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March, 1994. Volume I, Issue 0
==============================================================
CONTENTS:
1. "ALIVE" next host to you (a word of introduction)
2. Results of Contest for the Best Virus Definition in technical
categories
3. Puzzle - is this piece of (pseudo)code a sign of "life" ?
4. A comment on Cohen's theorem about undecidability of viral detection
..................................Dr Franz X. Steinparz
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% ALIVE, Copyright 1994. By Suzana Stojakovic-Celustka %
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1. "ALIVE" next host to you (a word of introduction)
====================================================
Dear Readers!
I guess you are already impatient to find out what "Alive" is. Calm down till
I tell you something about its history.
So, once upon a time...actually about a year ago I started a long search for
the best definition of a computer virus. Surprisingly, it wasn't an easy
task. Discussions on Virus-L and some private discussions didn't bring any
satisfying results. I even started the Contest for the Best Virus Definition
in despair. Well, the prizes were rather symbolic and probably it caused a
low response. Never mind. All those attempts to answer the question : "What
is a computer virus ?" only opened new questions. It appeared that computer
viruses could be considered as members of a big family of so called
"artificial life". Naturally, new questions were: "What is artificial life?",
then "How to define a life?", etc.
This magazine is one more try to find answers to some questions. The search
for the best definition of computer virus will be continued. It is a general
opinion that computer viruses are inherently malicious software. The
possibility of viruses to be beneficial will be (hopefully) discussed here.
However, protection against malicious viruses will not be neglected. This
magazine will try to introduce new ways of protection, e.g. "immune systems".
The question "What can be 'alive' in a computer environment ?" will be
repeated in all possible variations as long as wish to find answers exists.
The examples or descriptions of "liveware" will be presented here as soon as
they appear. Probably some new topics will arise as "Alive" progresses. And,
of course, I expect a lot of fun for both readers and contributors.
About this issue:
-----------------
This is 0th issue or beta version of "Alive". It means - feel free to
criticise every detail in it (in a civilized and constructive way, of
course).
The first topic is presentation of results from Contest for the Best Virus
Definition in technical categories. The Contest was announced in April last
year on Virus-L. Originally it had 8 categories: 1. Technical definition in
plain language, 2. Technical definition - mathematical, 3. Legislative
definition, 4. Ethical definition, 5. Philosophical definition, 6. Poetical
definition, 7. Funny definition and 8. Other definitions. The response was
significant only in the first two categories and (surprisingly) in the
poetical one.The jury for technical categories worked hard and the results
of its voting are presented here. Regretfully, it will not be possible to
publish many of the valuable comments that members of the jury gave during
their work. I wish to thank the members of the jury again for their efforts
and to all contributors to the Contest for their contributions.
The second topic is a kind of puzzle. It concerns one of the standard
distributed algorithms which could be possibly considered as a sign of
"life". The readers are asked to help to find a solution.
The third contribution is an article which is rewritten here without
permission from something which looks like a copy of an internal document
from Johannes Kepler University, Linz. I hope that one day I will find the
author's address and that he will have nothing against publishing his article
in "Alive". The article has a very interesting conclusion and I am not going
to tell you anything in advance. Just read it!
About contributions and subscriptions:
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Preferred form of contributions are short articles or previews. Comments on
contributions will be deeply appreciated, but will be published only if they
have a convenient form. This is -not- a place for polemics or blames, so
please don't send your comments if you have nothing constructive to say. The
preferred form of code examples is pseudo-code. The code of existing viruses
which somebody could consider beneficial will not be published here. Send
your contributions and comments to celust@cslab.felk.cvut.cz
Subscriptions requests should be sent to mxserver@ubik.demon.co.uk
Ftp sites:
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The magazine will be available for anonymous ftp from following sites:
ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de in /pub/virus/texts/alive
ftp.demon.co.uk in /pub/antivirus/journal/alive
Any offer from other sites will be appreciated.
About editor:
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The editor is currently a Ph.D student on Computer Department, Faculty of
Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. Is working on
her Ph.D thesis and hoping that "Alive" will bring a lot of useful material
and a lot of fun.
So, dear readers, enjoy the reading and make your copy of "Alive" really
alive: SPREAD IT WIDELY!
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2. The results of the Contest for the Best Virus Definition in technical
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categories
==============
The members of jury for the first two categories from Contest for the Best
Virus Definition (1. Technical definition in plain language, 2. Mathematical
technical definition) were:
1. Vesselin Bontchev, VTC Hamburg, Germany
e-mail bontchev@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
2. Anthony Naggs, consultant, UK
e-mail amn@ubik.demon.co.uk
3. Yaron Goland, U.C.L.A, USA
e-mail ygoland@SEAS.UCLA.EDU
4. Roberto Reymond, IBM C.E.R.T., Italy
e-mail rreymond@vnet.IBM.COM
The guidelines were:
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1. Technical definition (in plain language - preferably English)
- The definition should be concise, without reference to the user's state
of mind and free of value judgements, e.g. "good", "bad", "beneficial".
The definition should be unambiguous, and include a statement of the
environment to which it applies, (e.g. the operating system).
2. Technical definition (mathematical)
- The meaning of every symbol in mathematical formula(s) should be clearly
explained.
The jury used the following evaluation scale:
---------------------------------------------
1 - useless
2 - has serious problems
3 - must be improved
4 - good enough
5 - very good
6 - excellent
Results in category 1.: Technical definition in plain language
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Author: William Walker Submitted by: author Source: Contest posting
[ ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEFINITION OF A COMPUTER VIRUS
A "COMPUTER VIRUS" is a sequence (or set of sequences) of symbols
which, when executed or interpreted under certain conditions or in
certain environments, will make a possibly altered, functionally
similar copy of this sequence (or set of sequences) and will place
this copy where it will intercept execution or interpretation at a
later time under certain conditions. This is called "REPLICATION,"
and the copy retains AT LEAST the capability to recursively
replicate further. A virus may also have an additional function (or
functions) not related to replication, sometimes called a "payload,"
but this is NOT necessary for something to be a virus. ]
Comments on the above definition:
1. This definition is not tied to any specific machine or operating
system. The phrase "sequence of symbols" is used rather than "sequence
of instructions" or "program" to help keep the definition as generic as
possible.
2. A computer virus may not be restricted to a single sequence of
symbols, but may consist of two or more sequences that individually do
not constitute a virus, but working together satisfy the criteria of
being a virus.
3. The phrase "intercept execution or interpretation" refers to the
fact that a computer virus must somehow be placed on a host machine where
it will be executed or interpreted in order to survive. This is done by
forcing the host machine to execute or interpret the virus before,
during, after, or instead of some other sequence of symbols on that
system; in other words, "intercept execution or interpretation."
4. "Replication" (or "spreading"), as defined above, is the key point
in defining a computer virus. A sequence of symbols which does not
replicate cannot be a virus. Likewise, every virus must replicate, or it
is not a virus. On the other hand, the inclusion of a "payload"
is not essential for something to be a computer virus.
Jury's decision : 4 (good enough)
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2. Author : Vesselin Bontchev Submitted by : Suzana Stojakovic-Celustka
Source : e-mail conversation
[ A computer virus is a sequence of symbols, which, when interpreted by
computer, attaches itself to other computer interpretable symbol
sequences in such a way that they become able to recursively spread
the (possibly modified) initial sequence further. ]
Additional explanations of used terms:
"Infection" is the process of attaching a computer virus to other computer
interpretable symbol sequences.
"Attaching" means that the interpretation of the infected symbol sequences
causes the interpretation of (possibly part of) the computer virus.
"Interpretable" is anything that a computer can interpret.
"Able to spread recursively" means when a virus infects an executable object,
this object is able to spread virus to another object, which in turn is able
to cause the infection of another object and so on.
Jury's decision : 3 (must be improved)
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3. Author: Fred Cohen Submitted by: Suzana Stojakovic-Celustka
Source: Article "Computational Aspects of Computer Viruses", Computers &
Security, 8 (1989.), pp 325-344
[ We informally define a "computer virus" as a program that can "infect"
other programs by modifying them to include a, possibly evolved, copy of
itself. With the infection property, a virus can spread throughout a computer
system or network using the authorizations of every user using it to infect
their programs. Every program that gets infected may also act as a virus and
thus the infection spreads. ]
Jury's decision : 3 (must be improved)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Author: Greg Hale Submitted by: author Source: Contest posting
[ For a program to qualify as computer virus, the program must meet two
qualifications:
1. The virus must replicate itself and all subsequent reproductions
(exempting unsuccessful infections) must be able to replicate.
2. The virus must execute by replacing or redirecting the user's
request for the computer to start the normal operating system or
execute a familiar program. ]
Jury's decision : 3 (must be improved)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. Author: Roberto Reymond Submitted by: author Source : Contest posting
[ A set of instructions that, once executed or interpreted, gains the control
of the environment.
That done, those instructions will, in specific circumstances, make at least
one copy of the initial set, identical or modified, placing it/them somewhere
in the environment, with the intention that, if and when executed or
interpreted, it/they will repeat at least one time the above cycle. ]
Additional explanation of terms:
Environment: it means the whole system, that is the combination of all the
hardware (fixed and removable) and the software presents at the
moment of the virus actions.
Jury's decision : 3 (must be improved)
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6. Author : Fred Cohen Submitted by : author Source : Contest posting
[ A program that reproduces.]
Jury's decision : 2 (has serious problems)
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Results in category 2. : Mathematical technical definition
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Author: Fred Cohen Submitted by: Vesselin Bontchev Source: Short article
"Formal Definition" written by Vesselin Bontchev, based on private
discussion with the author
(The contribution is not presented here, because of mathematical symbols).
As in this category were no other contributions, this one was considered as
a winner without jury's voting.
Editor's note:
--------------
Either the jury was too severe or plain language is not suitable to define
computer virus properly. The winning definition is evaluated as "good enough"
only. The others must be improved. However, it seems that the key point in
defining a computer virus is a "replication" (as stated by W. Walker).
Personally, I found comment 2. in W. Walker's definition very interesting for
possible future development of computer viruses.
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3. Puzzle - is this piece of pseudo(code) a sign of "life" ?
=============================================================
I was wondering if Misra's algorithm for regenerating token in logical
ring could be considered as a sign of "life". Help me to solve this puzzle!
Some explanations:
------------------
Distributed algorithm - it has two basic elements: the processes that
receive, manipulate, transform and output data and
the links along which these data flow and which form
a network having both structural and dynamic
properties.
Ring - each process is aware of its two immediate neighbours, called for the
convenience the left and right neighbour respectively.
Token - special message which the processes hand from one to another around
the ring.
The method uses two tokens, each of which serves to detect the possible
loss of the other, by this means: a token T1 arriving at the process Pi
can guarantee that the other token T2 has been lost - and can therefore
regenerate it - if neither it nor Pi has encountered T2 since T1's last
passage through Pi.
The loss of a token is detected by the other in one passage round the
ring; and the algorithm works only when one token having been lost, the
other makes a complete turn round the ring without itself being lost.
The algorithm:
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Let us call the tokens Ping and Pong, and with these associate numbers
NPing and NPong, equal in absolute value but opposite in sign, that record
the number of times the tokens have met; these numbers are therefore
related by the constraint:
NPing + NPong = 0
Initially the two tokens are both in an arbitrarily chosen process and the
values are:
NPing = 1, NPong = -1
Each process Pi carries an integer variable Mi, initialized to 0, that
records the number, NPing or NPong, associated with the token that last
passed through Pi. The behaviour of Pi is as follows:
when received Ping(NPing) do
if M = NPing {Pong is lost, regenerate it}
then
begin
NPing:=NPing + 1;
NPong:=-NPing
end
else
M:=NPing
when received Pong(NPong) do
if M = NPong {Ping is lost, regenerate it}
then
begin
NPong:=NPong - 1;
NPing:=-NPong
end
else
M:=Npong
when meeting (Ping, Pong) do {Meeting Ping and Pong}
begin
NPing:=NPing + 1;
NPong:=NPong - 1
end
In practical realization of algorithm numbers NPing and NPong should be
limited by modulo P where P > or = N+1 (number of processes in logical ring
+ 1).
Literature:
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1. Janacek J., Distributed systems, 1993., Vydavatelstvi CVUT, (in Czech)
2. Raynal M., Distributed Algorithms and Protocols, 1988., John Wiley & Sons
Editor's hypothesis:
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Consider that each process itself is "alive" by consuming, transforming and
extracting data as a "food". Then regeneration of token(s) is necessary for
its "life-time" and above algorithm is vital to keep a process "alive". Here
we have the following signs of "life": "metabolism", ability to produce new
"living" entities (tokens which help in their reproduction themselves) and
ability to communicate with "neighbours".
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4. Article:
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A COMMENT ON COHEN'S THEOREM ABOUT
UNDECIDABILITY OF VIRAL DETECTION
Dr Franz X. Steinparz
Johannes Kepler University, Linz
October, 1991.
Abstract:
This paper shows that Cohen's Theorem, stating the undecidability of viral
detection does not hold. It is shown that each algorithm discerning a virus
from other program by examining its code must be a virus itself.
Keywords: computer viruses
Introduction:
In [2] Cohen introduces Computer Viruses and summarizes some work he did on
this topic. Aside other results of his work, he gives a rather informal
definition of Computer Viruses and the proof of his well known theorem
stating that a program discerning a virus from any other program by examining
its appearance is infeasible. In [1] Burger expressed his doubt about this
theorem. However, to our knowledge, no fault in Cohen's proof has been
published, and in discussions about viruses, the theorem is widely ( [3],
[4], [5] and others) referred to.
Cohen's Theorem:
In Section 2 of [2] Cohen defines:
"..a computer virus as a program that can 'infect' other programs by
modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself."
In Section 4.1. of [2] Cohen states the undecidability of viral detection.
His proof follows a well known proof technique. He argues:
"In order to determine that a given program 'P' is a virus, it must be
determined that P infects other programs. This is undecidable since P could
invoke any proposed decision procedure 'D' and infect other programs if and
only if D determines that P is not a virus. We conclude that a program that
precisely discerns a virus from any other program by examining its appearance
is infeasible. In the following ... program ..., we use the hypothetical
decision procedure D which returns "true" if its argument is a virus to
exemplify the undecidability of viral detection.
....., we have assured that, if the decision procedure D determines (the
following program contradictory-virus) CV to be a virus, CV will not infect
other programs and thus will not act as a virus. If D determines that CV is
not a virus, CV will infect other programs and thus be a virus. Therefore,
the hypothetical decision procedure D is self contradictory, and precise
determination of a virus by its appearance is undecidable.
program contradictory-virus :=
{....
main-program :=
{if D(contradictory-virus) then
{infect-executable;
if trigger-pulled then
do-damage;
}
goto next;
}
}
Fig..Contradiction of decidability of a virus.."
Discussion:
First, we notice an inaccuracy in Cohen's paper in defining a virus as a
program, which -can- infect other programs and using this term in his proof
for a program which actually -does- it. However, this inaccuracy can be
corrected by adjusting the definition.
But even if we adjust the definition, the proof in its generality is wrong:
It is based on the implicit assumption that the decision procedure D is not
a virus itself.
Suppose the decision procedure D is a virus itself. Then contradictory-virus
infects an executable by calling D and consequently is a virus too. Now D,
when deciding that contradictory-virus is a virus, gives a correct result
even if contradictory-virus, based on D's decision does not execute its own
viral code.
However, under the restriction, that only non-virus decision procedures are
permitted, Cohen's proof holds. Consequently, each decision procedure D must
be a virus.
References:
[1] R. Burger: Das Grosse Computer-Viren Buch, ISBN 3-89011-200-5, DATA
BECKER, Duesseldorf, 1987.
[2] F. Cohen: Computer Viruses Theory and Experiments, Computers & Security
6 (1987) pp 22-35, North-Holland, 1987.
[3] G. Futschek: Computerviren fuer LOGO Programme Bauanleitung,
Wirkungsweise und Abwehrmechanismen, interner Bericht,
Technische Universitat Wien, 1988.
[4] F. Hoffmeister: Sicherheitsrisken durch Computerviren - erste
Losungansatze, Bericht Nr. 232 der Abteilung Informatik
der Universitat Dortmund, Dortmund, 1987.
[5] C.A. Neumann: Computerviren und verwandte Anomalien, GI Symposium "PC's
in kleineren und mittleren Unternehmungen", Leipzig 17-19
September 1991., Tagungsbad der Fachgruppe 2.0.1. Personal
Computing der GI, 1991.
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The Virus Syllogism:
Computers are made to run programs.
Computer viruses are computer programs.
Therefore, computers are made to run computer viruses.
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Table of Contents
I.> My run-in with the phone company
II.> Beyond the Cutting Edge: "Mondo 2000". Taken from NEWSWEEK
III.> Loops: What the fuck are they and How can I use one?
IV.> Blacklisting
V.> Passwords: Peice of cake!
VI.> Report on Marijuana
VII.> StoryTime! LSD Experience
VIII.> Appendix
***and as an extra special bonus!***
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I.> Wintermute's run-in with the Telco!
Run-in with the Telephone Company!
This is a story about my recent conversation with a "representive" from
a phone company. These statements are true, this is not a test!
(W= me, T= phone company)
<ring> <ring>
W: Hello
T: Is Mr. XXXXXXX there?
W: No
T: Am I talking to XXXXXX XXXXXX (me)?
W: Yes you are
T: This is Mr DICKHEAD from AT&T. I am calling to find out how much Long
Distance calls your family makes a month.
W: Well we really don't make any.
T: Do your parents own a calling card?
W: Uhh, yes i think they do.
T: Do you know how to use it?
W: Who the hell is this?!
<he goes on to tell me who he is, and he proves it to.>
W: So what does all this have to do with me.
T: We have had complaints from companies around the 407 area being called up
and hacked into.
W: <Rudley interupting him> So. How am I involved in this?
T: After recieving this news, we set up extra operators to watch all outgoing
sequential calls
<That's me Scanning for new carriers to hack>
W: What's wrong with scanning for #'s? I do it to look for BBSes to call!
T: And that's it?
W: YES!!
<yeah right>
T: Do you know what Phone Fraud or the term Hacking mean?
W: No sir
T: It is the stealing of other people's calling cards and the illegal breaking
into a computer system.
W: Well I can assure you that I have not done any of this.
T: Well, that could be true, but we will be watching what #'s come out of your
phone line.
W: You do that. I'll see you later!
<clunk! dial tone.........I hung up>
Well that's my most recent run-in with trouble. That was about 4 days ago.
I haven't heard from him since, but I also haven't been Scanning #'s since
either! The moral is, HANG UP ON THEM WHEN THEY SAY WHO THEY ARE!
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II.> Beyond The Cutting Egde: "Mondo 2000". Taken from NEWSWEEK
Beyond the Cutting Edge
"A slick magazine for the cyberpunk crowd"
Reprinted WITHOUT permissions from NEWSWEEK: August 19, 1991
Once again a new edge is busily being carved in Berkeley. It's the end of
the first decade of personal computers. Music is just a mass of digits. The
only reality worth talking about if virtual. And the science of the moment is
chaos. Now, working out of a Bay Area mansion, a small crew is hoping to lead
the way to -- and profit from -- the new era just ahead. Their vehicle is a
magazine called Mondo 2000. And if, wrote in another context, something is
happening here but you don't know what it is, well, they intend to tell you.
But be warned, if you're not a cyberpunk, prepare to enter this world
slowly. Mondo's cyberpunk universe derives from the work of Sci-Fi novelist
Wiliam Gibson, whose best-selling books depict a bleak world controlled by
multi-national corperations, where the hereos rebel and turn technology to
their own ends by crashing computer systems or finding exotic drugs. Mondo's
language is English but the meaning can be elusive. The first three issues of
the slick quarterly roamed across cyber-lifestyle, with articles that ranged
from atrifical sex via computer to ho to legally purchase drugs designed to
make you smarter. Together with the brown paper Whole Earth Review -- the
magazine for cyberhippies -- Mondo is filling a niche. One San Fracisco critic
calls is the Rolling Stone of the 90's. Analyst Paul Saffo of the Menlo Park,
CA Institute for the Future, goes further: "This kind of magazine that
engineers read in their teens and influences what they build 20 years later.
It's an idea time bomb."
And there are plenty of ideas. Recent Mondo issues included a bizarre
conversation between Timothy Leary and Williams Borroughs, a description of
aphrodisacs that might work, a report on computerized break-ins at ATM's and
a speculative piece about "wire-heading" -- implanting electrodes into the
brain's pleasure centers. Presiding this are two top editors who prefer to
use odd pseudonyms: Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius.
Going Mainstream: "We're techologic renagades," sais editor in chief Sirius
(real name Ken Goffman). Cyberpunks come in all genders. Queen Mu (real name
Alison Kennedy), "Domineditrix" of the magazine, says that 40% of its readers
are women. "People either get it or they come up a cpmplete blank. But
there's a real cult that follows us," says Sirius. "Mondo," says one fan,
Stephen Beck, a computer manufactirer in Alameda, CA, "is `Build Your
Vocabulary,' using jet fuel instead of motor oil." Now Mondo is going
mainstream: it has a HarperCollins contract to produce "A User's Guide to the
New Edge."
The New Edge, as it were, is full of contradictions. The classic Berkeley
hills mansion out of which Mondo works is funded partly by Queen Mu's
inheritance from her parents. The decor is dark woods, conventional furniture
-- and plenty of computers. The working drugs of choice are diet Coke and
pizza. Off the job, Mu is a student of drugs (henbane, lolina, darnel) used in
withcraft -- one of which paralyzed her briefly. She says she's not a with,
but may be a pixie: at one recent party she asked dinner guests whether they'd
like toad venom (a psychedelic) with dessert. All declined.
What's next for Mondo 2000? The coming issue will feature the history of
transsexualism. "Someday we may be able to change our bodies into anything we
want," says Mu. "Or go into a room and say we want a purple chameleon, and a
chameleon wil appear." If that's the case, then what does the future hold for
magazines? "By 2000, magazines will be obsolete," says Sirius, flipping his
shoulder-length hair. "We'll be the last magazine." Or, perhaps, he'll be a
balding entrepreneur wondering where all the time went.
Brave New Words
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Cyberspace: Where cyberpunks frolic, love, fight and swap information in a
shared computer land connected only by their keyboards.
Virtual Reality: Using computer, touch-sensitive gloves and goggles to imitate
reality.
Hackers: Now an acceptable term for computer enthusiasts.
Crackers: The new word for bad hackers who invade other computers or a
telephone system.
Smart Drugs: Legal nutrients and drugs said to enhance intelligence, usually
purchased by mail from Europe or Asia.
Information-surfers: People who browse through computer databases for fun.
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III.> LOOPS: What the fuck are they and How can I use one?
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* Part One (1) in The Art Fish *
* Phone Number Oddities *
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=======Loops=======
Hello, I'm Art Fish- I'll be your teacher for this evening.
Loops, what the hell are they???? I've heard many a confusing
description. One of the best descriptions, the one by Phred Phreak,
completely misled me until I met a nice man who set me straight again.
Anyway- I digress.
Phred Phreak said:
"Imagine two telephone numbers are floating around
in your CO. Then you and your friend each call
these numbers at the same time, and BAM! your
connected"
That gets across some of the Idea of loops. They are two phone numbers, and
one person can talk to the other when both numbers, or sides are called.
Here is an example:
Let's say that the loop numbers are 555-0098/555-0099 (the two numbers
usually are right in a row like that). You dial up one side or end of a
loop. Which side you call does not matter, but your friend must call the
other. You dial 555-0098, and Bob (your phriend that you are going to
chat with) dials 555-0099. Bingo- you two can now converse.
What happens if you call one side of the loop and no one is on the other?
Well, thats a good question and I'm glad that I asked myself. No one will
be there for one thing. On the high side (the side with a numericaly higher
phone number) you will hear absolutly nothing. If you call the low side
however, you will get a tone. This tone will continue until someone calls
the high side. IF you call (407)646-69XX then you get a tone exactly like
the one you would get if you found the low side of a loop.
NOTE: When you dial a loop, the phone will not get a ring. The loop side
will immediatly pick up. If you are 99XX scanning, and you get a ring-
you have not found a loop.
NOTE: Sometimes you will find tones that are not a part of loops, like the
646-69XX numbers above.
Uses for Loops:
By far the most useful thing to do with a loop is to have one person call a
side, and have your phriend call the operator to place a collect call to the
other side of a loop. Then you can hang up and place a collect call to your
friend who is still waiting at the loop. This is a convienent way of
avoiding Ma Bell when you want to talk with people out of your calling area.
Some Loops don't charge you when you call them, even if you dial long
distance. This is called Non-Sup (for non-supervised).
Pirate Radio Stations use them to get song requests and keep from being
traced. Usually what they do is give out the high side to call and wait at
the low (its a lot easier to detect if someone has called the high side from the low
then to detect if someone called the low side from the high because the tone
stops when someone calls in- although you will hear an audible click no
matter which side you are listening from).
I'm not quite sure what else you can do with loops. I've heard the legends
that in the olden days there were multi-line non-sup loops, and the Ancient
Phreaks would talk for hours on end about the fun with Blue Boxes, but
such days are gone now. Maybe TAP or ZAN or whatever will help to bring
phreaking to level it was Before, but I doubt it. From the Apathy I've
seen on Villa Straylite, this phile will probably be useless because no
one will look for any loops.
Free Sample Loop For You To Start With:
/My Code Book was stolen, fill this section,
I know Gh0St has a loop/
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* Look For Part Two (2) At Better BBSes Everywhere *
* The Temple in the Answering Machine: (407)291-6894 *
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IV.> Blacklisting
The blacklist is one of the powerfulest ways of getting someone out of
everyone's life. Many sysops around the use other sysops blacklist. To get
someone blacklisted, you :
1.> Get all of the users information. (i.e. name, #, and address)
2.> Get a list of all the boards he/she calls.
3.> Give the reason why he is to blacklisted.
4.> Spread this around to other SysOps.
And before you know it, you "friend" will be off every board he's every called!
This comes in handy for cases where file leeches are present. Or if a user is
just being a total dick. Out he goes!
All hail ERIS
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V.> Passwords: Peice of Cake!
Out of reading books and general hacking into different systems. I'm concocted
a list of passwords that are widely used by the most "secure" places. Put
these to good use. Don't let my hours of sleepless nights go to waste! NOT!
aaa academia aerobics airplane albany
albatross albert alex alexander algebra
aliases alphabet ama amorphous analog
anchor andromache animals answer anthropogenic
anvils anything aria ariadne arrow
arthur athena atmosphere aztecs azure
bacchus bailey banana bananas bandit
banks barber baritone bass bassoon
batman beater beauty beethoven beloved
benz beowulf berkeley berliner beryl
beverly bicameral bob brenda brian
bridget broadway bumbling burgess campanile
cantor cardinal carmen carolina caroline
cascades castle cat cayuga celtics
cerulean change charles charming charon
chester cigar cornelius couscous creation
creosote cretin daemon dancer daniel
danny dave december defoe deluge
desperate develop dieter digital discovery
disney dog drought duncan eager
easier edges edinburgh edwin edwina
egghead eiderdown eileen einstein elephant
elizabeth ellen emerald engine engineer
enterprise enzyme ersatz establish estate
euclid evelyn extension fairway felicia
fender fermat fidelity finite fishers
flakes float flower flowers foolproof
football foresight format forsythe fourier
fred friend frighten fun fungible
gabriel gardner garfield gauss george
gertrude ginger glacier gnu guntis
hacker hamlet handily happening harmony
harold harvey hebrides heinlein hello
help herbert hiawatha hibernia honey
horse horus hutchins imbroglio imperial
include ingres ingress inna innocuous
irishman isis japan jessica jester
jixian johnny joseph joshua judith
juggle julia kathleen kermit kernel
kirkland knight ladle lambda lamination
larkin larry lazarus lebesgue lee
leland leroy lewis light lisa
louis lynne macintosh mack maggot
magic malcolm mark markus marty
marvin master maurice mellon merlin
mets michael michelle mike minimum
minsky moguls noxious nutrition nyquist
oceanography ocelot olivetti olivia oracle
orca orwell osiris outlaw oxford
pacific painless pakistan pam papers
password patricia penguin peoria percolate
persimmon persona pete peter philip
phoenix pierre pizza plover plymouth
polynomial pondering pork poster praise
precious prelude prince princeton protect
protozoa pumpkin puneet puppet rabbit
rachmaninoff rainbow raindrop raleigh random
rascal really rebecca remote rick
ripple robotics rochester rolex romano
ronald rosebud rosemary roses ruben
rules ruth sal saxon scamper
scheme scott scotty secret simon
simple singer single smile smiles
smooch smother snatch snoopy soap
socrates sossina sparrows spit spring
springer squires strangle stratford stuttgart
subway success summer super superstage
support supported surfer suzanne swearer
symmetry tangerine tape target tarragon
taylor telephone temptation thailand tiger
toggle tomato topography tortoise toyota
trails trivial trombone tubas tuttle
umesh unhappy unicorn unknown urchin
utility vasant vertigo vicky village
virginia warren water weenie whatnot
whiting whitney will william williamsburg
willie winston wisconsin wizard wombat
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VI.> Report on Marijuana
Marijuana : The True Story
Written by: Wintermute
This paper is an exposition on the consumption of marijuana for its
psychoactive effects. Covered will be the two primary methods used in America
today, smoking and eating/drinking, with smoking being the more common method.
There are a whole lot of lies, half-truths, myths, and supposition about the
consumption of marijuana this is an attempt to clear things up as much as
possible.
Smoking
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Smoking is the quickest but least efficient method of ingesting marijuana
and experiencing its effects. Marijuana smoke contains a number of
carcinogens, many of which can be removed if the smoke is filtered through a
water bong but it will still contains some carcinogens and can be an irritant.
Studies have shown THC has a bronchiodialator effect, which may be effective in
purging the particulates from the lungs.
Joints
Joints, marijuana cigarettes, are the perennial favorite of many people.
They are "shake", marijuana which has had the stems and seeds removed, which
is inside a fold of rice paper and then rolled into a cylinder. This is the
singularly most portable method to smoke grass once the joint has been rolled.
When a joint has been smoked down to the point that it is difficult to hold
it is called a "roach" and wide variety of paraphernalia exists which are
designed to hold the roach without burning oneself. Collectively known as
"roach clips" they include tweezers, alligator clips, forceps, needle nose
pliers, and ceramic pieces with holes through them. There are a number of
devices available to facilitate rolling a joint. Absolutely essential is a
cleaning tray to remove the stems and seeds from the lose marijuana. There
are a number of papers available with which to roll ones joint, varying in
color, pattern, size, and presence of gummed edges. There are rolling
"machines" which make the process of rolling a joint much less ticklish, but
with practice and skill at rolling joints these tend to hinder more than help.
One of the more intriguing techniques of smoking a joint is taking what is
known as a powerhit. This is accomplished by having an accomplice surround the
burning end of the joint with their mouth, taking care not to allow their skin
to come into contact with the glowing end, and blowing while one takes a hit
from the other end. This can be somewhat dicey, but is one of the more intimate
ways of sharing a joint.
Etiquette requires one to pass the joint in a circular fashion through
those present. No one is required to take a toke if they do not care to, but
they are expected to pass it on if it comes to them. "Bogartting", hoarding
the joint when it comes to you, is a SERIOUS breach of protocol. People too
stoned to smoke the joint let alone pass it are expected to be skipped over
and a joint can (politely) be removed from someone if they do not seem to be
sharing the consensus reality.
Bongs
Bongs, or water pipes if you are in a head shop, pass the smoke through
water to cool and filter it. Grass is put into a bowl on the end of a tube whose
other end is in a sealed container partially filled with water. The end of the
bowl's tube is below the level of the water so that as the smoke exits the
pipe it is bubble through a layer of water. The air pressure in the chamber is
lowered by breathing through another tube that stays above the water level in
the chamber. When the air pressure inside the chamber is lowered, air from
outside the chamber passes through the bowl and its tube and bubbles through the
water. Bongs are not particularly portable, as they tend to be awkward,
delicate, and heavy. Sizes range from the size of a small pill container to
eight foot tall escapees from a mad scientist laboratory. Principally made from
glass, plastic, ceramic, and metal they can be an art form unto themselves. The
principal benefit of smoking grass through a bong is that the smoke is cooled
and several carcinogens are removed without removing the active ingredients.
One can put any number of liquids in the chamber to filter the smoke, and beer
or other forms of alcohol are often used, but this is not recommended. The
active ingredients in marijuana are fat and alcohol soluble and when filtered
through such substances the active ingredients go into solution. In addition
the carcinogens in marijuana smoke are water soluble so that when smoke passes
through some liquid other than water one loses active ingredients and gains
carcinogens in the smoke entering your lungs. One method recommended is to
put ice water in the chamber, the cooled water is not quite as effective at
removing the carcinogens but the additional cooling is favored among
smokers. Carburetors are small openings in the chamber that are covered during
the hit and towards the end opened to allow all the smoke to escape the chamber.
Occasionally one finds a bong designed so that carboration is accomplished by
lifting the bowl slightly and allowing the air to enter the bowl tube.
Pipes
Pipes are the simplest devices used to smoke marijuana. For the most part
they are similar to pipes used to smoke tobacco but marijuana pipes should be
made of heat resistant materials such as stone, ivory, metal, glass, and
occasionally harder woods. Grass does not tend to stay lit in pipe so
flame constantly has to be applied to bowl which heats it up more than pipes
with tobacco in them typically are heated. A common variant of pipe is the
stash pipe, a pipe where one may store a small amount of grass. Some stash
pipes are constructed in such a manner that the the smoke passes through the
stash area so that the grass inside is bathed in the smoke and acquires a
coating of resin which contains THC thus making it more potent when it is turn
is smoked. There are glass hash pipes which are used to smoke hashish and
hashish oil, the materiel is placed in the bowl as with other pipes but
instead of heat being applied to the top of the substance it is applied to the
bottom of the pipe.
One-hits
One-hits, or dugouts as they are sometimes called, are a highly portable
method of smoking grass for someone who does not want to smoke an entire joint
at one time. A one-hit is a small metal tube that has a small cavity at one
end and a mouthpiece at the other. One presses the cavity into a small
container of cleaned grass to fill it and then is lit somewhat like a
cigarette and inhaled steadily until the grass is gone. One only gets one
inhalation or "hit" per filling thus it is called a one hit. A dugout is small
wooden container which has a space for the cleaned grass and another space for
the one-hit itself.
Gas Pipes
Gas Pipes are open ended tubes with a small bowl mounted near one end
perpendicular to the main axis of the tube. The end near the bowl is covered
with your hand and the smoke is drawn into the tube until the bowl is burned out
then the hand is removed and all the smoke in the tube rushes into your lungs.
These are usually made from glass, though occasionally one will find plastic
pipes.
Gravity Bongs
Gravity bongs are more a style of smoking than a particular apparatus for the
consumption of marijuana. With a gravity bong one uses water pressure to
create the vacuum in a chamber rather then one's lungs as with water pipes and
gas pipes. A gravity bong is made by placing a cylinder that is open at one and
and closed except for a place for a bowl at the other. The open end is placed
in a large container of water until the chamber of the cylinder is filled with
water. The filled bowl is then attached and a flame is applied to the
marijuana in it. The cylinder is lifted slowly up. As the cylinder is lifted
up the water trapped inside will seek to escape out the open end into the
container due to the force of gravity. This creates a vacuum at the top of
the chamber near the bowl, this vacuum sucks the smoke from the burning
marijuana into the chamber replacing the water. A tube may reach from the
bowl to near the base of the cylinder making it a true bong or the end may not
actually enter the water so that is is similar to a gas pipe. after the
material in the bowl has been burned and the smoke has filled the chamber the
bowl is removed and the cylinder is pushed back down into the container. As the
water re-enter the chamber it forces the smoke out where and hopefully into an
expectant individual. This is the most common form of a water bong but any
number of similar schemes exist which can use the vacuum created by the
exiting water to draw the smoke, and then use that water again to force it out
of the chamber.
Tilt Pipes
Tilt pipes are pipes which have a heating element built into the pipe at
the bowl, the element heats the marijuana to sub-flammable temperature but
which will activate and release the cannabanoids, or active ingredients, from
the plant material. Most smoking accessories apply an external flame to the
marijuana which vaporizes and breaks down many cannabanoids before they can be
consumed, thus wasting a portion of the active ingredients in the marijuana.
These device tend to be very rare usually only found among connoisseurs. They
are called tilt pipes because one tilts the pipe to bring the marijuana into
contact with the heating element.
Eating & Drinking
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The active ingredients in cannabis are fat and alcohol soluble so they can
be extracted and added to foodstuff entering the system through the digestive
tract rather than through the lungs. This type of consumption of marijuana tend
to be both slower and more efficient than smoking it. Further the noxious
effects of consuming heated smoke are completely eliminated. For these reasons
this is the favored method of marijuana consumption by many people.
Eating
Marijuana must be heated before being consumed to activate the cannabanoids
so one cannot simply eat raw grass. The traditional method of eating it is to
cook it in a brownie, especially when it is in the form of hashish, though it
can be used in any number of things. The recommended method of eating marijuana
is to saute it in butter or margarine over medium heat, then to strain the
remaining solids out and use the butter to cook with. One can use this
marijuana butter to make brownies, cook vegetables, or however else one might
use butter to cook with, one can even spread it on a slice of bread. Many
people will mix the the residual solids in with whatever they are cooking in
hopes of making use of whatever cannabanoids might still be in them, but if
done properly this in not generally valuable. A typical ratio for making the
marijuana butter is one stick of butter to one eight of an ounce of marijuana,
and headed for fifteen to twenty minutes.
Drinking
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One may extract the active ingredients from marijuana using alcohol and
then use this tincture to make a potent drink. The highest proof alcohol
available should be used, preferably 190 proof grain alcohol, since the water
in the alcohol will dissolve other chemicals in the marijuana that one
wishes to avoid. Some suggest soaking the grass in warm water for a period to
remove those chemicals but that presents a whole host of other and is not
really recommended. One may simply place the marijuana into a bottle of grain
alcohol and let the canabanoids leach out, but this takes 2-3 weeks of time. A
faster method is to heat the alcohol to sub-boiling and stir in the marijuana.
Great deal of care should be taken if this method is chosen as the alcohol is
highly flammable. The resulting tincture, often called "Green Dragon", is a
light to emerald green liquid, which can be drunk straight, but this is not
recommended. Highly lauded is a drink of 3 parts lemon lime soda, 1 part green
dragon and a dollop of honey served over ice.
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VII.> Storytime! LSD Experience
LSD Experience
For many years, LSD has been used by many individuals to "enlighten" their
sense of being. LSD is a physchdelic that alters an individuals perception
into the true essence of existence. LSD is a gateway to inner enlightenment,
a true sense of fulfillment.
On one of my recent voyages into the "unknown" brought me to discover a
plane of existance that only one who truly trips can see. It's a world of
flashing light, comet trails, distorted images, and reality. Ahhh, you say
reality? Yes reality. A reality that is unvailed from which has been hidden
from us by our goverment. A reality that will literally shred all things
known to exist, apart.
LSD comes in many different colors, and dosages. Many different things will
be shown to you as you journey along the brightly lit halls in which you
travel. Things will suddenly become clearer and clearer as you daze of into
your own personal little reality. Who said dreams can't come true? With this
wonder "drug" thing WILL come true.
I'm not saying go out and find your local drug pusher and spend your lunch-
money on a hit. But whenever you have the time and money to spare. Why not
try it? What else will you do, clean your room?
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VIII.> Appendix
Boards that belong to the all powerfull
governing body of The Alliance Productions:
The Villa Straylight The Lair of the Wolverine
(407) 297 1180 (407) XXX-XXXX
Home of Alliance Dist Site #1
WWIVnet @4703 WWIVnet @4701
The Temple of the Answering Machine
(407) 291 6894
Dist Site #2
Illuminati
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for a [ZAN] board.
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"How Could Hell Be Any Worse?"
The zine created by and October 17/18, 1992
virtually maintained by ALL? NO, ALL!! #1 First issue! Oh
The Kokomo MOD Crew. joy! Another zine!
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POINT OF THIS E-ZINE
To cause awareness of the mighty ALL to the general public. If you know nothing
of ALL or the Basemaster General, you are correct in reading this.
STAFF:
Wooden. Metal? Half a tree? Wizard's? What? I give.
Seriously:
Matt - head honcho of the whole thing, most ALLular (listened to Descendents
for 2 years, ALL for 3 months). Can be reached at 2@13750 WWIVLink
or 2@3173 VirtualNet.
Net - Trent Reznor of Indiana: one of his MODs won the America Online MOD
contest, summer of '92. Co-member of Count Zero, along with Matt.
Thinks Matt is a complete freak.
Neuro - organizer of the Kokomo MOD Crew, which is himself and Count Zero.
Only recently set on the path to ALL (this summer), Neuro has learned
much, but not ALL about ALL. His BBS, the Matrix, (317) 455-0165, is
an invaluble asset to the Kokomo area, and to some who call from far
away. 1@13750 WWIVLink, 1@3173 VirtualNet.
INFLUENCES:
Descendents/ALL (duh)
NIN
Ministry
*** BIG BLACK *** <-- my personal favorite industrial band
The Replacements (Twin/Tone era)
Fugazi
Too Much Joy
The Spooners
Black Flag ("Damaged" era, Matt influence only)
Being really pissed off at women
Being rejected by women
Wanting to take hold of a blowtorch and kill everyone (CZ's "The Blowtorch
Song")
Matt's attempts to prove the non-existence of love
Denial of love, renouncement imminent
Alberich and the Ring of the Nibelung
Odin and Thor
Milo and Otis
Milo Bloom
Milo Aukerman
Asking people why Aukerman left the Descendents
Asking people if Tony Lombardo is still alive
Hating metal (Matt and Net)
Hating Halloween and the stupid traditions
Trying to score a hit from Steve Albini
Opus
Bill The Cat (for his intellectual qualities)
Steve Albini himself for hating everything
Bad Religion for our credo
A lot of other things
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR ALL? NO, ALL! ISSUE #1:
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1.1 ................... Greetingage
1.2 ................... Slam List
1.3 ................... Reviews
1.4 ................... Mistakes We Have Made
1.5 ................... How To Just Say No, Thank You, You Scum
1.6 ................... Why?
1.7 ................... Can You Ski?
1.8 ................... ALLularity
1.9 ................... Milo Aukerman's Corner
1.10 ................... Goodbyeage
1.1 Greetingage
Hi. This is Matt. This is so much fun. Well, it will be when we start typing
things that actually make sense. This zine started from the ashes of another
trap I set for myself, so let's ALL enjoy it at my expense.
So. There's this girl I wanted to date. I swear.. I'm going to bloody give up
soon. On dating at ALL. I no longer care enough to put myself through it.
Bloody pointless waste of time, scrabbling over trying to impress a girl JUST
long enough for her to divert her attention to some subhuman prep school grad,
who invariably wears what he thinks is a cool sweater. Goddamn bunch of clones,
the lot of them. If it's always going to be this way (why not? has been
continually so far), then to hell with it.
Anyway. She and I talk for about a week, then I take the dive of calling her.
Big thing with me, calling girls. I fear the phone sometimes. So, I gather my
courage to call. I call, we talk for ten minutes, I'm doing fine. Then she
says something about some dude, and I ask about him. Guess just what the hell
she said. Guess. I'll bloody tell you what she said:
"Oh, he's my boyfriend."
I was proud of myself to no end. I kept my cool, and, without missing a beat,
replied, "Oh. Cool!" and kept talking. I don't even think she realized that I
liked her, which is both relieving and depressing.
After blasting S.O.D.'s live album for an hour, I felt slightly better. Then
after I ripped hell out of my room for awhile, I felt better than before. I'm
still pissed at myself for wasting both my time and hers, but oh well. I'm such
a fool. I bought ALL's new album, _Percolator_, today. I don't feel like
hearing it right NOW, however.. hopefully before the night's over. Right before
I began typing this all up, I was working on a new MOD. Loud, brutal, and
unforgiving.. I guess it's what I'm subconsciously trying to be. I've devised a
new motto for my half of the CZ/Kokomo MOD Crew MODs (I may .GIF this): "Brutal
Music From A Brutal Person." Better than "Cows Go Moo." Even "Cats Have Fur
And I Don't" is better than "Cows Go Moo."
Enjoy the damn issue, I didn't.
1.2 Slam List
Today, as you go through your daily life, keep in mind that these things and
people are worthy of scorn:
Life
Pretty girls that don't like you
Ugly girls that do
The Pixies
Top 40 Radio
AOR Radio
Any damn kind of radio
Paul Westerberg
Joe McCarthy's ghost
fIREHOSE
Women that fake orgasms in crowded restaurants
Mornings you wake up in a pool of snot/puke/blood
Mornings you wake up at all
The Pixies
Joy Division
Rap
Fraternities/Sororities/Other Savage Xenophobic Cliques
People that take S.O.D. seriously
People that take ANYTHING seriously
The KKK
Fascists
Buster Poindexter
The Pixies
Mindless people that must be told what to do and when to do it
Eccentric college professors
ANY college professors, except those cool ones that you actually learn from
Body Count (not because of the controversy, but because they're not that
great a band)
People that worship Ian MacKaye
People that worship ANYTHING
BBSers that don't have a clue as to what the hell they're doing
Arrogant people
Non-arrogant people
Any person that pisses you off
Any person that pisses ME off
People that breathe really loud
Churches
Puking
Being in love
School
The government
Rednecks
Lame music stores
Indiana
(Did I mention the Pixies?)
1.3 Reviews
SOUNDS:
(Note: None of these are necessarily new. Live with it.)
Chris Mars, _Horseshoes and Hand Grenades_
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I don't give a damn what anyone says about this album; it is a work of ART.
No wonder Westerberg threw Mars out of the 'Mats (which was just before the
band broke up.. duh).. he was afraid of being eclipsed by Mars.
Mars can equal Westerberg's writing prowess, no problem. He also has
musical diversity in his effluvia than Paul has had in his entire body in
the last few years. From rockers like "Popular Creeps" and "Ego Maniac"
(both of which possibly tributes to Westerberg) to slower tunes like
"Don't You See It", Mars evokes a wide range of emotions in the listener.
From contempt for the arrogant stars of "Popular Creeps" to pity for "Don't
You See It"'s misguided subject, the feelings are powerful, indeed.
There are some problems: Mars isn't necessarily a better singer than
Westerberg; he rather sounds like Eddie Money at times. Some of the songs
sound VERY similar.. one would think they're almost the same one. But,
these can be overlooked, as it's just an excursion into Chris' mind.
(released on Smash Records)
Sugar, _Copper Blue_
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Don't waste your money. Bob Mould was better with H�sker than with this
lame-ass band. And Bob STILL can't sing worth a damn. It was cool in
1984, not so cool now, however.
(released on Rykodisc)
ALL, _Trailblazer_ (live album)
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Steadfastly holding to the ALLular traditions of coffee, food, and girls,
ALL blast their way into New York's CBGB's on this '88 live recording
(didn't I say that none of these would be new?). Some songs are the only
recorded accounts of new vocalist Scott Reynolds singing them, such as
bassist Karl Alvarez's "Skin Deep" and "Hate To Love", and drummer Bill
Stevenson's "Just Perfect". "Skin Deep" and "Hate To Love" are too
heart-felt not to be derived from some true experience; "Skin Deep" is
about being attracted by a woman's outer charms, and finding that she lacks
anything inside, while "Hate To Love" is simply about being rejected and
agonizing over it. Reynolds' "Box", which would, at first glance, appear
to be a song about a homeless person, has some reALLy cool talk breaks in
the middle, where Stephen Egerton's guitar gets partiALLy dischordant, and
somewhat metALLic. Another couple of standouts are live versions of
Stevenson's "She's My Ex" and Tony Lombardo's "Man-O-Steel". Things are
closed out appropriately with the Descendents' "Theme" rewritten by its
original author, Lombardo (who is NOT a member of ALL), called "Gnutheme".
Egerton's guitar cooks on this one. A FINE album.
(released on Cruz Records)
ALL, _Percolater_
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Not the jazz-punk fusion I had feared. As a matter of fact, a DAMN good
album. Not in your face kind of music, rather kind of fun. "Hotplate" is
a dedication to an eatery of some sort and its owner, who Stevenson is
apparently obsessed with. "Gnugear (Hot)" is a kind of stupid joke-like
song about a guy that goes to buy new guitars and can't even tune one.
"Minute" was musically my favorite.. key of E, some cool changes in that
one. Also lyrically (kind of) fit my situation. I still miss Milo, but
while Milo was more of a screamer, Scott Reynolds is actually a singer.
But don't get me wrong, Milo eventually got better.
(released on Cruz Records)
BOOKS:
Get real. We're based in *^&$%^$ing KOKOMO. Think about it. We have one
real bookstore. And even that's in the state's scrubbiest mall.
Sorry. Kokomo's half-life makes me reALLy aggro.
SIGHTS:
I haven't seen anything lately. Nothing really pertinent to the genre
released here. Gee, what a surprise.
Oops. Attack of the "I Hate Kokomo" syndrome again.
1.4 Mistakes We Have Made
Matt - "The major mistake I made was wasting my time on that one chick and
probably pissing her boyfriend off. Oh well, I'm taller than most
everyone she knows, and I've probably seen her with him, so, BFD. I
wish I was dead, though. But that's not why. I'm just sick of
life. Maybe next ish will have Neuro or Net in charge. But, then
again, as has been pointed out, suicide in Kokomo is redundant.
We're dead already."
Net - "Not getting a Pro Audio Spectrum instead of a Soundblaster at the
start of summer."
Neuro - "Not getting a loan from the bank for a 1 gig HD. Also not shutting
Matt up about this stupid chick he keeps railing about. Matt: Move
on!"
1.5 How To Just Say No, Thank You, Scum
Grab the white, fat suburban P.O.S. by the starched collar of his Arrow
shirt, or by the fabric of his cool sweater, and shake the bastard until he
starts to cry and offer you money. Then, take your hand, fold 4 fingers
inward toward the palm, and the thumb across that, and BEAT THE HOLY SHIT
OUT OF THE LILY-WHITE LITTLE TEAM CAPTAIN PROM QUEEN LOVE SLAVE FROM ARMANI
HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suit-wearing little bastards had the damn things GRAFTED on at birth. No,
I'm okay, I just need my medication.
1.6 Why?
In this section, we attempt to answer the ALL-encompassing question: "WHY?"
Let us ponder this one: "Why am I so bitter?"
a) I was born that way?
b) Satan put a curse on me?
c) It's just because I'm a punk?
d) Because women think they can use and exploit me freely and they're
totally wrong because they're all a bunch of vain and self-centered
bitches? (Well, not all of them, because I have a few female friends
who are nice to me, which makes them okay.)
e) All of the above?
Shall we go with "e"? Yes, I think that we shALL.
1.7 Can You Ski?
Somehow the jokes that knocked me on my ass an hour ago lose something after
a drink or two. Maybe it's because alcohol is a depressant. Gee, that's a
cool choice to drink when you're depressed. Most suicidals are alcoholics, I
found out. I don't recall where or how I discovered this.
Life sucks, and then you ski. Can you ski? Take this quick test to find
out:
1. Do you have a sense of balance?
a) Yes.
b) No.
c) Huh?
d) Pittsburgh.
2. Do you know your name?
a) Yes.
b) No.
c) Pat Sajak.
d) Pittsburgh.
3. Can you use the word "dude" 12 times in a sentence?
a) Yes.
b) No.
c) Dude.
d) Pittsburgh.
4. Where do you live?
a) St. Paul.
b) Aspen.
c) Mars.
d) Boston.
5. Why do we have such a fascination with Pittsburgh?
a) Because Satan is in disguise, living there in sin with Jessica
Rabbit and Jim Morrison.
b) I don't know.
c) Okay, you're screwed up.
d) Whatever.
6. Does Steve Albini wear a sock hat in the winter?
a) Ah, but does he wear SOCKS?
b) What? You make no sense.
c) What does this have to do with skiing?
d) No, he throws them, on fire, at Al Jourgensen.
7. Can a pissed-off teen be considered an explosive?
a) No, but they make wonderful projectiles.
b) I'm not answering any more of your damn questions.
c) Get a life.
d) Matt is a god.
If you answered (b) to any questions, you can ski. If you answered (d) on
#7, you have been blessed my me as a deity. If you answered (b) to #7,
piss off! Don't be so damn hasty next time. It was the last question,
moron.
1.8 ALLularity
ALLularity, in one of its many forms, is coffee, food, and trying to fall
in love. The latter disagrees with my mood for the moment, but ALL goes
on.
1.9 Milo Aukerman's Corner
Dear ALL? NO, ALL!! Readers,
Hey, this is Milo, reporting from my hideaway of the last four years,
Tupelo, Mississippi. The home of the grade-school Elvis, so I've been led
to believe. I don't believe the stories about him being carted to school
in a white van, while he was forced to listen to John Denver for a
straight 4 hours before they could loose him on his teachers, however.
I've not been called stupid yet in my life in Tupelo.
It really pissed me off today.. went down to the store to try to find
Bill's band's new release, and they told me they didn't carry devil music.
I attempted to explain the concept of ALL (although I concede that I don't
know it that well myself), and simply received a blank stare and a burning
cross in my yard later that night for my generosity.
But "devil music"? How ridiculous. An association made by a feeble
mind. I wasn't (nor was Bill) nor would I EVER (Nor would Bill) be in a
band that drank blood onstage or off. Blood is ALLular, but only if kept
inside its container, i.e., the living body. We also didn't like the
look of pentagrams. Looked too angular; we liked symbols to be softer,
etc.
But, via a 4-month long wait, I eventually obtained a copy of
_Percolater_ from Cruz Records, direct. The postman gave me an odd look
when he delivered the package, then ran away. I hate these people. I
rather liked the album, although I wish they'd do some Descendents songs.
But the past is the past. I wish I had more to do though.. gets boring in
Tupelo.
Well, I will leave you ALL to have an ALLular day. May your dreams
become reality.
Milo
P.S. - One advantage to living in Tupelo.. I can get lost in a crowd so no
one recognizes me. Sometimes I forget who the hell I am. Not.
1.10 Goodbyeage
Well, we hope you enjoyed the first issue of ALL? NO! ALL!! Even if you didn't,
there'll bloody well be another. Because we're young, we're pissed, and we're
outspoken. Also, a good deal of the time, we're sober, so ALL the better.
Be ALLular to each other.
Matt, Net, and Neuro
1.11 Last Minute Additions
I don't care what you do with this, as long as it's distributed. Any
complaints with material? Direct them toward Matt. It's no one else's
fault. Like an issue? Sned a note Matt's way, via WWIVLink or VNet.
Sorry, no Internet or USEnet. *sob* I'm so sorry.. we are but a poor BBS
community..
The size of this issue sucks. It should be MUCH larger. I guess I was
just too pissed off. Oh well. Get used to it.
We agree with Bad Religion's theory of "How could hell be any worse?" If
you are an agnostic and want to write for us, contact us. If you are an
atheist and want to write for us, contact us. If you are a fanatic and
want to write for us... No. We want no radical viewpoints (except our
own) given out.
Next ish: A Listing of the Greatest Albums of ALL time.
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Matt - 2@13750 WWIVLink
"Baby, I want MORE!" ALL? NO, ALL!!!!! 2@3173 VNet
"The ezine from hell" Neuro - 1@13750 WWIVLink
"If I had a blowtorch..." October 17/18, 1992 1@3173 VNet
Net - Sorry, I just
didn't know.
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Kokomo's ONLY ALL? NO!! ALL!! #2 Bad attitudes
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THERE'S a shock, October 2, 1993 philosophy by
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Publications, unless stated otherwise.
This E-zine can be found as either ALL.x (x being the issue number)
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Table of Contents:
2.01 .......... Editor's Notes
2.02 .......... Karl Marx and His Tips for Good Health
2.03 .......... Moo Cows
2.04 .......... Can't Get A Job
2.05 .......... Slam List
2.06 .......... Why?
2.07 .......... White Punks on Punk (Music reviews, news, the Shoes)
2.08 .......... I Am Joe's Spleen
2.09 .......... KMC Update
2.10 .......... In Defense of Shannen Doherty
2.11 .......... Pissing On the Third Rail
2.12 .......... Black Francis/Frank Black's Neighborhood
2.13 .......... Milo Aukerman's Corner
2.14 .......... Can You Ski? Pt. II: The Revenge
2.15 .......... Have A Lovely Evening
STAFF:
Matt Shaw: chief editor/member of The KMC
Netrunner: contributor/member of The KMC
Neuro : Indy correspondent/member of the KMC
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2.01 Editor's Notes
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. "So why did issue 2 take so long?" Because I've
been fucking busy the last few months. Finding new tunes, calling
BBSes (which are not, I repeat, NOT cyberspace in INDIANA, at least),
and actually having a dating life which I have put aside in pursuit of
misery and better-sounding music. All the stuff I wrote when I was
happy sounded like Paul Westerberg with brain damage, musically and
lyrically. So, said I, "Fuck that."
I am somewhat ANTI-feminism, now. I hate the term "politically
correct".. if punk rock is supposed to be based on non-conformity, why
do we all do the same thing? And why do we even bother to call people
like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and whatever new sellout from the underground
"alternative"? Call them SHIT. That's what they are. REAL punk rock
was, is, and always will be underground. That's where the changes are
being made, where people are really different. That's what pisses me
off about even the watered-down "alternative" music becoming sold-out:
because of shit like Lollapalooza, scores of rich white kids purchase
tickets to this ripoff to see bands that they've never heard of but
that it's "cool" to follow. In addition, these brave, trailblazing
"non-conformists" all wear identical flannel shirts in fucking 90
degree heat. It's all commercial. Ministry is revered by millions of
self-proclaimed "punks" world-wide. "Oh, they're so original!" all
these morons gush. No FUCKING chance! If you listen, really closely,
to "Thieves", then go listen to "Live in A Hole" by Big Black... one
of the main drumbeats are the same. And "Live in A Hole" was recorded
in 1983. "NWO" from the big sellout album, _Psalm 69_, seemingly
"borrowed" the guitar from parts of "Racer X" by.. guess who? As Steve
Albini himself said (_Pulse!_, June 1992, p. 120), "If you sampled one
second off of _Atomizer_ or _Songs About Fucking_ and looped that one
second for 45 minutes, you'd have a pretty good approximation of a
Ministry record." The shit that these "new revolutionaries" do their
little dances to isn't even original. No real surprise.
Ah, who really gives a shit? My point is: punk has become what it
hates the most. Everyone in the "scene" is a fucking CLONE. This is
why the supposed "scene" isn't my stomping ground at all. Punk, in
this "politically correct" era, should be the OPPOSITE. It's
fashionable to be PC, and true punk detests fashionability. There is
sufficient irony to choke a horse in the fact that the "grunge fashion"
is actually being marketed as a fashion.
Back to something I originally was going to say, before all THIS
shit started: I don't think women should go out of their way to
act like delicate little flowers for men, but I don't think they
should go and hate us all, either. On the topic of feminism, I'm
a moderate. I'm male, and proud of it. Only, sometimes, all
these abusive assholes make me kind of wonder about whether I
should be proud. Men who abuse women in any way should be fucking
shot.
Okay.. I'm done with this rant. I release you to enjoy the issue.
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2.02 Karl Marx and His Tips for Good Health
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Greetings, comrades. I am Karl Marx, and I must share with you the
secrets of health that the imperialistic swine we call the bourgeoisie
insist on keeping secrets. I am here to answer your questions, so,
comrades, fire away!
Question: Dear Mr. Marx,
I am thirty pounds overweight. How may I start to lose
weight?
Signed, Black Francis/Frank Black
Answer : Dear Frank,
Well, first, you must RISE UP IN GLORIOUS REBELLION
AGAINST THE FASCIST DOMINATION OF THOSE WHO OWN PROPERTY
AND DENY YOU WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS!
Plus, you may want to start a proper exercise and diet
plan. Consult your doctor if you need more details.
Karl
Question: Dear Father of Communism,
Why must we buy postage stamps? We can make our
own.
Rodney Anonymous
Answer : Dear Rodney,
Comrade, this question has no bearing at all on
health. I suggest you contact your local post
office, or a Congressman.
Karl
(Karl can no longer continue, as we have just informed him that he has
been dead for over a century. Feeling unable to cope with this
knowledge, he disintegrated. We apologize for the inconvienience.
- Ed.)
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2.03 Moo Cows
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Why did I name this "Moo Cows"? How ridiculous. Anyway.
Those who read the first issue may recognize our hostility and disgust
toward the Pixies. Let me clarify.
The only album I really enjoy anymore is _Surfer Rosa_. And no, it's
not simply because of the producer, so shut your traps. I do like the
whole sound of the album, however, "Something Against You" and "Vamos"
being my tracks of choice. This had to have been the most UNHINGED
album this band had ever released. I also kind of liked the EP, _Come
On Pilgrim_, but it was a bit too slow for me, exceptions being "Isla
De Encanta" and "Nimrod's Son". Kind of.
So why did they break up? Kim Deal reputedly got along with Black
Francis as well as I get along with Tipper Gore. By the way, what the
fuck kind of name is "Tipper"? I was going to go onto a whole
branch-off, but decided to spare everybody. Anyway.
By the way, the main reason I got into the Pixies was because I thought
Kim Deal was cute. (yeah, yeah, yeah.. I was young and didn't pick
bands for good reasons, fuck off) She's getting married/is married
to Jim Greer from SPIN (I think that's the SPINner). I think the
Breeders have a good run at being a good band. I liked _Pod_, even
though it's kind of Pixie-ish. Wasn't as fond of _The Breeders'
Last Splash_, however. Weird enough to deserve my respect, but
not appealing enough to get me to listen more than a couple times
a year.
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2.04 Can't Get A Job
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So. I live in Hell. Hell should, by all laws of nature, have
vacancies in (relatively) cool places. Nope. All the record stores..
taken. So what's a poor boy to do? Curl up and die, I guess..
no. Guess not. Still here, which is good. Still broke, which is
not. Oh, well, you take the good with the bad, I suppose.
This is a list of jobs I was considering:
* Working in one of the 2 semi-cool record stores here
* Working for a computer store, but the only new one around
here is run by a guy I can't fucking stand
* Getting a programming job, only I don't know what the fuck
I'm doing yet
* Uma Thurman's love slave (doesn't pay $$, but would be
loads of fun); shot out because she's apparently with De
Niro
* Translate songs that appear on "Latino MTV" and re-record
them for regular MTV
What do ya think? Am I shooting too high? Yeah? Geez, no wonder
the moon fell outta the sky and knocked me flat on my ass.
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2.05 Slam List
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Ah! My favorite part of the issue. Wish everything bad upon these
people/places/things. AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
My psychotic, possessive ex-girlfriend (c. Feb '93)
My age-obsessed ex-girlfriend (c. Sept. '93)
Frank Black
Al Jourgensen
Top 40 music
"Alternative rock"
Corporate rock (see directly above)
Lyric thieves
Anyone who hates moocows
The Dead Milkmen (for slamming on Bob, Greg, and Grant)
Tori Spelling (we need to hate a different 90210 personality)
Shannen Doherty (No, we don't)
Rev. W. Harris of Indianapolis
R. Waples, the 6-foot dorsal fin at law
All the TV stations in Indianapolis
The FCC
Beavis and Butt-head
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2.06 Why?
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This is the question that you should ask yourself if you gave into
physical cravings and simply fucked some slutbitch instead of a goddess
that's totally devoted to you. "Why?!" Why waste your time getting
some disease when you could be off looking for a Christina Applegate
clone or maybe even Uma Thurman herself.. but wait, is she married?
With the way Hollywood is anymore, would it matter? Is she that
devoted to Robert De Niro?
Oh well. I'm sorry, I'd write more on "Why?!" but I just lost my train
of thought. Didn't even blow its whistle.
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2.07 White Punks on Punk
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Today, I stood in the local mall, pondering. Why was I in the shrine
of commerciality? To buy clothes. You know, dress shirts and shit
like that, for job interviews (see 2.04). Anyway...
I noticed, as I watched all the worthless metalhead and
jock/princess pieces of shit stride or slink by, that I had
virtually nothing in common with anyone in that fucking mall. And I
was pleased. I had managed, after a life of people trying to force me
into one mold or another, to retain MY personality.
But, for a laugh, I went into Musicland. Home of processed shit-rock,
nationwide. So, I'm in music hell.. and I'm getting fucking depressed.
Nothing off an indie label. Unless, like a fucked-up bandwagoner,
you consider Sire to be indie. Nope. Sire is an extension of Warner
Bros. Death to corporate rock!
But here are some albums we enjoyed, that we bought in Indy. Note that
we reserve the right to review albums that are new to us, not
necessarily new to the public. Here goes:
_75% Less Fat_ - Chris Mars
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You know, it has been awhile since ish #1.. _Horseshoes and Hand
Grenades_ was released just before #1 was. And now, Mr. Mars has
graced us with another aural document of talent.
Okay... first thing: A lot of the songs sound the same. Worse so than
_Horseshoes_. But it's still pretty good.
Second: Same kind of music as the first album, basically.
Third: Not a lot to say about it, just... buy it.
- released on Smash Records
_Land Speed Record_ - Husker Du
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Excellent '81 (?) live document of the OTHER legendary Minneapolis
band. The atmosphere is pure rushed excitement, which almost entirely
makes up for the fact that no one I've played it for can understand a
fucking word anyone on it is saying. Nor can I. "Guns At My School"
was the clearest song for me... "Do the Bee" was the easiest to hear
for Brent (of the Spooners).
Anyway.. the Huskers go from one song to the next, with barely a break.
The album kicks off with the tension reliever "All Tensed Up". No pun
intended. That song leads into "Don't Try to Call". and leads up to
the end of side one, "Don't Have a Life".
Side Two: The churning "Bricklayer", into "Tired of Doing Things",
all the way through to "Data Control", which ends the album. Lyric to
remember: "Gilligan's Island/That's where I wanna be/I wanna fuck
Ginger/and live in a palm tree." - "Gilligan's Island"
- orig. Reflex Records, then SST Records
_Everything Falls Apart_ - Husker Du
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The band's first studio attempt shows considerable rage and talent.
Bob Mould, the perpetual AYM, leads Grant Hart and Greg Norton
through some of the loudest punk songs ever released.
Included on this album is a somewhat intelligible version of
"Bricklayer", and (Jesus CHRIST!!) a cover of Donovan's "Sunshine
Superman". The latter, of course, sounds better than the original..
it's a world's difference between smoking pot (Donovan) and taking
speed (guess who?).
There are songs that foreshadow the band's future musical maturity:
the title track is well-written (and well-screamed); "Gravity" has one
of the best basslines Husker could have asked for; and "From the Gut"
showed their diversity of style (Hart's militaristic snare being a
majorly dominant instrument). Lyric of the Day: "You don't like the
way we look/Obnoxious/You don't like the way we talk/Obnoxious.." -
"Obnoxious"
- orig. Reflex Records, then Rhino Records
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2.08 I Am Joe's Spleen
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I am Joe's spleen. And boy, is Joe pissed! His liver isn't working
properly because all the sad son-of-a-bitch does is sit around his
house and drink! Worthless fucker! But anyway..
Joe, when he still cared about his job, was a record producer. Joe was
a real asshole to his clients. UNTIL... someone got pissed and taught
Joe a lesson, with a bicycle pump and a length of rubber hose. Then,
after Joe got out of the hospital (giving me a well-needed vacation..
producing gallons of blood very quickly is no easy task!), Joe began
drinking. He drank and drank and drank. And smoked.
Last night, I liberated myself from Joe's body. I got a match, lit it,
and stuck it in the half-empty bottle of Jack that Joe was still
holding in his hand, even though he was passed out. The flames laid
the place down.. but I got away.
Now.. I am Billy Ray's spleen. Just wait till this worthless fucker
starts bleeding and overworking me.. his achy breaky heart will be the
least of his problems. Long haired hilljack piece of motherfucking
shit. He can take his remaining three teeth and two I.Q. points and
shove them up his achy breaky ass. What a waste of flesh.
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2.09 KMC Update
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We're still chugging along, all. I'm (kind of) making a comeback
with "Mark Of Cain", which is a good ol' slammin' style MOD.
We now have achieved distribution again: Dark Sun Distribution
has kindly given us a copyright for all our material under its
business license, and has taken charge of distribution. (NOTE:
We are now legitimate shareware authors! yay)
We have gained and lost a member, since the last issue.. the name
shall remain unmentioned, to prevent boosting of his ego, but
suffice it to say that the vote taken by the KMC regarding his
dismissal was prompted by his alleged involvement in illegal
activities, one of which was reputed to be hacking. His reply to
our dismissal was abusive and disrespectful towards the entire
KMC, and myself especially, and claimed that he had quit two weeks
prior to our notice. I declined to reply, seeing as how a reply
would have been quite useless and would have provoked another
string of mindless garbage from our former associate. (NOTE: I
wanted to reply, saying "You failed to report your voluntary
termination of membership to any KMC member, therefore, the
official statement will state that you were dismissed." I'm such
a smartass. :) )
Well, that's the update. Greetings to Major Tom/Audioscape/Deus
Lucifer, if his eyes should fall upon this.
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2.10 In Defense Of Shannen Doherty
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Why attempt to defend someone that's undefensable? I thought it
would be cool to take an unpopular stance, but I've decided that I
just cannot stand her anyway.
What that whole paragraph means is that I have nothing to say in
defense of Shannen Doherty. Plain/simple.
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2.11 Pissing On The Third Rail
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(Before I continue, let me clearly state that if you actually
perform the action that the title of this section details, you
will be a fried motherfucker.)
Pissing on the third rail can be an enlightening experience. Just
ask Father Snee, of Our Lady of Perpetual Motion, Backwoods, IN:
"Aye, boys, I've had my share of leaks on that fabled rail. I've
also been treated for the resulting burns. But the one thing
that's kept me from a painful electric death is my faith in God -"
At this point, we had to cut Father Snee off. We had forgotten
his involvement with religion, so we went on a valiant search
throughout Backwoods to look for someone else who had undergone a
similar experience. We found that very person in Jay Starr, who
had attempted to break the local beer-drinking record of
thirty-seven in one sitting:
"Well, I.. I... no, sir, I didn't have no sex with your daughter!
I swear! Those pictures she has of her giving head ain't got me
in 'em! No way!"
Apparently, Jay's sexual freedom (and slow witted bullshitting)
was a product of his experience with the third rail. An
unfortunate side effect was his inability to stay focused on one
topic of conversation.
We do not advise any such usage of the third rail of a subway
system, in any way, shape, or form. Be wary, and just to be safe,
don't go to any city that has a subway.
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2.12 Black Francis/Frank Black's Neighborhood
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"Hello, kids. Won't you be my neighbor? Good. Then give me back
the guitar your daddy borrowed from me.
"Are we getting along well? Good! I'm so happy, kids. Do you
know why Uncle Frank is so happy?"
"NO, UNCLE FRANK! WHY?"
"Because Uncle Frank sold a lot of albums to gullible people who
were expecting the Pixies Mark 2! And it's not! It's really a
horrid piece of shit album!
"Oops, kids! Uncle Frank used a bad word! And you know what that
means.."
"TIME FOR A CARTOON!"
<pause for a Bitchy and Patchy cartoon>
"Ah, wasn't that great, kids?"
"SURE WAS, UNCLE FRANK!"
"Ah, this gig is great. Do you know why Uncle Frank does this?"
<puzzled looks from the kids, one raises a wavering hand>
"Yes, Johnny?"
"Uh, Uncle Frank.. is it because you don't have any new material
for the next album yet and you feel like your career is on the
rocks?"
"Wrong, Johnny.. and by the way, there's no Santa Claus. Anyone
else?"
"Is it because you felt upstaged by Kim Deal and you still do, so
you decided to host a kids show and make sure you could feel like
you were bigger than somebody?"
"No, Susie, and by the way, Madonna is bisexual. Anyone at all?"
"I know why, Uncle Frank."
"Why, David?"
"Because you're a better showman than a musician."
<Frank looks at the kid with the death look, and then walks
offstage muttering to himself>
<David looks at the camera, and says> "Guess I was right."
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2.13 Milo Aukerman's Neighborhood
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Dear ALL? NO! ALL!! Readers,
Yes, 'tis that time again. That time that I enlighten the readers
of this electronic publication of the life beyond the Descendents,
of life in Smalltown, USA. Last time I wrote from Tupelo, now I'm
living in Westfield, IN. What a place. A Dairy Queen right
across the road from a Taco Bell, and right next to a US highway.
I hang out at the DQ as much as I can, cause there's not a lot
else to do here. I sometimes drive the 20 or so miles to Indy to
find cool music, but that's it. Soon, it'll be time for me to
move on, because this place is fucking boring.
Oh, here's something of note. I sit back on Friday nights, and
watch people at the DQ. One night, and I NEVER thought I'd see
this in Indiana, I watched some chick give her date a handjob
under the table, for all the world to see. That's probably normal
for teenage Indiana, but the out-of-the-ordinary factor was that
her date was a girl, as well. And you could tell they were both
getting off on it, even without looking under the table, just
looking at their faces. There are some looks that are unique to
sheer ecstacy (sp?). The girl who was receiving put on a good
show of normalcy by just eating her ice cream like nothing was
happening. So did the other girl, with her free hand. I could
see her squeezing her thighs together under the table, so she was
getting hers, too. The one getting fingered tensed up and then
relaxed, and then her friend got off, as well.
That just shocked me to death. Never in Indiana, I thought. And
if so, not in a goddamn Dairy Queen. Oh well.. their gain, and my
free live sex show. Ain't life grand?
Aloha, all!
Milo
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2.14 Can You Ski? Pt. II: The Revenge
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This quiz won't help you determine if you can ski, but it will
tell you approximately how fucked up we are.
1) If asked to, could you worship Geena Davis?
a) Yes.
b) No.
c) I already do.
d) I live under a rock, who is Geena Davis?
2) Would you attempt to piss Lee Ving off by voting for him for
mayor of San Francisco?
a) Well, Jello lost, why not?
b) I'd like to see Sonny Bono leave Sacramento for SF.
c) No, Clint Eastwood, all the way, man.
d) Nah, try Pittsburgh.
3) Did your ancestors eat their dead?
a) Huh?!
b) With an order of fries.
c) These are potential BBS voting questions..
d) No, they didn't go in for bisexual necrophilia.
Okay, maybe these questions mean even less than we thought..
that's why there's so few. Oh well. Part I was better.
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2.15 Have A Lovely Evening
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Well, I hope you liked this issue, as it was a joy for me to put
together for six months or so. God.. how could it have taken so
fucking long? Procrastination isn't good when you're running an
E-zine..
Anyway. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
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by Dave Troyer
rmharrop@utoronto.ca
I am a grade eleven Toronto Board of education High School
student who has not been to a regular class since about the end
of November. Sounds good at first doesn't it? Not going to class
in almost three months not seeing a pencil, book, or a teacher's
dirty look. Well if you think it's fun, or 'a good thing', it's
certainly not. I feel as if the same education system that is
intended to prepare me for my life in this world has done
nothing more than take my life away. It is really only a
temporary setback, but I really do feel like I have lost three
months of one of the best years of my life. And it is all
accountable to certain administrators at my school who have
failed miserably to do their intended jobs. It is not by choice
that I am where I am now, typing on my computer keyboard at home
rather than listening to a Biology teacher who I actually find
quite interesting. It is because of a school system that has,
over the years become very dated. The Toronto Board of
Education's rules need to be re-written-written, and the whole
system needs to be examined and evaluated right down to the rats
running around in the halls, and I'm not talking about students,
or any kind of rodents.
My difficulties started very close to the beginning of the year
when I was travelling about the halls of Northern Secondary
trying to locate a man who I have now only met once, Mr. Way. He
is the person in charge of admitting students into Northern
Secondary's "Enriched" program. The reason why I was searching
for him was to get a switch to an enriched English class, from
the regular one that had been scheduled into my timetable. It
had been recommended by both my grade nine, and ten English
teachers that I be in an enriched class. The first and only time
I met Mr. Way was enough for him to realise that I was the
intelligent, strong English student I had presented myself as.
To put it simply Mr. Way approved the change, and I was off to
see my guidance counsellor to make the change in the computer.
At that point one little problem arose; there were going to be
too many changes that had to be made to accommodate my switch
into an enriched class. Because neither I or my guidance
counsellor felt that it was worth disrupting almost all of the
other seven classes I was in to make the regular English fit we
left it the way it was and I went to see my scheduled English
class.
