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DOWNSIZE CONGRESS! ----> DEPRESSION DENIAL!
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oh nooooooooooooo!
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it's...
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/-|| || || full-moon early december 1998
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Accurate Telephony, Issue 156.
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hola hermanobrothers and hermanasisters,
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happy fullmoon. as i say every bigwidemoon, "luna! i take no
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responsibility for the things i'm about to say and do. wet,
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tidal forces are upon me and i can't possibly claim to control
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any of it...
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i'm prime anarchist and rather than write a column for this week,
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i'll paste in a letter i wrote to my friend in Swiss Hell. It has
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wider appeal than just his inbox, so i figured i'd share.
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(alright, who sarcastically thanked me for sharing...)
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===<table of contrary>===
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- publishers column
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- numbers
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- letters
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- poetry
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- guest columnists
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- news
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- subvertisements
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- more poetry
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- assorted spammy stuff
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- more poetry
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=== </mesa d'contras> ===
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SCHOOL OF AMERICAS NOTES by Prime Anarchist
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Hey There,
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If they used a wide enough camera to show a guy with a
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fugazi t-shirt and an olive drab kokopeli minnesota hat
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that was me. I saw that the next nite and I think CNN went
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narrow whereas Fox had me in there. So I was probably
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just "stage left" of him looking chubby, nervous and excited
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about what came next.
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That was perhaps one hour before we stormed the gates and
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pretty much busted down Jericho, Babylon and Bill Gates' house.
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OK, I exaggerate a bit, but it felt really good to watch them
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cave when we were three times as many people as they
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prepared to contain and ignore.
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> What's goin' on with Brian Wilson these days?
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> We saw Martin Sheen at the protest on
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> ClintonNewsNetwork for a few seconds.
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happy reading,
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marc myth of mothmouth
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------------------
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ATI - the rag read
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round the world...
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U
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PROB'LY
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NO
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A BOAT
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R
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#'S
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RUN
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BYE
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NOW...
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http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/edits/seang.htm
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http://www.un.org/rights/50/people.htm
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http://hookele.com/netwarriors
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http://listen.to/curiosity
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http://www.christinaangel.com
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http://pw1.netcom.com/~kappel1
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http://come.to/pieman
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http://vvv.com/~tommy
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http://www.2600.com
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http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/zines
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http://www.essentialmedia.com
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http://www.truthinmedia.org
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http://www.billybragg.co.uk
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-fun with food, by funtronix-
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take 6 loaves of wonderbread.
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moosh them down to the size of
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dice. Carve #'s with a ballpoint
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pen. Preserve with shellac.
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-?????Play Yatzee???!?!?!??!-
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PRESS RELEASE
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Online Ouija Board Session
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Friday, Dec. 11.
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http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/merrill.html
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(If you can't be there at 11:11
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go late and see what happened.)
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THIS IS THE LETTUCE AND OP-ONIONS DEPT.
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Nice pages.
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I read them while I'm in the bathroom on my dad's laptop.
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Che
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chelsea@whitehouse.gov (202)
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[ed note: no idea...]
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Dear SOA Watchers,
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I will be interviewed on Jean Ferraca tomorrow 11/2/98 (WED) from
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10:00 to 11:00 a.m. NPR on the SOA. It would be great if you
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could call in to share your experience of the vigil at Ft. Benning,
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why you went, what you learned and felt, and the energy/action
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plans you have returned home with. This interview is really for
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all of us, and I can use all the help I can get. Madison has gotten
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some excellent press coverage.
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In solidarity,
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Joyce (414)
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Marco,
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*blushing*
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Brett Axel (718)
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to ati@etext.org
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Feel free to share this,
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add your own, whatever.
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Beth Newberry (541)
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~Ode to Zeus~
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by Beth
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Who let the animals loose
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oh hey no, it's only Zeus.
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Headphones hung
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living as he chooses.
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It's only orange juice
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cops thought is was booze.
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High strung
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Barbie heads in nooses.
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We give no excuses
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nor give you to Jesus.
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Far flung
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from this world's abuses.
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Adieu, Zeus.
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Zeus Haiku
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ibid.
