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\ \ | We are tired of the slick, contrived, |
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| \ | something that is live, raw, and dangerous. |
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| | | "Power to the People: A Lollapalooza Diary" |
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| | | Photo essay by Maxwell Hudson, October 1992 |
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| | | _Spin_, p. 61 |
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/ / The Torn Issue /
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_______________/ / November 2, 1992 /
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| Cyberlicious <tm> | Editor: Blade X | The Bamboo Gardens / / |
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| PO Box 4510 | bladex@wixer.cactus.org | (512) 385-2941 / / |
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| Austin, TX 78765 | WWIV : 46@5285 | Neo Wobbly Node # / / |
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INDEX / /
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Ediborial............................................../ /..
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K-Mart Now Stocks Fractals!.........................../ /...
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Transmission Error.................................../ /....
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Baby Got Back Issues................................/ /.....
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X-change : Paco Xander Nathan....................../ /......
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New Subscribers Info / Poll......................./ /.......
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Smart Drugs; Dumb Kids : Why Johnny Can't Morph../ /........
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\ | I think cyberpunk is the latest at/__/t |
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\ \ | by American hipsters to escape the squalid |
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\ \ | intellectual climate that surrounds them. |
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\ \ | This is not a bad goal. |
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\ \ | Karl Myers, "Cyberpunk Thing" |
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\ \ | Talking Raven Vol II, No. 1, p. 4 |
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\ \ EDIBORIAL
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\ \ ___________________________________________________
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You're back! \ \ |__________________________________________________
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Once again, all\ \little cyber-buddies, it's time for another issue of
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_Scream Baby_. \ \ow that I told some of ya that this would be the Public
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Enemy theme issue\ \t since making that statement I have discovered that I
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really don't have \ \attention span to do a theme issue. Go figure.
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Actually, I've notic\ \hat my attention span has been getting shorter and
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shorter as the nights\ \w longer. In conversations I can barely stay on
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topic for longer than \ \minutes before wanting to jump track and follow some
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tangent. \ \
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Good thing I've already g\ \ated.....else there might be trouble.
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Before we get grooving, let\ \apologize for the condition of this issue. I
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carelessly left the master c\ \of _Scream Baby_ lying around and one of my
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friend's four year old tried \ \ake Halloween decorations out of it.
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Scissors and small children do\ \mix! Anyway, I tried to tape it up, best I
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could, but only had a roll of e\ \rical tape available. Hope it doesn't
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cause any confusion.... \ \
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| Who s\ \ the soul? |
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| Whoever took my PE _Greate\ \isses_ tape during my last |
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| party had better hope I\ \'t catch him/her..... |
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K-MART STOCKS\ \CTALS!
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I walked into my roommate Bayard's room the\ \er day and was like Wow!, what
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a cool psychadelic poster of fractals. Wher\ \d you get it?
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"Oh, I saw it at K-Mart....pretty cool, huh?" \ \
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Fractals are a commodity now found at K-Mart is \ \this blurb wants to say.
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I'm__till holding out for fractal wallpaper. \ \
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/| One way to determine how and what to think is b\ \lling strangers |
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/ | from other areas. Their hurried reactions to\ \tiple choice |
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/ | selections provide one example of how to think abo\ \mportant issues |
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| in your life. \ \ |
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| "A Brief Exegesis of ONO Polling Techniques", _Offi\ \umber One_ |/
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| Volume 1,811,401 Issue 61, August 15, 2004 4:11:3 \ \ page 8 /
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TRANSMISSION ERROR \ \ \ /
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For some reason inexplicable to me, all cybernauts seem eager to\ \t to
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discuss their hardware & software system set up. <shrugs shoulde\ \ Ok, I
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can do that. \ \
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Mine was a *bargain* from the |________________________________| 20\ \ hard
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drive; 2400 baud internal modem, CGA monitor with a dot pitch of .52 \ \; and
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a nifty little 4.77 mhz 8088 chip. \ \
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Dreamy, huh? It gets better. \ \
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\ \
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I am experiencing some trouble with my serial board. Upload files : *NO* \ \
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Problem!; Download files : expect an error correction rate of about 20%, \
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sometimes as high as 45%. In addition, the whole thing just shuts off \
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completel___fter a while, somewhere around the 40-45K mark, meaning that I \
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simply d/ / try to download files larger than that size.
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The se/ / board also only transmits about 98% of the information properly.