My teacher and I had only seen each other a couple of times
before because in the process of attempting to change my
timetable, I had missed what to the best of my recollection was
three classes. Before my first class in my old class I went to
the teacher to say to her that I was sorry about any
inconvenience this oddity was to her. I also at that point asked
if throughout the year we could arrange some extra credit work
if it seemed appropriate to compensate for my not being moved
into an enriched class. She seemed to think that was a good idea
and I went to my seat to get out my books for class. After class
I went to her again and asked if I could have any assignments I
might have missed while I was away. She smiled and told me about
one I had missed which I could do and hand in next class. I
thanked her and left the class.
The next class I brought the assignment in and gave it to her.
Much to my surprise rather than a courteous thanks, or
appreciation, I was asked why I had not handed the assignment in
with the others. I was also told that I was not wanted in that
class if I was unwilling to participate and hand in assignments
on time because I was going to be an extra bother to her. At
that point I went to my seat and shut myself in thought until
the bell rang allowing me to leave for the day. While I was
thinking about the subject of how I felt about this teacher I
noticed some of her behaviour towards other students. What I saw
was a teacher that really had too much on her hands as do many
teachers, students, and other inhabitants of any school. I saw
her move a certain group of students away from each other
because they were making noise, while leaving two other students
(who I found quite disruptive) to talk their heads off in the
front row of the class. Today I still believe that there was no
favouritism (or whatever it has been called by the different
people involved) on her part. I believe that she was simply too
stressed because of the overly large size of that class, and she
simply couldn't keep track of all of her students at once.
However the simple fact of the matter is that I felt quite bad
about the way she had spoken to me.
With a burning feeling in my stomach, I went to see my
Vice-Principal. I wasn't really sure what to tell him. I thought
that my teacher might be brought into the picture more than as a
character in a story that was being told. Because of the
situation I asked that my confidence be kept; and my
Vice-Principal said that he would do that for me. I didn't want
my teacher to get reprimanded because of what had happened
between her and I, or the way I felt because of what had
transpired. At that point I wasn't really sure how serious any
of this was, and that is part of the reason that I went to
discuss the subject with my Vice-Principal. No matter how
serious my Vice-Principal thought the teachers general actions
toward the class were the simple fact of the matter was that I
needed my timetable changed, and I needed another English
'environment'. When I went to my Vice-Principal I knew that
there was more than one other class in the same time slot that
had empty seats that I could use. I saw this as a simple and
logical change, as did other people who I talked the situation
over with. It seemed however that my Vice-Principal thought that
it wasn't a simple change and that I should go meet with my
current English teacher and see if we couldn't work things out.
This meant to me that I had to go and see my English teacher who
was in no less of an awkward position and tell her to her face
that I didn't like the way she conducted herself in the
classroom. In simple terms I was supposed to go and insult her
to her face, and hope that she still felt like working things
out.
As it happened I went to my English teacher and talked the
situation over with her as best as I could without doing what I
had essentially been asked, which was to tell her that I thought
she was a bad teacher. I didn't and still don't feel that she is
a bad teacher, she was simply too stressed. I would have done
what my Vice-Principal had asked if I hadn't felt so trapped
between doing what I was told and doing what was right. I felt
was right was to let the situation rest for the meantime, change
classes and go and talk to my English teacher to let her know
that I was a sympathiser of the inadequate working conditions,
rather than an enemy as I was forced to present myself as. The
results of our conversation were nothing more than an increase
of worry on my teacher's part, that she had done something
dreadfully wrong. My teacher and I agreed that it was best that
I not go to her class.
With the situation unchanged I went back to my Vice-Principal to
request that he make the change in my English class. He would do
nothing for me, even though my teacher, guidance counsellor, and
almost anyone else who had heard the story thought that the
class should be changed for me. He said I would have to try to
deal with that class, only giving me the excuse that he had
"nothing to tell either the new teacher or the old teacher about
why I was changing classes" and that "he needed something to
tell them" or he couldn't make the change. He then asked me what
I thought he should tell them? I felt that if he wanted
something to tell them he certainly had it with what had already
transpired. At the same time I felt like he was asking me to
make something up as he had already forced me to do when I met
with my English teacher earlier. So without anything resolved I
left the Vice-Principal's office feeling incredibly trapped. I
couldn't go to my old English class, and I had been given no
other choice.
A couple of days later when I went to see my Vice-Principal I
was told that he was away sick and that another Vice-Principal
had been asked to have a meeting with me. When I went down the
hall to the other office and spoke with the other Vice-Principal
neither of us really knew why I was there so we decided that the
best thing was to wait until my regular V.P. had returned. The
week ran out and my regular Vice-Principal had not returned
leaving the situation up in the air.
Over the weekend I developed the flu which kept me in bed at
home for over a week. During that time my mother received a call
>from my guidance counsellor, his reason for the phone call was
to tell my mom that the school wanted a meeting with my her to
sort out my situation. This phone call immediately told my
mother that my Vice-Principal had broken my confidence. That
evening my mother came home and told me about the call, and
without a moments hesitation I knew also that my Vice-Principal
had not kept his word to me that he would keep my confidence.
I could have gone to no one else in this situation, except the
next higher level up from me. It is almost like the relationship
between a boss and an employee, my Vice-Principal is the next
person up the power ladder from me. So without going to a higher
level I was trapped. As it turned out the higher level came to
us. My mother had a meeting with the Principal of Northern,
along with my English teacher and the Vice-Principal. During
this meeting it was heard by everyone there that my confidence
had been broken. It was also heard that what my Vice-Principal
had said caused my teacher to loose sleep, not what I had said
frightening her unnecessarily. My Vice-Principal also said that
I could now have my English class changed. When I heard
the news that night of what had occurred at the meeting you
might think that I would have been relieved to have my class
changed and have myself back in school. What must be understood
however is that at this point I had been out of school for a
fairly long time and there was only one week left until exams.
With exams that close I was left with no way of learning the
material I had missed, and feeling that it was going to be very
difficult to return to classes and sort things out with all of
my teachers without having the choice of telling them this story
I am telling to you right now. Some of the teachers may have
rightfully said tough cookies to me and not given me the
necessary work to catch up for my exams. Stuck in a state of
emotional distress, and confusion as to what to do about this
whole situation it was left until after the Christmas break. I
was told that after the break I would be allowed to go back to
classes and that everything would be sorted out.
When I returned after the break I walked into my
Vice-Principal's office to find him looking quite surprised to
see me, and quite confused as to what to do, even though the
Principal had asked me to go and see him. As it happened, he
took me down the hall to the Principal's office where I was
'read the riot act' so to speak. I was told that I was to be
allowed to go to my regular classes for two weeks and "if at the
end of these two weeks I had not missed any of my classes they
would put me back on the roll". My Vice-Principal was told to
give me a note to show my teachers that stated just that.
Here's how the note read:
"At present David is officially 'off roll'. His mother has
arranged for a trial period of two weeks going to his old
classes. If this is successful he will be formally reinstated.
For this period there will be no attendance and the report will
probably show N.M.A. Please let me know if he fails to attend or
profit from your class. Welcome back"
First of all this note is faulty. My mother didn't make that
arrangement, and she did not know that these were going to be
the contents of this note. They have also turned this into an
issue of attendance and profit even though the root reason I was
not attending was the breach of confidence made by my
Vice-Principal. This note has turned out to be the final blow
>from my school. I have not seen the inside of a classroom in
three months, all because my school did everything to push me
out without making the slightest attempt to get me back into
classes. I question even the validity of this note because I
don't understand what rule allows them to set these guidelines
for me. Or did they just make them up?
I am now leaving my friends and possible new friends and fellow
Northerners for destination still unknown to me, I hope it's
something better; or maybe all of are schools are failing this
badly?
This situation is one of many reasons I am striking this year, I
hope you will make it one of yours. We need major changes at all
levels of our education system whether it's the issue of sexual
harassment, breaches of confidence like this one, or better
curriculum.
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Get with the program. Contact TAO today.
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A.P.I
American Pirate Industries
News Letter Volume I written on July 13, 1989
Written by: Mind Shadow
Edited by: Laughing Gas
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This might look a little unprofessional compared to
some other newsletters, but you have to remember this is our
first newsletter. We are trying to make it as informative as
possible. Right now we don't care about style. Later on in
future issues we will work on the format of our newsletter.
Right now the purpose of this newsletter is to tell you who
we are, what were going to do, how we came about, and who is
in API.
The first order of business I have to take care of is
answering the question Who is API? And what are they going to
do? Well, to answer those questions I must also include our
history. So here goes...about 3 months ago I was trying to
start up a group called KORT (Knight's of the Round Table). I
had no idea that there already existed a group called TKRT.
(And TKRT was a loser cracking group stealing cracks at that)
When I found out I abandoned the idea of starting up a group
because I met Laughing Gas. We both has the same idea. We
wanted to have not a hacking group, but a pirate group that
gave out information on new products, clues to games, and any
other business doings in the pirate world. I met Laughing Gas
and he suggested a group called API and asked me to join. I
agreed and that is basically how we came to be.
API is not like your regular group that cracks games and
joins sysops of boards. We may have a branch that will
perform these duties, but as of right now, our main goal is
to INFORM the pirate world of new games, when their coming
out, our own personal opinion of the game, clues to games,
the docs to the game, some fixes for the game, and any other
important issues that may come up. You may make the analogy
of a newspaper to us. We will have information, some
editorials (in future volumes), classifieds, advertisements,
and upcoming products. We may include a Blacklist, but other
groups seem to have taken care of that problem. Some people
may think that we are just going to be like a falling star,
flickering briefly and then dissapearing. We have no
intention of being a falling star. We are here to stay unless
we get negative results from this newsletter.
Let me explain what I mean by a newspaper. We are going
to start the newsletter off by any important issues that have
come up in the pirate world. We will allow sysops to place an
ad in the newsletter advertising their board, and any other
information they may want to include. Also we will have an
editorial section letting the users express their views. For
example the subject of Guns or China. In the classifieds we would
put messages concerning the sale of an HD, or modem, etc.
Getting back to the news part we would have a pirate section
in general like the front page of your newspaper. Then we
would have a phreak section on busts or anything interesting,
a hack section concerning VAX's, UNIX's, etc., then an
anarchy section. I am not real thrilled about having this
section, but people have expressed their approval of having
one. That about sums up what the API newsletter will be, and
what we will be doing.
A second issue of business I may want to add is that we
don't want ANY problems with any cracking groups. We in no
way are trying to compete with you. One, we are NOT a
cracking group, and two, we try to get any new information
from the cracking groups themselves. We are working in
conjunction with the groups trying to help them spread
information all over the country. Like NAP/PA's goal is to
unite all the cracking groups, ours is to spread information
throughout the pirate world.
Other current members of API include Laughing Gas, Sturm
Brightblade, piro (like's his name in small letters), Missing
Link, me (Mind Shadow). We currently are looking for new
members who have excellent knowledge in the field of
phreaking, carding, hacking, and anarchy. If you are
interested in becoming a member then follow the directions on
the API application. To sysops who would like to become a
drop site for the API newsletter, follow the instructions on
the Drop Site application. We have alot of future plans,
but what happens remains to be seen.
I'm am pretty positive everyone knows that the PCP has
changed the format for their password and their rates. Well
you might have not known that MCI has gotten 1400 more lines
around the nation. Don't ask me why. I doubt they could put
an ANI on each one, so phreaking with MCI MAY be less
dangerous than sprint or AT&T.
Well, that concludes our first newsletter....Oh yea I
almost forgot..I would like to say a few things about Phoebus
Apollo. Those of us on the East Coast will sorely miss Gates
of Dawn, but besides that, we will also miss the person
running Gates of Dawn. A real swell guy, well-liked by
everyone. Good luck in California, and K.I.T. with the pirate
world. Nothing like the Sun....
Well, that definitely concludes our first newsletter. I
hope you have enjoyed it, and I am looking forward to your
opinions. Please, tell us what you thought of the newsletter.
What we could change or improve, or what we could add. We
only can get better with user support and criticism. I hope
this newsletter has given you some information you didn't
know before, and the next one should be out by the latest...
..October.
So to sum it all up...I would like to thank everyone who has
helped API out in the criticism and help. Until next time....
Mind Shadow
[2 Hype]
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Newsletter, Isssue #2.
File #1 of 4.
Page 1.
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API NEWSLETTER - UPDATE TO ISSUE #1.
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Well, it's been quite a while since our last newsletter, people were asking
about the second one immediately after the first was released.. well, here
it is.. The second one.. it was originally planned to be much bigger, but since
we're in a rush, we've released this one, the third one should be bigger and
better.
The third one IS being worked on, but we are having a couple of problems. One:
All of our members have better things to do than work on the newsletter (girls,
school, real lives, etc). Two: There's not really much going on right now to
write about. We are continuing to release cheats, and a text file here or
there, but there hasnt been that much to write about. We've tried to narrow it
down to what you want to know that you may or may not, and not include alot
about ourselves or unimportant things. That limits our size very much, but in
an effort to not become dormant, as some groups have, we have decided to
release this newsletter to let you know what's going on with us.
Many people have been asking "So what's API doing now? I haven't seen anything
from them in a while...", well, that's what this update will cover, it mentions
just about everything we're working on that is close to positive.. we have alot
of activities going, but not everything is definite, and therefore, we can't
really mention it all.
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US AND YOU.
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First, a word on us. We're here because we are trying to serve the entire
underground world. This includes the realms of piracy, phreaking, hacking,
anarchy, and fraud. In each of the upcomming issues we will try to include
information on all of these topics.
Now a word on us and you, and how we can help each other.
Currently, our ranks are made up of exclusivly IBM users. I am sure that there
are people in the Apple/Commodore/Atari realms with plenty of information and
knowledge that everyone could benifet from. If you use a non-IBM/DOS Based
machine and think you could provide quaility information to our newsletters, or
write quality files on Phreaking, Hacking, Anarchy, or Fraud call any API board
that you have the number to, or if you dont have any, call Solsbury Hill
(301/428-3268) and apply, in your feedback state that you'd like to be a member
Of course, if you have use an IBM machine, and think you have something to
offer, you can do the same.
If you are already writing [text] files, or have been, but do not wish to be
in a group, contact us anyway, and we will make sure your files get
distributed, your files will not be altered in any way, except some sort of
little "Distributed by A.P.I." will be stuck on the bottom.
If you wish to write files, and remain anonymous, that's ok too. We will see
that the file(s) is/are distributed and you will remain completely anonymous.
Remember, we are here to serve you, the underground community, and to serve you
better, we need your opinions, ideas, etc.. leave feedback on any API board, or
contact any API member on any other board.
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Page #3 - Quick News / Conclusion
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Now what's been going on with us...
Black Sabbath has left the BBS community for good, and his board went with
him naturally. We'll miss him.
Mind Shadow hasn't been heard from for ages, his fate is unknown.
We are now proudly sponsoring AfterShock BBS software.
We are currently in the process of straightening out and totally (re)organizing
our BBS/network system, and setting up our distribution system.
We also have plans for API subs on several Networks.
More news to come...
Boy this is a small letter...
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Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
arcane knowledge, political extremism, diversive sexuality,
insane speculation, and wild rumours. ALL-TEXT BBS SYSTEMS.
Full access for first-time callers. We don't want to know who you are,
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/__\ s s e m b l a g e techno \/ music V 1.1
/ \S S E M B L A G E rave /\ culture NOV 92
issue editor russell potter rapotter@colby.edu
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_Assemblage_ is a deliberately ephemeral, occasional, mobile
journal that will publish reviews of techno/rave music, raves,
dances, along with articles on the social implications of this
music (if any). Freelance reviews, signed or unsigned, are
welcome.
Editorial Staff:
Robert Campanell robcamp@well.sf.ca.us (cyberpunk)
Michael Pisano mpisano@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu(theoretical articles)
Russell Potter rapotter@colby.edu (reviews, theory)
Bob Crispen crispen@foxy.boeing.com (record reviews)
Frederick Wolf Frederick.Wolf@um.cc.umich.edu (Detroit scene, reviews)
Robert Hooker hooker@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (the theoretical side)
Arthur Chandler arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (reviews, thought pieces)
Laura La Gassa laura@usl.com ("The Flux Tube" (NE Rave Scene))
Andy ndc@engin.umich.edu (reviews, scene stuff)
Johan Dowdy jwdowdy@colby.edu (reviews)
taylor808 TOD3253@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU (tech,cyberpunk stuff)
Joe Turner cutter@silver.lcs.mit.edu ("Kickin' Phase" (Tech Tips))
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I S S U E 1 C O N T E N T S
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Columns [Assemblage part 1] :
Kickin' Phase: "Techno: The 12-Point Program" -- Errata Stigmata
The Flux Tube -- The East Coast Rave Scene as Seen by Laura La Gassa
Articles [Assemblage Part 2]:
Russell Potter, "DANCE: Music, Body, and the Reign of the Senses"
Robert Hooker, "Reflections on the Rave Generation"
Arthur Chandler, "Have We Been Here Before? -- Hippies & Ravers, 60s & 70s"
Music Reviews [Assemblage Part 3]:
The Techno Sound of Berlin, Swamp, Radition, Acid Drill, Lords of
Acid, Underground Resistance, World Power Alliance, Sysex,
C.Y.B.E.R.F.U.N.K., Circuit Breaker
[reviewed by Andrew Crosby and Russell Potter]
Rave Reviews
Halloween Rave, Greensboro NC -- Reviewed by henders@eos.ncsu.edu
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*Assemblage* 1.1. Copyright (c) 1992 by *Assemblage* for the contributors
(unless otherwise noted); this text may be freely shared among individuals,
but may not be reprinted without prior permission from the author(s).
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K I C K I N' P H A S E
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b y E r r a t a S t i g m a t a
TECHNO: The 12-POINT PROGRAM
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TECHNO - the sound of ten million whining chainsaws melted into a
disco record with a bad attitude on speed. Must be easy to make one
o' them there thangs, eh? Hrmph! About as easy, as they say, as root
canal -- but fun nonetheless, and you CAN do it if you want to.
Techno, while ultimately very diverse, is actually a very rigidly
defined style. Your first Techno song, if you're not a latent genius,
will probably sound pretty derivative; don't fret, and don't give up
if you suddenly realise your creation uses the same changes as the
latest Twin EQ disc. Just as a lot of rock sounds interchangeable (on
the surface) because it's just two guitars, bass, and drums, a lot of
Techno ends up sounding similar because of the ingredients needed to
make it.
"Writing" a Techno song doesn't follow any of the same patterns as
writing a pop song. Techno, with very few exceptions, is based on the
jam-in-the-studio method of writing: you get in front of the drum
machine and keyboard, and you just go nuts. Whatever works, you keep,
and then change/modify until you like it (or you hate it and throw it
away). If you don't like something, save it anyway; having old ideas
around often lets them "compost" in your head, and they may come out
later in a different and better form.
The process of writing a Techno song is very linear, if you're having
a really good day and the muses are with you. A basic drum pattern is
created, then a simple bass line is added over it, and then a main
chord or sound to fill it out gets laid over the top. Frills can then
be added on, such as samples and effects. The samples can come
earlier in the process, if the sample is integral to the song.
The kick drum is almost always the first thing to be written. Techno
uses a beat called "four on the floor" almost exclusively. What that
means in english is that for each measure of a song, there are four
kick-drum beats. You know, THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP. You can
experiment with this, and play around with syncopating it a little.
Variety is the spice of life -- but if Fred the Raver can't dance to
it, it won't do well. Be inventive but know when to stop. The choice
of kick drum is also important; make sure you use a sound that has a
good fast attack and isn't flabby or hollow. Most drum sound sources,
depending on whatever you're using as a drum unit (you can use a
sampler with drum sounds loaded, or a drum machine), will have a
variety of sounds to choose from. The Alesis SR-16, for example, has
about 25 kick drum sounds.
Once you have the kick pattern set, start experimenting with hi-hat
patterns and snare drum fills. Use the snare very sparingly, if at
all. Keep it low in the drum mix (most drum machines will let you
control the volume of each drum individually), and avoid heavy,
rock-like drum sounds (unless you are going for a particular one-time
effect). Keep the drum line percolating but simple -- the urge to
make a very complex drum line is strong, I know, but less is truly
more.
If you are going for a stereotypical hardcore Techno sound, you will
probably want to put that grindy REEET-REEET sound in that everyone
and their mother uses (if you're not sure what noise I mean, and
through the printed medium I'm sure some people won't, just grab your
ancient copy of "James Brown is Dead" and fixate on the annoying buzzy
grinding sounds). Take your sampler and the nearest heavy metal
record you can find, and sample a bit of pure guitar noise. Just a
half-second will do, just enough to loop. (You should read your
sampler's manual if the term "sample and loop" confuses you; basically
it means "take the sampled sound and have it play over and over and
over if you hold a key down". The shorter the sample, the more
unearthly the loop usually is.) Pitch-bend that sucker to hell.
If you're going for something a bit more housey or trancey, any good
analog or digital synth will do. Moogs are nice; Juno 60's are
better; Jupiters are worth killing someone for. Go nuts with
bloopy and blorpy arpeggiated sounds. If you're lucky, your unit can
control how fast it arpeggiates by looking at how fast your sequencer
is going (by looking at MIDI information), and you'll have some snappy-
sounding acid basslines.
If you have listened carefully to *any* Techno, you may have noticed
that not only are chords optional, they're usually nonexistant. This
doesn't mean you have to make something totally atonal; however, don't
concentrate on figuring out how to get from the Lydian mode in the
break back to Dorian mode in the main section. The ravers won't care,
and so shouldn't you. Most Techno does not vary from one or two
chords over the course of a song, so don't sweat it.
Vocal samples are fun, but optional. They can either add to the
recognisability of a song ("I'm the One and Only Dominator!", "Shut
the fuck up, bitch, you can't sing!") but they can also get incredibly
annoying if used too much ("...Dominator" and various Public Enemy
samples being prime offenders in past years. Hey, anyone remember
"this is a journey into sound..."?) A whole book could be written
about attempting to match the rhythm of your sample with the rhythm of
your song, but in general, don't worry about speeding the sample up if
you have to, or slowing it down. Most DJs will adjust the speed of
their turntable, anyway.
Your song should groove, but it should also change and build. Don't
be afraid to put breaks in. "Break" can either literally be a silence
of so-many beats, or it can be short for "breakdown", where you strip
the song down in an interesting way -- take the kick out, let the
piano glide byt itself for 4 bars, or whatever. DJ's like breaks,
especially in intuitive places (try to keep things in even numbers of
bars) and when they can hear it building. The chances that your
record will be played by itself in its entirety is pretty slim, so
make it interesting; don't just let it sit there and grind away for
four minutes.
Now that you understand the basics of the process, you must
meet two major requirements if you have ANY pretentions about making
Techno: nearly infinite patience, and nearly infinite money.
Money first. Forget all the hype about LFO plopping a Casiotone down
on tape and having instant success with it; the equipment needed to do
all the stuff I just described ain't cheap.
If you plan on doing a housey-trancey song (much easier than a
hardcore samplefest), you will need:
o A sequencer ($200/$400 used/new) -OR-
o A home computer such as a Macintosh, IBM-PC, Amiga, or
Atari ST ($700/$1500 used/new) plus
good sequencing software ($200).
o A drum machine ($200/$400 used/new).
o A synthesiser ($300/$1500 used/new). Most newer
digital synths are MIDI-fitted; some older
analog synths are, also. Some VERY old synths
may need a MIDI "retro-fit", which can be VERY
expensive.
o A multichannel mixer ($25-$150/$50-$500 used/new).
Four channel at least, six channel is nice.
Radio Shack sells a good six-channel mixer;
don't beleive anyone who tells you that you
need twelve channels.
o An open-reel audio tape recorder ($500/$1000 used/new)
for sending your gem to the mastering plant.
o Buttloads of audio and MIDI cables ($50-$200). This
is the hidden cost that everyone forgets
about.
If you don't want to wear headphones, and your neighbors are 80 and
deaf, you can also get:
o A PA power amp ($200-$500/$500-$1000 used/new), at
least 100 watts a channel.
o Two PA speakers which you should call "cabinets" or
else you'll look like a total neo ($200/$500 per pair
used/new). Make sure they have good bass, and that
they'll match the amp you buy.
If you DO want a samplefest, then you can also count on buying:
o A sampler! ($400/$1000 used/new) Make sure it has
enough memory to choke an elephant. Most samplers
will have enough to sample about 15 seconds in mono.
o Lots of disks ($50) -OR-
o A hard disk drive ($200/$400 used/new) to save
samples on. Some home computers have "sample library"
software and can store samples on disk, and modify
them.
If you just won the lottery and have money to burn, don't forget your:
o Multitrack recorder ($250-$7,000/$500-$20,000
used/new). Four-tracks are useful, but eight-tracks
are better for doing some really inventive tricks.
o SMPTE time-code reader/writer (if you have to ask,
you can't afford it, used OR new). Hook this up to
your sequencer and record many tracks of synced-up
music. Useful only if your synth is limited or if you
want to do VERY layered stuff.
You may pick your jaw up from the floor now -- but put it back down
because even for bare-bones stuff, getting even 1000 records pressed
requires $200 for mastering and EQ, plus five cents per sleeve, plus
about $700 for the actual vinyl.
IT'S NOT CHEAP. Unless you traffic in stolen goods, or unless you
have lots of generous friends with equipment to loan, you will end up
blowing close to $2000 on a basic set-up.
This is by no means a complete guide; rules were made to be broken and
Techno definately breaks a LOT of rules. Read the manuals then throw
them away and play intuitively. Listen to a lot of Techno and then
put a Patsy Cline album on before you go into the studio. Be calm but
take risks. Play things for your friends, and send demos to anyone
and everyone. Go to raves and really talk to DJs about what they like
to play. Listen carefully to your friends jizz over what they've
bought and what they like. Remember: it will sometimes take 20 bad
songs before you write that first good one.
...and fer gosh sakes, keep a sense of humor about it all. Ain't
nothing less fun than a pompous musician!
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The Flux Tube
A Column Depicting the East Coast Rave Scene as Seen by Laura La Gassa
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This issue's topic: A Raver's Map of the North East
Raving on the East Coast often involves a lot of driving, and the core
of dedicated ravers will travel anywhere from one to eight hours for an
event. This results in a lot of good friendly parties since a portion of
the people will have made a special effort to be there, and because the same
faces keep popping up, lending a small neighborhood feel to a large geographic
area. Interstate 95 links the major cities on the East Coast, and as such
links the major rave centers. Let's take a drive . . .
MAINE: Way up north in Portland, K.C. and the Sunrise Gang throw raves
about every two months. These are generally small (compared to the huge New
York and Washington raves) and breakbeat oriented. I have never attended any
of these raves, but a reputable raver reports that the last party, CRUSADE
held on October 10, was excellent.
MASSACHUSSETS: The Boston rave scene as such is pretty much non-existent. A
large number of enthusiastic ravers live in and around Boston, but they have
been able to have very few rave parties within the metro-Boston area. There
are decent clubs with good techno nights (Venus and Axis), but everything must
close down at 2.00 am so it's difficult to get an all-night vibe going unless
it is at a private party held in someone's apartment. Occaisionally
after-hours parties are thrown at underground locations, but these are prone to
being busted. I attended a good after hours party Labor Day weekend, thrown by
self-proclaimed Boston scene leader Debo and DJ'd by Debo and Long Island's
trance god Onionz, but it was closed down at 7.00 am because of noise. The
exception to all this is a legal Fridays-only after hours club called The
Loft, which runs from midnight until about 6.00 am. The Loft is a beautiful
space, and a welcome addition to the
now-overrun-by-overly-drinking-college-student Axis, but it lacks the
atmosphere and energy of a non-club rave. Debo planned to throw a warehouse
rave in Boston proper, but moved the location 45 minutes west to Worcester
after someone else tried a non-rave-related party there and got busted at
2.00 am.
Worcester has had two other sucessful raves, both called BOLD. I worked the
door at the second one, held October 17. Over 160 ravers turned up from
Hartford, Providence, and Boston, as well as from the immediate area. The
DJ list at BOLD II was spectacular if you are trance-oriented: Dave Trance,
James Christian, and Dante. Other DJ's spun breakbeat and acid as well.
RHODE ISLAND: Providence, aside from being Rhode Island's rave capitol,
is the defacto center for the Boston rave scene. It is supposed to be
easier legally to throw raves in Providence than in Boston, and three
seperate organizations ensure that there is at least one party in the city
every month. Word of mouth tells me that the best raves are the QUEST raves.
I was at their first rave and thought it was wonderful. They had an excellent
location near a 24-hour donut shop, and allowed re-entry so hungry ravers could
fuel up. The music was a mixture of styles, from the hardcore of Adam X
and Jimmy Crash to the breakbeat of Mayhem to the trance of James Christian.
The ORACLE organisation held their first rave October 9. I did not attend,
but heard that there were underage kids blatantly drinking beer outside
the front door and that the rave was busted around 3.00 am. The organizer of
the ORACLE rave was arrested and taken away in handcuffs for selling food
without a license. The third organisation, MICHELANGELO, has also had two
raves. Word of mouth says that their first one was really bad, but their
second was an improvement.
CONNECTICUT: I am under the impresson that Connecticut ravers travel
a lot, because I know there are lots of people in Connecticut that
rave but I never hear of any raves out there. I could be wrong . . .
they could just be very underground. I never claimed to be *that* well
connected with the rave scene . . . .
NEW YORK: New York seems to always have to do everything the biggest and
the best on the East Coast, and raving is no exception. It was announced
that the last Storm Rave in New York City drew over 5000 people, but one of
the promoters told me that there were only about 1670 paid admissions. This
discrepancy seems very odd, because I was at the rave in question and it
looked to me that four to five thousand seemed like an accurate count.
Offshoots of the Storm Rave Organization frequently throw raves of their own,
so there is ALWAYS something going on in the metro-New York area.
Since I adore deep deep trance techno, Sattellite Production's raves are a
welcome addition to the Storm Raves. This group is based upstate in
Poughkepsie, and have had two good parties so far: SPUTNIK and SPUTNIK II.
At SPUTNIK there were two dance areas, one featuring mostly hardcore and
the other with trance/breakbeat/house. SPUTNIK II featured a wide range
of DJ's, opening the night with housey happy breakbeat, moving into
hardcore, and finishing off with two of the most amazing trance sets I
have ever heard: DJs Rob Sherwood and Onionz should be cannonized. All
the Sattelite raves are held in roller skating / skate board parks, which
is a neat twist from spending the night in a place with no real bathrooms
(okay, so I'm a wimp). Their next rave will be December 5th, and is called
EXPLORER I.
NEW JERSEY: The New Jersey scene is incredibly underground, so underground
that members of the raving community there don't even admit they are part
of it. I will respect them and not name names and places here until they
get things off the ground and go a bit more public. They've had a run of
bad luck lately: every rave they've thrown since August has gotten closed
down, and in September their sound equipment was seized.
PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are the rave centers. The two
main groups in Philadelphia are the Vagabonds, who host parties in various
clubs on various nights around town, and Dead by Dawn, who have held at least
two raves in the city. Dead by Dawn's last two raves have had police
run-ins. At the first a raver was stabbed (by someone not connected with
the rave or raving) outside the rave location, and the second (at a
different location) was closed down around 1.45 am. They will try again.
I'm not too sure exactly what's going on in Pittsburgh, except that a group of
people who I know out there are throwing a nice big rave November 13th.
Pittsburgh ravers travel a lot also, frequently going down to Washington and
New York.
DELAWARE: The Delaware ravers I know usually travel to Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and Washington. If anything else is happening, I haven't
heard about it . . . yet.
MARYLAND: It seems to be easier to stay open late around Baltimore, so
several clubs have late night parties with techno music. Also, a number
of the raves advertised in DC are actually in Maryland.
WASHINGTON, DC: The Catastrophic organization puts on the most and the
largest raves in Washington. They get amazing lighting effects, including
argon lasers, and draw all the top DJs. I've never raved down in Washington
either, but I heard that the last two Catastrophic raves were excellent as
far as huge raves go. In warmer weather a number of smaller, simpler,
outdoor raves happen under bridges and in parking garages.
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issue editor russell potter rapotter@colby.edu
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_Assemblage_ is a deliberately ephemeral, occasional, mobile
journal that will publish reviews of techno/rave music, raves,
dances, along with articles on the social implications of this
music (if any). Freelance reviews, signed or unsigned, are
welcome.
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DANCE!
Music, Body, and the Reign of the Senses
Russell A. Potter
(c) 1992 Russell A. Potter
This text may be freely shared among
individuals, but may not be republished
in any form without the consent of the
author.
1. The dance as a sovereign gesture.
In Georges Bataille's text, _Sovereignty_, he delineates a
cultural domain, a domain that is sovereign in the sense that it
is neither _for_ nor _about_ anything else. The sovereign, for
Bataille, is opposed both to utility and objectivity; it is
useless, it disdains use, and it scorns the (bourgeois) world of
'things.' It chooses the present rather than the past or the
future; the transgressive rather than the obedient; its domain is
excess, the realm of eroticism and the indecipherable. Yet at the
same time, the sovereign is crucial, for it represents that share
of each society's (and each individual's) life which is
unsubjected to the constraints of work, to the endless deferral of
desire which is sublimation. Without such epiphanies of
unsubjection, society itself would burst under the strain; the
refusal of society's boundaries is the (re)marking of those very
boundaries. Thus, inevitably, the value of the sovereign is also
its undoing, and necessitates its continuing re-doing; it is not
enough to dance once, one must dance and dance dance again. Not
the dance as a performance, offered for the consumption of others,
but the dance of Dionysos, the dance as the social ritual which
marks and exceeds the limits of the social. Dance is the supreme
gesture of abandon, the embrace of the moment, the abeyance of
work and the annihilation of guilt, neurosis, and the burden of
the past. If there is a revolt against the continual demand of
bourgeois society, the demand to work in order to accumulate
things (including leisure itself, insofar as it is a thing), this
revolt can only take place in the domain of the sovereign, and its
technic will be the dance.
2. Dance: technic of the totality
Dance is not merely on the side of the subject (s/he who
dances), but also on the side of the object (s/he with whom s/he
dances); it is spectacular as well as completely interior. In fact,
the dance is capable of holding in abeyance the entire
subject/object split. The associated technics of dance, from the
earliest times, amplify this abeyance of the subject: incense,
masks, hallucinogenic drugs, firelight or dim light, costumes,
perfume, the relentless pounding of the beat. Current technology
amplifies these technics still more, with strobe lights, lasers,
black lights, moving dancefloors, neon, and an even wider palette
of drugs. Such was the genesis of technorave music: in the
industrial wastelands, whether of Detroit or Leeds, organizers
rented disused warehouses, silent icons of the post-industrial
wasteland. Portable sound and light systems would be set up,
invitations spread by fliers, over computer networks, or by word
of mouth, and by a few hours after nightfall the warehouse would
be full. The dance lasted, often, till the morning ("rave till
dawn," a phrase borrowed from the hip-hop dj's exhortation "On
and on / till the break of dawn"), an incursion against the day,
against society, against work, against the eternally deferred
bourgeois happiness whose promise had long ago whithered in the
shadows of vacant steel mills and ghostly factories.
Yet this history is but one phosphorescent fragment of the
eternal return of the dance; from the dances of Dionysos to the
medieval carnivals, from the bootleg whisky and jug-band blues of
southern barrelhouses in the 1880's to the prohibition mix of
bathtub gin and jazz at 1930's speakeasies, to whenever and
wherever the Grateful Dead pulled into a concert, be it the 60's
or the 90's. This link between music and the body of the social
is no anomaly; if there is any anomaly it is the hypercephalic
spectacle of the audience at a symphony, each deeply lost in
thought, their limbs motionless at their sides, where any
suggestion of physicality (even a sneeze!) is regarded with horror
. . .
3. Dance: The loss of self
Like the eastern disciplines of Yoga and Zen, the point of
the dance is the _loss_ of subjectivity, the immersion of the
tyrannical ego in the bath of undifferentiated subjectivity. It is
thus necessarily a collectivity of the most profound kind, even
more so than riot and revolutions -- for riots and revolutions
have their aims, their goals, and are directed to those ends,
whereas the energy of the dance is entirely consumed in the
polymorphous conflagration of the senses. Sexualities, personas,
postures -- all are lifted from whatever 'place' society may
assign, and mobilized in the great enactment of the dance, which
is both acknowledgement and reversal of all the other 'acts' which
one must 'put on' to maintain one's position in society.
Thus the place of the dance is anyplace: under the stars,
under the rusted i-beams of the industrial bombshelters of the
past, under the glow of lasers, black lights, and strobes. The
time of the dance is the eternal present of the senses, a
deliberate forgetting and abandonment of the myriad threads which
weave us into our neurotic fixations with what has been, or will
be. For once, all the energy we waste at these devotions is set
free, and mobilized into the collective and limitless space of the
rave. To see, and to be seen; to smell, to taste, above all
always to be in motion: this is the complete abeyance of time and
the reign of the _useful_. The time of the dance is no time at
all, it is measured only in the endless stream of beats, now
faster, now slower, now fast and hard again . . . .
4. Industrial, Techno and the Return of the Carnival
In the shadow of the Black Death and the ceaseless invasions
and counter-invasions of mercenary knights, the inhabitants of
what would later be named the "Middle Ages" celebrated life in the
inverted rituals of the Carnival: Anti-Masses were conducted by
celebrants who walked backwards and wore the heads of asses; young
girls and boys were crowned kings and annointed bishops; men and
women exchanged clothes and roles, and everywhere people drank and
danced in a frenzy of life, life which declared this day its
territory and refused its accursed pasts and futures. The domain
of the Carnivalesque was also the domain of the Carnal, of desire
unrefused, of the celebration of fucking, pissing, defecating, and
puking, of all the human exchanges upon which the territory of the
social had set its prohibition.
The technologies of this carnival were relatively simple:
facepaint made from roots and grasses; costumes and masks of
leather, wool, and bark; for the inebriation of the senses there
was mead, wine, and ale; for hallucinatory excursions there was
ergot, henbane, and nightshade. This is the domain that Hans
Peter Duerr calls _Traumzeit_, or Dreamtime; it is the "other"
time that continually erupts into the pious days and hours of both
sacred and secular calendars. And, when the "middle ages"
gradually faded into memory with the incursion of industrial
technology, this "time" was for a moment quelled; where, after
all, could one stage a carnival among the narrow, sooty streets of
the new industrial cities of the UK and the USA? Where it
survived, as in New Orleans, the Carnival became perversely the
property of the propertied; with costumes and floats consuming
thousands of hours and thousands of dollars, the display of the
carnival was appropriated from the masses (though drink, at least,
and the license of the lewd, was left them).
Yet even as it appeared to extinguish the spark of the
Carnival, industrial culture could not permanently repress it.
Ironically, it was the industrial muse that itself supplied the
soundtrack for the return of the Carnival, whether in the
mechanical noises and imagery of the 20's and 30's (e.g.
_Metropolis_ or the _Ballet Mechanique_) or in the rancorous
resonances of Einstuerzende Neubaten, who made music by banging on
bridges and hammering on discarded metal tubes. Just as the
Carnival had founded its reaction upon the bourgeois-Christian
ethos of its day by tearing open a gateway to the pagan past,
"Industrial" music attacked the despair of the post-industrial
landscape by re-appropriating the very objects that society had
discarded: disused warehouses, vacant fields, and abandoned
amusement parks. It was bricolage and pastiche from the start,
and its beat was provided by the very technologies it mobilized
against; in the heart of the machine, it appeared, was a beat, and
the beat initiated the very dance that was the undoing of the
world the machine made.
The Gothic ruins of the 90's, the empty rustbelt caverns of
smelters, foundries, and warehouses, thus became the scene of a
new cyberindustrial fusion, in which the boundaries between human
and machine were deconstructed under the strobes and lasers of
that very machine. The capital-industrial machine itself,
inevitably, has attempted to appropriate and commodify this new
form, and yet it is always _too little_ and _too late_. By the
time the music "industry" had figured out how to market
"industrial" music, that music had already shifted, mutated, taken
on a new skin like some recombinant virus, to once again penetrate
the system and begin (re)producing its subversive beats. Acid
House, Hip-Hop, or Technorave; all have continued to evolve at an
astonishing pace, making new incursions from sites just outside
the genre-lines of record store bins (is Consolidated hip-hop?
Techno? Industrial? What about Eon? Greater Than One? The
Beatnigs?). Similarly, just as 1-900 RAVE hotlines have tried to
capitalize the space of ever-changing rave numbers, or high-tech
high-cover-charge clubs have tried to divert the curious by making
"rave" a thing and selling it by the inch, ravers have mobilized
away, finding new venues, new lines of communication, new formats.
With luck, and with dedication, this process will continue,
and the commodity shell-game will always be a step away. The new
technologies make it easier, in fact, to evade commodification;
with a small array of machines and mixers that could fit into a
bedroom or a panel truck, rave DJ's can stay one mix ahead. In
the UK, even as various government ministers condemned "ravers"
and "travellers," their condemnations were sampled and set to a
beat within 24 hours; in the USA George Bush and Tipper Gore have
been relentlessly sampled by everyone from Ice-T to Consolidated
to Front Line Assembly. It is difficult to resist the massmedia
machine by rebuttal, but via the appropriation enabled by
sampling, parody is only a beat away. Long may the hip-hop crews
and rave DJ's continue, and long may the dance repeat its refusal
of the strictures of society . . .
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Reflections on the Rave Generation
by Robert Hooker, Chicago Il
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I went to a rave and I started to feel old. Here in Chicago it is pretty
hip to go to a Rave; most of my friends have never heard of one.
In my late twenties, I am in the uncomfortable situation being between
two great cultural happenings; hippies and ravers. There is sort of an empty
feeling in the middle.
I like to rave because it exposes me to youth, but it can also make me
feel a little old. At a Rave I don't rediscover my youth but I discover
the youth of a new generation that I am not one of, that I don't fully
understand. I become very aware that this new generation that is coming
of age now, the first post-cold-war generation, is very different then
myself and my generation.
Also I feel for the first time that I am one of the old people that these
kids are the youth that is opposed to me as the old. For young and old
oppose each other and even though we try to make up middle grounds (the
pathetic "Middle-Aged" is a case in point) you are generally one or the
other. At I rave I really become aware of a generation gap that, even
though it does not affect myself that much, keeps most of my friends away.
The last rave I went to was an all ages things here in Chicago full of high
school students all dresses in the latest rave fashion. In fact there was
so much Cross Colors and Fresh Jive that it seemed more like a parody of a
rave then a rave itself. Though I enjoyed myself thoroughly and love
techno music more then anything I grew up with, the rave continued to
leave me with a confused feeling that I could not put my finger on.
After this Rave my group went to a Punk/Heavy Metal bar by visited by
an older crowd. Walking into the bar looked like walking into a crypt, the
punks, dead heads and metal heads (we are a generation of heads) look like
walking zombies, corpses, worshipers of death in black leather. It felt
comfortable to be back among "normal" people.
Then it hit me, what it meant to be my generation. Our generation in all
its trends was driven by an ever present awareness of death and
hopelessness produced by the anxiety of the cold war. We embraced death
for what it seemed to be to us; the only future we had any reason to
believe in. Death runs throughout so many of our trends, heavy metal,
punk, Terminator.
Yet this is not the zeitgeist of the rave generation. The cold war was
ending when they were in elementary school. But what drives the Rave
set in their baggy pants and funky hats, sucking on their glow-in-the-dark
lollypops? Consumerism, oralism, dancing? What is in the mind of
this first post cold war generation?
For a late-twenties such as myself the question becomes how do you read
a rave, how do you decode a rave. What in their world are they referencing,
what principle, hopes, fears give rise to the rave. What is the meaning to their
oralism, their embracing of consumerism, their loose clothing the color of gum
additives?
But what would have been my answer if I had been asked at 17 for the meaning
of my generation and its trends? I could not have answered. Probably no one
could have answered. Probably no one can provide the meaning of an social
movement while it is still going on. Case in point are the endless stupid
explanations of the 60's written during the 60's.
Today the rave generation is simply creating raving, they are making a
cultural happening occur. They are raving a rave into existence rather
then reading a meaning into the rave.
Not until they have finished their college years, not until Rave is over
and they are faced with a new generation which makes them aware of
themselves, will the Ravers find the words to describe what went on,
not until it is all over will they be able to tell me what it was the made
them what they are, or how they see the world different then I. Then
rave will stop being a movement but an influence, a way of looking, a
kind of theory.
These theories or outlooks on the world are what is left behind by once
dynamic vital social happenings, like the skeleton left behind by a dead
animal. You can not have both the skeleton and the living body. Probably
just as you can not rave and read the rave at the same time. It is only after
the hand is done writing that we can read what has been written.
Perhaps this is the very essence of what distinguishes creation of
criticism- creation is a living, vital process of becoming, a process so
dynamic that the bonds between signs and meanings are unable to solidify.
Creation is governed play and a desire for fun. Criticism is a later
process, only after creative energy has been finished with a thing can we
read the meaning left behind. Criticism is concerned with things left us,
things that are now absent from direct experience. Criticism is governed
by a desire to make the world an object- governed by rules.
Creation is interested in the new, the fun, the young, criticism is
interested in preservation, tradition, history, timelessness. For now,
"Rave" is still an indeterminate word; the Rave scene is still free of the
burdensome weight of meaning. We will only be able to read its meaning
after it is over.
But the same is true of any cultural happening. We can only think about
the now in terms of the then. Probably this accounts for such bad name choices
for modern trends. We talk about Cyberpunk long after the punks are gone, We
say Industrial music when we live in a post-industrial society (perhaps rock and jazz are the real industrial music), we even call our age POSTmodern. We can only think about what is in terms of what was.
I have set out to write about raving but have come to the realization that
I can not "write", "write" in a deep sense much deeper then just describing,
then meaning of raving. For now a Rave is just strange symbols without fixed
meaning. the rave isstill the domain of play, of Sesame's Treet and glow-in-the-dark real neat stuff. And this is why the drugs, balloons, and dancing is so much fun; turn off the brain--forget the semiotics of American popular culture is the only way to keep up with the times--the only way to Rave.
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HAVE WE BEEN HERE BEFORE?
HIPPIES AND RAVERS, 60s and 90s
Arthur Chandler (arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu)
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When I walk down Haight Street in San Francisco these days, I think of
Mark Twain's saying: "History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes." Haight
St. 1992 looks a lot like Haight Street 1967: offbeat clothing, street music,
vivid posters, dope bums and psychedelic messiahs, tourists cautiously
looking for a hip good time.... "Yep," I say to myself, "It sure looks
like...."
But wait a minute, Mark: "light" rhymes with "night" and "fight."
They're not the same thing at all. Are those similarities signs of something
deeper -- a common connection between the 60s and the 90s? Is Ecstasy an updated
version of Blue Cheer LSD, and is house music just acid rock in new
clothing?
To the point: do the similarities reach down to the heart, or are they
just a matter of surface style? Do the spirits of the era rhyme?
To someone who has lived through both eras, the most striking similarity
is the music scene. When the tribes gathered in the Summer of Love, they were
called by he music: Santana, it's A Beautiful Day, Jefferson Airplane, the
immortal Dead and, beyond all others, the Beatles. The hippie tribes
gathered at Fillmore West, the Avalon Ballroom, the Family Dog, and in the green
spaces of Golden Gate Park. They got high and danced to the music and the
lights.
Now the music calls again. . .
Now they gather in Toontown and in dusty warehouses, and on the
beaches. They get high and dance to the music and the lights. But at first glance (and first hearing), raver music doesn't rhyme with psychedelic music. Lyrics don't matter as music to the ravers as they did to the hippies. When and if the human voice does shout through, it's often sampled and jacked out of the human realm. Words and phrases are cut up and recombined, and the original thought and emotion are lost or transformed into a kind of mantra (listen to what Orb does to the words of the breathles
s narrator in "Little Fluffy Clouds").
House and techno seem harder, digitally insistent; the spirit that pervades
the tribal music of Cyberia is that of the microchip.
At the concerts, the music makers have changed their instruments. DJs
have replaced live musicians jamming down on their axes. Here in San Francisco,
Jeno and Garth rules; here Grace Slick and Paul Kantner rocked the crowds a
quarter of a century ago. Moving from one turntable to another, adjusting
the mix, rocking one record back and forth until its music is ready to be
wedged in under the current sounds from the other turntable -- the DJs moves are
far away from the lead guitar smiling at the bassist, both of them trading
licks and feeding them to the keyboard player as they all take the pulses from
the flailing drummer.
But though the musics and their makers look and sound so different, the
rhyme of the 60s and 90s is real, like "light" and "bright." Above all,
around all, there is Community. A strong sense of community pervades the core
of the raver community, as it did among the hippies. The community is held
together by a common (if not quite universal) sense of tolerance and fellowship
with the whole world. Like the "Gathering of the Tribes" in Golden gate park
in the 1960s, raves are open to everyone.
Well, maybe not quite everyone.
The rhyme ends here.
dancing with a thousand raving brothers and sisters under the full moon
on the beach or under the mutating fractals uncoiling on the projection screen
-- "One world! No color or gender barriers! Come, Unity!" shouts the yes-voice
within the raver. But later, as he/she chills out and appraises other
people, a small worry whispers, "Who are those suits and high schoolers coming
across the bridges and through the tunnels to *our* rave? And that too chummy dude over there who keeps trying to score E -- ten to one he's a cop."
The hippies always had a sense of community and, in their Higher
Moments, a perception of being part of the whole human community. But (except for the dopers who took too much speed) the paranoia about outsiders didn't set in late in the movement -- and it proved to be one of the dissolving agents of
the hippies community. "Suspicion on our part justifies deceit in others,"
said La Rochefoucauld; and once the worm of suspicion gets going, it eats he
heart out of a community.
There are signs that the worm may be loose in the raver world. There
exists,among a number of ravers, a kind of clubbiness, a sense of being "in" and
wanting others to stay out. The exclusiveness isn't race- or gender-motivated;
it seems o emerge from a kind of inner-circle hipness. "Don't let them --
Joe Lawyer and Jane Realestate, Freddie teenybopper and Marvin Mediaman, Professor Anna List -- into the rave scene, or it's all over for us!"
"Your name's not down, you're not coming in." The community becomes a
members-only party, where acceptance into the "real" rave community is
dependent upon knowing the "right" people: the ones who know where the real
action is tonight, and who let you know when and where it is ("And don't
tell anyone you can't trust!").
This suspicion of outsiders leads me to one final point of difference --
the last non-rhyme -- between hardcore hippies and ravers. In the 1960s,
the ideal philosophy of the hippies could be summed up in the phrase, "ALL
YOU NEED IS LOVE." Love for another person, for the music, for whatever in
life you've given your heart to. Love is all you need. The song said it;
and, for better and for worse, many of them/us believed it and tried to live up
to the possibilities and consequences of that idealism.
I don't find this common ground of idealism among ravers. or maybe I
should ask the question (and end the essay) thus:
How do YOU fill in the blank?
ALL YOU NEED IS __________________________
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AC = Andrew C Crosby <ndc@engin.umich.edu>
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Title: Berlin 1992: The Techno Sound of Berlin
Arists: Various
Label: Tresor/Novamute (dist. Tommy Boy)
When I saw this record in a store, it struck me that it was the
first record I had seen in a long time that had the word "Berlin"
with no "West" before it. And, for those who have been wondering
what's been happening musically in post-Wall, post-West Berlin, I
can't think of ant better answer than this record. It was, after
all, in West Germany in the late 60's and early 70's that the
idea of original electronic popular music was born at the hands of
kids like Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, and Roedelius, and it was
there too that Kraftwerk first found an audience. The DJ's on
this compilation were probably still in diapers in 1973 when
Schulze's _Cyborg_ redefined electronic music, but they've learned
a lot from him, and from other German electronic musicians.
Unlike Belgian techno, which to my ears often sounds like the
excited noises a five-year old who had come accross a digital
keypad by accident would make, these Berlin DJ's make
sophisticated electronic music with a full range of beats, pulses,
samples, and waveforms -- not to mention machines. These guys are
playing with a full deck, and it makes a difference.
The cuts on this compilation are incredibly diverse; though they
tend towards the moderate-to-trancey range of BPM's, there are
harder and faster beats as well. What sets many of these cuts
aside is their dense blend of melodic accents; for instance Cosmic
Baby's "Cosmic Cubes," which takes a fairly standard beat and
enriches with just the right amount of Schulze-like melodic
arpeggios and accents, often running a sleek treble over a pulsing
bass loop. For those who like a harder sound with phased cymbals
a la Front 242, Vein Melter's "Hypnotized" offers that and more,
giving a trancey feel over a relentless 138 BPM. Along the same
lines, Futurhythm's "Phuture 2" works similar magic over a clashy
industrial beat reminiscent of KMFDM. If house techno is more
your style, Microglobe's "High On Hope" hooks you with housey
piano and soul vocal samples, only to bust your mind open with
incursions of high energy, culminating in a tour-de-force
sequence of 120 BPM madness that changes its feel every thirty
seconds or so. The gems of this collection, though, are the two
long trancey mixes at the end, 3 Phase's "Open Your Mind" and
Mindgear's "Don't Panic," which together clock in at just about
eighteen minutes. Both feature long sequences of trance beats with
weird little loopings of samples that keep you moving _and_ keep
you guessing (shouldn't be rare, but is).
All this says a lot for Tresor, which is both a club (located near
the site of the Wall itself, in the basement of a what was (before
the war) a department store) and a record label. This is (so far
as I know) one of the first Tresor/Novamute records to be
licensed domestically via Tommy Boy, and I hope there will be many
more; a comp such as this would be worth $20, but it's great to be
able to pick it up for $12.99 As taylor808 said earlier on the
ne-raves list, "it's total trancey, acid, blipcore. I can't get
enough of it . . . spacey, blippy perfektion." [RP]
Title: Swamp
Artist: Influid-1
Label: Discomania (?)
This track is really old, I suspect, having heard that it was on
some MTV-Europe sampler or something. I like it though;
the a-side is a pretty cool acid stomp, typical bubbly analogs
with a KILLER intro sound... kind of a buzz that modulates on
each beat. The first mix has the most variety; it changes style
several times during the song.
On the b: The track prohibition is really boring, a kind of funny
sample of some guy saying 'women having sex with animals' but
very predictable. The second mix of swamp is much more sparse
than the first, fast and furious with that droning buzz all the
way through . . . nice. Both versions feature samples from
Flash Gordon ("Lower them into the swamp"), but not overused,
very subtle. Cool. [AC]
Title: Meltdown
Artist: Radition
Label: Radikal Records
This came out over the end of the summer, sort of a trancey hardcore.
Cool sounds mixed up with a fast beat; the crash mix is long and
ok, though I like the intro on the other mix better; it starts out
really slow and works into a frenzy. The other track, 'Help Me,'
is ok too, but nothing spectacular; it sounds cool when you mix it
with other stuff. [AC]
Title: Acid Drill (remixes)
Artist: Edwards & Armani
Label: Music Man (?)
Three mixes here, all of them pretty cool. It's hard acid stuff,
original and nice and fast, featuring a guy yelling 'left right
left right left right left,' which sounds sorta military, but
remains feisty and hard. The sounds on this aren't your typical
analog bubble, way cool. [AC]
Artist: Lords of Acid
Title: I Must Increase My Bust (remixes)
Label: Caroline
The Lords are at it again, and this maxi-single, clocking in at over 44
bust-expanding minutes, is definitely worth it. There is _some_ filler
(a "Noise Mix" and "Distortion Mix" that basically sound like some other
person playing around with LOA effects), and two nearly indistinguishable
dub mixes ("DD Vocal Dub" and "The Lords Like 'em Large Mix"). But the
real star of this disk is the "'Rock-n-Rave' mix", which extends the cut to
over seven minutes of coolly acidic sounds, switching from one breakbeat
to another and boldly going into sonic universes where the Lords had not
gone before (this remix is credited to Mark Picchiotti and Terri
Bristol). The LOA were always in danger of being a sort of one-noise act,
but this cut shows what can be done with their underlying beat and a slim
core of guitar. The other outstanding mix is the Plus-8/Richie Hawtin
"Detroit Hardcore Mix," which again completely revamps the sound, peeling
back the relentless LOA fuzz and substituting an old-school, spacey
techno sound reminiscent of early Detroit scene acts like Cybotron.
All in all, a pretty good disk, though some chains seem to be regarding
this as a virtual EP and are charging as much as $9.99 for it. Let's hope
that LOA keep experimenting in this vein, or that if they don't, that
they'll let others keep on making remixes like these. Maybe LOA should
make like Psychic TV and just let rave DJ's remix everything on their
albums (as with PTV's _Beyond Thee Infinite Beat_)... we'll just have to
wait and see. [RP]
Title: World 2 World
Artist: Underground Resistance
Label: Underground Resistance
Wow!! The acid jazz sound from Nation 2 Nation returns; this is a way
cool ep. It opens with "Amazon, " a slightly tribalish number that has a cool
chord progression and builds with a beat that comes and goes twice.
Other tracks are "Cosmic Traveller," a nice housey space jam with a cool
chime sample. "Jupiter Jazz" features a funky analog bassline with little
wispy solos done with a sound I can't really describe, a high-pitched
tone that twists yer head around. The last track has a kind of acidic
feel to it, very trancey, with cool samples of a female vocal and analog
blips coming and going. The whole ep has a very organic, earthy feel to
it, samples of water and stuff I think help. Excellent. [AC]
Title: Seawolf, Kamikaze, Belgian Resistance
Artist: World Power Alliance
Label: Underground Resistance
Basically another subproject of the UR people, these tracks were all
released as single 12"s with one song on one side, and a little manifesto
pressed into the other side, talking about techno unity and stuff like
that.
Seawolf: WAY AWESOME ACID BLEEPER: driving hard beat, with little
submarine-like blips fading in and out and then ambient whirrs and grinds
forcing their way through.
Kamikaze: has samples from a WWII documentary -- ok, but not great.
The sound of the airplane crashdiving is cool, but the track doesn't
have enough substance or anything profoundly new.
Belgian Resistance: I like this, a warm bassline with a heavy beat and
feel, with little scrape/whirr sounds coming in and out, very acidic.
Pretty good overall.
My main complaint is that these three tracks were all released separately.
This would have made an awesome EP, but instead makes a cool single and
two merely ok singles. At $5 a pop (and a lot more for those in other
countries), it just isn't worth it to only get one song each, in my opinion.The
back plate pressed with the message on the vinyl is cute, but useless. I read
it once and don't care anymore; I can't play it, so what's the point? [AC]
Title: Sysex EP
Label: Plus 8
This ep (on green vinyl) opens with "Intro,'" a long analog improv
that is pretty cool but not that listenable (or useful from a dj perspective).
World Domination is great; it builds from intro into a throbbing hardcore
acid track, with grindy analog ringing bouncing all over the place.
"Intruder" is my favorite track, with a fast hard analog beat and a cool
melody made from a 'bomp' kind of sound, hard and cool. The b
features three more tracks: an ambient bleepy thing with no beat,
and two others that are ok. Didn't grab me, but then i haven't listened
to it enough for them to really grow on me, as plus 8 stuff often does.
Mind buggin 909 just seemed a little empty; anyone could program
a 909 to do this, what's the point of it?
Overall, if you like the really hard plus 8 stuff then this is quite a
buy; otherwise, it may be a bit too sparse and distorted. [AC]
Title: Life at the Wunderbar
Artist: C.Y.B.E.R.F.U.N.K.
Label: Radikal Records
Despite their name, C.Y.B.E.R.F.U.N.K. is not very funky. Like many other
Belgian techno acts on Radikal, they use a lot of that "BLEEEP BLEEP" sound.
Both the beats and samples are relatively unimaginative; particularly
annoying is the relentless "police whistle" sound. "Part 2" is virtually
identical with "Part 1," except for a whispering voice that intones "no
revolution" (there's certainly nothing revolutionary in _this_ mix!). The
CD contains no other tracks or remixes, making this disk a real waste of
money no matter how you cut it. Radikal seems to have a very good
distribution network in the U.S.; too bad they don't have much good music
to distribute (how many times can you hear "O Fortuna" before you get
sick of it?) [RP]
Title: Circuit Breaker EP
Label: Probe
Take a drum machine and pipe it through an array of distortion filters.
WHAMMO this is really cool. My significant other gave it a thumbs
down at first, as she felt that it sounded like it was recorded improperly
or something, with a fuzzy, muted feel. it may be a learned taste, so I
can't totally recommend this to everyone -- but it sounds great to those
who like incredibly hard stuff, and it is very new and unusual sounding.
The entire ep is made of three tracks, each made from rhythms that are
distorted to the core. [AC]
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2. R A V E R E V I E W S
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Halloween Review :
This past Saturday, there was a wonderfully crowded MasquaRave for
Halloween at a warehouse in Greensboro, NC. The site was within view of the
downtown scape on a misty night, and along the downtown's central road,
Market.
We brought some jackolanterns, and left them by the side entrance as a
crowd toy. Inside was a large well-lit foyer. Beyond, in the gloom,
one passed the entrance to a huge dark area and proceeded up a concrete
ramp into the sparkle of an intellabeam.
On this second level, all to the left, was a warehouse/woodpile stage for
the spinners, flanked by speaker towers, two more intellabeams, and two
smokies. Into the space and left, were people in costume mingling about the
ramp railing, two more speaker towers, and on back to a stairwell, bathrooms,
a chill-out room, and drinks sales room.
This early in the night the lights were held low, as people filtered onto
the central floor, lit sporadically by glowsticks, false vampire teeth, and
blinking bicycle safety lights. As the evening progressed, it KICKED
into high gear; at midnight the DJ simply fitted the groove and SLID !
Unfortunately, there were several early technical errors. Twice or so a
dancer bumped into just the right spot of the "stage" to skip the beats,
wrongly skip I'll say as they were fun-skipping along normally. Then the
WORST occurred...power--sound and main lights--went down for what seemed an
eternity, but which was probably three minutes. The crowd was more than
helpful, filling in the gap with wild hoots, patterns of whistling, some
continuing dance moves, and some house-clapping. We all knew they were busting
their butts behind the scenes to get it going again. The only downside was that
this pause occurred twice more in the evening.
Several people were drinking or NO2ing, but most seemed to simply be
sampling, not sloshing, so the scene stuck well all throughout the
night...
For the Most Incredible Surprise-Its-Cool-Afterall Award, they played a
clear stanza from an easily recognizable pop diva ( was it Samanta
Fox?--they blur). Just enough to make you think, "rave's Over, go home NOW!"
Then they syncopated the beat of that song with some other beats and that
was the end of your worries. That set of beats went SO hard, SO broken, and
SO long that we knew the DJ just HAD to be dying!! THAT was true break beat
to the max! They should be congratulated, and they were!!
An old friend of mine said that she was singing that night,
but...unbeleivable for this scene. Well, I stood corrected when, at 3 AM,
Nichol meshed her voice with the DJ-beats, backlit by yet another
intellabeam. This Rave was Planned And Executed!!!
Even the 3AM announcement was coy : "there is a police line just up the
road, but it has nothing to do with us. And the wonderful lot owners have
opted to allow everyone to exit out of the back of the parking lot.....or you
could just stay here and party with us somemore....heh-heh... ;-) "
And as seven o'clock approached with the last song, the last two hundred
continued to jam and hug in the misty dawn filtered through heavy ceiling
windows.
--Peace, h.e.
hansel-dude (henders@eos.ncsu.edu)
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N ABL's Barney Must Die Newsletter
T Issue #1
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B A R N E Y
L ABL- "A group of people united
E in a single goal. Be
A scared Barney. We have
G a mandate from the people
U and GOD almighty!"
E (tm)(R)
I hate Barney!
I hate Barney!
I hate Barney!
-- From the bestselling "Mantra for a New Age: A World Without
Barney"
"Barney is more insidious than Dianetics!" -- Gumby, '60s animation star
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Welcome to the first issue of the Anti-Barney League's Barney
Must Die Newsletter. It is time that we must unite agaist a terrible
force that is covering our nation like a dark cloud. Barney is evil.
Barney and his Backyard gang are out to take over the minds of kids, so
that after the seed of Barney is planted in their brains, they will
more willingly accept a kind and gentle DICTATORSHIP, by a man in
a purple rubber suit. This problem will just grow unless we do some
thing about it. Dinosaurs can't be citizens anyways, so let's send
him to Costa Rica.
We will be compiling stations that broadcast the Barney smut,
so we can petition them to put on some quality programing.
-Aaron Anderer
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From: System Ninja <szebra!nocturne.boulder-creek.ca.us!raven>
Organization: "The Enclave" -- Boulder Creek, California
Our story so far...
Waffle VOTE Booth, v1.1.4, mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org
To save humanity from (evil) aliens, you must watch a Barney videothon:
1) Just kill me now. .............................................. 1
2) Wouldn't you rather just severely butt-love me? ................ 1
3) I didn't know anyone else called their penis "Barney" .......... 1
4) Vampires don't do dat, homie.................................... 1
5) "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned... BUT BARNEY???!"......... 1
6) Maybe they're friendly aliens....?.............................. 2
7) I respond by killing Barney to impress Jodi Foster.............. 1
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raven@nocturne.boulder-creek.ca.us ..scruz.ucsc.edu!nocturne!raven
"The Enclave" -- Boulder Creek, California -- +1 408 338-9754
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From: szebra!cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us!metraton (metraton)
These are two articles I posted on rec.humor. The response was
disturbingly small. Barney, it seems, has eaten everyones brains.
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On PBS there is a show called "Barney and his Friends" (check your
local listings). Basically, it concerns a group of irritating small
children and a purple toy dinosaur named "Barney" who comes to life and
sings songs of a pro-social nature. Of particular note is "The I Love You
Song", sung to the tune of "This Old Man", slowed to a dirge-like tempo:
I love you.
You love me.
We're a happy family.
With a great big hug,
And a kiss from me to you,
Won't you say you love me too?
Believe me, it's really eerie. Now, the fact of Barney's existence on
this show is written off as "imagination". But supposing it isn't?
JUST WHAT IS BARNEY, ANYWAY?
Supposedly, Barney is just some guy in a big foam rubber dinosaur suit.
Several things about this theory don't add up, however. Barney has full
mobility, for one thing.
Remember Big Bird? Did you ever notice how only one of his hands ever
did anything and the other was always clutching his stomach like he
was about to puke up gizzard stones? That's because Big Bird was a guy in
a suit. That other hand was OPERATING HIS BEAK.
Barney, however, has two fully functional arms, a working mouth, and
LARGE, MOVING COW-LIKE EYES. If that's a man in there, he's no ordinary
man. (Plus, he's repeatedly demonstrated the ability to leap in the air
a CLICK HIS HEELS. Any NORMAL human would sweat like a cheese trying
stunts like that.)
If he's not a human, what is it? Let's speculate, shall we?
1) He's a real dinosaur.
Possibly. Although resemblance to any known fossil remains is
questionable, the geological record is far from complete. Since Barney is
apparently warm-blooded, this would support current revisionist
paleontological theory. (The singing ability is a new twist, however.)
And how would we know if dinosaurs were purple or not? On the other hand,
while he is built along the lines of a carinvore (Family Tyrannosauridae)
his teeth seem those of a herbivore, or at best, an omnivore. Assuming
those are teeth.
2) He's some evil supernatural entity posing as a warm, cuddly parent
figure in order to train young children to be his unholy army of ultimate
darkness.
You know, the more I think about this one, the more likely it seems. Look
at the facts. Kids LOVE him, and no one knows why. Adults think he's
really creepy. Obviously, there are unclean forces at work here. The way
to test this out would be to confront the fiend with a crucifix.
3) He's a space alien.
This would explain a lot. Barney, as a xenomormorph, might have access
to all sorts of technology that we couldn't even begin to comprehend:
hypnosis beams, holographic projectors, even large-scale matter
re-assemblers. All of theses could account for the "powers of
imagination" as depicted on the show. As for his motives and purpose,
see above.
HOW DO WE STOP BARNEY?
Notice I waste no time asking if Barney SHOULD be stopped. Of COURSE
he should be stopped. It's a given. But how?
1) Wait for him to go away.
Most media darlings eventually do this. However, we can't afford to take
chances. Our children's BRAINS are at stake.
2) Stuff a chicken and rock salt in his mouth, then sew his lips shut.
You could, in fact, fit several chickens in there.
3) Find out where his power supply is and unplug him.
If he's a space alien, he may well be a robot. Let's hope he doesn't
have a breeder reactor in his tail. (Now that I think of it, he probably
gets his power from...The Children's Television Workshop. Cut their
funding!)
4) Stop believing in him.
Scoff if you will. It worked with my boss at the car wash.
Anyway, I'm open to suggestions. If you think you know WHAT Barney
is, or HOW to destroy him, let us know. Until there's an
alt.barney.die.die.die we'll confine ourselves here. And remember, you
won't get your kids back until Barney is dead.dead.dead.
--
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We are dealing with forces well within our comprehension.
metraton@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Recently, I posted an article where I postulated that Barney the Dinosaur
perhaps was not what he seemed to be, but was,in fact, some evil being bent
on taking over the minds of children everywhere. The Great Unwashed scoffed
at my warnings.
Well, Barney the Dinosaur is still amongst us, brainwashing hapless
children, and YOU just SIT there at your terminal chuckling at my so-called
"madness". But listen. There's still time to put an end to his evil Jurassic
schemes.
I've done some research and it's clear to me that Barney is some kind of
malignant supernatural force that has invaded a toy stuffed dinosaur. With
that in mind, let's discuss how he can be destroyed.
Surveillence shows that there are two principal Barney modes. There's
the "Sentient Mode", where he is a six-foot tall fuzzy purple saurian who
moves around freely and talks and sings like an brain damaged castrati.
Then there is the "Toy Mode", where he appears to be a small stuffed version
of himself. (NOTE: Neither of these is Barney's true form. As a creature of
darkness, he can take on any form he chooses. In truth, he probably looks
a lot like Mick Jagger. Doesn't sing like him, though.)
So. Let's say you happen to see this toy Barney, just sitting there in
a swing made from an old Uniroyal. Do you pull out your handy M-16 and pump
him full of hot lead, screaming "DIE, YOU UNHOLY SPAWN OF SATAN! DIE DIE
DIE!" No. You do not. This will only make him angry. If you're LUCKY he will
only suck out your soul like soup through a straw.
We are dealing with a SUPERNATURAL Creature here. Don't assume that just
because he LOOKS like a fuzzy harmless doll that he IS a fuzzy hamless doll.
In toy form he will be constantly on his guard, whereas in active mode he
thinks himself invunerable. And THAT shall be his downfall.
You will need the standard tools: Garlic, a crucifix, an iron rod, a Tammy
Faye record, stuff like that. Keep them ready at all times in case of random Ba
rney
encounters.
If by some chance you DO encounter The Hellspawn in active mode, take
these steps:
*DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT!*
His eyes have power. He uses them to possess people. If you gaze too long
upon his countenance, you will be HIS, body and soul. The effect isn't
as obvious on T.V., at least not with adults. In person, however....
Well, just wear a welding mask.
*DO NOT LET HIM SING TO YOU!*
For one thing, he's a BAD singer, and he steals his riffs. The real
danger comes, however, from the seductive quality of his Song Of
Entrapment:
I love you....
Etc...
Etc...
Won't you say you love me too?
If you DO say you love him, or worse, sing the next verse, then he OWNS
your soul and all its accessories. And we'll have to kill you too.
*ACT CASUAL.*
Lull him into a false sense of security. Pretend you want an autograph
for your nephew. If you're especially skillful, you can get him to sign
an agreement to leave mortals alone for all eternity. (NOTE: Your pen
MUST be filled with blood for this to work.) While he is not really
likely to fall for a cheap stunt like this, it's certainly worth a try,
unless you're worried about him sucking up your soul like jello through
a Hoover. Which he'll do.
*DESTROY HIM.*
Don't worry. If you've done everything right he won't suspect a thing.
The following methods will certainly annilihate most creatures of
darkness:
1) Poke him gently in the ribs with a crucufix, saying "Hey? Hey? Hey?
Big fella?"
2) Blow pepper at him. Have a priest ready to say "Bless you," when he
sneezes. Stand well back, so as not to get Barney-bits all over you.
3) Blow his face off with a flare gun. Still got that welding mask on?
4) Cancel his show. (NOTE: You'd better be a PBS executive. Otherwise
he'll suck out your soul like bilge through a pump.)
5) Ask yourself. How would "MacGyver" handle this?
6) Decapitate him with a silver sword, on sacred ground, under a 3-D
picture of Jesus, while drinking a glass of holy water FROM THE FAR
SIDE OF THE GLASS, with a bag over your head, while singing "Amazing
Grace", in a month with a "K" in it. (Note: The sword MUST be blessed
by His Holiness the Pope. Otherwise, you're wasting your time.)
One of those ought to work. Give it a try. If you'd like to field test
any of these methods, use them on Rush Limbaugh. All of the above applies
to HIM, too.
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From: szebra!engr.LaTech.edu!ksg (Kenneth S. Guillory)
Subject: Barney, a testimonial
There comes a time when we as a society must humbly admit our wrongs
and take whatever actions necessary to correct our misdoings. Barney
the dinosaur is one of the most hideous creations of modern American
culture and as such, he MUST be destroyed. The termination of Barney
must therefore become a goal of all decent, responsible citizens. Only
united can we protect our children and stop his evil reign!
I solute you brave founders of the Anti-Barney League, and I want to
offer my support for your cause.
My first encounter with Barney was seeing one of his commercials while
eating breakfast one morning. "He's big, He's purple, He's your best
friend. He's BARNEY!!" kept echoing through my mind as I stood in
horror, helplessly entranced by the dancing purple mass on my TV.
At that moment, I heard a noise outside which disturbed the evil spell
long enough for me to break free and realize what was happening. It
was then I became aware that no one was safe, and that I must find
others.
FOR ANYONE WHO DOUBTS THAT BARNEY IS EVIL INCARNATE - Just turn down
volume on the TV the next time Barney appears. Striped of his music
( such as the 'I love you, you love me' brainwash chant, one of his
most powerful spells ) Barney's ugliness immediately becomes visible.
I assure you, if you try this, you will feel a chill as you watch the
demonic blob silently moving its mouth, gesturing, and dancing before
you. After a moment to recover your composure, you too will realize
what must be done.
Remember my friends,
He's Big. He's Purple. He must be destroyed.
----
Shane Guillory Dept of Biomedical Engineering
ksg@engr.latech.edu Louisiana Tech University
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If you wish to submit material to the ABL newsletter send mail to
Kill-Barney-Submit@spectrx.saigon.com, and to send any comments mail
system@spectrx.saigon.com.
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Brain Waves
"Viewpoint"
November 1986 AI EXPERT
by Alex Jacobson, President,
Inference Corporation
Expert systems technology enables computer to use human
expertise, judgments and knowledge to solve business problems in
an emulation of the way human experts do. There is considerable
evidence to suggest that this technology, when applied to a well-
focused, sufficiently well-defined domain of interest (e.g.,
authorization of a specific type of credit card, diagnosing of
faults in a specific piece of equipment, scheduling of a specific
fleets of vehicles in a specific geographic area or configuring
of a specific set of machines on a specific factory floor) can
provide human workers who operate in the targeted domain with
computer support at levels of performance equal to or better than
the best human experts in the domain.
The benefit of this capability is to enable computers to
formulate decisions, to draw conclusions and to propose actions
in response to the wide variety of unstructured or poorly
structured problems with which only humans could contend
heretofore. As a result, this technology makes it possible for
computers to do the same sorts of tasks that professionals and
white collar workers presently do in the work force --a necessary
accomplishment if these workers are to receive automation. The
significance of these capabilities is more far reaching than the
technical content, per se, implies. The reason is that expert
systems technology has matured at a time when the computer
industry as a whole is moving through a major transition. The
computer industry has, over the past 30 years, fulfilled much of
its promise in automating clerical level functions (typing
drafting, bookkeeping, inventory management, listings, records
keeping etc.). Business and industry is now focusing attention on
strategic uses of computers in mission-critical applications.
