More Output From SP1

JUNE 12, 2026: Looks like we’re ready to go with a “Grand Opening” for this sp1works page. Down the road a bit, my 3 domains may be gathered under the umbrella of sp1works.com as the flagship. For now, baseball150.com still has flagship status, but I’ll remind everyone: By clicking on any button in the top OR bottom menu on any page from my domains (baseball150.com, retroplay.net, and sp1works.com), the user can surf at will between them. Had enough of the baseball stuff? Switch to the music MP3s (TEKTONA), maybe (tip: for some laughs, check out the “cover story” re: that virtual band and compare it with the real story). In more of a mood to nail down end-times truth? Check out that subject area on this page or follow links to the outside (IPA – Preterist.org is my favorite). Flat Earth vs. the default narrative? Yep, we can get you started and then some. Bottom line: There’s plenty to explore and all kinds of free downloads available, so get familiar with this new territory. May you be well, happy, productive, and Heaven-bound!

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June 11, 2026: Most recent additions include a timetable to show when my various works were assembled, written, and released online; where to find the various works (on this very page or elsewhere); the last (Nov. 7, 2018) Trutholio.com Home page (a 43MB, almost 300 printed-page scrolling file download, for those who dare to attempt it); the essay, WHY I BOTHER WITH ANY OF THIS from October ’18, a month before moving on to other plans beyond Trutholio.com; complete PDF books and “cutouts” (excerpts from the 3-volume ATHEOS: 6 PATHS TO DESTRUCTION series) in handy, head-to-head comparison charts; and links to my written and audio works (computer-based original music compositions in MP3 format; hard rock/70s-80s-90s-style “retro-rock” and some quieter stuff). Click on the links in this paragraph (words highlighted in blue) to jump directly to the corresponding areas of this scrolling page.

June, 2026: Construction has begun in earnest on this page. Content is being reviewed and uploaded, and the structure is taking shape. Rather than repeating what’s contained in the paragraphs immediately below (since little has changed for the overall plan in 14 months), we’ll just provide a “jump link” to content that’s new, as of 6-10-26. Click here to go directly to the fresh stuff.

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4/2/2025: Branching off from the “M” in B A S E B A L L 150 [dOt] C O M, this page will eventually become (hopefully) the main page for sp1works.com. SP1=Seaporter1, and this typist is the 1 (one) in Seaporter1. “We” are me, myself, and I, so taking that into consideration, site visitors can find a ready explanation for extended gaps between postings on my three domains and any perceived neglect. Believe me, between conducting all business connected with the Open Baseball League (OBL) — replaying 150 seasons worth of MLB history (actually, 155, counting “extra innings” from 2021-2025) with franchises that had to be constructed on an entirely new basis (from scratch, in other words), maintaining all stats and doing all computations all along the way — while engaged in other deep-research writing projects and computer-aided music composition (TEKTONA, my virtual band), I’ve consistently been — and continue to be — a busy guy. No complaints, just an FYI with a smile.

Maybe you’re familiar with my baseball history project and the associated web pages, and you might even have spent time checking out my Tektona MP3s that can be played or downloaded (all for free) whenever you get the urge to hear some “indie” retro-rock: Retro-Rock (+) MP3s available here. But there’s more output that is to be made available for those who enjoy reading in general and/or a serious pursuit of important theological/religious and political/worldview truths. I’ve written two officially-published works (both from BookLocker, 2024; thank you, BL!), and you can find the combo deal here: https://booklocker.com/books/13564.html and https://booklocker.com/books/13417.html (or search by ISBN at most popular bookseller sites: 9781958892985 and 9781958892510; author = Steve Rauen.

