & Event
1970	0		Born, Arkadelphia, Arkansas	8th April - Rich is born - Berend Richard Loggins.
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1977	6/7		First Grade; Arkadelphia, Arkansas	Richy's parents both die in an industrial accident (explosion), Patatusky Cannery. Richy and his sister Meredith move to Scranton, Pennsylvania to live with their aunt Jillian and uncle Martin.
1978	7/8		Lincoln School, Scranton, PA	Richy enters the second grade and his teacher quickly notices his aptitude for mathematics. Richy is sent to the school library during mathematics instruction so he can teach himself algebra from Introduction to Algebra, Hanley & Sons.
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1981	10/11		Lincoln School, Scranton	Rich scores high on Stanford-Binet L-M, an IQ test that emphasizes quantitative and abstract reasoning.
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1985	14/15		Scranton High School	Rich is not accelerated and enters high school at the normal age. Other tests show that his verbal aptitude is average at best. As a freshman, Richard takes the SAT test and scores 800 on the math portion. He also scores a 5 on the Advanced Placement Calculus exam.
...	...
1987	16/17		Scranton High School	Reads Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance shortly after the death of his grandfather. He will read this book six or seven more times over the next two years. Attends summer school to bring up his failing grades in English, Spanish, and history. Doctors diagnose Richard with neural ampblyopia, an unusual syndrome that makes reading and general comprehension difficult.
1989	18/19		Scranton High School, first job	Richard sits in the back row of all his classes. His teachers complain about his attitude. Spends all his free time playing Dungeons and Dragons. Failing grades prevent Richard from graduating. His college applications are rejected. Disillusioned about education and socially miserable, Richard takes a job retrieving carts at a grocery store. Richard makes a scene inside the store one day.
1991	20/21		On his Own, Scranton	Supplementing his income selling dime-bags, Richard is drifting laterally. Rents a small apartment above a convenience-store and buys his first car. Eagerly awaits the publication of Lila and buys it as soon as it becomes available, reading it over many times and taking copious notes.
1991	20/21		Atlantic Highlands, NJ	Richard moves to Atlantic Highlands, NJ to search for Lila's doll on Sandy Hook. He now has a pursuit and proceeds with methodical zeal. Studying a neighbor whom he calls the Mad Sweeper, Richard conducts vacuuming and dusting experiments in his home. Richard performs live at the Atlantic Highlands Farmers Market.
...	...
1995	24/25		National Park Service, Sandy Hook.	Richard takes a ranger job with the National Park Service at Sandy Hook, having impressed people there with his research and first-hand knowledge of the spit. Little is known about the years Richard spent on the Hook. We can only speculate on his experiences until such time as Richard decides to expand on this chapter of his life.
1996	25/26		National Park Service, Sandy Hook.	Richard buys a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, his first new car. Acquiring vanity license plates hits a snag. A three year letter writing campaign ensues that has him battling public officials at the DMV and in Trenton. A large wrench appears in Richard's front yard in early September.
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1999	28/29		National Park Service, Sandy Hook.	Richard buys a 1965 Volkswagon Bus and soon thereafter gets the license plates he so desires.
2000	29/30		National Park Service, Sandy Hook.	As a New Year's resolution, Richard takes up Zen meditation. Richard quits the Park Service over a disagreement about developmental directions for one of the Hook's inlets.
2000	29/30		Teaching, somewhere in NJ	Richard is hired as a gym teacher at a public high school somewhere in NJ. It is not known whether Richard moves or continues to live in Atlantic Highlands. Richard wrecks his Monte Carlo on the way to work one morning.
2001	30/31		Teaching, somewhere in NJ	Naturally right-handed, Richard starts learning to use his left hand. Richard is compelled to call the police when he cannot find his bus in a strip-mall parking lot.
2002	31/32		Teaching Mathematics, somewhere in NJ	New Jersey offers a program that allows people without a degree in Education to become certified to teach mathematics. Richard jumps at the opportunity and, despite having no Masters degree or even a High School diploma, receives an exemption and finds himself teaching mathematics in a Middle School before the school year ends.
2003	32/33		Teaching Mathematics, somewhere in NJ	Richard drives to Montana (and back) on his summer vacation.
2004	33/34	0	Teaching Mathematics, somewhere in NJ	30th January - Bob born. Richard adopts Bob two months later from Central Jersey Animal Rescue. Richard bludgeons his hand helping to put up the church roof.
2005	34/35	0/1	Teaching Mathematics, somewhere in NJ	7th July - Richard's paper, Quality in the New Millennium, is read out at the first ever MOQ Conference in Liverpool, England.
2006	35/36	1/2	Teaching Mathematics, somewhere in NJ	The "University of Chicago and New Jersey" confers a Ph.D. upon Richard in April. Dr. Rich's highly acclaimed, Quality in the New Millennium, serves as thesis. Bob's aura shimmers in May. Dr. Rich sledgehammers his driveway. This website about Dr. Rich makes its debut. In the fall, Dr. Rich observes a new force of nature while raking leaves. Dr. Rich is charged with speeding on the night before Christmas.
2007	36/37	2/3	Teaching Mathematics, somewhere in NJ	Dr. Rich becomes the first person in history to invent a device that can detect and collect the constituent particles of Quality and transmit them down a coaxial cable. In October, Richard unveils an on-line crossword puzzle of his design, the first ever to have Quality as its theme. Another first for Dr. Rich!
2008	37/38	3/4	Teaching Mathematics, somewhere in NJ	In February, Richard discovers he is right-brained afterall. Dr. Rich stuns the scientific establishment and discovers the real cause of global warming, and his subsequent letter writing campaign to promote his finding gets the attention of congress.

