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Activist Times Inc. Issue 280
YOUR NAME ON A GRAIN OF RICE.
Live from just outside the Brill building looking
in,
it's :
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Activism Time International.
Last nite was Violent Femmes at
Summerfest and I missed it. :(
Specializing in Anarchy, Music and Poetry mostly,
but a little of this and a little of that too. Here
we have the 280zine for early Monday 0107020848 hrs.
JOURNAL NOTE AS NEWSPAPER COLUMN -
by The Prime Anarchist.
FALL INTO THE FOURTH - I'm way behind on my 'zine
too. I got too caught up in my duties at Indymedia.
Which is no excuse really. I could've focused on
it WHILE I was doing all that stuff. I just didn't.
Just that I never put more than 5 or 10 minutes at
a time on the zine during the week, so I got to
deadline with the actual doom feeling right before
a looming minute. You know the feeling I'm sure, or
at least can empathise, right?
But I do have some letters to the editor and a
full #'s run, so the rest should all come together
pretty easily.
So Land O' Lakes just bought out Lake To Lake
Cheese? Did anyone else hear that? I'm guessing by
all these billboard ads I see in every town I go to.
I recorded my own version of Hendrix' SSB the
other night. Just in time to give away for 4July!!!
Classical guitar to Soundforge with lots of reverb,
distortion and noisegate. A couple mistakes that I
chose to "live with" for the usual reasons. (One
take, one track recording Black Sabbath style; and
there were other parts right next to the mistakes
that were so inspired I know I'll never get them
again on any fretboard no matter how hard I try)
Overall I'm pretty happy with how it came out.
I thought "disapproval" came through as a tone
poem, especially the four beat tremelo at the very
end.
http://radio.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=545
Did it end on D? B? Octaves I remember that -- so
much for theory, but then that never mattered much
to me, huh? Maybe I'll TAB it out so people can "see"
it while they hear it. :)
What next? I'm enjoying the heck out of this
Soundforge thing. It comes at the recommendation of
Dak from Holiday Inn Cambodia BBS, remember him?
Oh back to the tone poem I built inside of a Jimi
Hendrix rippin' solo. I say "disapproval" because I
tried to leave behind some of the rage that's usually
there and let general dislike or disapproval outweigh
it rather than getting lost in a blaring rapid-fire
Hendrix scream.
Happy 4th of July. Hope your Charmglow is in order.
Are your rocks clean? And remember, Independence is
NOT just a fake clear plastic graffito on a window
at the GAP, it's how you live your life.
~a~
& NOW 4 SUM NUMERATIONS
http://www.manuchao.net
http://free.freespeech.org/xaa
http://www.channel4.com/forums
http://www.robertmcchesney.com
http://www.geocities.com/spectropop/hbrill.html
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=600
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=48994
http://radio.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=545
http://www.vh1.com/sounds.visions/vh1.0/hr_violent_femmes_1.jhtml
http://www.digitalfarmers.com/conspiracy/english/ingegbg.html
http://www.ochlocracy.org/theatre/greed-flash.html
http://www.geocities.com/undothecoup/links.html
http://www.dubroots.co.uk/pages/index1.html
http://www.blackmesais.org/needslist.html
http://www.diyrevolution.com/index2.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02189.html
http://www.savepacifica.net/strike/news
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02189.html
http://www.infoshop.org/matchmaker.html
http://gir.no.sapo.pt/Pedro/ingles.htm
http://www.elksoft.com/gwa/?gapsucks
http://www.justsayblow.com/index.htm
http://www.thenotefactory.net/twckma
http://www.oddsock.org/tools/sripper
http://free.freespeech.org/delacruz
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
http://www.mcspotlight.org
http://www.gregpalast.com
http://www.hoganview.com
http://www.nuyorican.org
http://www.spotlight.org
http://peacefire.org
http://www.com
& NOW 4 SUM LETTUCE
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Hey Prime!
Who told you that "40,000 words by friday" shit?
What, you think you're HST or something?
Josh
[hehehe. Actually, it was 760 and thursday. But
yeah. Thanks.]
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to ati@etext.org
Did you ever ghostwrite songs for like,
Traffic or Aerosmith?
SM
[I'm old, but I'm not that old. Roger Bunn might
have written for Traffic. Look him up. And hey,
who do you think I am, Glen Ballard? Chevy Chase?
Dave Barry? Diane Warren?]
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It was reported today that at a White House staff
meeting last week there was a heated discussion
about the health of Vice President Cheney and his
angina problem. President Bush interrupted and
stated emphatically that "Men do not have anginas."
The president was especially perplexed when a
staffer said that Cheney has "acute angina."
-anon.
(Marco, don't ask me for permission to run this
in ATI -- I didn't make it up and I don't know
who did, so you are on your own.)
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Hello-
My name is Bob Nelson and I am inviting
you to attend the 2001 Inkzilla Zine Festival,
to be held in Arizona this coming November.
This festival offers you the opportunity to
gain important exposure for your publication.
[no thanks, maybe next year.]
./\.
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Hi capelli,
You're Web site has been submitted
to the SearchHound.com search engine
in the general listings, but you have
not completed the process to activate
your Keyword Account.
PLEASE TAKE THIS NEXT STEP TO ACTIVATE
YOUR ACCOUNT
Next step:
deposit $25 into your account
and place...
[ummm, do the words "I think not" mean
anything to anyone here??]
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ATTN:PRIME.
Business Relationship.
