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PRIME NUMBERS

http://yurisnight.com
http://www.bartcop.com
http://www.nonogirl.com
http://www.canadians.org
http://www.pornolize.com
http://www.jasonschock.com
http://kaybek.indymedia.org
http://www.portalofevil.com
http://www.drudgeretort.com
http://www.toastedspiral.com
http://www.crossingborder.org
http://www.dorrk.com/cocktail
http://www.politicalamazon.com
http://www.mediawhoresonline.com
http://www.radio4all.org/crackcia
http://www.thewoodstockspirit.org
http://hometown.aol.com/dummydown2
http://www.fray.com/drugs/letterman
http://www.notbored.org/index1.html
http://www.joygreetings.com/kungfu.htm
http://flag.blackened.net/ati/pulitzer.html
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/jsmill/post_1.html


"one major thing is how impoverished the real 
world actually is--wealth and power but a veneer 
of that poverty."
  --John Lord


Hello there, I'm prime anarchist and that was
the numbers, this is my column and next up we
have lettuce for your head. And then all the
mad usualness follows. I mean the following
usual madness, I mean follows, ah whatever.
You mean what I know!
  This is ati 'zine issue 271. Late for last
week; early for next. Yeah, we staggered it, 
why? Because things were just getting a little
TOO regular around here. It's of utmost importance,
we're dealing with volatile substance, this zine
must come out whenever we feel like it.
  Or else.
  So enjoy the heck out of it.
  And what if you don't? So what.

prime

ps: this issue dedicated to Aaron Sorkin.
["say it ain't so, joe..."]



  "You should fix up your house with extra windows
or something."
  --martha stewart


    LETTUCE ALONE : LEAF ME BE

Hi !

I sent you the message below last week; 
I'm sorry if you visited my website and 
were turned away.  It was shut down by 
the University of Texas - I should have 
known better than to promote energy 
conservation from President Bush's own 
back yard !  I suppose his Administration 
really does hate the environment . . . 
  Be that as it may, I have downloaded 
all the files to a new business web 
hosting server.  
  The new URL is http://www.inviticus.com
  Thank you kindly for your patience.
Regards,
Wm. H. Clark II, P.E.
Bar X Software
Austin, Texas

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martha stewart deserves the same 
treatment, as long as you're making 
a list of asshole celebrities 
;)
pomegranate

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Subject: Is ati@etext.org feeling under the weather?
Date: 16 Apr 2001 22:47:19 -0000
From: RTMark Labor Fund News
To: "ATI.etext.org" [ati@etext.org]

April 17, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Phone In Sick Day 
   (http://rtmark.com/sick) 
                  has been moved to April 20 in 
Canada, to coincide with the Quebec City Summit 
of the Americas meeting that starts on that date 
   (http://www.a20.org/).
"Quebec has been turned into a fortress, to keep 
public opinion out of the decision-making process," 
explains Duane Dibbley, an RTMark member who will 
attempt to attend the Summit. "Since thousands of 
foreign would-be protesters have already been turned 
away at the border, we're trying the Trojan Horse 
approach: we're encouraging Canadians who might 
ordinarily work on that day to phone in sick and 
go to the protest instead." Previous Phone In Sick 
Days have been held responsible for the "sick-outs" 
of two thousand British Airways employees in 1997, 
and of thousands of Irish policemen in 1998 
  (http://rtmark.com/sick2000.html).

And fifteen months to the day after etoy finally 
won its battle against eToys and Network Solutions 
    (http://rtmark.com/etoynsi.html), 
Project ICAN 
   (http://rtmark.com/fundquick.html#ICAN) 
             shows Internet users how to challenge 
NSI's continued suzerainty over the "root zone" 
(the file that decrees what domain extensions are 
available), an arrangement that overwhelmingly favors 
big business.

RTMark's primary goal is to publicize corporate 
subversion of the democratic process. To this end 
it acts as a clearinghouse for anti-corporate 
projects. Project forums may be found at 
http://rtmark.com/f/get/funds.html, and a list of 
just-added projects is maintained at:
http://rtmark.com/new.html.
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Figgered I'd do it for ya....

"Mr. Yak Milk" wrote:
> 
> OK. I owe a poem, built on a metaphorical foundation.
> A rock, a hill and a guy named sisyphus.
> 

"THIS IS THE CONDITION OF US ALL."
said Albert Camus from his Paris bistro
or cafe or Algerian low-life dive.