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Xylaphone
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Cart crap cruddy snarl silk snap
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Chiffon
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Note:
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Zeus, who used to be a common sight pushing
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his cart around here in Eugene, OR passed
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away the other day from tuberculosis.
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We will "miss" him.
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to primeanarchist@thepentagon.com
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This is such a great story.
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Pat K (202)
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DC Coordinator, MSN
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>Hi there.
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>The week after next I'll be in Georgia playing guitar, and
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>protesting School of the Americas.
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>You're in my thoughts often ever since I met you
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>when Onessimo spoke in Madison.
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>I'm Geoffreys' friend. He's going to try and go
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>to Chiapas next week.
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>He's been active in getting Gustavo Castro Soto to speak here
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>in Green Bay area which is finally going to happen tomorrow.
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>This afternoon my new friend Eululia returns to Eagle Pass where she
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>raises children and bakes a madwoman's share of food for family and
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>friends and also to bring over to Piedras Negras to sell cheaply so that
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>"all may be fed." Most of her family are indigenous to Chiapas still to
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>this day. She's been here living at the shelter I help run, and working
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>at the pickle plant for the two seasons. When she's not working or
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>sleeping about 3 or 4 hours per day, she's cooking "lunchea," for
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>EVERYONE whether she likes them or not. What a blessed soul. We try to
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>wash our own dishes when she's not looking; because if she's anywhere
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>near the sink, you can't argue her out of it. But that's a whole other
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>topic for "anotra tiempo." She's also been working overtime teaching us
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>all to become bilingual creatures. She has the patience of thirty five
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>Jobs because she speaks no English whatsoever and has no problem just
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>repeating a spanish phrase calmly and quietly (perhaps five different
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>ways or more) until you figure it out and tell her that you "intiendo"
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>it. She's also accomplished something I've never seen another person do
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>in my 34 years on this earth. Some of the people who come through here
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>have absolutely no intention of learning a second language. They are of
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>the mindset that, well you know, if English was good enough for Jesus
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>than it's good enough for them. At any rate, some of them have left here
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>knowing enough Spanish now that they don't have to assume that just
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>because someone's not speaking English it doesn't mean they're talking
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>negative about them.
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>Ah, the first step toward conflict resolution is actually listening.
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>What a brilliant thought. Who formed it first?
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>=)
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[and in the "we get all kinds" department:]
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HELLO YOU'VE BEEN LISTED BY AN INFORMATION BANK AS
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SOMEBODY WHO MAY BE A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR
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THE WINNERS ORGANIZATION. THE WINNERS IS A VERY
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PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE TO ONLY THOSE PEOPLE
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WHO ARE QUALIFIED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME
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SPECIAL BENEFITS.
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IF WE OFFER YOU A MEMBERSHIP AND YOU ACCEPT, YOU
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WILL RECEIVE A VERY SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY
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OWN YOUR OWN CASINO OPERATION...
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[...my very own? Can I bet that you have NO IDEA WHO I AM???]
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Hi Michael,
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Lisa just gave me permission to put the entire poem
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in the 'zine, so I'll have it in this weekend.
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I'll type it in here for your enjoyment, and then
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I'll cut and paste it to notepad.
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[ATI. Sharing Freely, Openly of Inner Dynamic since 1888]
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I AM NOT THE K I N G O F B E E R S
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a poem by Lisa Martinovic
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So I need a little help understanding something
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a phenomenon that defies all logic
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yet one that's as common as dirt
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What am I talking about?
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average people - millions of them
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working ceaselessly in the employ of major corporations
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in addition to their day jobs - and without pay
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that's right, they're in our midst
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and you still don't know what I'm talking about, do you?
