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"Remember to leave only footprints, watch each and
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every card you play and let there be songs to fill
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the air. Have a great summer. See you somewhere out
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there..."
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--Toni Brown.
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/-|| || || July Fifteenish!
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(( || || || 0's just flyin!
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issue233 Fullmoon comin'
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R U Ready 4 It?
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Watch Out 4 Running #'s
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http://ojr.usc.edu
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati/adam.jpg
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http://www.shutterbug.org
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http://www.thethe.com/message.html
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http://catalog.com/mrm/zappa/html/testimony.html
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http://www.thecapitaltimes.com/news_gore_071400.htm
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati/webzine2.html
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http://24.161.10.197/FOTFA/foyf.htm
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http://www.halcyon.com/robinja/mythos/SteveJones.html
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http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/52/stoneground_words_melanie_.html
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http://tii-kokopellispirit.org/Magazine
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http://www.mihra.org/2k/politics.htm
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http://www.alicedimicele.com
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http://www.angelfire.com/nd/paulran
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http://SpaceyIdeas.Com/cheshire/access.html
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http://www.geocities.com/nsavan/links1.html
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http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/1-2
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http://www.artsandmedia.net/sfexpo
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http://www.stopwto.org
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Quahogs with black beans and onions.
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Mmm. Mmm, mmm. Seafood to dive for.
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I'm prime anarchist and this is my rant for
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the full moon weekend of mid july '00.
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Brace yourself for A LOOK BEHIND THE
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CURTAIN: Flashing Back to Sunday.
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Political man takes over park talking a mean line. Precise
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carefully constructed median words - so as not to divide.
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Do the prezwanabes still have to go to Harvard to be taught
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hand movement, eyebrow control and diction or will they come
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to Harleywood and potty train 'em?
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Sunday before the Green Bay Algore. SS man erects antenae
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atop roof, preppin' 4 th3 prez. Fliers passed out by young
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redeblicrats, rumor control (or out of cont?) spinning. People
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wander and stroll hoping to see the OTHER prezwanabe. Oh? It'll
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be Thursday? Oh.
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Read on, somewhere in this mess I put something about Al Gore
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standing on a flatbed truck greeting about a thousand people
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trying his bedamnablest to sound exactly like FDR on acid.
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Word kudos go out to the Aug2000 crew of George Magazine for
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coming up with the phrase "Schmoozapalooza 2000" for upcoming
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conventions.
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=prime=
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oh, ps: this zine dedicated:
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abe ribicoff
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may there be no "gestapo tactics
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in the streets of L.A. or Philly.
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LETTUCE
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> Gentlemen:
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> Last week the monitor ran a comprhensive article on the rise of private
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> armies. The largest U.S. group had a boast that it's personnel did not carry
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> weapons. The implication is that Americans would not be hired as mercenary
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> combatants in the near future. This is misleading. A hypothetical example
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> would be that retired military people could run a supply corps, leaving the
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> actual fighting to indigenous guerillas who are fed regularly and have smart
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> uniforms as well as modern weapons. Readers like myself are always a bit
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> credulous to note that television footage of armed conflict always show
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> modern camouflage uniforms, and plenty of automatic weapons. The fighting is
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> often large in scope. Chechnya is an example. A good question is: who is
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> paying for the slaughter? My guess is that the secret CIA budget is coming
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> back to haunt us. It is a nice scheme. No Americans die and any resulting
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> evil is hidden or ignored by a media which always "goes along".
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> An armed force which is not controlled by constutional means is a threat
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> to the Republic. Again, suppose that an existing government is performing an
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> essential but unpopular task and is challenged. It is not beyond
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> comprehension to imagine that opposition in the form of force could be aided
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> and abetted by private armies.
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> The conclusion is that armed force, directed privately or secretly has no
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> place in America.
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> Sincerely,
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> Merritt L. Ball (860)
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to ati@etext.org
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Your zine rawks
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It's like food for thought.