There's the guy, see?
and like he dies, but there ain't no heaven nor hell
no purgatory, nothing but the Underworld.
And it's ruled by Pluto, like
but he has a wife, Penelope?
(Pandora maybe)

But like this guy dies and goes there
and runs onto the wife
And like he's a real charmer
and talks her into letting him go.

So Wow Man!  Like he's reborn, but not really
to be born is to die, once you're here, you're here
but he's got Everlasting Life!
And like he's a young, lusty guy

So he goes on a tour of the Greek and Agean island villages
Having a good time, drinking wine smokin` hash
talking philosophy into the pale lavender dawn mists
Chasing ALL the ladies

Having a good time.

And what the hell?  This can go on forever
'Cause Sisyphus can't die, he's already dead
And every time some stray husband, jealous lover
or just plain brigand
does him in...

It don't work!

And Sisyphus continues on his Greek tour
havin` a GOOD time

But like Zeus and the boys hear about this
And they ain't happy about it
Because Like Man! only the Gods live forever
Who IS this guy?

This Sisyphus disporting himself like a mere mortal
enJOYing life!  Diggin` it grooving on it totally IN it
and never dying so he revels in every microsecond

ONLY GODS DO THIS!
says Zeus and the boys

So they go get Sisyphus
Take him to this Mountain
Give him this big old boulder, tell him
Roll, Daddy, Roll

And keep on doing it, you got eternity, right?
Roll that rock up the hill, all the way
to the top and when it gets there...
well, you follow it down and start again

You got eternity, right?
This'll keep ya busy
You ain't no god
Remember that

And ol` Sisyphus is still doing it
Rolling that rock up the hill
into eternity...

THIS IS THE CONDITION OF US ALL!
Said Albert Camus

You can pick whatever piece of the story
you want to say THAT'S the condition
but remember...
it's only a story

..

Hello!
I found your address on a site about wine 
and spirits, cigar and good living and I 
thought that you would be interested by 
the services that our site offers.
  Wine Alley is... [ed note: Uh, you did?]

..

Hi
We are responding to your request for 
FREE analysis of your site:
http://www.cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati85.html
We feel there is very substantial potential 
to promote your site on the Internet. That is 
what we do - we bring traffic to our client's 
websites. We have proprietary software and 
assortment of other Internet tools designed 
to make your site popular and bring traffic 
that is interested in your product area.  
  This can put dollars in your pocket.
  Many of our clients initially thought 
it would be better...
      [note: no thanks]

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TIME, Ink., gets the big L on their forehead 
this week. 
  They list MIT University in their "winners 
and losers" section for allowing course auditing 
online free. They joke about "can porn sights 
handle the competition?"
  But that's not why they get the "big L."
  No, they're all over Barbara Streisand for her
memo that "W" stole Florida, and they claim the 
latest tally says he won.
  Yeah? 
  Says who?
  "Foot in mouth not just Euro's problem," they
go on to say.
  You're right, Time. If the shoe fits...


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HEADACHE
  a poem about pain,
by marco

Bertelsmann
Alanissette Henley digital music hearing
Napster
EMI Warner Lambert Realcom Tollbooth
AOL
Sony Vivendi MTV.com, do you yahoo?
MSN
      Music:   Commodity or landgrab?
Aimster
Protecting copyright owners
Did you say writer?
                      Or owner??
"Singing the Senate blues."
Musicnet; duet.

Is music anywhere in this scene?



THE BLACKBIRD
  a poem by 
Matthew Hewitt
 
A blackbird with eyes of fire sings a song of death,
Creating an image, an image lined with blood, grimy
With blood. Darkness is strong in its sole, hatred
Is burning like a huge fire in its belly, oh black bird,
Beast of the skies, harbinger of death, free us, free us
All show us the way, the way to the devils door,
To be greeted by his crooked smile. And shake his withered
Hand of blistering fire, and at last feel oh so secure,
So secure.

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about musicians should be directed to: 
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http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist



WE end this zine with a poem by J. O'Nym 

William Stafford wrote 
A poem about a car, 
Surely I can do this. 
Of course, his car is Hope 
And mine is just a car, 
Thirty-six years old, rusted out 
And in the shop, and I am 
No mechanic. 


...& again...this 'zine dedicated to Aaron Sorkin...