I say, “officially-published” works because they’re the only books that I’ve written (to date) that can be held in your hands, short of printing out copies of the PDF manuscripts yourself. But the fact is that I have written other book-length works that may be of interest to non-fiction readers (when discussing religious and political topics, I have very little patience for fiction; give me the truth). The older (PDF) works are mentioned in this context because, upon recent self-critical review, I think some do have merit, and I plan on bringing them out to the public via Portable Document Files on sp1works.com in the near future. That’s the plan, anyway: baseball research documents, MP3 music files, and one opinionated-person’s written offerings in serious subject areas are all on the way (God willing, that is). —SR, 4/2/2025

JUNE 7-13, 2026: UPLOADING SP1WORKS.COM (rough draft phase)

The plan: Load 1) My older theological-political works from 2001-2018, including PDF books and remnants, as well as Trutholio.com website content; 2) Eschatological works I’ve written, as well as recommended works that led me to form my perspective (Christian-Reformed-Preterist (full/consistent)); 3) Cosmological tools (to aid understanding of flat-earth/globe-earth and geocentric/heliocentric debates and the Biblical perspective); 4) Links to my baseball research and fantasy replays at my current domains: baseball150.com and retroplay.net; 5) Expanded (free-download) MP3 catalog (discography) of TEKTONA, “our” virtual retro-rock/hard rock (99% instrumental) band (click here for what’s already available now); 6) Other materials as they are produced or reworked to my satisfaction (in any category).

NOTE: In keeping with the seaporter1works.com theme, almost all of what will appear here will indeed be my work, with these exceptions: 1) Works produced by others that are copied and presented with permission (or in the public domain); and 2) LINKS to other authors/content creators with whom I generally align in the respective categories. 100% agreement in either direction is not to be implied or assumed, so please remember that these pages are not intended to open up discussion forums for which I haven’t the time or wherewithal to monitor. I’m just putting my own thoughts out there, folks!

WHERE TO FIND “SP1’s” WORKS (THIS PAGE OR ELSEWHERE)

JESUS CHRIST: THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS (published: 9/2024, BookLocker, 234 p. paperback): Best combo deal (with title below, best info): https://booklocker.com/books/13564.html Other outlets and possibly better deals on single titles: Alibris, AbeBooks, Amazon, Biblio, BookFinder, etc. (even Walmart).

REVELATION’S GUARDRAILS (published: 5/2024, BookLocker, 208 p. paperback): Best combo deal (with above, + best info): https://booklocker.com/books/13417.html Other outlets same as above. HINTS: search by author (Steve Rauen) and/or title and/or ISBN (978-1958892985 for JCTFATW, 978-1958892510 for RG); new copies are sold on a POD (Print-On-Demand) basis, and so far, I’ve yet to see used copies in any secondary market; your best strategy to access new copies might well be to bundle purchases (with multiple titles) at Alibris, for example, on a reduced-shipping or coupon deal, OR…. to convince your library or educational/religious training organization to add the titles to the curriculum.

General disclaimers: The publisher and the Ingram system set minimum-price requirements, so I had to set the paperback price at a minimum of $19.95 (and the e-book price had to end in .99, with $2.99 being the minimum). As things stand, I’m guessing that most potential book-buyers these days are like me: 20 bucks plus rising shipping and handling costs is a little steep for a publication by an unknown author, and on a subject matter that’s maybe not among my top interests or concerns. I get that, and I am considering my options for selling independently-produced copies of my works at more-reasonable prices (in other words, ending what should be a mutually-beneficial contractual agreement, removing the publisher’s name from my books, and possibly going it alone outside of the worldwide Ingram registry). But for now, I lack the drive to aggressively market my books — worthy as they may be of due consideration — and I’m content to stay the course in hopes of catching the right person’s eye and subsequent word-of-mouth. I should add that God knows me better than I do, and I suspect that He has deemed it best to withhold good sales success until after my demise, when my main beneficiary will stand to benefit. If so, so be it!