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Keep it up.
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Josie (602)
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Hi
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Can you please tell me who your
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Chief Investment Manager is.
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Also can you also send me his
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or her email address.
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Regards,
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J Ray
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[ed note: um, no.]
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to: ati@etext.org
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nice job on the daunting web site.
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lots of text.
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made me smile.
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i used to get fan mail.
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wrote for buddyhead.com, will write for gear someday.
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now i just stay up late.
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http://www.buddyhead.com/other/tidbits
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it's still there, if you get bored.
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tah tah.
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why is there no gear website?
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to marco:
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I tried all yesterday afternoon to write a poem about
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how hot it is here, but it was too hot. From noon to
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four, the sidewalks are deserted, the town's nearly
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empty of students and most living gets shifted to night
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time, which has a definite effect on behavior here. Just
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blame the heat for everything else I tell you this summer.
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Last night, Gibson pretty clearly defined the limits of
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our relationship. His band played, and they were great,
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but not as great as I remembered, and after the show he
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stood talking to a tassel of college-aged girls for
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twenty minutes, and I finally went up to the edge of
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the group, and he ignored me, or tried to until I
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told him I was leaving, and he smiled like a little
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boy caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and said,
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"Thanks for coming." Then I went over to Henry's and
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flirted with anything that moved until I felt better.
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I'm not going to stop seeing Gibson, there's no point
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in breaking up if we're not even committed, but it's a
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relief to know I'm not going to fall in love with him.
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Ian sounds just miserable, please write him, because
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I can't handle all of his issues. I'm trying to have
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fun down here.
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So long,
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Kristy
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the woody guthrie free folk festival will
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be held in okemah, oklahoma wed 13- sat 16 of
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july..... arlo guthrie will be there aong w/
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lots of other folk artist, camping is free...
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.....much love,
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okiecrew
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[ed note: that one's almost too late, here's another...]
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Hi Marco,
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Has it been 3 years already? Yup - Time for another
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"Hackers On Planet Earth" conference. HOPE 2000, or H2K
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will be held July 14-16 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in
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New York City http://www.h2k.net. It's put on by 2600
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Magazine, "The Hacker's Quarterly", so if it's a slow news
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day, the networks will send out their video crews to show
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those "Big Bad Hacker Dudes" doing nasty deeds over their
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T-1 connection, with film at 11.
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If you can't make it for my talk on "Low Bandwidth Access
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To The Internet", it can be found at
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http://SpaceyIdeas.Com/cheshire/access.html
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Looking forward to seeing you again.
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Keep Smiling,
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Cheshire )
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Live from Opsail 2000.
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On Location, with Sisyphus.
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It is now two days before the event. There were these State-owned
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highway signs all along I-95 flashing "OPSAIL 2000" & "JULY 12" clean
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on in from inbetween the Pawcatuck/N.Stonington entrance and the
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Stonington Borough exit. And more often as the exits got closer
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together. I remember some kids from New Britain found a way to hack
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into those signs and wrote something brilliant like "FUCK!" & "GOV.
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ROWLAND" on them. Great stuff.
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There's a lot of people milling around these days. Lots more people
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of the streets. Workmen, too. Saw some guys building some sort of
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"Arch" across Pearl St. You can see the harbor direct from there.
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They had a fancy dome sitting on a flarbed waiting for the frame to be
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built. Real glitzy and flashy. But hey, it's like something you'd
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see on top of a Gazebo or a garage. Except this one has a gilt roof.
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Mention of the OPSAIL 2000 event has begun to appear on local TV as
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of a week ago. It was mentioned in the Hartford and Waterbury papers
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last night. Yup, they're pushing hard. Decent promo work. Wish I
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had his TV connections.
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This is Monday, July 10 coming to you live from New LONdon!
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And it's hotnmuggy & I gotta take a shawr.