It is my pleasure and keen interest to seek your mind
in this business proposal. I am the personal
assistance ( P.A ) to the Chief Accountant General of
the Federation, ALHAJI IDRIS ABUBAKAR. He is the owner
of this letter I am sending to you.
Here is the story of the deal. We have US$38.5m...
[sound familiar?]
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Marco,
"We have put this opportunity under a microscope
and all we see is cash, cash, and more cash. Who
would have thought something as simple as copying
and pasting could be this profitable? If you are
one of the lucky few to...
[Doesn't show up here, but I get a kick out of the
ones that are in two different fonts.]
./\.
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Sisyphus sent this along:
Say, I've been reading in Thoreau's _Journal - 1851_
and found something: {(he -Thoreau- had been holding
forth in a rather sentimental tone, typical, I think,
of the times, then:} We believe that the possibilitie
of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past.
We review the past with commonsense-but we anticipate
the future with transcendal senses.
In our sanest moments we find ourself naturally expecting
far greater changes than any which we have experienced
within the period of distinct memory-only to be paralleled
by experiences which are forgotten- Perchance there are
revolutions which create an interval impassible to the memore."
The interesting thing about this is that he said it in 1851!
They didn't even have electricity then!
STEAM POWER was barely known! There was a railroad nearby.
It went all of 40MPH.
][ ][ ][ ][
Since It's Uranium At The Front Of It All
a poem about, well, yeah...
Since it's uranium at the front of it all,
Your cause is mine and mine yours, really.
I mean, even though at first glance we each
Look so different, busied at such differing
Issues.
Issues.
Since Uranium is at the roots of it all,
Your issue is mine, and mine yours, really.
That's what I mean - roots. Look deep.
Cause and effect. Where is it all going -
Rights.
Rights.
Since Uranium is under the surface of it all,
Your life is mine, and mine yours really.
Our meaning is interconnected. Again, look deep.
Humanity. Where are we going with this.
Relocation.
Relocation.
Are you Navajo? Chiapaneco? Timorese? Tibetan?
Why do you suffer? I suffer for Uranium really.
Our plight is the same, you and me. I mean it.
Busy yourself, but think about all this please.
Since it's Uranium at the front of it all.
Marc Frucht
June 2001
Green Bay
][ ][ ][ ][
SUMMARY OF PART OF A WEBPAGE:
In retaliation for the investigative story
about the finances of the George W. Bush
campaign, Barrick Gold Mining of Canada
has sued my paper, the Observer of London,
for libel.
The company, which hired the elder Bush
after his leaving the White House, is charging
the newspaper with libel for quoting an Amnesty
International report, which alleged that 50
miners might have been buried alive in Tanzania
by a company now owned by Barrick.
[ref]=[ http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=86&row=1 ]
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WOULD NOW BE AN APROPRIATE TIME TO REPRINT
To The Editor:
[previously printed in a November '95 University of
Connecticut newspaper, New London Day and the Hartford
Courant, and then issue 234 of ATI (the more things
change...)]
"Psst," I imagine someone whispering to defense chief
William Perry, "Apologize for our raping that little Japanese
girl - maybe they'll get off our back about Nagasaki."
Our military raped a 12-year old girl??? Japan deserves
an apology and then some. Didn't we demand 300 years ago
that English soldiers stay out of OUR bedrooms?
Don't Japanese people deserve the same basic human rights?
Or are we still blinded by our imperialistic misbehavior the
whole world over? This just shows me we're getting too big
for our britches.
If the U.S. government truly wants to have good diplomatic
relationships with Japan, then 47,000 troops should be moved
somewhere else. It's time to stop shoving our soldiers down
peoples' throats. We've gone to decay when our soldiers begin
gang-banging children.
Let's go beyond the lip service, Washington. Let's get out
of Japan.
Marc Arnold Frucht
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& NOW 4 SUM Poetry as a rather long ending to this 'zine.
Napkins stacked
Like so many tortillas
Next to the St. Pauli Girl
Behind the ashtray
In front of
The bartender.
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Def Found Poem
by marco
Sam Goody #730
Sale.
10894616 Lucky Boys
Confusion 14.99
+ 82c tax.
RESERVE YOUR COPY OF THE NEW
N'SYNC CD, AVAILABLE JULY 24TH!
Um, I don't think so.
./\.
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DREAM
"Who did this to you?" she asked touching his arm
with a horrified look in her eye, like maybe she should
call the Red and Black Cross or something.
"I'll be OK, but if you must know, it was paramedia
death squads."
./\.
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Batikish
an opensource poem
Safety pin
Reattaches spaghetti
Strap to pinkish paisley
Sundress, wine red
And pink.
./\.
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[small]
First edition. The text of this zine is typeset in
ASCII, with hand-set .txt display type. Composition
printing, and binding are by Marco Capelli Music
Group. MCM is a subsidiary of His Own Damned Record
Company, LLC. Unincorporated since 1965; using the
copyleft and GNU licencings available all over the
place.
The icon showing up:
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as a demarcation between
letters, stories and images was typed out on a used
Compaq keyboard on the spur of the moment. It turned
out to be so beautiful and articulate in the author's
opinion that he named it Rangzen Bracelet.
For an explanation in full, the reader should pour
a cup of organic Timorese coffee and scour the web
for exactly 23 minutes looking for nothing in particular,
and then type "rangzen bracelet" into the browser of
choice.
[/small]
feedback:
ati@etext.org
ATi gives sad farewell to Rene Villanueva; another
of the greats who dies before I get to meet. Oy!!!