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Across 1. Spasm 5. Close 9. SOMish     philosopher 14. Section 15. Either      you, _____ 16. Compulsions 17. Anything, in      MOQ speak 20. Not here 21. Move      effortlessly 22. Programming      language 23. Common article 25. Economic      indicator 26. A way to vote 27. Boston has one 33. California      peninsula 34. Vein material 35. Force teacher 37. Tone separator 38. Kind of line 41. Subordinate      members 43. Prig 45. Pool      implement 46. Join closely 47. Southern      state flower 51. Leg of a woman 53. Across, as      the sea 54. Deer 55. Earthly      extraction 56. ____ a Teenage      Werewolf 58. Meal merger 63. Protagoras      quote starter 66. Terminate 67. Approval ender 68. Biblical setting 69. Force units 70. Like new 71. Commies

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Q u a l i t y   C r o s s w o r d

Down 1. Dennis Doherty     was one 2. A Syrian,     probably 3. Dr. J's team 4. Water or logic 5. MOQish     philosopher

6. Greenland eagle 7. Cookie name 8. Make a     new cover 9. RMP ran this     into the ground 10. Web location 11. First      recognized      dinosaurs

12. I ____ hug 13. Subjective      piece 18. Within prefix 19. They get red      carpet 24. Brownish shade 27. TV network 28. In some cereal

29. Observable      event 30. Flavor 31. Therefore 32. Gems (slang) 36. Currency fee 39. Third power 40. Recklessly      resolute

42. Recent      experience      storage 44. Chinese folk      religion followers 48. Eye of ___ 49. Cracker kind 50. Slimy vegetable 51. What Phaedrus      would do

52. The Shiek      of ____ 57. Half prefix 59. Drug taker 60. Au naturel 61. Believability 62. Peckers 64. Anger 65. Chess pieces

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Today I am going to review the new release by Anthony "Doc" McWatt called, "Arrive Without Travelling", a first in a series of DVDs being sold on his website that showcases the MOQ Conference held in Liverpool in 2005. With this DVD, McWatt is unveiling his first above-board activity in about three years. Let's see if it was worth the wait, shall we?

For those like myself who couldn't attend the Liverpool Conference (I had a good excuse, afterall), I was much looking forward to seeing what I'd missed. The filming was done by the BBC, so it should at least look good. The video and sound editing, however, were left to amateurs. Naturally, I was anxious to see what they had done to it. I had submitted a paper that was read out called, "Quality in the New Millennium". It was extremely well received, so I had a personal interest in this.

Without further ado I should say that the DVD does not disappoint! To my delight, through the full 100 minutes, I felt like an actual participant, enjoying the friendly banter and chit-chat that pervades this film. To all those who were there, let me tell you, you are now my friends! I love you all! The Great Author comes across not as the distant, enlightened guru that he is thought to be, but as a quiet, affable Grandpa who can't impart the meaning at the core of the MOQ any better than the rest of us. The lesson learned here is that we cannot "arrive" without travelling that difficult road ourselves. Amen.

The heart of this DVD (first in a series) is the presentation of the conference papers. I gotta tell you - 100% sincere - these are truly spellbinding under McWatt's direction. Sure, I had read all the papers before and thought they were, well, I thought they kind of sucked. But Doc McWatt took these "ugly linens" and ingeniously used his knife to carve selections from each to form "golden tapestries". Combine a voice delivery to these dressed up versions and you add a dimension to their quality that was never there before. Stunning. The expertly edited extract of Mati Palm-Leis' paper, in particular, came across so much better on film. You would hardly know that his paper was about a real-life failure of the acceptance of the MOQ. Some papers, like Gavin Gee-Clough's that rail against vapid academic intellectualism, were best presented in their entirety.

But the clear winner of the film is David Buchanan's paper, "Fun with Blasphemy", which outlines some ideas he has for a screenplay. The Q&A period for this paper is special because David's Hero, sitting right there in the room with him, has a strong emotional reaction to his choice of Orpheus as the central figure of that screenplay. And it is all caught on film - the tears in the eyes and the personal revelations! We feel David makes the right call here by acting surprised when his Hero explains how deeply Jean Cocteau's film "Orpheus" affected him - a film he had seen during the period in his life when he was descending into madness. How else can David get the man to open up and produce a magic movie moment like that? My cowboy hat is off to David. What he did was clever and it should sell some DVDs, too!