These applications, a prime example of which is the American
Airlines Saber System, can provide a major competitive edge to
companies able to conceive and to implement them. White collar
workers implement business strategies, hence it is this segment
of the work force that will be targeted for computer automation
as strategic uses of computers are undertaken in business. Expert
systems technology is a critical component for delivering this
automation to the professional, technical and administrative
workers who implement mission-critical applications in business
and industry. This propitious timing between a new capability
(i.e., expert systems) and a new requirement (i.e., mission-
critical applications of computers) explains the unusual sense of
importance that is attributed to expert systems technology
throughout the world.
Expert systems technology is primarily targeted for use in
applications software and in software tools that support the
development and operation of applications and systems software.
The fundamental difference between an expert system and a
traditional application program is that such an expert system is
rich in knowledge about the solution of problems in the
application domain in which the expert system operates; whereas
traditional applications are rich in the procedural knowledge
that instruct the computer how to process data to solve the
problems in the domain in question. It is this richness in
knowledge that makes expert systems an enabling technology for
the use of computers in mission-critical applications.
Nevertheless, expert systems contain procedural knowledge with
which to instruct the computer and traditional applications
contain knowledge about the problem solving. It is the higher
density and the greater extent of knowledge about problem solving
that distinguishes expert systems from traditional applications
programs, and provides them with their unusual functional power.
This fundamental difference leads to all of the basic differences
in the underlying tools, technology and programming methodologies
(i.e., knowledge engineering) that set the practice of expert
systems apart from that of conventional software engineering. In
order to elicit deep and extensive knowledge about problem
solving in any but most straightforward industrial task areas, it
is necessary for the software engineer to develop the expert
system by means of an iterative or evolutionary development
process. The reason is that humans cannot divulge the deep and
subtle levels of knowledge about their problem solving expertise
that industrial class expert systems require, and are able to use
effectively in a straightforward debriefing process. Rather, it
is necessary that the software engineering methodology be capable
of supporting a development regimen that permits knowledge
obtained by debriefing to be built into an operating partial
application so that areas of mission knowledge (i.e., knowledge
not accessible by straightforward interview) can be identified
and then added to the partial application to create a more
complete, yet, perhaps still partial application, which can then
be used to find still less accessible areas of germane knowledge
which in turn can be added to the system, and so on. This method
of evolving the expert system into existence is called "bottom-
up-discovery", and is the distinguishing feature of knowledge
engineering.
Expert systems tools contain the AI technology required to
support the process of knowledge engineering for building expert
systems. They contain the structures required to store a variety
of different types of knowledge paradigms, an inferencing engine
that permits this knowledge to be used as the system evolves even
though the knowledge is added to the system incrementally,
systems software that allows the knowledge engineering to browse,
modify, add, delete, understand or otherwise manipulate the
knowledge in the evolving knowledge base, and tools to assist the
knowledge engineer to build the expert system including the user
interface of the resulting expert systems. These tools serve the
purpose of accelerating the pace with which this new technology
can be effectively applied.
Expert systems technology is basically a software technology.
While it has almost exclusively been developed in Lisp, and, in
recent years, Lisp machines, like all other software technologies
it is intrinsically portable to other languages and to other
classes of computers. This is of vital importance. To realize
their full potential, expert systems must fulfill their role in
mission-critical applications. This requires that expert systems
operate effectively and efficiently in conjunction with existing
computer environments. Hardly any of these existing environments
support Lisp or incorporate Lisp machines. Since expert systems
technology is portable, it is clear that it must be ported to
mainstream computers and connected to mainstream software at the
levels of traditional languages, systems software and
applications programs. This requirement cannot be evaded -- nor
need it be.
Finally, there is the question of culture. Expert systems are
computer applications that arise from a technology culture that
is substantively different from the culture that has created
traditional computer applications. Cross culture communication is
always difficult. It will be no different in this instance. It
promises to be one of the more formidable obstacles to
commercialization of expert systems. Not only does the
applications programming community face the challenge of
assimilating this new technology, but business operations
management as well as end-users also must become both familiar
and comfortable with expert systems and their implications as
these systems move into the front office. Management faces the
challenge of managing business practices in which the underlying
logic of the practice has been made explicit for the first time
and for which accountability of performance is documented with
the scrupulousness of which only computers are capable. End-users
who have never before used computers must become comfortable with
these new mechanical assistants -- no simple task given the
anxiety often incurred by computers in people who have no
predilection for machines.
Although these obstacles are formidable, they can and will be
transcended. The benefits of industrial scale expert systems to
the businesses that employ them promise to be too great for these
transitional burdens to be anything but passing challenges.
DP/MIS workers, end-user computing programmers, applications
software vendors, all will benefit from their efforts to adopt
this new technology. Therefore, expert systems software will
inevitably lose its singular name and become "just another"
commercial software technology as the computer industry continues
to support the growth of business throughout the world.
commercial software technology as the computer industry continues
to support the growth of business
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At last!
Here comes the first issue of Breakaway. Sorry it took so much
longer than planned, but I've been having a lot of problems both with
getting the translations done, and also with my e-mail account.
Not only have my site been "swallowing" a lot of outgoing mail (so
if you haven't got a reply to some message, this is probably why -
please mail me if you've been waiting more than 3-4 days for my reply),
but in addition a hacker managed to shut me out of the system recently,
giving me a short message about old Vladimir beeing stoned on acid
before throwing me off each time I tried to log on...
So, that was the excuses, here comes the zine. Hope you like it.
All comments, flames etc. can be directed to NIL:, uh, sorry, to the
editor (that's me...)
As you'll see, the main feature is an article I believe should
provoke some responses (hopefully...), and responese to the articles
is a necessity if we're going to publish anymore than a few numbers
of this zine. Time to start submitting, folks...
Vidar Hokstad <ppack@oslohd.no>
Red Forum / Internationlists Committee
BEGIN BREAKAWAY.001
B R E A K A W A Y
Debates on modern marxism
-+*+-
Issue no. 1, volume no. 1
May 1994
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CONTENTS
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(00) EDITORIAL
Breakaway - an introduction
(01) THE MANIFESTO TODAY
"Manifesto of the Communist Party" revisited...
(02) THE RISE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
Utopia or realism?
(03) ON "RED FORUM"
Communism on the uprise?
(04) ...AND THE DAY BEFORE CREATION
Poem - Cyberspace and the divine
(05) column: A SEARCHLIGHT ON INTERNET
Revolutionary resources on the information highway
(06) GENERAL INFORMATION
How and what to submit, how to contact us, etc.
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(00) EDITORIAL
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"Breakaway".
Already my selection of name commits.
It is a breakaway from a past where openminded debate about marxism
was impossible. On one side, orthodox stalinists and maoists more or
less openly mutilated marxism to fit their own needs, and marked everone
not following their totalitarian line as "fascist agents". On the
other, the capitalists marked everyone with revolutionary ideas as a
communist, and added "that is, he is against the rights of the
individual, and are fighting to establish a totalitarian, stalinist
regime". In between, the trotskyites hated everyone, and was hated by
everyone. The only ones to stand united were the opportunists.
So the revolutionary movement rotted away.
But, inevitable, the regimes that called themselves "socialist"
started stumbling down. Today it isn't anymore given that everyone you
will meet claims you to support murdering of people with opposing views
if you call yourself marxist. More and more often people instead ask
you what your goals are, and how you will fight to reach them, because
they do not know, or think they know, what marxism is. Many haven't
even heard of Marx.
What will you answer?
That is the main focus of Breakaway. What is the goal of a marxist,
and how will he fight to reach these goals? What are the concequences?
Are these goals just an utopia, or are they realistic?
As a marxist, a selfproclaimed commie, these are questions I have to
ask myself each and every day. Questions I *NEED* to ask to be sure
that I never start believing in eternal truths; questions everyone
concerned with marxism need to ask.
I will not censor submissions with views differing from mine. I
will not stop trotskyites from submitting simply because I belive that
Trotskys "Permanent revolution" theory is crap. I won't stop maoists
that write to tell why Mao was a great leader, or anarchists writing to
tell us all why marxism is totalitarian. I even might just possibly
accept an occasional submission from a stalinist or two trying to excuse
Stalins (in my opinion) fascist oppression of the individual.
As long as the submissions doesn't have as main goal to insult other
people, it will pass (and if they don't, I'll give the author a fair
chance to moderate his/hers article).
For information wants to be free. And these are discussions we need
to take to clarify what is real marxism, what is good marxism, and what
is not marxism. Because even if I see stalinism as a fascist ideology,
I realise that this is my opinion and not an undisputable truth.
Let the more than seventy years with oppression in the name of
marxism be a lesson to us all.
But let it also encourage us to fight even harder to show people
that this was, and is, a misuse of the name of marxism, and not the real
thing. Let it engourage us to fight to clear our name.
Vidar Hokstad,
Editor
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(01) THE MANIFESTO TODAY
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Written by Vidar Hokstad <ppack@oslohd.no>
Translation, and changes, from the original done by the author.
All rights reserved. Permission for *free* redistribution granted.
THE MANIFESTO TODAY
It is almost 150 years since the Manifesto of the Communist Party was
published for the first time. Since then revisionists and reformist
have one after the other attacked the manifesto, trying to prove it
faulty; trying to find faults they decided in advance must be there.
They have been working to "prove" that marxism is dead, outdated. In
fact it was with that attitude I myself read it the first time some
years ago. I quickly discovered how prejudiced I had been, even though
beeing leftist for years.
The manifesto isn't outdated today. Sure it has faults, but what
was the largest error of the manifesto at the time it was written, is
today irrellevant. The description given in the manifesto fits todays
society better than society when Marx and Engels lived.
Because while Marx and Engels in the manifesto made the assumption
that capitalism had already moved past it's days of glory, capitalism
was still young and healthy: Marx and Engels did not see the enormeous
amounts of capital hidden in America, Asia and Africas natural
ressources and labour, and the new growth for the European capitalists
could create from the capital freed by enslaving these entire
continents and their original inhabitants.[1]
While the manifesto starts with the words "A spectre is haunting
Europe", a manifesto of today would by necessity start with "A spectre
is haunting the world", because while capitalism of 1848 still was
restricted to the great powers of Europe by the geographical position
of the industry, industry of today is reaching every corner of our
globe, and with it capitalism.
The class-struggle isn't dying, it hasn't been weakened, but it's
most violent forms have been exported out of Europe, out of USA.
Today, the rest of the world can't anymore bear the increasing burdens
that the industrialized world tries to impose on it, and each day a
greater part of profit must again be collected from the workers of the
rich countries:
Reproletarisation, this silent empoverment, of the workers of the
industrialized countries will mean the death of the bourgeoisie.
Silent because the working class ever since World War II have been
gagged by socialdemocratic tradeunion-leaders with nice words about the
blessings moderation brings national economy.
Because while the bourgeoisie found it's fountain of youth in the
oppression of the third world, it is today gradually discovering a
decay accellerating faster than ever before. Still, they don't want to
believe it is happening, for isn't their profit higher than before?
Aren't they richer?
Exactly.
Socialdemocracy was a traison towards the working-class in the
underdeveloped countries. It was, and is, an arrogant, eurocentrist
ideology claiming to have the solutions because they managed to give
the workers of Europe a few drops of the sea of blood and sweat that
was, and is, beeing extracted from the workers of the poor countries.
Socialdemocracy sold the international class-struggle to ensure
the workers of Europe, and the bourgeoisie of Europe. Later, when
socialdemocracy spread out of Europe, it kept it's nationalist
elements, teaching a doctrine about love for your country in content
not much different from Stalins "socialism in one country".
This gigantic cooperation across classes showed the world once and
for all that the working class still haven't seen that the idea of a
fatherland, for the working class, is, and will continue to be, an
illusion.
This nationalism still lives, and many places it grows, thanks to
our weakness, our cowardness, and our own tendency to hold on to
national symbols: We still haven't managed to put our national flags
aside in anger, and rise the red flag, the symbol of the international
unity of the working class. On the contrary: Today many of us rise
national flags with an even greater feeling of pride. Even on the
first of May.
Perhaps it is only a manifestation of the situation of the
international proletariat: No unity. No brotherhood. Only chaos and
despair. What is left to believe in? For isn't communism dead?
But it isn't only the socialdemocrats who have betrayed the
proletariat, also we, the revolutionary movement of the industrialized
countries, have let the struggle for freedom, for the oppressed, drown
in our admiration of any force opposing capital, not necessarily as
representatives for progressive liberation movements, but as members of
reaction.
Our movement worshipped nations where the barbary extended as long
as to systematically murder members of their own people; nations that
fought the bourgeois parliamentary system not to replace it with true
workers democracy, but to replace it with a society where class-
antagonisms survived not because of economic opression alone, but as a
direct result of political opression even more extreme than the
capitalist bourgeois dictatures in which we live.
What are the signs of true socialism?
True socialism's features include the workers right, as a class, to
control the means of production; by economic planning instead of
war-like competition. Socialism is a negation of capitalism; a
qualitative leap from a society that have the means to give everyone a
true vote, that have the capital to give everyone a life without
poverty, to a society that in deed does these things.
But what are the features of stalinist regimes? We can recognize
them because they have the all-embracing poverty that is typical for
the newborn capitalist state; the poverty that creates capitalist
competition, and that always will crush any attempt at a socialist
revolution not being the direct result of a well developed capitalist
system; a poverty increased by the socalled socialist revolutions
national character, that prevented the working class of the
industrialized countries from saving the ideals of these revolutions.
Marx' himself clearly stated what such a poverty would cause:
" Without [the development of the means of production] only the
poverty would be generalized, the basic needs would therefore ensure
that the struggle for necessities would start over again, and the
entire old shit would be ressurected. " [2]
In the stalinist regimes, this poverty was there, and stalinisms
birth out of regimes that had barely managed to crush feudalism, once
again makes it clear that these revolutions, even though they were led
by the proletariat, would have to degenerate; that they never could
have been the seed of socialism, but only a primitive stage in between
the feudal and the capitalist economy: They kept the feudal structures
in the political framework, but had to accept that they were a part of
the increasingly powerful capitalist world market.
" The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of
production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws
all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap
prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it forces the
barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It
compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode
of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization
into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word,
it creates a world after its own image. "
(The manifesto, Bourgeoisie and proletarians, paragraph 20)
The characteristics of stalinism are not those of socialism.
They're not even a part of the characteristics of capitalism.
Stalinism, in contrary to socialism, does not give the means of
productions to the workers, it gives the new elite, the party elite,
the control over not only the means of production as capitalism to the
bourgeoisie, but over society as a whole. It rebuilds, in a capitalist
economy, the feudal empire that the revolution crushed, and despite
trying to conquer capitalism, despite wanting to destroy capitalist
competition, the stalinist regime ia itself a part of capitalist
competition. It acts like a giant capitalist corporation, exploiting
it's workers, controlling them, fighting to increase profit.
But as the monster it is, a mix of capitalist economic structures
and feudal political structures, it is doomed to loose, for not only is
it forced to fight the true capitalists, but also the same proletariat
which in the course of it's birth, it's organisation, gave the regime
power.
Stalinism is true internationalist communism turned upside down.
Stalinism is nationalist, in contrary to the needs of the
proletariat.
Stalinism is dogmatic. As Hegel claimed Preussian capitalism to
be the "end of history", stalinism claims it's interpretation of
communism to be the final goal of mankind, contrary to marxist theory
that relies on the idea that *nothing* is eternal.
Stalinism is, as communism, a result of a revolution under the
leadership of the proletariat, but in contrary to communism, stalinism
is a result of a revolution under the leadership of a national
proletariat in an underdeveloped country. A proletariat not
representing the majority of the people, but only one out of ten, two
out of ten, or maybe tree out of ten of the inhabitants of the country.
It is the proletariats first non-successful attempt to build socialism,
for it isn't the workers that win the political power when stalinism
wins, but the intelligentsia that gave the wrong answers; that thought
they knew when time was right for socialism.
The true value of the manifesto, lies in that Marx and Engels
longed for the revolution. They longed for it so much that they
described it's coming as exactly as they could, but expected it to come
in their own time. They described the death of the middle classes, the
degeneration of capital, the growth of the proletariat, seen as of
Europe 1848.
Europe 1848, that's the world 1994. The same tendencies, the same
development, that could be found in Europe 1848, can be found in the
world of today. And this time the capitalists can't find new peoples
to oppress, if they don't at a sudden find life in outer space.
Today we can see the centralisation, monopolisation and empowerment
even clearer than Marx ever got the opportunity to. We see the
disasters and the need. The capitalists claim that Marx were wrong
because the workers of Europe became "rich and fat": Marx claimed that
the workers of Europe would become poor, they say.
What Marx claimed was that the proletariat would grow, due to the
empowerment. He limited his observations to Europe, because what he
knew was Europe. That was a mistake. But removing this limitation,
applying the same theory not to Europe, but to the world, it once again
become a mirror of reality:
Never before have so many starved to death each day; never before
have so many been about to die because of poverty, and they become more
every day.
" The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the
ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.
But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring
death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to
wield those weapons -- the modern working class -- the proletarians. "
(The manifesto, Bourgeoisie and proletarians, paragraph 27/28)
VIDAR HOKSTAD <ppack@oslohd.no>
Red Forum / Internationalists Committee
Earlier published in Norwegian in FRIHETEN (Freedom), newspaper of the
Norwegian Communist Party, 21/1993.
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[1] However, one can several places find indications that Marx and
Engels started to realise this error. Most striking is their
corrections in the preface to the Russian 1882 edition of the Communist
Manifesto, but also in his late speeches, Marx was searching for a way
to explain the growth that was inevitable in Europe.
[2] From "Die Deutsche Ideologie". Beware that this quote is
translated to English in a hurry from a bad Norwegian translation of
the original german text.
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(02) THE RISE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
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Written by Vidar Hokstad <ppack@oslohd.no>
All rights reserved. Permission for *free* redistribution granted.
THE RISE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
In my three years as an active member of the revolutionary
movement, for it is in fact not longer since I first discovered
marxism, my view has always been directed towards internationalism.
Two years ago I started working to learn more about the
international revolutionary movement, resulting in several articles for
the party newspaper of the Norwegian Communist Party. What interested
me the most, was that the movement which I thought would be dying, had
survived and was working to regain it's strength.
We are in a situation when "everyone", at least to the left of the
"official" communist parties , are trying to get new international
contacts, and to build new structures upon which one can build a new,
sound movement.
It is my belief we are heading towards a new International.
The main goal of such an organisation today would be to build an
effective network for the exchange of information, and for free debates
on marxism as a tool, and on current political issues.
We no longer need to gather people together in the same room to
conduct meetings. We do not any longer need a big organisation before
it is possible to work effectively.
One of the projects run by Red Forum / IC is actually destined to
provide a basis for an infrastructure the revolutionary movement will
need in the coming struggles. If everything goes as planned, we'll
have our very own UUCP site up by this autumn, with a full Internet
connection heading our way next year.
Marx/Engels wrote in their _Communist Manifesto_ of 1848, that what
had taken centuries before, the proletariat would manage in a few years
thanks to the railroads. Today we could add: And today, we can build
the same relations in a few weeks, provided we know how to take
advantage of new technology.
Back to our new "International". Do we need such a creature? We
saw what results the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth gave,
didn't we? [1] We saw the oppression of the national communist parties
after Stalins takeover of Komintern. And the secterianism of the 4th
and 5th. Maybe one was enough?
Still, an international _could_, if we build it wisely, provide a
framework for cooperation across the world. It _could_ give us the
resources we need so badly, such as an international information
network - providing our newspapers with well-written news material with
a revolutionary view, press releases (_we_ don't even get to hear about
what the other parties and groups in Europe are up to, not to mention
the rest of the world) -, our own forums for international debate (our
"own" cluster of conferences on USENET? Mailing-lists? international
journals?)
We don't claim to be the ones to start a new international - too
many secterian attempts have been made at this before. We haven't even
thought about establishing ourselves as a new party. We hope however,
that we can bring some people together, hopefully spread out over as
much of the world as possible. And by doing this, we want to build a
foundation on which we can meet other groups working on similar
projects, discover new resources and in general get together with more
people. This way, a united movement can, and will, appear.
We can't say: -Hey, let's start a new international tomorrow.
Then we would be stuck with a thousand of small groups each claiming
to be the seed, noone growing to become the tree. The international
will evolve out of the work of each and every one with a true
internationalist marxist ideology not start when we want it to.
If _you_ think you have ideas, or if you want to join Red Forum/IC,
or just want to work together with us, feel free to write a few lines
to <ppack@oslohd.no>
Vidar Hokstad <ppack@oslohd.no>
Red Forum / Internationalists Committee
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[1] The Fourth International, is the one started by Trotskij, the fifth
the attempt at a new international done by Tito.
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(03) ON "RED FORUM"
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Red Forum is the result of the work of a few revolutionaries in
Norway, with different ideas, and memberships in different parties.[1]
Earlier this year, we met in Oslo to discuss marxism on an inter-
nationalist basis. We all wanted a new organisation that allowed us to
work together to spread marxist ideas - not necessarily what *we*
thought of as good marxism, but anything that could help people to see
the entire spectre of marxism - and to fight for renewed international
contacts.
Since the beginning, we have been exploring the possibilities of
information technology in our political work. In fact the three groups
that met at our Oslo-meeting were brought together as three of us met
on local BBS's.
Today Internet is our next frontier, and we have begun the struggle
to establish our services on the net. Breakaway is only the first
attempt. Hopefully we will next year be able to set up our own
Internet host.
Our platform, our principles, are not well defined. We have
started almost on scratch, trying to avoid all the pitfalls that we all
agree our own parties have fallen into. Today, Red Forum / IC have
only a minimal platform stating that we are a revolutionary
organisation for debate on socialism from an internationalist point of
view. Anyone accepting internationalist marxism can become a member
(also non-Norwegians - in fact we are *very* interested in members
outside Norway).
ACTIVITIES:
- Production of Breakaway
- E-Publishing of marxist theoretic works. Currently mostly Norwegian
translations.
Currently the following archives can be requested by mail, with more
to follow:
HOKSTAD1 Articles on modern marxism - 1
HOKSTAD2 Articles on modern marxism - 2
FEUER Theses on Feuerbach
MANIFEST The Manifesto of the Communist Party
***NOTE: All in Norwegian.
- FAQ on revolutionary resources on the Internet (in English...)
- Meetings
PLANNED TO START THIS AUTUMN:
- An own BBS with UUCP connection to USENET, situated in Oslo, Norway
- A monthly printed magazine in Norwegian
- English and German versions of several marxist classics
- A quarterly English and Norwegian theorethical journal
- Attempts at establishing two or three foreign groups as a
minimum, with the goal of getting at least one new UUCP
site during '95
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[1] Currently we have members from the following organisations:
Norwegian Communist Party (NKP) / Norwegian Communist Youth (NKU)
Socialist Left Party (SV) / Socialist Youth (SU)
Young Liberals (!!!) (Unge Venstre)
Red Electoral Alliance (RV)
in addition to a few without membership in other political
parties/groups.
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(04) ...AND THE DAY BEFORE CREATION
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I stared out into the
marshes of RAM
that engulfed us.
Watching the
archivers
store my mind away,
leaving only references:
My childhood
at address
zero and something
close to infinity.
It felt so good,
They freed my mind; let it float around;
move from site to site, being everywhere.
no longer being human.
We were all the same,
all memory,
all mind,
no physical existence
outside the Net.
God in our own little universe,
stretching to the limits of our minds.
We were given large
structures
to fill with light meadows,
Structures
with which we built islands of childhood:
Treasury island;
Jules Vernes mystery island.
Structures
with which we built forests:
Sherwoodforest;
neverending woods with indians,
cowboys, and other strange creatures.
Oh, yes, we relived our golden childhood dreams;
and afterwards, when we had finished, we relived our futures.
Structures
with which we built Utopia:
Lang's Metropolis;
Gothams dark streets;
New York at night, 1993.
For is it not what we have always dreamt of?
What we have fought for centuries to see?
Our deepest dreams becoming
simulated reality.
And when we got tired of
old reality,
we created new ones;
new senses:
The beauty of a
five-dimensional sunset
were ours.
And we touched the
sharpness
of a scream
with our fingers.
But as we grew older, our passions cooling, we felt
a sudden urge for meditation.
For millions of years,
we lived in silence,
until we got a
Vision.
And the day before Creation, we started merging
Into One
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(05) Column: A SEARCHLIGHT ON INTERNET
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In this column, we will in each issue tell you about leftist
groups, publications and resources available on the Internet.
Naturally we wont be able to trace down every single bit of data
ourselves, so we'll have to rely quite much on what you send us.
Information, whether it is only an e-mail address we can use, or a
complete entry, can be sent to <ppack@oslohd.no>
A FAQ on leftist net-services will also be put together, and can
for now be requested from the same address. The FAQ will contain the
same info as this column, but will be updated, and will contain
additional info when possible.
We start of *very* good... This is a service you really ought to
check out:
* Marx and Engels Online Library
GOPHER: csf.coloradu.edu
select 12 (Progressive Sociologist Network)
select 9 (Marx/Engels section)
FTP: csf.colorado.edu in directory psn/Marx
E-MAIL: Ftp-by-mail. Send a message to ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu
or ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the word "help" in the
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Works of and on Marx and Engels in a free, electronic edition. At
present the library have got about 4.2 megs of text. A few texts of
DeLeon, Trotskij and Lenin are also included ("The state and
revolution", and "Against fascism"), in adition to a book by Jenny
Marx.
You're also welcome to contribute with transcriptions, but contact
zodiac@io.org first. Let's help making this library complete!
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* BREAKAWAY will accept articles from people belonging to all trends or
ideologies related to marxism, or from people who are simply
interested in marxist theory or practice.
* All articles are considered open for debate. Answers to articles are
welcomed and encouraged, and will get high priority. When an article
includes the e-mail address to the author, you *are* encouraged to
use it for constructive criticism to the author, but we would prefer
if you submitted your comments if appropriate.
* You should limit yourself to articles between 100 and 300 lines if
possible. If you find that difficult, try to divide your article into
shorter sections suitable for publishing over two to four issues.
Contributions shorter than 100 lines will naturally also be accepted,
but might (depending on the type of submission) be put in a column as
"Readers comments" etc. instead of alone.
* We will publish most articles or news reports we receive concerning
marxist ideology, the actions of marxist organisations, or information
of importance to the average revolutionary.
* Fiction will be accepted if the editor believes that it encourages new
ideas, or that it falls into the quite large bag of "proletarian
literature"
* We will, if the content is interesting, take the work of translating
to English from the Scandinavian languages, German or French, and
improving language (in cooperation with the author)
* Submissions should if possibly be e-mailed to us. Alternatively, you
may snailmail us a disc. We accept plain ASCII files on 3.5" 720kb
formatted MS-DOS discs, 5.25" 360kb MS-DOS discs, 3.5" 880kb OFS or
FFS Amiga discs. But we don't hunt you down and kill you if you send
us your article on paper either (if in handwriting: write *CLEARLY*).
* We accept anonymous submissions. However, if you choose to do so, we
would prefer if you give us a pseudonym to use as your signature.
(Also <anonid>@<some anon server> addresses is a good way of getting
anonymity without loosing the advantages of feedback, anon@penet.fi
beeing a popular choice, but please note that there are other servers
available for US users, as penet.fi is _extremely_ overloaded)
If you are unsure of whether or not your article, poem, short-story or
whatever is of interest to us, submit it anyway and let us judge. I
believe our problem won't be too *many* submissions... And if you
submit something we can't use, and it isn't the *quality*, but the
*topic* that is our reason for not publishing, we will try to give you
advice about better alternatives (such as other e-zines).
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E-mail : <ppack@oslohd.no>
Snailmail : Boks 30, N-2001 Lillestroem, NORWAY
Tel. : +47 638 170 35 (5pm to 9pm GMT)
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Proletarians of all countries, unite!
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Voila. Une miracle formidable! ;)))
Issue number two of Breakaway is here!
And this time, my Internet account won't make any trouble, 'cause
I've got a brand new account. So be sure to test it by submitting to
<vidarh@powertech.no> ;-)
By the way, a notice about the trouble with my account went out
to about half of the subscribers. To those who didn't receive it:
- If you have asked me questions, and didn't get any replies,
please mail me again.
- If you still haven't received issue #1, notify me.
Vidar Hokstad
Editor
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BEGIN BREAKAWAY.002
B R E A K A W A Y
Debates on modern marxism
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Issue no. 2, volume no. 1
June/July 1994
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CONTENTS
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(00) EDITORIAL
(01) column: WHAT'S UP?
Some informal notes on issues we want to tell you about
(02) FIRST VICTIM OF THE REVOLUTION
Another poem...
(03) AUGUST MEETING
Red Forum needs a platform.
(04) column: A SEARCHLIGHT ON INTERNET
Revolutionary resources on the information highway
(05) column: READERS COMMENTS
got anything to say? do it here.
(06) series: FOR A NEW BEGINNING (1 of 2)
a critique of secterianism
(07) GENERAL INFORMATION
How and what to submit, how to contact us, etc.
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(00) EDITORIAL
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Finally. Summer's coming. At least it gets hotter in the air here
up north.
So. Time to liven up. But where are we heading? How will we work
to get a step or two closer towards our goals the last half of 1994?
For we can't just sit back and dream. Revolution won't grow on
dreams.
Submissions might be one way to do something. Because unity can
only be achieved if we know what other people think; if we know what
we think ourselves.
By submissions, I'm naturally fishing for articles for Breakaway,
but not only that. In general: Write, submit, make noise. If you write
well, even bourgeois papers might occasionally print. And when they
don't: Complain, call the editor, resubmit your piece to another,
more progressive newspaper and tell them who didn't want to print it,
and what excuse they gave.
It's worth a try. Even if the only result is that *one* reader
takes the trouble of learning more about socialism.
It's up to you. Overflow your local newspaper with articles and
comments. And if they don't publish, maybe we will...
Keep writing!
Vidar Hokstad
Editor
BTW: I may not have made this clear enough before, so I make sure
I do this time. The contents of this zine need not reflect the policy
of Red Forum, even when I it's written by me. Unless an expressivly
say so, the views presented are those of the author.
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(01) column: WHAT'S UP?
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- Thursday 20th May, a meeting in the executive committee of the
Norwegian Communist Party's (NKP) section in Oslo and Akershus
declared to be in favor of supporting a computer project suggested
by Red Forum / IC economically.
Suggested investments went up to 50.000 NOK (7500 USD), with
RF/IC paying an additional 4000 USD over a 5 year period,
allowing RF / IC to start it's own BBS with UUCP connection to
USENET, in addition to using the system for DTP.
Unfortunately, on a meeting the 15th of June, the final decision
were postponed until August. However, it is clear that RFIC will
probably set up a UUCP site whatever the NCP decides.
On the meeting on the 15th, critique against the project was
mainly directed towards the emphasis on information gathering
through electronic media, and the role of RFIC. An important
argument for the project is that the NCP will be unable to
provide the same facilities for producing it's party news-
paper without cooperation with RFIC.
- Breakaway #1 was advertized in three rounds in a series of USENET
conferences, and by June 28th, it had been distributed to
subscribers from USA, Canada, UK, Norway, Australia, France,
Spain, South-Africa, Ireland and Germany. I continued getting
responses to one of the posts for more than 6 weeks after it
was posted.
- Bourgeois censorship? The postal strike[1] in northern Germany
throughout this month was barely mentioned in Norwegian media. It
was if the whole thing wasn't happening, and our only source for
updated info turned out to be GermNews <germnews@vm.gmd.de> (news
from Germany in German, edited by some guy in Berlin).
But really, we should've expected this. Telling people about
the suggested "Postreform II", which in essence is the bourgeois
forces in the Bundestags attempt at selling the entire German
postal service to the highest-bidder, would certainly not
increase the popularity of the European Union which our social-
democratic government continues to insist is the best way to
secure social-democratic values (Notice that they stopped saying
"socialist values" about 15 years ago...).
Breakaway welcomes your comments on this and similar matters.
Do you find news on the net or elsewhere which is ignored by
bourgeoise newspapers and TV-stations? Tell us about it.
- Norwegians: In a short time, if everything turn out the way we
want to, we will be able to distribute selected articles from
"Friheten" through e-mail. Mail me if you want to subscribe.
This is meant to be the first step in providing material from
leftist newspapers through e-mail, and in a few weeks several
other revolutionary newspapers in Norway will receive the
same offer.
Be sure to specify whether you only want to receive the index
(to request selected articles later), or the full text.
We also welcome initiative from our subscribers when it
comes to providing material from newspapers outside Norway.
- Information about membership in Red Forum / IC can now
be obtained from me. Request the file info/Membership.
- Request submission guidelines by asking for the file
info/Submissions
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[1] The German "postal" service includes the divisions "Postbank" and
"Telecom" in addition to mail delivery, and have about 670.000
employees.
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(02) FIRST VICTIM OF THE REVOLUTION
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I saw a glimpse
of our future tonight.
Misery were thrown toward my eyes,
opression like today,
but most of all a spark
of hope.
In each and every
socalled "home"
man discussed his future.
Misery forced him
into action.
And as days went by in pain,
there were each and every day
another one
that whispered in the dark
a little,
long forgotten,
word.
But fear
it brought
when someone
in broad daylight
stood up straight and
dared to scream
- Revolution
and was shot.
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(03) AUGUST MEETING
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It is quite some time since Red Forum was formed, and it was
decided to prepare a basic platform. Not much have been done, and now
summer's threatening :-) Meetings close to summer vacation have to
many times proved _impossible_... So, final decision concerning our
platform have been postponed until August.
But that does not mean that we won't do any work before that.
Presented here are some of the results of what have been done, with
explanations of the circumstances under which it has been done.
We hereby invite all RF / IC members, as well as Breakaway readers,
and others, to send us comments, alternative platforms (or just the
platform of _your_ favorite organization), criticism etc. We promise
that any input will be discussed at our meeting (unless we are drowning
in documents...), and at least an extensive summary of what we receive
will be published in Breakaway.
Since we plan to include as much as possible in Breakaway, and
to make as much of what we can't include in Breakaway publicly
accessibly by other means (from this autumn hopefully a series of
listserv / mailserver services), to as wide a public as possible,
we would prefer to receive documents in English, but if a) you have
printed documents you think would be of interest, or b) you feel
unable to express your ideas clear enough in English, we will at least
read, and quite possibly also translate, documents received in French,
German, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Vidar Hokstad <vidarh@powertech.no>
Red Forum / Internationalists Committee
PS: Unfortunately, it has during my work on issue #2 of Breakaway
become clear that the person that were supposed to provide us with a
draft for discussion haven't been able to do so in time. The
mauscript, or another draft, will therefore make it to Breakaway at
earliest in time for Breakaway #3.
Because of this, this section may seems a litle strange. It was
meant to include the draft, in addition to two or three other short
pieces with comments, which all have been left out.
VIDAR HOKSTAD: On the "Oslo meeting" in February
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It was still winter, and cold. Colder than the last years. The
streets were filled with snow, and walking out of the train station, I
think we all wished we'd lived somewhere warmer.
We were fewer than expected as we reached the offices of the
Norwegian Communist Party, where our meeting were to be held. Still
the meeting was attended by members from a broad range of
organisations.
The agenda of the meeting was nothing less than to form a new
revolutionary organisation. It wasn't a new party we wanted to build,
but an organisation that could try to unify through open debate, and
to spread information about marxism to new people, outside our
movement, and especially youth.
As in many other industrialized countries, the revolutionary left
have since long been dying in Norway. After the maoist movement stopped
attracting new youth in the middle of the seventies, almost no more
members came, and the old ones literally started dying.
However, with Gorbachev, new hopes strated growing. Even though
many of us, looking back, believe that Gorbachev was a lousy leader,
he should still be admired for freeing the revolutionary movement of
the curse which the Soviet union, and the "socialist" countries in
eastern Europe have been.
Finally it was possible for us to talk freely about the sacred
dogmas, the fanatical love directed towards the October revolution
1917, the admiration of Stalin because of his warfare against Hitler
(how could he not fight Hitler, a man who treatened his reign, a
competitor for the "crown"?), without being insulted; being called
petty-bourgeois, traitor, or "worse": Trotskyite.[1]
The main part of our meeting consisted of avoiding "difficult"
matters. Red Forum was never meant to be an organisation with views
about everything - the different parties and groups have thos views.
Too many of them. We wanted an organisation open to everyone,
everywhere, that accepts a basic platform, that consider themselves
marxists and revolutionaries, that are consequent internationalists.
The firm programme, the strong party line, is not something that
can be voted on by a small group. The revolutionary party, in my
opinion an international party, can only be formed by uniting the
existing movement, by bringing at least the majority of existing
groups and tendencies together.
It will take years, but continuous debates internally in the
movement will sooner or later bring the unity that is neccesary;
an unity that will be forced upon us as the threat from capitalist
regimes in crisis, scared capitalists, grow stronger.
One of the results of these principles were that we decided to
wait before creating a thorough program. We agreed that instead,
for a few months, giving us time to discuss, and to bring more
people into the forum, the following would do:
- Red Forum is a forum for the discussion of Marxist theory and
politics based on a revolutionary, internationlist foundation.
This is the foundation on which we invite new people to join
Red Forum / IC (so let me se some new members now ;), and which
provide a minimal basis for the work we have started doing. It is
not a foundation that can give us easy solutions to the daily
political struggle, but for this we have our respective parties.
It is a foundation which we hope will bring together, at first,
a small, geographically and politically, widespread group of people
to discuss new ways for the Marxist movement to escape from the
secterianism that have polluted the left for decades.
Applications for membership are encouraged. No fees are charged
at present, but expect this to change after the August meeting.
V.H.
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[1] But secteric organisations still claim to be a guiding light for us
all here too. It's less than a month ago a member of "the ML group
Revolution" published an article covering an entire A3 page in the NCP
party newspaper, trying to insult me by calling me a "pettybourgeois
trotskyite" after I had criticized Stalin in the same newspaper on the
1st of May.
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(04) column: A SEARCHLIGHT ON INTERNET
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* Pathfinder Press
GOPHER: ftp.std.com in '/Book Sellers'
Pathfinder Press specializes in publishing revolutionary and
working-class leaders in their own words, including Malcolm X, Nelson
Mandela, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
It should be noted that Pathfinder is closely related to Militant
if I'm not mistaken...
* Book Stacks Unlimited Inc.
TELNET: books.com
Even though they're certainly not "progressive", it is possible
to find quite a lot of books by leftist writers among their 270.000
titles, even Marx. From my position, with the prices of books here
in Norway, it seemed cheap.
* Agora BBS
TELNET: agora.stm.it
BBS of the Italian Radical party, supporting 7 different languages.
(English, French, German, Italian, Esperanto, Russian and Spanish If
I remember correcly, It's a long time since I tested it). Even though
the interface is cumbersome, the system might contain some useful
information.
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(05) READERS COMMENTS
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Notice that I will not usually reply to critique on political
issues in the same issue as the letter is published. Replies will be
published at _earliest_ the issue after the letter, however admin-
istrative questions and comments, as well as direct questions to me
will be answered at once.
Also, when you write to me, please state clearly whether your
comment is a submission or not. If you don't, don't blame me if I
don't treat them as you intended.
Ed.
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To: Vidar
From: Jack Hill <mlbooks@mercury.mcs.com>
Dear Vidar,
I still haven't had time to work up any real thorough critique of the
first issue of Breakaway. However, I do have a few thoughts and
comments that I would like to share with you.
Let me say first of all that roughly speaking I agree with your
analysis of what is the situation facing Marxist theory and those who
want to apply it to the current political and economic struggles. What
I mean is that we agree that Marxism is essential for the liberation of
the working class and all the oppressed; that it has been trampled on,
distorted, and mutilated by a wide variety of forces who claimed to be
communists; that we face a huge struggle to restore the good name of
communism.
One place where I think we don't see completely eye to eye, is in how
to characterize the regimes in Russia, Eastern Europe, China and
elsewhere which abandoned Marxism (or in some cases, never followed
it). You seem to want to call all these bureaucratic regimes
"Stalinist". I'm not sure that is an adequate characterization. I do
think they were all state capitalist regimes, but they varied quite a
bit among themselves in terms of how they came to power, how they
maintained it, to what extent they had popular support. Maoism is a
revisionist theory but it is not the same as Stalinism. There are a
lot of varieties of revisionism in the world and we have to look at all
of them carefully. Another related point is that I think the evidence
is clear that the Chinese revolution in particular produced substantial
advances for the Chinese masses. In other words I think the Chinese
revolution was a genuine popular revolution although the party which
led it was not a proletarian Marxist-Leninist party. So that when we
denounce Maoism, we are not denouncing the epic revolutionary struggle
of the Chinese people.
Anyway, there is a lot of theoretical sorting out to do get rid of the
mountains of historical garbage and re-establish a genuine, scientific
and revolutionary Marxist theory. The Marxist-Leninist Party, in my
opinion, did some very good historical research into some of these
questions, but there are a lot more questions yet to be cleared up. As
one example, comrades in Chicago did very extensive research into the
women's movement and the struggles for women's liberation in early
Soviet Russia. We will be publishing a book bringing together our
articles and research in the next couple of months.
There is a lot more to be said on this but I don't have time right now.
I have a couple other less political comments. Personally I didn't
care much for the poem you published. I prefer literature which more
directly attacks the "system" in one way or another. Have you heard of
Struggle magazine? I'll send you a copy in the mail. The editor and I
have been politically associated for over 25 years.
The other point is not major and I'm not sure if I should ever mention
it but I will. I don't want to sound too harsh or overly critical, but
my point is that there were some spots in that first issue where the
English could have been improved. All your main points came through
clearly enough, so I don't want to make too big a deal out of this.
But for maximum clarity, it could probably use a little more work.
So, good job! Hang in there. I'm looking forward to the next issue.
While I'm at it I will send you a couple other things that I didn't
send you before. There is a May First leaflet we put out, an exchange
I had on PNEWS Conferences about the dissolution of the MLP, and the
editorial of Struggle magazine which I posted to PNEWS.
Keep up the struggle,
Jack Hill
----
Editors comments:
- When it comes to fiction, we'll probably annoy quite a few of you,
because a lot of what we publish will be experimental in a lot of ways,
and very much of it related to Cyberpunk. The reason? The taste of
the editor, and the people I relate to, and "steal" material from.
The only way to change this is by actually submitting...
So: All of you that write fiction, submit. That's the only way of
increasing the diversity of this zine.
- When it comes to improving grammar and style, please feel free to
comment. Especially help on which terms to use etc. will be
appreciated, as translating texts on politics in general, and marxism
in particular, demands quite a lot of terms that certainly can't be
translated directly, and were it often is little help in a dictionary.
The problem is certainly not reduced by the fact that we have to
rely on translations done entirely by people with English as their
second language.
If anyone feel they can contribute: I would be extremely grateful
if someone offers to read through material to check the language every
now and then, or, even better, volunteer to help translating when (if)
we get hold of material in languages you master.
Apart from that? Well, I _will_ give my views with regards to Jack's
other comments in the next issue, so watch out... ;)
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(06) FOR A NEW BEGINNING (1 of 2)
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I received the following article from Dave Hollis some time ago, and
even though the article is quite long, I decided to edit it only
slightly. The unedited text is available on request. To let Dave
himself tell you about the background (quoted from the message he
sent me):
" The following article was written by myself for a conference of
people who came out of a trotskyist organisation. Over 1.5 years ago I
did so myself. The article is an attempt to elaborate experiences made
in German and the UK on the questions of sectarianism and democratic
centralism. "
FOR A NEW BEGINNING
Written by Dave Hollis <ln_dho@pki-nbg.philips.de>
Co-authored by Maggie McQuillan
Please contact the author before republishing the article.
It is lamentable that he [Ted Grant] has allowed his political
authority to be used by people whose main concern is not to
clarify ideas but to cause the maximum damage to Militant.
One unfortunate feature of political life is the spiteful urge
of former activists to justify their defection by hurling
allegations of heinous political crimes at their former
comrades.
(Militant, 24/1/1992)
The action to spread these lies outside the organisation, is a
despicable attempt to sabotage our work, which arises from
pure spite ...
(A Reply to PBy, RWe, JG)
The current developments in England come as no surprise to us. The
decision we took to leave over a year and a half ago was based on the
understanding that the new organisation was not fundamentally different
from the old one. We realised and said then that it was only a
question of time until a new split would take place. The formation of
the "Democratic Platform" days after the world conference was only an
harbinger of the events that were to follow.
I have avoided commenting up to now on the events taking place in the
"Socialist Appeal". Although a pamphlet was dedicated to us and we
were used as a stick to beat the "Democratic Platform" with, I chose to
remain silent. It was not a case of being unable to answer the
accusations and the points made, it was quite simply that I, and
others, had put this sect behind us.
Given that a discussion is now beginning to take place on how one
should go forward, I feel that the time is now appropriate to comment
on the current events, relate our experiences and put forward what I
consider has to be done. I recommend all Comrades to read the document
Bruno wrote shortly after we left, "How and what must be Discussed".
It contains a concise explanation of the state of thinking in Germany
at that time and what we considered to be the next steps.
Before I go into details, I would like to put the question of Pat's
role in Germany straight. Despite what the leaders of sect number two
think or want to believe, there was no secret activity between the
"Democratic Platform" and the German group. There was no one pulling
our strings. In addition, anyone with a degree of political
understanding could have seen that there were (and most probably are) a
number of political disagreements between us.
An author is often betrayed by the language used when writing or
speaking. This is very much case in the article "answering" Pat,
Julian and Roy. For instance, why does the second sect talk about a
"conspiracy"? Why do comrades act "in spite", and so on? It is
necessary to look into the reasons why people react in such a way. For
instance, why do members of such an organisation view those who leave
as "betrayers" who, to add insult to injury, are also considered to be
acting "in spite"?
The answer to these questions lies in understanding that we are dealing
here with a typical behaviour of a sect.
SECTS
One thing that strikes me when thinking back to the definition of a
sect in the Militant and Socialist Appeal, is the fact that a sect is
defined by its inability to build a mass base. At best, this
definition is only half the truth and at worse, it is totally false.
What characterises a sect is not its inability to build but its
internal workings - how the members relate to each other, how they
react to "outsiders", etc. A sect is a group of people who follow a
particular teaching and consider every other teaching to be wrong and
dangerous. To put it another way: a sect is the belief of a group of
people that their "model" of how society is to be interpreted is the
one and only truth.
This definition does not quite capture the real nature of a sect. What
is also important is that psychological factors play the main role. A
sect is held together by beliefs. Either you accept them and you are a
member, otherwise you have no place within it. The loyalty to the
organisation is not based on a conscious understanding of its aims, it
is loyalty to the group. The members "function", they mostly do not
act consciously. The smaller the organisation the greater the part
played by psychological factors. It is no accident that such
organisations have their idols and "great leaders". It is also no
accident that the feeling of "us" and "them" was nurtured in Militant
and Socialist Appeal. The "family feeling" is a prerequisite for the
functioning of a sect.
The Jehovah Witnesses have their bible, a Marxist organisation has the
works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky or whoever.
This way of thinking leads unavoidably its members to considering those
who disagree with their point of view to be "not loyal", "spiteful",
out to cause damage, etc. Those who become "dissidents" are countered
in the main by insults and not by arguments. For most of the members
of Militant it was only necessary to put us into a particular
compartment, accuse us of departing from Marxism and that was that -
and it worked! In both sects we experienced this, I don't think I have
to elaborate further.
One particular analogy that springs to mind is that of looking at
membership of a sect as being like a marriage. To leave a sect is like
getting divorced. It is neither easy, nor is it without pain.
As is the case with other subjects, there is still a lot that needs to
be written on this. In passing, I would just like to mention the
following aspects not discussed in this article: martyrdom, sacrifices
for the cause and assimilation. They are worth an article in
themselves. Unfortunately, time is pressing - I want to finish this
article before your conference and not afterwards. One of the most
painful but most interesting revelations for me was the discovery that
the workings of a political and a religious sect are more less
identical and that all "cadre" organisations I have met up to know
operate in the same way.
At first I found it hard to believe this. Since leaving the second
sect, however, I have spoken with a number of people who were also
members of "cadre" organisations and have found out that the behaviour
experienced was always strikingly similar.
I can imagine the howls of rage at such statements. I hope, however,
that no one was offended. Whoever feels offended should think over
very carefully why this is the case.
There are many obvious behaviours that indicate the presence of a
political sect. A few examples: The inability to think for oneself,
the repetition of the "line", blind loyalty, the inability to question
a point of view, the "functioning" of the members, the inability to
understand someone else's point of view.
Comrades who do not believe this should ask themselves a few questions:
Did not the old organisations talk about their faith in the working
class? What place does "faith" have for people who consider themselves
to be "Marxists"? Either we are talking about a science or we are
talking about a religion. It is necessary to decide which of the two
possibilities we want. Why does the resolution on the founding of the
new (old) International talk about being based on the first four
congresses of the Communist International? Is it not obvious to anyone
who claims to be a Marxist that resolutions passed over seventy years
ago are very unlikely to have any bearing on the economical and
political situation of today? The references to the writings of the
'great teachers' are just as bad.
In passing, the attempt by such organisations to justify their program
and actions by reference to such things or people is religious activity
at its purest.
As we only know too well (see the resolution on the founding of the
"International" passed at Tarrogona), an attempt is made to build a
line of tradition backwards to particular "gurus" or whatever. The
organisation stands at the front of this line as the natural
continuation of the best traditions of the past. However, it is
overseen that this is religion. Religion is re-ligio - a backwards
connection to a mystical beginning.
Once a political organisation has laid claim to this "revolutionary
continuity", the question of a programme's content is also solved.
Either the timeless validity of programmes out of the past are insisted
upon or parts of various programmes are eclectically thrown together.
I remember very clearly Ted not being happy with our idea in Germany of
writing a new political program, i.e. a manifesto. "What do you need
it for, you have the Transitional Programme" -as if the world had stood
still for the past fifty years! It is no wonder that in such
organisations practices characteristic of religious sects quickly
manifest themselves ...
...continued in Breakaway #3
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(07) GENERAL INFORMATION
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A reduced "General Information" column from now on, not to use
all the space repeating the same info...
Breakaway will be published as often as we have enough material.
"Enough" is at present about 30kb of text, but this might increase
if we get enough submissions. Under any circumstances we'll limit
ourselves to 30kb until we reach one issue every two weeks. (Probably
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This time partly on purpose. Finally we've gotten a listserver to
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set up, so that I didn't have to mail out hundreds of issues manually
again...
Vidar Hokstad <vidarh@powertech.no>
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B R E A K A W A Y
Debates on modern marxism
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Issue no. 3, volume no. 1
August/September 1994
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(00) EDITORIAL
(01) column: WHAT'S UP?
Some informal notes on issues we want to tell you about
(02) STATE CAPITALISM AND STALINISM
An attempt at a reply to Jack Hills letter in issue #2
(04) column: A SEARCHLIGHT ON INTERNET
Revolutionary resources on the information highway
(05) column: ANNOUNCEMENTS
Red Orange ?!? What's that?
(06) series: FOR A NEW BEGINNING (2 of 2)
a critique of secterianism
(07) GENERAL INFORMATION
How and what to submit, how to contact us, etc.
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(00) EDITORIAL
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Thank you!
The last two months my mailbox have been overflowing. Allthough
the number of submissions still is low, the amount of subscription
requests, interesting info, and positive feedback mailed to me have
been overwealming.
It is certainly enough socialists out on the net to justify this
publication.
The beauty of the net, is the lack of distribution-problems due to
geographical issues. For a truly international movement, the net is a
blessing of similar importance today, as the railroad was when Marx and
Engels wrote their famous _Manifesto_[1]. What before took years, can
today be done in weeks - the human factor being the last barrier...
We are as users of the net witnessing capitalism create the
ultimate tool for the working class to use. The final weapon to turn
against them. An anarchic structure where the number of voices crying
out their opinions into cyberspace is finally more important than the
money of the bourgeoisie.
Watch the drama unfold, as capitalist companies struggle to make
net access available to us all at low cost, so that we can turn it
against them even more easily, or wither away as loosers in an ever
hardening competition.
Look around you, and see virtual worlds, empires, of information,
be created, live and die, in an accelerating cycle of "living
knowledge" - the net is a medium in which a creation will never be
finished, never will be finite, but always lies open for new
exploration and new enhancements.
Enter the age of the virtual commune...
Vidar Hokstad
Editor
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[1] "And that union, to attain which the burghers of the Middle Ages,
with their miserable highways, required centuries, the modern
proletarian, thanks to railways, achieve in a few years."
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(01) column: WHAT'S UP?
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- After a few series of adverts on a series of USENET conferences
and mailing-lists the numbers of subscribers practically went
through the roof. On 1th of July, shortly after my first round of
advertising for issue #2, 15 subscription requests arrived
during my less than an hour online that day (and several more had
arrived before I logged on), and that was only the beginning...
Breakaway is now distributed to subscribers in (sorted after
numbers of subscribers) USA, UK, Canada, France, Norway, Germany,
Ireland, Australia, South-Africa, Spain, Finland, New Zealand,
Sweden and South-Korea!
Most of our subscribers (approx. 60%) comes from the US. Breakaway
has also been uploaded to a few local BBS's around the world.
I would especially like to welcome our first subscriber in
South-Korea, who, in spite of the political oppression, still
takes the chance involved with subscribing to Breakaway. The
South-Korean government have, as naby of you will know, a
reputation for imprisoning revolutionaries, and I doubt they'd
like Breakaway very much...
- Breakaway is now archived in the ftp archive at
etext.archive.umich.edu in the directory /pub/Zines/Breakaway.
Another archive is expected soon...
- Red Forum have recently gotten it's own gopher archive at the
EDIN gopher. In addition to general information about Red Forum,
the archive also contains material from Breakaway, and a pointer
to the archive mentioned above. Try gopher to garnet.berkeley.edu,
port 1520, 1521 or 1522, and select "13. Political Movements and
Theory/", then "2. Socialist Political Groups/", and finally
"3. Non-US Socialist Organizations/" to find us.
- I've adjusted the size of Breakaway up to approx. 40kb from this
issue.
- The Red Forum meeting will be in late September or early October
instead of August.
- Two mailing-lists have been set up. One for Breakaway, and another
one as a discussion list for Breakaway subscribers and RFIC
members.
The address is "majordomo@powertech.no". Send a message with
"help" in the body to retrieve informations about the commands
at your disposal, or use "lists" to get a list of all the lists
administrated by Powertech (our service provider).
The discussion list may possibly not be set up correctly when you
read this. I'll post a short notice to the Breakaway mailing list
as soon as it is working. You will *NOT* be automatically
subscribed to this list even if you subscribe to Breakaway.
- Breakaway is now also available on WWW. Select the URL
"http://www.ifi.uio.no/~vidarh/" (my homepage) from Mosaic or Lynx,
or go directly to the Breakaway archive by adding "Breakaway/" to
the above URL. Starting with issue #4, most material will be
available on the web before it is being mailed out, since it
will be written in a custom SGML format, and converted to HTML
(for WWW), ASCII, and AmigaGuide.
For more info about World Wide Web, send mail to info@cern.ch
(automatic mailer)
The WWW editions will be _updated_ with current addresses, more
links etc. However, no new entries will be added.
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(02) STATE CAPITALISM AND STALINISM
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An attempt at a reply to Jack Hills letter in issue #2, and more... [1]
I agree that naming all regimes "Stalinist" without a closer
examination, is to simple. But let me try to explain this
simplification.
Jack stated, in my opinion correctly, that the Chinese revolution
originated as a popular revolution despite the degeneration that
followed it, and the party that led it. This is an assertion that
seems to provide us with a major difference between the development in
China and Russia, as there are differences between Stalinism, defined
strictly as _Stalins theory and practice_, contrary to using Stalinism
in a broad sense for denoting any state capitalist regime using
communist symbolism, and Maoism.
And yes, Maoism is revisionistic where stalinism is reactionary.
While Stalinism were in effect, with it's bureaucratic system, trying to
reverse the process of building capitalism, Maoism was, at the time,
a force of liberation.
Even the Russian revolution was a popular revolution, allthough the
_October revolution_ did not have the support of the majority. In the
same way as the great French revolution of 1789 didn't consist of just
one attack on the establishment, but a series of struggles, the Russian
revolution was a process that at least must be said to include the
overthrowing of the Czar regime in February 1917, and later the October
Revolution, but which could be extended in both directions: Towards
the uprisings in 1905, and throughout the end of of Lenins life.
Or even further...
Some would even claim that the Russian revolution didn't finish it's
task before the State-Capitalist regime was overthrown, and Russia
finally got to experience the curse of developed capitalism in a
"free market" environment.
My opinion is that this is going too far. As always, history has
shown us some of it's innumerable variations, by providing us with a
series of "socialist" revolutions which all degenerated into state
capitalism. State capitalism has earned a position as an independent
stage in the development of our world at a place where we before only
knew the direct transition from feudalism to capitalism, as it had
happened in the developed countries.
State capitalism has earned a position as an intermediate step on
the underdeveloped countries way to capitalism, as socialism[2] by most
communists are seen as an intermediate step on our way towards
communism.
Again roughly simplified, Maoism played the role equivalent to the
role of Leninism in Russia. In the same way as Leninism, Maoism was an
adaption of Marxism to a severly underdeveloped, perhaps even non-existent
capitalism. It meant the inclusion of the poor peasants into the proletariat,
even though we have been able to witness how large parts of these peasants
didn't share the interests of the proletariat.
There's a lot to criticize about both Lenin and Mao, but there's little
doubt about their intent.
I don't feel I can say the same about Stalin. And it would be highly
unfair to call Mao China's Stalin.
True, good intent is no excuse for oppression, but there _is_ a
difference between unwillingly causing death by starvation, and organized,
well planned, executions. There _is_ a difference between causing the
creation of an oppressive regime by not foreseeing the consequences of
what you do, and actually intentionally strenghtening oppression.
Still the errors of Mao _and_ Lenin must be openly discussed, and
the crimes they _did_ commit condemned, as the actions of any revolutionary
must be constantly under attack by ourselves - we can't expect to win a war
against capitalism, if we don't dare to fight minor battles with our
comrades of fear that we might be wrong.
But we must also we very aware about what we are doing, and be careful
not to throw away the experiences, and ideas, that actually are worth using,
and developing.
What about state capitalism, then?
Certainly there must be valuable experiences to be extracted from the
state capitalist regimes, and conclusions to be made?
In opposition to some trends, I do not see state capitalism as a
highly developed capitalism, ready for the socialist revolution, but
as a backward regime created out of combining the political inheritance
from a feudalist past with the awakening capitalist economic structures.
As such, the development in China, towards a market economy controlled
by a highly totalitarian government is no surprise. Similar tendencies
could be seen in Europe during the early years of capitalist economy.
We just hadn't a good word for it until recently[3]
History always repeats itself, but it has a bad memory. It never
replicates the exact same patters over and over again. Like the
Mandelbrot set of fractals: the further you move from your point of
origin, the larger the differences, but changes never appear suddenly -
the patterns seems to go through a slow metamorphosis.
The revolutions of China and Russia have many differences. But
these are minor, cosmetic, differences. The main tendencies, the
radicalisation, and then degenerisation, of a bourgeoisie revolution,
are the same.
This tendency we find in every bourgeoisie revolution, but only
in the underdeveloped countries the bourgeoisie is weak enough to let
this radicalisation continue to a point where it causes the seizure
of state power by a vanguardist minority _strong enough to keep it_.
We remember from the French Revolution of 1789 a phase of
radicalisation. But this phase was ended by reactionary forces,
creating another dictature, and thus it isn't suitable for the
capitalists when they look for ways to fight communism.
They find their weapons in the "socialist" revolutions - the
revolutions where the bourgeoisie finds regimes that looks like
their visions of communism. For can their reign be ended without
replacing it with _another_ oppressive force? And won't this force
be the _state_? This is the nightmare the capitalists envision.
Their reign _will_ be replaced by new oppression. Not the state,
or rather not the state as in bourgeoisie terminology. It will by
neccessity be the dictatorship of the majority, of the proletariat.
But it will also be the democracy of the many instead of the few.
Here lies the problems of the "socialist revolutions". Until
now, they have been seizure of power by an elite - a minority - that
haven't understood that the time had not yet come for socialism.
To build socialism in countries that lack most fundamental goods,
that can't fulfill the basic needs of their populations, will
inevitably end in oppression:
The vanguardist parties will always be haunted by people in search
of power, by people that want more than their share. In a country
where poverty rules, how can you escape poverty? By seizing power
for yourself, by becoming emperor...
In a country with ONE party, or at least only one party with
power, which party do you turn to if power is what you want?
Vidar Hokstad <vidarh@powertech.no>
----
[1] Please note that the inclusion of Jack's letter in issue #2 was an
error on my behalf - the letter was not meant to be published. However
I've chosen still to comment on the issues he mentioned, because I find
the problems he rises interesting. I would like to hear more opinions
on these questions. Submissions are especially welcome, but write even
if you don't want to submit (just make sure you state that clearly,
so I don't mess up again...).
[2] That is, the political system, not the ideology or ideologies.
[3] It should also be noted that while early western capitalism
certainly showed remarkable resemblances to state capitalism as the
term is used here, there were also distinct differences - again the
natural variations of history? Or are the differences more fundamental?
I won't go into that now. Any comments?
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(04) column: A SEARCHLIGHT ON INTERNET
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* CPUSA
E-MAIL: communistpty@igc.apc.com,
pww@igc.apc.com (Peoples Weekly World)
timwheeler@igc.apc.com (PWW editor Tim Wheeler)
Communist Party of USA. Publishes Peoples Weekly World, and the
theoretical journal Political Affairs. Their youth organization is
YCL - Young Communist League.
* Marxism (mailing-list)
E-MAIL: marxism-request@world.std.com (majordomo)
marxism-approval@world.std.com (the list moderator)
The Marxism list have had a steady stream of messages, and have
established itself as one of the more high-volume leftist lists.
It's highly focused on academic questions, but should still provide
interesting reading for others - at least you'd probably have no
problems getting enough suggestions for what to read ;)
* Marxist Leninist Bookstore
E-MAIL: <mlbooks@mcs.com>
Jack Hill writes:
" Actually, this is just an e-mail address that
the Chicago Workers' Voice (a small Marxist-Leninist political group
in Chicago, formerly the Chicago branch of the Marxist-Leninist Party
(USA) ) uses to exchange views and information on political issues.
We publish two periodicals: an agitational newsletter _The Chicago
Workers' Voice_/_Voz Obrera_ in English and Spanish, and _The Chicago
Workers' Voice Theoretical Journal_. I would certainly be willing to
send anyone who requests it the text of our agitational articles. I
can also inform anyone who asks what are the contents of our
theoretical journal. Each issue runs about 240-250K so it would be hard
to sent out the whole journal by e-mail, but I might be able to send
individual articles if someone is really interested. Of course, if I
start getting hundreds of requests, I may have to reconsider this offer.
M-L Books is an actual bookstore located in a storefront in the
Mexican community of Chicago. We have been in this community for 15
years. We have a wide variety of titles of Marx, Engels, and Lenin in
English and Spanish. Our prices are generally low, since much of our
stock was acquired years ago at low prices. I don't have a complete
listing of our current stock with current prices, but if there is a
title you want, let me know. We can probably help you.
Keep up the struggle.
Jack Hill <mlbooks@mcs.com>"
* Committees of Correspondence
GOPHER: See the EDIN gopher below.
LIST: cocdiscuss@garnet.berkeley.edu (The CocDiscuss list)
newman@garnet.berkeley.edu (the list moderator)
* EDIN gopher
GOPHER: garnet.berkeley.edu (ports 1520/1521/1522)
E-MAIL: newman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Nathan Newman)
The EDIN gopher is one of the main resources for revolutionary and
other progressive groups on the Net. Apart from pointers to a wide range
of leftist organization on the Internet, it contains massive information
about human rights organizations, economics etc., and pointers to tons
of other info. An absolute _must_. Red Forum can also be found here.
The maintainer, Nathan Newman, is highly active on Usenet, and also
moderates the Committees of Correspondence discussion list - CocDiscuss.
* Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus
GOPHER:
USENET: cl.gruppen.pds
E-MAIL: PDS-BLV@IPN-B.comlink.de (PDS Landesvorstand Berlin)
Notice that this entry is by no means complete. The PDS have an
extensive list of e-mail addresses to a long range of local sections and
members of their party. The few addresses mentioned here have been taken
from the newsgroup "cl.gruppen.pds".
* Archiv fuer marxistische Theorie
EMAIL: CHRONIK@LINK-S.cl.sub.de
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(05) ANNOUNCEMENTS
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RED ORANGE
A Marxist Triquarterly of Theory, Politics, and the Everyday
Robert A. Nowlan, Chief Editor
Robert J. Cymbala, Managing Editor
The inaugural issue of Red Orange will be published in the spring
of 1995. Red Orange will contribute to the positive development of
revolutionary Marxist knowledges of contemporary capitalist economics,
politics, society, and culture. Red Orange will include critical,
theoretical, and pedagogical articles of sustained length, as well as a
dossier of briefer writings which deal with developments in popular
consciousness and mass culture. Red Orange will produce work that is
engaged in systematic investigation and explanation, and which is
concerned with extending and developing revolutionary Marxist critical
theory of capitalist society and culture. Red Orange will argue for the
necessary theoretical and political priority of such concepts as class,
class conflict and struggle, class consciousness, history, materiality,
mode of production, forces and relations of production, labor,
proletariat, revolution, socialism, communism, dialectics, ideology,
theory, and critique.
The first issue of Red Orange will begin to investigate the broad
topic of "Late Capitalism at the Fin-de-Siecle." This focus will
continue throughout the first year as the second and third issues of Red
Orange will (tentatively) focus upon the specific topics of market and
commodity culture (issue two) and globality, globalism, and global
post-ality (issue three) in fin-de-siecle late capitalism. We invite
submissions for this first and for the subsequent second and third
issues of Red Orange that focus on the development of revolutionary
Marxist critical theory of, and intellectual-pedagogical intervention
within, various institutions, discourses, practices, and social
relations of fin-de-siecle late capitalism. We invite submissions from
across the full range of traditional academic-intellectual
"disciplines." We are also particularly interested in articles which
will address the related question -- in the course of their
investigation of fin-de-siecle late capitalist economics, politics,
society, and culture -- of How and Why, on the Advent of the
Twenty-First Century, the Revolutionary Socialist Transformation of
Capitalism into Communism is -- Still -- Possible and -- Still --
Necessary.
Texts and inquiries should be addressed to Red Orange, Post Office
Box 1055, Tempe, AZ, 85280-1055, U.S.A.
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(06) FOR A NEW BEGINNING (2 of 2)
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Written by Dave Hollis <ln_dho@pki-nbg.philips.de>
Co-authored by Maggie McQuillan
Please contact the author before republishing the article.
... continued from Breakaway #2
Democratic Centralism
Democratic centralism is usually justified by saying that it originates
out of the organisation the workers give themselves in struggle.
Leaving aside for a moment that its historical roots were completely
different, let me try and examine the concept as such.
Instinctively, the idea of democratically deciding and then acting
together is very appealing - at least in the cases when one is fighting
the class enemy. For a revolutionary organisation, however, democratic
centralism has meant and means something else.
Democratic centralism is usually defined as being "freedom of
discussion and unity of action". This definition, taken from Lenin
himself, doesn't tell the whole story. A democratic centralist
organisation is based on a separation of the task of leadership from
the task of carrying out the decisions. This separation takes the
form, in the best case, of a yearly election of a central or national
committee.
Whatever name this committee may have, I think that no one will
contradict me in saying that it has the right to lead the organisation
and take decisions in its name which are then binding on the members.
Before going into the ramifications of such powers, it is very
important to note that such a division of labour is nothing more than a
reproduction of the capitalist model of parliamentary democracy in a
workers' organisation. Instead of the majority leading the
organisation we have the majority drawing up the leaders. As is the
case with parliamentary elections when electing MPs, the rank and file
does not lead an organisation and the people do not lead parliament
because the leaders are elected at regular intervals.
The effects of the separation described above are not at first glance
apparent. To understand them it is necessary to not only investigate
the practical consequences of democratic centralism on the workings of
a political organisation, but also to look into what effects it has on
the minds of the members.
As experienced in the previous two sects, democratic centralism
required of the members that they put forward its programme and
policies when working within the movement. This makes it very
difficult for the members to question and develop differing ideas to
those internally agreed.
One could of course counter by saying that one can discuss anything
with anyone. However it should be obvious that members will feel
"obliged" to put forward the "line" in public and not develop ones
ideas in a dialogue with the workers. A tendency can and will develop
that engenders conformity, something very unhealthy for a revolutionary
organisation. Furthermore, it is very easy for a feeling to develop of
"us" and "them" - something we have already had more than enough
experience of in the past. The underlying processes at work here are
by no means easy to depict. Attitudes are shaped by an organisation
but an organisation is also shaped by attitudes. Cause and effect will
change places more than once
Ideas when taken up by people become a material force in their own
right. Separating the overwhelming majority of the members from the
decision making process has consequences that go a lot further than
depicted up to now.
A tendency will develop, as is the case in almost any workers'
organisation, of loyalty and acceptance of the leaders. Those who
decide will also be those who appear to be competent in the eyes of the
members. If the organisation grows, i.e. it is successful, the
position of the leadership will be strengthened, a bureaucracy can then
develop. If the organisation declines, it is by no means said that the
leadership will be weakened [1]. How often in the history of the labour
movement have leaderships survived bad decisions because of the loyalty
of the members? Leaderships of Stalinist organisations, for example,
have often committed great crimes against their members and still
survived to tell the story!
Looking through the documents of the factional struggle within
Militant, it immediately becomes apparent that the force of ideas were
by no means sufficient to break the loyalty built up in the leadership.
Loyalty to a leadership - be it blind or conscious - is poison for a
revolutionary organisation. This point has to be seen in context of
what I wrote above on sectarianism and the psychological background of
loyalty.
The development of loyalties, the inability to question ideas, to
understand differing ideas shows that democratic checks, as important
as they undoubtedly are, are in now way sufficient to prevent an
organisation from degenerating. To put it another way, there is always
a need for democratic checks when the organisation in question has un-
democratic traits in it right from the word go!
Bureaucratic centralism, or bureaucratism in general, begins with the
separation of the leaders from the rest, i.e. those who carry out the
decisions. As soon as no active control takes place - be it due to the
structure of the organisation or because the members do not want to -
bureaucratism will be the result. It must be the result.
Up till now, I have looked into the effects of democratic centralism in
the organisation itself. I would like to now portray how democratic
centralism affects the political work in the movement. In passing, it
should be obvious that the criticisms of democratic centralism are, in
a slightly modified form, just as applicable and relevant to the
organisations of the labour movement, i.e. the trade unions and the
Labour Party.
The discussion on the merits or otherwise of democratic centralism are
by no means new. Both Rosa Luxemburg and Leon Trotsky criticized in
detail, and independently of each other, Lenin's organisation concept.
Rosa Luxemburg's contribution appeared in English under the title
Organizational Question of Russian Social Democracy. Although the
translation is terrible, the translator managed to get the meaning more
or less across - the article is well worth a read. Trotsky's pamphlet,
Our Political Tasks, was published in 1904 in Russian and also
translated in 1970 into German.
One of Trotsky's criticisms of Lenin's organisation concept concerned
the question of self-activity, i.e. the ability of the working class
to act by itself. In Lenin's concept this self-activity was given
narrow bounds.
In contrast, Trotsky saw the main task of the Social Democracy as being
one of stimulating and fostering this self-activity. Trotsky saw in
Lenin's plans an obstacle for the development of political
consciousness of the proletariat. Moreover he saw the danger that the
party, due to its not legitimated claim to hegemony with regard to the
working class and the resulting strict separation from the proletariat,
taking up such a sectarian position that the proletariat could turn its
back on the party at the decisive moment.
Lenin's formal centralism would not lead to its declared aim, the
strengthening of the party, but, instead, to the danger of the
separation of the working class from the party. Trotsky saw the
guarantee for the party's stability "in an active and self-active
participating proletariat and not in its organisational head".
Trotsky counterposed to democratic centralism the concept of
democratic centralisation, i.e. a centralisation from below. In his
view, this centralisation can only be the majority will of the rank
and file organisations, which exercise a continuous control over their
delegates. To give a flavor and the direction of Trotsky's
criticisms, here are a few passages from his pamphlet:
"The system of political substitution is, as is the system of
'economistic' simplification, derived consciously or
unconsciously from a 'sophistic' understanding of the
relationship of the objective interests of the proletariat to its
consciousness. Marxism teaches that the interests of the
proletariat are determined by its objective conditions of
existence. These interests are so imperious that they in the end
cause the proletariat to transfer them into the area of its
consciousness, i.e. to reach its objective interests by its
subjective needs. Between both these factors - the objective
factor of its class interests and its subjective consciousness -
lies, in reality unavoidable, road of knocks and blows, mistakes
and disappointments, vicissitudes and defeats. For the tactical
wisdom of the party of the proletariat, the whole task lies
between these two planes, it consists in shortening and
facilitating the road from the one to another."
"... If the Economists do not lead in this way the proletariat
because it trots behind them, the 'politicians' also do not lead
the proletariat because they are themselves looking to perform
their duties. If the Economists shirk their colossal tasks by
devoting themselves to a modest role, to march at the tail of
history, the 'politicians' solve the question by making history
to its own tail..."
"We revolutionize the masses badly or well (mostly badly) by
waking in them their elementary political instincts. However, as
long as it is the question of the complex tasks of transforming
these instincts into the conscious efforts of a political working
class determined by the class itself, we resort to the short and
simplified methods of the thoughts of standing in for others and
substitution.
In the internal politics of the party, these methods lead, as we
will see, to the party organisation replacing the party itself,
the CC replacing the party's organisation and finally a dictator
replacing the CC; furthermore, these methods lead to the
committees creating and abolishing the 'lines', while 'the people
remain silent'. In the external politics, these methods appear
in the attempts to exert pressure on other social organisations,
not by the real power of the proletarian conscious of its own
interests but by the abstract power of the class interests of the
proletariat."
"We are speaking of the absolute necessity of the creation of
party members, of conscious social democrats, not, however, of
simple skilled 'detail workers'- and one answers us: 'That goes
without saying'. What does that mean? For whom does 'that' go
without saying? Does 'that' go without saying in the context of
our party work, i.e. does the creation of political thinking
party comrades an absolute, integral part of it?"
"Every thought that promotes the technical principle of the
division of labour to the principle of social democratic
organisation, consciously or unconsciously acquires the final
unavoidable consequence: the separation of consciousness and
implementation, the separation of social democratic thought from
technical functions by means of which these thoughts must
necessarily be realised. The 'organisation of professional
revolutionaries', more precisely its head, appears as the centre
of social democratic consciousness and underneath this centre,
the disciplined executors of technical functions are to be
found."
Originally, I planned at this point to look into the historical
background of democratic centralism in some detail. Due to lack of
time, I can only skirt over the subject. If enough interest is
present, I can into this subject in some detail.
If one reads 'What is to be Done', Lenin states clearly that his
organisational model stems from a terrorist organisation, 'Land and
Freedom'. Moreover, his ideas were based on an amalgamation of the
Marxism of the 2. International (in particular the German Marxism of
Kautsky) with the traditions of the Russian revolutionary
intelligentsia.
The idea taken directly from Kautsky that the proletariat is only
capable of developing a trade union consciousness and therefore the
bourgeois intelligentsia, collected in the Social Democracy, is
required to 'bring in' a socialist consciousness into the working
class, determined Lenin's organisational concept.
Despite the fact that Lenin modified his views on this subject under
pressure from without, the organisational principles derived from this
false understanding of the question of socialist consciousness
remained. The idea that the ideas of socialism are not to be explained
by the material conditions but instead are to viewed as a question of
science, higher morals and a successful propaganda activity, have since
this time bedevilled the labour movement.
The ideas of separating out the tasks of leadership, i.e. the
separation detailed above, also have their roots in this false
understanding of the question of socialist consciousness. Instead of
it being a question of the working class being able to free itself from
the chains of capitalism, this mentality leads to this question being
reduced to a technical problem that can only be solved by technicians.
Slowly, surely and unavoidably, the whole concept of socialism is
robbed of its human content: "We have the solution and you have to put
it into practice". Having experienced this way of thinking more than
once and over a long period of time, I think I can say that this way of
thinking was prevalent in the sects.