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pseudonym for a poem
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by e.e. droppings
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a man, a mouse and a moose walk into a bar.
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Bartender says "Sorry, I don't serve moose."
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Man says, "That's fine. "I'm not here to eat,
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I'm here to socialize."
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Mouse says, "you'd look funny with a
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tennis racket stickin' outa your ass."
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Moose says, "Once it was dinosaurs,
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"Now it's humans,
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"Just wait. Next is moose.
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"You WILL serve me,"
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[smiles] [pees] [leaves]
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PRIME ANARCHIST WORLD NEWS
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6-INCH MOTH SHUTS DOWN ACCOUNTING FIRM
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Typed in from AP unedited by Prime Anarchist Productions.
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SHEBOYGAN - Wisc., - A mammoth moth, not just sunny
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weather, kept employees of a local accounting firm outside
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their offices much of the day Thursday.
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Workers arriving at the firm of VanDeKreeke & Sorenson SC
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at 8am spotted the moth, with a wingspan of nearly 6 inches,
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hanging on the side of the building.
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When receptionist Dawn Hemschemeyer arrived, she found
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employees gathered looking at the oversized insect. Soon some
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were dashing inside to do research on the Internet to identify
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the creature.
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"We would look at some pictures on the Internet and then come
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out and compare them to the moth," Hemschemeyer said.
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It eventually was identified as a cecropia moth, the largest
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silkmoth of North America, and one with a relatively short
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lifespan. Adults have no mouth parts, but live only a matter
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of days during which they must mate before they die.
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Though not rare in Wisconsin and the Midwest, they are not
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often seen during the day because of their nocturnal habits.
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Hemschemeyer said the moth remained on the same side of the
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building in about the same position until about 2 p.m. when it
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moved to the back of the building.
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Employees didn't seem to mind that the moth kept their
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attention for so long, Hemschemeyer said.
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"It's an accounting office," she quipped. "Nothing happens
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here."
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SETTING SOME THINGS STRAIGHT
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urgent call for support from Big Mountain, Az.
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The following letter is written for/with Louise Benally,
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by antoinette claypoole.
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Sent from Big Mountain
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Human rights and environmental havoc have been slain as the federal
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government continues to fuel progressives on the Hopi Tribal Council with
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food which feeds their greed. Beneath the vast and humble land of Big
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Mountain, near the four corners region of the "united states" a reserve of
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black gold and life defying uranium are folded into the flesh of Mother.
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Here the long and continued resistance to relocation by traditional Dine
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is heated up, smoldering in the heart of dedicated elder, original
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organizer, and well respected aborignal leader of the Sovereign Dine
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Nation, Kee Shay.
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In order to feed the greed beast and seize land for excavation, rape,
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the Hopi Tribal Council in the name of progress continues its acts of
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harassment toward long time residents of Big Mountain, this time attacking
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Kee Shay by demanding he attend exclusionary hearings in Hopi Tribal
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Council chambers. This in order to force Kee Shay from living on his land
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of birth, hearings and court dates set to "exclude" him from access to the
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place he lives. May 22 was the first appearance date demanded of Kee
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Shay, 84 years old and failing in health, with another appearance date
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coming up on July 20th.
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For some who follow Big Mountain issues this may not seem anything new,
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and for those first reading of Big Mountain the issue may seem small as
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juniper in no moon darkness. But this is not so. the harassment of Kee
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Shay is the first effort by Hopi Tribal Council to exclude Dine from Big
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Mountain who progressive Hopi say are "not part of the 75 year
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accomodation aggreement" and in this way are enumerated as being exluded
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from access to living/being present in Big Mountain. The case of Kee Shay
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will set a precedent for progressive Hopi to continue their flagrant abuse
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of Dine elders/resistors by issuing court orders to all who did not sign
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an agreement to leave the land.
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The issues are complex. As thunderheads over Sundance in mid july the
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sky cries. Here. In the washes we make camp and pray for another way.