TRUE EARTH SPREADSHEET (Recently assembled as Excel-compatible spreadsheet with active hyperlinks, as well as in Portable Document Format (PDF, with the same active hyperlinks). This is designed to serve as a handy “launching pad” tool to instantly connect the user to dozens of the very best Flat Earth vs. Globe Earth online videos regarding dozens of central (and far-flung) aspects being debated (or merely dismissed by one side; ahem!). Immediately below, please find the .xls version (top) and PDF (below that):

REINFORCEMENT RESOURCES (Mostly highlighting the areas where the links in the TES can take you)

• Whole historic cultures and societies believed and taught the same basic concept of a flat earth under a firmament; “outer space” didn’t exist until Copernicus, Kepler, et al used mathematical formulas to “prove” that 99% of the world’s population had it wrong: that extrapolating from false conjectures via math equations was a (THE?) superior scientific method, so all that had been observed, tested, and experienced worldwide by God-given senses had to be dismissed (see cache #1 below)
• On a closely-related note or two: There’s a HUGE gap between the ancient Greeks of the 5th/4th Century BC (at the earliest) and the “Copernican Revolution” of the 16th Century AD (roughly started in 1543 AD), as far as globe/round/sphere earth theorists and advocates are concerned. Ptolemy’s geocentric system (close to what the Bible teaches, as well as all of those cultures mentioned above held) was accepted by the vast majority worldwide, and why not? It aligned with everyday experience and God’s unfailingly true Word, and you didn’t have to be an agenda-driven Jesuit “expert” mathematician to come up with an alternative cosmological explanation (again, via math theory, not science). In other words, there’s a glaring disconnect between a few ancient Greek philosophers and, 2,000 years later, those who — after that two-millennia stretch of hardly a word about it — thought that those old pagans were onto something. Meanwhile, almost all populations on the face of the earth realized that they were standing upright wherever they were, with feet planted on a disc-like plane or in vessels on ever-level-seeking water, all of which did NOT keep rotating out from underneath them, just as it has always been and ever will be in the firmament/dome-enclosed system that God created. See cache #2 below.
• While some who looked through the earliest telescopes (invented in 1608?) thought that the never-before-seen objects (never seen with such magnification, at least) in the starry heavens were above/beyond the barrier of the firmament/dome-like ceiling, they would’ve had to discard the Biblical testimony (Genesis 1 and Ezekiel 1) and the cultural consensus in order to get to “outer space,” whether in reality or the imagination. Again, the all-but “universal” concept was that the so-called universe consisted of the round-disc terra firma, with its mountains, level lands, trenches, and approximately-70% surface water; waters above the firmament, below the firmament, and the great depths of water below the flat earth plane itself. That was the earth-system that God carefully and lovingly created to be inhabited by His creatures (mankind, flora and fauna, the elements, all of it). So where do we get this idea that there must be an “outer space” where the stars and “planets” and “millions of suns” can all be doing a perpetual whirling-dervish dance at completely impossible speeds of rotation, orbiting, and gyrating? Certainly, NOT from God’s Word: “And God made two great lights; the greater light [THE sun] to rule the day, and the lesser light [earth’s only moon] to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them [the stars] in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,” (Gen. 1:16-17). To answer the question, then: “Space” — beyond the firmament IN WHICH THE STARS ARE SET — is neither Biblical nor real; creaturely men who didn’t want to accept and deal with reality had to invent an alternative “universe,” and one more vast and further-removed from The Creator than the earth-system He did in fact create. The aim has always been to put ever-greater distance between God and His people; to substitute fantasy and wishful thinking that can only lead to full, final, and eternal destruction, for reality that can’t be altered. Truth is at enmity with the globalist mind. See cache #3.