Instead of a conclusion
It is easy to criticize, it is easy to know better. I was tempted -
despite the shortness of time available to me - to pick up on a number
of points made in the documents for your national meeting. What struck
me on reading them however, is that it is very unclear as to what you
consider to be your tasks.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. What sort of
organisation is required and for what purpose? It is stated in the
document Establishing a new Tradition that there is a tremendous
political vacuum existing in the current world situation.
Unfortunately, it is much more than a vacuum. The ideas of socialism,
i.e. that the workers can take charge of society, have been
discredited and most probably for a whole historical period. The
rediscovery of these ideas can only take place over a long period of
time. As we have already said in Germany, it is not even clear whether
these new ideas will acquire the name "Socialism".
What alternatives are there going to be, how they are going to look,
etc. will only result from a long period of discussion in and with the
labour movement and also by learning from experiences. One very
important part of these discussions will undoubtedly be a reappraisal
of the history of the labour movement and its ideas. This reappraisal
will require socialists having to leave no stone unturned and really
questioning things we have always taken for granted.
From what I have said in the article as a whole, revolutionaries will
have to take more account of a number of things that it has never
really done to any great degree in the past. Life has changed a lot
since the "great teachers". Either one has to learn to come to terms
with this fact and draw the necessary conclusions otherwise how things
will end up will be clear right from the word go - sect No. 3!
To hold comrades together just on the basis of ideas is not going to be
a simple task. Once the pressure is off, those comrades who have
missed out on life up to know will want to catch up. Some, or perhaps
many, will leave politics altogether.
Life is no longer going to be rosy or easy. There are no simple
solutions and to call for the nationalization of the top 200 monopolies
at every appropriate and inappropriate occasion is not going to help
either. Only by understanding what went wrong in the past and why it
went wrong, is it possible to build for the future. The form and
content this will take are still very unclear - if we recognize this
fact, there is a chance that we can do it better. But only if we do
so!
Dave Hollis, 15.4.94
P.S. This document was written in a hurry and under pressure from an
ongoing struggle against redundancies. It would have been impossible
to have written it without the help and critical comments of Maggie
McQuillan, who agrees with the main lines of argument and conclusions.
In this sense, the document should be considered to have been co-
authored by her. All grammatical mistakes, mis-spellings, etc. are,
of course my responsibility.
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[1] In fact, often the leadership have been _strengthened_, since it
generally is the opposition that leaves the organisation first, leaving
the sinking ship in an even worse condition than before. Editors remark
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This issue was meant to be finished in October. But now it's
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One of the things that have kept me from finishing the issue
earlier, has been lack of contributions.
Please, send me comments about the material - write your own
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(00) EDITORIAL
(01) column: WHAT'S UP?
Some informal notes on issues we want to tell you about
(02) AGAIN THE MASSES AND THE LEADERS
Article by Rosa Luxembourg, translated by Dave Hollis
(04) column: ANNOUNCEMENTS
Socialist Voice
(07) column: A SEARCHLIGHT ON THE INTERNET
About marxism in the US Army handbook and other stuff...
(06) THE MAN
Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
(07) GENERAL INFORMATION
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A new year is upon us. It's been a long time.
Though not an eventless period... Quite the contrary.
Unfortunately - as I've mentioned briefly before - work, computer
science studies, and my political activities off the Internet have
prevented me both from keeping up with my mail, and from finishing
Breakaway #4 earlier.
Thus, this issue is smaller than intende.
Still it contains some quite interesting material.
Times are changing, and we are changing with it. We are
developing; undergoing a metamorphosis that will leave us with a
fundamentally new outlook on the world.
We are in the centre of the changes... We have the theoretical
understanding to discuss, and comprehend what the emperors of
bourgeoisie subcultures have only yet started to grasp.
On your visits in cyberspace, have you ever been to alt.cyberpunk?
Have you felt the tide of anti authoritarianism, peeling the fresh
paint of capitalism, to reveal it the way it really is. Still, the
naivete that flows throughout the system...
...we need not preach about rebellion. Rebellion lies latent in the
human soul. It grows whenever oppression is there to nurture it. What
we need is to provide understanding of who the oppressors are, and how
they can be fought.
Often we are called old fashioned and dogmatic, even orthodox. The
day the wanna be anarchists of alt.cyberpunk, and their likes,
understand the fundamental error of that "logic", capitalism will meet
the proletariat of the next century.
When the middle class rebels find themselves in the same boat as
the poor people they once despised; when they start using their
knowledge of technology, their skills with computers, for fighting the
capitalists, the ideology they today only curse on USENET, the ruling
class should watch out.
It is only a matter of time before these people discover that they
are already living in the kind of world they are reading about in their
favorite books.
That the only real difference, apart from the technical wonders of
the 21th century, is just that in the real world, people won't surrender
to the capitalist imperium - in the real world, capitalist reign isn't
eternal.
Tomorrow, hundreds of new comrades will have discovered, that the
dogmas, the orthodoxy, are so much more a vital characteristic of
capitalism, than it is a characteristics of it's child; it's successor.
The only question that remains, is: Will you welcome them, or will
you, as the stalinists, reject them as opportunists? Will we fight with
them, or against them?
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(02) AGAIN THE MASSES AND LEADERS
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Translated by Dave Hollis <ln_dho@pki-nbg.philips.de>
The translation and is (C)opyright October 1994 by Dave Hollis
ROSA LUXEMBURG AND MASS ACTION
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Dear Vidar,
This is really the final version of the article - promise! The
following article and the translation is also being published in the
next issue of a magazine called New Interventions, a journal of
Socialist Discussion and Opinion. (Published in England). Permission
to publish the introduction was given by Ken. Further details of the
magazine can be obtained from its editor, Ken Tarbuck. His mail
address is: ktarbuck@gn.apc.org
Socialist Greetings, Dave
Introduction
The translation of the following article, which is being published
here for the first time in English, is one of many articles that Rosa
Luxemburg wrote on and around the question of the 'Agadir incident'.
This incident was sparked off by Germany's attempt to spread her
influence over the whole of Morocco. In view of the possibilities of a
war breaking out on this issue, the French Socialists took this incident
as grounds for wanting an international demonstration for Socialism.
The French requested a meeting through the International Socialist
Bureau of the Social-Democratic organisations of those countries
involved in this incident, France, Spain, the UK and Germany. With the
exception of Germany, all participants were in agreement. A full time
secretary of the SPD party executive, Hermann Molkenbuhr, informed the
International Socialist Bureau, however, that the Germans did not want a
conference "for the time being".
Molkenbuhr considered the Morocco incident to be of no danger. The
interests of the various German Steel companies, Mannesmann on the one
side, and Krupp and Thyssen in a French mining syndicate on the other,
would lead the capitalists to putting on the brakes soon enough.
Furthermore, he considered that taking up the issue would lead to a
diversion from the internal issues and therefore damage the chances of
the SPD in the coming general election.
As was often the case, the rank and file of the SPD was more radical
than the leadership and saw things differently. They took up the
question in the run up to the elections. In Berlin and in the large
cities of Prussia the rank and file held protest meetings against the
sending of the warships, Panther and Berlin, to Agadir.
Rosa Luxemburg, as a member of the International Secretariat, had
received a copy of Molkenbuhr's letter. Obviously very unhappy with its
content, she published it on 24th July 1911 in the newspaper, Leipziger
Volkszeitung, with a withering criticism from herself.
The publication of the letter caused an uproar in the party,
published in the middle of an international crisis and before the party
executive had done anything, it brought the dissatisfaction with the
party executive to the boil. This revelation forced the executive on
9th August to begin the agitation on the Morocco question. It did not,
however, pacify the membership.
At the Jena Conference, the party executive tried to make out of a
'Morocco' affair a 'Luxemburg' affair, accusing her of disloyalty and
indiscretion. This attack backfired. The centrists sided with the
'lefts' around Rosa Luxemburg and the party reform went through. Two
new secretary posts came into being, and the post of co-chairman went to
a prominent left centrist, Hugo Haase, who replaced the deceased Paul
Singer.
The article, however, is not being published for the information it
provides us on the Agadir incident, rather because it gives us a very
interesting insight into Rosa Luxemburg's views on the question of party
organisation and her attitude to what has gone down in the literature as
her views on 'spontaneity'. These views are not only of historical
interest but also for the current debates within the labour movement,
both nationally and internationally.
The article also gives a small insight into the workings of the SPD.
I suspect that it is generally unknown that the SPD was quite a
centralised party. It was no accident, for instance, that the attempts
by the Bolsheviks to export the Bolshevik methods of organisation,
epitomised by the 21 Conditions for entry into the Third International,
met with enormous resistance from those members of the CP who stemmed
from the SPD. Their bad experiences with centralism led to the KPD, for
a few years, being an extremely democratic party. But that is another
story!
In so far as time admits, in the coming months I will try to present
various articles unknown to the English speaking public. Her writings
in German consist of five volumes and her personal letters consist of
six volumes. Not that is all. There is a volume of her writings that
has yet to see the light of day. There is a reference to it in an
international scientific journal. The volume consists of her Polish
writings. Alas, the enquiries I have made as to when it will be
published, indicate that there are currently no plans to do so.
Dave Hollis
AGAIN THE MASSES AND LEADERS
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AGAIN THE MASSES AND LEADERS
Leipzig, 29th August
News is coming in from all sides about the meetings and
demonstrations organised by our party against the foreign policy and the
Morocco line. The popular masses are answering our appeal everywhere
with the greatest enthusiasm, and this proves how much we have met the
feelings and mood of the masses by giving them a political expression,
solution and direction. Now only one opinion predominates in the whole
of the party, that a mass action against the Morocco affair and an
energetic agitation in the field of foreign policy was an irrefutable
task of Social-Democracy and an urgent necessity.
And now the question immediately posed by this: Why was this
campaign not begun one or two months ago? The dispatch of the German
gunboat to Agadir, with which Germany officially intervened in the
Morocco affair, took place on the 2nd of July. Already in the first
week of July, the protest of the French and Spanish Socialists was in
full swing. Instead of immediately initiating at that time the
agitation with all one's might, we are bringing up the rear and dragging
ourselves along in the wake of events and are at least one to one and a
half months too late. In this important case our political
quick-wittedness has left a lot to be desired. Why?
One will answer: The party executive has showed an unfortunate lack
of initiative. Its call for action was not published until the 9th of
August and therefore the meetings could first begin in the second half
of August. To be sure, but must the party wait for the official call of
the party executive? If today everyone in the party without exception
sees the necessity for action against the world politics, cannot the
local party organisations do something on their own initiative, like the
Stuttgart comrades have done? [1] It is extraordinarily easy to put the
blame on the party executive, who for their part may really have acted
with a lack of determination and energy. However, a no smaller part of
the blame is to be put on those who always expect all salvation from
above and even in such clear and indubitable cases shy away from a
little self-activity and personal initiative. Of course campaigns of
the party on this scale require uniformity and unity in order to be most
effective, which can be best bro ught about from a centre. In this
respect, especially the example of several old centres of the party
movement, who would rouse all the remaining local organisations, would
certainly not miss their mark. To be sure, also the party executive, as
leading centre, would soon see itself forced to generalise every massive
initiative and good beginning by making itself the mouthpiece and tool
of the will of the party, instead of, as now, the other way round, the
party executive viewing the great and powerful party organisations as
being just an instrument for carrying out the instructions of the party
executive.
It must also be said openly: only when there is a reversal of the
present abnormal relations would life within the party first stand on a
normal footing. It is stated in the Communist Manifesto that the
emancipation of the working class can only be the work of the working
class itself and it understands by the working class not a party
executive of seven or twelve but the enlightened mass of the proletariat
in person. Every step forward in the struggle for emancipation of the
working class must at the same time mean a growing intellectual
independence of its mass, its growing self-activity, self-determination
and initiative. How should the capability of action and political
quick- wittedness of the broad popular masses develop if the vanguard of
these masses, the best and most enlightened sections united in the
Social-Democratic Party organisations, exhibit for their part no
initiative and independence as masses, on the contrary, always be at the
ready until a command is issued from above? Discipline and unity of
action is a vital matter for mass movements like ours.
However, discipline in the Social-Democratic sense differs
fundamentally from the discipline of the bourgeois armed forces. There
it is based on the unthinking and submissive subordination of the bulk
of the soldiers to the command of authority expressing an outside will.
Social-Democratic discipline can only mean the subordination of every
individual to the will and the thought of the great majority. Therefore
Social-Democratic discipline can never mean that eight hundred thousand
organised party members have to bow to the will and regulations of a
central authority of a party executive but the opposite, all central
organs of the party having to carry out the will of the eight hundred
thousand organised social democrats. Important for the normal
development of the political life in the party, a vital matter for the
Social-Democracy, is therefore based on always keeping the political
thought and the will of the mass of the party awake and active, and thus
enabling them in increasing measure to be active. We have, of course,
the yearly party conference as highest instance which regularly fixes
the will of the whole party. However, it is obvious that the party
conferences can only give general outlines of the tactics for the
Social-Democratic struggle. The application of these guidelines in
practice requires a constant, untiring thought, quick-wittedness and
initiative. The decisions of the party conferences obviously do not in
the slightest exhaust the regular tasks of the political struggle, for
life does not stand still, and from one party conference to the other
many things take place in heaven and earth to which the party must
react. To want to make a party executive responsible for the whole
enormous task of daily political vigilance and initiative on whose
command a party organisation of almost a million passively waits, is the
most incorrect thing there is from the standpoint of the proletarian
class struggle. That is without doubt that reprehensible "blind
obedience" which our opportunists definitely want to see in the
self-evident subordination of all to the decisions of the whole party.
One can often hear in our ranks complaints about the bureaucratism
of our highest party authorities that is said to be killing the living
political energy. These complaints are also totally justified. Just
those who express them surely take little account of the fact that to a
large extent the lamented state has its roots in the nature of things.
Every body with daily official office work tends to fall into
bureaucratism and routine. Besides, such high-ranking bodies naturally
have a strongly developed feeling of responsibility that unquestionably
has a strongly paralysing effect on initiative and determination. A
real remedy against this bad state of affairs is only the living
political activity of the entire party. The most ideal party executive
of a party like the social democracy would be the one that would
function as the most obedient, most prompt and most precise tool of the
will of the entire party.
However, the most ideal party executive would be able to achieve
nothing, would involuntarily sink into bureaucratic inefficiency if the
natural source of its energy, the will of the party, does not make
itself felt, if critical thought, the mass of the party's own initiative
is sleeping. In fact it is more than this. If its own energy, the
independent intellectual life of the mass of the party, is not active
enough, then the central authorities have the quite natural tendency to
not only bureaucratically rust but also to get a totally wrong idea of
their own official authority and position of power with respect to the
party. The most recent so-called "secret decree" of our party executive
to the party editorial staffs [2] can serve as fresh proof, an attempt
to make decisions for the party press, which cannot be sharply enough
rejected. However, also here it is necessary to make clear: Against
both inefficiency and excessive illusions of power of the central
authorities of the labour movement there is no other way except one's
own initiative, one's own thought, and the own fresh pulsating political
life of the broad mass of the party.
The questions touched upon here are of more than academic interest
in the current situation. It has been recognised from different sides
in the party that the current state of the party executive needs to be
improved, an extension and renewal of our highest party authorities is
seen to be necessary. Recently our Elberfeld organ also wrote like that
on the occasion of the Morocco debate:
"At least one must agree with the 'Leipziger Volkszeitung' that the
party executive should have taken the initiative for a campaign.
"Well, we are also quite convinced after a closer examination of the
matter that the sin of the party executive of failing to do something
must be judged more mildly. The administrative machinery of the party
has become so extensive that the number of members of the party
leadership is no longer enough to fulfil all the requirements that are
to be made on it as seems necessary. The gap left by Comrade Singer has
not been filled; if we add to this the case that a member of the party
executive or even two may well be outside of Berlin for the carrying out
of party business or for agitation, a further member were to be ill, a
fourth and fifth were on holiday - certainly nobody would want to deny
the very busy members of the party executive that - it cannot fail to
happen that a small minority has to decide on sudden appearing,
important questions and that these questions would have sometimes have
been dealt with differently if the whole of the executive had got
together. The contradiction is also certainly to be explained by this
dilemma that the letter of the party executive [3] is described by the
party office as being the private opinion of the letter writer while it
was naturally received outside as a letter of the party executive. The
Jena party conference will have to decide a strengthening of the party
executive. A motion has already been put on this matter by two
constituencies - Tetlow-Beeskow and Berlin I. "
The view expressed here of the necessity of strengthening the party
executive is perfectly correct and the party conference must not be
allowed to shirk from its important task in this field. If our party
pacifies itself with the strengthening of the party executive and again
passively expects all salvation from the "new men", as for example it
passively waited one and a half months for the conductor's baton of the
party executive for the unfolding of the protest action against the
Morocco affair, it would merely mean wanting to come up with purely
bureaucratic means against the evil of bureaucratism. No party
executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy,
and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face
of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right
leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has
not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class
struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders"
in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders.
Leipziger Volkszeitung No. 199, 29th August 1911
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[1] On 15th July 1911, a protest gathering took place in Stuttgart at
which Karl Liebknecht was the mover of a resolution against German
imperialism's Morocco policies, which was unanimously adopted.
[2] On 8th August 1911 the SPD party executive wrote a confidential
circular to the editorial boards of the party press to try to stop
them publishing criticisms of the leading trade union bodies and
articles on differences in the book printers' union that had been
caused by anti-worker decisions of their executive. The party
membership found out about the circular through a bourgeois paper in
Saxony into whose hands the circular had fallen. The contents of the
circular led to a considerable amount of displeasure in the party over
the actions of the party executive.
[3] Molkenbuhr's letter is meant here.
Taken from the text, Rosa Luxemburg, Gesammelte Werke, Vol.3 Dietz,
Berlin 1973, 4th edition.
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(04) ANNOUNCEMENTS
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A while ago I received this annoucement... I'm sure a newer issue
should be out by now..
Ed.
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SOCIALIST VOICE
To receive the SV by email send email to SMacSuibhne@Dit.Ie
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SOCIALIST VOICE Guth an Lucht Oibre
October 14th 1994 Vol. 4. No. 18 Price 20p.
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Published by
Connolly Books,
43 East Essex Street,
Dublin 2.
For further information, contact Eugene McCartan
at the above address.
Telephone: Dublin (01) 6711 943.
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CONTENTS:
AFTER THE LOYALIST CEASEFIRE - A Progressive Agenda
AN INVITATION TO READERS
EAGARFHOCAL - EDITORIAL
FIGHT FOR JOBS NOT SINECURES
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(05) A SEARCHLIGHT ON THE INTERNET
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During a few massive searches of World Wide Web, using the LYCOS system
at Carnegie Mellon, I found a lot of interesting pieces of information.
Here's a few of them:
* MARX: The movie
gopher://jefferson.village.virginia.edu:70/00/pubs/pmc/
issue.990/kipnis.990
A movie manuscript. I haven't had the time to read it through,
but the parts I've read at least seems interesting.
* SPUNK press
http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Jack.Jansen/spunk/Catalog.html
This server contains mostly anarchist material, but there's
*LOTS* of information, and parts of it should certainly be
of interest to socialists and communists as well. Worth a
look! The poem by Shelley in this issue was found here.
* CHAPTER 11.06: MARXISM-LENINISM-MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT RE-THOUGHT
gopher://umslvma.umsl.edu:70/00/LIBRARY/GOVDOCS/ARMYAHBS/AAHB9
/AAH90084
This document is a section from the US Army Area Handbook for
Asia. I've mentioned it here mostly as an interesting source of
information about how the enemy perceive Marxism.
* Russian and East European Network Information Center /
Soviet Archives Exhibit
http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html
http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic.html
Whether we like it or not, the socalled socialist regimes in
East Europe and the USSR will for years to come be associated
with the revolutionary movement.
Much of the material on these two servers are hostile to socialism,
but they provide interesting material in the form of replicas of
authentic archive material, and information about the current
development and history of the former stalinist regimes.
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(06) THE MAN
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Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automaton.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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(07) GENERAL INFORMATION
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Breakaway will be published as often as we have enough material.
"Enough" is at present about 40kb of text, but this might increase
if we get enough submissions. Under any circumstances we'll try to
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(Probably won't happen in your lifetime ;-)
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Editor in chief and
Sect. Of Defense candidate: Vince Lortho
Submitting Writers:
Don Karnage
Mitch Tegram
Tom Leats

Table Of Contents:
1. Table of Contents.
2. Why.
3. New Product Information.
4. Virus Research.
5. New Taglines.
7. 50+ ways to Mess with your room-mate.
8. Top-Ten List.
9. The McDonald Story
10. First issue complete.
10. Word of the month.
11. Question of the month.
12. How to find Us.
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in all the advancements they have not been able to tell the
the difference between one and greater than one.
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C:\copy *.* c:\temp
1 file(s) copied.

Why.
By Vince Lortho
Why? That's a good question. Why would someone like myself who could
be having a good life and job and family want to produce this complete
waste of time. This magazine will cause no changes in your life.
It will only waste time. You read through some of it and read more and
more then when you're done you'll have wasted fifteen minutes that could
have been spent with your children or girlfriend or boyfriend or parole
officer. But if you're like most people who BBS and travel around the
nets daily then fifteen minutes is nothing. You probably don't have a
girl/boy friend anyway. If your like me you just read the easy 179k
docs for a file that you don't need.
Most of it is just legal doctrines and disclaimers. I found a copy of
the Magna Carta in the docs for PKZIP 3.0 plus I found a nice little
trojan. How many people have heard this:
"Honey, You spend more time with that...COMPUTER than you do with me!"
"What did you say dear?"
Well this magazine is for you. This is the first issue so it's going
to suck big time but then at the end I'll put a statement that says
the next issues will be ten times better and I need authors to submit
humor. I hope no one is offended with anything in this magazine. You
can sue me but I doubt you'll get anything other than a computer and
a wall of Mt. Dew cans. OK. Enough of this, you probably stopped reading
already so who cares. Blah, blah, blah, blah....Number Nine..Number nine.
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New software developments.
Beyond 2000: new Software developments.
By Mitch Tegram
BBS Programs
BORGE BBS
Datamaster Inc.
1 Analretentive ave.
Kwigillingak, AK 99210
(800)-EXP-ENSV
BORGE BBS is a brand new software that is rumored to be 100%
hacker proof and has state-of-the-art security features.
System requirements:
Dos 6.20 or higher. 32 megs of Ram and at least a 1 megabyte disk cache.
486DX2 processor minimum. Requires 20 nodes for installation.
2.88 meg floppy. 1.4 Terabytes storage (just for BBS) May need additional
space for files. 1280x1024 SVGA graphics. 65000 ISDN Blaster Modem.
1 case Exlax and approximately 8 days for ASSIMILATION.
Features:
Installation:
(Assimilation)
Comes with automatic Floppy changer for easier installation.
Installation features PKWare's new Compression algorithm that packs 1024
bytes into 1 byte using vertical compression and virtual reality data.
Software has 1245 Floppies and Is now available in a convenient CD-ROM
format (requires 8 CD-ROM drives for minimum Operation).
Configuration:
BORGE features new DATALOC software ID recognition and locates all
Programs on HD <If theres any space left>. It then verifies if they are
registered and deletes all pirate software. Then New Assimilation(c)
technology deletes all dos files and Installs New BORGE operating system.
(Note: Configuration may require sysop to Major in Computer Software
engineering for 4 years and a bachelors in Programming)
Files:
When files are U/l'd. to the BBS the user is required to wait while the new
X-AMIN (c) Technology software system disassembles the file into code and
analyzes the Hueristics of the program. Then the program is reassembled
using new PKZips Bit smasher optimization algorithm.
Reduces file size by 70%.
Any user U/L'ing a dangerous file such as a Virus will receive a 70000 watt
charge through the Phone line thus melting System into plastic door-stop.
(Not responsible for damage to Phone Lines or international switching
satellites or Users that are not grounded)
In new version 1.01 the BBS determines if User needs a specific file
and allows transmission of file if it is deemed necessary to user based
on Logon questionnaires. This saves vital time online for People d/l
Useless files.
Security:
Users, If they pass initial phase of Logon will be asked a series of
1031 questions including SSN, Drivers License, Nationality status,
household info, Car registration, Eat habits, height, and weight.
It also requires the user to give other accounts and PW to other BBS's.
The BBS will use new users Passwords and BBS numbers and call other
BBS automatically and assess what type of board it is and examine
users mail for possible intelligence assessment.
Next phase will require one week waiting period where the computer
access's FBI mainframe and preforms Full Background examination as
well as Credit reports and Job performance. Upon verification of all
Information the user is advanced to level 2 of authorization.
the system transmits a laser optical recognition system to the users
monitor (VGA required). It scans the users retina pattern and stores it.
(Not responsible for Retina damage or Random Monitor explosions)
Once Recognition is complete the user is required to place Hand on
monitor using New Fingersoft technology and the fingerprints are stored.
Additional Features are described in:
"Cliff Notes for BORGE BBS Manuals"
Word Processors:
By Vince Lortho
Geordi Laforge supplement
for WordPerfect 6.0, Word 3.0
and Ami-pro 3.01
Paramount Entertainment Corp.
1 paramount st.
Paramount City, Ca
90210-0213
Price:($450-$700)
1-800-ALL-CASH
Overview:
The Geordi Laforge supplement will help any user spice up ones reports.
It is designed to manipulate text to make the average user feel more
intelligent. It utilizes a new method called BS-THESAURUS (c) and replaces
ordinary words with more complicated words. See below.
"The electric passes through the circuit card and then it sends a signal to
the electrode that causes the light to glow when the user turns on the
computer."
Now activate the Laforge Utility and heres the result:
"Once the impulse from the user is sensed by the tripolymer coated switching
system in the imbedded sensor matrix it activates the isolinear optic
system that results in an internal tachyon discharge to the onboard nano-
processing chip which emits EM radiation to the Electo-transthermal
inducer that cause the gaseous core to ignite and radiate."
As one can easily see that the second paragraph is of a higher technical
level and will result in people taking you seriously.
(Note: Not to be used when Reality or when facts are concerned.)
If you have a new product you want to advertise or you made up
something completely ludicrous and stupid then contact me on the
the boards located at the end of the file.
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New unusual virii discovered this year so far.
By Tom Leats
Virus Name: Farside
Alias: Sunday Paper virus
V Status: Rare
Discovery: January 1994
Symptoms: System files missing, Dos is sometimes missing and
reappears computer hangs and strange insects found
dead inside computer.
Origin: Outerspace
Eff. Length: 1 - 10,038,323 bytes
Detection method: Like you couldn't tell.
Removal Instruction: Just throw computer away or send $100 to John Mcafee
General Comments:
The Farside Virus activates on every Sunday morning at about 8:30 a.m. and
Images of fat children with glasses appear on monitor. System files are
sometimes deleted and replaced with MacIntosh Files. Computer will slow
down comparable to Tandy Color Computer with Tape Drive. Computer also
becomes infested with talking cock-roaches and Snakes.
Variations:
Garfield Virus
Same as above except that stripes are seen on monitor during Dinner hours.
FIDO VIRUS
By: Vince Lortho
Virus Name: FIDO
Alias: woof,woof; Redrover; Cajo
V status: Research
Discovery: Today 12:34 p.m.
Symptoms: Computer fetches files that are deleted and displays them.
Other symptoms see below.
Origin: Fido_net conferences
Eff Length: 100 - 101 bytes.
Detection Method: Unknown.
Removal Instructions: Shoot infected files.
General Comments:
The Fido Virus is extremely interesting. The virus doesn't do any actual
Damage to the Computer except that It is impossible to delete files.
The interesting aspect of this virus is that sends a high pitch Sound
through the PC speaker or Sound device and causes users animals to go
Crazy. A case in Cleveland had a Pit Bull that attacked and killed 17
Users of an Infected BBS. Only disinfection known is to kill animals or
tear out PC speaker and buy a bigger HD for all the files you can't
delete.
Variations:
Batcall virus.
This virus was isolated in Transilvania and causes bats to attack users
When computer is turned on. Research is Continuing.
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Question: A circle has Infinite points. How many points does
a half-circle twice as large contain?
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Heres some Taglines you'll want to steal. If you write a good one don't post
it to me. I'll steal it and put it in the mag. Keep it to yourself.
"Geordi, I cannot stun my cat."
Is it time for a colorful Metaphor?
8 of 10 people suffer hemorrhoids the other 2 enjoy them.
Your proctologist called and your head is ready.
³ºÞº³º³Û³ºÝ³ºÝ³³ <- Will "Hooked on Phonics" teach this?
Conservative: (n) Liberal who has been mugged.
"The answer to the Great Question is 42."
We need safer guns and safer bullets--Josilyn Elders
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<Place your add here.> Are you lonely and want your profile here?
Are you a software company that wants to send me a free copy of your
$500 software and want me and my expert staff to review it for you here.
Mastercard/Visa/Amex/Carta Blanche/Discover/MO/Checks/Cash/Bribes/Pay-offs.
accepted always.
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50 Ways to mess with Your Roommate
I found this file on a local BBS. I thought it was hilarious because
I used to do this stuff all the time and I lived alone. Feel free to let
me know anything you have done. I added some of my own. You can tell they're
mine because an "*" will appear before them.
1. Smoke jimson week. Do whatever comes naturally.
2. Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class.
3. Twitch a lot.
4. Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep.
5. Steal a fish tank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk
to them.
6. Become a subgenus.
7. Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.
8. Learn to levitate. While your roommate is looking away, float up
out of your seat. When s/he turns to look, fall back down and grin.
9. Speak in tongues.
10. Move your roommate's personal effects around. Start subtly. Gradually
work up to big things, and eventually glue everything s/he owns to the
ceiling.
11. Walk and talk backwards.
12. Spend all your money on Jolt cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans
in the middle of your room. Number them.
13. Spend all your money on Transformers. Play with them at night. If
your roommate says anything, tell him/her with a straight face, "They're
more than meets the eye."
14. Recite entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man,"
"Casablanca") almost inaudibly.
15. Kill roaches with a monkey wrench while playing Wagnerian arias
on a kazoo. If your roommate complains, explain that it is for your
performance art class (or hit him/her with the wrench).
16. Collect all your urine in a small jug.
17. Chain yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you
food.
18. Get a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it, turn it off
when you are.
19. Ask your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple
of weeks."
20. Buy as many back issues of Field and Stream as you can.
21. Fake a heart attack. When your roommate gets the paramedics to come,
pretend nothing happened.
22. Eat glass.
23. Smoke ball-point pens.
24. Smile. All the time.
26. Burn all your waste paper while eyeing your roommate suspiciously.
27. Hide a bunch of potato chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of a trash
can. When you get hungry, root around in the trash. Find the food, and
eat it. If your roommate empties the trash before you get hungry, demand
that s/he reimburse you.
28. Leave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk. Include a list
of grievances.
29. Paste boogers on the windows in occult patterns.
30. Shoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned,
and then look away quickly.
31. Dye all your underwear lime green.
32. Spill a lot of beer on his/her bed. Swim.
33. Bye three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet.
34. Hide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet. Accuse
him/her of stealing them.
35. Remove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents postage due.
36. Pray to Azazoth or Zoroaster. Sacrifice something nasty.
37. Whenever your roommate walks in, wait one minute then stand up.
Announce that you are going to take a shower. Do so. Keep this up for
three weeks.
38. Array thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser.
Refuse to discuss them.
39. Paint your half of the room black. Or paisley.
40. Whenever s/he is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start
with "Didja ever wonder why . . ." Be creative.
41. Shave one eyebrow.
42. Put your mattress underneath your bed. Sleep down under there and
pile your dirty clothes on the empty bed frame. If your roommate comments,
mutter "Gotta save space," twenty times while twitching violently.
43. Put horseradish in your shoes.
44. Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall. Complain
loudly that you can never find the book that you want.
45. Always flush the toilet three times.
46. Subsist entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often.
47. Buy a copy of Frankie Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka," and play
it at least 6 hours a day. If your roommate complains, explain that
it's an assignment for your primitive cultures class.
48. Give him/her an allowance.
49. Listen to radio static.
50. Open your window shades before you go to sleep each night. Close
them as soon as you wake up.
*51. Go buy some of those little wine shots (the ones that look like
real bottles like the ones you get on first class flights) Run around with
them in your hands shouting "I'm a giant, I'm a giant!"
*52. Type on your computer "All work and no play make <Your Name> a dull toy"
10000 times.
*53. Pick up the phone when it doesn't ring and start laughing and say
"He'll never know what hit him." while looking at your room-mate.
*54. Call your apartment from a payphone and ask for yourself. Do this every
hour.
*55. Start a cock-roach collection. Keep them in your room-mates socks.
*56. Plant a small tree in the toilet.
If you have one let me know.

Heres tonight's top ten list. From David Letterman's show.
Sorry, I'm a little behind
Top 10 Ways To Annoy a Flight Attendant - August 26, 1992
10. Make loud propeller noises with your mouth for duration of flight.
9. Ask for blanket, run up and down aisle pretending to be a ghost.
8. Giggle uncontrollably each time she says "duty free."
7. Maintain emergency landing position for entire flight.
6. Date her for 12 years, put her in all your movies, then start dating
her daughter.
5. Push call button. Ask for pancakes. Repeat.
4. Hypnotize seat mate into not returning tray table to original and
upright locked position.
3. Ask whether Salisbury steak can be used as flotation device.
2. Fill air sickness bag with coleslaw. Toss at movie screen.
1. Keep calling her "Mommy."
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THE MCDONALD STORY
By Don Karnage.
I went into a McDonald the other day, peckishly famished. At the register
stood a bored looking young man. "Give me one of those." I said, pointing at a
colorful picture on the menu board that showed a burger of some sort.
"Sir, I'm afraid you're going to have to leave your dog outside." he said,
eyeing King, my beautiful German Shepard/Rottweiler.
"Nonsense." I said. "I'll do no such thing. He's a loyal friend and besides,
he is hungry as well." The kid eyed King again, looked back up at me, and
went to get his manager. "Ahhh!" I thought. Good idea. Surely the manager
would know what to do.
To my horror, the manager kindly (but rather sternly) informed me that dogs,
(unless they were seeing eye dogs) were not allowed in the restaurant. I
told him, that, as a visitor to this country and a gentleman, I understood
his delemmia, but asked if he could look the other way just this once.
My British charm had no power here. He repeated that I was to leave the dog
outside. "The only dog I see." I countered, "Is you, and that damned boy you
call an employee!", and, leaping over the counter, I grabbed the man by his
tie and told him about manners and the treatment of guests in this country.
I received my food about half an hour later.
I had just about finished half of my sandwich before the police arrived.
"Damnation!" I cried, "Police that carry guns! Cowards!" I called to King
to attack one of them, whereupon one of the policeman pulled a gun and shot
King dead. I was escorted directly to jail, released after 2 days on a
thousand dollar bond, and was fined five thousand dollars.
Now I ask: Is this the kind of thing we well groomed Brits can expect from
you colonist savages?
_____________________________________________________________________
Story Written by Don Karnage. Don is an eccentric psychopath that
has decided to stalk the BBS scene and cause general mayhem. Other
than that he is a Teacher at a local nursery school and a Moonie.
He is sometimes mistaken as a lemur. 01-21-94 19:23 hours
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First Issue.
The first issue is complete. I am satisfied with the outcome even though it
stunk. It will be tens time better in the next issues and As long as people
send me humor it will continue to be your favorite publications.
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Word of the Month.
°±±²² TETRAHYMENA ²²±±°
Use this word in a sentence you would have with a priest.
The most Creative sentence will be posted next month.
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Question of the Month.
What are the lyrics to the Star trek theme in the old series?
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So you want send me mail, a comment, death threats, Dead animals in shoe
boxes or anything else. We cannot return anything unless you send us a
SASE with a reason why. Make sure the words "permission to reprint" on
anything you want posted. I will answer all data mail and most parcel mail.
I forgot to pay my PO box so I don't have my address up yet. No wonder
I haven't been getting any mail lately.
I do not have an internet account yet so hold tight internet users.
If The account isn't set up yet on a certain board then its the sysops
fault. Call a better board.
Places I can be reached:
Board Phone number: My account:
Wolverines lair (513)422-9652 USR HST DS Elric
CCS (513)424-2495 Boca 14.4 Bad Sector
Hole (513)420-9917 (node 1) Elric
(513)420-9841 (node 2)
(513)420-9956 (node 3)
J&J's BBS (513)233-0917 (5 lines) Bad Sector
Personal Payphone (513)743-9324 Ask for Piss Boy
or COCOT:
You can find me anywhere else as Elric.
I often dress up like My Hamster and hang out
at K-mart. So come and get a good buy.
If you give over $100.00 donations I will write a two page
Add-on how much of a great person you are and give you a floppy disk
Chock full o' Bad Sectors.
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STAFF
Editor in chief and
Man in the Angry Chair: Vince Lortho, Elric,
Vocus Sadri, Lord of Vabul
White Oppressor, Selectively
perceptive mental explorer.
Submitting Writers:
Carl Sagan
Anne Rice
Wesley Crusher
Shakespeare
My Mom.
Volume 0 May 1994 Number 0D
1 Blah, Blah
2 BAD SECTOR Successful.
3 Are you a GIF Freak?
4 Chat logs of a madman.
5 Day in the life...
6 top 10
7 taglines
8 credits
BAD SECTOR successful.
BAD SECTOR has been out for two months now and the success of
the mag is more than this author expected. Despite the two week delay
in the first issue for no apparent reason everything is going well.
This writer had to write or find all the articles because no one has
submitted anything.
A person known as Don Karnage (02/94; McDonald) submitted a story.
Don is also serving twelve years for flogging his parents to death
with two sticks of Beef jerky. This author had to write the other
articles with pseudonyms as to make it appear that all kinds of
authors and writers are submitting.
The first issue was slightly humorous. Having vowed to make each issue
funnier and funnier, this historian feels the second issue is quite
humorous.
The one problem that may face this magazine is possible copyright
infringement. Once and awhile a text file will come across my computer
that must be shown to the world. Having no legal knowledge or expertise
this writer feels that it's OK. If anyone read the second issue, one
will see a scoring article about the FBI and computer crime. There was
no copyright notice on the news article and believe that since the
numbers were so far off from reality that it may be considered fantasy
or fiction (see 03/94) or possibly written on another planet in a
galaxy
far, far away.
This Male Lesbian is going to make some changes around here. A
new reader format for instance and all sorts of little neatism's. A
flesch-reading ease score for every article and a Gunnings Fog index.
The grade level of each article will be displayed after each article
in the bottom left-foot corner.
A friend of this astronomer will be posting this magazine on
internet. Having no experience with internet or care this journalist
hopes that it increases the popualrity of the magazine.
This mag is a big hit in Belgium and a small villiage in Hungry. They
even translate it and put it in the paper. Two days later, however,
the villiage was hit by a freak typhoon. The people in belgium finally
figured out it was in english.
Note: The repeated references by this writer to himself as a third
person is to eliminate using "I" and because this researcher is insane.
Flesch Reading Ease: 72
Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 7
Gunnings Fog Index: 9
Are you a GIF Freak?
by Vince Lortho
Answer this questionnaire and determine if you are a GIF freak. If you are
viewing an X-rated GIF now then go to the end with a perfect score of 100.
Note: The use of GIF is symbolic of all images, Dead or Alive.
1. (10 Points) Do you have a special Hidden Directory for your GIF's?
A. Yes, I have a directory for each Letter in the alphabet. (10 Pts)
B. Yea, I have a hidden directory, Don't tell my mom! (7Pts)
C. I have a few GIFs but they are on floppy's. (5pts)
D. What's a directory? (0 pts- 0 IQ: go home and pet the dog.)
2. (15 points) When you D/L GIF's do you constantly run out of time?
A. No way. I payed 2000$ for an ISDN 65000 Blaster Modem and
An agreement with the sysop for constant 12 hour D/L. (15pts)
B. Nah, I bought a Cd-rom and have it on constant slide mode (10pts)
C. Yea, I type *.* at the D/l prompt and it hung up. (8 pts)
D. What's A GIF. I like it with Bread and tarts! (Get the gun)
3. (15 points) How many Megs of storage do you have for your GIF's?
A. I have a Tandy Color Computer. What's a MEG? (0 pts)
B. I have all my unlabeled floppies full and some of my HD full.(8pts)
C. I bought another HD for them. I luv dem pretty girles.(10 pts)
D. Hell, I bought a Bernoulli 1 Gig optical drive and
a Crey computer system with a direct power line to a nuclear
reactor. (15pts)
4. (20 points) What type of GIF's do you d/l?
A. I like GIF! It tastes good! (see Question 2 answer d)
B. Only ones with the word Must See! in it. (10pts)
C. I d/l a complete series. 00000001.GIF - 99999999.GIF. (15pts)
D. *.* (20 pts)
5. (20 pts) Do you have a life?
A. Yes, I'm a successful Business man with a Jaguar XLT (1pt)
B. Nah, I had a girlfriend once but I found out she was a
Barbee with no head. (10pts)
C. I stopped breathing in 1973 (15pts)
D. My name is PeeWee. (20pts)
6. (Bonus!) Check as many of these that apply! (5pts each)
1. I call LD to get those GIF's. I love them things.
2. I went into debt paying for adult access on the BBS's
3. I have GIF's and print them on my dot-matrix printer
and mail them as Christmas cards to my GIF support group.
4. I bought a bigger monitor so I could see it all at once.
5. I have every GIF ever made.
6. I like to take pictures of my Butt.(10 pts)
Summary of scores.
0: The minimum score is 0. If you don't have any then your exempt.
1-30: You are slightly disturbed. There may be hope yet. Delete them
all and go confess. You're not a pervert but a lonely person that
needs to get out more often. You have your Dads playboys under
your mattress.
31-50: You may be a pervert. There may be a history of GIF's in your
family. You have special times when you view them and even have
a secret drive for them. You also have adult access on the
local Bible board.
51-115: You are beyond help. Keep on D/l'ing. Nothing can stop you.
You probably have a CD-ROM and sit real close to the monitor
and pretend your in there. Your Idea of a good time is a night
with the New "Big Booties" CD-rom.
Remember Choosey Perverts Chose GIF!
F.R.E.: 82
F.K.G.L.: 4
G.F.I.: 6
Chat Logs Of a Madman with a defective pager.
by Mark Spigman
CHAT LOG OPENED 031694 23:12
The Sysop is here
UH..DO YA HAVE THE FILE DASMEASD.ZIP and FAKSMDF1.gif and
SPHABSD2.ZIP
What? Did you them it on here?
UH, I DIDN'T SEE IT. I THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHERE IT WAS.
Its in the section called Hidden files.
UH, OK. I"LL LOOK AGAIN.
bye
/q
CHAT LOG CLOSED 031694 23:14
<<Pager off>>
CHAT LOG OPENED 031794 02:42
The Sysop is here.
Hi! I just wanted to tell you that I want adult access or higher access.
<<Four Minutes go by>>
Wgat tiem is it/
What? Are you ok?
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NO CARRIER
CHAT LOG CLOSED 031794 02:47
CHAT LOG OPENED 031794 04:23
The Sysop is here.
yea. I was checkin if you were there.
hello. is anyone over there. I see you. Come on. Hello!
You are a bad sysop. This place sucks. I hate your Board. You are lame. I
am calling the feds and telling them you have kiddie porn. Where are you.
Your mom said hi. I'm going to kick you ass if you don't answer.
djasfhkjdsadsjkfhasdjkfhdsajklfhadsjkfsdjkfdsajklfgd
I'm going to wait until you answer.
/page
/s
/exit
/x
Hey how do I get out of here?
/quit
quit
bye
GET ME OUT OF HERE!
Fine i'll wait until you answer!
You are GAY! I'm Talking to the feds now. I have a capture of Your board
and you had SIMcity on here. I got a capture. Hold on I'm talking to Bruce
Williams of THE FBI. Your Busted.
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Hey man What are you doing?
You are a loser fag!
<<Time exceeded>> Logging off.
CHAT LOG CLOSED 031794 05:53
CHAT LOG OPENED 031794 12:31
The Sysop is here.
YEA i JUST GOT MY COMPUTER AND MODER AND I DPNT KNOW
HOW TO USE THE COMPUTER AND MODER. HOW DO I USE IT.
Well, Do you have a book on computers. I really can't teach you computers
over the phone.
OH, OK. WHAT BOOK SHOULD I READ?
Any book on computer basics. I don't know any offhand but look at the
library or book store.
OK. WHAT DOES TERMINAL MEAN.
uh.. Terminal is what the program is called that you are using to connect
with me. Whats the name of your terminal?
I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS.
Ok. What does it say at the bottom of the screen. The words that don't
move.
UH. HOLD ON. OK HERE THEY ARE.
TERMINATE CONNECT 2400 YOUR BBS NAME 12:37PM
Ok. your using terminate. What you want to do is look around. I have to go
and check my mail. Leave me mail if you have anymore questions.
UH, OK. I'LL LOOK AROUND ON YOUR BBS. hOW MUCH TIME DO
I HAVE?
It says 42 minutes.
I NEED SOME HELP WITH DOWNLOADING.
Ok. Hold on.
<<Please hold>>
<<I'm Back>>
Ok. You have 4 hours today. go ahead and look around. I have a special
section for downloading. just type f at the prompt and it'll take you there.
OK THANKS. I CANT STAY TOO LONG. I'M CALLING LONG
DISTANCE AND I CAN'T STAY LONG.
Ok bye
/q
CHAT LOG CLOSED 031794 12:48
CHAT LOG OPENED 031894 16:52
The Sysop is here.
Yea, My friend was on here earlier and he said you were messing with him.
Who are you and what are you talking about?
I'm Guardian. My friend is Slasher and he said you were ignoring him and
saying stuff to piss him off.
I don't know what your talking about.
Well He said he was going to call the feds and I'm going to help him. He
saw a copy of Simcity on Your BBS last week and he says that's illegal.
ANd Hes going to bust you. We captured it. You're busted.
Look, I have no idea who you are. I don't have simcity anymore. It was u/l
by someone who is no longer on this board and was deleted.
It doesn;t matter. Your busted. we have it captured. You're going down.
Ok, Send the feds in. I got some donuts. What was your freinds handle?
Slasher.
Ok hold on.
<<Please Hold>>
<<I'm Back>>
Slasher's not on this board. and neither are you.
/bye
+++ATH0
CHAT LOG CLOSED 031894 17:03
CHAT LOG OPENED 031894 20:28
The Sysop is here.
Yea, I would like adult access.
How old are you?
28 years old.
<<Hold On>>
<<I'm Back>>
According to your user info your 12.
no way I was born in 62'
That makes you 32.
Sorry I mean 1966.
Well I don't believe you one bit. You'll need to wait 6 years little boy.
You SUCK. I know someone who has millions of virus's and he'll u/l them
all.
Who?
He's a freind of mine. He'll get you good. The Bibles Den BBS gave me
adult access!
Whats your handle on there?
Its the same and I'll blacklist your BBS in our secret CIA net.
I can bust in the Credit Bureau and ruin your Credit cards and make you
life real bad. I can get into the FBI and make you a Madman. You are dead
man! No one messes with Immortal. I'll send you a floppy and you'll run
it and it'll blow up your monitor. I'll Kick You but!
I'm already a Madman. I'm a Sysop.
/bye
NO CARRIER
CHAT LOG CLOSED 031894 20:34
<<pager off>>
There is no Grammar scores or spell checking because, well, Grammatik
had a CPU attack and had to be difloppulated back to life.
A day in the life of a Government agent.
By Vince Lortho
6:30 am -Wake up. Find out wife and kids have moved out again.
6:45 am -Get out of shower. Dry off gun. Get dressed in standard black
suit. Check death threats on the Answer machine. Turn off
all 6 six alarms (Infrared, Sonic, Heat, laser, magnetic,
The club.
7:15 am -Disarm bomb in the refrigerator. Receive call from nut down
the street that thinks you killed JFK.
8:00 am -Find suitcase, Cellular phone, and three concealed guns, head to
work.
8:15 am -Get pulled over by anxious cop for going 90 in a 45. Pull out
badge, threaten cops job.
9:00 am -Arrive at work. Go through standard Retina Scans, Voice scan,
DNA scan, Aura scan, Decoder ring.
9:30 am -Call UFO group- tell them that UFO's are going to attack planet
tomorrow and throw in a couple Fake Project names.
10:00am -Meet with Boss who you call Mr. Black. Get todays
workload.
10:30am -Call local pirate BBS. Download new Games.
10:45am -Take photographs of some rich guy playing golf.
11:30am -Have interview with Counterspy Magazine. Tell them that you
and Proforce team MAJIC12 killed JFK and MLK.
12:00pm -Have lunch with the guys who did kill JFK and MLK.
1:00 pm -Install wire taps in high rise apartment building.
Spend three hours listening to three way sex call.
4:00 pm -Find some normal inter-office memos and stamp
TOP SECRET on them. Black out all lines except the date
and "Project Privacy invasion" and leave in cab.
5:00 pm -Get home. Find out wife is back and taking all the furniture.
Disarm bombs left by your kids and listen to death threats on
the machine.
6:00 pm -Call nut down the street. Say some random date and hang up.
7:00 pm -Go on "Americas Most wanted" Pretend to take calls for an hour.
Pick up $500 check. Go home.
8:00 pm -Shoot Russian Assassin in closet. Write some disinformation
and go to sleep.
F.R.E. 70
G.F.I. 7
F.K.G.L. 5
Top 10 Most Frequently Recalled Fisher Price Toys
10. My First Machete
9. Fragile Glass Vial of Mercury
8. "Dad's Little Bartender"
7. Balsawood 2000: Bargain Pogo Stick
6. The Yugo
5. Grab the Cop's Gun: A Game of Skill
4. "My Tummy's a Pincushion" Kit
3. G.I. Joe Garagiola
2. "Now It's Too Hot!!" - The Hot Plate Game
1. The Hairiest Ken Doll Ever
Limit Congress to two terms: 1 on office and 1 in jail.
Scotty. hurry. beam me" uragg^*úþœ NO CARRIER.
A)bort R)etry G)et a gun and kill it.
All great truths began as blasphemies.
Animals -- the renewable resource
Beware of geeks bearing GIFs!
Choosy perverts choose GIF.
Democratic rule: "Confusion creates jobs."
Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends.
Eliminate government waste no matter how much it costs.
ERROR 407: Program too idiotic.
Go ahead, back up to the RAM disk. I dare you.
Gun Control is being able to hit your target.
Gotta run, the cat's caught in the printer.
How many sex-restricted jobs require a penis or a vagina?
How do I set my laser printer to stun?
I'm from the government. I'm here to help you.
If it works; always tear it apart and find out why.
Iraq shot down 38 Patriot Missiles with their SCUDS.
IRS: How much did you make last year? Please remit same.
LOTTERY: Just a tax on people who are bad at math.
Multitasking allows screwing up several things at once.
Pardon my driving, I'm trying to reload on the move.
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex
REALITY.SYS corrupted -- Reboot UNIVERSE [Y,n]?
Save the plankton - eat a whale.
Tagline Lotto: ²²²²²²²²²²<- Scratch here to reveal prize.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Windows: An answer to a question nobody has ever asked.
VirusScan - "Windows found: Remove it? (Y/y)"
We all live in a yellow subroutine.
Our Official distribution sites:
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Scotts Place BBS
(513)236-9771 v.32bis 19.2 Acct: Vince Lortho
(513)237-9776 v.32bis 14.4 Note: Great BBS
(513)236-9786 v.32bis 19.2 4 CD's + 1.3 gigs
Sysop: Scott Brown
Fido: 1:110/615
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Sysop: Peter Mengel Note: Renegade
Fido: 1:110/525 alpha site.
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Sysop: Paul Sink Note: My first BBS
Fido: <<No Fido>>
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Sysop: Joseph Caplinger & Joe Jr. Note: Great BBS
Fido: <<No Fido>> First Distro site! 2.3 gigs Total
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If you give over $100.00 donations I will write a two page
Add-on how much of a great person you are and give you a floppy disk
Chock full o' Bad Sectors.
If Your BBS wants to be a distribution Site (I don't know why?) then
Email me on these fine BBS's above or try to hunt down my Phone #.
If you can get it I'll listen to ya. I only allow two BBS's in one area.
I may allow one more Dayton BBS but only if they give me Leech status on
their BBS. This magazine may be going onto the Internet. I not sure yet.
Also I may have a couple of Groupies in Penn. and Belgium. I really don't
expect this Mag to go this far. I have heard rumors that Aliens abducted
someone while reading this Mag and they have decided to invade. I contacted
Zeta Reticuli II and they told me that it was a hoax and relations with
the Democratic party are still intact.
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->PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN PAiN<-
INTRODUCTiON...
In a lot of places, the easiest way to get Caller ID Block is to dial *67
before you dial the number you wish to call. There are a few things you may
want to know about this:
1. If the number you call has the last caller call-back feature, well it is
not affected by this in the LEAST. The person hits *-whatever and your phone
is going to ring, no getting around that feature as far as I know.
2. Doing this is NOT going to stop an ANI from identifying your number and
it sure as hell wouldn't block a line trace.
3. This is not going to work in some areas.
Now, if you live in an area where dialing *67 does nothing, than you can
still have all the privacy with none of the hassle! The first chapter of
this text is going to deal with getting it if you don't have it. Then the
second chapter is going to deal with tips on calling anonymously! Read on!
ANTEDiLUViAN (PAiN ù EViL)
CHAPTER ONE...
Okay, when I first heard that there was such a thing as Caller ID Block (I
doubt the telco people call it that, it is probably something fancy), I knew
only of the *67 method. I tried *67, it didn't work in my area...well, that
was okay with me, I had wanted to talk to somebody at telco all day anyway.
I got an operator, she switched me to the billing office or something, then
a very nice and overly talkative lady asked me what she could do for me. I
told her a little story that went like this:
"Hi, I am planning on calling a number that has Caller Id and complaining
about something to somebody there. The office I am calling does not have my
number and I would much appreciate if they didn't have it so that they will
not be able to make harassing phone calls to my house once I call."
I'm not a half bad liar and lying to telco people is A-Okay in my book. So
She told me that they had a provision for this, explained what it did and
did not do, asked me if I wanted it and if I was the owner of the phone (I
was not, but I did, so I said "yes" to both questions). She then tells me
that my phone will have this Caller Id Block by the close of business the
next day. Now, was that easy or what? I don't even have to dial *67...
CHAPTER TWO...
There a couple of other things that take no real ability or effort to do
and help to make your calling a little more anonymous...
é When you call collect, don't go for the "COLLECT" when the automated voice
ask you to say one of the fallowing words...say "OPERATOR". Then when you
get the operator, tell her you would like to place an anonymous collect call
and she can handle that for you. When the person gets a bill, they only get
your AC, exchange, and the next 2 digits (XXX-XXX-XX??), this puts you into
the one in 100 range, but unless you are sending death threats to diplomats,
they will never know who you were. (as long as they didn't know your number
well and guess who you are, in which case, don't bother with this)
é Call through a PBX, but of course you realize that 1 in 50 calls are traced
(or so I heard) which means %2 of the calls are traced.
é Call through a dial-out.
é Use a diverter.
é Call from a payfone=] (this is probably safest=>)
é When you call an 800 number (try not to anyway) to hack a VMG, for God's
sake don't keep hanging up and calling back constantly for days, somebody is
bound to notice the amounts of calls and you ruin everything for everyone!
Afterword...
That was a couple of things to do (or NOT to do) that you may or may not
have thought about. The second chapter was lacking in great originality and
absent of any real detail, but so? Anyway, you also have to keep in mind who
you are calling, I believe places with ESS log your calls for 6 months or
something, but this is good for keeping annoying piss ant 12 yr old sysops
from calling you back when you just hung up in the middle of the 21 question
new user form that reaks of WaReZ pupness (wow, can you say /<-R4/] ?=])
So, thanks for reading yet another one of my files...check out my others:
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HOLONET.SHK PN-ANSBX.ZIP PN-HLMRK.ZIP
UNIX.ANT (PN-UNIX1.ZIP) PN-BEIG2.ZIP
HDISCORD.ANT PN-CARD1.ZIP PN-NEW-U.ZIP (SMALL PART)
HACKERZ!.ANT PN-DUPES.ZIP
GENIE-ID.ANT (PN-GENIE.ZIP)
AOLCERTS.ANT (PN-AOLCE.ZIP)
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These are all for your informational enrichment, not for guides to abusing
anything...disclaimers suck. ANTEDiLUViAN
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How To Contact BTW (also How To Submit):
1) Our Communications Director's InterNet address is david.shifren@asb.com
If you are sending him submissions, please send them as enclosed files, not
as the message body.
2) E-Mail me (or any other BTW member) on any BBS we call. We can definitely
be reached at BTW sites/distros/HQs.
3) We are working on a WHQ in the 516 area code with a matrix option for
submissions.
4) We are also working on obtaining a PO Box sometime soon. However, this is
nowhere near a top priority, so don't hold your breath.
5) Although I am not going to reveal our info here, anyone who has it can mail
it to me or to The Maxx.
- sUMsDos [BTW President]
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Volume II
Issue IV
ISSN: 1062-6697
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CORE is an electronic journal of poetry, fiction, essays,
and criticsm. Back issues are available via anonymous
ftp from ftp.eff.org from the /pub/journals directory,
and in the Electronic Frontier Foundation Gopher Space on
the Instant Karma Zine Stand.
Please feel free to reproduce CORE in its entirety only
throughout Cyberspace. To reproduce articles individually,
please contact the author.
Questions, submissions, and subscription requests should be
sent to core-journal@eff.org.
~~~````''''~~~
"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
T H E C Y B E R S P A C E I S S U E
_____________________________________________________________________________
Rita Rouvalis rita@village.com
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Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Ed., Copyright 1991 Oxford Univ. Press
/sestina/ <<ses"ti:n@>> n.[Prosody] a form of rhymed or unrhymed poem with
six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same
six words at the line-ends in six different sequences{foreign word}.
All of the following poems are Bout Rime Sestinas written for Bill
Knotts' Forms of Poetry graduate class at Emerson. It will become quickly
obvious which six words where assigned. To my knowledge, only one of
the poets has an e-mail address; when taken together these verses offer
us a snapshot of the ways in which the Ethersphere has leaked into the
popular consciousness.
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Once in Cyberspace
Prosper Barter
Once, when it was all worthwhile, we sat in a room,
but darker. I can see how the lava lamp stands
near the fake fire place; we sat and whispered through
the night, ringed round bunkbeds, in altered states
of bliss and light. We were the people
your mother worried on. Then there was no cyberspace.
You speak of your brother's acid, cybersapce
raves, techno pop loudspeakers for the new young, room
to dance and thrash and dress like other people --
people from the past (the sixties, *again*). It stands
to reason some of us will still be trapped there, it's a state
of mind. And you lament, on through
the night, in front of the TV, smoking. Through
the haze, you lambast your brother's cyberspace
friends: frozen, boxed to a machine, in states
of comas and worse -- no exercise, no room
for real words. I cannot accept it. It stands
for all I hate. And yet, I wonder. Do people
change so much? Are the youth as we were: people
passed out on stair wells, Maya leaping through
the window, thinking she could fly? No photo stands
on my dresser, yet the time before cyberspace
is the most real. Far from your new home, this clean room,
was joy -- "Beer stick ball": another state
of mind. My brother yelling, "He's no pitcher, " states,
"He's a belly itcher!" We were real people,
reaching out. Yet were we making room
for the new way then? Was it through
us that they came to live in cyberspace,
the land of the dead, draped about -- fakes! -- a boy stands
in the corner, dosed all day; not like Bran, who stands
out in memory, ranting on the states
of love in Asia. "Youth are lost in cyberspace".
But then again, I remember certain people --
you and I, Kevin -- who smoked and drank through
the night, the day, ending up in a cellar room
watching the TV that stands there. Two people
lost in states of -- Pee Wee's Playhouse -- silent through
the cyberspace haze (even then) in that room.
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States of Mind
Jean Mauriello
Unheard, the ex-husband creeps into her room
after breaking in with a baseball bat. He stands
there; she screams, "How did you ever get through
security, up the alley wall, and crawl in?" He grins, and states,
"Walls are never too high, and people
never pay attention. Like cyberspace,
the alley behind the wall led me here. The cyberspace
made me do it, like a magnet drew me in this room
and brought me to you. The people
you'd be here, and this bat stands
in my hand as a tribute to you. The states
where I've whirled and passed through
since you left me, everything I've been through
has been for you, and for cyberspace,
sweet cyberspace. His face as he states
these foolish words shines in this room
as she in fear watches, in fear stands
and says, "Get out of here. I hate people
like you. You're crazy, nuts, loco -- people
like you wave bates, crawl through
bathroom windows, why? He stands
taller, silenced. She insists, "Cyberspace
is no excuse. You're rude. This is my room.
I want you out of here. He states
his displeasure -- he has come so far for her, through states
She doesn't care -- she worries that the people
would wonder why he was in her room
after the divorce they'd been through
and all that. No room for him and cyberspace.
She refers him to newspaper stands
so that he can get in touch. He stands
another moment before her, the states
he's travelled in his eyes. "The cyberspace
made me do it," he says again, "The people
I met who understood me and helped me through
the emptiness that led me back to this room.
She stands and watches him leave, the people
from all the states are expecting his return, through
the cyberspace, crawling from her room.
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A Division of Walls and Cyberspace
Jean-Pierre Cuello
Silence locks Joshua within his room,
surrounded by computer and printer stands,
clicking keyboards and humming laser printer, through
which he scans the alternatives states
of existing, without the stress of those people
who neither undersand nor believe cyberspace
is real. How could anyone doubt cyberspace
as the new manifest destiny? from the room
next door, heard are shrieks and bitching of those people.
Distracted for a moment, Joshua stands
near the wall and listens as some woman states,
"Just pack up your 12-pack VCR and walk on through
my life. I'm tired of fast-forwarding through
the good times and rewinding..." Bless cyberspace
for its muted voice and objective states
of expression. There is no more room
for this future; drywall stands
between his beliefs and the people
who have no need of technoids, people
whose windows are LCD screens, seeing through
to the other side of scrolls and icons. He stands
tranquilly in the grasp of cyberspace;
his mind exceeds any computer head room
or Zen-ish transcendental states
of mind. The only fear he knows, he states
on his MAC screen as, "Error." Lines the people
he's loved along one wall of his room,
bit-mapped pictures of Josh's life through
which only one dared to reach out into cyberspace.
Her reach fell short and now a new wall stands
between the real World which somehow stands
for something other than what his manual states.
Physical parameters restrict cyberspace
only in as much as what people,
themselves, restrain their wishes and wants through
the confinements of any physical room;
only an imagined wall stands between people
and their ink-mapped states. Joshua lives on, through
infinite cyberspace, his silent room.
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Welcome To Their World
Joshua Davidson
Lots of little stacks become fewer big ones to make room
for the new universe that's to fit on my desk. It stands
to reason that the old ways be pushed aside, their time is through.
Now I will wander electronically through my states
of confusion, before now at least bounded by my desk. People
say, "Enjoy the 23rd Century!" As I zoom off into cyberspace
with the flick of a button, and a beep. "Welcome to Cyberspace!
Beep boop. Please allow me to show you your room.
Don't worry about noise or embarassment, there are no people
here, just their digitized thoughts." It's no time to take stands,
the age is upon me. Hell, even Time Magazine states,
in so many words, that the days of real virtue are through.
But reports of my surprise are greastly exaggerated. I see through
this: as I sit at my desk, I'm also travelling through cyberspace,
not subject to any boundaries -- their are no cities or states
(other than those of being), just a universe right in my room,
which used to be earth-bound by papers and books where stands
now a machine, speaking a modem idiom to other virtual people.
Internet, modems, acid house, brain implants. Where do people
come up with this stuff? I mean, it's intriguing to get through
to 8 gazillion people at once, but something this big stands
for something, or maybe nothing. But what do I do in cyberspace?
Maybe my old-fashioned pen-and-ink brain just doesn't have room
for another reality, virtual or not. How do I get into these states?
So far this whole thing seems pretty much confined to the States,
but can you imagine what sort of virtuous reality bad people
might create? I can here them now: "There just ain't enough room
in this network for the 8 gazillion of us, so I'm through
putting up with the rest of you, you're invading my cyberspace
and I want you out now, Or I'll delete ya where ya stands."
I'm sure that I'll be just a spectator way up in the stands,
never really knowing what's going on. Even the United States
President knows more than I, as he launches the nation into cyberspace.
Perhaps there are others like me, digitally dysfunctional people
hoping only for some electronic mercy, trying to get through
life tangled in an internet. Gosh, I hope there's room
for us.. As it stands now, most ordinary people
can't name the states. Maybe I can be led through
this mysterious cyberspace, like Dante by Virgil -- if there's room.
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Dream
Ricia Anne Chansky
I rise from slumber to search my room
For means to hold a dream where our nation stands
For more than money and taxes and greed, and through
The land the new rose up. In each of the states
All kinds, all colors all creeds, all people
Came together in a new land: Cyberspace.
In this land without history, called Cyberspace,
The world as a whole could find plenty of room
To comfortably raise and support its people.
There a word of promise isn't a lie, it stands
As the word of truth. Even varied states
Of mind agree, and it becomes easy to follow through;
Because what is an idea if it's not seen through?
Within a human creation lays Cyberspace,
Unseeing of our looks, our body's states.
Conscious only of its yearning to fill the room,
To force us to take a leap from the stands
And into an arena filled with other people.
but the people, they will resist because people
Have for so long been casually defiled through
The ways in which our world works and what it stands
To give; yet takes. Now someone gives us Cyberspace.
The cursor is a doorway to a room,
A way out of a room, into altered states.
I dreamt people permanently leaving The States,
Bowing down before terminals (as people
Tend to do) and freely worshipping their new room.
They have been give a promise; kept through
The magic of, the miracle of Cyberspace.
Find a computer and alter life as it stands.
If all people were to jump on the stands
And pledge their allegiance to their new states
Of mind, dream would be reality -- in Cyberspace.
But sleep returns and I've no pencil for the people.
They'll never find the door, let alone a way through
The door, if they can't imagine the room.
Our nation for which it stands, people divided by people,
ignorant of higher states, denied a way through
to Cyberspace; will one day, see the room.
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Stolen Room
Deirdre O-Neill
For years now, we've been circling in this room
then again, its been no time, and the room stands
silent and undisturbed. We see each other through
the dusty lenses of too long, not long enough. States
of mind constantly exchange like the fire people
in circus duos toss back and forth. Cyberspace
was a place for couples long before this cyberspace
vogue. A voyeur, like Madonna, came into our room
and stole our show, our ways, our House. The people
in the cyberspace were couples turning handstands,
or dancing in that I-know-your-info way. Such states
were for insiders, the ones who'd been together through
"it". Whatever the hell that might be. Talking through
less molecules than most people, the cyberspace
then was the private virtual reality states
for long, longtime companions: the room
in which we knew everything. Cyberspace stands
for something else now, just the way people
refer to Vogue-ing or House. Hip people
think they know it. Like a step to get down or through
somehow some kind of electric slide. Madonna stands
to get millions and fame in cyberspace
for stealing from the House dancers. Our room
stands to dissolve or burst with all these states
of information free-floating like states
of depression, voguers without a ball, or people
to watch them and clap. See how silent the room
is with all these people knowing everything? Through
all this networking the truth gets lost. Cyberspace
is no longer a place name, something that stands
for knowing someone hard and all the way. It stands
to lose its meaning entirely. A friend states
she proved it by naming her dog "Cyberspace".
See now its not a place at all, but a puppy. People
stare when she calls for her. Through
my computer, I'm calling on you to find room
for a cyberspace that stands for just two people,
a word that states its for partners who've been through
the net. Make cyberspace a kind and well-worn room.
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Empty of why's this room
Diane M. Joao
Do we know how turns to hesitation leave room
for questions, to wonder aloud what stands
between this sex wall sex? We, having been through
such things, know. The questions, like various states
of undress, are comical. Funny, we're people
not quite human enough to replace cyberspace
with touch, to reinvent compassions. Cyberspace,
you've often said, is empty jargon. What room
have you allowed me then, that people
like ourselves must compensate? As it stands,
I've no answers now. A kiss, perhaps, states
much more clearly what we've been through,
Though who's to know for sure? But still through
it all, the all that's been, cyberspace
is constant. What if one day it states
that all's enough, what then? This room
we rest in now, a kiss that stands
between us, knows the sort of people
we've become. We remember people,
(for lack of a better word,) from our pasts: through
the love of she or he, bare witness stands
of who we were, and are. Come cyberspace:
the what when where and how? This room's
too small for miracles. What states
of mind are we in now? Our sex wall states
the obvious: you and I are hungry people
starving for some slight of touch. There's room
enough for two in here. The words through
you come into me. A word like cyberspace --
that's it. Your definition. So it stands
then. We'll kiss. We will take the stands
we've measured through the years. Various states
of discontent, perhaps, but more. Cyberspace
has filled us both with adjectives and verbs. People
like us contain ourselves in words. Through
it all, perhaps one kiss will make room
for a couple more. As it stands, we're people.
The states we've earned by living through
this noun: cyberspace. *Empty of why's this room.*
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Is There Enough Room for Cyberspace?
Frank Wardega
Although some people might think there is enough room
for all these computer generated intellectuals, something stands
in their way: Me. I am absolutely through
with all these idiots, the United States
is full of these ridiculous people
who want us all to go to cyberspace
with them. Well I don't want to go to cyberspace,
mostly because it's for geeks who sit in a room,
peek into the minds of other people
that they don't even know. What stands
in the way of these punks taking over the whole United States
and running us all through
the wringer? And then through
the wash as well. Cyberspace,
who needs it? I'm in the happiest of states
alone. I don't need to look into someone's room
and poke into their head. The stands
I've taken before are nothing -- how I feel about these people
who want to log-on with so many other people
is almost enough to make me go through
the roof. It seems like a bunch of one night stands
with other peoples' brains. A pseudo-orgy in cyberspace?
Well, I wish they would all just get a room.
It will be along time before these United States
become just a maze of bits and bytes. Oh the states
these worries send me to! I tell you. We're all people
here, we can't forget that. Although there may be room
for everyone's terminals, we've got to get it through
our heads that our space is not cyberspace
its' just space, it stands
for nothing. It just is. While cyberspace stands
for everything that is wrong with the United States
these days. OK. You might say that cyberspace
can't be that bad. After all some people
use it occasionally and seem to get through
the day with no problem. but we'll have to make room
for the stands that these crazy people
are gonna take. Altered states of consciousness through
my space? your space? cyberspace? How we gonna make room?
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Bring on the Band
Jason Barr
I was playing the skin flute in my room.
the music was loud, the band stands
were in my hands. I let the tunes roam through
my country, my body: plains, cities; all states
represented in dance halls in my veins. People
swaying and stomping. My brain, a cyberspace,
awash in a techo rave. This cyberspace
was DJ to the beats of the flesh. Every room
in this nation heard the horns. The cells, the people
of this body were shouting, "United stands
each member. We will fight for these states
no matter what punishment we go through.
You see, men can come and romp through
this door; try to end this jive, drain this cyberspace
of its wave, but this body's motto states,
'When the bands jamming in this room
come hell or high water, the hand stands
no interruption. People may come and people
may go, but when the gettin's good people
just don't know.'" Suddenly! I hear banging through
my door. My irate mother shouts as she stands,
"What's going on? This is not cyberspace
where you can do anything. Who's in your room?
You're having too much fun for one." she states.
In fear, the party quickly ends; all my states
drained from my body -- the people
return to their cells, and into the room
comes my mother, she slowly walks through.
"I can hear you in the basement." My book, _Cyberspace:
The Final Frontier_, lays on the floor. She stands
above me as I lay on my bed. She stands
little noise in her house. "I'm warning you," she states,
"I hear that again; you're out. Pick your Cyberspace
book off the floor. I'm expecting some people
for dinner tonight so when you're through
with your little party, CLEAN YOUR ROOM!"
She leaves; the band stands begin to play. "Those people
coming to dinner," my mind states, "Should come through
this cyberspace and join the party in my room."
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My Friend Nate Explains Virtual Reality
Michael Henry
My friend Nate takes up a lot of room,
and he reads alot. Over 6'4" he stands.
He's got James Joyce pecs and he snores so loud. Through
concrete you can hear it. It's a condition, he states,
named apnea. Like narcolepsy, tons of people
have it, maybe millions. Now he's reading _Cyberspace
and Nirvana_, by Tim Leary. He wrote _Cyberspace_
because it's "THE drug of the next century. We need room
to blow boundaries, smash time as we know it... People
are going to become amalgamated with stands
of microchips with Intel Inside." Leary states
in Part 5, "Safe Sex with Cyborg Helmets" (I hear this through
Nate's re-telling, his gruff, voice echoing through
his cave-like nostrils), that in our heads, cyberspace
will have a plug-in outlet to join you with states
of ecstasy, endorphins, and room
after room of electronic orgies. This stands
as a major breakthrough, says Nate, for all people
worldwide. If you're one of many depressed people,
forget your pain and plug into a vast menu through
which you might enjoy Bar-BQ ribs (Nate's favorite). Nate stands
up, scratches his armpit, and adds, "Cyberspace
is coming, and whether you like it or not, make room
because its already kind of sheik in the states
of California and Texas. It's in these states
because of demand" Nate says, yawning. People
will toss out their shrinks and TV's, and set up a room
with a special chair, black walls and carpet, and through
a glass sphere and temp controls, cyberspace
will rock their world. Just think of the stands
of diskettes with the worlds you can play in; these stands
will have stuff like, KILL YOUR BOSS, BUNJI JUMP, STATES
OF UNDRESS, YOU ARE THE HULK, CYBERSPACE
LAS VEGAS, where you play Blackjack against people
like James Bond and Don Trump. There's also, I'M THROUGH
WITH YOU -- VIRTUAL DIVORCE. Leary writes that "there's room
for grand stands full of users. They'll be common people
from all states in the US. It's their ideas through
which Cyberspace will expand God's Heavenly Room."
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Sestina In Two Voices
Virgina Crawford
It's when we're alone and the room
is dark, when the blue reflection stands
on the floor and I can see you through
this blueness, as it progresses through states
of light and depth, two people
curled on the bed in the cyberspace
of each other's heads. Their cyberspace
expands to include the whole room,
the bed, and shadows and people,
all seeped in this night's blue glow that stands
watch as they grow in the marked states
of their engagement. Through
skin, souls feel as easily as the light comes through
the window and dances around the blue cyberspace
of the room. Fingering his full lip she states
that she can't leave the things she's felt in this room,
where they screamed and too their stands,
then settled like civilized people.
And when we had to divide, be two people,
we cried and wondered how we'd get through.
The house where they lived still stands
somewhere between cyberspace
and their dreams where there's enough room
to write without being harassed by the State's
lawyers who haggle until he or she states
what they want to hear. These aren't fair people
who hold us in a cell, a tiny room
where we can't breathe, light can't get through
the window cracks. don't even think of cyberspace.
I don't believe what I see on the stands.
I don't think the country stands
for what it used to, take me from these States,
I need more than the narrow cyberspace
of this place to survive, these people
suck and slurp me down, drag me through
hell instead o fleaving me to our room
where I used to write, where blue stands and we're
the people
in constant states of eclipse, ascending through,
to the whole cyberspace of our room.
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A Less Crowded House
J.D. Nelson
Sometimes I don't think there's enough room
in this house. If one of my sons stands
in front of the Nintendo, the other can't see through
him, and soon they're both yelling. One states
"I was here first," and it seems like people
in a brick Cape clog each other's cyberspace.
My husband went in search of his own cyberspace
two years ago, saying he needed more room
to find himself, and there were so many people
here, he couldn't think straight. It stands
to reason that I got pissed, and when he now states
that he wants to come home, I say no, I'm through
with hoping he and I still have a chance. Through
seven years of marriage, he lived in cyberspace,
I think, never able to see my states
of distress increase when the room
between us widened. Now he stands
before me, proclaiming that two people
who love each other should be together; people
don't need to be alone, and it's through
my own fault if I continue to take these stands:
not allowing him back into my cyberspace,
and insisting he find the time to make some room
for change. You see, I was sick of the drunken states
he used to come home in, and that states'
ability to hurt all the people
closest to him, the ones who room
in this house now. It could only be through
some miracle of cyberspace
proportions that this family will be saved. My son stands
by his father, but I make my stands
on the principle that I can't tolerate some states.
My husband lost in cyberspace,
floating on a beer high with people
he grew up with, traveling through
all the bars in town, leaves me no room.