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well, maybe you're one of them
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maybe you're sitting in the audience at this very moment
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unthinkingly wearing a Nike hat or a Budweiser t-shirt
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maybe you never thought of yourself as a walking
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billboard
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doing the dirty work for some corporate ad man who
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makes more money in one year than you'll see in a lifetime
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and not only are you not getting paid
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you actually put out good money to BUY that cheesy
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billboard
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from that criminally rich corporation
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so you can walk around all day long doing Mr. Nike's job
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Beats the fuck out of me
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and what glorious benefits do WE receive
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in exchange for our role as foot soldiers
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on the front lines of the consumer wars
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surely no one is fooled into thinking
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maybe I'm one of the lesser known Olympic athletes who
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in fact DOES
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get paid to wear Reboks
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dream on, bubba
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I think it's a virtual drug for a nation of naked emperors
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trying desperately to find a ready-make image to step into
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so they don't have to bother with all the complicated and
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tiresome work of
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character building
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do I get that Pepsi feeling when I pull on the windbreaker
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am I identifying myself with
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rugged pre-cancerous individualism in the old West
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as I notch up my Marlboro belt buckle
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in my black Harley muscle shirt
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do I have the power to intimidate you
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letting you think I'm some crazed Hells Angel
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who might go off on a methamphetamine rampage
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if I caught you staring at my tattos
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and maybe I think I'm better than Mr. King of Beers
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because
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I'm wearing this ultra-hip Grateful Dead tie-died number
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cool, man, so, like, uh, I'm a counterculture shill for some
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monolithic record company that's also not paying me to
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advertise their product
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regarding my stone-washed silk Dallas Cowboys bomber
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jacket
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I'll leave you guessing
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either I am one
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or I'm FRIENDS with one
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or this purchase is my clever way of tithing to the Cowboy's
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cocaine fund
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you be the judge
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I like to think my Batman sweatshirt imbues me with an aura of
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mystery
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Will you ascribe to me superhuman powers and righteous
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dogoodosity
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in the face of a terminally evil world
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holy horseshit - you must be bat brain dead, buck-o
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surely it's different if I'm wearing a location on my back
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I just know I can impress you if
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I've ridden a mule on Molokai or skied Everest
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you may even fall in love with the spirit of adventure my garb
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suggests
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why bother with small talk when my t-shirt tells you right away
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the most exciting thing you'll ever know about me
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but for god's sake I don't even know Tommy Hilfiger
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why would I want him broadcasting from atop my tits?
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And for that matter I'm not
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the King of Beers, the Marlboro Man, the ghost of Jerry Garcia
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Troy Aikman or the Grand Canyon
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so, no, I won't advertise your
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brew or smoke, sneaker, album, haberdashery or concession
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stand
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not even if you paid me
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because I don't want to be part of any
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god damn corporation's master plan for
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mass inter-cranial penetration and global domination
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it just ain't gonna happen folks
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oh, my t-shirt?
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the one with the Full Sail Ale logo plastered on the back?
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this is from the 1996 national Poetry Slam
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you're goddamn right that's different!
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I mean, this really *is* good beer
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besides
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any corporation can buy a garden variety
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corn fed plumped up consumer unit
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It takes a micro-brewerey to buy a poet
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--- ---
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hi Marco,
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what a hoot!
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my King of beers in an anarchist zine--I love it!
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Please feel free
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to run the entire poem with my byline--
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I'd be delighted.
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thanks for sending your zine too--
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you've got some great quotes in there
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(I only just browsed it so far).
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noticed you had some comments about wal mart.
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I have a ha-ha walmart poem you might get a kick out of.
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lemme know if you wanna see it..
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[YES!!]
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thanks for the acknowledgement!
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Lisa
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--- ---
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to ati:
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WE BULK EMAIL!
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MailCom is a bulk friendly ISP...
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We also provide bulletproof email acounts.
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tied11@lycos.com
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[ed note: don't we feel safe now/though,
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couldn't U at least say "hello first???"]
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to ati:
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Sorry, but having the wonderful religious background
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that I have, I need to distribute something like this
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periodically.....SMILE!
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John (203)
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Top ten ways the Bible would be
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different if it were written by
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college students
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10. Last Supper would have been eaten the next morning -
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cold.
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9. The Ten Commandments are actually only five,
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double-spaced, and written in a large font.
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8. New edition every two years in order to limit reselling.
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7. Forbidden fruit would have been eaten because it wasn't
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cafeteria food.
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6. Paul's letter to the Romans becomes
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Paul's e-mail to abuse@romans.gov.