• Most-basic concepts to grasp: 1) The North Pole (magnetic north) is the only pole of the flat earth/ topographical plane (at the center of a circular disc, as in Isaiah 40:22 and Job 38:14 and other Scriptures); 2) all of the stars rotate around Polaris (The [fixed] North Star), which is situated above 3) “an exceeding(ly) high mountain” (enormous, magnetic black rock, Rupes Nigra); 4) “South” on a map of earth refers to ANY direction away from that North Pole center; 5) Due-“East” and due-“West” circumnavigation means concentric circles around THE pole (remember: NO south pole exists in reality, but one can head east — or west — constantly, and return to the starting point, thereby going “around the world”); circumnavigation around the “south pole” is impossible, and this is due to the fact that 6) Antarctica — supposedly the continent that is held in place by magic gravity on the underside of our mythological globe earth — is in fact the continuous outer ring (elevated ice wall) that serves to contain the oceans and seas within the boundaries that God has set (Job 38:10-14; Psalms 33:7 and 104:5-9; Proverbs 8:27). When the heliocentric globalists attempt to ridicule “flat-earthers” by claiming that if the earth was actually — and uniquely — unlike all of the other planets — disc-like and flat, that the oceans and seas would spill over and empty into “space,” think about how many false assumptions are rolled into that stem-to-stern nonsense. They’re assuming that there is an “outer space” in which there are such things as “planets” and that they are (all) round (with the lone exception of earth, goes the accusation against flat-earth proponents), and therefore, “planet” earth must be round as well (because it would mess up the group picture, maybe?); furthermore, they fail to consider that in that scenario, the waters of the earth would’ve spilled into the “vacuum of space” untold eons ago under their cartoonish scenario (how could there still be waters covering the face of the earth today?). Put another way, NOBODY on our side of the truth is so completely devoid of gray matter between the ears that we can’t see that their (heliocentric model) anomaly-disc earth strawman is fictitious throughout; we don’t buy any of their false premises, so we are free to believe what is true. Maybe it’s time to put the default “kool-aid” down and walk away from the live-to-lie set, and head in the direction of The Truth, eh? Heliocentrists and globalists have turned everything upside down and inside out, and I am talking about cosmology and politics and worldview. It’s time to put on the big-person clothes! See cache #4.
  

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Cache #1: (Attribution: Believed to be the original creation of Eric Dubay; found many places online)

Cache #2: (Attributions embedded in the memes: Philip Stallings, from contemporaries of Copernicus)

Cache #3:

Cache #4 (Biblical support in an image; 1587 Urbano Monte Planisphere; Auguste Piccard, 1931; WWII-era Air Age map; Gleason’s highly-accurate 1892 map, used ever since as the basis for nearly any air/land/sea commercial navigation, military uses (trajectories, distances, logistics, etc.), as well as for logos (UN, ICAO, International Maritime Organization, the US Geological Survey, and others), where Antarctica is “missing” from the top-down view and the ice-wall that actually rings the circle of the earth is replaced by wheat stalks/laurels or some other placeholder. NOTE: Wherever precision, accuracy, economy (e.g., air fares), or truthful representation matters, the go-to maps are A.E. (azimuthal-projection) or “flat earth” maps. Attributions uncertain, but images found in many places online; thanks to the respective content creators)

6/12/2026: SUMMING UP ON THIS SECTION FOR TODAY: In AD 2026, the only real barriers between the seeker of truth and the truth in practically any area are intellectual complacency or laziness (“I already know all that I need to know”) or… a lack of respect for the truth itself. The person who is honest with himself/herself in this era of instantaneous “research” via electronic media can no longer claim that learning is just too much work, unless the root problem is that one just does not WANT to know the truth because it’s not properly valued. It must be acknowledged that sifting the wheat from the chaff can be daunting at times, especially with artificial intelligence increasingly blurring the boundaries, but merely getting started on the productive path is the hardest part. Give the True Earth Spreadsheet an honest try (or two or three…). I’m confident that where there’s a will, there’s a way, and those who WANT to know can make excellent use of this tool!

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RetroPlay Project 2.0 (Link to the ongoing season-by-season “replays” of the historic Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons of 1901 through 2025 under the premises, rules, and structure of the Open Baseball League (OBL), with its birthplace-determined rosters and using real WAR values):

baseball150.com/retroplay-in-progress-2-0/

RetroPlay Project (Original plan, version 1.0, 1871-2020 + Extra Innings: 2021-2025; this scrolling page shows the steps and results attached to the original 5-era plan):

baseball150.com/retroplay-results-1-0-mega-page/

Baseball150.com (The current main/landing page of the 3-domain Seaporter1 group. On this page, you’ll soon find (hopefully, when the under-construction dust settles) explanatory info and a comprehensive index for all SP1 group pages. Please note also: on EACH page of my websites, a top (secondary) menu and the main (primary) menu for all active-and-posted pages within the SP1 group are displayed; click on any button to connect to the page of your choosing, and travel back-and-forth at will among my 3 domains (baseball150, retroplay.net, and sp1works.com): baseball150.com