My husband stands to lose allthe people
whom he states he loves themost; through
cyberspace he'll drift while I make my own room.
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"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
T H E C Y B E R S P A C E I S S U E
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Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Ed., Copyright 1991 Oxford Univ. Press
/sestina/ <<ses"ti:n@>> n.[Prosody] a form of rhymed or unrhymed poem with
six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same
six words at the line-ends in six different sequences{foreign word}.
All of the following poems are Bout Rime Sestinas written for Bill
Knotts' Forms of Poetry graduate class at Emerson. It will become quickly
obvious which six words where assigned. To my knowledge, only one of
the poets has an e-mail address; when taken together these verses offer
us a snapshot of the ways in which the Ethersphere has leaked into the
popular consciousness.
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Once in Cyberspace
Prosper Barter
Once, when it was all worthwhile, we sat in a room,
but darker. I can see how the lava lamp stands
near the fake fire place; we sat and whispered through
the night, ringed round bunkbeds, in altered states
of bliss and light. We were the people
your mother worried on. Then there was no cyberspace.
You speak of your brother's acid, cybersapce
raves, techno pop loudspeakers for the new young, room
to dance and thrash and dress like other people --
people from the past (the sixties, *again*). It stands
to reason some of us will still be trapped there, it's a state
of mind. And you lament, on through
the night, in front of the TV, smoking. Through
the haze, you lambast your brother's cyberspace
friends: frozen, boxed to a machine, in states
of comas and worse -- no exercise, no room
for real words. I cannot accept it. It stands
for all I hate. And yet, I wonder. Do people
change so much? Are the youth as we were: people
passed on on stair wells, Maya leaping through
the window, thinking she could fly? No photo stands
on my dresser, yet the time before cyberspace
is the most real. Far from your new home, this clean room,
was joy -- "Beer stick ball": another state
of mind. My brother yelling, "He's no pitcher, " states,
"He's a belly itcher!" We were real people,
reaching out. Yet were we making room
for the new way then? Was it through
us that they came to live in cyberspace,
the land of the dead, draped about -- fakes! -- a boy stands
in the corner, dosed all day; not like Bran, who stands
out in memory, ranting on the states
of love in Asia. "Youth are lost in cyberspace".
But then again, I remember certain people --
you and I, Kevin -- who smoked and drank through
the night, the day, ending up in a cellar room
watching the TV that stands there. Two people
lost in states of -- Pee Wee's Playhouse -- silent through
the cyberspace haze (even then) in that room.
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States of Mind
Jean Mauriello
Unheard, the ex-husband creeps into her room
after breaking in with a baseball bat. He stands
there; she screams, "How did you ever get through
security, up the alley wall, and crawl in?" He grins, and states,
"Walls are never too high, and people
never pay attention. Like cyberspace,
the alley behind the wall led me here. The cyberspace
made me do it, like a magnet drew me in this room
and brought me to you. The people
you'd be here, and this bat stands
in my hand as a tribute to you. The states
where I've whirled and passed through
since you left me, everything I've been through
has been for you, and for cyberspace,
sweet cyberspace. His face as he states
these foolish words shines in this room
as she in fear watches, in fear stands
and says, "Get out of here. I hate people
like you. You're crazy, nuts, loco -- people
like you wave bates, crawl through
bathroom windows, why? He stands
taller, silenced. She insists, "Cyberspace
is no excuse. You're rude. This is my room.
I want you out of here. He states
his displeasure -- he has come so far for her, through states
She doesn't care -- she worries that the people
would wonder why he was in her room
after the divorce they'd been through
and all that. No room for him and cyberspace.
She refers him to newspaper stands
so that he can get in touch. He stands
another moment before her, the states
he's travelled in his eyes. "The cyberspace
made me do it," he says again, "The people
I met who understood me and helped me through
the emptiness that led me back to this room.
She stands and watches him leave, the people
from all the states are expecting his return, through
the cyberspace, crawling from her room.
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A Division of Walls and Cyberspace
Jean-Pierre Cuello
Silence locks Joshua within his room,
surrounded by computer and printer stands,
clicking keyboards and humming laser printer, through
which he scans the alternatives states
of existing, without the stress of those people
who neither undersand nor believe cyberspace
is real. How could anyone doubt cyberspace
as the new manifest destiny? from the room
next door, heard are shrieks and bitching of those people.
Distracted for a moment, Joshua stands
near the wall and listens as some woman states,
"Just pack up your 12-pack VCR and walk on through
my life. I'm tired of fast-forwarding through
the good times and rewinding..." Bless cyberspace
for its muted voice and objective states
of expression. There is no more room
for this future; drywall stands
between his beliefs and the people
who have no need of technoids, people
whose windows are LCD screens, seeing through
to the other side of scrolls and icons. He stands
tranquilly in the grasp of cyberspace;
his mind exceeds any computer head room
or Zen-ish transcendental states
of mind. The only fear he knows, he states
on his MAC screen as, "Error." Lines the people
he's loved along one wall of his room,
bit-mapped pictures of Josh's life through
which only one dared to reach out into cyberspace.
Her reach fell short and now a new wall stands
between the real World which somehow stands
for something other than what his manual states.
Physical parameters restrict cyberspace
only in as much as what people,
themselves, restrain their wishes and wants through
the confinements of any physical room;
only an imagined wall stands between people
and their ink-mapped states. Joshua lives on, through
infinite cyberspace, his silent room.
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Welcome To Their World
Joshua Davidson
Lots of little stacks become fewer big ones to make room
for the new universe that's to fit on my desk. It stands
to reason that the old ways be pushed aside, their time is through.
Now I will wander electronically through my states
of confusion, before now at least bounded by my desk. People
say, "Enjoy the 23rd Century!" As I zoom off into cyberspace
with the flick of a button, and a beep. "Welcome to Cyberspace!
Beep boop. Please allow me to show you your room.
Don't worry about noise or embarassment, there are no people
here, just their digitized thoughts." It's no time to take stands,
the age is upon me. Hell, even Time Magazine states,
in so many words, that the days of real virtue are through.
But reports of my surprise are greastly exaggerated. I see through
this: as I sit at my desk, I'm also travelling through cyberspace,
not subject to any boundaries -- their are no cities or states
(other than those of being), just a universe right in my room,
which used to be earth-bound by papers and books where stands
now a machine, speaking a modem idiom to other virtual people.
Internet, modems, acid house, brain implants. Where do people
come up with this stuff? I mean, it's intriguing to get through
to 8 gazillion people at once, but something this big stands
for something, or maybe nothing. But what do I do in cyberspace?
Maybe my old-fashioned pen-and-ink brain just doesn't have room
for another reality, virtual or not. How do I get into these states?
So far this whole thing seems pretty much confined to the States,
but can you imagine what sort of virtuous reality bad people
might create? I can here them now: "There just ain't enough room
in this network for the 8 gazillion of us, so I'm through
putting up with the rest of you, you're invading my cyberspace
and I want you out now, Or I'll delete ya where ya stands."
I'm sure that I'll be just a spectator way up in the stands,
never really knowing what's going on. Even the United States
President knows more than I, as he launches the nation into cyberspace.
Perhaps there are others like me, digitally dysfunctional people
hoping only for some electronic mercy, trying to get through
life tangled in an internet. Gosh, I hope there's room
for us.. As it stands now, most ordinary people
can't name the states. Maybe I can be led through
this mysterious cyberspace, like Dante by Virgil -- if there's room.
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Dream
Ricia Anne Chansky
I rise from slumber to search my room
For means to hold a dream where our nation stands
For more than money and taxes and greed, and through
The land the new rose up. In each of the states
All kinds, all colors all creeds, all people
Came together in a new land: Cyberspace.
In this land without history, called Cyberspace,
The world as a whole could find plenty of room
To comfortably raise and support its people.
There a word of promise isn't a lie, it stands
As the word of truth. Even varied states
Of mind agree, and it becomes easy to follow through;
Because what is an idea if it's not seen through?
Within a human creation lays Cyberspace,
Unseeing of our looks, our body's states.
Conscious only of its yearning to fill the room,
To force us to take a leap from the stands
And into an arena filled with other people.
but the people, they will resist because people
Have for so long been casually defiled through
The ways in which our world works and what it stands
To give; yet takes. Now someone gives us Cyberspace.
The cursor is a doorway to a room,
A way out of a room, into altered states.
I dreamt people permanently leaving The States,
Bowing down before terminals (as people
Tend to do) and freely worshipping their new room.
They have been give a promise; kept through
The magic of, the miracle of Cyberspace.
Find a computer and alter life as it stands.
If all people were to jump on the stands
And pledge their allegiance to their new states
Of mind, dream would be reality -- in Cyberspace.
But sleep returns and I've no pencil for the people.
They'll never find the door, let alone a way through
The door, if they can't imagine the room.
Our nation for which it stands, people divided by people,
ignorant of higher states, denied a way through
to Cyberspace; will one day, see the room.
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Stolen Room
Deirdre O-Neill
For years now, we've been circling in this room
then again, its been no time, and the room stands
silent and undisturbed. We see each other through
the dusty lenses of too long, not long enough. States
of mind constantly exchange like the fire people
in circus duos toss back and forth. Cyberspace
was a place for couples long before this cyberspace
vogue. A voyeur, like Madonna, came into our room
and stole our show, our ways, our House. The people
in the cyberspace were couples turning handstands,
or dancing in that I-know-your-info way. Such states
were for insiders, the ones who'd been together through
"it". Whatever the hell that might be. Talking through
less molecules than most people, the cyberspace
then was the private virtual reality states
for long, longtime companions: the room
in which we knew everything. Cyberspace stands
for something else now, just the way people
refer to Vogue-ing or House. Hip people
think they know it. Like a step to get down or through
somehow some kind of electric slide. Madonna stands
to get millions and fame in cyberspace
for stealing from the House dancers. Our room
stands to dissolve or burst with all these states
of information free-floating like states
of depression, voguers without a ball, or people
to watch them and clap. See how silent the room
is with all these people knowing everything? Through
all this networking the truth gets lost. Cyberspace
is no longer a place name, something that stands
for knowing someone hard and all the way. It stands
to lose its meaning entirely. A friend states
she proved it by naming her dog "Cyberspace".
See now its not a place at all, but a puppy. People
stare when she calls for her. Through
my computer, I'm calling on you to find room
for a cyberspace that stands for just two people,
a word that states its for partners who've been through
the net. Make cyberspace a kind and well-worn room.
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Empty of why's this room
Diane M. Joao
Do we know how turns to hesitation leave room
for questions, to wonder aloud what stands
between this sex wall sex? We, having been through
such things, know. The questions, like various states
of undress, are comical. Funny, we're people
not quite human enough to replace cyberspace
with touch, to reinvent compassions. Cyberspace,
you've often said, is empty jargon. What room
have you allowed me then, that people
like ourselves must compensate? As it stands,
I've no answers now. A kiss, perhaps, states
much more clearly what we've been through,
Though who's to know for sure? But still through
it all, the all that's been, cyberspace
is constant. What if one day it states
that all's enough, what then? This room
we rest in now, a kiss that stands
between us, knows the sort of people
we've become. We remember people,
(for lack of a better word,) from our pasts: through
the love of she or he, bare witness stands
of who we were, and are. Come cyberspace:
the what when where and how? This room's
too small for miracles. What states
of mind are we in now? Our sex wall states
the obvious: you and I are hungry people
starving for some slight of touch. There's room
enough for two in here. The words through
you come into me. A word like cyberspace --
that's it. Your definition. So it stands
then. We'll kiss. We will take the stands
we've measured through the years. Various states
of discontent, perhaps, but more. Cyberspace
has filled us both with adjectives and verbs. People
like us contain ourselves in words. Through
it all, perhaps one kiss will make room
for a couple more. As it stands, we're people.
The states we've earned by living through
this noun: cyberspace. *Empty of why's this room.*
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Is There Enough Room for Cyberspace?
Frank Wardega
Although some people might think there is enough room
for all these computer generated intellectuals, something stands
in their way: Me. I am absolutely through
with all these idiots, the United States
is full of these ridiculous people
who want us all to go to cyberspace
with them. Well I don't want to go to cyberspace,
mostly because it's for geeks who sit in a room,
peek into the minds of other people
that they don't even know. What stands
in the way of these punks taking over the whole United States
and running us all through
the wringer? And then through
the wash as well. Cyberspace,
who needs it? I'm in the happiest of states
alone. I don't need to look into someone's room
and poke into their head. The stands
I've taken before are nothing -- how I feel about these people
who want to log-on with so many other people
is almost enough to make me go through
the roof. It seems like a bunch of one night stands
with other peoples' brains. A pseudo-orgy in cyberspace?
Well, I wish they would all just get a room.
It will be along time before these United States
become just a maze of bits and bytes. Oh the states
these worries send me to! I tell you. We're all people
here, we can't forget that. Although there may be room
for everyone's terminals, we've got to get it through
our heads that our space is not cyberspace
its' just space, it stands
for nothing. It just is. While cyberspace stands
for everything that is wrong with the United States
these days. OK. You might say that cyberspace
can't be that bad. After all some people
use it occasionally and seem to get through
the day with no problem. but we'll have to make room
for the stands that these crazy people
are gonna take. Altered states of consciousness through
my space? your space? cyberspace? How we gonna make room?
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Bring on the Band
Jason Barr
I was playing the skin flute in my room.
the music was loud, the band stands
were in my hands. I let the tunes roam through
my country, my body: plains, cities; all states
represented in dance halls in my veins. People
swaying and stomping. My brain, a cyberspace,
awash in a techo rave. This cyberspace
was DJ to the beats of the flesh. Every room
in this nation heard the horns. The cells, the people
of this body were shouting, "United stands
each member. We will fight for these states
no matter what punishment we go through.
You see, men can come and romp through
this door; try to end this jive, drain this cyberspace
of its wave, but this body's motto states,
'When the bands jamming in this room
come hell or high water, the hand stands
no interruption. People may come and people
may go, but when the gettin's good people
just don't know.'" Suddenly! I hear banging through
my door. My irate mother shouts as she stands,
"What's going on? This is not cyberspace
where you can do anything. Who's in your room?
You're having too much fun for one." she states.
In fear, the party quickly ends; all my states
drained from my body -- the people
return to their cells, and into the room
comes my mother, she slowly walks through.
"I can hear you in the basement." My book, _Cyberspace:
The Final Frontier_, lays on the floor. She stands
above me as I lay on my bed. She stands
little noise in her house. "I'm warning you," she states,
"I hear that again; you're out. Pick your Cyberspace
book off the floor. I'm expecting some people
for dinner tonight so when you're through
with your little party, CLEAN YOUR ROOM!"
She leaves; the band stands begin to play. "Those people
coming to dinner," my mind states, "Should come through
this cyberspace and join the party in my room."
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My Friend Nate Explains Virtual Reality
Michael Henry
My friend Nate takes up a lot of room,
and he reads alot. Over 6'4" he stands.
He's got James Joyce pecs and he snores so loud. Through
concrete you can hear it. It's a condition, he states,
named apnea. Like narcolepsy, tons of people
have it, maybe millions. Now he's reading _Cyberspace
and Nirvana_, by Tim Lary. He wrote _Cyberspace_
because it's "THE drug of the next century. We need room
to blow boundaries, smash time as we know it... People
are going to become amalgamated with stands
of microchips with Intel Inside." Leary states
in Part 5, "Safe Sex with Cyborg Helmets" (I hear this through
Nate's re-telling, his gruff, voice echoing through
his cave-like nostrils), that in our heads, cyberspace
will have a plug-in outlet to join you with states
of ecstasy, endorphins, and room
after room of electronic orgies. This stands
as a major breakthrough, says Nate, for all people
worldwide. If you're one of many depressed people,
forget your pain and plug into a vast menu through
which you might enjoy Bar-BQ ribs (Nate's favorite). Nate stands
up, scratches his armpit, and adds, "Cyberspace
is coming, and whether you like it or not, make room
because its already kind of sheik in the states
of California and Texas. It's in these states
because of demand" Nate says, yawning. People
will toss out their shrinks and TV's, and set up a room
with a special chair, black walls and carpet, and through
a glass sphere and temp controls, cyberspace
will rock their world. Just think of the stands
of diskettes with the worlds you can play in; these stands
will have stuff like, KILL YOUR BOSS, BUNJI JUMP, STATES
OF UNDRESS, YOU ARE THE HULK, CYBERSPACE
LAS VEGAS, where you play Blackjack against people
like James Bond and Don Trump. There's also, I'M THROUGH
WITH YOU -- VIRTUAL DIVORCE. Leary writes that "there's room
for grand stands full of users. They'll be common people
from all states in the US. It's their ideas through
which Cyberspace will expand God's Heavenly Room."
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Sestina In Two Voices
Virgina Crawford
It's when we're alone and the room
is dark, when the blue reflection stands
on the floor and I can see you through
this blueness, as it progresses through states
of light and depth, two people
curled on the bed in the cyberspace
of each other's heads. Their cyberspace
expands to include the whole room,
the bed, and shadows and people,
all seeped in this night's blue glow that stands
watch as they grow in the marked states
of their engagement. Through
skin, souls feel as easily as the light comes through
the window and dances around the blue cyberspace
of the room. Fingering his full lip she states
that she can't leave the things she's felt in this room,
where they screamed and too their stands,
then settled like civilized people.
And when we had to divide, be two people,
we cried and wondered how we'd get through.
The house where they lived still stands
somewhere between cyberspace
and their dreams where there's enough room
to write without being harassed by the State's
lawyers who haggle until he or she states
what they want to hear. These aren't fair people
who hold us in a cell, a tiny room
where we can't breathe, light can't get through
the window cracks. don't even think of cyberspace.
I don't believe what I see on the stands.
I don't think the country stands
for what it used to, take me from these States,
I need more than the narrow cyberspace
of this place to survive, these people
suck and slurp me down, drag me through
hell instead o fleaving me to our room
where I used to write, where blue stands and we're
the people
in constant states of eclipse, ascending through,
to the whole cyberspace of our room.
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A Less Crowded House
J.D. Nelson
Sometimes I don't think there's enough room
in this house. If one of my sons stands
in front of the Nintendo, the other can't see through
him, and soon they're both yelling. One states
"I was here first," and it seems like people
in a brick Cape clog each other's cyberspace.
My husband went in search of his own cyberspace
two years ago, saying he needed more room
to find himself, and there were so many people
here, he couldn't think straight. It stands
to reason that I got pissed, and when he now states
that he wants to come home, I say no, I'm through
with hoping he and I still have a chance. Through
seven years of marriage, he lived in cyberspace,
I think, never able to see my states
of distress increase when the room
between us widened. Now he stands
before me, proclaiming that two people
who love each other should be together; people
don't need to be alone, and it's through
my own fault if I continue to take these stands:
not allowing him back into my cyberspace,
and insisting he find the time to make some room
for change. You see, I was sick of the drunken states
he used to come home in, and that states'
ability to hurt all the people
closest to him, the ones who room
in this house now. It could only be through
some miracle of cyberspace
proportions that this family will be saved. My son stands
by his father, but I make my stands
on the principle that I can't tolerate some states.
My husband lost in cyberspace,
floating on a beer high with people
he grew up with, traveling through
all the bars in town, leaves me no room.
My husband stands to lose allthe people
whom he states he loves themost; through
cyberspace he'll drift while I make my own room.
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CROPDUSTER -- Issue 1
Copyright 1992 by Steven Meece and Chris Woodill
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This is the ASCII version of the zine. It contains everything you would
receive in the real zine except for pictures and the feel of authenticity. If
you would like to receive the paper edition, send $1.10 for the United States
or 86 cents for Canada to:
Cropduster
79 O'Hara Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 2R3
All other enquiries should be directed to that office as well. The editors are
also available by international e-mail at:
ad522@freenet.carleton.ca (Steven Meece)
cwoodill@epas.utoronto.ca (Chris Woodill)
Naturally permission is granted to distribute Cropduster in any way you would
like, but please leave it as it is so that others can see our mistakes as
well. If you have a problem, don't take it out on a text file: Tell us.
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Editor's Words
Steven Meece
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Cropduster was born as a summer make-work project by the
editor. Why teeny mags? We have found them to be very
entertaining, because they are meant to be. They really try
too hard to be constantly entertaining without providing a
single break from the action. Maybe this is the way life
really is in the United States. Reading one of these
magazines is like watching television or eating food. They
also let us know of what we are missing because we are not
female, and because of the sad-but-true fact that the
readers of these magazines would have nothing to do with us.
We decided to not critique Sixteen, Tiger Beat, Superteen,
Smash Hits, and so on, because they cover the personal lives
of Luke Perry and not the personal lives of grade niners.
'Teen magazine was also absent from reviews because it is
slipping into this category. We reviewed only American
magazines because to our knowledge, there are no Canadian
equivalents. Wanting girls in this country will have to
borrow their mother's Chatelaine.
This issue was electronically produced. The articles were
composed on Appleworks v2.0, and the layout and construction
was the domain of First Publisher vx.x. The Apple platform
was an Apple IIc, and the MS DOS platform was a clone named
"COM Micro Computer". The files were transferred using Talk
Is Cheap v2.03 on the Apple side and Telix v3.44 on the MS
DOS side.
Apologies and rights reverted to YM, Sassy, Seventeen, and
all others where necessary. The publishers and/or authors
are not responsible for any of the content printed within.
The concept and most of the writing was undertaken by Steven
Meece, while the introduction, layout and dogsbody was the
responsibility of Christopher "cw" Woodill. Steven Meece is
attending Carleton University in Ottawa in the religion
programme, and cw is attending the University of Toronto in
the philosophy & semiotics programme.
Produced using grants from Gary Woodill and Heather Meece,
who are always more than pleased to bankroll the creativity
of their children.
Comments, questions, anecdotes, lawsuits to:
Crop Dusters
79 O'Hara Avenue
Toronto Ontario
M6K 2R3
This publication is dedicated to the memory of the Neopsychedelic Underground.
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Pop Culture: An exposition
Chris Woodill
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As an issue, pop culture has various definitions. It can be
defined by various things, including the clothes people wear, the
attitudes they hold, and the music to which they listen. It
seems that our generation (everyone born after about 1970) has
yet to discover its own pop-culture, for unlike our baby boom
parents, we have yet to spread our wings.
Cropduster revolves, as perhaps everything does, around the
substance that one calls pop-culture. With various jargon thrown
around including: post-modernism, nihilism, etc. in an attempt
for one generation to understand the next, people forget what the
essence of pop-culture really is - a collection of somewhat
useless artifacts which are given exceptional value by groups of
people. What we hope to show is not the trends but rather the
idols of pop-culture. We hope to convey the simplicity of
everyday life through the icons which lead generation upon
generation onwards. In this way, perhaps one reading this can
make a subjective interpretation of the trends of culture; but
this is not our own objective. Rather, we hope to portray the
post-boomer child as he or she really is, by critically examining
the icons in which the child is represented.
As member of the post-boom generation, the authors must
include themselves in their ridicule, praise and examination. I
think that this is perhaps necessary in any endevour, for only
self-reflection leads true results. Thus, this journal is not
intended to be rigourous, for lack of rigour is one of the
characteristics of the pop-culture in which we reside.
Many of the articles presented here are true in fact,
without any changes in names, places, etc. We make no pretence
that we represent our generation, nor do we make any pretence
that has any objective value in it at all. For this is not a
sociology textbook, nor is it a psychology journal. Rather, this
appears at the moment to be a compilation of minor life
experiences, which hopefully will give someone value.
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Young & Modern / Missy
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The dish:
YM is supposed to stand for "Young and Modern." Until a few
years ago it stood for "Young Miss," but the editors decided
that the title was too prissy and waif-like for the gritty
reality experienced by young girls today. It is theorized
that girls would rather be modern than a miss, which seems
to be like two coins with the same side.
The pages are quite glossy, and the magazine has a
particular smell to it. The pages don't feel like paper. The
girlie on page twenty really looks like cw's half-sister
Jacoba.
The second thing we noticed about this issue and possibly
this magazine is that its sole purpose seems to be the
promotion of maquillage. The magazine is bulked up by
advertisements for various-makeup products, many of the
reader inquiries include queries about the proper kind of
blush to use, and they themselves find that makeup is the
central core of any young and modern girl's existence. Other
things are delved into, but they are never treated with the
same amount of respect.
We tallied 32 of 104 pages consisting of full page singles
advertisements, and four doubles (Cover Girl, Maybelline,
"Caboodles" and Paul Mitchell Hair Products).
BELIEVE IT: When your make-up looks this natural, you
know it's Clean.
One look says it all. Natural. Believable. Beautiful.
That look is Cover Girl Clean Make-up (tm). So good to
your skin. So clean. With pure Noxzema (r) ingredients.
For healthy colour. Honest coverage. The look of great
skin. That's the believable look of Clean Make-up.
We found an oxymoron in the term "clean make-up". To be
changed from the natural (which is to say, clean) you need
to be made up into something different, and therefore you
need something called "make-up" to do that.
The girls in these advertisements had the particular quality
of not resembling human beings at all. There is some heavy
airbrushing going on here. They don't even look human
anymore, of particular note is the girl squinting eyes,
crunching paper and sticking out her tongue in the
Maybelline double-ad. The girl for the Tampax one on page
four looks like a real person, with a black turtleneck
sweater and blue leggings with numbers on them.
Doing anything for the first time can be tricky. But
trust the makers of Tampax to come up with a tampon
that's a total cinch for girls like you to...
The curious thing about this girl is that she appears to be
falling over backward for no discernible reason.
"Say Anything" is a collection of reader-submitted
embarrassing experiences and Freudian slips. The staff then
rates these harrowing exploits with one to four stars, the
four-star ranking being "Ultimate supremo humiliation". This
section is in actuality the most titillating thing you'll
see in YM. Hold onto your hats, this is heavy chick-talk:
The reason you bought the mag, right? The next best thing to
Peeping Tom-ing a slumber party. This month yielded three
four-stars, the first being about a girl exposing her
breasts during a school play, the second about a girl who
had her clothes ripped off by a ski-lift, and the third
involved a girlie having a tooth fall out during heavy
petting and having Prince Charming swallow the thing. There
were a few experiences at being ignored by a "guy" despite
all intentions, and one about a girl's dad sitting on the
crapper. Our favourite, although it was only given three
stars, was about a girl who 'accidentally' bought a dildo.
She thought it was a curling iron. Dr Freud would love these
magazines almost as much as we do.
The letter section found Jetha Marek from the Bronx
questioning the real value of makeup, which went unanswered
by Bonnie and crue. Crosstalk asked, "Should you stay with a
boyfriend who pressures you for sex?" and no specific answer
was given. Neither of the sides advocated that the victim
"do it" with her boyfriend, but Kim Kaan of Tempe Arizona
said that you should ignore him. The eponymous Jennifer Wise
of Stockton, Kansas (the probable setting of Tony Parker's
^Bird Kansas^, Knopf 1989) "will only have sex when I am
ready for it," when-ever that may be. She gets into the
Puritan ethic of ^The Cosby Show^ by getting steamed over
the inevitable results of sex before the wedding night: "a
damaged reputation, an unplanned pregnancy, or a sexually
transmitted disease like AIDS". Kaan is in her second year
at Arizona State University, but her arguments remain thinly
veiled rants lacking in intelligence.
The "Body Q&A" is not as erotic as you may hope. They
discuss different types of soap (superfatted or emollient,
transparent or glycerin, deodorant, french milled,
synthetic, acne and cleansing lotion) and publish
photographs of the tatoos of Julia Roberts, Jody Watley,
Roseanne Barr, Cher, Stephanie Seymour and "Roshumba".
The crue hit the beach, photographed nine surfpeople and
asked them "If your surfboard were a girl, who would she
be?" These questions were answered honestly. Three of the
seven dudes picked one of several fashion models. One guy
said his mom. Bud Struck wanted his surfboard to be a porno
star. This article was a veiled excuse for publishing
pictures of surf gods, with little erect boy-nipples.
The guy thing continued without another survey, "What's the
worst thing you've ever done to a girl?" Answers: three
dumpings on prom night, physical assault, yelling derogatory
comments from a car window, cheating, raping a drunkard,
crank calls, and one guy who puked on a chack.
YM also contains the now-obligatory ad for "Teen Spirit"
which remains "the Only Anti-perspirant For Teens". This one
pictures three happy-go-lucky girls whooping it up at a
carnival and presumably stinking up the joint in the
process. The girl in the middle looks like Lloyd's mom!
The guy I'm going out with broke up with his girlfriend
two weeks before we started dating. He swears they're
just friends, but they flirt a lot, and he ignores me
when she's around. Should I be worried?
We took the quiz to see if we were in fact boring. I had
long suspected that this was the case and the proof was
given when I scored 24 out of a possible high of 30
boringness points. cw, the freak that he is, was only 19.
"My stepfather sexually abused me" was an article that
seemed to be more geared as entertainment than information.
It was presented in a voyeuristic tendency, viz. the
first-page oversized sidebar quote "Just about every night,
he'd get in bed with me after Mom had gone to sleep." These
attempts at titillation belong on ^A Current Affair^, not
for in a rag for 'teens.
"Twenty-five ways to get a job this summer" was merely a set
of guidelines on how one can be a pest to one's neighbours
and parents by continually trying to weasel money from them
for useless services that enrich neither party in any
tangible way.
cw was miffed by the bikini photo section, remarking that
the girls were skanky little teenagers with little boobs
trying to be grown-ups. I had to agree with him on this
area. Swimsuits that are $70 US are too expensive for most
babysitters anyway. He also found exception with the
fat-busters article, which offered up low-fat substitutes
for high-fat products. In his typical Newfoundlander
common-sense attitude, he suggested that the dieter
substitute wind and water for a Haagen Dazs ice-cream binge.
"Why doncha just eat nothing?"
The Tom Cruise interview was written in such a holy-shit
manner that it isn't even worth the energy to type about it.
This magazine is truly American trash, but like food fried
up by Ronald McDonald, it sometimes gives a curious
pleasure.
Your best friend recently became part of a twosome, and
your life has changed - for the worse. Forget about
calling each other two or three times a week and
getting together on weekends. These days you're lucky
if you can even reach her on the phone, and whenever
you see her, she's with him.
The horoscopes were uniformly false. I told cw that he would
meet "a cool guy with killer looks" on the fourteenth. He
did not seem to be too anxious.
The magazine is closed by four pages of postage-stamp
advertisements for fly-by-night fat camps, modelling
societies, correspondence highschools, and photo reprinters.
Of all of the magazines reviewed in ^Crop Duster^, YM seems
to paint the most pessimistic picture of youth today. YM
worships at the trough of animated mannequins, offering up
such notorious no-brains such as Linda Evangelista as role
models for our sisters and daughters!
It appears that being young and modern is not a very good
condition for the soul. YM implicitly believes that the
acquisition and sustaining of a boyfriend must be the
central focus in the goals of a girl, yet YM itself
showcases that most boyfriends are albatrosses at best, and
eventually only cause trouble. YM does not see the
contradiction of instructing its readers to pursue the
romantic ideal while admitting that Prince Charming is most
likely a goof.
Someone who is young and modern must be a clothes horse,
willing to apply massive amounts of varying kinds of makeup,
able to spend extravagantly on clothes, diet, use the right
kind of soap, wear a two-piece bikini and kowtow to a jerk
boyfriend who may or may not be stolen by your best friend.
If you cannot reach those levels, you are done like a
dinner. This magazine portrays female adolescence correctly,
as a series of banalities adding up to a tremendous
omnipresent burden. They recognize the faults of this value
system, but lack the conviction to attempt to bring about
changes. Espousing of deviant philosophies (to burn your bra
or your rouge) could cause what Jennifer Wise fears more
than AIDS, which is "a damaged reputation". Young Miss
readers cannot liberate themselves because they are too busy
trying to condition themselves for social acceptance.
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Sassy
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The dish:
If you have a ring through yr nose and believe that The
Butthole Surfers speak directly to you, Sassy will be your
bag. Witness this from the letters section:
Dear Jane: I was going to send you this comic strip way
before your "staff hate mail awards" ["Diary," April].
I swear! My purpose was to show you that a way cool
cartoonist like Lynda Barry has her comic strip
character reading a way cool magazine like Sassy [only
one panel shown below]. So I am glad that you're
"spreading like the plague"!
Complete with spelling errors, this is the handbook of the
hippest home slices this side of Seattle. Hip though it may
appear to be, the Kurt Cobain-meets-Frankie Avalon article
on "Surf Punks" (p 46) features the grunge lady wearing $154
worth of clothes (not even counting those big clunky boots)
as she looks nihilistic. Anarchy in the USA? Not when you
look like that.
However, Sassy may be a victim of its demographic. In the
hopes of hitting the mark, they constantly engage in
overkill, as if their audience could never accept anything
but affirmations of what they already are. Instead of giving
the message that information on the cover photograph is on
page fourteen, Sassy has to say
For a veritable hoedown of info about our cover, fee fi
fiddly-i oh-ver to page 14.
This gets very boring very fast. Almost every other sentence
has to have a few words of teen-lingo inside of it to keep
the readers awake. Do the editors of Sassy wish to keep
these people sassy forever? Honestly, this stuff sounds as
if it is being spoken in the next Bill and Ted sequel.
Because of this constant gee-whiz overtone, Sassy is unable
to sound sincere when it deals with serious issues.
Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21)
Partnerships are key to success this mo' (except for
hassle-causing bratty sibs on the 10th). Break with
routine on the 12th - you need a change. On the 16th
you get what you ask for. Hang near water on the 21st
for serenity and Esther Williams-y exercise. Day to
Savor [sic]: 11th. Scratch Off Your Calendar [sic]:
29th.
The "Cute Band Alert" further restricts Sassy readers into
this teenage pigeonhole. The Cute Band Alert is just that --
"Alert! Here is a new band with a cute bass player!" and
they publish a picture. This kind of narcissism is taken to
a further extreme with the "Sassiest Boy in America" contest
held every winter, in which readers can nominate their
boyfriend or brother as the epitome of sass. Who is the idol
figure of Sassy readers? Anyone who has sideburns,
Lollapalooza tickets, a backward-turned baseball cap, and
calls himself "a feminist".
Sassy takes a different slant than the other three mags: It
supposedly includes the reader in the personal lives of the
editors. Editors and staff contributors refer to themselves
in the first person, and the reader is supposed to feel
chummy with Jane, Lew, Christina, Margie, Jacinta, Mary,
Kim, Mary Kaye, Anne V, Andrea T, Janet, Mary Ann, and a
whole slew of others. They're supposed to be as familiar to
the readers as their cafeteria mates.
Positively, Sassy does contain the most record and book
reviews of any of the three mags, but these are limited. The
books are always the latest released kid books, the music
the latest six-month shelf life stuff, and the "movies" are
always what's playing down at the mall. "Stuff You Wrote" is
a poetry-and-quip feature that is passable but is slowly
shrinking month by month. Most of the poetry is kinda the
same, and an attempt at therapy - the desire to get
something out of one's system and not so much to create work
that transcend the medium and develop relevance on several
different planes. Still, the concept is commendable and the
neglect of this feature is not so good.
Sassy is still the only magazine that mention the words
"vagina" and "penis" as if they are related to each other (p
26) but they are very careful when they do it. Sassy does
set itself apart from the other two, but this difference is
shrinking.
The ads in Sassy are largely those of YM, primarily
disposable haircare products, and disposable music products.
May of the exact same ads appear in all three magazines.
Again - the ads, like the magazine itself, never leave the
realm of the day to day distractions of a fifteen and a half
year old.
Was it always like this? This short-sightedness is a new
development. Sassy is the newest of the magazines profiled
here, having made it's debut in March of 1988 (compared to
1941 for Seventeen and 1952 for the original Young Miss),
and therefore determined to take a new approach in order to
defeat the giants. This was a very ribald approach indeed --
they mentioned sex honestly and reflected teenage life for
what it really is. Someone also once let the cat out of the
bag that women, especially young women, actually look better
without makeup than with it. A flap arose by the end of the
year, and a group of "concerned parents" expressed their
outrage that their daughters were being told about dirty
subjects. Maybelline and Tampax were scared, expressed their
fears to Jane, and Jane buckled under. Sassy now is just as
flighty as the other magazines, and it actually spreads lies
in order to keep the status quo intact of the legions of
daughters that read the magazine.
A further slide happened late in 1991 when Sassy changed the
physical size -- from an oversized square to a regular
notebook size. Soon after, the magazine underwent yet
another layout overhaul and now is as active as an MTV
commercial with mixed-font headlines and text, and dingbats
by the dozen.
Weather or not it loses in editorial quality is irrelevant,
as long as it can keep a number of girls interested enough
to read it. For magazines are essentially trojan horses for
getting the reader to look at advertisements, just as the
only purpose of commercial television is use the guise of
entertainment to round up an audience to sit through the
commercials. Why do magazine articles break up after two
pages, to be "continued on page 132"? To get the reader to
turn through the next sixty pages, all while looking at the
ads.
It is a well-known marketing maxim that nothing should be
changed unless it is not working in its current incarnation.
The only thing that matters in the magazine publishing
business is to deliver the market to the advertisers. If
they are able to do this, everything else will soon fall in
line. Sassy needs to get girlies and keep them interested in
the product in order to survive. Constant changes in the
style of the magazine seem to indicate that Sassy can not
seem to get it right. Is Sassy stumbling? It could very well
be. The reduction in size was a cost-saving measure, as the
copy price did not decrease. Sassy is the shortest of the
profiled magazines (88 pages at a cover price of $2.50
equals 2.84c per page) while YM and Seventeen deliver more
product at a cheaper price (104 pages, $2.75, 2.64c per page
and 120 pages, $2.50, 2.08c per page respectively). Free
enterprise keeps the newsstand prices to within twenty-five
cents of each other, but Sassy is producing the least amount
of magazine for that price -- a full thirty-two pages less
than Seventeen. Naturally there is no such thing as
frugality, and if Sassy could have sold an extra thirty
pages of ads, they would have done it.
Sassy has the lowest 12 month subscription cost, at $10, in
comparison to $14 for Seventeen and $18 for Young Miss. This
translates to less than 50% of the potential newsstand
costs. While subscriptions eliminate many of the
distribution channels and therefore are cheaper for the
reader, this still translates to a net loss in sales revenue
for the Sassies. Then why pump up subscriptions?
To increase the readerbase to make the magazine more
attractive for advertisers. It is hoped that many people
will commit to twelve issues at a cheaper price, which
provide for a greater circulation figure to present to
potential advertisers, which hopefully translates to more
advertising funds to offset the loss in sales revenue.
Sometimes this method works, and often it doesn't. This
ponzi scheme killed the original incarnation of ^Ms^ after
it sold a tonne of subscriptions at a dirt cheap price but
could not translate those figures into more advertisements.
It is a very risky gamble, and is often a last-ditch attempt
made in desperation and fear and trembling. It will be
interesting and informative to see if the subscription price
for Sassy continues to deflate.
The Sass-meisters seem to be caught in a delicate circle.
Sassy was forced away from its old positions that made it
quirky, interesting, daring, and worth looking forward to
each month. However, there is no demand for a Young & Modern
clone, which is the direction that Sassy may have to drift.
Sassy is an entity at sea in search of a demographic, which
is a very perilous thing to be.
=========
Seventeen
=========
The dish:
Seventeen is the oldest of the group here, and in both the
literal and figurative senses it remains the mother of all
teenage mags. It is still the most professional, most
entertaining, and most professionally produced of the
magazines. But this is a small market, and ^The New Yorker^
it aint. The fashion features of Seventeen are the best
photographed, and the ads go beyond the norm a few times.
But even Seventeen has seen better days. The June 1992 was
weighing in at a rather svelte 120 pages, while as recently
as April 1986 it was 216 pages. A perusal of that issue
finds several ads for General Motors, Rice-a-roni,
"Chadwicks of Boston," and a feature film. This is an
indication that Seventeen, at that time, was almost a
"general interest" magazine, the two biggest of this genre
being Time and People. Certainly that is not the case any
longer. There are only a few ads in this category. The
remainder of the magazine is bulked up with YM-style ads for
Clearsil, Cover Girl, and Caboodles (a neon-coloured makeup
lunchbox). One thing hasn't changed, though, and that is the
last pages are ripe with postage-size black and white ads
for mail-order firms specializing in bust growing schemes,
photo enlargement operations, Groucho Marx glasses &
moustache ("fool your friends"), and fat camps. There's a
send-in application to "The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Ft
Lauderdale Campus."
Well. It appears that every girly magazine is suffering in
one way or another, and for what reason? The time-frame of
six years is too brief to suggest a shrinking age bracket
and a smaller supply of young girls interested in beauty and
boyfriend tips. It is also too McLuhan to suggest that the
magazine concept is becoming obsolete and out-of-date. It is
a curious situation.
LONG-DISTANCE LASHES: The mascara that lasts as long as
you do.
Marathon Mascara really goes the distance. Keeping
lashes long, dark and beautiful, no matter what you do!
So go ahead, put it to the test. Marathon looks just
put on, 'til you take it off. MARATHON MASCARA
COVER GIRL Renee Jeffus is wearing Soft Black.
R E D E F I N I N G B E A U T I F U L
But it would be premature to jump the gun and label
Seventeen as YM trash. The editorial slant does not suffer
from the laugh-track style happiness that infects Sassy.
Seventeen, after all, is the rag that published Sylvia Plath
in 1950. (She was also published in the Ladies Home Journal
and the Pi Delta Gamma Review, but ignore that.) The issue
reviews carried a very good fiction piece, actually worthy
of reading. It wasn't promoted very much, and appears in the
contents page as "FICTION: Leftovers by Cathi Hanauer". You
can't have too much, and this is a passing barb at best. She
also wrote the "Relating" column, which is an advice column
to the lovelorn.
The letters page was semi-interesting. Seven of the ten
letters were feedback regarding some kind of self-abuse or
suffering happening at the hands of the readers. One letter
was concerning school-leavers, three about eating
disorders, two about the persecution of the small-boobed,
and one about being stuck in the wrong corner of a love
triangle. Maybe it is only here that these girls are able to
admit that they are real people, and that is all they are.
Because if the girls can't admit that, they're lying to
themselves. Only then will they believe what the advertisers
say.
The cover girl was Samantha Mathis, which would be reason
enough to buy the whole thing. Yet, you don't get what you
pay for, because the cover feature translated to two
decent-sized pictures and 1/3rd of a page of text. cw (a
crack semiotician) called attention to the smaller picture
of the girl on a Californian beach. She appears to be
crouching down, and the shorts she is wearing have pulled up
a bit at the back, exposing a little bit of her ass. cw
pointed to the spot on the picture and smirked.
The girl on page 17 looks quite a bit like Lisa Habib from
Miz Laroche's history class at the Streetsville highschool.
That was where all the girls lived. It was the total
re-definition of egregiousness for me, I'll tell you that.
At lunches I'd go behind the portables with my walkman and
listen to Son House's 1965 recording of Death Letter Blues.
I'd have to jack up the volume to the deafness range so that
the steel-bodied National guitar would drown out the
blup-blup-blup of Camaroes tearing through the parking lot.
Page 24 finds a page on specialized swimsuits, and how to
use them to accentuate your body features. Also included is
a group of exercises YOU can use to trim unsightly soft
bits.
Batter down the hatches for the "Sex & Your Body" column.
It's hot stuff. The sub-title is "Are You Experienced?":
There's generally a sort of hierarchy of experiences,
with hand-holding and kissing at the bottom and
intercourse at the top. But in between the list gets
pretty blurry. When everyone you know talks about
everything they do and grill you about everything you do,
you may ot be able to avoid having your sexual
experience (or lack of it) be public knowledge... the
trick is too respect your body and your beliefs enough
to always protect yourself, first and foremost, and to
do what's truly right for you.
Then they pick four letters dealing with this topic. The
first two are of average level, but after that it gets
pretty hairy. The final two letters, printed verbatim:
I am a virgin and I intend to stay a virgin until I get
married. Instead of having sex, my boyfriend and I do
everything else. The other night he used his fingers. I
know it sounds gross, but I don't know how else to put
it. Well, afterward, I started to bleed. Does this mean
I'm not a virgin anymore? Did he pop my cherry?
and:
My best friend Stacy lied to her boyfriend and told him
that she wasn't a virgin. Now she's afraid that if she
has sex with him he'll know she's a virgin because
she'll be tight or it'll hurt. She's afraid to tell him
the truth because she thinks he'll hate her for lying.
If a guy's experienced, can he tell if a girl is a
virgin?
Pretty crazy stuff, better not let Mom see it. Seventeen is
coming perilously close to reality. The former letter
affords an opportunity for moralizing: The Young Lady should
take Debra Kent's advice and do some thinking for herself,
and maybe then she will shed some of her hypocrisy. She is
trapped between two conflicting desires: To "just do it,"
and to preserve the sanctitude of what she calls "my
cherry". The unpoppable cherry has nothing to do with it,
because virginity is not a biological label, but a state of
mind. This girl is running the gamut of "his fingers" and
many Latin terms and what-have-you, and certainly it is
stretching it a bit to call her an untouched virgin bride,
which is the way she would prefer to exist.
She owes honesty to the mythical husband-to-be. If she wants
to be a virgin bride, more power to her, but she should see
to it that she *is* untouched. Obviously this appears to be
beyond her means. If she wants to do these deeds with the
boyfriend, more power to her. This girl has to learn that
she has to take responsibility for her actions, and that she
cannot deliver the goods and still claim her virginity.
But again, Seventeen usually redeems itself enough to make
it worth the $2.50 cover price. (BTW: North-west
Mississaugeans can find the latest copy of Seventeen in the
magazine rack of the Streetsville Public Library @ 132 Queen
St South.) There was a little bit of truth in this issue,
too. It was found in the article by Ann Patchett with the
yuk title "How to Survive a Breakup":
If this guy is still the centre of every conversation
you're having six months after the big B, you've got to
ask yourself if you're really trying to get over him.
Maybe you think that you'll be closer to him if you
live in the past or that he'll see your love as true if
you refuse to let go. Calling his house and hanging up,
waiting around in the school parking lot to catch a
glimpse of him, hounding his friends for information,
-- none of this is going to help you get better. Nobody
knows the answers to all the questions, but one thing
is clear: He would be with you if he wanted to be with
you, and he's not.
So Seventeen comes through in the end. Ninety-five percent
of it is shit, but the other five percent gives the reader a
glimpse into what matters in the lives of these girls,
beyond the day-to-day distractions. It is also the only
magazine that can hold the attention of someone outside of
the target group. Unlike the other magazines, Seventeen is
worthwhile, and it would be a loss to see it cease to exist.
=============
Three Bitches
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Age of actual audience:
YM 13
Sassy 15 (and a half, ha ha)
Seventeen 17
Short-term goals:
YM Lose ten pounds
Sassy Get the latest Chili Peppers CD
Seventeen Senior prom
If it was a University:
YM Western
Sassy York
Seventeen Ottawa
If it was food:
YM Quarter pounder and shake
Sassy Haagen-dazs with nuts
Seventeen Spaghetti and to-mat-oe sauce
If it was a philosopher:
YM Machiavelli
Sassy Ghi-jac or St Augustine
Seventeen John Stuart Mill
If it had a citizenship:
YM American
Sassy American
Seventeen American
If it had an aura:
YM Violet
Sassy Magenta
Seventeen Mental Tan
If it was someone that the editors know:
YM Coby
Sassy Fiona
Seventeen JM
If it were sodapop:
YM Cream soda
Sassy Pepsi
Seventeen 7-up
If it was part of Mississauga:
YM Meadowvale
Sassy East Cooksville
Seventeen Lorne Park
In one paragraph:
YM
Keep cheek colour low key - applying a few strokes of powder
blush on the apples of your cheeks is enough to give your
face a healthy, sun-kissed glow...
(p 75)
Sassy
Did you know that women hold only 2 of 100 US Senate seats,
the same number as in 1971? When I hear things like this, I
get so mad I could spit. Enter The Women's Voting Guide.
All these totally powerful women (like Pat Schroeder and
Gloria Steinem) worked on this book to help you and moi
understand that perplexing electoral process we've been
hearing so much about...
(p 36)
Seventeen
Before I worked at McDonald's, Collie and I ate White
Castles. We'd drive in and order like fifteen - ten or
eleven for him, a few for me. I'd feed them to him while he
was driving. Then we'd go to Dunkin' Donuts [sic] for
chocolate creme-filleds and Munchkins...
(p 100)
=============
Epilogue
Chris Woodill
=============
This is the first edition of Cropduster, and it is I suppose
a "labour of love," although such a phrase is exactly what would
be said in any of the three mags examined.
We make no promises in terms of future issues, and as this
particular issue took about three months to produce, I wouldn't
hold your breath. Future issues may or may not surface as they
come down the pike, depending on how busy or lazy the authors get
in their real lives.
cw - August 30th, 1992.
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you know that I edited some of Mad Arab's phile, but only the parts on the
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We have a new writer, his name is Whiz. Whiz is a internet/telenet
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Give 'em a ring at: 215/736-8998.
And one last thing. I have heard about trouble connecting to EoD,
and that you will get a FAX machine if you call, so from now until further
notice, EoD has been taken OFF the DaS Distrobution Site list.
II. þ In the Ho þ
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Welp, I am finally writing my first iussue for DaS! Ohh.. <G> I'm sure
you care a whole lot! :> Before I get to the article, I'd like to say a
word on Nirvana's late Kurt Cobain, GOOD! Before he blew himself away
Nirvana was just some break through punk band from the spawning Seattle,
after he deep throated some nice buck shot, Nirvanna is this reall great
band. And all their albums are the coolest thing, and everyone should buy
them and sit and smoking pot while listening to them (That's the only way
you will enjoy them!). Before Kurt just just some rock star druggie lamer,
and now that he is in the freezer he is "this generations John Lennon" and
this really great rock god, who had to much potential, and was the nicest
person in the world, BULLSHIT! Has anyone listened to "In Utero" lately?
It SUCKS! Half the guitar riffs just ooze together and you can't
tell one from the other. So, in essense, I'm glad the schmuck shot
himself, Nirvanna sucks, and all the fans should quit crying!
Ok, Anyway... As every person who has even seen a H/P file knows
there are litterally hundreds of files on "hack" BBS prog's like TAG,
Renegade, Telegard, ViSiON/2, Etc. and they all basicly say the same god
damn thing! How many times have you downloaded a file thinking "Wow, this
is gonna be the coolest file known to man? I'm gonna hack EVERYONE'S
account!"? Only to read it and have it say the same exact thing every
other file of this type states?
IE: "Beg, suck-up, U/l alot, and get Sysop Access" Any idiot can do that!
Or how about the menu trick that doesn't work for Vision/2 or OBV/2? And
how many of these files either didn't have any info on how to do what
it tells you to do, or the overly techincal (Make you think I'm smart, and
I know everything) shit that explains these "Really easy and great way to
hack Bla Bla Bla software" only to find out it is so long and technical
that you would have to send 2 hours on-line just to try it and find out
it's a crock of shit? Well, I'm bored of that too!!
In this issue I will explain two methods of hacking ReneGade BBS, one
of which I'm sure everyone knows, or may not know, and one which is
actually and original idea! And because Renegade every sysop and his mother
runs Renegade, you should have no trouble finding a Renegade board to try
this on. Wow, what an interesting concept, originality! Not another
re-re-released idea which the group claims to be "100% original and his
idea". Ok, enough of this boring stuff...
III. þ SysOp PW þ
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How often have you been on a ReneGade or TeleGard BBS and while
chatting with the SySlop he has to do something so he asks you to hold on?
Too countless to remember? Then you are in great shape. This is your
perfect opptunity to grab his SysOp PW. (*Note, This does not work on
versions of RG newer than 01/02.94*). What you do is at the begining
of a new line type "Type Renegade.dat" or the name of the .DAT file for
TG. If that does not work than you will have to put in the path also.
Common BBS Dir's are: TeleGard, ReneGade, BBS, or Board. Then make sure you
you use "/CLS" to clear the screen. This method is old, and most know it,
but I figured I'd review it anyway. I cannot remember how many times
I have been on a system and the Sysop did something quick, and forgot to
take away my temp Sysop access, and with the PW, I could have been home
free.
IV. þ User PW'sþ
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is a brand new method of hacking out a users PW and it ONLY works with
the newest version of ReneGade (Verson 01/02/94 or later). With the many
changes in the newest RG update, there are also some hidden flaws, and
HUGE backdoors. It used to be if you used a MCI code in a message like say
@A, the person reading the message would have his peice of info up for that
MCI code, whatever it stood for, be it, PW, Fon #, Handle, Time, Etc.
And each user that read the messy with that MCI code in it would have his
info there, so the MCI codes seemed useless. If a user got duped into
thinking his info was really there he could reply to a message and on the
numbered lines to pick to quote instead of the info being there, the
MCI code was there. So he could tell he had MCI in his eye. Then he would
quote it and it would go back to being the info. for who ever is reading
it. Well, NO MORE! Cott Lang really fucked up this time!!! Now, a user
can put %UN and the reader would have his handle there, and he would reply,
and in the quote selection instead of being the MCI code, like it used to
be, it would still be the users info. And when that quoted material
went back into the messy it was STILL the users info. During that quoting
stage, it changed from a MCI into the users INFO! And that was the way it
stayed, in the quoted section the info was the same for EVERYONE.
That's one of the biggest and REAL backdoors around. I'm sure it
will be out by next update. BTW: The idiot when reading the messy will
still think it is a MCI because to HIM it will look the same as MCI always
did, but the other users know differently. Heres what you do:
1: Call a lame RG BBS. (NOT a HPAV BBS! Why would you hack a Hack BBS?!?)
2: Pretend you are a big hacker, you are, but, pretend. And post a messy
saying how you hacked so and so's account, use MCI here, and post
the PW and Fon # and all.
3: If the person is stupid enough he will quote it and blammo, it is then
HIS info. Alot of lamers fall for this.
4: Then, you read the new messys, and there it is, his info just sitting
there saying "Hack me, Hack Me!" Be sure to log on the geeks
account ASAP so some one else doesn't grab it on you first!! And
change the PW.
There it is enjoy. Also, if it doesn't work, try it one different Bases.
And delete the message that didn't work. Unfortuneitly there is no MCI
for the SysOp PW, but hey, you can't have everything! :> I will include
the MCI codes at the end of this file.
V. Cunt-Lusion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It seems as tho a few months ago, everyone was jumping on the
"WaReZ D00dz" bandwagon and leeching their newest 0 day shit. And soon
all these people were the butt of every joke here in CyberSpace. At that
time HPA was the "cool, non-geeky" thing to do. Now it seems the trend is
just the opposite. More and more lame BBS's are popping up claiming to be
"HPAV" Etc. And they just aren't. The sysops don't even know what a
Red or Beige box is for christ's sake! And there are more and more "HPAVC"
groups popping up then ever before. Groups like "Hardcore Hackers"
"Vigilante" "LoTE" are invading the scene, claiming they are "tired of
the lame regurgatated texts being released". And they go and do the same
thing and release a lame text so they can claim that they have 1 release
per week. STOP IT!! This is very annoying and LAME!! If you don't have
anything NEW to say, than keep you flap shut!
--This Pubic Cervix Announcement brought to you by Mad Arab!
Call these KILLER DaS HQ's and SitesÄÄį
Ä/Ä Symphony oF Sickness í DaS WHQ í 201ù728.3881 Ä\Ä
Ä/Ä TEKAT í DaS 908 HQ í 908ù813.2738 Ä\Ä
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//count zero//
(C)opy ya' Wrong Arab Productions in Cooperation with DaS 1994
EoF
ÄÄį Up-John!!! (With Rogain) ®ÄÄ
Hey. You! Yea you. Read this. Yes, right now, read it, it could
save your life. For the next 60 seconds (If it takes you longer you have
some problems) this DaS text file in co-operation with your eyes and brain
will be conducting a test. If this were an actually a text file you would
have ran for your life. Do not worry, this is only a test. Ok, *anyway*
I found an update to the before mentioned backdoor in ReneGade BBS software.
What it is, the Sysop can put a security level restriction on the use of
MCI codes in the message bases. Usually, the SySlop will have it set so
that only users with SysOp access will be able to use the MCI code feature.
Which means you can throw'em in a messy and other users can quote them,
and they will still be an MCI code. Only users with access at or above the
set security level will the MCI codes work. And since there are no MCI
codes for the SySlop PW, this backdoor seems to be worthless. But wait!
DaS and the Arab would release a huge text file with a worthless back door,
hell, we aren't like the above mentioned groups.
Ta Da!!! While it is possible to block the use of MCI codes in the
public messy bases, it is not, I repeat, IS NOT possible to stop MCI use
in the E-Mail!!! With this comes a better, easier, safer hack method with
more advantages than you can shake a bloddy ax at, like the pope is in
front of you! Now, you can pick and choose yer lamer at will, and do not
have to worry about more experienced users clueing this guy in. No worrys
about other users grabbing the loosers account that you worked hard (HA!)
for. Best of all, no matter what the SySlop does, this cannot be stopped.
(Unless he deletes the message.)
Use the MCI codes as you normally would have done only in E-mail. And, if
you are lucky, you may even be able to mail the guy anonymously. Then, he
may NEVER know who you are, so if he figures out whats going on, to bad for
him! And when he calls back and finds his PW has been changed, alwell.
Enjoy!
MCI CODES
Account balance %AB
User's address %AD
Aborting off %AO
Baud rate %BD
BBS Name %BN
BBS Phone %BP
Clear screen %CL
Current Message Number %CM
Current Conference Name %CN
Credits %CR
Current Conference Tag %CT
User defined answer #1 %D1
User defined answer #2 %D2
User defined answer #3 %D3
Date %DA
Debits %DB
Daily download limit %DD
Delay %DE
User's kbytes downloaded %DK
User's number of files downloaded %DL
User's Download Security Level %DS
Date of subscription expiration %ED
Days left until expiration %EX
Current File base number %F#
Current File base name %FB
Free Kbytes in current file area %FK
User's first name %FN
Mr. or Ms. by gender %GN
Highest Message Number Available %HM
Kbyte daily download limit %KD
U/D k ratio %KR
User's last call date %LC
Line Feed %LF
User's last name %LN
User's Location (City/State) %LO
Current Message base number %M#
Current Message base name %MB
Time left in minutes %ML
Minutes online so far %MO
Messages remaining left to read %MR
Node Number %ND
U/D ratio %NR
User's terminal emulation %O1
User's screen size %O2
User's screen clearing toggle %O3
User's f/s editor toggle %O4
User's screen pausing toggle %O5
User's hotkey toggle %O6
Pause %PA
Post/Call Ratio %PC
User's phone number %PN
Pausing off %PO
User's number of posts %PS
User's password %PW
Batch Queue - Download # %QD
Batch Queue - Upload # %QU
User's Real Name %RN
SysOp defined category #1 %S1
SysOp defined category #2 %S2
SysOp defined category #3 %S3
Total system callers %SC
User's Security Level %SL
SysOp Name %SN
User's sex (Male/Female) %SX
User's total calls %TC
User's number of downloads today %TD
Time %TI
User's kbytes of downloads today %TK
User's Time left %TL
User's age %UA
User's birthdate %UB
User's calls today %UC
User's kbytes uploaded %UK
User's number of files uploaded %UL
User's Handle %UN
User number %UU
Renegade version %VR
User's Zip Code %ZP
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Friends...
I have to admit--although I probably shouldn't--that putting this
e-zine together sure can be trying. I just don't have the electricity,
the energy, to bounce this month's dreamboy! to the four corners of the
globe. But that's what happens--you have good months and bad months.
Let's see. The three winners of last month's contest should have
received their books in the mail. But two of them haven't said anything
one way or another, so I'm assuming no news is good news. Right?
I also did something potentially unethical this past month. I lifted
another e-zine's long subscription list and sent everyone on that list
(except for the owner!) a copy of dreamboy! I correctly identified it as
"the one and only unsolicited copy" of dreamboy! they'll ever
receive...to get more they had to subscribe. Thankfully, about 10
intelligent individuals decided to join the group. On the flip side, I
received about 4 or 5 letters of extreme disapproval. Many demanded I
tell them where I got their name from, but there's no chance of that.
I'm sneaky...not stupid. The best reprimand, by far, was "keep your
fucking ego to yourself!"
What else? As you'll all remember, I asked you ALL to answer my brief
questionairre. Are you male or female? How old are you? Where are
you from? Almost half of you answered, which surprised me in all
honesty, so I didn't bitch and moan after the slackers as promised. I
figured I'd quit while ahead (besides, two people dropped themselves
from the list after receiving that retarded Newt Gingrich post).
The results are interesting. I received 50 responses. 82% male, 18%
female. I'm actually surprised there are that many girls reading
dreamboy! The more the merrier, I say, but ever since I can remember,
I've been criticized for, um, catering to male tastes in my work...to put
it nicely.
Of the men in the group, the ages range from two, count 'em, two 15
year old gentlemen (one in British Columbia and the other in Maine) to
54. The average male dreamboy! reader is a thick 29 years of age. Two
of my male readers decided to notify me of their "alternative"
proclivities.
The women are more closely aged, ranging from 18 to 28. The average
female reader is a healthy 25, and most live in the city (3 Los Angeles,
1 New York City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Cambridge). None said
they where lesbians.
In general, you readers live around the periphery of the United States.
Aside from two Kentucky fellows and Smurfboy, the rest of you live in
states bordering either a large body of water, or Canada (does Idaho
reach all the way up to Canada? I should check a map). None of you live
in Nebraska, as far as I can tell. The international clientele makes up
20% of those responding. Most are from somewhere in Ontario, but
dreamboy! finds its way to far off lands, like Ireland, Sweden,
Portugal, Malaysia, Tokyo, and--up until recently--Australia. (And as a
matter of fact, someone from Belgium subscribed just minutes ago...
everyone give a warm welcome to Bart. Bart from Belgium).
The most surprising reply was from a guy who says he's been
following my writing since my schooling at the Art Center College of
Design, in Pasadena. I used to hand out newsletters on a weekly basis,
featuring surreal, abrasive, and scatalogical prose. (What do you
expect!) I wrote him a note, asking him more about himself, but he
never replied...a mystery!
Some of you wanted to know my "stats," as if they matter. Here goes:
I'm a white, male, heterosexual. I'm currently 26 years old, I live in
Los Angeles, and I could stand to lose a few pounds (but not THAT
many). I like to play hockey, John Woo films, Nick Cave, Archie Comics,
and ravioli. Any questions?
$10. Buy my book.
Oh, I understand some of you may be posting dreamboy! on your private
BBS's. That's fine, but please let me know. There are a couple of rules,
and I like to keep track of dreamboy!'s whereabouts.
Chris
**********
dreamboy! currently has 115 loyal readers.
**********
March 1, 1995
I'm at a concert, or I'm watching it on television. I'm probably there,
because the angle is more intimate than television. I must be in the
front row.
cub is playing. Lisa Marr looks a little different in person than I
imagined, and Robynn isn't quite as cute as I'd like her to be, but she'll
do. Peggy says there's a new drummer, but I can't make out her face.
The stage is dark.
$ $ $
I exit the elevator at work and Sharon points to two people--a
couple--leaving the office. She tells me I should date the woman, even
though the man she's with is her husband. She says the woman asked
about me, though I have no idea who she is.
Sharon jokes about the couple. She says the man has the smallest
penis in the world, although she has no evidence to back it up. She says
he has an obvious small-penis-complex, which immediately makes me
think of Steve Wright. The way that fat guy talks about his Lexus, I bet
he's got an itty-bitty.
March 3, 1995
I'm driving along and I hear something. I feel it. My tires are reacting
oddly and I realize I must have multiple flat tires, but how I suddenly
got them is a mystery. The noises convince me to pull over.
Shit.
I'm standing, looking down at my tires. Someone popped holes in three
of them. Perfect circles, in the exact same place on each tire. It must
have been a woman. I can picture just who she might've been, although
how is still unknown.
What am I going to do? I look up and, hey, lucky me! I'm in the
showroom of Just Tires, the discount tires store. I get a salesman--an
old, Archie Bunker-type character--to come over and assist me. We
talk and bullshit and I somehow make him feel guilty for my situation.
Maybe I'll get a deal?
March 5, 1995
Linda and I are leaving somewhere, walking back to my truck. I'm
parked at the far end of a crowded lot--crowded with both cars and
people--and at first, I have no idea where my car is. It's dark and
somewhat confusing.
I press the button to deactivate my alarm, and my truck tweets twice.
"Oh," I say, "there it is."
Linda and I walk over. There's a gang of uglies hanging around my truck
and I don't like them. Not one bit. One of them approaches and says,
"Make sure you give me a computer printout, listing everything."
What?
I look at my truck and notice it's all dented. The door's rippled and the
front end is banged up pretty bad. What the fuck?!? I look inside and
notice everything is missing. The car has been completely gutted,
except for the driver's seat and The Club.
Horrified, I start wailing like a pussy.
$ $ $
I'm producing a show in my parent's garage. I've sent out
announcements, and tons of people have come to hear the bands play.
Too many people, infact. People are sitting all over my parent's cars,
denting them. I can't stand for that, so I make them all get down.
I'm playing police officer.
They all listen, which is nice. Two of them, though, go into the house. I
run in and grab them--no one can go inside. I look at them and they
seem a little older, but that's no excuse. My mother walks by and I ask,
"Do you know these two?"
She smiles and hugs one of them. They're old friends, I guess, so I let
them go. I forgot that my mother is having a party, too. I go back
outside.
Between sets, I pull out some tools and work on projects. I look over
and see Linda talking with Adrienne Doherty. Adrienne's ratty looking,
but cute. Just a little cuter, and she'd be Chanin Floyd, of Spell.
Jenny Groener shows up and says, "Guess who else is here..."
I have a pretty good idea, if Adrienne is here, but I won't look over.
Ignorance is blissful, indeed.
My mother appears and says, "That girl looks just like Joanna."
"Yeah," I unhappily groan, "she's here."
Linda and I leave, brandishing weapons and screaming at the tops of
our lungs.
March 6, 1995
Eddy Van Halen has AIDS.
I didn't know it at first, but now it totally makes sense. I heard Van
Halen was having their last concert ever, and I wondered why.
They just released an album of cover-songs. I guess Eddy's too week to
write original material. Or maybe he's too depressed. They say he can't
play like he used to.
There's a follow up story about the people he associates with. They're all
afraid of eating around him, supposedly. They're afraid he'll
spontaneously explode and spurt infected blood everywhere.
March 9, 1995
My aunt has hairy ears. I can see it--long, dark strands are sticking out,
pouring out.
"How often do you clean them?" I ask.
"Never," she says.
Yuck.
I can easily imagine forty years worth of compacted wax--dark
yellow-orange--hard and crusty, and flaking. It's solid, wrapped around
each and every follicle for dear life. The goop is skinned over and
splitting, like the waterless, desert floor. But underneath, deep within
the cheese, it's soft and damp and it stinks something awful.
March 11, 1995
I'm in a class, being taught by a Japanese computer animator. He
doesn't speak a word of english, and there are no subtitles. Everyone's
asking questions hapharzardly. The room's loud and unruly.
The animator is showing some of his work on the monitor, and I ask,
"How much did you get paid for that animation?"
The room becomes quiet.
I ask him again, because he doesn't understand. Everyone in the room
wants to know, so they all start asking him. Eventually, he gets the
idea and tries to explain. He starts writing yen numbers down, and
then equations with lots of multipliers. I notice the number "28"
keeps showing up on the chalkboard.
Then I figure it out. He's converting yen to dollars, and the "28" stands
for February.
March 12, 1995
Fuzz has AIDS. Cat AIDS, and I wonder if she's going to give it to Yeti
via her saliva. Cat's can probably do that, I think.
Or what about people? Can she lick me and give me AIDS?
That would be very bad.
March 13, 1995
I'm at the office, in the back room. I'm on all fours, in the
doggy-position on a desk. Marit is sitting below me, on a chair, leaning
back. We're talking, I think.
I grab a grease pencil and pull up her shirt. For an over-weight girl,
she sure has a tight stomach. I'm impressed by her ripped upper and
lower abdomen. Her skin's milk white, and covered with something
shiny, but I don't know what. With the pencil, I write "Chris was
here," in huge letters. I start just under her breasts and finish right at
the top of her pubic hair. I dot my period really hard, and laugh, saying,
"Explain that one to your fiance."
March 15, 1995
I'm a Kung Fu master.
I'm sparring with a blonde woman, and I easily take her out. I throw
her down to the mat and start Greco-Roman wrestling. I have her
pinned--she's on her back and I'm holding her knees up around the sides
of her head.
She smiles, and says, "My butt smells like Pop Rocks."
$ $ $
I'm driving around Edison, New Jersey with Jinko. We're in her green
BMW, so I'm the passenger. We pass my old house and I quickly point it
out. It's really strange looking.
I ask her to drive by CFA, too, because I don't know where it is.
"All right," she says. We drive off.
We start talking about Ed, and the way he drove all the way downtown
before coming to the west side of Los Angeles.
**********
Copyright(c)1995 by Christopher Dante Romano. All Rights Reserved.
Settle down, dreams are fiction.
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What you've all been waiting for...dreamboy!, October 1994.
Before I say anything stupid, I'd like to welcome all of dreamboy!'s new
subscribers. Last episode, I was melancholic at the down-turn in dreamboy!'s
subscribers. I had dipped, and feared dreamboy! was already becoming passe.
Tired. Run o' the mill. When that happens, you can be sure it'll be the last you
see of dreamboy! As I told my lovable Peggy >SHANKSP@qucdn.queensu.ca<, if less
than 50 people are requesting dreamboy!, I'm going to quit.
Maybe I'm being too extreme?
But such is not the case! A lot of people seem to have been checking out John's
e-zine list >johnl@ora.com<, and for that I'm thankful. There's nothing better
than outside, free assistance. Or almost nothing. Check out his list if you
haven't already. Maybe you'll find something else worth suscribing to. We all
know it won't be as good as dreamboy!, but close seconds aren't so bad.
I'd also like to thank everyone who sent in for a copy of DECEMBER 22. A few
more of you took the dare this month, and for that I'm eternally thankful. I'd
like your comments and criticisms, if you're up to it. Maybe I'll share them
with the rest of the mailing list. That is, if anyone's interested.
Before we begin, I have one last request. The same request as last issue. Tell
everyone you know about dreamboy! Heck, randomly send a copy of this issue to
someone you know and love. They're respect you more, come tomorrow. Believe me.
Thanks again for subscribing. Enjoy!
Chris
By the way, I sort of rushed to get this issue of dreamboy! out on time. Tell me
if you can tell. Does it seem sloppy? If so, should I wait a few extra days and
get it perfect, or is the current state of quality satisfactory?
dreamboy! currently has >< subscribers.
**********
October 1, 1994
I drive home, on my combination pick-up truck/bicycle. My family lives in a new
neighborhood, with new, beautiful plants, and a new, amazing home. The sun's
out, pine trees are giving off their refreshing odor, and the air is clear. All
is right with the world...except for Vic.
Vic is still my neighbor.
I look across the short canyon, into Vic's back yard. The females in his family
are on the porch. Running around, making noise, the usual. I've learned to
cope.
I park my bicycle in the driveway. A young boy shines the house spotlight in my
direction, catching my attention. I walk over and say hello to the small thing.
Passing around the corner, I witness the huge dinner taking place. My father's
brother is telling him he's a genius. I laugh, and throw a smile at Jon.
Suddenly, I'm reminded of the bicycle. I should bring it in, away from alien
eyes.
I remember something about Germans.
I go to the bicycle, carrying a gun. I'm supposed to play hockey today, but I
don't think so. Not today. I'm not feeling well.
A man drives by, slowly, eyeing the bicycle--my bicycle--the entire way. Is he
planning on thievery? He's lucky there's a fence between us, that's all I can
say.
I start talking to relatives--not paying attention to anything. The
man--Mexican, I'd guess--somehow comes up my driveway and steals the bicycle.
But like I said, I'm not paying attention. I just notice it's gone and yell bad
words.
A car zooms down the road, so I grab my gun. I don't think I'll be able to catch
him. I can't. I jump into a bright green Stingray and speed after. No luck. I
pull over at the bottom of Cardinal and jump out. I run up the hill, but
everything suddenly goes black, like I'm entering the void.
Neal Borowsky rides by on his bicycle. And I know it's his, because I check very
closely. Damn. I'm scared and Mockingbird Lane is gated off.
I'm going to shoot the next thing that moves.
October 2, 1994
Yeah. Go-Go dancers are on stage, shaking it. Each one is bigger and more
energetic than the last. They're being scaled up. Increased size. Their shit's
flopping about like nobody's business.
I'm sitting in the front row, gazing upward. Larger and larger, she just keeps
getting bigger. Any minute now, she'll expand past the event horizon and I'll be
happily consumed.
* * *
Something terrible is happening.
Make it stop! Make it stop!
It won't stop.
* * *
Linda and I are looking at furniture. I'm playing "good boyfriend," doing my
best not to complain. But no matter how hard I try to be good, all I can think
about is going home. I want to leave and the world needs to know.
We're in the lot, filling my car up with goodies. Time to go. I pay the parking
fee and I'm ready to zoom home, but everything is terribly crowded. There's a
truck and other obscure objects in my path.
I only pay a dollar.
I guess Linda is driving, because she can't seem to get out. She's pulling back
and forth, trying to maneuver in and out, but it's not working. It just doesn't
work. She's bumping into things, ruining other people's furniture.
I get up, remove my shirt, and pick up various objects. Boxes, cars, small
machinery. I move them all. My muscles bulge, you see, because I'm very macho.
Watch out.
Henri Yonet works here and he's a useless bastard. He just watches, of course,
sitting there and looking stupid.
I make room for our car and we leave.
* * *
Linda and I are rollerblading. Skating around, among a large group of people. I
speed up and pass them all--zoom. I skate down to the corner, but I can't cut
it. I over-shoot the sidewalk and skate into the street. True, I don't mean to
be in the street, but I'm in complete control. I still have total confidence.
But that's just the kind of guy I am.
I get back on the sidewalk and exercise a higher degree of self-control. Up the
road, I see two guys on bikes. Do I know them?
One is Matt Finochio. The other is Bill Watson. Wow, I haven't seen either of
them in quite some time.
"Hey Bill," I say, "you moved and I don't have your new number." I ask them if
they still play hockey. Or if they still want to.
At the last minute, I introduce Linda to the two of them. That's not very good
of me, to wait so long.
October 4, 1994
Oh, it's dark and forboding. I'm driving to Linda's, at night. I turn the corner
and find two large vehicles--trucks--blocking my path. One is an Isuzu Trooper
and the other is a moving van. No. It's an full-on, eighteen wheeler.
Both turn down her street.
One side of the block is completely clear. What's going on? Why aren't cars
parked everywhere? Why? Linda's car should be parked here, somewhere. She called
to say she saved me a spot.
A huge moving van--like a hundred feet long--is parked up on the sidewalk. It's
dark and scary, like a demon truck. It is a bad truck.
I pull a three point turn and find a spot under a large tree on the congested
side of the street. Then I notice the orange cones. City workers plan on
clipping this tree tomorrow, so they're claiming the road space in advance.
I fuckin' hate that.
There are no other spots, so I double park and rush to the parking area of
Linda's building. Linda's car isn't here. Where is it? Was it stolen? No, it was
probably towed. I run out front and notice "temporary tow-away" signs posted
everywhere. They were probably put up after-the-fact, knowing Linda. Poor girl,
she's going to be upset.
* * *
Part two:
There's a part-rock star, part-whore in Kevin's bedroom. Kevin who? Fitzgibbons,
I'd guess. She loves lounge music and has absolutely huge breasts.
Real ones.
She wants to eat garlic bread--fresh from the toaster oven--and she wants to
molest me. I'm not sure, really. Garlic bread is one thing.
She's wearing a hot and shiny, red velvet dress.
Part one:
Michael Becher won't talk to me. He won't, I just know it. I follow him
everywhere, but get nowhere. I call his name, but he doesn't answer. Maybe I
start calling him bad names, because he's upsetting me.
Steven Handler shows up. He's an asshole.
I follow everyone to Michael Becher's house. He ordered food from In'N'Out
Burger, with extra cheese. Or extra something.
Mathew Glass is super-happy to be involved. Someone's being vocal. They ask
Michael if I'd stay for a while.
Sure.
I go to tell my date. She's a woman--a real woman--in a hot and shiny, red
velvet dress.