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There are demons in our midst. People who take the donations of well
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meaning lists of supporters from around the world. People who hire
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attornies, solicit legal aid and raid the hearts of the reistors in
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big mountain. Attempting massacre of a dream of unity and living in a
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traditional way these so called organizers for big mountain are
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scimming funds and well intention efforts from do gooders around
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the world.
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Donations and services sent through Marsha M. are not reaching the legal
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needs of the People of Big mountain at this time. The donations sent to
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these supporters do not always get to the land, are not available to the
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heart of the needs of the people, to the bellies or lives of those in the
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greatest need. There are people calling themselves supporters and legal
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council of big mountain yet these people are not accountable to the
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current trials of Kee Shay. All who read this must know that Kee Shay has
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no trustworthy attorney, no legal aid resources, has no one to assist his
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efforts to confront and appeal the action of Hopi Tribal Council EXCEPT
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the efforts of Louise Benally.
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Louise and her family have been resisting and held the pulse of
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sovereignty in the their hands for over two decades. Today Kee Shay looks
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to Louise for support. and today in this way we ask for you to help him
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survive this, another attempt at genocide.
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If you have helped big mountain efforts in the past, or wish to offer
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support at this time, please send donations DIRCETLY TO THE PEOPLE through
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Louise Benally ear mark your offerings LEGAL DEFENSE, KEE SHAY....
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SEND DONATIONS TO;
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Louise Benally
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po box 1042
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Hotevilla, Az. 86030
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"YOUR SUPPORT IS NECESSARY AS WE HAVE NO LEGAL FUNDS AT HAND TO USE FOR
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THE PEOPLE GOING ON TRIAL AT BIG MOUNTAIN. THANK YOU. WAR IS IN THIS, BUT
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THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE FOR A NEW TOMORROW."
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--LOUISE BENALLY
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July 12, 2000
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Mexico Scandal Heats Up
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Computer hackers hired by an opposition
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political party have gained access to a list of bad bank loans
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that cost taxpayers $7.3 billion, adding fuel to one of Mexico's
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biggest political scandals.
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The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which
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forced a 1995 bank bailout through congress, had tried to keep
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the list secret, fearing accusations that the loans benefited
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the rich, according to news reports Thursday.
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Big corporations, front companies, politically connected
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businessmen, and bankers -- some of which are accused of fraud
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-- were all on the list... {ed note: the rest of this story was
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speculation, opinion and propaganda, so we snipped it right in
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the bud...}
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[ref][http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/topnews/ap752.htm]
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& THIS JUST IN FROM OUR VERY OWN POETICAL FAH-Q
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I look over my shoulder and see nothing
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I look in the mirror and see nothing
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Why won't these voices leave me alone?
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Where do they want me to go?
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I hear them all the time now.
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The Dr's say they will go away
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Take this med
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Take that med
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Doesn't seem to help
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It's not like a voice in your head
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It's a voice in the room with you
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Surrounding you
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Standing over you
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Things are so confusing
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I can't hear the T.V.
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Music sounds so strange
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With them singing along
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I just want to close my eyes
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Make it all go away
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Fah-q (860)
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Wedding / Casino
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a poem by marco
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"silver. Possessed." L.N.
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The small problem with marriage
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man gains
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woman loses
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The big problem with divorce
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woman loses
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man loses
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The HUGE problem with marriage AND divorce
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state wins
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House always...?
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TALKING YOUTH TO POWER
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a gonzo report from Al Gore's Ruinous Road to
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Radical Religious Right Redshirt Republican Ruses
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Recurringly Redneck and Remade.
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Ryder, Rollins and Penske are here. Has no one
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been left out???
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There's more press, more secret service and more
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lackeys, flunkies and politicos here at the amusement
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park than I've ever seen in this place at any one time.
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And Gore/Bradley and their ilk won't even get here until
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tomorrow!