Theological-Political Writings Section (2014+)

First, some background. By nature, I’m not wired to be a political junkie, and truth be told, from the time I regretfully voted for the loser who won the 1976 Presidential Election until 1992, I don’t recall caring enough to vote in even one election of any kind (an apolitical abstainer and irresponsible citizen in that regard). It was my best friend (L.S.) who got me to realize that I should at least be informed about political matters and care enough about my fellow citizens to return to participation in the electoral process, come what may (at least I didn’t forfeit my important right to vote to someone who’d probably make a worse choice than I would). Anyway, I did my civic duty in each election cycle thereafter (all votes for (R)s or Independents, and never again for any known (D), as I recall). Then, the head-to-toe-OBVIOUS fraud (technically, still an Indonesian citizen, but that’s another story…) hit the national scene in nought-eight. And from 1/20/2009 until at least 11/8/2016, I was in a state of shock and dismay, and worst of all, I was quite sure that God — rightfully so, I admitted — appeared to be calling a morally-rotting America to account for largely following the godless deceivers and rejecting the Holy and True One and His ways. That I’m not kidding now about my mindset then will become apparent if you care to just scan through the books and essays I wrote during that pessimistic/REAListic 8-year period. Full PDF copies of my ATHEOS series (3 standalone books/one 3-volume series), “cutout” booklets (excerpts in chart form), a book of 43 theo-political essays, and (3) theme-set bundles from those 2016 essays are all below. Blunt opinions, hot-headed takes and well-reasoned observations, sarcastic humor, warts and all, here you go:

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ESSAYS SECTION BACKGROUND: At the beginning of 2016, I resolved to write and upload 26 essays, with titles headed by letters A through Z. As it turned out, I found that the standard format (usually 4 pages per letter of the alphabet) was a bit restrictive, so I often added more material on the same/another topic under the same letter, with the final total of 2016 essays landing at 43. Every other Saturday in 2016, I posted at least one essay, and when the year ended, the set was assembled into the PDF book below. (The bundles are organized into 3 main topic areas, culled from the 43 (with some overlapping): Non-biblical Nonsense; Political; Preterist-Reformed. The bundles (also in PDF) follow the full-book PDF):

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A “special treat” from the archives: My last Trutholio.com home page

Notes on this (old Trutholio.com) link and downloading: If your browser works effectively, it should pull up my Home page from November 7, 2018 (7.5+ years ago), just as I left it when moving on to other projects and websites. The Brave browser I use does reproduce the complete 43MB(!) file (runs to about 300 printed-pages’ worth in a single scroll), but I recommend patience in letting it properly load for online viewing (then click on “Skip to content” if that’s an option). I do NOT recommend trying to download the entire file to your own computer; I can’t guarantee success in that, nor can I make the claim that any particular hyperlink will still work!

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The Why File: Part of my last Trutholio.com home page (October, 2018)

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TIMETABLE: MY WORKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

• 2001-2002: Researched, wrote original version of JESUS CHRIST: THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS (MS Publisher and PDF).
• 2007-2009: Used Magix Music Maker software to produce digital music and post as MP3 files (working names of my virtual band: Raven (already taken), Korax (also taken), Core Axe (too obscure, limited connotations), others no longer remembered(?), finally settling on Tektona (implying tectonic dynamism and tones via technology, in combination with a quasi-Native American/Indian ring).
• 2010-2014: Researched, compiled, and wrote the ATHEOS: 6 PATHS TO DESTRUCTION (3-volume) series: First, EVILLUSION: THE EVIL ILLUSION OF EVOLUTION; second: ATHEISM/AGNOSTICISM; TOTALITARIANISM; HUMANISM (A.T.H. or, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THIS WORLD); finally, OTHER RELIGIONS AND STILL-FUTURE ESCHATOLOGY or, OUT-OF THE-WAY SYSTEMS (all three: MS Publisher and PDF).
• 2014 (?) – 2018: Maintained my Trutholio.com website, with 7 topical pages in its most-developed form: Home; Eco-Tyranny; Links (Hall of Faves); PretRef (Preterist Reformation); Immigration; Non-biblical Nonsense; Global Baseball (RetroPlay project’s first postings); NOTE: H-E-L-P-I-N-G acronym.