She thinks it's all right if we stay.
We start to dance. We dance and listen to music. Strange music, which gets us
going, so we sit and start kissing. Fooling around. Who is she? Edie Brickell?
Some Bohemian-type? I really hope not.
I sit her down on my lap and remove her panties. She's got a dress on, remember,
so it's a relatively easy thing to do. I'm inspecting all the important parts--I
just have to--and I notice her hair is in the wrong place. Her pubic hair. That
triangular field of wiry curls is totally out of place, but that's fine. I can
live with that.
Eager, I position myself to go down on her, but she asks me to wait. All right.
I can do that. I try to remember the song she sings, but I can't. Her routine is
terrible and unflattering, but I don't care. I just want to do it.
October 5, 1994
I'm at work, compositing shitty images for some bad movie. David Borowsky comes
over and introduces himself, because he's the new, hired help.
Wow.
He's ready to begin business, but before we do, I stop and really say hello. I
tell him how it's great to see him again. Really.
Dave is a level 17 unix user. That's amazing. I tell him I miss him and all the
old times he had together. I miss playing at his parents' house, building things
from Lego.
Lego's great.
Marit shows up. She and Dave know each other, obviously. You can tell by the way
they greet each other.
Amazing!
All this time. All this time I've been trying to reach Dave via his NASA e-mail
address without any success. And then I turn around and find one of my
co-workers is a long time friend. Who would think?
Dave reveals his memories and pulls out some old drawings we did together.
Really old ones. Now he wants a signed Chris Romano.
Something CHRIS!(tm)
Who can blame him?
I think about giving him a drawing, but change my mind. David Borowsky can have
a book, instead. DECEMBER 22, Volume one.
He wants a free one. I could give him a free one, but should I? I shouldn't.
Maybe I won't.
October 11, 1994
What's ringing? Is that the phone ringing?
I want to hurt everyone.
October 12, 1994
It's the first day of school. I show up to high school, to begin the twelfth
grade. But how can that be? I just finished college--graduate school,
actually--and now I have to repeat my senior year of high school? Why?
It's like a new rule or something. I must re-take twelfth grade in order for my
education to be complete. I think this is a stupid rule, but I have no choice. I
did this high school thing years ago.
Walking down the hallway, I pass Mrs. Cohen. Or Cohn. I can't remember. She asks
me how my compositing class is going and I just nod. I'm not taking a
compositing class. I haven't taken one in years, but it's really not worth
explaining.
Passing students, I smile and say hello. Hello. Hello. It seems I'm more popular
this second time around. I greet everyone--cute and ugly girls alike.
Michael Volpi is in the hallway. He's a lot fatter, poor guy. I look and say
hello, and then fall over like a complete invalid. Mike won't say hello.
Instead, he looks down at me, lying on my back and rolled up like a pill bug,
and says, "You're a bad driver."
I have to agree. "I have been driving bad, lately," I say.
Volpi laughs and I fall. Again.
I think I'm being cool.
I pass another teacher in the hallway. She's sitting at a child's desk, looking
at me. Is that Mrs. Moore? No. Mrs. Moore was black. This lady is old and white
and over-weight. I don't remember her name. Just her face.
She waves and I say hello.
I also see Cheryl Jackson. She's got amazing, dark-chocolate-skin and a
beautiful, radiant smile. With locked eyes, we acknowledge each other and show
our teeth, gleefully. She's still really pretty. I leave, waving.
A student--and an ugly one by the looks of it--quickly opens a door. I catch it,
luckily, inches before my eyes. She looks at me and I throw the door back at
her.
The principal walks by and asks, "How's your compositing class?"
I take a moment to explain that I'm not currently in one. I haven't been for
years.
"Well," she says, "brush your teeth and go register for classes."
Brush my teeth? I just brushed my teeth. What is she trying to say? What's the
deal? Do I have bad breath?
Carole Tollefson works behind the counter in the registration office. She's
looking for my card in her folder and having a hard time doing so. I find it
first and point it out, but she's not sharp enough to complete the puzzle. Poor
old woman. I know someone, somewhere, is laughing.
A rude girl tries to elbow her way to the front of the counter.
Carole hands me the folder with my name and I read the contents. It's a class
list of some sort. Are these classes to be taken? Because I've done all these
already. The objectives say:
learn
date girls
be independent
I've done all that.
Right?
I imagine living on campus, way in the back. You know, past the bike rack, back
by the janitor's office. There's an open gate, and inside they keep all the
losers.
Jon will be in the ninth grade, which makes things all the more weird.
* * *
Linda and I are on huge sail boat, fighting. She has another boyfriend. A black
guy, and he's been cheating on her. He's asking for forgiveness and she won't
give it to him. I feel for the guy and I want her to give him a chance, but then
it hits me...
What about us?
I'm super-sad. Sadder than anyone's ever been sad before. Pulling Linda aside, I
ask her, "Do you do all the stuff with him as you do with me?"
This is bad.
This is wrong.
She says I'm the one she wants to be with, but I'm not so sure. I want to go on
strike and get a fat raise.
* * *
I'm sleeping in the blue Toyota Celica, down in our parking lot. I'm in the
front seat, sprawled out as much as space permits.
The obese lesbian from across the hall walks by, with a man. She sees me, in her
car, and engages the alarm.
Am I stuck in?
I'm given a 30 second window, and I use it. I sneak out when she's not looking.
* * *
I'm at the Unocal 76 with Robin Conover. We're at the corner of Sunset Boulevard
and the Pacific Coast Highway. It's nighttime.
Robin drives a black Honda Civic. I think it's a cute thing.
Is there a problem? Is someone calling me? The noises must stop.
Other people are paying for gas. It's a self-serve station, so you have to pay
the cashier before pumping. Looking out the window, I scrutinize a passing
couple. The female has no pants on. No underwear, either. And you know what? Her
pubic hair has been shaved off. I'd say completely, but it looks like it's been
growing back for a week or two. She's got short, light brown fuzz. It's not very
attractive.
She walks right by the passenger side window. I'm spooked. Her vagina is right
at eye level, and no matter how hard I try, I can't help but stare. Her crotch
is a magnet.
She's a grown woman with the compact vagina of a six-year-old.
October 13, 1994
I'm in a building. Like the elevator shaft of a large, construction warehouse.
There's a stairwell here, with a minimal amount of foot-traffic. Men wallking up
and down. There's also a girl. A young, short, homely, and pudgier version of
Toby, from Dream On. She's a horrible loser.
I'm watching her, as she stops each and every one of the men who climb the
stairs, petitioning each one for sex. Every man says no.
Except for me. I'm terribly desperate and I'll take anything. Unlike the other
men, though, she doesn't know me. I approach her and convince her to go for a
walk. To a "special place."
We travel down flights and flights of stairs. Down chutes and ladders, and one
steep, riveted slope. We're in an underground world. It's almost Hobbit-like.
James Earl Jones works here, making films for the masses. We must be very quiet,
to avoid attention and getting in trouble.
I'm looking for a place so Toby and I can get completely naked. I'm really
nervous and Toby is loud. She talking at maximum volume, ignoring my desperate
pleas for silence. I just know she's going to alert the attention of the
janitors, or the midnight crew.
A truck approaches from the far corner of the cavern. Headlights and a loud
grinding noise give it away. Toby and I hide, and then mingle with the large
crowd of tourists. No one notices a thing.
Toby and I go for a walk. We cut through multiple back yards, all the way to
Grove Avenue. Harris Targovnik and I would play frisbee here, in his back yard.
Just to my right. Toby and I are going to play, I think, when two older women
show up. Is that Irene Rossi? I'm supposed to show them all how to use my new
frisbee disc. It's special, with a razor's edge. I try to do normal frisbee
tricks, but they don't seem to carry over.
October 14, 1994
I'm trying to show David Palmer how to draw cloud pictures for animating. He's
better at it than I am, because he has more confidence with the alpha channel.
Plus I don't want to do it.
It's a very random activity.
* * *
I'm in the bathroom, having just washed my hair. I'm combing it the way I always
do, accomplishing the normal look. But then I decide to try something new. I
comb in all down in front of my face, giving myself that Joey Ramone touch. Hey,
I look like Jon.
I'm amazed at how long my hair is. Looking in the mirror, I tilt my head
forward. What's that?!? The top of my head is completely bald. "Completely,"
except for a few unhealthy, random strands. Using another mirror, I get a total
view of my head and notice blotchy, scabby skin. It's sick and I want to puke.
My hair is thin on the sides, too. When did this all happen? I guess I just have
so much hair around the edges, I didn't realize I was bad. I want to scream. I
want to, but I don't feel like I should.
Jon knocks on the door and wants me to hurry. But I'm not listening. I'm
freaking out.
* * *
I come home from work and notice the full mailbox. Boxes, packages, and
envelopes are pouring out. Bookcrafters, Sandy Cohen, Dave Hickey, and random
girls have all sent me things. They sent me books and photographs and other
goodies, and I'm exciting.
Cool.
October 17, 1994
There's a man who says he's Don Adams, but I know better. He's really the
mythical Pan, disguised in human form. He's assuming Don's place in hopes of
causing severe problems for everyone involved.
We're in a house. My grandmother's house. He's finding things out and messing
everything up. He's looking for books. Secret children's books which leave an
awful trail of dust along the way. Termites, I bet, got to the books and ruined
them.
There are large holes in the ground. Pan peeks in, and sees the real Don Adams
entombed, lying in dust. He's in an empty, wooden pool, underground.
Don wakes up and sees Pan looking into the hole, from above. Both scream and
howl like wild animals.
The chase begins.
* * *
I'm in a restaurant. I'm important, you see, with an entire crew. Everyone
leaves by my order, except for me and a girl. She's an actress, and she's
talking to me, checking to see if everything is all right.
I'm on my stomach. My hands are up her skirt, resting on her thighs. Rubbing her
legs, I say, "You're pretty."
"Thank you."
She has a strobe-dress on. It disappears every other frame, revealing her
breasts. They're small and pointy...my favorite.
She asks if I have a girlfriend of wife.
No, I say. And then I ask her out. I tell her I could get the business to pay
for our lunch.
No. That's a bad idea because she orders a lot of food. She's ordering hundreds
of dollars worth and she wants me to pay for it all.
Shit.
The waitress is Asian and she's pretty, too, although a little on the plastic
side. We only have one menu. I ask for a second, but the waitress tells me to
share.
* * *
I have a new studio. It's my first day here, I walk in, and find myself in the
middle of a critique. Liz Larner strolls in and starts commenting on the light
placement. But it's not my doing. This is my first time here and I haven't had
any time to fiddle with the lights. Or to fiddle with the room, for that
matter.
Red and white lights point at the ceiling, generating an obvious pinkish effect.
I'm annoying him with my special cans. But when I remove them, it's all just a
madhouse.
Where are we? Where? Where are Linda and I?
* * *
There's a European man walking with some children. The little boys must urinate,
I believe, so they use the neighbor's bush. They use my bush, too.
I jump out from my hiding spot, push the man down, and scare the fuck out of the
little kids.
"Stop," I command.
No. I get a garden hose and spray them all. The baby, Howard the European
fucker, his son, and everything else. I'm making a new studio, so I spray the
entire house and the group. I spray it in his mouth, at his groin, his face, the
whole enchilada.
We have a fight to the death.
I'm younger than he is, so he stays. He's an annoying bastard and a bit of a
problem and he won't leave. I think he's waiting to hurt my mother.
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December 1, 1994
Star Trek.
We're from the past--earth's distant past--and we're returning to the
future. Millennia have gone by, leaving the language and people entirely
different. We're very small.
Our team journeys through the thick forest in search of something.
Anything. We follow a babbling stream down the side of a hill. Where are
we going? The water leads to a huge fountain, along the outside of some
strange building. The fountain, actually, is more like a huge pool.
We look up and notice tremendous monsters. Fifty times the size of a man,
and many more times uglier. These brown, hairless creatures notice us, and
approach. They want to capture us, it seems, so we dive into the pools
and swim to the bottom. We hide, among the submerged objects, and
swim from side to side. Serpentine maneuvers prevent us from being
captured.
They grab one of us, I think, but no one understands. We try to talk, but
none of the words are coherent. This is a problem.
There's a female among our group. She's a healthy female, and talks
with a thick, semi-sexy accent. But now's not the time.
The captain is jealous, I think, because the huge creatures seem to be
listening to her. He wants to be the total focus of her attention even if
it means not saving the crew. Love does strange things. He orders everyone
to return to the vehicles, but the large humanoids won't let us. They won't
let us go, which is bad, because we really want to.
To be continued.
December 3, 1994
David Letterman is in my back yard, taping the monologue for tonight's
show. He's in a suit and it's nighttime.
Incidental light reveals thin webs stretching across the patio, like
trip-wires. Every time a web is activated, a large black widow creeps
from a nearby tree, towards Dave. The branches are rustled, and black
widow egg sacks fall from the leaves, landing on Dave's shirt. Without
a thought, he smashes them.
No. He inadvertently smashes them. His real intent is simply to brush
them off. But haste causes destruction.
The branches continue to rustle, producing even more egg sacks. One
even lands in Dave's mouth, much to his horror. He has to crunch down on
the sack before the eggs hatch and infest his mouth. The babies would
bite, making him very sick.
Dave's crew is also shooting background scenery for The Yeti Show.
Yeti's a celebrity, you know, and he's really good at posing for the
camera. My Yeti. But he killed a bird, and now there are millions of ants
crawling over the semi-decayed carcass.
Everyone is unhappy with Yeti.
I look to my left and notice a pile of branches and leaves. Someone was
pruning, it seems. From under the pile, I notice a broken cat's leg. Is
that Fuzz?!?
Yes.
She fell from the heater, they tell me, and died. She froze, physically,
and tilted right over, shattering her jaw and skull on the bricks below.
Her fall was "totally two dimensional."
I'm very surprised and even more saddened.
* * *
I'm rubbing my sweetheart, which reminds me of Johnny Suede. We just
watched the film together. I look at her and ask if I know where "the
button is."
She says, "No."
No!?! "You've been letting me go all along without saying anything?"
That's bad.
She shows me. I start rubbing the button correctly and her vagina
expands to the size of a very large, very wet, pink banana slug. It gives
off slurping noises and everything.
Wow!
I really didn't know. I feel so much better now.
December 6, 1994
I'm frolicking in a park, similar to Temescal Canyon. Maybe it's more
like a cross between Temescal Canyon and Roosevelt Park. I'm jumping
over tickweeds, in a large expanse of underdeveloped land. I was dropped
off here, so I can take a shower.
I have no clothes on. I have something on, but it can't really be
classified as clothes. Just what is it?
I run to the tree. Is that where I'll shower? No, because the sprinklers
won't reach that far. I search for the ground sprinklers and then wonder,
"Do they really exist?"
I dart through a spray of liquid, covered with soap and water. Rinsed off,
I search for a clean area to place my clothes. I see a couch. Two
couches, in fact, but each are getting hit with the spray. One is less wet
than the other, though. Deciding against the old, dirty couches, I run
around the partition and come across a pile. A pile of paintings?!?
I'm in cave and see piles and piles of canvases, boards, and other flat
surfaces--all of which have been painted on. I flip one over and read
"Jenny Groener" scribbled on the back. All this work was stolen from
her place, and taken here. That's my guess. And the person responsible
has been painting over her work.
That's terrible.
"Is he or she coming back?" I wonder. "Or has this place been long
deserted?" Is any of my own work here? No, but I sympathize. I've had
work stolen before.
I find a baseball bat. It's a new, 36-inch Louisville Slugger and it feels
good. I want to use it to destroy. To crack open a few heads like a
crazed maniac. But I don't. I just walk softly and carry it along. I have to
find Jenny, to tell her about her work.
I meet Robin Conover and Amy Gerstler along the way. Ben Weissman,
too. I tell them about everything and ask if they'll join my search party.
Yes? No? I have to find Jason Heath and Greg Stone. We'll catch those
fuckers and beat 'em silly.
December 8, 1994
My family and I--and Joyce, too--are in an amusement park toy store.
We're looking for exciting items to commemorate our visit.
No. It's a museum park. It's the same as a museum, only bigger and with
some topical rides referring to the current show's content. We begin in
the first room, looking at approximately fifteen inch-sized paintings of
Peanuts characters. Charlie Brown, Linus Van Pelt, Snoopy. They're all
really cool.
Snoopy is actually with us, attending the show. He enters the room and
immediately goes to the Snoopy paintings. I laugh and laugh and point
Snoopy out to everyone.
Time to go. We descend the steep stairs, and I become scared of falling.
They're cold and hard, and I know I'd really hurt myself, but I manage
not to fall. At one point, though, I'm forced to ask a woman to move
aside. Gravity got the best of me.
We find ourselves at the end of a very long line. Everyone--and we're
talking more than a hundred people--is waiting to purchase the museum
catalog for the show. Forget that. I tell my father we should wait until
the end of the day to buy our books--the store will be empty then.
We pass the Peanuts paintings again, and I think I should make similar
paintings of myself. I'd call it "One Chris, Two Chris, Big Chris, Small
Chris."
My father and I walk to the back aisles. I see Brian Inerfeld and Lori
Kriegsman, grab the both of them, and give 'em a huge hug. They laugh
and I let go. The hug is over, so I leave. There are too many people in my
group, as it is, so I don't ask them along. I take off and meet up with my
family.
We're sitting together is a small area. I realize we're in the seating
area for a rollercoaster-type of ride. My mother complains the space is
cramped, of course. We're like cattle, heading for slaughter. They're
moving us along too quickly, damn it, and we don't get to see everyone.
You know, it's just a crying shame.
December 11, 1994
Scott asks, "Do you know whatever happened to your friend?"
I assume she never called back. She didn't want the job, I guess. That's
what I heard
"No!" he screams.
Hua was hired for a day and then quit. She got a job elsewhere, with a
severely increased salary.
"Oh." I feel really dumb.
I find Hua, later in the day, and I'm surprised by her super-thick pubic
hair. It's like a barbed, wiry bush--thick enough to cut your tongue.
Lacerations. Beware of the briar patch.
I'd better be careful.
* * *
At Hi De Do, I'm milling around, looking at comics. I walk into the back
room and check the hold box. Some stupid kid yells at me. I look up and
say, "What?" I want to check the box like I always do. What's the
problem?
Marisa is in the back room. Her bare stomach is showing, and I can tell
she's lost some weight. Good. Good for her.
I find some old and interesting comics, but they're labeled with people's
names. That's stupid. I remove the labels while I hunt.
* * *
I'm getting married to my cousin Danielle. She's looks totally different
from what I remember and she's much closer in age. Her hair is long and
brown. We're getting married and Carole is teasing us. She's writing
notes and messages, making me out to be a horrible monster.
It's actually kind of funny.
I'm sitting at a table with a bunch of others. We're discussing the large
fields of dandelions. Things like rate of growth and radial limit come up.
Computer diagrams illustrate the exact flow of cross pollenization,
much to my heart's content. I find it amazing how tall and neat the
patches are. Order from chaos.
I'm practicing the rules.
Danielle shows her lovely face and the two of us joke. We're going to get
married to one another, but not right now. Maybe a little later.
December 12, 1994
My father is bothering me, asking to see my latest paintings. I haven't
done any work in weeks, though. I don't tell him, because I know he
won't like the sound of it. I try to change the subject, but he insists on
seeing some work. He's serious, like he has a real investment in it.
"They'd better be good," he says. Deadpan.
Oh well. What can I do?
* * *
Sleeping with Hua. It's like doin' a pre-schooler.
December 15, 1994
I'm at my old work. The one I try so hard to forget. Like a slug, I sit
there at a desk, pathetically watching three women talk. Young, black
women. Two of whom leave the room. The third, remaining female starts
making fun of the first two. She's making fun of their choice of radio
station and the music they listen to.
"They listen to black music," she says.
"What do you like?" I ask.
No answer.
"Would you like some peanut brittle?"
I walk over to the counter and show her the secret pieces of candied
peanuts encased in an orangy-brown tin. They were left here by other
workers, along with a strange array of game pieces.
She mumbles something, cynically.
"Hey!" I say. "You're black too!" It just hits me. She's short and fat and
basically like the girls she's ridiculing. I run over, hug her from behind,
squeeze both her extremely large boobs with all my might, and spin
around the room. Then I lose my balance, let go, and toss her in the mud.
It's like a large, slippery doo-pit.
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Welcome everyone! Welcome to dreamboy! January 1995.
I was hoping to begin this month's dreamboy! with the exciting results
of my loosely-described "contest", from last issue. But no one entered,
believe it or not, which makes me think none of you are actually
reading any of this. Do you just receive dreamboy!, only to delete it?
Is this some form of pity? Spare me, I beg you!
I'll try it one more time, and if no one enters, oh well. I'll put the
contest idea to rest. Here are the NEW rules. Send me 10 days worth of
your uncensored dreams by Valentine's Day, 1995. Three entries will be
selected at random. Those picked will receive a free copy of DECEMBER 22,
the high-quality paperback containing all my dreams from December 1991
to December 1992. Over 206 pages of subconscious out-pourings! If
you're one of the sharp few who actually purchased DECEMBER 22 for
$12, then I'll send you a free copy of volume two, upon printing (two
years, illustrations, and over 600 pages!)
Here's your big chance.
That seems about it. Take care, everyone, and be sure to listen to your
subconscious...it's telling you something. Believe me.
Chris
PS - If you're in the Los Angeles area, be sure to visit Jim SRcomic book-style
pages of his dreams, fully illustrated and with
captions. It's a riot and highly recommended.
*****
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*****
January 2, 1995
I'm a video game tester. It's my job. I'm sitting at a console with two
other people, though there's room for up to six. Maybe four. We can play
together or separately.
I'm a man with a gun.
A fiery sun comes swooping down; I must dodge low to avoid it. heavenly
satellites shoot down, attempting to nail me. I
have to shoot high in the air as a defense.
It's all pretty stupid, and I have a hard time determining the point.
* * *
Time for battle. I'm engaged in a terrific shoot-out. Me versurto the death?
I'm running around my old neighborhood, wielding a gun with ferocious
bullets. Lethal, with a real 'L'. I have my opponent in my sights and I fire
away. I pump rounds in his direction, butto no avail. Why? I have him
dead to rights.
He comments. We both know he should be dead. Neither of us know what
happened.
I have a meeting with rebel forces and find out our weapon technology
has somehow been compromised. Mathematic charts explain the
suspected problems and potential solutions. Now I know why the enemy
got away.
* * *
I'm sitting at a large table, engaged in a group discussion. All my
comments are somehow doo-connected. I'm talking about pools, pits,
splatters, the runs, and just fudge in general. Everything comes back to
fabulous feces.
Certain members of the group are tired of my banter. They think I'm
stupid and childish. Maybe I am. Maybe I even get somewhat embarrassed.
But still, I think doo is key.
January 3, 1995
Dueling computer geeks. Their systems are rip-roaring and they'to go.
January 4, 1995
I show up to work and it seems I'm the only one in the office. . Is today some
type of holiday?
I ask about Rick at the front desk, "...is he doing all right?"
They tell me he is. They tell me he's motivated again, which is a really
good thing.
I'm taking a shower in his office, asking questions out the open door.
Beautiful Tamala Terhune pops in, to get files and take care of
paperwork. As she approaches my nude body, I say, "Excuse me," and
place a washcloth over the Johnson. Mr. Johnson to you.
"Shit," she says. Tamala then turns and tosses a towel at me, eyeing me
like I'm stupid.
Damn, she got me.
I go to her desk and lay her down across the tabletop. I then strip away
her clothes, because I desperately need to investigate. Ah, just as I
suspected. Even though her skin's a velvety dark chocolate, the vital spots
are still as pink as can be.
* * *
I'm in fucking grade school. We're all wearing baseball uniforms-yellow
or orange, like my old Brewers and Angels gear from Little League-and
the teacher is taking role. We're sitting in specific places, supposedly in
alphabetical order. I make a mistake, though, and forget my
pre-determined spot. Everyone gets whacked out by my error.
John Riggi is sitting in the front row, with Ron Sandanato right behind.
Shit. I should be between them, but instead I'm four or five seats away.
I'm given a chair, but I don't fit. So I'm assigned a second seat. This time
I fit much better.
January 5, 1995
I'm in a structure. A large classroom, at the end of a long hallway. My
bedroom is on the other end.
The class is an art class. I'm not enrolled-god forbid. I'm just milling
around. Loitering. The class has green walls, and it's filled with unhappy
females. The instructor, yet another female, tosses a paint-loaded brush
across the room. The glob of light blue paint slaps in the middle of Susan
O'Neill's inept effort. Mindlessly, she mixes the light blue into her
painting and then looks up. The teacher, apologetically, admits to tossing
the brush and tries to comfort Susan.
Whatever.
I'm with a girl, and she's also just hanging around. She has a
student-friend in the class, and she screams to her, "You gotta get out of
this class." We walk out.
I don't know her name, although it could be Melissa Newman. Let's just
pretend. She's kind of thick in the calf area, but I won't hold it against
her. We go to my room.
I call Jennifer on the phone. Hello?
"We're moving next week," she says immediately. Well, it's a good thing
we're talking, I guess. I've been having a hard time getting a hold of her.
I've missed her, and I know she's going to get married soon. After that,
we'll probably never talk again. But I can't tell her any of this, because
Jon's sitting on my beanbag chair and he won't let us have "our moment."
I ask her for her new phone number and address. A small woman enters
the room and stands there, waiting to talk with me. She's cute, so I brush
he cheek with the back of my hand. She doesn't like it and moves away.
She moves to the door. When she looks back, I call to her, but instead of
returning she leaves completely.
Jennifer wants to know why I want her address.
"So I can send you mail," I say.
"Oh!" she replies. But I think she's afraid I'm going to try an, which is
silly. I reach for some paper, but I can't find anything
blank. Everything is a god-damned-mess. There's just shit and clutter
everywhere. Kipple. I'm knocking stuff over and the phone somehow gets
disconnected. I call back and Jennifer is horribly upset.
* * *
Max is smoking in the kitchen and I have a fit. He says somethi
only wanting to smoke two and then being finished, and I think, fuck you.
He'll smoke his two and then Candice will want to smoke in the kitchen
and then everyone will be. Stinkin' bastards-give smokers an inch and
they'll try to take a mile.
January 7, 1995
Rick tells me super-secret business information.
The information is later leaked, and Rick thinks I'm the source. But I'm not.
Later, I'm at the headquarters. I see a woman investigator and she's
questioning all the men. She knows something, I can feel it. The man she
interviewed thinks I revealed the secret and I'm really upset. I can't
believe they think I'm the snitch.
The investigator returns to the office, I think. Another woman takes
notes. She tells her a man called, and screams, "Yes!"
She has a huge, white wig and grey skin.
January 8, 1995
I'm at the movies with Jinko Gotoh, watching Stargate, of all fy he's sitting a
few rows ahead of us.
Jinko leaves for a moment.
Amazing stuff happens on the screen and I'm afraid I won't be aturns.
Jinko returns.
On the screen, a huge blob-monster enters through the back of a movie
theater. Our theater? It's going to eat little children.
The actual floor of out theater moves with the film. A mechanical device
of some sort has been placed under the rug, but it feels more like a
severe earthquake. People are screaming and jumping and going crazy,
and Jinko wants to know what's happening.
I calmly tell her, but even I'm surprised when the full energy of the
shockwave hits our seats. We get up and move to the side of the
theater-by the aisle, where it's safer-and wait for the rocking to end.
When we return to our seats, we find someone has taken them.
Damn'em all to hell.
I hold our current position as Jinko looks for better seats.
* * *
I'm outside with Joe Henke and Jinko. Joe and I are actually walking
together, and we pass Jinko who's completely engaged in her own
activity. She lost a bird, and she's having extreme difficulty returning it
to her cage. Over and over again, she manages to corner it on the
blacktop, but every time she reaches for it, it flies out of her reach.
Joe and I leave.
* * *
There's an e-mail contest.
I'm just sitting there, and it hits me. The answer is Betty & Veronica #8,
from January 1971, where Veronica is drawn even more cartoony than
usual. I want to use Linda's e-mail to send in my answer.
* * *
My family is supposed to move, and my parents have filled up their cars
with as much stuff as possible. They've parked their cars on the street
below, so they can leave first thing in the morning. My mother walks
outside and then rushes back in.
The cars are gone.
NASA has towed the cars, claiming they're illegally parked and some type of
ordinance. How can they do that? All our stuff is in the
cars. A Mexican woman from outside sympathizes with my mother.
"How do you know it was NASA?" I ask.
"Because of the black card...but now I can't find it."
Shit.
We'll never get out cars back without the black card. The black card
functions like a laundry ticket.
Regardless, I continue my loading chores in the garage. I pull a
screwdriver out from the wall and get terribly depressed.
* * *
I park my truck in the driveway. It's a steep incline, so I'm sure to lower
my vehicle's kick-stand. Only, it can't support the weight of the truck.
What did I do before? I've parked on tons of hills.
January 11, 1995
I'm hanging around in a run-down shack, by choice. Dead mice and pigs lie
on the dirty floor; everything is encrusted with shit. This place is like a
chicken coop, only housing vermin and rotting hogs.
Brian Inerfeld is here, too. We're here because the room is riddled with
disease, like the plague. You can feel it whenever you breathe. The virus
has a taste all its own.
Worriedly, I look to Brian and wonder, "Where are all the baby mice?"
Brian points to the floor.
I move, and holes begin to open up everywhere. Baby mice-half mouse,
half insect-begin to pour out. They're going to get me. I get frightened,
and seriously consider running away.
* * *
I'm transporting a large package from work. I'm supposed to send it
somewhere, via UPS. I bring it to the large UPS building in the bed of my
pick-up truck. I get a 4-wheel dolly from somewhere and use it to move
the package.
I'm in the building, in a long line. Suddenly, I realize I'm missing my
wallet. Crap. First I lose my Versateller card and now I lose my entire
wallet. I have to leave. I have to find my wallet. I quickly turn around and
begin maneuvering the dolly through the crowd.
Two workers are fiddling with an extension cord. I see an opening in the
sea of people and go for it. Unfortunately, I tag one of the workers with
the dolly, running over the heel of his foot.
The screams are incredible.
I apologize, and tell him I once rode an extremely heavy dolly over the
side of my foot, but he doesn't care.
I call a woman on the phone and tell her I'm unable to complete the
delivery. I flirt with her a bit and then tell her about my wallet. I'll leave
the package at a nearby friend's house in the meantime.
* * *
I'm at Greg Steiner's place, talking about the live-action Mortal Kombat
film about to be released. Some guy from high school directed it,
actually, and the others in the room are pissed off. They look up his
image in the year book, and start making fun of him. I look at his photo
and see it come to life. He's wagging his tongue and salivating. He mocks
me. He mocks us all, I suppose. As he should.
I'm not directing anything.
* * *
I'm watching cartoons. They're funny, but not drawn very well. Bugs Bunny and
Mickey Mouse are together, in a movie theater. They're
fighting it out, to the death.
I don't really know what's happening, unfortunately, because the
drawings are all really poor.
* * *
I'm in a car, with two others. We drive down a very long, very tight
alleyway. There's barely enough room for us. Who's the driver? Is it Tim
Sakamoto? He shows us his workspace, approaching from the back-alley
side. Again, we drive down a long alley, to a dead end. Somehow he
manages to turn around in the super-tight area.
I'm amazed.
We drive back and parked cars almost block us in. We get to the
my left, an old black man is chaining a gate, closing the gate off to the
public. It's his job. After 6 p.m. the roads are closed to through traffic.
There's a small girl in front of us, locking the alley shut. No! We want to
go that way. Luckily, the girl is too weak and too stupid to get the gate
closed, but she won't get out of the way. We honk and she moves, but she
drops her doll in a mud puddle. Her mother looks on from the distance and
yells something. With the little girl now out of the way, we zip by at
break-neck speed.
I look at the mother and yell, "Hey lady, lock the fuckin' fence yourself!"
January 15, 1995
I'm sitting in a shallow classroom. It's very wide, but there's only one
row. Our teacher is a comedian. He's rambling, and it's obvious he thinks
he's really funny.
I have a stomach ache. I fear I've soiled my underwear, actually, and I
want to check the situation out. I want to sit on the pot and push a little,
just to finish the job. But people keep getting up and beating me to the
bathroom. I figure it's a good idea to get up and wait in line, but the
teacher is talking to me. He wants me to read part of a specific magazine
article, but I can't. I have the jitters and I'm unable to hold anything
still.
I see Elizabeth Wallen with another woman, and I can't believe it's really
her. I haven't seen her in ages, and she looks pretty darn good. Her
eyebrows are thick and her butt seems small. Or smaller. I squint, just to
make sure it's her.
"Hello Chris," she says.
I read the review of the comedian, and he reads along with me. He loathes
the part where they say his act is "hammed up."
I get up for the bathroom and wait in line. I'm first. Looking around, I
notice there are women everywhere, and I just know they're going to hear
me squirt liquid feces.
The comedian is flirting with Lisa Anne Auerbach in the other room.
She's cuter than I remember. Like she's now half Asian or something.
* * *
I'm describing this next scene to Princess Leia. I'm the director, see, and
she has to run and jump off a cliff. I mimic the actions she's to take and
accidentally fall off the cliff myself. Luckily, I hit the lake at the
bottom.
I come up for air and I'm immediately hit with a horrible vision. All I can
see is a huge, great white shark lunging up from the depths to eat me.
What would I do?
Go for the gills! Go for the gills!
It's my only chance.
* * *
Linda and I are running around the woods. The landscape is desolate;
we're looking for food. Linda spots a felled tree, resting in a stream.
"Are those apples or pears?" she asks.
We cross the stream and Linda pulls off some fruit. "Is it a pear?" she
repeats.
"No," I say. "It's a crab apple. Don't eat it."
"Shit," she says, "you're right." She tosses the fruit to the tream, right past
us.
He's a happy grizzly bear-you can tell by his smile.
I get the strange feeling I'm supposed to model a pear or light bulb for
work.
*****
Entire Contents(C)1995 by Christopher Dante Romano.
All Rights Reserved.
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Well, well, how the hell are you all? dreamboy!, February 1995 is
open for business.
I'm happy to say, this month, that I have winners to my contest.
Can you believe it? Some of you actually participated and had a
good time doing it. Although the number of entries is small, I
appreciate the effort everyone gave. It's "in-VIG-eratin'."
The three winners for my super-exciting contest are:
TOM SESSLER! ERIC CHUANG! KENNY GRONO!
Each will receive a free copy of DECEMBER 22. By far the greatest
book ever to see print. You can e-mail the winners and ask them
yourselves. They'd be fools not to love it.
And I have another exciting announcement. Or at least I think so.
dreamboy! has finally topped 100 readers. It took a long eight and
a half months, but I finally got there. I'm just as amazed as you
are, if not more so. How long do you think it'll be before I hit 200?
Sixteen months? Never? It'll be an interesting thing to watch.
Do me a favor and forward dreamboy! to someone you know. Just
one person. Or better yet, forward it to your favorite mailing list.
Like for the New York Rangers or something. Post it in alt.rec.cats
or alt.sex. Somewhere you frequent. Somewhere where someone
will get upset.
Thank you for your time, and enjoy. I do my best to.
Chris
PS - And a happy, though belated, Valentine's Day. Smooch,
smooch. Slobber, slobber.
*****
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*****
February 1, 1995
I'm the passenger in a small automobile. Maybe a Geo Prizm. My
brother is driving--or sitting behind the wheel, rather. We're in a
super-jam and no one is going anywhere. The road, I'd guess, is
like a hundred lanes wide. We're all following a huge,
super-slow-moving truck with a stage on the back. No, it's
actually a gigantic television screen. The President of the
United States is going to make his State of the Union Address.
It's his first public appearance and everyone is anxious to see
what he looks like.
We see the silhouette of a slim figure, sitting in a director's
chair. Slowly the camera turns to the front of the figure and the
lights come up. The President turns out to be a woman. A black
or Hispanic woman, to boot!
How the hell did she ever get elected?
She starts talking about a more loving, more nurturing America,
and I think to myself, "Oh boy, is she going to push the wrong
buttons."
She just goes on and on--flapping her lips--and Jon doesn't like
her one bit. I'm completely amazed, and wonder just how far
she's going to go.
And then she says it.
She says she wants to model America after...after... "the
Vagina." I can feel the tension in the air as hundreds of blue-collar
men in nearby automobiles become furious. And to make matters
worse, she keeps saying it. Vagina, Vagina, Vagina. She should
stop, I think, but she doesn't.
Debris hits the streets as we drive past the World Trade Center.
Angry Americans are tossing objects from the roof, down into
the traffic jam. "Fuck," I think, "we're going to get killed."
I lie on my back, in the car, and push my feet to the ceiling. I'm
going to save myself, and supporting the roof of the car is the
key.
Somehow, Jon manages to get out of the traffic. The speech is
over and now we're cruising down the 101.
February 2, 1995
Scott, Jinko, and I are all walking up a hill, towards the peak.
We're walking along a very famous road, but I don't know which
one. We're going to work.
We're all supposed to be walking together, but I keep moving
both ahead and behind the group. Jinko reaches the peak before I
do, and yells. I run over and say, "Holy Cow."
At the top of this hill, you can see the entire San Fernando
Valley. It's snowing, if you can believe that, coming from a
cloud layer which is even with the peak. Our side--the west
side--is cool and foggy, while the valley is full of snow. It's a
beautiful and amazing sight.
We continue onward, towards MotionWorks. I pack a perfect
snowball and throw it at Scott. I'm just fun that way. I miss
him, unfortunately, but it's the thought that counts. I pack a
second snowball and throw it at him and again I miss. I pack a
third snowball and look at Jinko with a devilish grin. Laughing,
she says, "if either of you throw a snowball at me, I'll see that
you're fired."
That's not going to stop me.
We continue along and come upon large pools of city slush. I
step in a puddle when we get to the building.
Telepathically, I communicate with Linda. Tim Sakamoto keeps
calling her, waking her, and telling her about the snow in the
valley.
"Big deal."
We approach a man with a dog. I make another snowball and
through it at Scott and Jinko. Almost got 'em!
The man is helping a stray dog. I ask him about the stray and the
dog nibbles my pinky. It's a guard dog, and he found it roaming
around. He goes on and on and I want him to stop talking, but he
doesn't, so I just leave.
* * *
Ed Svetlik is criticizing me because my ears are filled with
wax.
February 3, 1995
I think I might send my resume to outer space. I have just as
good a chance as any getting a new job that way.
February 4, 1995
I'm guarding a government compound against intruders. It's a
large, open area--about one hundred feet below ground level. The
sides of the compound slant upward to street level. There's a
fence at the top, and the slanted sides consists of rocks and
thick foliage.
I hear something. Frantically, I search through the dense
vegetation in search of intruders. And then I see them.
A young girl and a "mother" figure are walking down the side of
the hill. I won't be fooled, however. I know they're zombies. So I
wait until they get to the bottom and then I attack. I use my
fists and large sticks, in an attempt to sever their heads.
It's almost funny.
The zombies are slow, giving me ample time to beat them. But
it's having almost no effect. I can beat them and beat them and
still they keep coming back. If only I could sever their heads
from their bodies. That would kill them for sure.
Two more zombie women and an old zombie man show up. I
attack the two women and hit one of them in the head with a
Louisville Slugger. Her rotting head takes a lot of damage, but
doesn't completely sever from the torso. I hit the second
woman-zombie and she falls to the ground. She's on all fours,
actually, naked, smiling a weird smile. Her backside is facing
me and I can see right into her huge, open vagina. It's covered
with a light, bloody film, and thick twine is hanging out. I grab
the twine and start pulling.
The zombie turns her head and growls ferociously.
The string is very long and moldy. I yank out about three feet of
it before a nasty-ass, saturated tampon bubbles out. I'm
disgusted by the menstruating zombie, so I swing my axe and
hack her brain right from her head.
The first woman-zombie, along with the old-man-zombie and
and the mother-and-daughter-zombies launch a slow attack, so
I retreat.
The house at the rear of the compound is my house. I run into
the back yard, to find my father barbequing chickens. The
old-man-zombie is wearing a Captain's hat. He approaches my
father and almost bites his neck, which is really bad, because it
would turn him into a zombie. I grab a fiery poker from the
barbeque and notice there's a flaming chicken on the end. I stab
the old-bastard-zombie and yell, "Fire!"
It scares the old-zombie, but he won't catch on fire. So I beat
him with a heavy stick with a rusty nail on the end.
The chicken is ruined, but I put it back on the flame. My father
will never know, I bet.
The small-girl-zombie attacks and I grab her by her arm and
swing her around and around. Dizzy, I toss her into moving
traffic, as two large trucks are barreling down the road. She
gets crunched and the sound is amazing. As the two Peterbilts
drive away, I can see her little zombie-legs dangling from
underneath the front axle.
The radio says something about zombies being everywhere, and
I think, "Just great."
* * *
I'm in a room with a lot of people. Is this a party? If I didn't
know any better, I'd say it was.
I'm in the corner, and Linda's friend Frank is hanging around. Out
from nowhere, a young girl shows up.
Frank and the girl are talking. He's telling her I'm gay, or
something. Whatever. Frank is boring me.
The girls turns to me and starts flirting. She sits really close
to me, as I lay my head down on the bar. So close, in fact, she
buries her face in my armpit. I warn her against the smell, but
she doesn't care. It should be very bad and intolerable, but she
seems to like it.
Really like it.
I think that's a beautiful thing.
February 5, 1995
I'm waiting at some sort of indoor bus stop, located in a living
room. There's a large crowd to my right, consisting of
unknowns. My eyes are fixed on a large-screen television.
I have a steak knife and I'm not afraid to use it.
Gregory Hines walks by--look at me the wrong way, buddy, and
you're dead. I'll cut you open like a chicken.
Linda comes over from downstairs. She's wearing a short, black
skirt, which is very unlike her. She asks me what type of
underwear she should wear.
"What?"
"Should I wear the big ones or the old ones?"
I don't know, I tell her. So she pulls up her skirt, revealing
large, powder blue bloomers with a little-girl panty-pattern on
them.
"Those are fine," I say.
"Great!" She turns and runs off.
Billy Plodzien appears on the big screen television. He's in a
movie, as a supporting actor, and he plays a stupid man named
Chris. After all these years, Billy is still large and fat. He's
wearing a black coat, and his hair is greased back,
gangster-like. Someone says something and Billy starts dancing
on national television. I think it's incredibly embarrassing, but
the audience loves it.
Fools.
* * *
Brian Inerfeld and I are going to school. It's raining, and we're
walking down a darkened freeway with large groups of others.
I'm walking ahead of Brian.
In the distance, I see an older man slip and fall in a puddle,
getting himself completely soaked. I want to laugh, but it's
really not that funny.
I walk back to Brian, because something seems to be up.
Someone stole his purse and makeup, and now he's really sad.
Should we still go to school, I wonder? Or should we attend
local classes? We haven't been to locals for weeks, and I know
we're going to get bad grades. It's my last year and I'm taking
biology classes. Why am I so stupid?
I used to like biology, but now I don't. The teacher talks down to
me.
February 6, 1995
I'm in a strange apartment unit. Am I in another city? Let's
pretend it's Tokyo.
The back wall is glass. Just a huge window to the brutal
outside. The landscape is desolate; the buildings burning.
High-temperature fire quickly approaches.
What to do?
I run for the front of the unit. It's Japanese-style, with a
Japanese family sitting on low cushions. I look up and realize I
left the front door open. This is very bad, because someone evil
could've entered and stolen everything.
Is that Lord Rayden in the distance?
February 10, 1995
I'm looking up at the large screen. All my flags appear in
wireframe, yet colored appropriately. I'm standing among my
audience, and Beethoven's Eroica is playing.
I feel pretty good, and the audience cheers.
February 11, 1995
I'm at work. We're all sitting around a big table, set up in the
middle of the lobby. Rick is filling out time-sheets, and says
he's missing some of mine. I handed them in, but Tamala must
have misplaced them. He's missing three days worth. Rick turns
and asks me for my hours. I tell him I spent a whole day at the
editing bay with Jinko. He looks at me curiously, and then
writes my hours down. He leaves.
Jinko grabs me by the hair and pulls my head back. Did I just
give out secret information? Did I say something I shouldn't
have?
Our lobby-located gathering is a going-away party for Max, and
maybe Candice. They've both just been fired, so we're all eating
cake. Max starts talking, answering questions about what he's
going to do next. He gets teary-eyed, and excuses himself from
the table. This hits a nerve and makes me really sad. I reach out
and touch Max on the shoulder, but it's meaningless.
He gets up and walks off.
I turn to Jinko, who's at my left. I'm sad and she's looking deep
into my eyes, sympathetically. The room is hot--very hot--and
her face is covered in a thin layer of sweat. I can feel my own
perspiration trickling down my forehead. The heat is extreme,
all of the sudden, and I run my fingers through my hair. Jinko
touches the end of my nose with her forefinger and smiles.
February 12, 1995
Hockey!
I'm playing rollerhockey with Scott Brescher and Mark
Richmond, among others. There's no ball this game--we're using
a frisbee. If you shoot it right, you can get the frisbee to fly,
as if you threw it.
Shoot--shoot. I make some great shots and tag Scott once in the
mid-section. I'm in the corner, and I try to keep it away. He
keeps the pressure on, so I spin and dump it. The frisbee soars
to the other side of the court, and right down the sewer.
Shit.
I skate over and call to Scott three times. We lift up the metal
grate and I climb down. The sewer is full of green, opaque
water. I'm on one ledge, and the frisbee is on the far ledge. I'm
standing on a wood plank, and don't realize it at first but the
plank is quickly sliding towards the dark tunnel.
Big deal, right?
Well yeah, because I know the huge, disgusting sewer monster
is going to lunge out from the dark and eat me.
* * *
It's nighttime and I'm on a covert operation. I climb up the
hillside to the Hollywood sign, with the intent to alter. Using
sheets of black and white plastic, I change the sign to read
"GUILTY".
* * *
I go over to Joli's place. She opens the front door, and I find
myself in the foyer. She leaves.
I'm walking around--snooping, maybe--checking out the visible
rooms. Joli's mother is in the kitchen, her back facing me. In
another room, I find her sister lying face down on the bed. I
don't know what she looks like--I can only imagine. She's got a
good figure, though. I can tell by her tight, body-revealing
clothes. I don't need to be seeing this. Testosterone levels
approach critical.
Joli comes back and leads me to her bedroom, where again she
leaves me. I look out the window, and find myself among a field
of apartment structures. I can see through the cracks in Joli's
walls, to the unit next door. Or I can almost see. I can make out
movement, but no clear images. That is, until I turn around and
look in the mirror. For some reason, this reflected angle allows
a clear view. I see a topless woman with Egyptian or
Cleopatra-style make-up jumping up and down on the bed. As
you can imagine, her stuff's flopping every which way.
This is a weird place.
I walk over to the window and find, to my right, a naked girl
sitting on the balcony below. She's totally naked, and not one
bit embarrassed by my gaze. To my left, I see another girl. I
stare at her and she gives me the finger.
Topless females are everywhere.
Joli re-enters the room, tells me she had sex the other day, and
starts sucking on my penis. Linda walks in, throws a fit, and
things just get ugly.
February 13, 1994
I'm a generic worker in a strange building. Everything's
mechanized, or robotic, and I find myself taking the elevator to
the top floor. I find myself confronted by some type of
automated ramp-arm. It picks models up from a specific
platform and places them on the ground.
I sit on the arm as it closes. It pushes me to the wall, and I fear
I'll be smashed to death. But no, there's some type of breaker
which prevents the machine from killing me. I assume it'll
place me back where it got me, but that doesn't happen. The
ground opens and the arm lowers me into its inner workings. I'm
going to be swallowed--swallowed into the machine!
The floor doors close and everything gets dark. I'm lying upside
down--feet facing the sky--and I can see the room above me.
Will I die hear? Will the management hear me hollering?
February 16, 1994
I'm encouraging an older, tired woman to shoot everyone in her
family. To shoot them with a shotgun.
Her will is weak, so I think I can do it.
*****
Copyright(C)1995 by Christopher Dante Romano. All Rights Reserved.
Any similarity between characters, names, and institutions and
actual persons and institutions is purely coincidental and should
not be inferred.
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Digital Games Review Digest, Number 1
Tuesday, April 17th 1990
** Editorial **
NES and Gameboy reviews
GameBoy: Golf, Kwirk & Solar Striker (reviews)
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From: Dave Taylor <taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Subject: ** Editorial **
Date: Tue Apr 17 11:05:32 PST 1990
Well, we've finally got our first issue of the digest out the door
and into your mailbox as you can see! It looks like it'll prove to
be an interesting mailing list for all. Some few of you might have
received an earlier version of this first issue, for which I apologize,
but the list has been growing dramatically and now includes people
on MCI Mail, and CompuServe, as well as BITNET, and various sites
around the world...
One thing you'll notice that this particular issue is exclusively
devoted to Nintendo, either the NES or the GameBoy. This isn't so
much any sort of grand design but rather simply due to these being
the only submissions we've received here at DGRD. If you have a
favorite computer game that you'd like to rave about, please do submit
a review to us!
Alternatively, since we've a bit more editorial freedom than the
traditional press, if you've played a game that you just really
didn't like at all, bad reviews are okay too. Please, though, try
to substantiate through example the problems you cite.
Submissions should be sent to:
digital-games@digital-games.intuitive.com
as always.
-- Dave Taylor
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Subject: NES and Gameboy reviews
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 90 16:32:19 -0500
From: leo@tds.lcs.mit.edu
The following are comments and ratings for some Nintendo and Gameboy
games. Including also are a few indirect comments from Kyoko
Watanabe, who played most of these games with me. I've included the
name of the company after the game; (A/B) means that the game is under
A's name but B made it (to the best of my knowledge). The guidelines
I've used for my ratings are:
8-10 worth buying at full price
6-7 worth buying at a discount, or if you're particularly interested
in this kind of game
3-5 only worth renting
2 only worth playing for free, and only for a few minutes
1 worthless
In any case I'd always recommend renting a game before you buy it if
you can.
NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) 10
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo/Fuji TV) 10
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Nintendo) 10
When I was younger I played a lot of the now-classic video games such
as Pac Man, Asteroids, Defender, and so forth, some of which I liked
and some which I didn't. But the first game that I found truly
awesome was SMB, a game I'd barely heard of when I bought the NES last
summer. I chose the Nintendo because there were plenty of games
available and I could rent them, but due to SMB and others I became a
real fan. It's hard to describe why SMB is so fabulous...it has a
sort of sense of fantasy and wonder that no game I'd played before,
and surprisingly none since (save the SMB and Zelda series, and
probably MOTHER, another Miyamoto creation) has captured. Aside from
that it has excellent graphics (I prefer the simple, clean, colorful
graphics to detailed graphics which are becomming more popular),
music, and most importantly an excellent feel that makes it so much
fun to play. This is a game I'll still play again and again (and it's
hard enough that I still haven't won yet), and it's fun to see even
friends who normally don't like video games have a great time with
this one (the only game which I've seen beginners like more is
Tetris). Truly an incredible game.
Nintendo decided not to bring the original SMB2 to this country but
instead adapted Fuji-TV's "Dream Factory dokidoki Panic," and somehow
that game fits right in with the series, although the game play is
different (and the feel not quite as good). The originality is
perhaps even greater than SMB, and Kyoko and I would emit screams of
delight every time we discovered something new (which was often). I
finally won it a while ago, and I don't think it's as easy as people
have said, although getting lots of extra lives helps a lot. Still
worth playing again and again.
I wondered if Nintendo could even top SMB2, and they did with SMB3.
This is easily the best videogame I've ever played. With the movie
Spinal Tap in mind, I originally gave this game an 11. However after
playing more I'd have to now give it a 12. The imagination and variety
are staggering, and everything was designed to make the game extremely
fun to play. Every aspect of this game is exceptional, and I could
spend many pages raving about it. It almost seems unfair to compare
other games to it. A true work of art.
Legend Of Zelda, The (Nintendo) 10
Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link (Nintendo) 10
Two more beautiful games from the Miyamoto team, these blend together
action and adventure (as in role-playing games) better than any other
games I've seen. And Zelda II is completely different from Zelda I.
Both are extremely challenging. I like Link a little better, and the
"pre-ending" (the last scene before the ending) is remarkable. Zelda
is probably Kyoko's favorite game.
Dragon Warrior (Nintendo/Enix) 9
Ultima (FCI/Richard Garriot) 4
I honestly can't say why I like Dragon Warrior (DragonQuest in Japan)
so much, but the game manages to be perfectly addictive. I played
during all my spare time for a week until I solved it (and Kyoko later
did about the same). I can't wait to play DragonQuest II, III and IV!
A couple people described Ultima as being even better, but so far I
really don't like Ultima. There is so much tedium (I guess it was
meant to make the game "realistic") that I haven't enjoyed playing at
all. Instead I went back and played Link all the way through again,
and then Dragon Warrior again (still really fun as I'd forgotten
almost everything). [postscript: I eventually gave up on Ultima.]
Donkey Kong Classics (Nintendo) 6
Mario Bros. (Nintendo) 8
Pinball (Nintendo) 5
Donkey Kong 3 (Nintendo) 4
Early fun games by Nintendo. Mario Bros. is especially fun with two
people since you can play cooperatively or competitively (for some
reason we've been only able to do the latter). Unfortunately it's out
of print now, although some Toys R Us may still have copies. Pinball
is a lot of fun, but gets repetitive after a while, so I only
recommend renting it. Donkey Kong 3 was a bit of a disappointment at
first, but it seems better the more I play so this rating is still
tentative. Suprisingly, the game is a little like Galaga (!),
although with many twists. Also out of print.
Rad Racer (Nintendo/Square) 8
RC Pro Am (Nintendo/Rare) 8
Two really good racing games. Rad Racer is from the perspective of
behind the car, while RC Pro Am is an overview of the track.
Different enough that it's worth getting both if you like racing games.
Faxanadu (Nintendo/Falcom) 9
Ninja Gaiden (Tecmo) 9
Metroid (Nintendo) 8
Kid Icarus (Nintendo) ?
Blaster Master (Sunsoft) 7
Bionic Commando (Capcom) 7
Some really good action games for the NES. Faxanadu actually has
some elements of role-playing games, but it's mostly action. Ninja
Gaiden is a terrific game with a great feel, and the cinematic
intermissions make it even better. Metroid has the usual great
Nintendo feel, and some nice touches (Kyoko especially likes maru
mari--become a ball). Kid Icarus too seems really fun but it's out of
print and we've only been able to play it in a store. Blaster Master
has a great bouncy feel, but with no passwords or continues gets very
frustrating. Bionic Commando has its unique method of movement and a
good feel, although quite hard for us.
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (Konami) 4
Willow (Capcom) 6
This section is for "obvious Zelda series ripoffs," with Simon's
Quest based on Link, and Willow based on Zelda (some of the
similarities are embarrasingly obvious). Simon's Quest is a pretty
bad and unfun game, but Willow is actually decent and worth trying.
Mega Man II (Capcom) 4
Monster Party (Bandai) 5
Wizards & Warriors (Akklaim/Rare) 6
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II (Akklaim/Rare) 5
Castlevania (Konami) 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Konami) 4
Contra (Konami) 3
Adventures of Bayou Billy, The (Konami) 2
Unfortunately there are plenty of mediocre games for the NES, and
here are some I've rented. Actually almost everyone seems to love
Mega Man II, so you can ignore my opinion, but I didn't like it (and
Kyoko liked it even less, refusing to play after a short time). The 8
mini-boss stages are all quite easy, and I'd defeated them all in a
couple hours (and that was when I was really bad). But it was only
this easiness that kept me going that long, as I didn't enjoy myself
while playing at all. The graphics and music are both quite good, but
the feel isn't.
Monster Party has worse graphics and sound, but is a little more fun
to play. It's also very easy and it took only a day to win, but I
wouldn't want to play again. You can change into a monster like in
Altered Beast, and the only real strategy is to become this monster
and blast everything. There are some cute bosses (such as being
attacked by various Japanese delicacies) and I give the game an extra
point for the excellent scene in which zombies dance to taiko music.
Wizards & Warriors is actually a pretty decent game which involves
mostly jumping, and has a good feel (once you get good you can hold
down the A button and have fun!) but I'm not sure I'd recommend buying
it since it was easy to win in a day. The sequel Ironsword is harder
but not as much fun, and I actually prefer W&W's primitive graphics
(which were more, say, surreal) to the latter's.
Castlevania has the apparently typical bad Konami feel to it, so
despite the nice graphics (also typical of Konami) I didn't enjoy
playing much at all. TMNT was fun for a little while and quickly got
boring. The feel isn't very good, typical of Konami. Contra is about
the same, and isn't much better with two people (although we both hate
mindless destruction games in general). Bayou Billy is your basic
terrible kung-fu game, although it does also have shooting and racing
games built in. None are any fun.
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Nintendo) 10
Tecmo Bowl (Tecmo) 8
Ice Hockey (Nintendo) 8
Double Dribble (Konami) 7
I never ever thought I would like a boxing game (I can't stand the
sport) but Punch-Out is incredible. Nintendo twists boxing around to
make a really fun game. The opponents and their ideosyncracies are
great, and every new one is a challenge. I wouldn't be surprised if
this is another Miyamoto game. Tecmo too takes liberties with
football to make an excellent and very playable game. Ice Hockey is
also lots of fun, and Double Dribble is decent as well.
Mickey Mousecapade (Capcom/Hudson) 4
Milon's Secret Castle (Hudson) 3
Hudson's Adventure Island (Hudson) ?
I've yet to see a decent game by Hudson for the NES. I've only seen
Adventure Island being played so I can't rate it, but it looks similar
to Secret Castle, which was no fun at all. Mickey Mousecapade is a
little better, but quickly gets boring.
Life Force (Konami) 8
Konami might make terrible action games, but they make great space
games. I'm terrible at space games but really like them; in any case
Life Force (and R-Type in the arcade) is enough for me. It's nice
that two can play at once as well. Haven't tried Gradius yet.
Tetris (Tengen/Alexy Pazhitnov) 8
I hate the arcade version of Tetris--the joystick is very
unresponsive--but no such problem exists with the Tengen version.
Defintely one of the best versions of the game I've played, with a
good feel and plenty of options. Unfortunately no longer on the
market, but you may be able to rent it. Haven't tried the Nintendo
version.
Wheel Of Fortune (Gametek/Rare) 5
Anticipation (Nintendo/Rare) 5
The former is good game if you like Wheel of Fortune, but
unfortunately (at least in the copy we rented) there are numerous
programming bugs. And most annoyingly the random number generator is
not very random at all, so we kept seeing the same puzzles again and
again. Worth renting once, though, and it was amusing that we played
this right after Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, and the first puzzle was
"heavyweight champion." Anticipation is another fun game in which you
have to be the first to guess what picture the computer is drawing.
It also suffers from the problem that puzzles turn up again all too
often, although if you play with the same group of people this could
become part of the strategy. A good party game, but with more than
two you need to share controllers, which causes problems.
Duck Hunt (Nintendo) 2
Hogan's Alley (Nintendo) ?
To The Earth (Nintendo) 6
Nintendo rather meanly makes you buy at least the light gun if you
want Super Mario Brothers, and includes the boring Duck Hunt with it.
Most of the other light gun games look similar, and although we
enjoyed playing Hogan's Alley in the store I'll bet it gets boring
fast. However To the Earth is pretty decent. The idea is so
straightforward I'm surprised no one did it before: Make a typical
space shooter with levels and bosses and so forth, have the
perspective be from the ship and use the light gun. The result is
quite a fun game, although extremely difficult for those of us with
bad aim (we haven't even seen the first boss yet!). Very tiring on
the eyes, but worth playing again after some rest.
World Class Track Meet (Nintendo) 7
Super Team Games (Nintendo) ?
For an extra $30 or $40 over the action set you can get the power
set, which includes the power pad and World Class Track Meet. For
just this game it's worth it unless you don't want a bulky pad. A
really fun game, definitely intended to play with friends rather than
against the computer. Unfortunately it seemed this type of game was
about all the power pad is good for, and almost all games so far are
basically running games. We rented out Super Team Games, but it
didn't come with instructions and we couldn't figure out the strange
movements you have to make. It wasn't fun at all, but maybe with
instructions (and more people) it could be. Nintendo's new "Short
Order/Eggsplode!" looks promising as a differnent, if silly, kind of
game for the pad.
Friday The 13th (LJN) 1
The worst game for the Nintendo, this one is to be avoided at all
costs. Actually I'd guess the other LJN games, all of which are movie
adaptations, are equally terrible, but I refuse to even try them.
GAMEBOY
Tetris (Nintendo/Alexy Pazhitnov) 9
Perhaps the best version of Tetris around. The two player game quite
different and especially fun, well worth searching out someone else
who has a Gameboy.
Super Mario Land (Nintendo) 10
One of the reasons I bought the Gameboy; along with Tetris this game
alone makes it worthwhile. The feel is even better than the original
SMB, and the game seems specifically tailored to the Gameboy. The two
shooting stages play like a really fun space game! Lots to discover,
and worth playing over and over.
Tennis (Nintendo) 8
Golf (Nintendo) 9
Both excellent sports games, with many options reflecting the sports
and excellent feel. Tennis is very challenging even on the easy
levels. Golf has especially excellent graphics and is very addictive.
There are two courses (with some quite imaginative holes) to choose
from, and a battery so you can save the game at any point.
Alleyway (Nintendo) 6
I never liked Breakout that much, but Alleyway, using the B button,
has a much better feel. A good mindless relaxing game.
Kwirk (Atlus) 7
Fun puzzle game in which you try to get through an obstacle course
cluttered with movable blocks, pits, and turnstiles. Thirty main
puzzles, which start out fairly easy and quickly get extremely
complicated, and numerous easy puzzles for a 10-puzzle timed run
(which can be done as a race between two players).
Solar Striker (Nintendo) 8
Very good vertically-scrolling space game. Has a nice feel like the
shooting sections of Super Mario Land. You can hold down the fire
button for rapid fire which makes the game easy on your right hand;
however the left hand will get quite a workout with this one.
Revenge of the Gator (HAL America) 8
Comical and very fun pinball game with four main screens and three
bonus stages. A good feel, great music, and lots to do. In the two
player games players are on opposite ends of the screen with their own
set of flippers, making for a very different and also great game.
John Leo
leo@tds.lcs.mit.edu -or- leo@athena.mit.edu
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From: Dave Taylor <taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Subject: GameBoy: Golf, Kwirk & Solar Striker (reviews)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 90 9:39:01 PST
Solar Striker
This game is clearly in the same vein as Galaxian and other space
shoot-the-bad-guys games. Lots of strange and violent ships fly
down from the top of the screen in various formations, and you must
shoot them before they smash into, or shoot you. There are power
pods that give you double (or even triple) side-by-side missile
launchers to aid in killing the evil ones.
This, however, is merely the first of six levels of different
environments that you must shoot out the bad guys within. Other
levels include a desert terrain, and some on-planet terrains too
(though I haven't gotten past the beginning of level two at this
point).
Basically, this looks to be a fun game if you're into space shoot
out type games; lots of strafing runs and forays to the top of
the screen, and a nice feature that if you hold the A or B button
down it'll repeat fire (thank goodness!).
FROM NINTENDO, $24.95 @ Toys-R-Us
Kwirk
The adventures of "Kwirk, the Chilled Tomato" is far and away the
best of the early pre-release cartridges I have currently, and I
predict this will be a hands-down success in the Nintendo market.
A pre-production cartridge that has only one obscure bug that I've
found (in "heading out" you can't seem to always get back to the
selections menu when pressing the "A" key; instead you end up with
an automatic "select:reset" pair happening.) it's overall quite the
closest to production and shelf quality.
The premise of Kwirk is that our hero, the chilled tomato, and his
"gal" Tammy (like, you got it, Tammy Tomato) are out on a date and
decide to explore an underground labyrinth. Problem is, Tammy
vanishes, and Kwirk has to get through all the puzzle rooms to get
back to her...fortunately, Kwirk has a couple of friends that pop
up on occasion to help with particularly challenging rooms.
Basically, each room consists of a maze-like layout of brick wall,
turnstile objects (e.g. objects that can rotate out of the way (or
into the way) if their path is clear), deep holes and movable blocks
that can be pushed into the holes to create a walkway. Some levels
are pure turnstiles, some are just blocks without holes or anything
else, and some are intimidating combinations of all of them in
a strange, and twisted fashion.
This is a TERRIFIC game! There are at least 340 different rooms
to figure out in this game (where the 10 easiest took me about an
hour to get through; partially because I didn't bother to read the
(draft) manual first to figure out what the friendly other characters
were for :-) and it's also possible to Video Link it up to another
GameBoy for multiplayer action.
The rooms are broken into different areas, where the most
straightforward is the "Going Up" level, where you show up in
a room with stuff in the way and a small staircase somewhere
on the far side of the obstacles. There are 10 of these per
each of the three difficulty levels (easy, average, and hard).
The rest of the 300+ rooms are part of the "heading out" section,
where the rooms are connected horizontally; basically it's like
you're going along a tunnel and keep encountering rooms with the
obstacles that you must figure out and get past to keep journeying.
I don't know what's at the end of the journey, but so far, at least,
it's quite worth the trip! Now if we can just rescue Tammy... ;-)
FROM ACCLAIM, $24.95 @ Toys-R-Us
Golf
Though I've had this one a while I've only had the chance to play
through the USA 18-hole course once. My score? Something like 45
over par (not too good, eh? :-). This is an incredibly cool game,
and I can already tell that I'm going to be spending many hours
whittling down my shots to where I can start to feel that I can
master the courses.
There are two different 18-hole courses available for play, a
Japanese and an American. According to the instructional notes,
the Japanese course has "smoother" greens than the American...
Each hole has many obstacles to overcome, including bunkers (sand
traps -- I didn't know what a bunker was until my roommate told
me! :-), water traps, rough areas, forested areas, and even some
fairways to help things along a bit. There is also a choice of about
15 different clubs to choose from at each stroke, including three
'woods', eight 'irons' and a few special clubs for escaping some
of the traps.
Further, the game takes into account much of the complexity of
real-life golf too, including indicating and keeping track of
wind, by direction and speed, and having obstacles affect the
path of the ball, including trees being in the way and rough
or pitched angles on the final green!
One frustration I did have on the 14th hole, I think, was that
I tapped the ball with a 6 iron and it actually smacked off the
flag stuck in the hole! It might have ended up on the green,
but instead it made a weird noise and bounced back. ;-\
Overall, though, the controls are pretty easy to use, though you
DEFINITELY need to read through the 25+ page instruction booklet
to figure out what's going on. Also, the instruction booklet
talks about a training mode to learn specific holes, as well as
how to play when you've VideoLink'd two Golf games together. I
haven't tried that yet, however, so can't report.
Perhaps the best and most amazing thing about this cart is that
it has independent RAM and memory! That's right, if you want to
stop your game in the middle of a hole, or just want to have it
keep track of your best scores, then it's all there, and all
automatic! It was, I admit, most disconcerting to flip on the
power to this cartridge the second time and have "DAVE" as
player #1 already! :-)
Overall, I would have to foam at the mouth a bit and say that this
is not only the best demonstration of the technologies available in
the GameBoy, but it's also easily one of the most enjoyable games
too! Excellent!!
FROM NINTENDO, $24.95 at Toys-R-Us
Supports VideoLink hookup
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
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Digital Games Review Digest, Number 2
Thursday, April 26th 1990
Today's Topics:
Atari 2600/7800: "California Games"
Macintosh: "Welltris"
GameBoy: "Malibu Beach Volleyball"
"Penguin Wars VS", and "The Great Warrior SAGA"
Lynx: "Gauntlet III"
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From: bradley@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Eugene Bradley)
Subject: Atari 2600/7800: "California Games"
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 17:05:52 EDT
California Games was made in 1987 by Epyx (which is practically dead now).
It can still be bought *in its original carton/shrink wrap* at most toy
stores. It's retail cost is ~$19.95 (it depends on where you live and
where you get it).
When one first turns the game on w/ CG (which is what I will refer to
California Games as), the song "Louie, Louie" is played along with
the designers' (which I will tell you in a later posting, as I don't have
the game on me right now) names.
During the title sequence, if you press the game reset button or the controller
button on the joystick, you will get a listing of names that are shorthand
for the major sponsors you can play for. Examples are Santa Cruz Skateboards
(listed as StCRUZ); Epyx (EPYX); Ocean Pacific (OP); Costa Del Mar Sunglasses
(DELMAR); Spinjammer (SPINJM); Auzzie, a made-up surfboard company (AUZZIE);
Casio (CASIO); and Kawasaki Jet Ski (JETSKI). It's possible to play any
combination of software games from an average solitare game, up to 8 players.
There's only one minor hitch: you can use *only* the left joystick. Diffi-
culty switches will not matter in this game.
Basically, CF is four games in one. These four games (listed in order) are
footbag, skateboarding, BMX biking, and surfing. The highest score in any
of these events wins the event. "Ribbons" are given for first, second, and
third highest scores in each event, as well for overall performance (i.e.
winner of an event gets 5 points toward overall score; 2nd in an event, 3
points; 3rd in an event, 2 points; 4th-8th place, 0 points). You have 90
seconds to finish your turn before moving on to the next player or event.
Another quirk: you don't know *exactly* how much time you have to finish
your turn (unlike CG for the Lynx) until your score starts to flash; at this
point you have ~5 seconds remaining until the event ends.
After one has selected the sponsor (you can only select one) to be played
for, the first event, footbag, begins. The object of this event is to
keep a "bag" (represented by a dot on the screen) in the air for as long
as possible. You can move left and right by pointing your stick in that
direction. Pressing the button causes the player to do a mini-jump; moving
the stick up causes the player to jump ~0.5 inch higher than with the former
jumping procedure. Depending on where the "bag" is, you can make the player
do an outside kick, an inside kick, a knee lift, a toe-tap, or whatever
else you can think of. If you want to turn around and do the same kicks,
move the stick down. Every time the "bag" hits a part of the player's body
(leg or knee), you will score points for that stunt, which is shown at the
bottom of your screen (the lower numbers). The maximum you can score for
points/stunt is 1000. If you drop the "bag", the points/stunt score reverts
to 0. Your total score is shown just above the points/stunt score.
The highest point otal that is displayed is 99,990 points. If you
exceed that number, it won't reset to 0; your score just goes higher as it
will be counted in the calculations for who gets what place when the event
ends.
At the end of footbag, the player(s) will start the next event: half pipe
skateboarding. To win this event, you must score higher than your opponents
by doing kick turns (using the feet to turn around *while on the pipe*),
air turns (self-explanatory), and hand plants (grabbing the *edge* of the
*pipe* with your hand and turning 360 degrees). The highest single score
you can get is 990 points for doing a hand plant. The kick turns' point
range is from 120-590 points while the air turns award from 600-710 points.
You use the stick to do the air turns/kick turns and the button for the
hand plants. If you're off on your timing, you will fall and you will be
sent back to the top of the pipe where you started the event.
Three things worth noting: if you're in the middle of a stunt *when time
runs out*, its point value won't count. Also, if you're doing a hand plant
at that time, you will spin *on one finger* and then fall. Naturally, the
points won't count. Finally, if you go too high in the air, you will hit
the top of the screen and fall.
After you've fallen on your rear end several times in skateboarding, you
will need what's left of it for the next event: BMX bike racing. The
course is lined with trees, rocks, cow skulls, mud bogs, moss, and ramps.
You go downhill all the way, hoping to score higher than your opponent(s).
Pointing the stick right causes you to go faster while pointing it to the
left puts on the brakes. Pressing on the button causes you to jump; doing
this on a ramp causes you to jump higher. To score, you can either jump
over trees, rocks, or skulls; or do stunts. Moving the stick up (to do
a flip) or down (to do a "table top", meaning your bike frame is parallel to
the ground) *and landing on both wheels* causes you to do these stunts;
however, incorrect timing can cause you to crash. In this event, there is
a timer that counts down from 30.0 seconds that is reset by going over or
passing a certain flag. Also, there are bonus flags that are worth points
(instant). Getting *all* the bonus flags gives you 4000 extra points;
finishing *without crashing* gives you a 10,000 point bonus. At the finish,
the time difference between each "time flag" is multiplied by 10 and added
to your score, as well as any other bonus points that are due to you.
After all that bruising in biking, you can relax in the final event: surfing.
It's very simple: *don't "wipe out", meaning don't end up off your board
in the water.* Points are scored by doing tricks with your board as well as
turns in the air with your board above the water (unlike the Lynx, which
allows multiple turns in the air, I have managed only *1* 360 degree turn).
Just turning the stick in various directions allows you to do assorted tricks
(e.g. weaving in/out of the wave) and score points. If you get enough
speed, go in the air, do a half or full turn, and land *upright* with the
board to get points. If you want to turn faster, hold down the button. You
also score points just for staying on the board, but whatever you do, *don't*
"wipe out"; it takes >= 5 seconds (a long delay considering you have 90 seconds
to complete the event) to get the surfer back on the surf. If you "wipe out"
with <= 5 seconds remaining, the computer will end your turn.
Some other features that weren't mentioned (until now): in footbag, there
is sometimes ~ a 0.5 second between the time the "bag" hits the ground and
the computer resets the points/stunt counter to 0. If you're fast enough,
you can "dig" the "bag" off the ground and have your points/second meter go up.
This is especially important if you're in the middle of a high-score shootout,
and your points/stunt counter is 1000. In surfing, when you start repeating
stunts, the point value decreases a certain factor until you don't score
anything for that stunt. Finally, in surfing, when your turn ends, you have
to wait for the figure to "wipe out" before the next player's turn/end of
the event.
Ratings (from a scale of 0.0-100.0):
SOUND. (88.7). Could have been higher if they put in "Wipeout" for
surfing instead of "Louie, Louie." Instead of unknown music, they
should have "California Dreaming" for the start of each event.
Great digitized music for "Louie, Louie", however.
EASE-OF-USE. (97.3). A lot of moves with the joystick/buttons for the
various events, but easy to remember.
PLAYABILITY. (99.0). Addicting element: get the highest score in each
event possible. Not boring, except in > 2 player games (can only
use *1* joystick, no simultaenous play)
DOCUMENTATION (96.8). Often require reading twice in order to get the
stick/button moves right. A nice feature is that it has a glossary
of all terms of "Californese" (e.g. "Dude", "Bio", "like")
GRAPHICS. (93.4). Good graphics for the player in the first 2 games (in
footbag he looks like he is wearing sunglasses; in skateboarding he has
a helmet) as well as the final game (wears shorts), but the low score
was due to the one-dimensional design of the biker (like a shadow) in
BMX biking. Also in BMX biking, if you play this game on a black-and-
white set (which I did), you can't tell the moss from the mud bog (they
both look dark)
All in all, this game is pretty good. If you can't afford a Lynx, and have
a 2600 or 7800 that is still working for you (and if you can find it), you
might want to get California Games. Hey, dude, even if you, like, can't
do quads and quints in surfing, man, it's worth it.
Eugene
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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Subject: Macintosh: "Welltris"
Date: Fri Apr 20 11:11:55 PDT 1990
I recently received the game "Welltris" - the supposed follow-on to
the fantastically successful game "Tetris" - from Spectrum Holobyte
and have had it around for a few weeks. I am quite a fan of Tetris,
as is my girlfriend, and so we were quite enthused when the new game
arrived, figuring that it had to be another winner.
Oh well. Frankly, I think that Welltris is a very poor follow-on to
Tetris, and after the first day of playing to figure out the subtleties
of the game and what the heck was going on, we've tossed it into my
games-we-don't-want-to-play closet. Why isn't it that good? Because
it offers a more confusing interface including a poorly laid out
keyboard (imagine this; you've a tetris-shape piece sliding down one
wall of a four wall 'well'. you can use keys on the keyboard to rotate
it or move it "clockwise" or "counterclockwise", but as soon as it hits
the adjacent wall and wraps over the keys that you must use to control
lateral motion CHANGE. Yech! Why not just '4' for clockwise and '6'
for counterclockwise, which would be a heck of a lot more consistent!)
The display itself, on my 8-bit-deep greyscale monitor, is also not
only confusing, but rather unattractive too. Gone is the 3-dimensional
feel of the original Tetris blocks, replaced instead with a flat 2D
graphic (which is weird when you realize that we're talking about an
update of the game from 2D to 3D!). Additionally, the display of
"life in the Soviet Union" graphics on the right side of the screen
is rather tedious; it was amusing and cute in the first game, but
surely Alexey could have come up with a *new* idea...[or the people
at SH who distribute the game could have...]