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5. Reason Cain killed Abel: They were roommates.
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4. The place where the end of the world occurs:
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Finals, not Armageddon.
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3. Out go the mules, in come the mountain bikes.
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2. Reason why Moses and followers walked in desert for 40 years:
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They didn't want to ask directions and look like freshmen.
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1. Instead of God creating the world in six days and
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resting on the seventh, He would have put it off until
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the night before it was due and then pulled an all-nighter.
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[ed note: I wasn't going to let this in ATI but Prime Anarchist
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lobbied so tirelessly on grounds that he's been a college
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student for 14 years "trust [him he] know[s]," and "look at
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# 9, that alone should rate on funniness." he had a point...]
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to ati@etext.org
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> Country Joe's Place has a new guestbook entry:
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>
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> ------------------------------------------------------
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> Joe,
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> I sang at Shutting the SOA Down. Amy from INdigo girlz was
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> there, so was Martin Sheen. Where were you? I half expected
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> you to just show...
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> marco capelli <ati@etext.org>
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> konetiuk, na western
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> November 26, 1998
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> ------------------------------------------------------
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didnt know it was happening.
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i live a sheltered life.
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cheers,
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cjm
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"and it's 1,2,3..."
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to: marc/from: staci/re: tickets
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*****hey, marc, do you think this is true?******
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>> Useful Info for Speeding Tickets - Read it and try it, you have
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>> nothing to loose but the points in your license.
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>> This procedure works in any state.
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>> If you get a speeding ticket or went through a red light
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>> or whatever the case may be, and you are going to get
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>> points on your license, thenthere is a method to ensure
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>> that you DO NOT get any points. When you get your fine,
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>> send in the check to pay for it and if the fine is say $79,
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>> then make the check out for $82 or some small amount above the fine.
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>> The system will then have to send you back a check for the difference,
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>> but here is the trick! ---DO NOT CASH THE CHECK!! Throw it away!
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>> Points are not assessed to your license until all the financial
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>> transactions are complete. If you do not cash the check,
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>> then the transactions are not complete. However the system
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>> has gotten its money so it is happy and will not bother you any more.
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>> SOURCE: Thoonen Production Administrator RACV Touring Publications.
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[marconote: dunno. but we'll find out soon enough.
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i put it to the readers, like they used to do in
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the TAP/YIPL days. anyone know?]
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[second marconote: (beginning to sound like sup marcos)
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i also heard you can use your "keycard" from a grocery
|
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store at the local library for printing out and photocopying.
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it will register ninety-five cents forever and not deplete.
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anyone know first hand of a place it actually works? this
|
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might be a burban legend like the frozen shaving creme one...]
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--- ---- ----- --
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ATI, NEWS RADIO 99
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--- ---- ----- --
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"I TWO"
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for Langston
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a poem by marc frucht
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Tomorrow isn't here yet, Hughes -
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You're still in the kitchen.
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Turn of the century,
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We're nowhere fast, man.
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Gentrification is still a $20 word
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I can't afford.
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Two Americas, Hughes -
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White and non-white.
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That's right,
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Outa sight, man.
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White
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And... not white.
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You two are America.
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Two Americas, Hughes.
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We're not outa the kitchen yet,
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NO!
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WHEN IS A PATRIOT LIKE A WOMAN TAKING OFF
|
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ALL HER CLOTHES: And Vice Versa.
|
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A Column by Steven Slosberg.
|
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What, precisely, is the difference between the two enterprises?
|
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|
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Football and female exotics, cut from the same cloth, so to speak.
|
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Both feed on fundamental human sensibilities: Voyeurism, fantasy,
|
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|
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lust and commerce, yet one is embraced and the other shunned.
|
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In one venue, men are paid to use their bodies to maim and crack
|
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one another and accomplish, in the end, precisely nothing other
|
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than crossing a line and entertaining a throng of goobers, many
|
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with painted faces. In the other, women are paid to use their bodies
|
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to hurt no one, cross the line and entertain a crowd of goobers, many
|
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with oily complexions.