Some notes on all of the Trutholio.com material: By comparing what I wrote and posted then with what I’m writing and posting (and publishing) now, it’ll soon become clear that my core beliefs have changed little, even though political movements and individuals continue to come and go and my influences (humanly speaking) keep shifting as I discover — what I consider to be — their “feet of clay” and inevitable shortcomings (and/or areas of more serious disagreement).

I repeat: 100% agreement between those that have influenced my opinions in a particular area and myself — in every area — is never to be implied or assumed. Like-mindedness fosters pleasant congeniality and trust, but “community” brainwashing is something I try to avoid like the plague. I’m not much of a joiner, subscriber, or follower, and I don’t engage in “social media,” so I can easily live without the artificial validation of a list of “friends” or ever-increasing “likes” or clicks. I do place 100% trust in God’s Word (The Bible) and The Plan (sovereign, eternal, and unchanging) of the triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is what I stand upon, and only when I have a better understanding of God’s will and The Plan, do I adopt a new stance. Read: Since those first writings (2001-02), I have moved from a Full (“consistent”) Preterist NON-rapture position to a fully-convinced First-Century Rapture Full (truly consistent) Preterist, AND… (just in the last few years) from a default heliocentric-global mythology-imbiber to a fully-convinced and unapologetic Flat/True/Biblical geocentrist. It could be honestly said — though in metaphor — that I was “dragged kicking and screaming” into both preterism and flat-earth cosmology, but both “conversions” were made with my eyes and the Bible opened; once seen, the truth can’t be rejected. My whole “thing” in life is to uncover the truth, embrace the truth, and, in my humble little way, disseminate the truth. I’m not looking for fame, or widespread recognition, or even back-slapping, for that matter. I seek only to serve the Kingdom of Christ and to hear the most-thrilling words anyone could hear when this earthly existence is all over: “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25).

(Re: the ever-swirling world of politics, let me just sum up with these thoughts: 1) Because I trust God’s plan for HIS people — wherever they happen to be, including myself (Romans 8:28) — I can be content to accept things as they play out (despite any temporary misgivings, misplays, or gut reactions from human beings, again, including myself); 2) My choices for the appropriate people for all-wise God to use to execute HIS perfect plan are made in ignorance, often show poor judgment, and are, frankly, irrelevant; 3) In the end, and at bottom, I want what God wants, so I’ll not question His plan, judgment, or timetable; He rules always. And re: the use of Global in describing worldwide baseball (as I did back in 2018), I must now (adamantly self-correcting myself) point out that we do NOT live on an ever-rotating globe/ball/sphere, so whereas way-too many automatically refer to a “global” this or that, I will more correctly refer to a worldwide this or that (worldwide economy or trade, NOT global economy/trade, and the worldwide body of Christ, NOT the global body, or… how about just THE body of Christ, without any qualifier? If I’ve learned to adjust in this respect, I dare say others can do the same. Let’s not be slaves to invented, deceptive nomenclature.)