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There's even a rumor floating around that rather
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than the Beach Boys, they're going to have BackStreet
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Boys and Britney Spears impersonators to start the
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show.
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Wait, that's not all. There's an MC on the flatbed
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truck right this moment rehersing "So similar! So
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similar to the real thing! You won't be able to tell
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the difference!"
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SPEAKING YOUTH TO POWER: Next Day, Same Shit.
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Along with the secret service, press, fbi, cia, local
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and state enforcement and assorted other spooks, geeks
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and dorks, Al Gore brought all of Yale here to Green
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Bay for a day. Never mind that his last stop was
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Canterbury can I complain about something?
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Politicians are just plain lousy for my economic well
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being.
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I announced this as I played street guitar in front of
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a young determined journalist who had his heart set on
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shouting to the VP on his way out, "as someone who wants
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to look cool with the press, how come you're entertaining
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no open Q&A?"
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There were many different kinds of protestors there. Most
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of them (us) got obscured in the press behind the Republican
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protestors who stole the show. (can you say amerikan para-
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military???) There was a handful of men in their 20's some
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skinheads, some wearing the fake hollywood coneshaped bald
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heads, orange robes and sandels, bouncing basketballs. they
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were out to slam Bradley and Gore in one display of
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assininity. Good work.
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My friend Geoff from the local Latin American community
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printed up flyers about Occidental and the U'Wa people
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being adversely effected by Al Gore's economic choices,
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another friend Adam wore his white plastic SOA death mask
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and a T-shirt about the F-Word. There were about five
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different kinds of flyers being passed out by various
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different groups. Some anti-Gore, and some just, well,
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anti-Gore.
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I played guitar where I always play, but the firetruck
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and saw horses being used to obstruct justice in honor of
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the event made the space near me somewhat of a ghost town.
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Politicians give out some kind of spooky energy that causes
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people to tip me pennies, nickels and dimes mostly. Rather
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than the quarters, ones and fives I'm used to. The hour
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leading up to Al Gore's Ministry of Truth PepRally I made
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a little more than two dollars. I played after he was done
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for another hour and raked in the rest of my 11.37 for the
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day. My average for the summer is 16 bucks per hour. Today
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I made my average, and I also did the day before Gore. Go
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figure.
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One woman about my mom's age wearing a George Bush T-shirt
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gave me my only early dollar bill. "I don't know if you're
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republican or not, and I don't care," she said to me, "this
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is because you're working so hard out here in the sweltering
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heat."
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An old grey haired man in a straw hat with an Al Gore
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button, an Al Gore T-Shirt and bad bermuda shorts (the kind
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with only one pocket and single stitching that Kathy Lee
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Gifford sells for way too much) walked up and asked me if I
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was on welfare. He and his narrow mind both seemed quite
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surprised and disbelieving when I told him no.
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Do you think making up a yes to that question might have
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gotten me a tip from him? Would I have even wanted one from
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him? I'll pass.
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I took to telling people between songs that the main reason
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I'm an anarchist is that republicans tip me a whole lot better
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than democrats, and I refuse to embrace 3/4 of what rebublicanism
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has to offer.
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Many people (I'd say 5 or 6 at different times) thanked me for
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providing live music at the event because they were sick of the
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"canned crap" coming out of the loudspeakers.
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Let's see, Dave Matthews I heard at one point out of those
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things, and BTO's "you ain't seen nothing yet..." (that one
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may even be public domain by now, unless Michael Jackson already
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owns it.
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Or is that even the canned crap he meant??
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I wonder if the Gore campaign pays out any royalties for use?
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Nevertheless, it WAS canned. I'd almost settle for the Beach
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Boys or the impersonators, eh?
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The Radio Station must've been just drumming up a rumor about
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those impish personifiers, or they no-showed on old Al and Bill.
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No, God no. Not another Bill on Capitol Hill. Please Lord. Spare
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us.