|
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|
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The ambiance in a football stadium is a red-blooded, boisterous crowd,
|
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|
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much of it loaded, urging their esteemed 380-pound former
|
|||
|
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scholar-athletes to bump and grind. In a strip club, the
|
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|
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red-blooded audience, most of it loaded, is urgently rapt as
|
|||
|
|
their fallen aerobics idols bump and grind.
|
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|
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|
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The football crowd gets off watching men in tight pants and
|
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|
|
artificially enhanced upper bodies. The club crowd gets off watching
|
|||
|
|
women in thongs or less and artificially enhanced upper bodies.
|
|||
|
|
Football does what it can to objectify women as well. Pro cheerleaders,
|
|||
|
|
among our most prized embodiments of anonymous T & A, are out there
|
|||
|
|
showing adults and children what meaningful roles women can aspire to.
|
|||
|
|
Lap dancers, as ordinances will allow, do it indoors, out of sight from
|
|||
|
|
neighboring schools, churches and lottery outlets.
|
|||
|
|
So football gets embraced as an ideal, and gentlemen's clubs -
|
|||
|
|
take a look at just who owns pro football teams, by the way - are bashed.
|
|||
|
|
In both venues, owners make a bundle off the bodies of disposable
|
|||
|
|
hirelings: Men and women, in their handsome prime and exercising
|
|||
|
|
God-given (and often surgeon-sanctioned) talent to maximize
|
|||
|
|
earnings during careers of precarious lengths.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
For the social reformers, if nothing is more pathetic than an aging
|
|||
|
|
stripper with no future and a misspent youth, go to a reunion of
|
|||
|
|
pro football players and log how many can still walk, how many are
|
|||
|
|
free of dope, or, to be benign, painkillers, and, in fact, how many
|
|||
|
|
are on parole.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Good neighbor? Surely the policing around a strip club is as vigilant
|
|||
|
|
as around any football stadium, all those two-fisted tailgaters included.
|
|||
|
|
Getting to and from the club in Pawcatuck, proposed for the former site
|
|||
|
|
of Rosalini's, a restaurant and then a nightclub, set back from Route 2
|
|||
|
|
near the Route 78 connector, has to be more convenient than exiting any
|
|||
|
|
urban football stadium. The Rosalini's site could not be better situated
|
|||
|
|
for unobtrusive comings and goings.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
People argue how one show enhances a community and the other affronts
|
|||
|
|
it. Pro football, always a growth industry for office pools and
|
|||
|
|
Vegas oddsmakers, survives utterly on the public, desperate
|
|||
|
|
for something to do on a Sunday, standing around screaming and
|
|||
|
|
shivering. The strip club in Pawcatuck, or whatever the owners decide
|
|||
|
|
to have there, is in the shadow of the largest gambling emporium
|
|||
|
|
in the galaxy. So which one doesn't fit in?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Again, one venue, built on voyeurism, fantasy and bodies in motion and
|
|||
|
|
pain for no apparent reason, gets sanctioned, while the other, selling
|
|||
|
|
precisely the same enticements, without the pain and in private, gets
|
|||
|
|
the bum's rush.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Where's the harm in one and not the other? Where's the exploitation in
|
|||
|
|
one and not the other? Where's the fantasy fulfillment in one and not
|
|||
|
|
the other (Alas, the Patriots, as history shows, are not exactly the
|
|||
|
|
stuff of dreams, are they)?
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
One gets the sloppy smooch and the other, a sanctimonious shudder.
|
|||
|
|
Both are unabashed primers in meat-marketing, no more, no less.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steven Slosberg can be reached via e-mail at:
|
|||
|
|
s.slosberg@newlondonday.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"...and in other news..."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(PAWN)
|
|||
|
|
prime anarchist world newz 2nite:
|
|||
|
|
with Peter Lemmings.