• [Resuming the timetable] 2019 to date: Set up and maintained RetroPlay.net and Baseball150.com websites (featuring the fantasy-replay Open Baseball League (OBL) and historical Major League (and Negro League) data, analysis, and rankings (real stats used with birthplace-determined teams, producing “alternative results” from a new angle on the fantasy-replay side; real stats combined with my own evaluation system to rank the historical MLB/NLB players on the actual-history side).
• From RetroPlay.net’s inception to date: Uploaded the TEKTONA MP3s (with some explanatory text) to the web pages (on both mostly-baseball domains); no new TEKTONA works produced for well over a decade, but the hope is that time will allow new production with yet-to-be-used Cakewalk software, coupled with various Magix products.
• 2020-2024: Revised and reformatted JESUS CHRIST: THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS; Researched and wrote (all of) REVELATION’S GUARDRAILS. BookLocker published RG in May and JCTFATW in September of 2024. Both of these works now present New Testament commentary (and helps re: responsible interpretation) from the First-Century Rapture Full Preterist perspective that I’d adopted in about 2014 — thanks mostly to the persuasive writings of Ed Stevens (click here and here for these particular works at his IPA store) — and have held ever since.
• 2023/2024 (?) to date: Though I can’t pinpoint the exact month of my settling on the geocentric-flat-earth perspective as Biblically-aligned cosmology, I feel compelled to take this up as my latest “cause” (area of well-established, but long-suppressed truth). Eventually, this passion could lead to another (my last?) attempt at “official” publication, but at the moment, I’m content to provide: 1) a True Earth Spreadsheet that can be used to efficiently explore the basics of the all-too-emotional arguments between the “globe believers” and “globe-as-we’re-told skeptics” (and to go well beyond the basics if desired) and 2) memes, graphics, and links to helpful historical works in opposition to the forced-narrative default: Copernican/Newtonian/evolutionary/heliocentric/Disney-mass-media-NASA-conjured, magic-gravity, round, spinning-ball earth, spiraling through “infinite space” at impossible speeds, i.e., the “universe” that exists only in the imagination. (It sounds like I’ll have more to say…)

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THE TEKTONA SAGA

THE COVER STORY: From about 1972 to the mid-90’s, four Americans — joined as one in their love of “Noise Without Words” (bandmember Felix Metalsome’s solo project title, by the way) — kept plugging in guitars and keyboards and setting up drum kits together. The almost-exclusively instrumental tunes (remember, songs generally have words) were often “dug” by the locals in the Great Lakes region of Rockin’ USA, but more often than not, dismissed by those who had a genuine ear for music. “Their loss,” bassist Hugo Walker would grunt, as he worked on beef jerky or pemmican. Drummer/percussionist Geri “Hat Trick” Atric would add credence to Hugo’s summary statement by providing a quick rim shot. Principal tune writers, Stevo Robertson and the aforementioned Felix Metalsome, despite the pronouncements and pontifications of the waves of self-appointed critics, jammed until the wee hours, tried out riffs and rhythms, reworked what was worth saving, and sometimes, managed to preserve for posterity whatever sounded halfway presentable in a semi-stuporous state at 3:30 AM (before dragging themselves to their regular day jobs). Still, the dream persisted: Someday, Noize Bull China Mad Drone Raven Korax Core Axe Tek-TON-a,…yep, that’s it…. TEKTONA! would rule the basement/garage band scene (at least in the known tri-county area). Hey, an album or two could even follow; who’s gonna stop us?!

Well, little did the grizzled lads know that practically the whole music business-booking agent-available-venue cartel would stop them without breaking a sweat, and these conspiring entities would all be tied for equally having the last laugh. (Biographer’s note: Hyenas and jackals, the lot of ’em; not a whit of compassion between ’em; the kind of animals that never learned their “Ps and Qs,” if you know what I mean. But I digress…).

You get the picture, I trust. It looked for all the world that this musically-mediocre foursome wouldn’t go far in the world; they were destined to be in the Hall of Failures, and that was as obvious as the nose on Stevo’s face (a prominent proboscis, his, just for those who haven’t seen it). But then, something happened; something that only a world-ranked seer from the family tree of Nostradamus could’ve possibly foreseen: An anonymous passerby (at one of those wee hours) happened to hear all four bandmembers collaborating on a tune that would eventually emerge as their all-conquering hit, Kitsch-in-Sync, and he was instantly, completely carried away into a state of rock-‘n-roll nirvana, where it is said that one can hear the sound of one foot tapping without sensory input. Mr. Anonymous — his true identity remains one of quasi-folklore’s greatest mysteries to this day (as far as you know) — was so taken aback that his noggin hit the cement, bounced off it a time and a half (by all accounts), and all jamming came to an abrupt halt (I should hope so!). After a few bated-breath moments, Mr. A returned to consciousness, shook like a wet dog a few times, and in one unbelievable motion, produced from his shirt pocket — the same one that protected his protractor and technical drawing pencils — a blank contract for professional and personal services, and wouldn’t you just know it? There were FOUR (4) lines on which contracting parties could add their John Hancocks or Shoeless Joe X’s! Well, suffice it to say that our Tektona boys knew better than to look a gift horse in the mouth; they signed and X-ed (who did which is neither here nor there, really; c’mon, grow up!). And,… the rest is (made-up) history. Keywords: 7 original albums; various compilations; several dozen tunes, one of which was a hit in the greater-tri-county market zone; half-sold-out fair appearances throughout parts of the Midwest; the band’s group picture on local-dairy milk cartons (emergency replacement when they ran out of local missing children on one occasion); some invitations to family reunions for various members of the band; and, yes, countless requests to turn that noise down! (Ah, human nature: everyone’s a self-appointed critic).

