THE WAVES OF CYBERSPACE...

Learn what lies below the surface of the Internet!

Forget the World Wide Web, the mass pornographic emailings, e-commerce and the dotcom crasheroos! Discover instead the rampant egos, the shifting alliances and betrayals, the trolls and traps, the virtual cruelties and the email flames permanently burning through the keyboards of the immoderate, unmoderated discussion newsgroups.

Within this unreal Internet reality, two sailboaters battle for the souls and the leadership of the rabble of wannabes who make up a sailboating email discussion group. Actual and virtual realities blur and merge as they struggle.

Both fighters have intentions valid on their own terms, but both are doomed by their own personal flaws. And both are hamstrung by their manipulators, by the stupidity and cowardice of their audience, and, in the end, by bureaucratic lack of humour.

Not even the best efforts of the heroine, the only Internet subscriber with a conscience, can save the fighters, the manipulators, the whole newsgroup, and herself, from ultimate disaster!

Selections from the opera provided here are performed by Flying Tadpole (instruments, vocals), Other singers contribute from time to time and credits are given as they appear.

Words and music of this eclectic mishmash of egomania, satire, the occasional bit of parodied mid-Victorian verse, and original music, are Copyright ? Flying Tadpole (TJ Fatchen) 2001-2004, All Rights Reserved. Any resemblance to posting personas on Usenet newsgroups may be intentional, for satirical purposes. Any resemblance between the posting personas and the persons posting on the Usenet may well be pure coincidence, and should not be confused in any way with truth, justice, or your favourite domicile's way of life.