|
|||
|
|
These Headlines did not appear. Too bad:
|
|||
|
|
EXON-MOBIL UNVEILS PLAN TO BUY CHRISTMAS FOR $1B
|
|||
|
|
EXON-MOBIL ANNOUNCES PLANS TO BUY VATICAN FROM BILL GATE FOR $23
|
|||
|
|
EXOFF-IMMOBILE OFFERS TO BUY WALSTREET FOR $26M
|
|||
|
|
EXOFF-IMMOBILE OFFERS CLINTON DEFENSE FUND $1B LOAN
|
|||
|
|
MICROSLOFF BUYS OUT NABISCO-BISCUIT-CORP FROM GENERAL ELECTRON
|
|||
|
|
POSITIONS ITSELF JUST A TOUCH AHEAD OF EXOF-IMOBIL
|
|||
|
|
schITT ANNOUNCES IT WILL SELL OFF 12,000 SHARES OF ADOLPH HITLER, ENT.
|
|||
|
|
STOCK IN A RESTRUCTURING THAT SHOCKS EVERYONE AFTER YESTERDAYS BELL
|
|||
|
|
schITT CEO ROBERT SCHULTER SAYS IT'S SHEDDING A COLD-WAR DINOSAUR
|
|||
|
|
10 YEARS LATE, BUT "THERE'S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT"
|
|||
|
|
film at 11:11 (or as soon as station ID is done)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"THE BAD HARVEST" by alex2051
|
|||
|
|
Video on Hunger in Chiapas Now Available
|
|||
|
|
[prime anarchist note: I've met some CMP people
|
|||
|
|
they're way cool, fly and rad.]
|
|||
|
|
A 17 minute video documenting hunger conditions in indigenous
|
|||
|
|
communities in Chiapas is now available. "The Bad Harvest" was
|
|||
|
|
partly shot and edited by youth from indigenous communities who
|
|||
|
|
are learning video skills through the Chiapas Media Project.
|
|||
|
|
The video explains the reasons behind severe food shortages
|
|||
|
|
in Chiapas, with particular emphasis on the impact of the
|
|||
|
|
government's low intensity warfare. "The Bad Harvest"
|
|||
|
|
also traces the impact of near-famine conditions
|
|||
|
|
on community health. "The Bad Harvest" is
|
|||
|
|
available for $15 from
|
|||
|
|
Chiapas Media Project,
|
|||
|
|
4834 N. Springfield,
|
|||
|
|
Chicago, IL 60625.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
/\/\/\/\
|
|||
|
|
ATI- two
|
|||
|
|
steps away
|
|||
|
|
from achey
|
|||
|
|
brakyism
|
|||
|
|
\/\/\/\/
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
REFRIED BEANS
|
|||
|
|
distributed by USDA in cooperation with
|
|||
|
|
State and local or tribal governments for
|
|||
|
|
domestic food assistance programs.
|
|||
|
|
NOT TO BE SOLD OR EXCHANGED
|
|||
|
|
inspected by US Dept of Ag.
|
|||
|
|
NET CONTENTS 16 OUNCES (453 GRAMS)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
/\
|
|||
|
|
/Food guide
|
|||
|
|
/Pyramid
|
|||
|
|
/ 2-3...\
|
|||
|
|
/---------\
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CARE OF PRODUCT
|
|||
|
|
CONTENTS
|
|||
|
|
INGREDIENTS
|
|||
|
|
(please recycle... usda food)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To receive a copy of a nutrition education pamphlet,
|
|||
|
|
and be added to the CIA's trusty 16gigamegahertz database,
|
|||
|
|
write to:
|
|||
|
|
Food and Nutrition Service, special nutrition programs
|
|||
|
|
3101 Park Center Drive,
|
|||
|
|
Alexandria, VA 22302
|
|||
|
|
-30-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As usual, poetry ends us.
|
|||
|
|
I'm writing this now, and I think
|
|||
|
|
I shall call it Hey Zeus.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Hey Zeus
|
|||
|
|
by marco frucht
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I never knew you.
|
|||
|
|
But friends tell me
|
|||
|
|
of your TB.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All the tines in the world
|
|||
|
|
can't keep truth at bay.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And today,
|
|||
|
|
TB returns in vicious way.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To every major city in the USA
|
|||
|
|
I have this to say.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We'll have to call this one
|
|||
|
|
The "Greater Depression,"
|
|||
|
|
Now won't we?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
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|
|
|
|||
|
|
===response? ati@etext.org ===
|
|||
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