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When I'd first gotten there, I made the mistake (or was it really
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a mistake? With me almost everything serves a perfect metaphor and/
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or guerilla theatre.) of walking up to a ss man and asking, "where's
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a little guy allowed to sing a protest song around here?" He started
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out saying anywhere I'd like, so I continued on past him.
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"Wait!" he said. "Did you say 'protest song?'"
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"Yes," I told him.
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"Hold it right there," he said, "I'll have to clear you. It'll
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probably be fine." Fist over his face, talking into his wrist he
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dialogues with "Mr. Main Man," (who I'll encounter later) who
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instructs him that there's a general area I can go to where they
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will search my guitar case and need to know exactly what songs I
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plan to sing.
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That's when I decided to go to my usual busking spot and sing
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for the children and parents of the amusement park instead.
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I did later succomb to the search but not the set list when
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Bradley's rhetoric began because I felt like walking around the
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crowd without singing.
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At one point blue and white signs were hoisted high up in the
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air by just about every single person except me, and I was
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surrounded by people young and old all growling, looking and
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sounding exactly like the Hitler Youth, all of them.
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That's when I had this sudden brownish black feeling come
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over me.
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I'm surrounded by democrats.
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Lost and alone, feeling more alien by the minute I went away
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from there and ultimately back to where I played for my much
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more lucrative hour.
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It may sound like I'm saying democrats are cheap sons-of-bitches
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and it would appear that I feel Al Gore is very bad for my
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personal economic abilities on this planet.
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You heard right.
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SINGING YOUTH TO POWER
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Next up comes my free hour. I found myself a spot which the
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ss men hadn't planned for.
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I sat under a tree for about an hour and played until the motorcade
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passed me by. During "One Tin Soldier," how cool is that? Pure
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poetics.
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So there I was under a tree, right by the road. When the motorcade
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bangs its first right - there I am right across the street lit up by
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the sun, playing my '64 epiphone dreadnaught box guitar. Gore won't
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hear me, I'm sure, but no way he's not going to see me unless
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someone next to him covers his eyes, kicks him in the gonads or
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points and says "look! Up in the sky, it's..."
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Two police are within earshot of me. A local cop who seems bothered
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by me but fairly tolerant and a state trooper whose task is to
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direct the motorcade to that right turn that will pass me.
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I hate sounding obsessed over self-importance here, but I was on
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a mission. Jimmy Carter had Amy, constantly abugging his conscience.
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Reagan had that son on SNL dancing around in a tu-tu.
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Gore's got no one, people. Think about it. His children are yuppies.
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They're like the Brady Bunch without the remarriage. His wife is,
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well, his wife is HR2911, er uh, I mean Tipper. His wife is Tipper.
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So he needs people like me just around every single corner.
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Turn right Al, I'll be there. Turn left? There I'll be!
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So he needs to see me, DK hat, an earring in each ear, my non-racist
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skinhead haircut, my cut-off jeans, and my RC cola baseball jersey -
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that's right. Neither republicrat nor demican, no pepsi, no coke -
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and my Mickey Mouse slippers playing my guitar under a tree on the
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perfectly-cubed factory-made wood chips that make my butt fall
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asleep.
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So this "Mr. Main Man," the head honcho of all the ss men, I mean
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even the snipers up in the bell tower (we later learn they're local
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SWAT team with m-16's) had to take orders from this dood. He leaves
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his post at the front door, where I swear he'd been mounted since
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Wednesday, yes, the front door to the famous Pavillion where FDR
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made his first speech, and Lawrence Welk kissed his first girl,
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and Proctor and Gamble fouled to their first lake and river to
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condemnation, so many decades ago.
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He left his main duty station to come address the concern of
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some guy playing his guitar under a tree in the way of where
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VP Al will be driving.
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He walks up to the trooper, they each look my way about five
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different times then whisper to each other like two teenage girls
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planning out which one's going to ask me to ask someone out.
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I saw the statey do one of those hand gestures that sort of
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says, "don' worriabowdit."