Anyway, I'd strongly suggest that people check the game out in the
store before they purchase it, and doubly so if you're a real Tetris
fan.
Dave Taylor
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From: Dave Taylor <taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Subject: Gameboy: Malibu Beach Volleyball
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 9:41:44 PDT
A month or so ago I had a chance to receive an evaluation cartridge of
Malibu Beach Volleyball directly from Activision. It was interesting
and fun, but not particularly thrilling; as with many of the sports
titles on the GameBoy I had particular difficulty keeping track of
where the ball was on the playing field (of course the worst example
of that is Alleyway, where the 1-pixel dot of a ball is virtually
impossible to track when moving quickly!!).
The premise of the game is that you're in control of a two-player
beach volleyball team and that you have to compete against three
other teams of reasonably similar skills. The "league" is divided
into men and women, and each league has four different countries
represented; USA, Japan, Brazil and Italy. While the cartridge
may have been from an American developer (Activision is based in
the San Francisco area) the grapics in the game are nonetheless
very reminiscent of anime', the popular Japanese style of graphic
animation. Most noticable is the bikini-clad woman who acts as
the announcer between sets and matches (indeed, there are an awful
lot of little bikini clad women in this game! I guess the GameGirl
version is the one with lots of buff dudes... ;-)
There are two traits that teams are rated on in MBV: speed and spiking
ability. Each team has a specific pair of ratings on these factors
(detailed in the instruction booklet) and there are eight total teams
(four mens and four womens teams; representing different countries
is just a nice selection mechanism). As I recall, USA has the overall
strongest teams, but Italy is often the easiest to start out as in the
interest of getting the hang of the gameplay. Perhaps not surprisingly,
the men's teams tend to be tougher to beat as they're faster and much
better at spiking.
One thing I never quite got wired was the jumping spike serve. To do
this you need to go through almost more hoops than a solid swing in Golf!
As I remember, you need to push the 'a' button to throw the serve up,
push the 'b' button to jump, then, at *just the right moment* push the
'b' button again to actually hit the ball. Ha! Instead, the serve
that I found most aggressive was simply to go to one of the sides and
run towards the center of the back court. As you hit the center point
do a fast double 'b' serve down the midcourt line. Most of the teams
dropped that serve about 50% of the time.
Generally, I would have to say that this isn't a sterling example of
what can be done with the GameBoy technology, though there are elements
of the game that I enjoyed quite a bit.
One feature that might well redeem Malibu Beach Volleyball quite a bit
is the VideoLink hookup; it supports two player games where you're
playing against them or where both of you are on the same side playing
against other teams. The "both on the same side" option sounds like
a great idea and we were sorry that we couldn't try it out, but we
only had one game cartridge.
I would recommend that you check this game out in the store for a
few minutes before making your purchase decision, and also remember
that perhaps too much of the game skills are learned, not automatic.
I had a pretty good game after a few hours of playing, and after a
week or so could consistently beat all the women's teams...
After all, any game that says "bummer!" when you lose a match can't
be all bad!
Dave Taylor
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From: leo@tds.lcs.mit.edu (John Leo)
Subject: GameBoy: Penguin Wars VS, and The Great Warrior SAGA
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 12:41:43 -0400
Makaitoushi SAGA [The Great Warrior Saga] (Square) 3500 yen
SAGA is the first role-playing game for the Gameboy. It's not out in
the US yet, and I'm not sure when it's due (hopefully soon), but it
came out last December in Japan to rave reviews and was the best
selling game there in the weeks before DragonQuest IV's release. So I
asked a friend visiting Tokyo to get me a copy, and he found one in
Akihabara for 3000 yen (about $21). Now after about 3 weeks and 100
hours of playing it I finally reached the end and want to write a
review.
In short, this game is fantastic, and in my opinion along with Super
Mario Land is the best game yet available for the Gameboy. If you
like RPGs and have a Gameboy you should really look forward to this
one. Square is no novice at RPGs; they make for the Nintendo Famicom
the second most popular (after DragonQuest, called Dragon Warrior in
the US) series of RPGs in Japan, Final Fantasy (and in fact FF1 is due
out for the NES this month). And Square has obviously spent a great
deal of effort on this one, producing an extremely fun and exciting
game.
The game is huge--it's one meg, and as they didn't need to waste
memory on detailed color graphics that means the world to explore is
enormous and very rich. And in fact the graphics are really beautiful;
stylized and taking full advantage of black-and-white. I'd say
they're the best yet for the Gameboy. The music is also excellent,
using stereo to good effect. Although some of the music repeats quite
often and gets tiresome after a while, the main music changes as you
progress and all the pieces are great.
The original name "Makaitoushi SAGA" is a pun in Japanese, meaning
roughly "Evil-world Fighter Saga," but the characters for "toushi"
(fighter) are different, using the character for "tower." And indeed
a tower is the centerpiece of the game. There are legends that a
Garden of Paradise is at the top, so you and your fellow adventures
decide to find out what's really there. So most of the game involves
trying to go up this tower. On the way you visit interesting worlds
in which you need to solve puzzles, discover things, and so on in
order to proceed. There are also smaller areas along the way often
added for humorous effect (and there's a lot of good humor in the
game) such as places where people think they've already found
paradise, or perhaps its opposite. There are literally hundreds of
monsters and objects in the game, and much of the fun comes from
exploring the world. At each of a major areas, a sort of mini-saga
takes place, and it's very much like you're participating in a
good story. In a sense then you're sort of prodded along a certain
path, and one might wonder about free will. And it turns out free
will itself is an important part of the overall story. There are also
in this game more surprising moments than I can count...all very
effective.
This is the first RPG for the Gameboy, so there aren't any others to
compare it to (although SELECTION (Kemco), a first-person perspective
RPG, is out in Japan and due to come here soon), but I can compare it
to a couple RPGs for the NES, one that I consider to be well-made
(Dragon Warrior) and one not (Ultima). You may disagree, but this
should still give an idea of where Saga lies. Basically it has a lot
more in common with Dragon Warrior, and even surpasses that game in a
sense. There are similar towns to visit where you can rest at inns,
buy things, get information and so forth as in both DW and Ultima, and
the graphics are closer to DW in their use of barriers and limited
scrolling to prevent you from seeing things, rather than the ugly
blacking-out done by Ultima.
Ultima for me was an extremely tedious game, where you have
to worry about four characters, their food, and whether they get
poisoned or catch cold or whatever. Saga also has four characters, so
I was worried about this, but tedium in this game has been reduced to
the minimum. You choose one main character, and then get three others
by visiting the Adventurer's Guild. In fact if these minor characters
die you can just go back and get someone else instead of resurrecting
them (although you can do that too). This is also good if you don't
like the composition of your party and want to change it later. You
can choose from humans, ESPers and monsters. Humans are your basic
character; they can carry up to 8 items and use any weapons or armor.
Strangely there is no experience point system, and money does indeed
buy everything: you can increase your strength, agility and hit points
by buying certain potions. Espers are perhaps the most interesting
characters. They can only carry four items, but have up to four
powers such as Telepathy or Psycho Blast, and although they can't wear
armor or use certain weapons they are the only ones who can use magic
books which tend to be the most powerful weapons (especially "Break"
(turn to stone) and "Death," both of which kill monsters instantly
unless they're resistant). Instead of using items to increase their
strength, they get stronger by mutating randomly in the middle of
combat, which is usually good but can be distressing when your
favorite ability suddenly disappears.
You can also choose a monster to be one of the characters, and these
are exactly like the ones that you fight. They can't carry any items
but have a combination of up to eight ways to attack, along with
certain strengths and weaknesses (for example birds are unaffected by
earthquakes). Monsters become stronger by eating the meat of enemies
you defeat--they suddenly might change into another monster! This is
a lot of fun, and you can learn about your enemies this way, but I
found the monster to be almost always (unless they have some really
nice ability like blood-sucking) the weakest member of the party. But
as only the first member of the four is displayed when you walk it's
fun to put the monster first as some of them have some interesting
ways of moving (there are other reasons to put the monster first, but
I won't discuss strategy here). I'd say a good choice for a party
would be two espers, a human and a monster; perhaps exchanging the
monster for another character later.
Combat was perhaps the most tedious and painful aspect of Ultima,
since most attacks affect only one monster, you can't change weapons,
and you can't run away. Fortunately combat in Saga is closer to DW
and very pleasant. You can attempt to run away at any point, change
weapons at any point (you can even back up if you make a mistake), and
everything goes by quickly and enjoyably. There are 8 different
scrolling speeds for the text; you can choose a slower speed when you
want to examine the kinds of attacks monsters have, and the faster
speeds when you just want to get it over with. It's possible to get
poisoned, blinded, put to sleep, turned to stone, and other terrible
fates, but this happens infrequently and cures are easily purchased
and can be brought with you. My favorite is the frying pan: if a
character gets confused, for example due to a monster singing, just
have someone hit him on the head and he'll be back to normal in no
time. Combat is semi-animated, so you can see the result of your
attack on the monsters. This isn't too exciting for things like
swords and bullets, but later when you start using lightening or
chainsaws it gets more interesting. Sound effects are really good.
There is a battery back-up, and you can save the game at any point,
not just at one place like in DW and Ultima. Unfortunately only one
game can be saved at a time. Be careful when you save the game as
well or you might get stuck. I found a sort of bug at the whirlpool
where the machine somehow let me leave my boat in the middle of it,
and I was stuck and had to start over again. It didn't take long to
get back to the same point and it was still surprisingly fun, but
despressing at first. Another problem is that occasionally text will
scroll by without stopping, which seems to have been done on purpose
at some of the more dramatic scenes. I suppose this would be less of
a problem if the text were in English, though.
There's so much more to be said about this game, but much of the fun
is in exploring it yourself. I will say that the last boss is really
really terrifying, and that the ending is excellent and well worth
getting to. And as I mentioned before playing Saga is like
participating in a well-written story, and just as one reads a good
book many times this game can be played again even after you win.
There's so much to it that there's a lot I didn't have time to explore
carefully, and some things I didn't figure out the first time, so I'm
really looking forward to playing again.
One last thing I'd like to mention is that if you've had at least two
years or so of Japanese I'd highly recommend getting the Japanese
version. I learned quite a lot of the language just by playing it,
although there were a few scenes I didn't fully understand. On the
other hand if you don't know Japanese definitely wait until the US
version comes out--this is one game where reading the rulebook
carefully and understanding the text in the game itself is essential.
Without a doubt, this game gets a 10 on the 1-10 scale.
* * *
Pengin-kun WARS VS. [Penguin Wars Vs.] (ASCII) 3090 yen (about $21)
I was in NYC last weekend, and my friend and I visited Yaohan Plaza in
nearby Edgewater, NJ (there's a shuttle bus that goes there from Port
Authority). One of the stores there is Pony Toy Go Round, which
happens to carry Famicom and Gameboy games at steep prices, as well as
the units themselves. Although the prices were high I decided since
I'd come all the way there I might as well get a game, and it came
down to Yakuman (Mah Jong by Nintendo) or Penguin Wars Vs. (not to be
confused with Sega's Penguin Land, which is also coming out for the
Gameboy). My girlfriend had thought the latter looked fun from an ad
in Famicom Tsushin (which is incidentally published by ASCII, the
maker of the game), so I decided to get that one. It was $33, and
luckily a great game, worth the price.
This is actually an old game. Here's the history according the rule
book (slightly edited): "In 1984 the game debuted in arcades. With
its cute characters and simple rules, it was also popular with girls.
After that, it appeared on the Famicom, MSX personal computer, and
others. In the Spring of 1989, "Pengin-kun WARS 2" appeared. Now,
the Gameboy version...." And the Gameboy is the perfect format for
this game. As mentioned the rules are very simple. The two players
are at opposite ends of a table, and each starts with five balls. You
throw balls to the other end and when 60 seconds are up whoever has
the least number of balls at his end wins. If you can get all 10
balls on your opponent's side before time is up you immediately win
and get lots of points for time remaining.
The game is sort of like dodgeball in that you want to hit your enemy
with a ball, which gives you points and knocks him out for a while.
Of course you want to avoid getting hit as well. You can only move
left to right behind the table, and only the A button is used: Hit it
once to grab a ball, and a second time to release. You can also hold
the button the second time to build up strength (your character will
begin to squeal) and then release a power shot which travels quickly
and knocks out the enemy for a long time if it hits him. However if
you hold the button too long you'll collapse from the effort.
You can choose from among five characters to play with: Penguin,
Rabbit, Cow, Bat and Mouse; you have to fight against the other
four to win. Each has his own strengths. The penguin is your average
guy. The rabbit is fairly quick but not too strong. The cow is the
opposite. Each has his own way of moving as well as celebrating or
crying, depending upon the outcome of a set. My favorite is the
mouse, who moves very fast but is extremely weak (and his balls roll
very slowly, so you may find a whole wall of them rolling toward
you!). If you're playing against him you can only see his tail except
when he throws a ball, and if you knock him out he disappears
completely, his location being given way by the alternating words
"HELP" and "GIVE UP". There are also four "obstacle" characters, one
of whom appears when the time remaining is 20 seconds. These guys
move around in the middle and can bounce your shots back if you're not
careful. They can also be a big help when you're knocked out.
Once someone wins two sets they win the match, and if you win the
match you get to go on to the next opponent; if you lose the game is
over. If you win both sets "perfectly," getting 10 balls on the
opponent's side, you get a bonus round with just you and an obstacle
character, and you can rack up lots of points. Once you defeat all
the characters you win the round and the game progresses to the next
one where the opponents are more skillful. I haven't made it past the
second round yet; these guys have some nasty tricks in that one! In
any case this doesn't appear to be a game with an ending--you keep
going until you finally lose.
Just like two-player Tetris, there's much more to the strategy of this
game than you'd guess at first, or even after several hours of
playing. You need to throw balls not only to get them to the other
side and knock your opponent out, but also to make him have to move a
lot and cross your line of fire. Of course if balls hit other balls
they start moving in more interesting ways, and balls moving mostly
side-to-side are the most dangerous as they can also roll around
behind the table and knock you out. You can be really vicious and
keep throwing power shots at your enemy when he's knocked out, and
believe me your enemies will do it to you if they get the chance. The
game can be played with 2 to 10 people via the game link; you use two
units so you have to take turns, but the machine sets up a tournament.
I hope to get a chance to try this as it promises to be even more
fun--lots of psyching out possible.
The game, as with many Japanese products, comes with a reply card, and
this is the first I've sent in. They asked what I thought of the
theme, graphics and music (the choices were: very satisfactory,
satisfactory, okay, and not satisfactory) and I gave all of them the
highest marks. The game is really fun to play and the graphics are of
the cute, stylized variety for which the Gameboy may be the last
bastion. The music and sounds are very good, and I especially like
the sound of the points being counted--very solid. However the sound
at the end of a set when someone wins is a bit too high-pitched for
me. The feel is for the most part really good, especially the
movement of the characters and balls, but I had some trouble with the
A button. It didn't always seem to work when I pressed it, and
repeatedly pressing it, which supposedly makes you get up faster when
you're knocked out, doesn't seem to have much of an effect.
This game might come out in the US soon, as although the instruction
book is in Japanese, everything in the game itself is in English (with
only some minor errors). You even have to enter names for the
two-player tournament in roman letters! But even if it doesn't come
out here for a while this would be a good Japanese game to get. I was
able to figure out most of it before even reading the rulebook (except
the power shots, which came as a big surprise when the opponents
started using them). And this is definitely a game you can play many
times, always figuring out new things to try. I recommend it, and
give it 8/10.
John Leo
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From: grady@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Grady)
Subject: Lynx: Gauntlet III
Date: 24 Apr 90 16:48:04 GMT
Here's a general GauntletIII review, not of specific features,
but of the game in general. Caveat: I never really liked Gauntlet
in the arcade, so those of you who enjoyed the arcade game may enjoy
the Lynx version just as much.
In my opinion, the game doesn't hold enough interest. It's fairly easy
to play (you're not likely to die as long as you are careful and keep
a Revive scroll handy if you get low on life points), but there are only
40 levels, so I suspect if you had the patience, you could win pretty
quickly. I played about an hour the day I got it (with friends), then
the next morning, I figured I'd play one game before going to work.
Well, I finally died 2 hours later, on level 26, with a couple revive
scrolls and 360,000 pts. Basically, I was getting bored and tired,
or I could have survived much longer, I believe. Frankly, I wasn't
too disappointed when I died (partly because I was missing lunch at
work).
On the good side, the levels are similar to Chips Challenge in that
some are puzzles to solve (find your way through a maze, figure out
how to escape without overloading your inventory with gold, etc).
Others are pure arcade action. There continue to be surprises as you
go down the levels.
I think the main positive aspect of the game is that it's a true
multi-player game. As someone mentioned, multiple players can't
explore different levels, but other than that everyone is independent.
There are some levels in which each player starts in a different place
(I believe there are specific places on which each player may start --
it's not completely random). If one player is doing something unusual,
like using the Farsee spell, it's interesting to see as another player.
Players can work together to defeat obstacles, or split up and each
grab lots of loot.
Unfortunately, I don't think that completely redeems the game. If
the game were more complex (in terms of number of levels, or difficulty
of levels), I would probably enjoy it more. I suspect that you're
supposed to provide greater challenge to yourself by choosing a
wimpier character (like the nerd).. I also am disappointed in the
fact that it seems other players interfere with each other more than
help each other. As I understand it, the arcade game was just the
opposite -- you _had_ to work together to survive.
Finally, I should say that I've only had it for four days, and I haven't
played it a whole lot during that time. But I guess I've been spoiled
by Chip's Challenge, which is a LOT of fun, and I've had it for
almost two months and I still haven't played all the levels (admittedly,
I sometimes let it sit for a week to give it a rest). Maybe there
will be some surprise, like when you complete level 40 it sends you
to another dungeon, but I don't think that's too likely.
I'll probably give it some more time, but if it continues to unimpress
me, I'll probably sell it to someone and wait impatiently for the next
Lynx game.
Steven
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Digital Games Review Digest, Number 3
Wednesday, May 16th 1990
Today's Topics:
Macintosh: "Omega"
IBM PC: "Sorcerain"
Genesis: "Forgotten Worlds"
NES: "The Legend of Zelda"
GameBoy: "Hyper Load Runner"
GameBoy: "Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle"
GameBoy: "Heiankyo Alien" and "QBillion"
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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Subject: Macintosh: "Omega"
Date: Thu May 3 11:05:28 PDT 1990
Omega -- CyberTank Engineering for Fun
(C) Copyright 1990, Dave Taylor
"Good Morning. As a new member of the Organization for Strategic Intelligence,
your first assignment is to use the neural cybertank design and simulation
system on your computer to help us create an unbeatable cyber, or automated
tank."
"We recognize that this might be a challenging task, so we are making available
to you the 200 page CyberTank Engineer's Notebook document for your reading, as
well as many other items of information and sample cybertanks for your
education."
"Since our vetting process revealed to us that you have an Apple Macintosh
computer, we have arranged for a copy of the OMEGA Mac Cybertank simulation to
arrive with this recording. Characterized by an easy to use interface and a
complete implementation of the Cybertank "AI" programming language, it should
prove more than sufficient to get you well on the way to some tough and powerful
cybertanks."
"To further aid you in understanding, attached please find OSI Report
00234-BA-O/3, Common Questions and Answers About Omega."
"Message Ends."
Official OSI Report 00234-BA-O/3 DELTA-4 Classification
Common Questions and Answers About OMEGA
Q: What is OMEGA?
A: A sophisticated and well engineered high tech tank programming and
simulation program. Based on the original CoreWars program as created in
the late 1960's, OMEGA is for those of you that like games that are more
thinking and exploration exercises than hand-eye coordination tests.
Q: What's a CyberTank?
A: A cybertank consists of the following elements; a chassis, including armor,
weaponry, and similar, and a tank AI module, which is the 'brains' of the tank.
When designing a tank, you can choose from a great number of different weaponry,
engine, and armor options, relative to your credit level (which is a function of
how well the tanks you design perform in combat simulation or "validation") and
then are expected to spend most of your time designing the program that "runs"
the tank.
Q: Cybertank AI module?
A: Let's look at an incredibly simple example:
START
DO SEARCH
DO DESTROY
BRANCH TO START
That gives us a very simple tank that can move around until it finds something
worth shooting at (an enemy tank or the enemy headquarters), at which point it
will sit and shoot until dead or the target is destroyed. In the actual
simulation, however, you'll want more sophisticated tanks than that, like the
competition-winning AI module attached below. Note its use of scanning and
identification of obstacles to improve the sophistication of the movement
and attack sequences too.
Q: What does the simulator look like?
A: Well, we can't include graphics here, but the display is typical of
the types of graphics one sees in a PC game ported to the Macintosh.
A typical display has lots of buttons, dials, and status indicators,
including, during cyber evaluation time, the following items:
F = Fuel Remaining,
I = Internal Damage,
A = Armor Damage,
T = Tread Damage,
S = Scanner Damage,
W = Weapon Damage,
SL = Scanner Lock,
DS = Defense Shield,
LD = Listener Disengaged,
T = Total number of battles to be simulated,
B = Battles previously fought,
S = number of successful battles,
R = number of active Cybertanks remaining.
Q: Do I need a security clearance?
A: To enter the Organization for Strategic Intelligence you will have to submit
to a retina scan to verify your identity, and thereafter that, coupled with your
self-selected password, will be sufficient to allow you to enter the simulation.
Q: Is the game fun?
A: Something this serious should hardly be considered a game, per se, but
for the purposes of this document, yes, it is fun, and it's the kind of game
that a group of people could get enthused about and swap tank designs and
such, pitting them against each other in various simulated environments.
Q: What does the reviewer think of it?
A: (excerpts from a classified review)
"...of the many thinking games I have for my Macintosh, OMEGA is one of the
finest, allowing my friends and I to compete for best tank design in a such a
way that we don't have to be all in th same room (with a stack of computers) at
the same time, but can still have lots of fun anyway."
"...quite playable, with the graphics - non-Mac and clearly a direct translation
from MS-DOS P being very slick. The amount of effort that has been put into the
documentation also makes the CyberTank Engineering Notebook quite enjoyable
reading."
Q: Nothing bad?
A: (excerpts from a classified review)
"... on the down side, it's a bit confusing to take all the steps needed to go
from a tank design to being able to create a simulation and have the tank a part
of the simulation."
"...as usual, the game only uses a Plus-size screen image, so if you have a
larger display as I do, you're stuck with it all in the top left corner.
Support for larger screens would be especially nice during combat simulation."
00234-BA-O/3 ENDS
Attachment 1:
* CyberTank AI Module Listing by Steve Cantrell, Origin Systems
Start
scanface = 1
Scan
if scanface = 8 then Circle
scan for tank
if tank found then Attack
rotate right 1
scanface = scanface + 1
goto Scan
Circle
scan for tank
if tank found then Attack
rotate right 2
do Movetank
goto Start
Attack
align tank
Looper
scan for tank
if tank not found then Start
if tank within range then Boom
if enemydist 5 then do Movetank
goto Looper
Boom
fire at tank
fire at tank
goto Looper
Movetank
detect at tank direction
if not obstructed then Go
if obstacletype = 2 then Go
if obstacletype 6 then Attack
if obstacletype = 6 then Turn
fire at obstruction
goto Movetank
Turn
turn right 3
goto Movetank
Go
move forward 1
resume
[ Ed. Note: the previous review was originally written for "Computer Currents" ]
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From: nancy@mips.com (Nancy Louie)
Subject: GameBoy: "Hyper Load Runner"
Date: Thu, 3 May 90 14:10:13 PDT
Hyper Load Runner from Bandai America is based on many ealier versions of
Load Runner, including the successful Broderbund PC/Mac game. For the
GameBoy, there are 50 levels in the game, 16 of which can be accessed
without a password. However, even with this number of puzzles, the game
has proven to be very much a disappointment compared to other versions
that I've played.
The basis of the game is that you are a miner in a maze of brick and stone
platforms, each connected by numerous ladders, and you're trying to collect
piles of gold. When you've collected all the gold available on a particular
level a magic ladder will appear to let you ascend to the next level. Along
the way, you run into a number of robot-like droids that follow you and can
even carry a pile of gold. If they run into you, they kill you. However,
to slow them down (and to get them to release the gold that they might be
carrying) you can dig holes into the brick platforms. By pressing the `A'
key you can dig a hole to the left, and the `B' key digs to the right.
Once they fall into the hole, you can walk over them to continue on your
search for gold, also picking up the gold that they had on them. Be careful
though, because the holes eventually fill, and unlike the droids, if you
fall in, you're not able to climb out, killing yourself. If, however, your
timing is good, you can kill the droids, thus hindering them as they are
reincarnated somewhere else on the level.
One of the most disappointing things is the tedium and frustration associated
with the game. Rather than starting the game out with a somewhat easy level
to let you get used to the themes and controls, the first level is something
that I think would be more appropriate as level ten; it took three of us a
good few days to puzzle through how to solve it, and then another day to get
the timing right and succeed! Even level two should be rated more like level
fifteen. Many of the levels require very precise timing in order to get out
of spots where the gold is tucked away in hard to reach spots. It requires
going over the same area numerous times in order to clear a column of bricks
and have them reform in a certain order so that you can get back out.
On the bright side, the droids are pretty stupid and will follow you just
about anywhere. The only place that I haven't seen them follow is when
you're in the difficult corners trying to clear the bricks in a particular
order. This comes in handy in the higher levels where you can use them to
bridge deep holes to get to the gold on the other side of the screen.
During play, only a portion of the screen is available for viewing, however
a nice feature that has been added is you can press START to pause the game,
then press SELECT to get a miniaturized overview of the entire whole level.
Since it's paused, you can stare at it for as long as you'd like...which
gives you a good idea of what you're up against.
Level sixteen is a challenge in itself, as it appears to be comprised of
multiple screens. Once you clear the first level of the gold and get the
key at the top to go through the door, there is another screen that you're
put into. Clearing this level puts you into yet another screen to clear. By
the time I got to this screen, I was too bored of the game to continue further
for the day.
Overall, I wouldn't rate this game very high. Rather than offering a high
enjoyment factor, it seems to specialize in frustration and aggravation.
Definitely try this one out at a store before purchasing, making sure to
try out numerous levels. It's very questionable as to whether we'll be
picking this one up to play with again.
Probably a two or three out of ten.
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From: echuang@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ernest Y. Chuang)
Subject: IBM PC: "Sorcerain"
Date: Tue, 8 May 90 16:03:38 PDT
Sorcerian is part RPG and part puzzle. Actually, it's mostly a puzzle.
It's similar to most RPG's in that you create a party of characters (you can
take up to four on an adventure) and take them on an adventure, looking for
monsters and treasure while trying to solve a quest. There are 15 different
scenarios to choose from, each with its own maze and storyline.
Characters are limited in certain ways. You can only choose from four
"classes/races": Dwarf, Fighter, Wizard, and Elf. Dwarves are considered
as a type of fighter and Elves are considered as a type of wizard. You can
also choose to be male or female. The classes aren't as individualized as
I would like. The only difference seems to be in the starting ability
scores and in what equipment the characters can use. Wizards and Elves have
no innate spell casting ability. All spells are imbued in magic items which
are found during adventures. Hence any class can cast magic as long as
their intelligence is high enough; the only difference is that Dwarves and
Fighters use magical swords, armor, and shields, whereas Wizards and Elves
use magical rods, staves, robes, and rings. Both kinds of items are found
in equal proportions in adventures and are similar in power, so there is
really no overwhelming advantage for Wizards/Elves in terms of magic besides
a higher starting intelligence.
Similarly, fighting is not limited to Dwarves/Fighters. Any class of
character with sufficient strength can swing a weapon, be it a sword or
staff. Dwarves/Fighters simply start with a higher strength score.
The magic system is rather unusual. Items can be enchanted with "units" of
Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Moon, Sun, Venus, or Saturn, one "planet" for each
of the 7 ability scores (for simplicity I'm using the term "planet" to
include the Sun and Moon). While wielding magic items, the total units
of each "planet" enchanted into your equipment will raise your corresponding
ability scores by the same amount. Also each combination of 2 or more
planets corresponds to a unique magic spell which the item will allow you
to cast. So there are about 120 or so different spells to choose from
(although admittedly a lot of the offensive spells do pretty much the same
thing with just a different name).
While not adventuring, your character can go to town where he has the option
of doing a variety of activities such as visiting the magician to enchant
another "planet" to one of your items, seeing the town elder to identify
unknown magic items, visiting the king the raise your level, visiting the
temple for healing, etc... You can even visit the town musician if you
just want to hear the repertoire of music used in the game. Characters
can also take jobs while not adventuring - different jobs will raise or lower
different ablility scores. Time is important in Sorceria, characters will
age a year at the end of every adventure and will eventually die of old age.
Sorcerian is different from most other RPG's (i.e. Curse of the Azure Bonds,
Might and Magic, Bard's Tale, etc...) in that it is made into more of an
"arcade" game. Each character appears as a small half-inch icon on the
screen and you use joystick/KB to make them run around the screen, up stairs,
through doors, and explore rooms. You'll actually see your characters
shooting fireballs, summoning lightning bolts from the sky, and other magic
effects. A lot of the spells look alike though and they're not all too
exciting.
The reason I say it's mostly a puzzle is that combat is mostly a joke.
Fighting consists of holding down a button (or two buttons if you're using
magic) - your characters will swing a weapon up and down and if there are
any monsters in front of you they will disappear if you hit them enough
times. No fighting technique is necessary at all. Experience from fighting
the run-of-the-mill wandering monster is very little. Most of the experience
points come from killing the "main" monster of each scenario and completing
the quest. For this reason, fighting is kind of pointless.
The main goal is to explore the dungeons, find items, talk to people who may
give you hints, and complete various tasks in the proper order to allow you
to progress toward solving the quest. Each scenario has a different
storyline, and most of the quests were fairly interesting. One gripe,
however, is that a lot of them forced you to do a lot of pointless running
back and forth through the dungeon (for instance - Minor Spoiler - in one
scenario you need four or five batches of a white powder in a certain
part of the dungeon but the source of powder is at the opposite end of the
dungeon. You can only carry one batch at a time, so you have to keep
running cross-country to get some stupid powder). I felt that this simply
added needless tedium to the game without adding any interest. The scenarios
vary in length, taking anywhere from maybe 30 minutes to 2 hours to solve for
the first time, but once you've finished a scenario once and learned where
you need to go and in what order, you can solve it again in 5 to 30 minutes
(depending on the scenario).
The design quality is very good. Graphics are excellent, requiring EGA
or better, 512K, and is compatible with sound boards -- throughout game play
there is always one of nearly 60 music themes running in the background.
I played the game with an Ad Lib music card; most of the music helped add
to the game's enjoyment, but some themes were a bit dull and unimaginative.
The game was slightly "buggy" - or if some "bugs" were intentional, then I
question how carefully the designers thought this out. For instance you
can buy anything from the town equipment shop for 9 gold pieces and sell it
back at the end of an adventure for a LOT more (e.g. you can sell back a robe
for more than 1100 GP -- not too shabby...). Also, enchanting a magic item
at the town magician doesn't always give you the "planet" you asked for,
sometimes you even get a planet removed.
Overall, I found the game very enjoyable the first time through, but once
you've solved all of the quests, there's not much reason to play it over and
over again since it's the same every time.
Ernest Chuang
echuang@cory.berkeley.edu
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From: c60c-2cz@web-3g.berkeley.edu (Teh Kao Yang)
Subject: Genesis: "Forgotten Worlds"
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 10:03:36 PDT
Forgotten Worlds: This is probably my favorite arcade game. However
the game lost a lot of its appeal in the Genesis version. The music is
still awesome, the graphics identical to the arcade. However what
killed the game for me was that they got rid off a lot of the monsters
that were in the original arcade: they got rid of a boss monster and
maybe even an entire level or two. They also really skimped on some of
the neat stuff..mostly graphics wise. What made the arcade version so
great was that there were so many different critters coming at you at
the same time and so much variety and detail that it just blows your
mind.
The Genesis version seems too short and not as exciting. Also after
finishing it you don't really feel like doing it over again. If you
never played the arcade, you will probably still enjoy the Genesis version.
If you have, you will probably be disappointed. It is also too easy in the
2-player mode (with contines), but ridiculously hard without continues.
Playability : 4.5
Graphics : 9.5
Music : 9
Overall : 7
TehKao
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From: Bard <24945863@WSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject: NES: "The Legend of Zelda"
Date: Thu, 10 May 90 13:48:52 PLT
There's a reason this game is a classic. Not only does it contain
perhaps the classic quest (saving a damsel in distress), it contains
superb execution and smooth playing.
As a player, your task is to guide the diminutive Link in his
quest to rescue a princess and kill her captor, the evil Gannon.
During the course of your adventure, you explore the 128 screens
of the Overworld, and experience the nine dungeons. There are
monsters to fight, and people to meet in every corner of this
well thought-out fantasy land. The greatest challenge lies in
finding the objects and information needed to finish the game.
Before the confrontation with Gannon, it is necessary to gather
the eight pieces of the Triforce. Each fragment is hidden at the
farthest reaches of the first eight dungeons and is guarded by a
ferocious monster. Some monsters can only be killed by a specific
weapon hitting them in a specific spot several times. That's what
stopped me at the end of the fourth dungeon, nothing I did to the
dragon seemed to hurt it. Fortunately, after a posting to Games-l,
several people offered advice on how to kill the blasted thing, and
now it rests in pieces, slain by my sword.
My search for the items needed to reach the Tri-force fragments
has taken me to all corners of the Overworld, looking for people
giving away(or selling) information. The game is complex, even
master gamers can expect to sink quite a bit of time into playing.
Others, like myself, can find a game dragging on for months as playing
time is scheduled around classes, work, and sleep(I recently started
a new game in my attempt to finish the quest, and things are going
much faster). The save game and continue options are a literal
Godsend.
For the more technical aspects, play control is excellent, though
a little fussy at times. I've found playing with a joystick is easier
than playing with the controllers that come with the NES base. In
terms of game design, theme, and execution, Zelda gets high marks.
Like good adventure games, Zelda mixes arcade action(fighting monsters)
with a unifying quest that gives the game a point beyond seeing how
many Blooger Beings from the Planet Zarkon a person can blow up in
one session. Since Zelda was one of the first NES games, the graphics
are not as detailed as say, the graphics in Contra. But, in my opinion
that does not detract from the game itself. And, for those who thought
the quest was over, try starting a new game, using the name 'Zelda'.
Rating: **** +
Stephanie Manke
24945863@WSUVM1.BITNET
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From: Dave Taylor <taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Subject: GameBoy: Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
Date: Tue, 15 May 90 2:18:46 PDT
Upon waking up this morning, we, Bugs Bunny Esquire, find that our
dearest Honey Bunny, bunny girl friend and general pal, has been
kidnapped and dragged through to the further reaches of the dreaded
Crazy Castle. Not being a rabbit that shuns our familial duty, we
promptly dash to the front door and bang on it until it swings open
to reveal...
"Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle", for the Nintendo Gameboy. Distributed by
Kemco-Seika Corporation, this game is one of the first for the GB
that uses easily recognizable non-Nintendo characters. Indeed, it
represents one of the first licenses of the popular Warner Brothers
cartoon characters Bugs Bunny (who is celebrating his 50th birthday
this year), Wiley Coyote, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and Yosemite Sam.
The premise of the game is common to many other video games, and
thankfully not based on real life; your girlfriend has been kidnapped
and to rescue her, you need to fight through bad guys and puzzles to
get through the game. At the end, hopefully, you'll be reunited with
her and live happily ever after.
Bugs is a real-time puzzle game (e.g. things keep moving and if you
turn away you'll get caught) where you move around on each horizontally
and vertically scrolling area to collect all the carrots. Problem is,
there are a lot of rascals around (all the other Warner characters, each
of which tends to have a different level of intelligence in their
movement (or so it seems!)) and you need to evade them while you're
zipping about collecting carrots. There is no time limit on any of
the levels and completion of each level results in another password
which can move you directly to that level again when you resume the
game later.
Being a tough bunny, Bugs can easily jump off of platforms and land many
floors below him (of course, the pesky rascals are just as tough and can
also survive the falls...) and indeed each level is made up of a variety
of ladders (which you can either climb or walk past), steps (which you're
forced to walk up/down), pipes (which you pop into and then travel through
to wherever it lets you out -- often offscreen and with lots of rascals
hanging around the exit!) and elevators which take you from level to level
like stairs, but with the ability to pass rascals en transit. In fact,
a crucial realization in the game is that you can actually ooze past bad
guys while moving along a tube or in an elevator without them attacking
you there. Since each character in a pipe causes the pipe to distend
just a little bit, it makes for some amusing graphics when you're, say,
moving from right to left and you see another distortion travelling
towards you, through you, and past you! Of course, it also spells big
trouble when you notice one zipping along right behind you!
The game has 80 different levels of varying complexity, and indeed I
think that they did a good job of gradually building up to some of the
more difficult and time consuming levels. On the down side, though, I
remain confused over the fact that the booklet 1. says that there are
only 60 levels (and the GamePro review claims 58 levels!) (maybe the
rest are magic bonus levels?!) and 2. talks about "no carrot" signs
that are bad news to touch, but *never showed up* in the entire game
when we played it! Since they're supposed to warp you to bonus levels,
it's rather disappointing that they seem to be missing.
Perhaps the greatest disappointment in the entire game was solving the
final puzzle and, instead of getting a happy reunion of Bugs and Honey
Bunny, we simply are treated to the legend "Congraturation! [sic] You
are Good Player". Bah! The end graphic movie in Super Mario Land is
incredibly better and definitely worth the effort to get to it!!
Overall, though, even with the loser endgame and the lack of "no carrot"
signs, this is still a fun and amusing puzzle game, with the added appeal
of the popular Warner characters. One other down side; it's addictive
and pretty easy, all in all, so it might not take you more than a week or
two to complete the game (Ric B. says he did it in 5 hours, and Nancy L.
in about 8...it took me a week or so) so it might be a good purchase for
a group of friends to pass along to each other after solving all of the
levels...In any case check it out!
Graphics: 7 of 10
End Game: 0 of 10
Music: 8 of 10
Fun Level: 9 of 10
Overall Rating: 8 of 10
-- Dave Taylor
------------------------------
From: Dave Taylor <taylor@limbo.intuitive.com>
Subject: GameBoy: "Heiankyo Alien" and "QBillion"
Date: Tue, 15 May 90 15:02:30 PDT
Two new games that we've gotten within the last week that are quite cool
are "Heiankyo Alien" and "Q Billion", from Meldac and Seta, respectively.
They're both puzzle games, though quite different from each other, and
both seem engrossing. So far Heiankyo is my favorite of the two, and
Q Billion is my SO's favorite...
The premise of Heiankyo is kind of similar to both Lode Runner and Boomer's
Adventures in Asmik Land (which we *also* have now!) in the sense that you
are placed on an edge constrained level and must kill the roaming monsters
through digging holes (using "A") and then filling the holes in (with "B")
when the aliens fall into them. Lode Runner, however, has the further goal
of collecting all the gold dust (and solving the timing-critical (actually,
I think I'd rather say timing-pain-in-the-arse) puzzles of how to get to them)
while many of the bad guys continue to be regenerated, and Boomer has the
goal of finding the key that will allow you to get to the next level, as
well as the added wrinkle of hidden (buried) loot and goodies. In Heiankyo
Alien, however, all you need to do to advance to the next level is get rid
of all the bad guys on the current level. Problem is, the borders of the
level you're on aren't constant -- there are buildings that appear to waver
in and out of existance over the course of a 5-20 second cycle, and of course
when they're not around the aliens (and you) can zip through where they
were...
What's most interesting about Heiankyo is that the cartridge actually
contains two completely different implementations of the "aliens overrunning
the town" puzzle; the so-called "OLD" game has what I could only describe
as early-1970's style block graphics, with much less appeal, yet a much
higher degree of challenge (for example, in the old, or classic, game, if
you're in the middle of digging a hole and an alien hits it, it simply
vanishes, but in the new game partially dug holes will detain the alien
for a period). When aliens are flaiing about in a hole, as with Boomer,
another alien coming along will help it out, so you need to be very
careful of what's going on around you on the screen!
Retrospectively, Heiankyo Alien seems like a subset of Boomer, but
somehow, having both of them, I find Heiankyo more enjoyable, perhaps
because there is less complexity to worry about; you simply scurry
about and try to kill the evil aliens. No confusion about finding keys,
worrying about which weapon you're holding, or anything of that nature.
Another plus with Heiankyo Alien is that it's a very well produced
game; not only are the graphics and audio slick (with the obvious caveat
that the old game looks like a veritable video antique) but between
certain levels scrolls roll out and little shows are played out on the
screen. I figure that as the game progresses that the shows will
improve to the point of being quite interesting in a few hundred
thousand points!
My top score to date on this game is approximately 55000 in the new
game, and, uh, about half that in the old game, which is much harder.
One thing that I really like about the old game, when I'm in a sufficiently
masochistic mood, is that if you don't kill the aliens in a certain amount
of time, the game will suddenly go into double speed with lots more aliens
popping on the screen. That's really amazing; it all becomes a blur and
you basically just cross your fingers and dig like mad! Quite fun.
Q Billion, on the other hand, is a more sedate puzzle game vaguely in
the same vein as Ishido, if anyone is familiar with that (btw: Nexoft
people tell me that Ishido will be on the GameBoy within a few months!!)
In Q Billion you're Mr. Mouse and your presented with progressively
difficult stacks of different height tiles. The rules are simple enough
in the game; you can push a tile off if you're adjacent to it on a pile
that is one tile lower in height. Tiles with patterns on them (like a
star, circle, or square) can be removed by pushing them around until
you form one of a number of different four-tile patterns.
Again, this game is broken into two parts, the first being straight, no
time limit puzzles. In this mode there are, I believe, 120 different
levels and, very worthy of note, the first level or two has an actual
on-screen tutorial presented, which will quickly teach you some of the
basic moves required to solve the harder puzzles (like if you've a
3-stack, a 2-stack, and a bunch of 1's, you can move the ones around
so that you create a 1 high "pathway" to move the '2' along until it's
adjacent to the 3-stack, at which point you can hop on it and push the
3-stack down to a 2-stack, and then to 1 stacks). I think that the
addition of this tutorial is a fantastic innovation and I strongly
encourage other game developers to check it out!!
In the 'b' game things get more complex, since you now have much more
complex puzzle setups, the addition of a 100 second timer to solve
them, *and* you have a premise for solving them too; you're playing
a giant game of tic-tac-toe against the computer (or a videolinked
friend) and to win a square in the board, you need to solve the
puzzle it presents in the time limit given. This is very tough!!
One thing about the QBillion interface that I've found quite
confusing is that the designers overloaded the "B" key so that it
means "take away this set of blocks" and "undo my last move". I
seem to continually get into spots where I end up doing my moves
over and over again because I accidentally press the "B" key at
critical moments.
In Summary
If you're into puzzle games, then I recommend both of these highly;
in different ways they're both engrossing and enjoyable, and I
certainly expect both carts to get a lot of use in my house!
QBillion:
Graphics: 6 (though the mouse animation is cute)
Sound: 4
Playability: 6 (the double meaning of the 'b' key is quite confusing)
Fun Factor: 8
Overall: 7
Heiankyo Alien:
Graphics: 8 (even the old game is kinda nostalgic...)
Sound: 9 (very catchy theme tune while playing)
Playability: 7
Fun Factor: 8
Overall: 8
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor
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# Dial 'I' for Information #
# Issue #1 #
# 07/31/93 #
# Edited by the Phone Phantom [*][0][#] #
# #
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Welcome! First of all, I would like to thank you for downloading this
magazine. This magazine's purpose is to educate you, the public, about stuff
people would rather you not know. I would like to focus on anti telephone
company activities, but I am a little short on fresh valid info right now. One
thing that this magazine will NOT have is a bunch of recipes for explosives
and such; I find that kind of stuff EXTREMELY boring, as most of us don't have
a place to go blowing off pipe bombs. If you would like to submit something
to the next issue of Dial 'I' for Information, leave a message for me, the
Phone Phantom, on Electric Dreams. Subscription info in next issue...
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
------------------
1. How to make a potato cannon
2. List of * codes for the Des Moines tel. system
3. Let's hack "In Touch"
4. How to hack answering machines
5. "Imponderables" by David Feldman
6. Weekly top 10 things to do to confuse people
7. Misconceptions
8. How to brew your own beer!
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File #1: How to make a potato cannon
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[------------------------------------------------------------]
[ ]
[ The Phone Phantom presents.... ]
[ ]
[ How to Make a Potato Cannon ]
[ ]
[ The first of many informative text philes to come... ]
[ ]
[ Be watching for my new beer-making phile, PPBEER.ZIP! ]
[ It's written for beginner's like myself, people who are ]
[ "mature" enough to buy cigarettes but not alcohol... ]
[ ]
[ ]
[------------------------------------------------------------]
DISCLAIMER: This phile is NOT for informational purposes only! I take no
responsibility for some loser who builds this and doesn't use it for
illegal and/or anarchial (a word? 'Tis now!) purposes.
Okay, first I'll tell you what this little thing does -- if you haven't
guessed it already, it shoots potatoes (actually pieces of them). Using it is
very simple; you load the potato into the barrell, push it down like you would
a musket, spray some hair spray into the back of the cannon, screw on the cap,
and fire away. I can't tell you exactly how far this thing will shoot, but I
know it would hurt very badly if you were to hit somebody (accidentally, of
course!). Many of you may have heard of something like this before which looks
more like a gun and has a button trigger. My experience with this type of gun
was not exactly fun; the handle takes a lot of work to make and gas grill
starters simply do not generate a big enough spark to ignite the hair spray
mixture every time. My model can be built in about 2 hours and for about $25.
The basic idea is this: you want to have a large explosion chamber for
the hair spray, but a small-diameter barrell so the air velocity is greater.
The entire gun should be made of PVC; go to your local hardware store and find
the PVC aisle. I went to Sutherlands; they had everything that I needed and a
special rack of scrap PVC sections which are a lot cheaper than buying a 10
foot pipe. Your explosion chamber should be made of a 1-foot section of 4" PVC.
You'll need a female adapter for this pipe which accepts a 4" PVC plug. You'll
also need a reducing coupler; I couldn't find one that reduced the 4" down to
1 1/2" (barrell), so I had to buy one that reduced the 4" down to 2", then put
a very small section of 2" PVC into the small end, and then get another
reducing coupler that reduced 2" down to 1 1/2". You'll need to cement all
parts together (except the plug; you'll need to open that for every reload),
so pick up some PVC cement also. The barrell should be about 2 feet of 1 1/2"
PVC. Sharpen the end of the barrell with a file so it cuts the potatoes easier.
Oh, I almost forgot: you'll need something to keep the potato piece from
slipping out of the barrell and into the hair spray chamber. I've found that
a little piece of axle wire from Hobby Haven works perfectly. Just heat it up
and then stick it through the 1 1/2" PVC pipe about 1cm up from the bottom
before you cement it into the reducing coupler. This will keep it in there for
good. Don't worry, all of this will be easier to understand when you have the
pieces in front of you, for those of us who don't know what a reducing coupler
looks like. For the ignitor, go to a camping store like Frontier Outfitting and
pick up a lantern starter. It's a little contraption that uses a flint to
generate a big spark; the only drawback is that you have to twist the knob to
fire the cannon. I know, it's not as fun as pressing a trigger, but it works
almost every time. Just glue all the PVC together as in the diagram below (or
use common sense), and then drill a hole in the 4" PVC to accomodate the little
ignitor. Take off the aluminum piece that doesn't appear to do anything, and
then mount the rest on the cannon. It's hard to explain how to do this; just
make sure that the flint part is inside the chamber, the knob is in a
convenient place, and the chamber is basically airtight. When I mounted my
ignitor the 4" PVC was too thick for the little threaded bolt on the ignitor,
so I had to use a 3/4" drill bit and drill PART of the way through the PVC to
make it thinner right where the nuts were going to screw together. If this
ignitor thing sounds complicated, don't worry; you'll understand when you see
it. If you have any questions or improvements, leave me a message on Electric
Dreams (please??) --Phone Phantom [*][0][#]
Note: I have found that Rave hair spray works well, the least hold the better.
Diagram (sort of): (parts shown detached for easier understanding)
(cement EVERYTHING but screw-on cap)
(not drawn to scale, is anything anymore?)
|+++|
=########4" Screw-on Cap########=
|= =|
|= (threaded) =|
| 4" Female Adapter |
| |
\ /
\ /
| |
| |
| (hair spray goes here) |
| (about 2-3 seconds, |
| depends on chamber, |
| then replace threaded |
| cap. DO THIS AFTER |
| LOADING POTATO!!) |
| |
| About 1 foot of 4" PVC |
| |
| ignitor *-----------|--+
| assembly -> !/ |
| (flick knob ! |
| QUICKLY!) ! |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
[ ]
[ 4" to 2" Reducing Coupler ]
[ ]
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
| very short |
| sec. of 2" |
| PVC to join |
| couplers |
| |
[ 2" to 1 1/2" ]
[ reducing ]
[ coupler ]
\ /
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
| |
axle wire->|---------|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| 2 feet |
|of 1 1/2"|
| PVC for |
| barrell |
| with |
|axle wire|
| (above) |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| ^ |
| | |
| ram |
| potato |
| down |
| barrell |
| to axle |
| wire |
taper barrell with | |
file or grinding -> \ /
wheel to cut potatoes [*][0][#]
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File #2: List of * codes for the Des Moines tel. system
*******************************************************
I have included this list because it's about the only bit of quasi
phreaking info that I have. I compiled this list one night when I had nothing
better to do, and ended up adding $1 to my parents' phone bill accidentally.
Code Result
---- ------------------------------
*57 Trace last incoming call. After dialing this you will get a recording
that gives you an 800 number where you can call to deal with the
harrassing phone call. They will NOT release the phone number to
you, they'll turn it over to the police if the call was bad enough.
Just get Caller ID, people. Oh, I almost forgot. This is the thing
that automatically adds $1 to your phone bill.
*67 Block your number from being sent to Caller ID receivers. Dial this
before you make your call. Phreakers, use this every time you make
a phone call, everyone's getting Caller ID now, and you're very safe
as long as the victim doesn't trace the call.
*69 Last Call Return. Dials the last person that called you. You must
order this feature, but I recently heard a commercial on the radio
saying that you can try this out for free for a while.
*70 Disable call waiting. I'm sure most of you know about this already.
Dial it before making your call.
*72 I don't know, but it's something in use right now. Help! I think it
has something to do with call waiting.
*73 " "
*74 Says "call cannot be completed as dialed." Probably reserved
for future use. The rest of these codes are like this. I call this
the "rubber band recording" because the first sound sounds like a
plucked rubber band.
*75 Rubber band message on both of my lines.
*80 Rubber band on my generic (no features) line, reorder on other.
*81 Same as above.
*83 Same as above.
*86 Same as above.
*89 Same as above.
*90 Same as above.
*91 Same as above.
*92 Same as above.
*93 Same as above. [*][0][#]
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File #3: Let's hack "In Touch"!
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Okay, we all know what In Touch is, right? It's that collection of
recorded messages that you dial late at night when Star Trek isn't on. The
number is 246-5600; when it answers it will ask you for a 4-digit category
number. You can find these numbers in the front of your Telecom phone book.
Here's the problem for all you hackers: When you dial '*' then at least a
4-digit number, and then '*', you get the message: "Enter category to record."
Sounds fun, eh? Then I'm guessing you have to enter another number followed
by the pound (#) key. I always get the message, "Category not found", which
probably means that I have the first number wrong. The first number is
probably the account number or password, which could have access to several
categories (2nd #). Also, if you dial '*' and then at least a 4-digit number,
and then '#', you get the message, "Enter customer message number to record."
Sound even more fun? If anyone has any free time or inside information, drop
me, the Phone Phantom, a line on Electric Dreams or the Bible Board. Thanks.
[*][0][#]
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File #4: How to hack answering machines
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To tell you the truth folks, there ain't much info in this file. It's
mostly a call to arms for phreakers who just want to cause a little confusion.
Most of the stuff here you're going to have to figure out for yourself; I'll
just tell you how to get in the door. Okay, first you'll need to find a
machine to hack. Try doctors, lawyers, etc.; people who HAVE to have machines
or answering services *yuck*. Be careful: ALWAYS use *67, you don't want this
doctor to have a nice record of your phone number and the times that you
called when he gets to work in the morning, do you? When the message is play-
ing, hit '*'. This works 95% of the time on remote control phones. If it
works, you should hear a beep. If it does not work, try '#' and '0'. If you
don't get a beep move on to another machine. After you hear the beep it's
going to want a security code; this is usually 2 digits. Just start dialing
two digit numbers, like this: "01020304050607080910111213..." The machine may
hang up on you halfway through; just call back. When you have the right code
you will hear a longer beep. You're in! This is where you must improvise.
Every machine is different. One key plays the messages, one deletes them, and
another one records a new outgoing message! This last option is by far the
most phun. One time I called up the Iowa Department of Transportation and
accidentally recorded a new outgoing message. Unfortunately, I was talking at
the time, and gave out some incriminating information. I spent the rest of
the night trying to erase it. A few weeks later all the DOT stations must
have replaced their machines with non-remote types, because I couldn't hack
any of them anymore. Oops! [*][0][#]
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File #5: "Imponderables" by David Feldman
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This file has been written using information from David Feldman's book,
"Why do Dogs Have Wet Noses?" without permission. I'm sure David won't mind
as long as you all go out and buy his book if you like these tidbits...
Q. Why don't magazines put page numbers on every page?
A. The answer is they'd really like to, but some advertisers expressly tell
them not to, and they don't mind that much.
Q. What is the purpose of those orange balls you often see on power lines?
A. These balls are there to make them visible to airplanes during the winter
and to scare away birds.
Q. Why are television sets measured diagonally?
A. Because it just sounds bigger. (No, really!)
Q. What is the purpose of the yellow "Violation" flag on parking meters?
A. Ask anyone this and they might tell you that it's for when your time runs
out, but that's when the red "Expired" flag pops up. Actually, the yellow
flag only comes up if the meter is malfunctioning or if you don't turn the
crank all the way. It is against the law to park beside a meter
displaying the yellow flag, whether you put money in it or not.
Q. Why do many brands of asprin not have a safety cap on their 100 count
bottles?
A. Because the FDA allows them to manufacture ONE size without the safety
cap, and the 100 count bottle is the most popular (especially with the
elderly, who might have trouble opening the bottles anyway).
Q. What is that piece of tissue paper found in wedding invitations?
A. The tissue paper was originally used to keep the ink from smearing, but
with todays methods it is no longer needed.
Q. Why is there no channel 1 on TV's?
A. Actually, there used to be, but the FCC gave it back to its original
users--mobile radios.
Q. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
A. The egg.
Then the chicken.
Then the sock.
Q. What unit of measurement is indicated by VCR counters?
A. This is purely unique to each machine.
Q. Why is the cold water faucet on the right side, and hot on the left?
A. Back before hot running water, the faucet was on the right side because
most people are right-handed. When hot running water came along, it made
sense to keep the cold water on the right side.
Q. How can hair grow after someone dies?
A. Actually, it can't, but the skin dries out and shrinks, making it appear
as though the hair has grown.
Q. How did the heights of light switches become established?
A. There is some sort of fire barrier in the wall about halfway up, and it's
easier to put the switch above the barrier.
Q. Why are weigh stations on highways always closed?
A. They're open, but for very short, random periods of time to catch truck
drivers off-gaurd. If they stayed open longer, word would get out quickly
by CB and the truck drivers would bypass the staions.
[*][0][#]
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File #6: Weekly top 10 things to do to confuse people
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10. When someone greets you respond with a totally random response like
"Yeah, but my dog is at home."
9. Hang up a sign in your dorm room that says "Do not look directly at this
poster." When questioned, pretend that it's a sensitive topic and refuse
to comment.
8. When you go to bed, make the bed neatly; when you wake, mess it up.
7. Get a bunch of fake or real human teeth. Put them all in your mouth and
sit down at your desk in class. After everyone is seated, begin coughing
loudly and spit the teeth out onto your desk. Offer them to the person
next to you.
6. "Forget" to flush the toilet, making sure to leave some teeth in the
bowl.
5. Every hour, on the hour, stand up and calmly say "fire" while looking
blankly straight ahead. Quickly sit back down and act as though nothing
has happened.
4. Try to carry on a conversation with an orange. When it doesn't respond,
begin to smash it with your fist while yelling, "This is for your own
good, mommy knows best!" After it's good and smushed, pretend to be
really, really sorry and bandage it up with band-aids while saying, "Gee,
Mr. Orange, I'm ever so sorry!" Repeat the whole process over and over.
3. When you go to the drinking fountain put your nose in the water and
pretend to inhale it.
2. Open doors for imaginary people.
1. When at home or in your dorm, tie fishing line onto a belt loop and the
other end to something like a door knob. When anyone asks you about it
spin around so that the string winds around your body while repeatedly
saying, "Big girls don't cry." [*][0][#]
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File #7: Misconceptions
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This area is for me to correct any dumb things that I've heard lately...
- The ringing sound that you hear when you call someone is NOT the actual
ringing. It's called the audible, and it's not even in synch with the actual
ringing!
- One beer will make you just as drunk on the ground as it will on an airliner
at 35,000 feet. Your body doesn't even know it's that high because of the
pressurization of the airplane.
- When you hear people referring to "final approach" to the runway, they're
only correcy if the airplane is lined up with the runway and has no more
turns to make before landing. You can catch flight attendants on this one
95% of the time.
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File #8: How to brew your own beer!
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Okay, here's what you'll need:
-Bottles. After calling a bunch of bottle manufacturers here in Des Moines,
one guy told me to buy them from the brewery up in Adel. It's
called The Old Depot; it also has a nice restaurant, but it's
expensive. They will sell you used beer bottles for 5 cents each,
or new ones for 20 cents.
-Bottle caps. You can get these at the Old Depot also for a penny each, or
from the place where I'm about to tell you to get your crimper
for the bottle caps.
-Bottle capper (or crimper). I got mine at the New City Market; this is where
you'll probably want to get your ingredients.
They also have bottle caps and most of the other
equipment. Their address is 4721 University.
-A 4-5 gallon pot.
-Ingredients for your recipe. You can get just about everything at New City
Market.
-Racking hoses. Basically siphon hoses. You can get these at New City Market
or just go to the hardware store and buy some vinyl tubing.
-A strainer or cheesecloth bag.
-Brewer's yeast. I believe it comes in 7 gram packets. You'll need one per
batch, any kind will do. New City Market.
-2 5-gallon buckets. I suggest one 5-gallon bucket and one glass carboy
(the jug from the office water cooler). You can get
both of these at New City Market.
-An airlock. This is a little plastic device that you put water in and it
lets the CO2 escape without letting any air in. New City Market.
-A rubber stopper. New City Market.
-Irish moss. This stuff helps the yeast settle.
-Bottle brush. New City Market
-Bleach.
Okay, here's the basic process:
Bring 2-3 gallons of water to a boil and add the malt extract. To make it
easier to pour out of the can, soak the can in hot water first. Then add the
first load of hops. The hops that you add at the beginning of the boil is
called the bittering hops, and the hops that you add at the end is called the
aromatic hops. If your recipe calls for regular malt also, add it now, too.
Also pour in the corn sugar, if it's called for. Let this mixture (it's called
a wort) boil for about a half an hour, and during the last 5 minutes of the
boil, add a teaspoon of Irish Moss.
Now you need to strain all the hops and malt out of the wort, so all you have
is a dark liquid with no crud in it. You can do this however you want. After
you've strained it, pour the liquid into your 5-gallon glass carboy (or
plastic bucket, if you've chosen that). Add cold water until the total amount
of liquid is 5 gallons. The carboy or bucket that you're using now will be
referred to as the Primary Fermentation Vessel, or PFV. Put the PFV in a cool
place overnight.
When the liquid in the PFV is cooled to room temperature, sprinkle the yeast
on top of the mixture, let it sit for about 10 minutes, then stir it in. If
you're using the glass carboy you'll have to shake the whole thing. Put the
stopper on the carboy and insert the airlock. Be sure to fill the airlock
halfway with water. Put the PFV in a cool place to ferment for about a week.
While you're waiting for the beer to ferment, you'll need to wash and
sterilize your bottles. Use your bottle brush to scrub out the bottles, hold
them up to the light to check for scum, and then soak them all in the bathtub
with bleach and hot water.
You'll know when it's done fermenting because that big foamy thing on top of
the beer will get smaller, and the airlock will bubble less often. Now you
need to siphon the beer off of the crud at the bottom. This is where the
other 5-gallon bucket comes in. Leave a lot of beer in the PFV if you have
to, but don't siphon up that stuff! It tastes gross!! Use your mouth to
start the siphon.
After you've siphoned out the good beer, immediately "prime" it with about a
cup of CORN sugar. This will ferment a little more once it's in the bottles,
creating CO2. Since the CO2 can't escape, it carbonates your beer. After
you've primed it, put your beer into bottles and seal them with the crimper.
Put them in a dark place for 2-3 weeks. After this time you can drink it. I
would pour it into a glass, first, because whenever you brew your own beer you
are going to have some yeast settled on the bottom of the bottle. There is no
way around this. If you drink it from the bottle it tastes a little different
at the bottom.
Here's a rather unique recipe that I like. Beware: this does not taste like
American beer! It's good, though. I had several friends who don't even like
beer tell me that it was good.
Ingredients:
-6 cups corn sugar.
-1 package of Cascade Leaf Hops. New City Market, in the cooler.
-About 1/3 lb. of Crystal Malt.
-Pale Ale beermaking kit. It's basically a can of malt extract. There's a
packet of yeast included!
Just make it like I said above, only boil it for 15 minutes instead of 30, add
all of the hops at once, let it ferment for about 5 days, and be sure to save
1 cup of the 6 cups of corn sugar for priming.
While you're at New City Market, check out their books on brewing. If you're
really into this stuff you might want to pick one up.
Special thanks goes out to Jeff Hunter, SysOp of Temple of the Screaming
Electron BBS.
That's all, folks! If you have any questions drop me a line on Electric
Dreams or the Bible Board. Happy brewing!!
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As I mentioned in the welcome, I decided to turn THE MOUTH OF XIBALBA into
a "digital" zine rather than continue as a paper one. One of the chief
reasons for this was my frustration at getting the paper zine out the door to
any interested parties, hell, just FINDING any interested parties was proving
to be damned near impossible. I suppose that I just don't have the patience
to set a thing into motion and let it gather its own momentum, I want instant
gratification, it's the American way! Now I no longer need to send out free
copies to various zine authors, hoping for a plug in their respective mags,
when I am happy with a work-in-progress, I can simply upload portions of the
zine into the digital ether via modem.
My disatisfaction with Xerox results is another reason for switching
formats (is that the correct term?), the inability to get a truly decent
photocopy job done, I don't have the funds or the distribution to warrant an
offset printing job. Of course, I have to impose a limit of 640 x 480
resolution because I don't want to automatically exclude someone who doesn't
have SVGA resolution, this makes for images that don't carry the same amount
of detail as a clean photocopy, particularly with tiny type. This is a small
sacrifice that has to weighed against the ability to reuse collage portions
and art repeatedly without loss of detail (and no messy glue!).
I received a grey-scale hand scanner for my birthday and that's what I've
been using to get graphics into the computer for manipulation. The hand
scanner works well but it's hard to get perfectly straight lines into the
computer due to my human limitations, perhaps I need one of those scanner
trays.. yeah, probably, but I don't have the money for that right now. At any
rate, I am using the scanner at lowest resolution and saving images in 16
color format so that I can keep the byte size of these images as low as
possible, if I am going to distribute any of this stuff via disk, I need to
pack as much as possible onto a single disk.
Another restriction that I am burdened with as a result of using this new
format is that I no longer have the ability to mix text and background
graphics with the same sort of reckless abandon as I had with issue 1 and 2.
Scanned text just doesn't look sharp enough to me, it can't be avoided when
you need to scan in a cartoon or weird article but disk space requirements
also preclude the scanning of a page of text when a simple ASCII file will
do. So it's not as colorful or visually stimulating to have the ASCII
seperated from cryptic graphic backgrounds, oh well, another one of the
trade offs that I have been forced to make due to format limitations.
Something that I was interested in doing was creating an engine that would
provide a graphic menu system that would allow the use of a mouse to choose
articles or images but my proficiency at C is not extensive enough to get
such a project off the ground, for now, a simple batch menu will have to
suffice. However, if anyone out there is interested in helping me design
such a menu in C or C+, please contact me at the usual address:
Neil Sorenson, THE MOUTH OF XIBALBA, 59a Onway Lake Rd, Raymond, NH 03077
Lastly, on a more subjective/less technical note, I have decided to lean
towards another form of zine, rather than pack it full of my own ravings and
weird art, I have decided to use this format to desseminate the work of other
zine writers and artists. Perhaps some will see this as a cop-out, thinking
that I am using the work of others as a vehicle for my own meager talents
and in most ways, I suppose that this is a correct assumption. You may call
THE MOUTH OF XIBALBA the K-TEL of the zine world, I plan to pick delicious
nuggets from various zines (and etc.) that make it to my door and reproduce
them here (with full credit of course). If you have an article or piece of
art that you would like to submit for consideration, by all means, please
feel free to send me mail at the above address or if your submission is
digital in nature, you can send me E-mail with file attachments to me at
COMPUTER CASTLE in Newton, NH at (603)642-5914 or (603)895-2393.
Feel free to write to either sources with your bitches, complaints,
praises, questions, offers of free energy, secrets of the unknown, and
recipes. S'long.
- Neil
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THIS MONTH'S TOP SATELLITE NEWS STORIES
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HBO CONFIRMS CONTINUED ANALOG EAST & WEST COAST FEEDS FOR DISH OWNERS
HERE'S THE CURRENT WILD FEEDS LIST - BUT NO GUARANTEES
WHAT'S HAPPENING ACROSS THE HOME DISH SKYS THIS MONTH...
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³ HBO CONFIRMS CONTINUED ANALOG EAST & WEST COAST FEEDS FOR DISH OWNERS ³
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HBO has confirmed that home dish owners (and cable systems) will be able to
continue receiving the analog east and west coast programming feeds for "some"
time to come and this is thought to mean at least two years - probably three
years at a bare minimum. HBO has also confirmed that their MULTIPLEX feeds
which are not intended for home dish owners, will continue as long as there is
a need for these by cable systems. It is thought that these feeds will
continue on Telstar 302 until it is replaced early next year but HBO refuses
to confirm this. The multiplex feeds are now being transmitted on Galaxy 1 #18
and cable systems are being provided free Digiciphers in order to pick-up these
feeds and feed them to their subscribers. There appears to be less than ten
cable systems in the country that are carrying these additional feeds.
With the arrival of Digicipher set top units for cable subscribers in a
month or two, it is thought that many cable systems will take that opportunity
to add HBO2, HBO3, and CINEMAX2 on their existing HBO channel. All that would
be required is for their subscribers to pickup the new set top unit.
It will be a "wait and see" for a few months to find out how well this new
transmission works out in the real world - it works fine under controlled tests
but that may not be true on many of the cable systems. If it DOES work okay,
it won't take too long for "everybody" to jump on the bandwagon and compress
their signals.
The question is, who is "everybody"? Here's a list of programmers who have
already announced their plans to launch additional channels as soon as the
technology proves itself. Remember, adding a second or third channel won't
cost them anything using Digicipher, it simply allows them to charge more money
for the additional services or keep their existing subscribers happy by adding
alternative programming.
HOME BOX OFFICE: already added two channels
HBO CINEMAX: already added one channel
DISNEY CHANNEL: already added one channel
SHOWTIME: already added one channel
E.S.P.N.: plans to add two channels
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: plans to add at least one channel, maybe two
C.N.B.C.: plans to add a second channel
COURT TV: plans to add a second channel
MUSIC TV(MTV): plans to add at least eight channels, maybe ten
DISCOVERY CHANNEL: plans to add two channels
MIND EXTENTION UNIVERSITY: plans four channels
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN: plans to add at least one channel, maybe two
P.B.S.: plans to expand to eight channels
PLAYBOY CHANNEL: plans to add a second channel
AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS: plans to add a second channel
NICKELODEON: possibly two or three new services
REQUEST PAY-PER-VIEW: plans to move to ten channels
VIEWER'S CHOICE PAY-PER-VIEW: plans to add several new channels
How soon will these channels be available? We'll have to wait and see. If
the programmers were real smart, every one would add a second channel that just
carried their program listings. The lack of adequate listings is one of the
major complaints of cable subscribers and dish owners alike. It is also a good
bet that every network that only has one feed will add a second alternative
time zone feed.
Do you need to rush out and buy yourself a Digicipher? No, for the next
year or so everyone is going to continue using videocipher. After a year or
so we'll know how well the compression systems work and we'll know which system
will really be the "defacto" standard. At least GI finally broke down and got
a license so their Digiciphers do have true digital Dolby sound. Another year
or two and they may have a lot of other improvements too.
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³ FCC ASKS FOR COMMENTS: ON HOME SHOPPING NETWORKS & CABLE READY HARDWARE ³
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The FCC needs public comment - THAT'S YOUR OPINION - on a couple of issues
upon which, they are now planning to adopt new rules. This is your chance to
tell the regulators how you feel.
One, they want to know if over-the-air broadcast stations that do nothing
but carry home shopping networks actually serve the public interest and should
therefor be required to be carried by your local cable tv system. If they do
not serve the public interest, should the FCC force cable systems to carry
these channels? Or, should the FCC order the channels to begin carrying
programming that responds to the needs of their community the same way other
broadcast stations do? The FCC wants to know and I'm sure you have something
to say on this so let them know.
And, second, they want to know what to do about the problem of many cable
systems that have purposely prevented cable subscribers from being able to use
expensive cable ready hardware. What sort of rules should be adopted in regard
to this to assure cable ready hardware owners that they can enjoy the benefits
they paid for.
For those of you who may not have cable or cable-ready tv's and vcr's and
don't know what's going on, there is a considerable problem with using cable
ready tv's and vcr's on many cable systems.
While the actual cable ready tv's and vcr's are usually capable of
receiving ALL normal cable tv channels, many cable systems have defeated their
use by scrambling all or part of the channels and then requiring subscribers to
rent worthless equipment simply to increase their monthly charges.
In most cases, the worthless equipment consists of convertors to tune-in
channels instead of allowing the cable ready tv's and vcr's to do this. In
some cases the systems have scrambled many of their channels and refuse to
"block-descramble" them (which they can easily and cheaply do outside the home)
and force subscribers to use the "cable box" to do this. This means that a
typical cable subscriber with three tv's and a vcr - all cable-ready - must
rent four "cable boxes" for around $20. per month instead of using the stuff he
already owns for free. Many cable systems such as Warner Cable in this area,
also rent you the remote that goes with their "cable box" for an additional fee
of $2.50 per month. That's $5. per month for the box plus another $2.50 for
the remote. And, if you choose not to pay for the remote, they program the
box not to accept any signals from those "universal" remotes so you can't buy
one of those and save a couple of bucks either.
If you have something to say about this now is the time to say it. The FCC
wants to hear from you so here's your chance. You'll have to invest an hour or
so of your time but you'll feel better after you've expressed your opinion.
Usually, to submit information to the FCC requires that you submit it in a
specific format that they have designated with docket numbers, cover sheets,
and footnotes. If you desire to submit comments and are not familiar with this
process, AND you can do it in a couple of clear, consise, and SHORT paragraphs
on a single page... do it that way. Then title it at the top of the page as
PUBLIC COMMENTS: PROPOSED CABLE-READY COMPATABILITY RULES or
PUBLIC COMMENTS: PROPOSED HOME SHOPPING BROADCASTER MUST-CARRY RULES. If you
want to comment on both it will take to separate filings.
Send NINE copies to: Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
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³ HERE'S THE CURRENT WILD FEEDS LIST - BUT NO GUARANTEES ³
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W I L D F E E D L I S T
What's a wildfeed? This is a feed that is transmitted on a regular basis
(usually, it's regular) and you can tune-in if you know where and when to look
for it. All of the syndicated programming that you see on tv stations around
the country are sent early and taped by the various stations for later
broadcasts. This allows them to have the feed re-transmitted in case something
goes wrong with the tape or the transmission. Most daily and weekly shows are
sent at the same time each day or each week and dish owners soon learn to watch
for these and record their locations. That's why we now have this list. It is
updated on a regular basis. I'll make a habit of including it here at least
every 90 days so you should always be able to find something good to watch even
though you don't own a descrambler. None of these feeds are encrypted.
