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November 21st, 1993
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|Issue #9 | Editor : Blade X | Back issues found at: |
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| | bladex@wixer.bga.com | etext.archive.umich.edu ftp |
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| | Neo-Wobblie Node # 269 | Tejas (512) 467-0663 BBS |
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Contents, this issue:
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Ediborial
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News, Views, re:Views, and Clues!
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n6
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Unplastic News
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Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer
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Johnny Marr Murder Can Be Fun Calendar 1994
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Subscribers Strike Back!
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| Not that I know of a way to heal this world, or to make a better one |
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| from scratch. I just want to see the whole fuckin' world erupt as we |
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| reach the bitter, scalding end. |
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| -- Evil Elf, premiere issue Nexus Six, page 2 |
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Ediborial
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It was obvious. Months were passing in between issues of Scream Baby and
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once again I was bored with my creation. So I think, what could
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re-spark my interest?
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How about a weekly format?
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more "news"?
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less anger?
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more personal?
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Ok. Let's see.
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I plan to sit down every Sunday evening, and spend 2 hours or so to see
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what I can come up with. I ain't making no promises, though.
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As far as writer's submissions go, don't take the "fuck you" mentioned
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in the "Find Out Why They Call Me Stumpy" issue personally. There is not
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a week that goes by where I don't see at least one "I'm starting a zine,
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so send me contributions!" message from somone who will never be heard
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from again. If you can't fill at least 20+ pages on your own before
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having to resort to contributions, then maybe you don't have anything
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worth mentioning. Maybe I'll change the policy to "don't waste my
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time", but for now, I have to keep at least one indecent word in each
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issue of Scream Baby, simply for the purpose of triggering any and all
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corporate filter programs.
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<waves>
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NEWS! VIEWS! re:VIEWS! and CLUES!
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Nexus Six Magazine
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POB 1394 Hollywood, CA 90078
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n6@cyberden.sf.ca.us
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What I love about N6 is not necessarily the information presented, but
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rather the attitude. Clearly present is a commitment to using technology
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in innovative ways to communicate, to explore, and to create. So
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whenever one comes face-to-face with the sheer stupidity of mainstream
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bullshit you want to scream with anger and rage until you choke up that
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hairball, and you can go back to saying, "this is cool, this is cool,
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and this is cool......"
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Premiere Issue : Gutter-Tech
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Editorial on low-tech & Generation X; news blurbs on technology;
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instructions on commiting suicide on the same page with a contest and
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call for entries on stalking celebrities; a reprinted post from
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alt.satanism on how Closed Caption decoders are actually an attempt by
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the government to spy on you; Interviews with Jennifer Lynch (director
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of Boxing Helena), John Bergin (graphic artist, musician, Bonesaw, The
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Crow), Chemlab, and Christ Gore (editor of Film Threat); reviews of
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cyberpunk music, videos, books, software, computer graphics, and digital
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demos.
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Nexus Six sent free copies of their premiere issue to anyone who
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responded to an advertisement placed on newsgroups and mailing lists. No
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more free premiere issues are available. The cover price is listed at
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$2. No subscription information is listed, but future news stand
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distribution is hinted at.
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UNPLASTIC NEWS BOUNCES BACK!
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The editor of Unplastic News sent me e-mail, saying that the "Ugly"
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Issue would be out soon. Last we heard from Todd was in April, where he
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was planning to head cross country and set up in California. If you
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don't know what Unplastic News is, then your e-zine history is missing
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some holes. Check out back issues at etext.archive.umich.edu. [And if
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you don't know that this ftp site is the major hub for e-zine
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distribution.....well you do now.]
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Unplastic News can now be reached at tt2@well.sf.ca.us.
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HENRY : PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
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Henry is a serial killer whose method to escape being caught by the
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police is not to set up a modus operandi. So you stab one, strangle
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another, use a .45 on one, an electric drill on another. It's not that
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you can't use a gun, it's that you don't use the same one twice. This
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advice Henry gives to Otis, his roommate, a gas station attendant on
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parole who deals marijuana to high school students and who ends up
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raping his sister, Becky, who moved in with Henry and Otis to escape
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from a history of sexual abuse, her husband Leroy (now on bond for
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$1 million for murder, and having left her daughter with her mother to
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move to the big city of Chicago, get a job washing hair in a beauty
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salon.
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You don't really care.
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Bleak, boring, and degrading, unlike......
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JOHNNY MARR MURDER CAN BE FUN 1994 CALENDAR
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If you're planning to buy someone a calendar for Chri$tmas, then you
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might consider the Johnny Marr Murder Can Be Fun 1994 Calendar. Each
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date contains information about homicides, suicides, serial killers,
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natural disasters, etc. in a well researched, no nonsense manner.