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Most / /on is that characters are dropped, making words look mis-spelled.
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Some/ /s the Unix-carriage-return-equivalent isn't recognized at the end of a
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lin/ / my terminal continues to display information off in a virtual nether-
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la/ /eventually returning to my screen's visible spectrum. Every time I re-
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r/ /a message, what's missing changes, so it's always a different experience.
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/ / ____
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/eral subscribers have asked about whether some| | has been "cut off" at
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/e end of each issue. There is, indeed, garbled| |rmation appended to the
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/nd of the September 26, 1992 issue, that does no| |ear in the master copy.
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Electronic Sabotage? | |
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I asked Ed Cavazos, the Vice President of the loc| |stin chapter of the
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Electronic Frontier Foundation to investigate. H| |covered a surreptious
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Control-Z character appended to the end of the fi|___|hich is, in his own
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words, "a big Internet no-no." Old versions of DOS used the Control-Z
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character as a marker for archiving files.
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Was I using an old version of DOS?
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3.3. Nope. I was using a version of PFS: Write with a copyright date of
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1986, however, and so the report concluded that the word processor is
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automatically adding the Control-Z to the end of the files and that there is
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nothing else to be done about it.
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\ \ Morals to Be Learned...
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1. Never take the i\ \ation on your screen for granted. Are the words on
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your screen an ac\ \e representation? Always question. Always re-
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examine. \ \
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2. No matter how spicy \ \system's red hot chili peppers are today, you
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will be the 98 pound \ \ronic weakling in less than three years. You
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can either keep reachi\___\r the steroids (buying hardware that is more /
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pumped, pumped, pumped up) or reach for something new, and something /
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different. A new paradigm and a new way of looking at things: /
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_Scream Baby_. / /
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| Cyberspace is now all around us; it is an unconscious part of li/ /|
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| The technology we accept as convenience has become an invisib/ / |
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| filter through which reality passes; where five answering mach/ / |
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| becomes a community, an hour on the stair-climber is a jog in/ / |
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| park, and a McLean burger is actually a meal. / / |
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| "Are You Living in Cyberspace?" by Tim Taylor & Nathani/ /oeg |
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| Summer/Fall 1992 issue of _Adbusters Quarterly_, p./ / |
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BABY GOT BACK ISSUES | |
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There are so many easy and fun ways to get back issues of Scr| |Baby, there
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is really no excuse for anyone not to have your very own copy| |
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FTP SITES \ \
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Also, The WEll is setting up an anonymous ftp site ANY DAY NOW, and\ \ of the
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digital Cyberlicious <tm>! products will be found there. \ \
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\ \
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PRIVATE BBS SYSTEMS \ \
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Cyberlicious <tm>! products are available 24 hours a day at Tejas BBS, 5\ \
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467-0663. The sysop, Boattail Bob, should be famous for saying, "Softwar\ \
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the currency of the digital underground" \ \
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Then there is also The Bamboo Gardens, 512-385-2941, which is a virtual \
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wayward home for information junkies. Hundreds of textfiles of good, prime, \
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uncut stuff.
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Or feel free to STOP BY MY HOUSE when I'm home and copy it DIRECTLY FROM MY
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COMPUTER SYSTEM. Bring your own 5.25" disks, please. Bring me some food while
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you are at i___
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While we a/ /n the issue of issues, my Codehound A.I. informs me that various
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bootleg _/ /am Baby_ copies are floating around cyberspace, in violation of
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the *STR/ /Y* enforced distribution restrictions [1]. We will track you
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down. / /while I am not a member of the Software Publisher's Association, I
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can ju/ /s easily hire some thugs of my own.
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Endn/ /:
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[1/ /e Software Licensing Agreement : Some people just don't get it.
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/ | If black and white adults don't have anything |
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/ | in common, well, black and white kids do. |
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/ | And what is that? |
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| It's the music. |
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| Hank Shocklee, Public Enemy Producer |
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| October 1992 _Spin_, page 46 |
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X-CHANGE : PACO XANDER NATHAN
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10-29-92
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Only in Austin will you find someone with a tatoo of the international symbol
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for recycling. Paco told me that it was "instructions in case someone
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finds my body. They'll know what to do with it." Paco Xander Nathan is the
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Technology Consciousness Editor for bOING-bOING, an increasingly regular
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contributor to Mondo 2000, a programmer (MenStat & probably more), but is
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probably best described as "the guy with all the cool brain toys"
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Scream Baby caught up with Paco following the EFF-Austin Public Forum : The
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Hacker Crackdown, a speech and book signing by Bruce Sterling. Here is an
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edited excerpt of that conversation :
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PXN: Hi. My name is\ \o Nathan/ / actually _Wired_ may be an
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interesting maga\ \ but _/ /o_ is going to sneak up on everyone in
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the real near fut\ \ / /
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\ / / Mondo during the Q&A session]
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PXN: Actually that's so/ /ns\ \ info.