We’ll now take our long-awaited departure from the “Official Narrative.”

THE REAL STORY: For a few years (2007-2009 or so), the 1 in Seaporter1 (SR) used various Magix Music Maker products (and a few digital sound effects) to compose/construct/slap together digitized sound clips (of various instruments, within a fair number of genres) in ways that made some musical sense to him. When ready (or not), they were exported as MP3 audio files, and eventually, posted on his websites and committed to compact discs. The tunes that Stevo, Felix, Hugo, and “Hat Trick” supposedly pulled together and shamelessly released are largely available at this URL: https://www.baseball150.com/tektona-net-retro-rock-mp3s/

And… there’s your real history, entertaining or not. By the way, if time permits, I’d like to upload a majority of the dozens of “our” MP3s in virtual-album form on this very page (complete with CD artwork, if I find that time does indeed allow). We’ll see. All for now on June 11, 2026.

“Kitsch In Sync” by TEKTONA (Flat-out fun; everything thrown in but the kitchen sink):

June 12, 2026: Okay, tell ya what I’ll do: Since Kitsch In Sync is already up, here’s the rest of the smashed hit (sic) album, Serious Fun, by TEKTONA. In keeping with the cover story, this would’ve been released in…oh, let’s say,…. 1985, when commercial success seemed tantalizingly close. TEKTONA‘s management brain-trust (the now-veteran quasi-musicians themselves and the mysterious, behind-the-scenes Mr. Anonymous) wanted to give the rock world a par-TAY album, and the tunes on Serious Fun were compiled from the back-catalog to fit the theme. Here’s the main image used for the album cover (sans logo, title):

Remember that, either of you who bought the album? Ah, nostalgia!

And here were the party-dance groove tracks (a baker’s dozen, in order of composition):

Chunky Fish (Opening track, 3:24; persistent, dense dance groove)

Beef Quirky (Track 2, 3:39; homage to a wrestler, whose tag-team partner was Jack Link)

Right Now We Rock (Track 3, 3:38; hey, this one has some words; what gives?)

What I’m Talkin’ ’bout (Track 4, 5:02; one of those overused phrases, back in the day)

The Rising Sun (Track 5, 3:26; a dance-groove “cover” of House of the Rising Sun)

Mad Rushin’ (Track 6, 3:54; quick and quirky; get the pun?)

Groov Karavan (Track 7, 5:25; funky foray, complete with funky-squirrelly riff, funky title spelling)

Set Free (Track 8, 3:43; catchy rocker, with some vocal affirmations)

Retro-Rock It (Track 9, 4:30; sounds like UFO/Michael Schenker to me; kind of a Tektona theme tune)

The Grind (Track 10, 3:13; driving techno-ish (?) dance groove)

Dance On My Grave (Track 11, 4:46; go ahead, I won’t be there anyway; another infectious instrumental)

Rebeefed (Track 12, 3:43; Beef Quirky II, the sequel)

Kitsch In Sync (Track 13, 4:31; grand finale on the original compilation)

BONUS TRACKS (From the “remastered” 2010 Serious Fun CD; buy the premise, buy the bit, right?)

Can’t Be Still (Track 14, 3:46; among the last 20 tunes recorded by somewhat-legendary Tektona)

Ampstack (Track 15, 4:33; this one says, “We’re only in it for the headbanging!”)