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ATI79. May 26, 1997. 10pm. Happy Memory Day.
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(ULTRA) MODERN VERSE found from Australia by Carl Franklin
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The text of the poem is as below:
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< !*''#
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^"`$$ -
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!*=@$ _
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%*< ~#4
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&((../
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|{} ,, SYSTEM HALTED
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The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
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Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
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Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash
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Bang splat equal at dollar under-score
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Percent splat waka waka tilde number four
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Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash
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Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH!
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Carl
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NOTAS PRIMAROS.
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Hello there. Welcome to ATI79. There will be no numbers run and no calendula
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section. No one mailed any #'s in this week.
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This may also be a fairly short issue. It's just starting to sink in I
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don't have any studying I have to do. So I can start doing the studying I
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pheel like doing. Neat, huh? OK, here goes nothing. Hoka Hey, Nada...
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Oye Como Va...
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<picture> San Francisco, CA - Police officers break up a circle of protestors
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sitting in the middle of a street in front of SF's federal building during
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a rally Monday, March 31, 1997, calling attention to the plight of Navajo
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families facing eviction in Arizona. AP photo by Robin Weiner.
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ATI 79's one and onliest letter to the editor.
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yes. i've received ati- i like it lots thanks:)
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-anon-
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PRIME ANARCHIST'S TAKE ON PAUL MCCARTNEY'S TOWN MEETING ON VH1.
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to the tune of the impromptu song Paul Played at the end. C and F are the
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chords for any interested.
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Paul has lots of money
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And now he needs some more.
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He's talkin' up his humble pie
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And they put him on the TV.
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(chorus-1) C'mon back, c'mon back.
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Back to the Bishops Gate.
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" " " "
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Don't get me wrong I like you Paul
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Brittany passed her a tax windfall
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And now you gotta "pie" and "pie."
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(c-2) C'mon back, c'mon back.
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Pay your taxes at the Bishops gate.
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" " " "
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Andrew sold a couple bottles of wine
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And the Queen bought up some more land.
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C'mon Paul, you're tryin' too hard;
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When it's so easy to understand.
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(second chorus)
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When you got too much money
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You think you don't have enough.
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You get so far back you're in front of you;
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And they put it on the TV...
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(c-1)
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OK. We know all about crack babies and so with fetal alcohol syndrome
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We're beginning to get the results for what goes on with grandchildren
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of bodybuilders who used steroids.
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When on earth will we know how safe or dangerous it is to carry a baby
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to term while wearing the Nicorette patch???? Before it's too late?
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Hope and pray!!!
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(ed note: hands down ATI's world record shortest editorial to date.)
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Kurt Vonnegut was in a panel with Joe Heller and William Styron. I caught it
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on CSpan tonite. (Ooh, one more quick sub-editorial. I couldn't help myself.
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MSNBC. The only big change you will see to NBC's programming now that
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macrosofty is part owner, is the following: rule number 1. Guests on David
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Letterman are no longer allowed to make fun of Bill Gates' toupe.)
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So Kurt Vonnegut's lecture was about Buerocracy in War. Asked what book
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he hopes would outlive him he picked Cat's Cradle, surprisingly. Not
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Slaughterhouse Five. Neat. OK. Here's the main thing I wanted to grab from
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that talk. He recommended the following two books as our "must reads". Us
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being the viewing public... "Candide," by Voltaire. And "Midnite in the
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Garden of Good and Evil." Happy perusing...
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PART 8 OF MARCO'S GUIDE TO THE UNABOMBER'S MANIFESTO.
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169...it is not all certain that survival of the system will lead to less
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suffering than breakdown of the system would. The system has already
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caused, and is continuing to cause, immense suffering all over the world.
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Ancient cultures, that for hundreds of years gave people a satisfactory
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relationship with each other and with their environment, have been
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shattered by contact with industrial society, and the result has been a
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whole catalogue of economic, environmental, social and psychological
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problems. One of the effects of the intrusion of industrial society has
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been that over much of the world traditional controls on population have
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been thrown out of balance. Hence, the population explosion, with all that
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that implies... and as nuclear proliferation has shown, new technology
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cannot be kept out of the hands of dictators and irresponsible Third
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World nations. Would you like to speculate about what Iraq or North Korea
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will do with genetic engineering?
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170...technology has gotten the human race into a fix from which there is
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not likely to be any easy escape.
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180. The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the
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unknown. Many people understand somethikng of what technological progress
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is doing to us yet take a passive attitude toward it because they think
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it is inevitable. But we (FC) don't think it is inevitable. We
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think it can be stopped, and we give here some indications of how to go
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about stopping it.
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180...an ideology, in order to gain enthusiastic support, must have a
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positive ideal as well as a negative one; it must be FOR something as well
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as AGAINST something. The positive ideal that we propose is nature. That is,
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WILD nature: those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living
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things that are independent of human management and free of human
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interference and control. And with wild nature we include human nature, by
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which we mean those aspects of the functioning of the human individual
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that are not subject to regulation by organized society but are products of
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chance, or free will, or God (depending on your religious or philosophical
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opinions.)
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JOURNAL POME 9
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Colorado Ave. drinkin tea
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Tasting of a rusty old sewer
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Sitting on Sitting Thinking Stone
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Thinking of places never been to.
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Strongest coffee north of Santa Fe.
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Bike lock cable wedged into spokes
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Like steel spaghetti: thief runs off
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Into daylight yonder. Rage, I think
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About, letting go -- unravelling
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Bike lock. Tightening spokes to
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Hand-true. A ruined cable, I ponder
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Too- a saved mountain bike.
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Haiku: Cap'n Crunch, walnuts,
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Gatorade and elephant
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Peanuts. Yummy. Huh?
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Take a load off your mind-- your
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Cerebral cortex, corpus collosum,
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Cranial cavity. Your canoggin.
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"They're not bald spots," says
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Zac Taylor. "It's worry skin."
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What a yutz.
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Lady with bouffant falls like President Ford
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Off a piper plane-- cologne smelling like
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It cost more than my college education.
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What a clutz.
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Rock star tries to "pick up chick." Spandex
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Shirt, leather pants, 5'4" with 5-inch heels.
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You know me? I'm with that band. I'm the
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Light man, take my hand. He looks down
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Her 10-year-old cleavage-less concert t-shirt.
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What a putz.
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Army wife tries to pick me up. Spandex shirt,
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Leather skirt. 5 foot 2 blond hair with roots.
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I know you. I sat at the corner with Mai Tais.
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You dance real good, she says. I wasn't even
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In whatever bar she's cornered. Who she thinks
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I am I wondered. I look down her arm at her ring
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Finger, glittering shimmeringly. Sorry, I say.
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I don't date sluts.
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And Sleeping Buffalo lays pensively,
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Vigilant; brown and gray with white
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Splotches marbled in. Hills can make
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You forget what ocean would look like.
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Mountains drive me nuts.
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Tha-tha-tha-that's all f-f-f-folks.
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ATI 79 it was. This was Monday, Memory Day 1997. Hope you had a good
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Parade. And you got no reign.
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As usual send all correspondences to
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ACTivist TIMes, INc. c/o
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marco99@juno.com
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