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Scream: Oh. Can you give/ /some i\ \er info about the next issue of
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_Mondo_? / / \ \
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PXN: Oh sure. Which one? The one that is coming out in about two days?
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Scream: TWO DAYS?!?!
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PXN: Seeing as I wrote a lot of it. ___
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Scream: TWO DAYS?!?! REALLY? / /
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PXN: Well no, it will probably be coming o/ /bout next week or so. We're
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really on the print deadline right n/ /..I have a biotech piece in
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it and a few other pieces as well. / /
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Scream: Is it as glossy? The last issue / /le talked about it taking a
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"step down" from being heads in / /clouds.
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PXN: Yeah. I think what's happenin/ / that some of the art staff is
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really congealing and startin/ / come in to their own, and hitting
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their prime. I think the co/ /of the last issue is just primo
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compared to what's been hap/__/ng before.
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Scream: What's going to be on the cover?
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PXN: I was down at the offices a few weeks ago and I can't talk about it.
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Scream: Oh come on. I've got to h| |inside information in each issue [of
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_Scream Baby_] and the onl| |ing I'm sitting on now is that the
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manager of Public Enemy is| |ting together a rap version of
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Lollapalooza. That's the | | thing I'm sitting on right now. I need
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more. | |
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PXN: Inside information on _Mon| |is just that there is a lot of fresh
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blood and it's going a lot| |e technical. We are talking about
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bringing in a lot more you| |, less-known writers who are actually
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right now in the technolog| |d I think this is going to make a big
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change because these aren'| |ople who are esconsed in post-
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modernism. These are peop| |ho are living in the tech and I think
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that will make some change| |I think that the art stuff is really
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pulling in tight. The big| | thing that is happening right now of
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course is that the circula| | is just booming because of Walden
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books and things like that| |nd of course Mondo also has a new host
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Scream: You're the new Mondo host? You and Jon [Lebkowsky]?
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PXN: Yeah, Jon and Sirius and I.
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Scream: Is R.U. Sirius coming to Austin for a book signing tour?
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PXN: We've been talking about that. I'm one of the few people trying to
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\ \ Named names! Told other businesses how to run their jobs! Hyped those
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\ \ who we like! Dissed those who we don't! Who is going to lease that
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\ \ sombrero-topped-restaurant on the Drag? A New Edge store in Austin?
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\ \I've said too much]
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PXN:\ \think that a lot of the New Edge community here in Austin is
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\ \lusive. Here in Austin it's very large, but it's very exclusive.
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\ \ou're not part of the in-thing, you're not part of it at all. The
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E\ \side is just so damn bifurcated how can you consider it to be
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ex\ |ive? Why is you have to wear black in order to be part of the
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in-\ |wd? You can't define it. You have radical feminists over here/
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I've just finished some work on wear-ables right now. I don't ha/ /
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any units to work on but hopefully pretty soon. And when we do / /
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be doing a party like [see bOING-bOING #9]. Wearable computers/ /t's
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PXN: A wearable is when you take a laptop, gut it, and make it in| |
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basically about 3 or 4 pounds. There are people who have it| |n to 7
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PXN: I think it's going to turn something inside out...You talk | |he VR
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people and the VR people are beating each other over the he| |ver
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reality emergences and how it can be effective and how many| |les
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Scream: That's one point I wanted to make about Bruce's speech was that the
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military is a major support of VR. That without the military there
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would be no VR industry.
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PXN: I'm going to jump out of the field right now and play devil's
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advocate. I think right now that a lot of the emergence stuff is
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just bullshit. I think you and I already have realities. And I
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think that if you go into more of the computer augmented overlay. To
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be able to have something projected out so I'm looking at you and so
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I can be updated at the same time.
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Scream: Random mindsplatter. Now you can see why Scream Baby is like it is.
