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Activist Times Inc. Issue 314
As seen on NBC, CBS, CNN, and even Oprah!
Yeah right. I was going to make this issue
"superspam III." But instead (and you'll
thank me I'm sure) I chose to just re-refer
you to issue 94 of ATI. The one dubbed SuperSpam.
Is it me or has spam all of a sudden gotten
more far-reaching and persistant this month?
http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati94.html
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PUBLISHERS COLUMN IN THE FORM OF A RANT
Everyone wants to do something to help
Everyone wants to do something big
Everyone wants something permanent
profound
beautiful
Sublime
Everyone wants to do something cathartic
popular
unique.
But does anyone want to do all of this
in one act???
Visit a victim.
Say nothing.
Do nothing.
Just be present.
Does anyone want to do that???
Sincerely,
Prime Anarchist
NUMBERS
http://www.dmusic.com
http://www.aobra.com.br
http://www.poncho-k.com
http://www.byte.com/humor
http://www.kennyskids.org
http://www.filmwatcher.com
http://www.progressiveportal.org
http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/merlek
http://www.mindspring.com/~fragments
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock
http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html
http://www.geocities.com/jewel_australia
http://www.sacredland.org/black_mesa.html
http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4496
http://www.brianwillson.com/awolslippery.html
http://members.tripod.com/~mrpuzuzu/plan.html
http://www.geocities.com/murderbyprofessionals
http://www.ucimc.org/front.php3?article_id=4781
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/616585/posts?page=2
The revolution will not be standardized
LETTUCE
0.00 this week. :)
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Love my country, fear my government
OPEN LETTER TO A SPAMMER
That was very clever how you tried to get our
heightened attention by starting all this with
the message, "your email didn't have the attachment,
it was empty," as if there might be something we can
do by what, resending? Resending what?? Nothing to
send. Pretend all you want, but I never sent you
anything.
I can only begin to feel sorry for you because you
probably paid good money to acquire a list of emails
that for some reason I can never figure out:
includes me as a potential buyer/sucker/victim/ or mark.
I wonder if there's any psychiatrists out there at Brandeis
or wherever else designing masters theses about how
much thought process must go into spamming people
you will probably never know.
Linguists ought to get involved too, seeing how
a brand new tongue is evolving over all this.
[ref]=[ http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati94.html ]
Heck, if I use teen, school, girl, and tell you that
my shirt size is just between L and XL and that
if you send me XXX clothing it will be too big for
me to wear.
Woops, runon sentence -- if I use words like that
suddenly my writings climb up the search engines
faster than something that really was well thought
out and well written, huh?
Anyhow, a little more than a decade I went and
simplified my life so rather than making more money,
I buy less things, and I take good care of what I have
and put the time and education into repairing everything
rather than adding to landfill.
I only mention this to you because since this is all the
case,
THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN SEND ME THAT I WOULD
BE INTERESTED IN.
Anyhow, remove me or don't remove me. I don't care.
It's your dime, and your karma. I've got a delete finger.
Yes I assigned an actual finger to it because I get so
much in this email address the last few weeks.
Oh well. Take me off your list if that will help your
karma. Otherwise keep sending me stuff that I delete
about as soon as I get it.
This is the last real reply you'll get from me probably.
In fact I'm actually writing this for others more than
for you. I'm devoting some space in my magazine
to this email as well.
Cheers,
marco
"It's good to take a viewpoint that there are no rules,
or one right way to do something although knowing some
of the ins and outs of the studio will help you get
the best results."
-- Brad Zwieg. Studio Z
[ref]=[http://www.execpc.com/z_studios]
Who remembers the Iced-Tea commercial right after,
was it the Quebec anti-globalism demonstrations?
I think so. Might have been right after Gothberg.
Something like that. Anyhew, I was one of oh so many
who were offended by the ad's theft of the entire
"activism" theme to sell something. Just like it
was quite offensive to see a myth built around Martin
Luther King's speech from the Lincoln monument implying
that if it weren't for Cingular or AOHell or someone,
no one would be able to hear him. To sell what, internet
service? And the GAP using the anarchy symbol and
graffiti'd windows to try and sell jeans and accessories.
Yuck.
Well I found something this past weekend that makes
these look downright tame in comparison -- mere kudos,
or shouts and greets or something than the abusive
usurption they are.
You might want to sit down for this one.
I was watching 5 minutes of Nickelodeon's "Nick
At Nite" show while I ate a cheese, garlic and ketchup
sandwich on homemade wheatbread. That's the channel that
came on when I powered the TV up, and I was GOING to surf
to somewhere else of course while I ate before going out
to see some jazz band at my favorite local coffeeshop.
Did I see and hear right? Holy wah!!! I'm not making
this up. Here's what offended me so.
A song I'll describe later which was the opening
theme song to this show, which stars a home-boy about
my age who joins half a dozen or so little white 10 or
11 year old kids on a trip to a candy factory. Kind of
Mister Rogersish. You know, you get to watch all the
machinery go and the viewing pubic gets to go "ooh,"
and "ah." OK so he's in some grocery store and he's
wearing a black or blue bandana on his head. Normal
street clothes. He's mad because all the foods are
low-fat, and sugar-free. He asks a couple of the kids
who all seem to be shopping alone. "What's with all
this stuff without sugar?" "Are you as mad as me?"