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I'd give you contact information, but I can't find my copy. It's around
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here somewhere. I bought mine at Bookstop, a major chain bookstore, so
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it should not be that hard to find.
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I still think a computer version, with dates going back for the last
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five years, is a really great idea.
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SUBSCRIBERS STRIKE BACK!
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Here are some of the responses I received to last weeks questionnaires,
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as well as some new subscription requests. Note that most have been
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edited, so that only the interesting sections remain. Even then, I'm
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suspicious about some, or whether I will do this again............
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> Question 3 -- Henry Rollins
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> Savage street poet or heavy metal butthead?
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When I was seventeen this guy was a hero of mine, because he was my
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introduction to shock value (you know, spit-roasting little girls in the
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back yard?) and all that, but lately, he's just a whiner. Musically,
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anyway. I think of a really grotesque and tacky Beauty and the Beast.
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His next album will be called "Poor Fucking Me, the Screaming Album, Part 25."
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And of course the true irony is that he smirked at the mere mention of
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Morrissey on Mtv...Morrissey, who at least can sing.
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Also, Rollins thinks he's saving the world by telling the Mtv generation
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to listen to real music, like John Coltrane. Rollins, who has *none* of
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the integrity of John Coltrane.
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Okay, I sort of like that song "Do It."
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Andrew Werling awerling@nmsu.edu
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Just thought I'd answer five out of six of your essay questions, just because
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I need to get up reasonably early tomorrow and it's late already.
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1 - The outcome of Gabriel Garcia Marquez replacing William Gibson on The
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Difference Engine - Dr. Cat buys a copy and reads it. He loves anything to
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do with Charles Babbage, but possesses an irrational, rabid prejudice against
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anything associated with William Gibson.
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2 - Cybroganics/cyberganics/cyberorganics/however-Paco-spells it: "We have
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invented a new word, to show that we are even hipper than those that find the
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newest invented words of others and parrot them. We will not tell you what
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it means, because we weren't cool enough to make up that part really, but
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don't want to give ourselves away." neotribalism - "we actually stumbled
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onto something that's of real significance but we don't understand it so we
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just toss around a lot of jargon about it. we only found it because we
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jabber about ALL weird new things we hear about, and we really aren't aware
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which are the significant ones. We think the brain-wave altering goggles are
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just as important as neo-tribalism, what do we know?"
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3 - Henry Rollins. Never heard of him. But hey, is there really any
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difference between the two categories you listed?
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4 - Please somebody get a discussion going about making an alt.cyberpunk.slag.
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Some of the dumb kids that call themselves cyberpunks haven't been kept
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busy enough by their own dumb newsgroups to stay out of the ones I like, and
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maybe if they had one more new group it would help.
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5 - The Well is destroyed... Of the 99%+ of netizens who never once logged
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onto the Well, 6% shift from thinking "The Well is probably cool/lame" to
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thinking "The Well WAS probably cool/lame". The other 93% continue to
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periodically think "Oh, I don't really have the time/money to check out the
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Well for myself", and continue to think of it as either cool or lame
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indefinitely, as the frequency with which comments about it appear here and
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there seems to remain about the same as it had been before.
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No answer for number six, as I'm not Kibo. (Or am I?)
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-- Cat
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Question -- Who are you?
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I am a hazardous waste manager with the California Institute of
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Technology. My job also includes radioactive materials and safety. The
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job very rarely gets boring! I'm also a full time student majoring in
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industrial hygiene.
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I'm a physicist, undergrad, Brunel University. At the moment I'm trying to
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understand what reality is and it's lotsa fun being able to speak the
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language.
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I love travelling, I've lived in the UK, India and the Middle East as well as
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over to the States a few times. I'll see ya there next summer.
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[Coming to Austin for Leri@Con?
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Cool beans...................]
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Now I wanna know what/who you are and what's the deal ? I managed to find
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one issue to S.B. and it's got...hmmm I dunno yet but I wanna.
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I love reading and that includes fiction, sci fi especially and history.
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One cultural artifact worth your time huh ? Well no specific recommendations
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but find out what the Spanish Civil War was, "A Homage to Catalonia" Orwell.
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And remember the next time you watch " A Clockwork Orange" you're seeing my
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campus and this bleeding computer center most of the time. It ain't funny.
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also I want a reply from you, not some automailer.
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Zaid
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[Note: Zaid gets major points for demanding a personal response, but,
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unfortunately, I'm out of
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