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I can't keep on-topic for longer than five minutes. I have just
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ordered a copy of Wax....[discussion of bringing Wax to Austin]...on
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Monday and I'm just upset that it's not here yet. I want my
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information faster than that. One of the ideas I had while thinking
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about David Blair....the technology already exists to do what he
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did...... ____hen are there not more people doing it?
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PXN: You would b\ \zed at how accessible technology is. You can walk
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down to Radi\ \ck....I don't know what your expertise in circuits
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is right now.\ \
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Scream: Zerooooo. Big \ \ng zero.
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PXN: You can buy a boo\ \t will show you how to do really interesting
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circuits that sell\ \$2.39. Anyone can just walk in with a grammar
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school education an\ \rt wiring circuits. Why don't people do it.
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Scream: There is a certain le\ \f technical knowledge a lot of people jump
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in and start hacking i\. \ lot of people do it, a lot of people
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don't. A lot of people\ \t understand the technology that
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surrounds them. This is\ \ght up mostly in _Zen And The Art of
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Motorcycle_. They don't \ \how it works as long as the food is hot
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when it comes out of the m\ /wave. Push a button, and that's it.
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That's all you need to know\/ And that's one of the ironies that as
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technology becomes more commonplace, your understanding of it
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decreases.
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PXN: I don't know, I kind of play counterpoint. I think overall, if you
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look at a cross section, yeah, but I think for individuals as it
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becomes more commonplace it starts to fuse together...
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Scream: Tech is more specialized. 100-150 years ago, something in your house
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broke you could fix it. You could repair it. Now there's [hardly]
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anything in your house you can fix yourself anymore.
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PXN: It bubbles through so. A lot more of the weird specialized functions
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are being offloaded into th___oftware. So if you understand what the
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hell an RS 232 port is and| |understand how to debug software you
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certainly can fix a lot mo| |ings that used to be little
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specialized black boxes th| |u would never have a clue about how to
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keep up. It kinda bubbles| |t and goes through stages of being
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very esoteric and very sta| |ized.
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Note: At this point in the convers|___|, Mike Mooney, of the alternative rock
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band None of the Above, breaks in and offers an analogy involving time
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travel and a toaster. Which probably was great, except he spoke so
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softly that the tape didn't pick it up. There's a lesson involving
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media hipness in there somewhere.
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\ | K-mart Sucks |
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\ | -- Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" |
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\ |__________________________________|
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\ \ SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION / POLL
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Tom\ \ is Election Day! I know that you, like me, are just giddy with this
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demo\ \c voting feeling. There's something about bubbling in the slots next
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to 14\ \ntested races that enlightens the true nature of democracy.
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Their d\ \acy, not mine! Here's what I've done. I sat down and made a list
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of sever\ \ssible long[er]-term Cyberlicious! products. All are within the
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scope of \ \ilities. Which to choose? Which to do next?
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\ \
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Here's wher\ \ come in. Following is a what-was-supposed-to-be-short
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description \ \ch project. Study the issues carefully. At the end is a
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ballot, which\ \equired of people who wish to become a _Scream Baby_
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subscriber, an\ \t plain fun for those who already are.
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\/ PHOTO PORTRAIT
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Ever since I saw the photos for Suffer Trough, a local campus radio show, I've
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been aching to do something similar for _Scream Baby_. Essentially this would
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be a portrait of me in a bleak, dreary urban landscape making some sort of
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vague socio-political point. This would also be a "I'll show me mine if you
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show me yours" type of deal. I'll give it away free to subscribers who send
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in a photo of themselves and a SASE. Else it costs money.
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STICKERS ___
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This would be a collaboration between me and my art| |riends to create a
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sticker that could be placed anywhere, but especial| | the side of your
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computer so all can see you for the radical telecom| |ator that you are.
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Something like the BCP! Memetic Antidote. | |
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MACNERVOUSBOY | |
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Nervousboy is one of those artists who doesn't want| |le to know that he's
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an artist. [If that was *really* the case, though,| | stop dressing like
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the Beasties Boy, an identifying mark of Austin art| | With a Masters in
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Fine Arts from The University of Texas at Austin, h| |ks at Kinko's Copies.
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Once, he ran a T-shirt transfer through the machine| |wing that it would
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leave an impression on the rollers. Then he copied| |reds of resumes,
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imprinting "I have a felony conviction" on the back| |ight ink. When
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confronted, he pleads that he didn't know that woul|___|pen and was very
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sorry. He still works there. MacNervousboy is a collection of his art
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information converted to computer format. Gifs, Quicktime movies, pranks, art
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for fucking around sakes, stuck on a disk and sent to stodgy magazines for
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re:view. MacNervousboy. Nervousboy has agreed to think about it.