"Aw, c'mon, look at this, sugar-free chocolate. How
can you have chocolate without sugar???" All the kids
follow him to the outside of the store and he's got
them all lined up -- these little roundheaded chubby
little white preteen boys and girls, there's nine or
ten of them gather up now and he's yelling "what do
we want?" and they're yelling, "Sugar!" "When do we
want it?" "Now!!!"
I swear, I'm not making this up. I didn't do any
channel surfing, just hung on this one because I could
NOT believe my eyes or ears.
Here's the kicker. If this doesn't just piss you the
heck off, I don't know what would. There's some serious
outrage over here. Can you feel it?
The introductory theme song went as follows:
AIN' NO NIGGA
LIKE A NIGGA WID
A SODA
CAUSE A NAGGA WID
A SODA ______
I couldn't make out the rest because the music was
being faded into the show.
NO! I really, really, really wish I had made this up.
This is for real. I'm all over usenet and google trying
to verify this somehow. I don't even know who to call
on the phone yet.
marco
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I was reading the following Merle Kessler passage
while listening to Patty Smith's "People Have The
Power." The segue to Paul McCartney's "Freedom"
was quite anticlimactic, I should say. As were the
next half a dozen Salon articles I surfed around to.
I-Zone and "Got Milk?" had partnered up in that
irritating new- economy way. They had a booth in
which you could be photographed next to a life-
sized poster of a milk-mustached Britney. You were
provided with a milk mustache of your own: a piece
of white tape. Walking by, I noticed half a dozen
or so unclaimed photographs lying on a table.
NOMINATION:
Invention Of The Millenium.
The Okidata double dot matrix printer.
reason. I still see them everywhere I go.
HOW DO PEOPLE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD
SEE US (AMERICANS OF THE U.S. KIND)
Here is a quote from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad,
friend and coworker of Gandhiji and Jawaharlal Nehru.
I am still convinced that there was no justification
for the use of atom bombs on Japan without previous
warning. It was a weapon which completely destroyed
not only military forces but the civil population
and harmed even unborn generations. In fact, it
threatened the destruction of man. When, in WWI,
the Germans had used poison gas against the Allies,
world opinion condemned them in unqualified terms.
If the Germans had then been guilty of inhumanity,
how could one absolve the Americans of the same
charge? I felt that the use of the atom bombs
exceeded the limits of permissible destrution
and did not redound the prestige or heroism of
the Allies. I also noted with regret that the
Allies hailed this event as a magnificent victory
and there was hardly one word of protest.
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A boy was watching his father, a pastor, write a sermon."
How do you know what to say?" he asked. "Why, God tells
me." "Oh, then why do you keep crossing things out?"
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DayHealthWorkChildFare
a haiku'ish
Even people she don't know
Battle fiercely on her behalf
That's how it's supposed to be.
AND NOW AN ENRON METAPHOR
The conservatives and the liberals
Are fundraising together.
It's like watching the
Titanic go down
From atop an
Iceberg.
NATURE POEM
Hey Golden Eagle
Brown and white,
Chest puffed out
Looking like
Atila the Hun
Thinkin' you're all that.
On a fencepost
On a farm
On an interstate.
You are, aren't you?
NEW BAND NAME OF THE WEEK
Ozomatli Crue
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Shall we end with a poem by Jose de Gouveia?
Almost. Let's.
Subject: Computer Virus Warning
Virus, virus on my hard drive
of my PC with '98 windows
a whole lot of gateways to a soul
infected and infecting
spreading like a cancer
killing my memory of many
long lost and deleted objects
for I too have seen the best
gigabytes of my generation destroyed
by yet another hackers madness as I
shove an aspirin into my disk drive
and double click on Dr. Watson's menu
As the online porn queens moan and groan
RealAudio sound bytes of virtual MichaelAngelo...
Because the information highway ends not
by the blow of a silent horn but the zap
of an opened folder as a new Y2K
era is upon us I'm not sure if
mutations of newly adapted technology
will heal all in some sort of Virtual Second Coming
or kill us all in the rougher electronic slouchings
of a much meaner holographic beast
The computer monitor awaits
with RealVideo and WebTV
just click here for free access
its not 2000 but 1984
much different from grade school
when being hooked on phoenics
felt so much different than
hooked on the internet
I'm with you Bill Gates in the starkness of a new millenium
with you as our on-line Savior with mouse in hand -
awaiting your crucifixion!
I'm with you Bill Gates in the sunny skyless cloudscapes
gleaming super-nova whiteness upon your capitalistic
blandness!
I'm with you Bill Gates in the blue glare of white
flashing screens with no savers in chat rooms and
forums and newsgroups and websites and, and, and...
The New World Order's Age of Reason?
Because the world truly ends with
some sort of sound and whether it be
a bang or a whimper will never be noticed
in the internet zone where I swallow yet
another anti-virus somewhere in Norton
Wasting away again in Cyberspaceville...
While conforming to the net's political correctness
of kind words in chat rooms, sensitive electronic
mutabilities and safe on-line sex at an URL
linked to my homepage wondering if the
Computer has the virus
or do I..
Reprinted from his website at:
http://www.geocities.com/bostonpoet2000/poets/November/gouveia.html
And we double-end this zine with a Michael Moore quote
from his book "Stupid White Men."
What I am concerned with is why
politicians like Senators Joe
Lieberman of Connecticut and Herbert
Kohl of Wisconsin want to go after
MTV when they are the ones responsible
for the massive failure of American
education.
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