My own paper and Mark Maxwell's paper did not feature, but I take it on "good faith" that these copywrited materials are being held out for the grand finale in the DVD series, where they will provide that extra oomph (in sales). The silky voice of trained actor David Boyce, who read out my paper, will undoubtedly dazzle DVD buyers as much as it did the attendees. Maxwell's paper (the other paper Mrs. Pirsig praised, in a correspondence Doc McWatt graciously shared with me shortly after the conference) features a real live crossbow and no one is going to want to miss the drama of that! So the best is yet to come!

I do not know if Doc McWatt had any production assistance with this DVD, but his slicing and dicing is as clever as anything he has done in print media (see Baggini interview). Video of a life-size bronze bison is used as interesting filler for talkovers, as are psychedelic images of the Beatles that are included to pay homage to the time when McWatt first joined university.

Doc McWatt is to be congratulated for an excellent initial foray into film-making. One can only expect that the next DVD in the series will have similar production values that, like a good skin cream, can make the face of the MOQ look good under any light. I give this 4 stars and a big thumbs up!

b.r.loggins

Please be advised that Dr. Rich will no longer be fielding comments that question the sincerity of this review or express doubts that he even viewed the DVD. Readers are advised to direct such comments to Ian Glendinning, an expert in the detection and prevention of sarcasm and holder of the maverick view that sincerity is not tarnished by omissions of truth.

All other comments directed at the review or that compliment Richard's motives are of course welcome.

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Quiz is such an SOM term, isn't it? It consists of a series of questions each demanding a single correct answer. It agrees with the SOM assumption that absolute truth exists. As far as the MOQ is concerned, experience isn't like that. Under the MOQ there is no longer a demand for force fitting a single truth. A quiz, therefore, of the multiple choice variety, would more appropriately be termed a poll in Quality parlance. There are no "wrong" answers in a poll. So relax and enjoy the poll. It's all good. Take me to the poll !

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On 23 Feb 2006, during the Winter Olympics, Richard sent this article he wrote to the British tabloid, The Sun, hoping to have it published. He has no idea what they did with it.

It's well-known that certain countries excel at one particular sport or event at the Olympic games. Korea in short track skating, Australia in swimming, Holland in speed skating, Russia in ice dancing. But did you know that Canada excels in curling? In fact it's the only country that cares about curling. Canada is actually trying to get other countries interested in curling.

I read with some enjoyment (although it was totally buried in the sports news) that both the U.S. and Britain reached the curling semi-finals. Canada crushed the U.S. and Britain lost their match (to whom, I don't know), so that the U.S. and Britain will be fighting (scratching, clawing, brooming) for the coveted curling bronze medal in a head-to-head competition tomorrow. The U.S. team is comprised of people solely from Minnesota, the only state in the Union that gives a shit about curling. Not coincidently, Minnesota is very close to Canada, which gives me a sinking suspicion that the U.S. team is actually a bunch of Canadians who defected when they couldn't make the A-team.

The curling match-off for the bronze will be a lot more interesting than the gold/silver match, since we already know the Canadians will win that one. A lot more is at stake for our countries. For example, the U.S. has, as has become commonplace at the Olympics, underperformed (Bodie Miller, ice hockey team, men's moguls) and is once again an embarrassment to the Free World considering its size and wealth. Also, and the real issue here, is that we have only 4 bronze medals to 7 or 8 each for gold and silver and it would be nice to have a better balance. Britain, on the other hand, would be happy to win a medal of any color and in fact a triumph over the U.S. would double its current medal output. Don't tell me there's not a huge front-page headline in the Sun that says: "England Poised to take Curling Bronze".

The happy British successes in curling are harder to understand - the isles are pretty far from Canada, afterall. But it's not too hard to see that elevated levels of cholesterol (from chips), emphysema (from fags), and being generally out of shape are no real empediments to throwing a stone down some ice into a bulls-eye. Kind of like darts and so maybe you had some folks throwing darts in your English pubs take up the challenge of curling, not unlike our inline skaters who crossed over to speed skating. Whatever.

What's really important is that we keep our heads high, have fun, try our best and may the better team win the brown medal with the hole in the middle.

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These striking photos of the giant Craff-Kiln wrench sculpture (Mohave desert, Nevada), sent to Richard by a former summer school student, prove beyond a doubt that the mind creates its own vision of reality. In a classic case of cultural conditioning, people reared on the Subject Object Metaphysics invariably see the wrench on the right as tilting more than the wrench on the left, even though the images are identical. Try as you might to not see it that way, the exaggerated lean of the right wrench persists.

But this is not a problem for Richard. Gifted as he is with the rare "medical disorder" known as Neural Ampblyopia and thus not being acculturated to objects from birth, he sees clearly and with no effort that the wrenches are perfectly parallel. In other words, he sees the wrenches as they really are - as reality intends them to be.

According to Dr. Rich, the tilt problem afflicting most Westerners is symptomatic of a syndrome that strikes when elementary school children learn the mathematics and philosophy of René Descartes. The Cartesian worldview that has prevailed for centuries actually skews reality to the point where it is fundamentally misrepresented and inevitably incomprehensible. Is it any wonder why no one can wrap their head around such things as Gödel's Theorem, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, or the Barber's Paradox, when they cannot even keep the wrenches straight?

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