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JOHNNY MARR MURDER CAN BE FUN COMPUTER CALENDAR
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Those damn "Today in History" calendars are *everywhere*. I hate them. Don't
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get mad, subvert! Johnny Marr is the force behind a little zine called Murder
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Can Be Fun, which is a light-hearted look at murder, mayham, death, and
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destruction. Last year he created a calendar that listed, for each day, some
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such gruesome feat. Birthdays of mass murderers, quotes, accidents, that sort
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of thing. I've been meaning to w_____to him and ask to create a computer
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version of this year's calendar,/ /'s compiling one. I've already secured
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an IBM program, and have leads / / Macversion. I bet there's a damn Today
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in History calendar program fo/ / boxes as well....grrrr......
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SCRE/ /Y : THE AUDIO CASSETTE
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Loyd Blankenship, aka The/ /r, has already agreed to contribute a spoken
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word description of his / /t on the Operation Sundevil raid. His story is
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pretty funny, and deser/ / be preserved....before he gets indicted sometime
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in May. The Scream Ba/ /io tape would be a combination of spoken word,
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news, music, sounds, / /ws, and the same innovative information you're
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slowly becoming addi/ /o.
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/ /
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/____/ APPLY TO GRADUATE SCHOOLS
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Hi Mom! This option is mostly for her benefit. I know she is somewhat
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disappointed that her son-with-the-college-degree-who-she-went-through-8-
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hours-of-labor-for has yet to break the $10,000 a year salary barrier. I came
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*real* close last year. Essentially I would like to study in a Society and
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Technology program. My qualifications include a B.A in Sociology from the
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University of Texas at Austin, about a 3.2 my last two years, and a combined
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score of 1300 on the GRE. Any suggestions? Just think.....Scream Baby....on
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*your* campus. <shakes head> ___
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PRINT FORMAT ZINE VE| | OF SCREAM BABY
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Before you start shaking your head and | |g "how retro!" there's a lot to be
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said for print publication. It would a| |me to add graphic illustrations to
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some of the concepts. I could probably| |w in the Cyber Nuggets comix as
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well. There'd be little quotes running| |g the bottom of each page, just
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like Ben Is Dead. Columns & side bars!| || it's something you can read on
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the bus....but that's another story. | |
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SCUMBAG'S PLACE : | |YBERPUNK YEARS
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This option has me jumping on the case | | friends who produce an ACTV show
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that uses my house as a set, Scumbag's |___|. Scumbag is a mean vicious man
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who rules over a house of puppets. The show is essentially a variety show for
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people with short attention spans : claymation, musicals, singing, magic, talk
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show, anti-drug messages, and lots and lots and lots of puppets! We almost
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burnt down my house in the first episode. I already have produced a treatment
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for the episode, we'd need to secure equipment such as a Video Toaster or
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similar effects editor and we'd also need to secure a big heaping dose of
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motivation. Your vote for the HR Puffinstuff of the Underground, perhaps?
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FIND A WOMAN,
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BECOME OBSESSED WITH MAKING HER HAPPY,
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AND FORGET ABOUT THE WHOLE DAMN THING
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This is self-explanatory.
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SCREAM BABY BALLOT / NEW SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION
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Background Information
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[ ] I am already a _Scream Baby_ subscriber
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[ ] I'm hooked like a cheap heroine addict. Sign me up.
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My e-mail address is _____________________
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Place either an "X" or an "*" in up to three (3) of the following options:
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[ ] PHOTO PORTRAIT
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[ ] STICKERS
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[ ] MACNERVOUSBOY
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[ ] JOHNNY MARR MURDER CAN BE FUN CALENDAR
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[ ] SOUND SCREAM BABY : THE AUDIO TAPE
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[ ] SCUMBAG'S PLACE
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[ ] GRAD SCHOOL -- MAKE MOM HAPPY
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[ ] PRINT FORMAT ZINE
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[ ] FIND A WOMAN TO RUN AWAY WITH
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Hit (R)eply now, delete lines 1 through 514, then mark your ballots with a
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number Pi pencil. Send your entries to bladex@wixer.cactus.org. Deadline :
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December 1, 1992. Not responsible for anything.chine| |wing that it would
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leave an impression on the rollers. Then he copied| |reds of resumes,
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imprinting "I
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