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I can't tell if it was my acoustic version of Black Magic Woman
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or my weirdass reggae rendition of Aerosmith's Dream On that got
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to him, but by some point in there he was all but full-on grateful-
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dead-style dancing along to my music. A weird way of pacing he'd
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developed so as not to look too weird jitterbuggin' there in his
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uniform.
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I'd love to get him on MTV teaching all the other little blue
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uniform peeps all over the world those steps, but I digress. He
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was doing that right up to the point when "Mr Main Man" walked
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up on him. He then leaves him and comes over to ask how I'm doing.
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"Great," I tell him.
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"I need to make you pack everything up and move down there
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somewhere," he tells me. "You can't be this close to the motorcade.
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It would make me very uncomfortable."
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"How come? So there's no possible way Al gets to see some young
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man playing a guitar under a tree for the rest of his life?" I saw
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by the look in his eye that my entire life suddenly made total
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|
sense to him. Maybe he did the same Lightning Bolt as me back when
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I was in the army. Or was it the light blue daisies? Or maybe the
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paisley swirls? I'll never know.
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"I just can't have you within spitting distance of the cars," he
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saw me size up a certain part of the curb which was about as far as
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I could ever get a loogie.
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"It's a metaphor!" he told me smiling. I swear I'm not making a
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single word up here. I told him I understand but that I'd already
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had my guitar case searched and my whole person, and that I carry
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no ill will toward anyone in the motorcade, and that this was very
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important to me.
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"OK," he said, "I can give you two choices," before having seen
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that look in his eye I'd have thought for sure one of the choices
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|
was jail-time.
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"You can either pack up and move down there somewhere, or I stand
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right here next to you the entire time."
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"If you could do that," I told him, "I would really apreciate
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it." He agreed, then explained that he had to do this because it
|
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would be the only way he would be "comfortable."
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|
I think one of the security guards at Disney World told me
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something the exact same way with the exact same words once when I
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was in 2nd or 5th grade. [was that you???]
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That's the last thing he said to me. He stared forward during
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three full songs. It was that stare a salamander gives you when
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you can tell he's studying the heck out of you from the very edge
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of his periferal vision.
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Suddenly I thought of what his biggest fear probably was. He
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likely watched a few too many reels of A-16 footage last year.
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I was going to perhaps jump out in front of Gore's car and lay
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down on the pavement to risk getting mooshed and stop the motorcade.
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|
He'd have to tackle me before or after it perhaps risking his own
|
|
life as well. This was a very serious moment.
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I was on autopilot the first two songs I sang him, so I can't
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remember what they were. Was one of them Jon Anderson's "Seminole
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|
Wind?" I honestly don't recall. But having no idea when the cars
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would actually start, the next song that came to my mind was "One
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|
Tin Soldier," from "Billy Jack."
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He heard about two thirds of it.
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When the last black-window-tinted car whizzed by he left me for
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his original post to go relieve his relief. Never said a word. A
|
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man on a mission. I finished the song and went home.
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I'm certain Gore didn't hear me over the air-conditioning and
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the steelbelted radials on the hot summer pavement, but I wonder
|
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if he felt all this?
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One could only hope.
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Oh, one quick addendum. An earlier SS man who liked my DK hat
|
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while I was busking asked me if I knew "Stink Foot" by Frank Zappa.
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He confided in me that Zappa was his favorite artist ever.
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I promise never to tell Tipper.
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/\-----/
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/ending/
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/----\-/
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We end ATI 233 with a very short poem by me and then
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one by someone else.
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Needless Things;
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Need Less Things
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send all sendmail to:
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ati@etext.org
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FORECLOSURE
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a poem by Lorine Niedecker
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Tell 'em to take my bare walls down
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My cement abutments
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their parties therof
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and clause of claws
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Leave me the land
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scratch out: the land
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may prose and property both die out
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and leave me peace
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