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³ ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FEEDS WHEN WHERE ³N³E³D³U³I³T³N³ MAYBE ³
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2nd Generation 01:30 T1#18 X
60 Minutes 16:00 E1#08 X
60 Sec. Housecalls 23:30 T1#05 X MAYBE
A Current Affair 15:00 T3#23 X X X X X
A Current Affair 17:00 T3#18 X X X X X
A Current Affair Extra 11:00 T3#23 X
Addams Family 01:30 E2#12 X MAYBE
Adventures With Mickey M 17:15 T1#17 X MAYBE
Agday 23:30 G6#21 X X X
America's New Country 07:30 T1#21 X
American Detective 11:00 T1#13 X
American Detective 13:00 T1#24 X MAYBE
American Gladiators 07:30 T1#13 X
Apollo Comedy Hour 10:30 T1#18 X
Around the World 10:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Arsenio Hall 21:00 G6#21 X X X X X
Arsenio Hall 21:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Arsenio Hall 22:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Arsenio Hall Wknd Jam 17:00 T1#09 X
Babe W.'s Good Fishing! 10:00 T1#05 X
Back to the Future 03:00 T1#24 X
Batman 01:15 T3#23 X
Batman 09:15 E1#08 X X X X X MAYBE
Baywatch 21:30 T1#21 X
Baywatch 09:30 T1#05 X
Beakman's World 09:00 T1#03 X MAYBE
Beakman's World 01:30 T1#03 X MAYBE
Beauty and the Beast 21:00 T1#19 X
Beauty and the Beast 11:00 T1#19 X MAYBE
Beauty and the Beast 06:30 T1#19 X MAYBE
Best of Love Connection 10:30 T1#03 X X X X X
Best of Love Connection 04:30 T1#03 X X X
Best/People's Court [gang] 04:00 T1#03 X
Beverly Hills 90210 01:00 E2#12 X MAYBE
Beverly Hills 90210 04:00 T1#21 X
Bob 01:00 E2#12 X
Bob 03:30 T1#03 X
Bold and the Beautiful 05:00 T1#13 X X X X X
Boxing Week 14:00 T1#19 X MAYBE
Brooklyn Bridge 01:00 T1#03 X MAYBE
Brooklyn Bridge 05:00 E2#12 X MAYBE
Bugs and Tweety 04:00 E2#12 X MAYBE
Byron Allen 21:00 T1#15 X MAYBE
Byron Allen Show 01:00 T1#15 X MAYBE
CA Lottery -- Big Spin 21:00 T1#19 X
CA Lottery -- Big Spin 20:00 T1#19 X
Camp Candy 13:00 T1#21 X X X X X
Camp Candy 08:30 T1#21 X X X X X
Candid Kids Club 22:30 T1#19 X MAYBE
Cap. N & Video Gamemaster 08:30 T1#13 X X X X X
Cap. N & Video Gamemaster 00:15 T1#13 X [gang]
Cap. N & Video Gamemaster 03:28 T1#13 X
Captain Planet 13:00 T1#13 X
Captain Planet 06:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Catwalk 08:00 T1#01 X MAYBE
CCPD 01:00 E2#12 X MAYBE
Cheers 11:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Cheers 12:30 E2#12 X MAYBE
Cheers 14:00 E1#08 X
Chip 'N Dale R.R. 11:00 T1#17 X
Chip 'N Dale's R.R. 12:00 T1#17 X X X X X
Chip 'N Dale's R.R. 07:00 T1#17 X X X X X MAYBE
Civil Wars 10:30 T3#18 X
Civil Wars 14:00 E1#08 X
CNN Headline News [#1] 03:10 T1#19 X X X X X X X
CNN Headline News [#1] 15:10 T1#19 X X X X X X X
CNN Newsource 15:00 T1#03 X X X X X
CNN Newsource 08:30 T1#03 X X X X X
Coach 14:30 E1#08 X
Code 3 04:30 T3#18 X MAYBE
Conan 13:30 T1#20 X MAYBE
Conan 06:30 T1#01 X MAYBE
Consumer Reports 13:00 T1#19 X MAYBE
Consumer Travel Report 05:30 T1#01 X MAYBE
Cops 03:45 T3#23 X
Cosby Show 11:30 T1#01 X X X X X
Cosby Show 04:30 T1#18 X MAYBE
Cosby Show 04:00 T1#18 X MAYBE
Cosby Show 07:30 T1#18 X MAYBE
Cosby Show 08:30 T1#18 X
Cosby Show 08:00 T1#18 X MAYBE
Cosby Show 08:00 T1#24 X X X X X
Countdown to Kickoff 08:00 T1#19 X MAYBE
Crossroads 04:00 T1#24 X
CycleSat Commercials Net. 13:30 T1#01 X
CycleSat Commercials Net. 14:00 T1#01 X X X
CycleSat Commercials Net. 02:00 T1#01 X X X X X
Dark Justice 01:30 T1#16 X MAYBE
Darkwing Duck 22:30 T1#17 X MAYBE
Darkwing Duck 11:30 T1#17 X X X X X
Days of Our Lives 02:15 E2#12 X X X X X
Designing Women 09:30 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 09:00 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 01:30 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 13:30 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 20:00 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 02:30 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 02:00 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 03:00 T1#03 X X
Designing Women 05:00 T1#09 X MAYBE
Designing Women 06:30 T1#24 X MAYBE
Dinosaurs 13:00 T1#17 X MAYBE
Dinosaurs 06:30 T1#17 X MAYBE
Disney Afternoon Pt 1 13:30 T1#17 X X X X X
Disney Afternoon Pt 1 04:00 T1#17 X X X
Disney Afternoon Pt 2 14:45 T1#17 X X X X X
Disney Afternoon Pt 2 05:15 T1#17 X X X
Donahue 15:00 T1#01 X X X X X
Donahue 08:00 T1#18 X X X X X
Doogie Howser, MD 14:00 E1#08 X
Dr. Edell Medical Report 10:00 T1#01 X
Duck Tales 07:00 T1#17 X
Ducktales 10:30 T1#17 X X X X X
Ducktales 01:00 T1#17 X
DuckTales 16:00 T1#17 X MAYBE
Ducktales 17:30 T1#17 X MAYBE
Ducktales 04:30 T1#17 X X X X X X MAYBE
Ducktales [gang] 01:00 T1#17 X
Ebony Jet Showcase 12:45 T1#05 X
Ed Sullivan 10:00 T1#19 X MAYBE
Ed Sullivan 12:00 T1#09 X MAYBE
Ed Sullivan 02:30 T1#03 X MAYBE
Emergency Call 03:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Emergency Call 06:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Emergency Response 07:00 T1#01 X MAYBE
Entertainment News Update 13:30 T1#19 X MAYBE
Entertainment This Weekend 14:00 T1#09 X
Entertainment This Weekend 08:00 G6#23 X MAYBE
Entertainment This Weekend 08:00 T1#09 X
Entertainment Tonight 14:30 G6#23 X X X X X
Entertainment Tonight 14:30 T1#09 X X X X X
Entertainment Tonight 16:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Evening Shade 05:15 T1#15 X MAYBE
Evening Shade 17:30 T1#05 X MAYBE
Family Feud 12:00 T1#01 X X X X X
Family Feud 12:00 T1#24 X X X X X
Family Feud 12:00 T1#24 X X X X X
Family Feud 13:30 T1#05 X MAYBE
Family Feud 15:45 T1#13 X X X X MAYBE
Family Feud 15:45 T1#24 X X X X MAYBE
Family Matters 07:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Feed the Children 10:00 T1#23 X MAYBE
Fishing the West 15:30 G6#21 X MAYBE
Foxfire 11:00 T1#21 X
Frannie's Turn 09:00 T1#13 X
Freestyle Skiing 19:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 05:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Front Runners 11:00 T1#19 X
Full House 09:00 T1#13 X
Funtastic World of HB Pt1 07:50 T1#21 X MAYBE
Funtastic World of HB Pt2 08:55 T1#21 X
Funtastic World of HB Pt1 20:00 T1#21 X
Funtastic World of HB Pt2 20:55 T1#21 X
G.I. Joe 11:00 T1#01 X
G.I. Joe 06:00 T1#01 X
Garner Ted Armstrong 10:30 T1#09 X
Garner Ted Armstrong 08:30 T1#19 X
Geraldo 13:00 T1#15 X X X X X
Geraldo 06:00 T2#19 X X X X X MAYBE
GI Joe 03:00 T3#20 X MAYBE
Going to Extremes 10:00 T1#13 X
Gold Prospector's Show 11:00 T1#01 X MAYBE
Gold Prospectors Show 12:00 T1#01 X
Golden Girls 17:00 T1#17 X MAYBE
Golfing America 19:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
Good Fishing 07:00 T1#05 X MAYBE
Goof Troop 11:00 T1#17 X X X X X
Goof Troop 00:00 T1#17 X MAYBE
Goof Troop 01:30 T1#17 X MAYBE
Greatest Sports Legends 09:00 T1#13 X
Greatest Sports Legends 21:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Greatest Sports Legends 11:00 T1#13 X
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper 03:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Hard Copy 14:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Hard Copy 15:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Harry and Hendersons 09:30 T1#01 X
Harry and Hendersons 13:00 T1#20 X
Harry and Hendersons 06:30 T1#01 X MAYBE
HBO Comedy Showcase 22:00 T1#03 X
HBO Comedy Showcase 22:00 T1#03 X MAYBE
HBO Comedy Showcase 05:30 T1#03 X MAYBE
HBO Comedy Showcase 05:30 T1#03 X MAYBE
Hearts Afire 05:00 E2#12 X MAYBE
Heathcliff 14:00 T1#21 X X X X X
Hee Haw 11:00 T1#03 X
Highlander 03:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Highlander 05:00 T1#24 X MAYBE
Highway to Heaven 14:30 T1#21 X X X X X
Highway to Heaven 04:30 T1#21 X X X X X
Hollywood Babylon 12:00 T1#13 X
Home Again With Bob Vila 10:00 T1#01 X MAYBE
Home Improvement 10:00 T1#17 X
Homefront 04:00 T1#24 X
Hoosier Millionaire 10:25 T1#09 X MAYBE
I Dream of Jeannie 13:30 T1#05 X MAYBE
I'll Fly Away 02:30 T1#24 X
IMPACT Environmental 06:30 T1#01 X MAYBE
In the Heat of the Night 14:00 T1#13 X X X X X
In the Heat of the Night 02:00 T1#13 X X X X X
Infatuation 10:00 T1#13 X X X X X
Infatuation [gang] 04:00 T1#13 X
Inside Edition 14:00 T1#18 X X X X X
Inside Edition 15:00 T1#24 X X X X X
Inside Edition 18:30 T1#18 X MAYBE
Inside Washington Today 11:30 T1#9 X
Inside Washington Today 11:00 T1#9 X
Inspector Gadget 10:30 T1#13 X X X X X
Inspector Gadget 04:00 T1#13 X [gang]
It's Your Business 10:30 T1#01 X
It's Your Business 12:45 T1#20 X
It's Your Business 09:30 T1#01 X
James Bond Jr. 11:30 T1#20 X X X X X
James Bond Jr. 06:00 T1#01 X X X X X
Jane Whitney Show 00:30 T1#03 X
Jenny Jones 07:00 T1#03 X X X X X
Jenny Jones 19:00 T1#03 X X X X X
Jenny Jones Show 08:00 T1#24 X MAYBE
Jeopardy 12:00 T1#21 X X X X X
Jeopardy 06:30 T1#21 X X X X X
Jerry Springer 10:00 T1#24 X X X X X
Joan Rivers 09:00 T1#15 X X X X X
Joan Rivers 19:00 T1#15 X MAYBE
Joan Rivers 08:00 T2#19 X X X X X MAYBE
Kenneth Copeland 12:00 T1#13 X
Kenneth Copeland 07:30 T1#13 X
Kenneth Copeland 07:30 T1#13 X
Kids in the Hall 02:35 T1#16 X MAYBE
Kids in the Hall 03:05 T1#16 X MAYBE
King Arthur 10:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Knights and Warriors 01:00 T1#03 X MAYBE
Knights and Warriors 13:00 T1#03 X MAYBE
LA Law 02:00 T3#18 X MAYBE
LA Law 15:10 E1#08 X
Law and Order 05:30 T1#13 X
Lifestyles/Rich & Famous 05:00 T1#09 X MAYBE
Lifestyles/Rich & Famous 08:00 T1#23 X
Live/Regis & Kathy Lee 09:00 T1#17 X X X X X
Live/Regis & Kathy Lee 08:00 T1#19 X X X X X
Love and War 07:00 T1#15 X
Love Connection 12:00 T1#03 X X X X X
Love Connection 17:30 T1#03 X MAYBE
Love Connection 18:00 T1#03 X MAYBE
Love Connection [gang] 07:00 T1#03 X
MACINTOSH TV Net 07:00 G6#22 X X X X X
Mad About You 05:30 T1#03 X
Mad About You 05:00 E2#12 X
Major Dad 12:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Major Dad 06:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Married With Children 03:50 T1#09 X MAYBE
Married With Children 12:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Married With Children 01:00 E2#12 X
Married With Children 02:40 T1#09 X MAYBE
Married With Children 03:15 T1#09 X MAYBE
Martin 06:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
M*A*S*H 09:30 T1#21 X X X
M*A*S*H 22:30 T1#21 X X X X X
M*A*S*H 16:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
M*A*S*H 17:30 T1#21 X X X X X
M*A*S*H 18:00 T1#21 X X X
Maury Povich 11:00 T1#19 W X MAYBE
Maury Povich 08:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Maury Povich Show 06:00 T1#09 X X X X X
Melrose Place 04:00 T1#05 X MAYBE
Memories Then and Now 08:00 T1#13 X
Minority Business Report 10:30 T1#18 X
Minority Business Report 13:00 T1#18 X
Money Pro News 11:00 T1#01 X
Montel Williams 05:00 T1#18 X X X X X
Montel Williams Show 13:30 T1#24 X X X X X
Montel Williams Show 01:00 T1#13 X X X X X
Movie Greats Network 11:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
Mr. Bogus 12:30 T1#21 X
Mr. Bogus 06:30 T1#21 X
Murder, She Wrote 14:00 E1#08 X
Murphy Brown 08:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
New WKRP in Cincinnati 12:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
New WKRP in Cincinnati 12:00 T1#13 X
New WKRP in Cincinnati 07:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
New WKRP in Cincinnati 08:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
News for Kids 11:00 T1#23 X MAYBE
Newsworthy 13:00 T1#05 X
NFL Sat News Service 11:00 T1#?? X MAYBE
Night Flight 10:00 T1#23 X MAYBE
Nighttalk/Jane Whitney 00:30 T1#03 X X X X X X
Northern Exposure 10:00 E2#12 X
Northern Exposure 03:00 T1#13 X
Nurses 10:00 T1#17 X
On Pit Road 09:15 T1#01 X
On Pit Road 13:30 T1#20 X
On Pit Road 19:30 T1#18 X MAYBE
On the Money 01:30 T1#18 X MAYBE
On the Money 02:30 T1#09 X MAYBE
Only In Hollywood 09:30 G6#20 X MAYBE
Oprah Winfrey 09:00 T1#24 X X X X X
Oprah Winfrey 15:00 T1#18 X X X X X
Outdoor Adventure 05:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
Outdoor Adventure 07:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
Outdoor Gazette 01:30 T1#09 X
People's Court 10:00 T1#03 X X X X X
People's Court [gang] 08:02 T1#03 X
Picket Fences 02:00 T3#18 X MAYBE
Power Stick Hockey Week 16:00 T1#19 X
Power Stick Hockey Week 17:00 T1#19 X MAYBE
Power Stick Hockey Week 19:30 T1#09 X
Prime Suspect 07:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Produce Tip of Day 10:30 T1#23 X
Quantum Leap 11:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Quantum Leap 01:00 E2#12 X
Reasonable Doubts 05:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Renegade 11:00 T1#03 X X MAYBE
Roggin's Heroes 10:30 T1#20 X
Roggin's Heroes 13:30 T1#20 X
Rollergames 11:00 T1#13 X
Rollergames 05:00 T1#24 X MAYBE
Roseanne 09:00 T1#18 X X X
Roseanne 12:30 T1#01 X X X X X
Roseanne 02:00 T1#13 X
Roseanne [gang] 05:30 T1#03 X MAYBE
Runaway With/Rich & Famous 07:00 T1#09 X MAYBE
Rush Limbaugh 22:30 T1#13 X X X X X
Rush Limbaugh 20:00 T1#18 X X X X X
Sally Jesse Raphael 12:00 T1#18 X X X X X
Sally Jesse Raphael 06:00 T1#18 X X X X X
Santa Barbara 04:00 T1#13 X X X MAYBE
Sean Gullvers Travels 09:30 T1#13 X MAYBE
Seinfeld 01:30 E2#12 X MAYBE
Senior Report 10:30 T1#21 X
Showtime at Apollo 08:00 T1#09 X
Showtime at the Apollo 11:00 T1#09 X
Simpsons 13:30 E1#08 X
Simpsons 05:00 T3#23 X
Siskel and Ebert 11:00 T1#17 X MAYBE
Siskel and Ebert 11:00 T1#17 X MAYBE
Siskel and Ebert 16:30 T1#17 X
Sisters 06:00 T1#24 X MAYBE
Soul Train 18:30 T1#21 X
Sports Machine 21:15 G6#21 X
Sports Machine 22:30 G6#21 X
Sports News Satellite 21:00 T1#13 X X X X X X
Sports News Satellite 00:15 T1#13 X X X X X X X
Sports News Satellite 15:00 T1#13 X X X X X
Sportsman's Showcase 05:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
Star Search 11:00 T1#19 X
Star Search 05:00 T1#18 X MAYBE
Star Search 06:00 T1#18 X MAYBE
Star Search 07:30 T1#24 X X X X X
Star Search 07:00 T1#18 X MAYBE
Star Trek - Next Gen. 13:00 T1#09 X
Star Trek - Next Gen. 17:00 T1#09 X
Step By Step 03:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Street Justice 12:30 T1#20 X
Street Justice 19:00 T1#18 X
Studs 14:00 T3#23 X X X X X
Studs 04:30 T3#18 X X X X X
Studs 05:00 T3#18 X X X X X MAYBE
Stunt Dawgs 10:00 T1#20 X X X X X
Stunt Dawgs 12:00 T1#20 X X X X X
Success-N-Life Network 15:00 G6#20 X X X X X
Success-N-Life Network 11:00 G6#20 X X X X X
Super Sports Follies 11:30 T1#18 X MAYBE
Super Sports Follies 08:00 T1#21 X
Superboy 07:30 X
Swan's Crossing 13:00 T1#23 X X
Swan's Crossing 06:30 T1#05 X X X X X
Sweating Bullets 09:30 T1#18 X
Sweating Bullets 17:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
T-Rex 13:30 T1#21 X X X X X
T-Rex [gang] 08:35 T1#21 X
Tale Spin 12:30 T1#17 X X X X X
Talespin 19:00 T1#17 X MAYBE
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur. 19:30 T1#01 X MAYBE
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur. 09:30 T1#20 X X X X X
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur. 11:00 T1#20 X [gang]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur. 12:00 T1#20 X
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur. 08:30 T1#01 X
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur. 08:00 T1#01 X
Texas Country Reporter 11:00 T1#23 X MAYBE
Texas Country Reporter 08:00 T1#23 X
That's Amore 10:30 T1#20 X X X X X
That's Amore (block) 11:00 T1#20 X
The Byron Allen Show 01:00 T1#15 X MAYBE
The Commish 15:15 E2#12 X
The Extemeists 12:30 T1#21 X
The Extremists 07:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
The Golden Palace 07:45 T1#17 X MAYBE
The Hat Squad 04:30 E2#12 X MAYBE
The Jane Whitney Show 00:00 T1#03 X
The Judge 09:30 T1#13 X X X X X
The Judge [gang] 08:14 T1#13 X
The Powers That Be 02:15 T1#24 X MAYBE
The Powers That Be 02:30 E2#12 X MAYBE
This is the NFL 13:00 T1#01 X
This is the NFL 07:30 T1#05 X
This Morning's Business 04:30 T1#19 X X X X X
This Morning's Business 04:00 G6#23 X X X X X
This Morning's Business 05:00 T1#19 X X X X X
Tiny Toon 08:30 E1#08 X X X X X MAYBE
Tom Snyder LA to NY [live] 21:00 T1#01 X X X X X
Tom Snyder LA to NY [live] 21:00 T1#18 X X X X X MAYBE
Top Cops 15:00 E1#08 T
Turner Entertain. Report 14:00 T1#03 X X X X X
U.S. Farm Report 01:00 T1#18 X MAYBE
U.S. Farm Report 19:15 T1#13 X
U.S. Pro Ski Tour 08:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
Unsolved Mysteries 14:00 T1#18 X
Up Close 15:00 T1#19 X
Up Close 15:00 T1#19 X
Uptown Comedy Club 09:30 T1#01 X
USDA News 09:00 G6#23 X MAYBE
Vicki! 16:00 T1#01 X X X X X
Vicki! 07:00 T1#01 X X X X X
Wall Street Journal TV 15:30 T1#15 X X X X X
Way Cool 10:00 T1#01 X
Weekend Travel Update 19:00 T1#18 X
Wheel of Fortune 11:30 T1#21 X X X X X
Wheel of Fortune 06:00 T1#21 X X X X X X MAYBE
Wheel of Fortune Weekend 12:30 T1#21 X
Whoopi Goldberg 02:30 T1#21 X
Whoopi Goldberg 02:00 T1#21 X
Whoopi Goldberg 03:30 T1#21 X
Whoopi Goldberg 03:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
Whoopi Goldberg 04:30 T1#21 X
Whoopi Goldberg 04:00 T1#21 X
Whoopi Goldberg 05:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
Whoopi Goldberg 05:00 T1#21 X
Whoopi Goldberg 06:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
Whoopi Goldberg 06:30 T1#21 X MAYBE
Whoopi Goldberg 19:30 T1#21 X X
Whoopi Goldberg 07:00 T1#21 X X X X X
Whoopi! 21:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
Why Didn't I Thk of Tht 13:30 T1#13 X
Widget 10:00 T1#21 X X X X X
Widget 01:30 T1#21 X X X X X MAYBE
Wild Kingdom 13:00 T1#13 X
Wings 14:40 E1#08 X
Wings 04:00 T1#03 X MAYBE
Weekend With Crook & Chase 09:00 T1#23 X
Weekend With Crook & Chase 09:00 T1#23 X
Wonder Years 13:30 T1#13 X X X X X
Wonder Years 06:00 T1#13 X MAYBE
Wonder Years [gang] 11:20 T1#13 X
World Tomorrow 10:00 T1#21 X MAYBE
WWF Wresting 01:00 G6#24 X MAYBE
You Bet Your Life 10:00 T1#20 X
You Bet Your Life 11:00 T1#20 X X X X X
You Bet Your Life 05:00 T1#01 X X X X X
You Bet Your Life 18:00 T1#20 X MAYBE
Young and Restless 03:15 E2#12 X X X X X
Zoo Life With Jack Hanna 12:30 T1#21 X
Zoo Life With Jack Hanna 07:30 T1#21 X
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use by American Airlines. They never report plane crashes.
[gang]: This means that they feed a week's worth of shows, one
right after another.
MAYBE: This is a place where this particular feed MAY BE found and
then again, it might not be there. Usually, a few minutes
before a feed, a test pattern will appear at the location
where the feed will be transmitted and you should tune-in
early to see if its really there. If something else is
already in progress there, check back at its conclusion. A
feed may move around without any notice and you're not a
authorized receive point - so they don't tell you - and
they will move feeds just so you can't find them.
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six months of service. So, if you want to play Wheel Of Fortune along with the
tv show, this gadget is for you. To order: 1-800-INTV-1993.
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month.
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(coffee mugs, hats, t-shirts, etc), a club membership and a monthy magazine. A
membership in their SCI-FI Fan Alliance is $25 and the SCI-FI CHANNEL Magazine
is $12.95 per year. They are even selling a pen that writes upside down and
underwater for $20. - have your credit card ready!
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CNBC, the Consumer News & Business Channel has put Tom Snyder on weeknights
at 9PM (CST). Tom is in Los Angeles and CNBC is in New York, so they are
feeding Tom live from LA to NY on Telstar 301 #1. At least that's where I have
found him.
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disgust@vnet.net
"what's this about?"
this is about absolutely nothing. i'm bored, i have no
'zine to write for (nobody likes my writings), and i don't
really have a life. let's eliminate the "really" from the
last line to clear it up for you a little bit. i DON'T
have a life.
let's see... i've been bbsing since the age of 11«. i
discovered the internet about 6-7 months ago, so i'm
relatively new to the net. i've enjoyed internet because
so many files are within grasp now. i used to have to
call LD for ansi packs and such, but now i can get them
off a site or #ansi. i also discovered 'zines, which
have been keeping me up past 2am 'cause i've been reading
so many of them.
if lit = poems then lit = sucks. i mean, i like writing
poetry, but reading them in an ANSI pack is really boring.
partly because most of the 'poets' can't write worth a shit
and partly because it's just boring. if there are any
stories included in the pack, i'll read them and that's usually
pretty interesting ("rage" by valgamon is probably my all
time favorite. reminds me of a stephen king short story i
read once).
anyways i'm rambling on and on so now i think i'm going to
include a few of my writings which all of the 'zine editors
have decided not to use.
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religion
Here's the scenerio--I'm on a trip to Europe with about 3 kids from
my school as well as a Science Teacher who's a bit strange. The trip is
being conducted by the EF Tours (educational foundation). I've just taken
a seven hour flight and I've landed in Amsterdam. I'm very excited, but
also very tired. I am told that I will be meeting 25+ new people here who
will also be part of my tour.
Seven of them had already arrived, they were from Michigan. A very
cool bunch of people. I was told that the rest of the group would arrive
in about four hours. In the meantime, the tour director has allowed me to
go to our hotel and shower. Yay.
Four hours later I meet the rest of the group. Half of them are from
very small scattered towns in Canada. The other half is from a Christian
based school in Newfoundland. I have no problem with religion, I consider
myself a religious guy, just in a different unique way. There are only
two things I cannot stand about religion--other religion bashing and
extremists.
That night we got to "meet" everybody. I don't think it was such a
good idea, for I got in a religious discussion with a bunch of extremist
kids (i call them the christian coalition). They were all 15-17 years old
and were damning me to hell.
Alright, it started off with them asking my name and then my faith.
I replied that I didn't believe in organized religion, so I was a bit of a
loner. They exchanged strange glances and then asked me if I had to choose
a religion, what would it be? I wasn't sure so I replied,"buddism/hindu"..
I was being a bit sarcastic but they all acted as if I had dropped
the bomb. I asked them if they thought Christianity was the only religion
that was "right". They all replied no, they had nothing against the beliefs
of other religions. I wanted to test them on this, I didn't believe them..
So I told them of a friend I had that was jewish. (i made up this "friend")
I told them that he was considering a switch to Christianity, but he wasn't
sure.
They started picking apart the jewish faith, telling me that they were
all stupid in believing that Jesus was just a "good prophet" and not the son
of god. They said to me,"how can you consider someone good when they lie to
you about being the prophet of god?". This made little sense to me, so I
just said,"umm you have a point (yeah right).. thanks, I'll tell him what
you've just told me"... I didn't bother picking out any imperfections that
I see in the Christian religion (Moses lived to be how many years old? 600?)
I said this in hopes that they'd leave me alone. They didn't though,
they seemed fascinated that I wasn't Christian. They wanted to pick me
apart, I could feel it. They then asked the question that I'm always asked
by Christian people. I think it's printed in the back of the bible for them
to ask to non-believers..
"Do you believe in the big bang theory?"
I'm personally not sure whether I do or not, but I responded yes for
some odd reason. I think I wanted to start a battle/discussion of Science
vs. Religion.
"The theory seems ok to us except for one small thing... who CREATED
the stuff that blew up?" they asked me.
Now how the fuck should I know? but I knew what they were getting at.
so being the blasphemus (can't even spell the word) guy I am, I responded
"umm you want me to say that GOD created it, eh? well I could say that, but
let's take this a little further.. if god created the stuff that blew up,
who created god? did he have a father? and who created him?"
This kinda took them off guard and they really couldn't say anything
except,"you must believe! you must have faith...". The teacher from their
school that had brought them on the trip cut in and told me "god tells the
truth, you must believe.." then they left.
Umm.. I don't want to put down Christianity, I just want to put down
narrow-minded Christians. I personally don't think that any religion is
wrong, I just think the way people express it is wrong. I mean, look at
the Crusades. God doesn't like killing, right? Thou Shall Not Kill, eh?
So why start a war in his name?
People are confused. People need faith. I agree. People need
something to believe in. I think it should be a private display of
affection though. I pray every night, I believe in God, I believe in Jesus.
I feel like they understand me and hear me out. I feel like they agree with
me. Who's to say that one religion is better than another? That's probably
my biggest gripe.
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reminders
Reminders of the past. I hate coming across them, because my past
has ummm been a waste of time...a waste of mind. Actually, the girls of
my past have been a waste of time. I just came across something one of
them gave me before I went on Spring Break vacation (i wasn't going to
be around to watch them cheat on me).
The object in question is this piece of shit furry thing. She says
that she bought it in Italy. God, I hope not. It's ugly , and worst of
all, she must have spilt her perfume on it or something cause it smells
just like her. Actually, she's the type of girl who would spill it there
on purpose so I would think of her before I passed out from the fumes.
Well, it's been a year since the two of us went out, and I just found
it in my desk. I know this sounds too good to be true (note the sarcasm),
but her boyfriend just broke up with her. I received a call from her
yesterday. She wanted to apologize for being a bitch while we were going
out (took her a whole year to apologize). She also wanted to tell me that
she had a new outlook on love. She said it was similar to my own opinions.
"Why are you telling me this?" was flashing over and over in my head,
but I'm too nice of a guy to say anything. So I put up with her shit,
occasionally nodding off, until she had to go... I thought that was the
last of her, but she called me again today to "continue our (one-sided)
discussion".
My point is--throw out any reminders of shit you don't want to
remember. It'll come back and annoy the shit out of you.
"there's traps inside us all and the night is so tall" - silver jews
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ok i admit, those kind of sucked, but think about it. i
haven't written in over two years and those are my second
and first attempts at writing (in that order). oh well..
i'm just really bored. i wouldn't mind a little feedback,
like how i could improve and such. man this sounds like
i'm in slow motion. perhaps that's just how i'm feeling
right now. write e-mail to the address at the top of this
text file to send comments/death threats/etc...
greets:
black francis (pez is great), edicius (see, i spelled
it right, jonas rocks), stephen malkmus (yeah right,
like you'll read this. this is one of the most well
read boys out there).
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³ welcome to damaged mind 'zine issue two ³
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"you made another? why??"
umm i didn't plan on continuing this trend of shitty mags..
i didn't plan on continuing this at all, i just had so
much fun with the first one (i wrote it in about 30 mins..
a very rush rush job). it was shit, but that was expected,
i think.. or something like that. anyway, in the last
issue i had two articles.. they both probably sucked, and
if that's what you think, write something for me. i'll put
it in here (no doubt).
(note: here's where all the articles start. i had this
finished about a week ago, but about a week ago my
modem died. it was struck by lightning while i
was out of town. arrrrrrrrrrrrgh)
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why^i^envy^ohhhjay^simpson
i just finished watching the movie "murder in the first" with an
all-star cast consisting of christian slater and kevin bacon. well, okay
i'm lying. kevin bacon hasn't been in a decent movie since "the breakfast
club"--wait he wasn't even in that was he? christian slater has only
really made two movies that are "good" in my books. they were 80's movies
too.. ("pump up the volume" and "heathers")
anyway, my point is not to put down these actor's careers, my point
is to crack on the judicial branch of the united states. the movie "murder
in the first" was basically about a guy who got sent to alkatraz for
stealing $5 to feed his sister. he attempted to escape so they locked him
in solitary confinement or "the dungeons".
to me, solitary confinement wouldn't be so bad, because that's what
i basically do in my room all day. the warden of alkatraz's idea of
solitary confinement was stripping the prisoner naked, throwing him in a
pitch black closet-type-room, and constantly beating him. the main
character in the movie got three years of this with a 30 minute exercise
time once a year. the officials of alkatraz did this because he
jeopardized their jobs (alkatraz was known to be unescapable).
anyway, they let this guy mingle with the other prisoners after three
years because i guess they just realized that the maximum amount of time
you're supposed to be in there is 19 days. during the first hour of his
social activity, he kills a guy with a spoon. he wasn't homicidal before
they put him in solitary confinement, he was actually a nice guy who just
needed to provide for his family. he came out of the confinement a psycho
killer, which is what most of us would come out as too.
ok they go to trial and doesn't get murder in the first because he's
a pretty rad guy. they give him three more years of prison then they'll
let him go. the thing is, they send him BACK to alkatraz. they find him
i think 7 months later in a cell, dead, with the word "victory" scrawled
above his head. he put it there before he died, most likely killed by a
prison official.
this was based on a true story.
i'm not going to rant and rave about how bad our judicial system is
because of a damn movie. nooo... i'm sure some of that was exagerated,
though this is supposedly the case that brought alkatraz down.
no. not me. i'm going to rant and rave because of another case. a
case which i'm completely sick of. yes, you're thinking on the right track,
the case of our favorite football turned actor o.j. simpson.
here's a quick rundown of the facts against him:
1. he has no clear alibi.
2. he beat his wife (not all wife beaters are murderers, but this
eliminates some of the odds).
3. they found his blood at the crime scene.
4. they found the victim's blood at his home.
5. they found the murderer's glove on his property.
6. there's that funky shit about the shoe size and bruno mally (?)
shoes (i understand it but not enough to explain it)
7. they found rare fibers of his upholestry from his car on nicole
simpson's back.
8. they found nicole simpson's blood on o.j.'s socks.
9. a knife vendor remembers selling o.j. a knife (duh) before the
killings (though he didn't testify cause he sold-out to national
enquirer or something).
here's what the defense says:
1. a spanish speaking woman who basically doesn't know where the
fuck she is says that she saw o.j.'s car at his house around
the times of the murders.
2. mark furman is a racist who really wants to supress black
football stars.
3. it's a police conspiracy.
i mean... sure, the police fucked up on a couple things, they labelled
some stuff incorrectly and calculated dna statistics a little wrong, but
we've known that the police force isn't made up of the brightest people in
the world for awhile.
the trial has gone on for 102 days so far and the prosecution hasn't
finished its case yet. the majority of evidence points the finger at o.j...
to be honest, if he didn't do it, who did? who would bother? what would
be their motive? drug dealers? ok i can buy that for maybe two seconds,
why'd they kill goldman? why didn't they take anything?
the way things look, o.j.'s probably going to get off. he won't have
much money because of all the lawyers he's hired, but hey... a book deal,
a movie... he'll have it made. if he doesn't get an aquittal, there will
be a hung jury. i mean, sure lance ito is a damn funny judge, but he's
fucked up when it comes to dismissing jurors.
it's pretty sad. i think my point is clear.
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hugh^grant^ruined???
since i really haven't written anything else decent, here's something
most people don't care about...the british actor, hugh grant. he has only
been in two movies (to my knowledge), "sirens", "four weddings and a
funeral", and "the englishman that went up a hill but came down a mountain".
i haven't seen "sirens", but i hear it has a bunch of naked women in it.
that's not the point though.. the other two movies were exceptionally good.
two days ago, good boy hugh was caught "receiving head" from a
prostitute on sunset blvd. in los angelas. now, i think this is pretty
uncharacteristic behavior of the man because a) he doesn't seem like the
type and b) he has a model-girlfriend. the prostitute looked ugly as shit.
so why would he do that? (my suspicion is that hugh wanted a blowjob and
his model girlfriend wouldn't give him one.. so he got someone else to do
it).
anyway, next week i think he has to go to court. everyone is saying
that his career is over, but i think that is a load of shit. rob lowe's
career went "bye-bye" cause he taped his "receivance" and he got it from
a 16 year old. hugh is calling his mistake "completely insane", and
rightly so, but i don't think he'd do it again. hell, even our good buddy
arnold schwartzenager put in a good word for hugh.
damn that had no point.
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bye^bye
this issued sucked worse than the last. tell me how bad
it was by emailing disgust@vnet.net or catch me on #ansi
or #zines. if you want to contribute, contact me at the
same places (no, really?)
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DnA Electronic Magazine / The Sixth Column
Information File
Written by Pazuzu - August 3, 1993
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Many questions have been posed since the initial issue of DnA Magazine on May
5, and there is also some other important information we'd like everyone to
know about, and that is the purpose of this file...
WHAT is The Sixth Column? - Well, The Sixth Column is many things to many
people. We are an awareness group specializing in info on government scams
and atrocities; we are information gluttons, but never information hoarders -
we give our info away for free; we are the IRS/ATF/Etc's worst nightmare; we
are the publishers of DnA Electronic Magazine; we are citizens of the United
States of America ranging in age from 16 to 26; we are just ordinary people
with extraordinary information to offer. In short, The Sixth Column is the
group that publishes DnA Magazine and does hours and hours of research on how
you can keep and protect your freedom and rights.
WHAT is DnA? - This question has been asked several times, so I felt is
warranted an answer. DnA Electronic Magazine (or DnA, for short) is just
that - an Electronic Magazine - published basically whenever we feel like it
(usually on a holiday). It is "published" in the form of computer text files,
and is distributed free of charge through the many Electronic Bulletin Board
Systems (BBSs) in the world. I must stress the "free of charge" part - DnA
Magazine will NEVER be available on ANY BBS which would charge for its
download.
DnA IS NOT a "group" in the sense that "The Humble Guys" is a group. There IS
a core "membership" (or staff, as we like to call it), but that's about it.
WHO is DnA? - As I said above, DnA IS NOT a "group", though there are
several staff members. They are: (NOTE: These titles are titles only, and
have little bearing on anything - DnA is run equally by all of us)
****************************************************************************
DnA Electronic Magazine / The Sixth Column
****************************************************************************
Editor in Chief, Staff Writer, Publisher, Propagandist .............. Pazuzu
Sixth Column Editor, Contributing Author, IRS Lover .... Lestat de Lioncourt
Destructive Programs Info Author, Cop Magnet ........................ Vandal
Head Writer, Co-Founder, Explosives Freak ......................... Arclight
Special Equipment Acquisition....................................... Nedhead
Radio Specialist...................................................... Mach5
Contributing Members............................................... Renegage
................................................................. Highlander
Part-Time Authors...................................... Shezz (South Africa)
........................................................... ZNote (Scotland)
****************************************************************************
Where can I get DnA? - Well, if you have this file, obviously you already
have at least one issue. As mentioned before, DnA Magazine is available on
many BBSs throughout the world. There are, however, two places you can
always assuredly get it: DnA Systems [(714) 646-9180] and Digital Decay
[(714) 871-2057].
How can I get an article, letter, question, comment, tip, etc, etc, etc,
submitted to the Magazine? - Call DnA Systems at (714) 646-9180 (8N1, 300
- 14,400 bits per second with MNP 1-5, v.42, v.42bis, v.32, v.32bis) and
upload your submission as a PLAIN ASCII text file, or as a file encrypted
with PGP 2.0 or higher (make SURE I have your public key if you send us a PGP
file, and address the message to "Pazuzu" - obviously, you also need MY
public key, which I will include at the bottom of this file) to the "DnA
Submissions" area. All submissions MUST include the Author's handle and area
code.
THINGS WE WILL ACCEPT: In order for something to be considered as an
"article", the file size must be greater than 4096 bytes. Do not take this to
mean we don't accept files smaller than 4k though. Anything not qualifying as
an article may be published in the "Quick Tips" section, if the quality is
high enough. We also accept ANY and ALL letters, questions, and comments.
The file size is irrelevant on these. IMPORTANT NOTE: We strongly support
free speech, and will publish ANY and ALL letters and comments, regardless of
whether or not you agree with us. We are not closed-minded, and do not have a
problem with disagreement. However, any letter resorting to outright
name-calling, swearing, or any other such immaturity will not be published.
How can I "GET INVOLVED" with DnA / The Sixth Column? - We have meetings
almost every Saturday at the Round Table Pizza in Fountain Valley, California
(It's located on the northeast corner of Warner and Euclid), usually starting
at 2:30pm. We usually reserve the "Private Room" - it has a big-screen TV and
a VCR. We will, from time to time, show videos of appearances we've made
(READ: riots we've incited) at political speeches, etc. Just come by at 2:30
and look for us. You can't miss us unless you're blind.
<pazuzu@netcom.com>
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/ _ \| |/ \ \ \| |_| | Author:
| / \ | / \ | | | ____| RAGE
| \_/ | \ / | | \___ Released:
\______/ \___/\___/ \____| 12/01/94
Destruction Of Public Equilibrium
=============================================================================
"The Evils of Business Corporations"
=============================================================================
Man... I started this Silicon Zine because I had a lot to say, and I was
also kinda bored. I got a LOT of great support, but then it died out for the
past few weeks you might have noticed. I have been REALLY busy, and seeing
how I never got any members (I actually did, but haven't called them in a
while) nobody could really keep this up while I was busy... then I was
talking to The Dark Prophet (of 6PH) and realized I had dropped my interests
and status in the scene. So I'm here to give you a quick update, and just
tell you to hang in there. I am actually making most of this off of my head
but I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned in here somewhere... ;)
THE EVILS OF CORPORATIONS
-------------------------
I have an issue in mind, and learned some stuff that you might be
enlightened with. I was discussing Anarchy and Rebellion and stuff with one
of my friends (non-modemer). He's a real active Anti-Corporation Punk Rocker
and really fucking cool too (how many 20 year olds do you know have nose
rings still?). I learned alot about how everything in society fits in. He
only listens to 7 inches and stuff (those are records) and sold all of his
CD's. I'll start with the basics of corporations. Corporations are all
those big companies that run the US (Sears, Banks, Mattel, MTV) and basically
are those rich old white guys (no I'm not black). It starts with advertising
their products, and TV and stuff. Everybody says "I HATE COMMERICALS" when
they watch the tube... but they are very important. The TV shows you see are
able to go on the air because the corporations fund the shows, and in turn
they get to advertise their product in between the intermissions. It works
the same way on the airwaves too.
So it's like this:
People watch the show - The product gets advertised - People buy the product
- The corporations get more money - Corporations advertise more
And then you're back to square one. What's so bad about that you might ask?
Well nothing, yet. But then you have a problem, if the corporations draw
back and stop advertising, then the funds for the shows drop, the TV company
loses viewers, and eventually the TV company dies. So the big guys running
the corporations have a great deal of power over the media, and what you guys
and girls see. Although it may not change the way YOU look at things, it
DOES change the way other people look at things. So not only does TV
advertise products, but it advertises beliefs. The corporations can control
TV shows in this way also. If they want to or don't want to see something
on a show, then it will change to their desires.
CORPORATE ROCK SUCKS!
---------------------
One thing that many people don't really understand is what corporate
rock really is, and what the difference is. Corporate rock is simply the
bands which are owned by Major labels like Epic or Warner, MGM and all the
really big ones. So what's the difference? The difference is that the
bands under these labels are the dolls of the corporations which is a puppet
master above them... and the strings are cash. Makes me kinda sick to think
that all these teen idols, and role models are really in it for the money
and you can't tell if they are being sincere. That makes MTV pretty horrible
because it is ALL corporate rock. I think you know without saying that rock
stars are BIG INFLUENCES on the youth of America, so if Eddie Vedder wore
a hairstyle, then a lot of people would wear that hairstyle and crap like
that. Crap... I used to like Pearl Jam, but then the Record Label must have
made them release more albums that was on their contract [now they suck]...
Well... this is all I'm gonna bring to you now... I'm just informing you on
how some things work. I don't expect anybody to stop watching TV and buying
music and stuff, but just informing you on some facts on how Broadcasting
works... Later...
=============================================================================
Oh.. just thought I'd tag this on here before I release this...
I need some people to Distribute DoSE, write articles, code stuff... whatever
If you got some skill I could use, then please write back, and send me your
qualifications, and skills, and stuff... the better it is, the better your
chances...
[ This Text was brought to you by RAGE ]
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%%%% The DraiN e'Zine! #1.00 %%%% Editor Ang3ldust %%%%
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Issue #1.00 - Command Guide to the MPE/iX Operating System
12-1-92 - e'Zine! Birthday. Next year I want a cake!
Author: Hewlett-Packard and their nice help facility, along with
a little of my own MPE/iX knowledge. No dictionary, bad spelling.
I need Microsoft Word or something that checks spelling.
Intro...
With no more VaS, something has to take over! Well, here is
The DraiN e'Zine!, the first one, but what the hell, if you don't
like it, you don't have to read it! Remember, this is not a
newsletter, not a digest, not some lame 2 issue crap. This is
The DraiN e'Zine!... What's an e'Zine? Well I guess Electronic
Magazine. No pages though. If this is useful at all, print it
out and keep it for the next system you fuck your way into.
"If you haven't bashed a gay yesterday, DO IT TODAY!"
Hacking it:
MPE/iX Common/Default Accounts (Since MPE/iX is not a well known OS,
espically not as well known, as, say, VAX, it still has stupid
operators who leave in default accounts. Here they are.)
Format for login is: HELLO [SESSION] <USER.ACCOUNT,GROUP>
Users:
MGR MGT MAIL FIELD
User default passwords: MGR, FLD
Accounts:
SUPPORT HPOFFICE
RJE SUPPORT
TELESUP
Account default passwords: HPONLY, OFFICE
Groups:
PUB HPONLY HP3 HPP187 HPP198 HPP186
Group default passwords: PUB, HPONLY
So try stuff like MAIL.TELESUP,PUB and MGT.SUPPORT,PUB something will work!
Most MPE/iX will greet you with : as your system prompt, also as your
login. So, to login as MGR.SUPPORT, type (at the login thinge prompt)
HELLO MGR.SUPPORT,PUB
Which will login you under group PUB. You can try different groups.
The bad part about this system is that ANY field can be passworded,
and to tell the fields, MGR.HPOFFICE, MGR is the USER, HPOFFICE is the
account.
One place that runs MPE/iX is Westinghouse, wec.com on Internet and
422xxx on Sprintnet. Most 422xxx hosts I've found are Westinghouse.
(For those of you who are still in the dark, Telenet and Sprintnet
are the same thing!)
Tip: There is a Internet-Sprintnet gateway! Telnet to:
hermes.merit.edu
and at the Which Host? type Sprintnet-<host#>
It is Merit (yuch) but it works if you don't want to make another
call to your local Sprintnet PAD.
Sample login:
Well, I was going to have a sample login, but since the gateway
system I used to get to my MPE/iX system was abused by other
nerds who kept using the outdial, its gone. So I can't access
the HP 3000. Oh well, there's lots more out there!!
The real stuff:
Native Mode Commands
These commands operate in Native Mode in the MPE/iX operating system.
In the Help Facility, they are denoted by the notation (NM).
Bbxl Copy Option Vsreleasesys ++=====================++
Bbxlcomp Deletevar Pasxl Vsreserve || The EXIT command is ||
Bbxlgo Do Pasxlgo Vsreservesys || a subcommand of the ||
Bbxllk Echo Pasxllk Vstore || Help Facility. An ||
Calc Elseif Pause Vsuser || attempt to access ||
Ccxl Endwhile Print Warn || this entry with ||
Ccxlgo Errdump Return Welcome || >EXIT <RETURN> ||
Ccxllk Exit Rpgxl While || within the Help ||
Chgroup Ftnxl Rpgxlgo Xeq || Facilitity fails. ||
Cob74xl Ftnxlgo Rpgxllk || Instead, from the ||
Cob74xlg Ftnxllk Showvar || system prompt, do ||
Cob74xlk Input Sysgen || this -- :HELP EXIT ||
Cob85xl Link Vsclose || to get the text on ||
Cob85xlg Listredo Vsopen || the EXIT command. .||
Cob85xlk Octcomp Vsrelease ++=====================++
Compatibility Mode Commands
The following commands were part of the MPE V/E operating system. Their
functionality has been enhanced in the MPE/iX operating system.
In the Help Facility, they are denoted by the notation (CM).
Altacct Listf Purgeuser Startsess
Altgroup Listftemp Redo Store
Altuser Listgroup Report
Data Listuser Restore
Debug =Logoff Run
Else Newacct Set
Hello Newgroup Setcatalog
Help Newuser Setdump
If Purgeacct Showcatalog
Listacct Purgegroup Speed
HP sytem variables are listed under the entry HPVARS and VARIABLES.
Unchanged Commands
These commands function as they did in the MPE V/E operating sytem.
Abort Bbasic Deletespoolfile Fortprep Listeq
Abortio Bbasicgo Disallow Fortran Listlog
Abortjob Bbasicomp Disassociate Freerin Lmount
Accept Bbasicprep Discrps Ftn Log
Allocate Breakjob Dismount Ftnprep =Logon
Allow Build Down Getlog Mount
Altjob Bye Download Getrin Openq
Altlog Changelog Dstat Headoff Outfence
Altsec Cobolii Editor Headon Pascal
Altspoolfile Coboliigo Endif Job Pascalgo
Associate Coboliiprep Eod Jobfence Pascalprep
Basic Comment Eoj Jobpri Prep
Basicgo Console Fcopy Jobsecurity Preprun
Basicomp Continue File Ldismount Purge
Basicprep Deallocate Fortgo Limit Recall
Unchanged Commands (continued)
These commands function as they did in the MPE V/E operating sytem.
In the Help Facility, they have neither the (CM) nor the (NM) notation.
Refuse Save Showtime Up
Release Secure =Shutdown Vmount
Rellog Segmenter Shutq
Rename Setjcw Spl
Reply Setmsg Splgo
Reset Showallow Splprep
Resetacct Showdev Startspool
Resetdump Showin Stopspool
Resume Showjcw Stream
Resumejob Showjob Streams
Resumelog Showlog Suspendspool
Resumespool Showlogstatus Switchlog
Rpg Showme Tell
Rpggo Showout Tellop
Rpgprep Showq Tune
These commands are not supported in MPE/iX. Almost all of them are
concerned with optimizing the performance of the system. These
optimizing functions now reside in the background of the MPE/iX system.
()COMMAND LOGON FULLBACKUP PURGEVSET VINIT
ALTVSET GIVE QUANTUM
AUTOALLOCATE LISTVS SHOWALLOCATE
CACHECONTROL MIODISABLE SHOWCACHE
COBOL MIOENABLE SHOWCOM
COBOLGO MOFF STARTCACHE
COBOLPREP MON STOPCACHE
EOF MPLINE TAKE
FOREIGN PARTBACKUP SYSDUMP (see SYSGEN)
SYNTAX RULE:
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::: The old MPE-V/E syntax (shown in ::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::: the syntax diagrams) always works ::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The MPE-V/E syntax conventions are maintained
throughout the Help Facility for consistency. You
may use the MPE-V/E syntax convention for and
command: NM, CM, or UNCHANGED.
But you may use the more flexible syntax for any NM
command except :SETVAR. Suppose that the NM
:CMDNAME command has the following syntax:
:CMDNAME KEYWORD1 = value1; KEYWORD2 = value2;... KEYWORDn = valueN
Because it is a NM command, you may choose how you
enter the command at the keyboard or in a job stream.
For the NM command :CMDNAME, the following forms of
entry are valid:
:CMDNAME KEYWORD1 = a; KEYWORD2 = b... ;KEYWORDn = n
:CMDNAME a, b,... ,n
:CMDNAME a, b; KEYWORD7 = g; KEYWORD4 = d ;KEYWORD3 = c
The order relationship between parameters is still important: positional
parameters must come before keyword parameters, as they did in MPE-V/E.
This is true for all commands, NM, CM, or UNCHANGED. Because this order
relationship is enforced, the following attempt to enter positional
parameters after a keyword parameter will produce an error:
:CMDNAME a, b;KEYWORD7 = g, h
Introducing a keyword variable (delimited with a semi-colon)
terminates positional assignment. The positional "h" produces an error.
The online documentation for the :EXIT command causes a problem.
The word "EXIT" is reserved in the Help facility.
As a result, attempting to access the EXIT text from within the
Help Facility ">EXIT<RETURN>" fails. You may call up the :EOJ
command ">EOJ<RETURN> and then use <RETURN> to "page" forward
to the EXIT command text.
* OR *
You may invoke the Help Facility and the text for EXIT at the
system prompt this way -- "HELP EXIT <RETURN>".
This "direct" access to the Help Facility gives you the text
specified and then returns to you to the system prompt.
COMMANDS LISTED BY CLASS
Commands for: Enter:
----------------------------------------------------
SUBSYSTEMS SUBSYSTEMS <Return>
COMMUNICATE WITH USERS COMMUNICATE <Return>
MANAGING ACCOUNT, GROUP, ETC. MANAGE <Return>
MANAGE DEVICES DEVICES <Return>
MANAGE FILES FILES <Return>
VARIABLES (AND JCWs) VARS <Return>
MANAGE JOBS & SESSIONS JOBSESS <Return>
MANAGE RESOURCES RESOURCES <Return>
MANAGE THE SPOOLER SPOOLING <Return>
MANAGE SYSTEM & USER LOGGING LOGGING <Return>
MANAGE VOLUME SETS VOLUMES <Return>
SYSTEM PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMING <Return>
CREATING AND MANAGING UDCs UDC <Return>
LANGUAGES (basic, c, fortran) LANGUAGES <Return>
DATA COMMUNICATION DATACOMM <Return>
----------------------------------------------------
You may at any time enter the name of a command to find that topic.
You may enter SUMMARY to return to that topic
Commands to Access Subsystems and Utilities
DEBUG Starts the system debugger utility program.
EDITOR Starts the EDIT/3000 subsystem.
FCOPY Starts the FCOPY subsystem.
HELP Starts the HELP subsystem.
SEGMENTER Starts the MPE segmenter.
SYSGEN Starts configuration dialog and/or installation
tape creation
Commands to Communicate with Other Users
TELL Sends a message to another active session.
TELLOP Sends a message to the system console.
WARN Sends an urgent message to jobs and sessions.
WELCOME Used to create the system welcome message.
Commands to Manage Accounts, Groups, and Users
ALTACCT Changes the attributes of an existing account.
ALTGROUP Changes the attributes of an existing group.
ALTUSER Changes the attributes of an existing user.
LISTACCT Displays information about specified account(s).
LISTGROUP Displays information about specified group(s).
LISTUSER Displays information about specified user(s).
NEWACCT Creates a new account.
NEWGROUP Creates a new group.
NEWUSER Creates a new user.
PURGEACCT Removes an account(s) from the system.
PURGEGROUP Removes a group(s) from the system.
PURGEUSER Removes a user(s) from the system.
REPORT Displays information about the logon account and group.
Commands for Managing Devices
ABORTIO/ Aborts one pending I/O request for a device.
=ABORTIO
ASSOCIATE Gives a user operator control of a device.
DISASSOCIATE Removes operator control of a device from a user.
DOWN Removes a device from normal system use.
DOWNLOAD Downloads format information to a line printer.
HEADOFF Stops header/trailer output to a device.
HEADON Starts header/trailer output to a device.
REFUSE Disables jobs/sessions (and/or data) on a device.
SET Sets terminal configuration.
SETMSG Enables/disables receipt of messages on the terminal.
SHOWDEV Reports the status of I/O devices
SHOWIN Reports the status of input devices.
SHOWOUT Reports the status of output devices.
SPEED Sets the I/O speed for a terminal.
STREAMS Enables/disables the STREAMS device -- allows user
to submit job/data streams to a designated device.
UP Returns device (not disk) stopped with DOWN command
to normal function on the system.
Commands to Manage Files
ALTSEC Changes a file's security provisions.
BUILD Creates and allocates a new, empty file on disk.
COPY Copies on file to another file.
DATA Enters data into the system from a device file.
FILE Declares file attributes for a file when it is opened.
LISTEQ Displays all active file equations for a job or session.
LISTF Displays the description of permanent files.
LISTFILE Declares the file attributes to be used when a file is opened.
LISTFTEMP Displays the description of temporary files.
PRINT Prints the contents of a file.
PURGE Removes a file from the system.
RELEASE Removes all security provisions from a file.
RENAME Changes the name of a file.
RESET Cancels file equations.
RESTORE Returns files stored on tape to the system.
SAVE Saves a file the permanent system file domain.
SECURE Restores security provisions to a file.
STORE Copies disk files onto magnetic tape for storage.
Commands to Manage Variables and Job Control Words
DELETEVAR Deletes a variable defined during a session.
INPUT Interactively assigns a value to a variable.
SETJCW Creates or assigns a value to a job control word (JCW).
SETVAR Assigns values to MPE/iX variables
SHOWJCW Displays the current status of job control words.
SHOWVAR Displays specified variable names and their values.
Commands to Manage Jobs and Sessions
ABORT Aborts the current program or operations.
ABORTJOB Aborts a job or session.
=ABORTJOB
ACCEPT Permits designated device to accepts jobs/sessions/data
ALTJOB Alters the attributes of jobs waiting or scheduled.
BREAKJOB Suspends an executing job.
BYE Ends an interactive session.
CALC Evaluates and expression.
CHGROUP Switches user from group to group within an account.
DO Used to edit/reexecute commands in the history stack.
:EOD Denotes end-of-data on input stream.
EOJ Ends a batch job.
EXIT Terminates one level of the command interpreter.
HELLO Initiates an interactive session.
JOB Initiates a batch job (stream but not interactive)
JOBFENCE Defines input priority for job or session to execute.
JOBPRI Sets or changes default/maximum job execution priority.
JOBSECURITY Restricts user resources and job execution.
LIMIT Limits the number of concurrent jobs/sessions.
LISTREDO Displays the contents of the history stack.
=LOGOFF Aborts all executing jobs/sessions.
=LOGON Enables jobs/sessions after a =LOGOFF.
REDO Edit/reexecute commands in the history stack.
RESUME Resumes execution of a suspended operation.
RESUMEJOB Resumes a suspended job.
SHOWJOB Displays Status information about jobs/sessions.
SHOWME Reports job/session status for a user logon.
SHOWTIME Displays the current time and date.
STARTSESS Creates a session on device for Prog. Sess. user.
Commands to Manage System Resources
ALLOCATE Loads a CM program or procedure into main memory.
ALLOW Enables a user to access a specific operator command.
ALTPROC Changes characteristics for the specified processes.
CONSOLE Moves the system console from another terminal.
DEALLOCATE Deallocates program or procedure loaded with ALLOCATE.
DISALLOW Prohibits access to specified operator command.
DISCRPS Enables/disables Rotational Position Sensing on device.
ERRDUMP Dumps a process or system error stack.
FREERIN Release a global Resource Identification Number.
GETRIN Acquires a global Resource Identification Number.
OUTFENCE Defines minimum priority to print an output spoolfile.
PAUSE Suspends current activity for specified time (seconds).
RECALL/=RECALL Displays all pending resource request messages.
REPLY/=REPLY Reply to pending resource request message at console.
RESETACCT Resets system counters for an account to zero.
SHOWALLOW Displays the operator commands allowed (ALLOW).
SHOWPROC Displays information about processes.
SHOWQ Displays process scheduling data and subqueue contents.
=SHUTDOWN Initiates a shutdown of MPE/iX.
TUNE Changes filter/priority limits for circular subqueues.
Commands to Manage the Spooler
ALTSPOOLFILE Alters output spoolfile characteristics.
DELETESPOOLFILE Deletes a spoolfile from disk.
LISTSPF Produces a listing of spooled input and output files.
OPENQ Opens spool queue for logical device/dev class.
RESUMESPOOL Resumes suspended spooler output to device.
STARTSPOOL Initiates the spooler process for a device.
SHUTQ Closes spool queue for logical device/dev class.
SPOOLER Controls spooler processes.
SPOOLF Alters output spoolfiles characteristics.
STOPSPOOL Terminates spooling to specified device/dev class.
SUSPENDSPOOL Suspends output to a spooled device.
Commands to Manage User/System Logging
ALTLOG Alters attributes of existing user logging identifier.
CHANGELOG Changes user logging file without interrupting logging.
GETLOG Establishes a logging identifier on the system.
LISTLOG Lists active logging identifiers.
LOG Starts, restarts, or stops user logging.
RELLOG Removes a logging identifier from the system.
RESUMELOG Resumes system logging following suspension.
SHOWLOG Displays status of system log file.
SHOWLOGSTATUS Displays status of user log files.
SWITCHLOG Closes current system log file, creates & opens new.
Managing Volumes (Disk Drives)
DSTAT Displays current status of system disk drives.
DISMOUNT Releases reserved volume (MPE V).
LDISMOUNT Releases system-wide reserved volume (MPE V).
LMOUNT Reserves a volume system-wide (MPE V).
MOUNT Reserves a volume.
VMOUNT Enables/disables the movable volume facility.
VSCLOSE Closes a specified volume set; takes it offline.
VSOPEN Reopens a volume set closed with VSCLOSE.
VSRELEASE Releases volume set reserved by VSRESERVE.
VSRELEASESYS Cancels previously issued VSRESERVESYS command.
VSRESERVE Reserves a particular volume set online, system-wide.
VSRESERVESYS Reserves a volume set online system-wide.
VSUSER Lists all users of reserved, mountable volume set.
Commands to Manage System Programming
COMMENT Inserts a comment into a job stream.
CONTINUE Overrides a job error to continue execution.
ECHO Displays a message on terminal/printer.
ELSE Provides alternative execution sequence for IF.
ELSEIF Provides alternative execution sequence for IF.
ENDIF Terminates an IF block.
ENDWHILE Terminates a WHILE block.
ERRCLEAR Zeroes out all Hewlett-Packard predefined variables.
ESCAPE Allows simulatulation of all aspects of the CI error handling.
IF Controls execution sequence in job/command file/UDC.
LINK Creates an executable program file.
OCTCOMP Converts compiled MPE V/E program in NM code for MPE/iX.
PREP Prepares a compiled source program for execution.
PREPRUN Prepares and executes a program compiled in a USL file.
RUN Executes a specified program.
WHILE Controls execution sequence in job/command file/UDC.
Commands to Manage or Execute UDCs and Command Files
OPTION Modifies the environment of UDCs and command files.
RETURN Returns execution to the calling environment.
SETCATALOG Places a UDC in the UDC directory.
SHOWCATALOG Displays information about user defined commands.
XEQ Executes a program or command file.
Commands to Compile, Link, and Execute Programs
BASIC
BASIC Beings execution of the CM Basic/V interpreter.
BASICGO Compiles, prepares, and executes a CM Basic/V program.
BASICOMP Compiles A CM Basic/V program.
BASICPREP Compiles and prepares a CM Basic/V program.
BBASIC Beings execution of the CM Business Basic /V interpreter.
BBASICGO Compiles, prepares, and executes Business Basic/V prog.
BBASICOMP Compiles a Business Basic/V program in CM.
BBASICPREP Compiles and prepares a Business Basic/V program in CM.
BBXL Beings execution of the HP Business Basic/XL interpreter.
BBXLCOMP Compiles a Business Basic/XL program.
BBXLGO Compiles, links and executes a Business Basic/XL program.
BBXLLK Compiles and links a Business Basic/XL program.
C
CCXL Compiles a C/XL program.
CCLXGO Compiles, links and executes a C/XL program.
CCXLLK Compiles and links a C/XL program.
COB74XL Compiles a COBOL II/XL program (1974 entrypoint).
COB74XLG Compiles, links and executes a COBOL II/XL program ('74)
COB74XLK Compiles and links a COBOL II/XL program ('74 entrypoint)
COB85XL Compiles a COBOL II/XL program (1974 entrypoint).
COB85XLG Compiles, links and executes a COBOL II/XL program ('74)
COB85XLK Compiles and links a COBOL II/XL program ('74 entrypoint)
COBOLII Compiles a II program. on a COBOL 74 compiler
COBOLIIGO Compiles, links and executes a II program a 74 compiler
COBOLIIPREP Compiles and links a II program on a COBOL 74 compiler.
FORTRAN
FORTGO Compiles, prepares, and executes a CM FORTRAN66/V program
FORTPREP Compiles and prepares a CM FORTRAN 66/V program
FORTRAN Compiles a CM FORTRAN 66/V program
FTN Compiles, prepares, and executes a CM FORTRAN 77/V prog
FTNGO Compiles and prepares a CM FORTRAN 77/V program
FTNPREP Compiles a CM FORTRAN 77/V program
FTNXL Compiles a FORTRAN 77/XL program.
FTNXLGO Compiles, links and executes a FORTRAN 77/XL program.
FTNXLLK Compiles and links a FORTRAN 77/XL program.
PASCAL
PASCAL Compiles a CM Pascal/V program.
PASCALGO Compiles, prepares, and executes a CM Pascal/V prog.
PASCALPREP Compiles and prepares a CM Pascal/V program.
PASXL Compiles a Pascal/XL program.
PASCXLGO Compiles, links and executes a Pascal/XL program.
PASXLLK Compiles and links a Pascal/XL program.
RPG
RPG Compiles an RPG program and creates and object file.
RPGGO Compiles, prepares, and executes an RPG program.
RPGPREP Compiles and prepares an RPG program.
RPGXL Compiles an RPG/XL program and creates and object file
RPGXLGO Compiles, links and executes an RPG/XL program.
RPGXLLK Compiles and links an RPG/XL program.
SPL
SPL Compiles a CM SPL/V program.
SPLGO Compiles, prepares, and executes a CM SPL/V program.
SPLPREP Compiles and prepares a CM SPL/V program.
Commands for Data Communication
APPCCONTROL NRJE
DHCFCONTROL NRJECONTROL
DSLINE NSCONTROL
LINKCONTROL REMOTE
MRJECONTROL SNACONTROL
OPERATION
After you suspend a program or MPE/iX command operation by
pressing [Break], the ABORT command terminates that program
or operation. Programs do not terminate while critical
system code is executing on their behalf, but will terminate
immediately following execution of that code. The ABORT
command is available only from a session and only during
BREAK, but it does not disrupt the session. Some operations
abort immediately upon entering BREAK without requiring the
ABORT command. An ABORT command results in the Job
Control Word (JCW) being set to the SYSTEM 0 state. For a
discussion of Job Control Words, refer SETJCW.
This command may be issued from a session (in BREAK only).
It is not executable from a job or a program. Pressing
[Break] has no effect on this command.
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T H E M A R T I A N C H R O N I C L E
March 1990 (Edited by J.D. Beish for ASTROFORUM) No. 1
Mars is back! Throughout 1990 the Red Planet will become more prominent in
the morning sky until it reaches opposition on November 27. Although Mars'
apparent diameter will not be as great as it was in 1988, it will still be
a most respectable 18.1 arc-seconds, permitting high resolution photography
and quality visual observations of surface features, clouds, and the South
Polar Cap (SPC). The planet will be very favorably placed in the sky for
northern hemisphere observers, remaining north of the celestial equator
between mid-June, 1990 and September, 1991 and attaining a declination of
+22 degrees during the 60-day period around opposition.
Practically speaking,the apparition will commence on April 7, when Mars
attains an apparent disk diameter of 6 arc-sec, allowing quality telescopic
observations. However, A.L.P.O.'s International Mars Patrol (IMP) astronomers
are encouraged to make observations even when the planet appears smaller.
While little or no fine detail can be discerned when the planet is low and of
small apparent size, gross features, such as Syrtis Major, can be seen. If the
observer has been regularly recognizing such features and suddenly notes their
disappearance, one is led to suspect an obscuration, such as a dust storm. In
the past, such sightings made independently by several observers have shed new
light on the history of Martian dust storms, even when the planet subtended an
angle of less than 6 arc-seconds. A red (Wratten 25 or equivalent) filter is
strongly recommended since it improves image contrast and reduces the apparent
seeing effects, since red wavelengths are refracted less.
MARTIAN SEASONS
During most of the 1990-91 apparition Mars' South Pole will be tilted earth-
ward with most of Southern Hemisphere spring and all of summer and part of
southern autumn being observable. Thus astronomers can again study the regress-
ion of the SPC and follow both Martian antarctic and arctic meteorology. This
apparition should also allow careful scrutiny of the summer SPC remnant. As
Mars will have an apparent diameter of over 13 arcseconds at southern autumnal
equinox (Jan. 5, 1991), there will be an excellent opportunity to determine
whether the remnant disappears completely or, as was the case in 1988-89, it
remains throughout southern summer.
IMP astronomers will have an unusual opportunity in early 1991 to watch for
the possible reformation of the SPC. During early Martian southern autumn
(January to April TD) the planet's apparent size will remain respectable and
its south pole will be tilted earthward, permitting detailed study of antarc-
tic regions. Does the South Cap expand during this period, or are its secrets
hidden beneath the south polar hood? In fact, does a hood actually form, or
are hoods phenomena restricted to the North? We hope that the IMP can provide
some answers to these questions in 1991.
SURFACE FEATURES
Several regions have displayed long-term, or secular, changes in recent years
and should be monitored closely during the 1990-91 apparition. These include
Solis Lacus (85W, 28S), Daedalia-Claritas (115W, 30S), Phasis (109W, 30S),
eastern Sirenum M. (145W, 35S), southern Memnonia and Zephyria, Trivium
Charontis (198W, 20N), Cerberus II (212W, 10N) and III (240W, 18S), Elysium
(215W, 80N), Hyblaeus (230W, 30N), Nilosyrtis, and Syrtis Major. In addition
the Libya-Isidis (275W, 10N) area should be scrutinized to see whether Nodus
Laocoontis (246W, 20N) and Thoth-Nepenthes (265W, 15N) are still markedly
faded.
DUST STORMS -- A REVISED VIEW
Mars will reach perihelion on June 29, 1990, at which time it will have a
respectable apparent diameter of 7.8 arc-seconds. Classically, perihelion
passage, which occurs in late southern spring, heralds a period when global
dust storms occur. Martian dust storms have been the subject of much media-
hupe recently, but in point of fact there have been only five well-document-
ed GLOBAL dust storms on the Red Planet: in 1956, 1971, 1973, and 1977 (two).
Furthermore, the concept of a true "dust storm season" on Mars is now open to
question: it may well be that dust clouds can occur at any season on Mars.
However, Beish's comprehensive analysis of IMP data reveals that there is
increased probability of seeing dust storms soon after the planet's perihe-
lion passage, with a second peak occurring in mid southern summer. Thus the
1990-91 apparition will present an excellent opportunity for monitoring the
occurrence (or non-occurrence!) of dust clouds. This is of considerable
importance for our understanding of Martian climate and meteorology and for
future space exploration.
The dust storms of Mars have once again become the subject of much study among
professional planetary astronomers. However these men and women have neither
the funding nor manpower for a 24-hour worldwide surveillance of the planet.
A.L.P.O.'s IMP can provide considerable support in this regard as it did dur-
ing the 1988 apparition. Thanks to recent developments in communication tech-
nology, we can now have virtually instantaneous alerts for unusual Martian
phenomena. When such an event is sighted the observer contacts one of the Mars
Recorders who then informs the rest of the IMP network. Upon verification the
appropriate professional astronomers are contacted so that they can conduct
detailed investigations.
STORM WARNING. To facilitate communication Beish and Parker will monitor
Compuserve daily during the apparition. Please send messages to both Parker,
72317,3157 and Beish, 72317,3306. If you have no access to a modem, Dan
Troiani has kindly volunteered his phone number: (708) 529-1716. Professor
Asada, 71701,1534, in Japan is now on the Compuserve network, which provides
us with virtually instant communication with our friends in the O.A.A. We hope
that our other observers abroad will be able to avail themselves of this
service.
*** DANGER ***
The one thing that must be avoided in reporting dust storms is a false alarm.
Our mentors in the professional community take a dim view of wasting consider-
able time and money on spurious information. Thus, after consultation with
professionals, we have revised our criteria for Martian dust activity.
The astute reader will note that nowhere in this chronicle has the adjective
"yellow" been applied to dust. In the past we have referred to dust storms as
"yellow clouds" and "yellow dust storms." We feel that this is misleading.
First, it is virtually impossible to see or even photograph accurate colors on
Mars without employing very specialized techniques. Traditionally, observers
have employed yellow filters to better reveal dust clouds. The problem is that
nearly EVERY light feature on Mars is bright through a yellow filter! In
November, 1989, we were fortunate to have a professional Mars astronomer spend
several days in Miami reviewing IMP dust storm data. Under his guidance we have
revised our definition of dust clouds/storms.
*** NEW CRITERIA FOR MARTIAN DUST STORMS ***
1. They must appear bright in red light. Dust clouds can be bright in all spec-
tral regions, including violet, but if they are not bright in red, they are
most likely not dust. This means that observing and photographing Mars through
a red filter is a "must" for IMP astronomers. A Wratten 23A will suffice for
instruments of 20 cm ( 8 inches) or less in aperture, while a W-25 or even 29
should be employed with larger instruments.
Photographing Mars through filters presents problems to the amateur observer
because exposure times are often prolonged beyond the capabilities of his or
her drive and the limits of seeing conditions. In such cases observers are
strongly requested to photograph Mars on color slide film. They can than re-
photograph them through appropriate filters onto black-and-white film. This
technique is fully discussed in Parker, et al., Journal of the Association of
Lunar and Planetary Observers (J.A.L.P.O., Vol. 31, Nos. 9-10, July, 1986,
and in "Introduction to Observing and Photographing the Solar System." Those
who are unable to use this technique are encouraged to send the recorders
quality copies of their slides for analysis. Copies should be made on Kodak
Slide Copy film 5071 to insure good grain and color balance. Commercial copies
are suggested for this film. If copies are made at home, we suggest Fujichrome
CDU film. Following the advice of John Sanford, we have tried this film and
have found it much easier to use than Kodak 5071. If originals are submitted,
we cannot guarantee their return. We commend those observers who have regularly
submitted color filter photographs of Mars during past apparitions. These
include B. Flach-Wilken (Germany), B. Adcock (Australia), and Japan's T.
Akutsu, T. Ishibashi, N. Matsumoto, and T. Nakugami.
2. The sine qua non of Martian yellow clouds is movement with obscuration of
previously well-defined albedo features. Absence of this criterion disqualif-
ies a candidate from inclusion under dust clouds.
3. When these clouds reach heights of several kilometers, we have proposed
that they may cast shadows that are observable from Earth. There are numer-
ous reports of anomalous transient dark surface markings appearing near yellow
clouds, especially when the solar phase angle was reasonably large. Anomalous
dark markings were in fact seen in conjunction with both 1988 dust storms.
THE A.L.P.O. MARS SECTION -- 1990
We wish to take this opportunity to thank the 300 IMP observers who sub-
mitted over 7,000 drawings, photographs, and micrometer measurements of Mars
during the 1987-1989 apparition. Such an effort is most gratifying but has re-
quired some reorganization of the Mars Section. In addition to taking on more
recorders, we have assigned each recorder to a geographical area. Observers
should correspond with the recorder in his or her area:
JEFF BEISH, 9460 Toni Dr., Miami, Fl, 33157
AL, AR, FL, GA, HA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, and VA.
HARRY CRALLE, 3902 E. 29th St. (J-4), Bryan, Texas, 77802
AZ, CA, CO, KS, LA, MO, NV, NM, OK, TX, UT, and WY.
CARLOS HERNANDEZ, 2714 Plaza Dr., Woodbridge, NJ, 07095
AK, CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, and VT.
DON PARKER, 12911 Lerida St., Coral Gables, FL, 33156
U.S. Territories and Possessions and all areas outside U.S.
DAN TROIANI, 629 Verona Ct., Schaumberg, IL, 60193
IA, ID, IL, IN, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, OH, OR, SD, WA, WI, WV.
*** GUIDELINES FOR IMP OBSERVERS ***
1. Observations. Submit these to your appropriate recorder. If you want to be
assured of their arrival, enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard with your
material. This is the cheapest and easiest way. We cannot acknowledge all the
observations received. Drawings should be made on 42-mm diameter disks, or on
the standard B.A.A. 2-inch disks. We employ overlay templates for data reduct-
ion, and other sizes are unacceptable. Photographs should be approximately
1-inch diameter, so that they can be published properly. However, any photos
will be welcome! Do not send negatives. We welcome videotapes (VHS or Super
VHS), but do not send originals. Please edit videos -- no more than 5 minutes
per observation. We fall asleep easily. Please include date, times.
2. Observing Forms. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope (SSAE) to Beish or
Parker. They will return it with an A.L.P.O. Mars Section observing form en-
closed from which you can make copies. A copy of Ebisawa's excellent map of
Mars will also be included upon request.
All observations must have the observer's name, the U.T. date, the starting
and ending U.T.'s, and the telescope, magnifications, and filters employed.
Mark drawings and photos with "South" and "Preceding" so that we know the
orientation. Other information, such as C.M. and Ls, is not required but is
appreciated.
3. Correspondence. All correspondence should contain an enclosed SSAE. Remem-
ber that the A.L.P.O. staff is volunteer -- both with time and money!
4. Martian Chronicles. Those who wish to subscribe should send 6-8 SSAE's to
Beish or Parker. Overseas members cannot send stamps but often send internat-
ional postal certificates with their envelopes. We wish to thank the many
observers abroad who did this during the last two apparitions. Their help was
much appreciated!
5. A.L.P.O. Membership in A.L.P.O. is not required for the IMP. However, we
strongly urge our observers to join if for no other reason than they can see
the fruits of their labor in print in the apparition reports and other papers
in The Strolling Astronomer. Subscribing to the J.A.L.P.O. also gives one the
opportunity to read about others' observational techniques and methods of data
reduction. In addition, the observer may find other fields which stimulate his
interest, such as observing Pluto. U.S., Canada, and Mexico, send $14 for one
year or $24 for two years to Harry D. Jamieson, P.O. Box 143, Heber Springs,
Arkansas, 72543. Other countries: $16 for one year, $29 for two.
6. Observing Aids.
a) Mars Observer's Handbook, by J.D. Beish and C.F. Capen. This is being re-
published by the Institute for Planetary Research Observatories. It is a 55-
page, copiously illustrated book on Mars observing techniques, including how
to make drawings and micrometer measurements, tips on photography, use of
filters, etc. Send $10.00 to Jeffrey D. Beish, 9460 Toni Drive, Miami, Florida
33157.
b) The A.L.P.O. Solar System Ephemeris: 1990. This contains the complete
ephemerides for the Sun, Moon, planets and minor planets as well as selected
comets. This is a "must" if one is to get full enjoyment from his observing.
Send $6.00 to A.L.P.O., P.O. Box 16131, San Francisco, CA 94116.
c) Introduction to Observing and Photographing the Solar System, by T.A.
Dobbins, D.C. Parker, and C.F. Capen. Contains both theoretical and observat-
ional information on Solar System objects. Very detailed chapters on Mars,
astrophotography, micrometry, etc. Forward by A.L.P.O. founder Walter H. Haas.
Hardcover, $19.95 from Willmann-Bell, Inc., P.O. Box 35025, Richmond, VA
23235, (804) 320-7016.
d) IMP Astronomical Calculator (IMPAC). Computer program containing complete
ephemerides of Mars and Jupiter for any year and geographical location. Also
rise and set times, altitude, azimuths for all Solar System objects for observ-
er's location. Automatic correction for Daylight Time, lunar phases for star
party planning, telescope and mirror cell design, and comprehensive astro-
photography program. Subroutines for color filter calculations and automatic
computation of Martian polar cap and Jovian belt latitudes from observer's
input. For IBM XT, AT and compatibles, monochrome, EGA, or VGA. For a 5.25-
inch diskette, send $49.95 to J.D. Beish at above address.
Again, many thanks to the dedicated IMP observers for their excellent work in
the past. In the past, some observers have not sent in their observations be-
cause they felt their work inadquate, please send them, especially those color
photographs -- how many discoveries go undetected............................?
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers -- International Mars Patrol
Good Seeing in 1990-91!
Don Parker Jeff Beish Carlos Hernandez
Harry Cralle Dan Troiani
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T h e M a r t i a n C h r o n i c l e
April 1990 No. 2
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The electronic newsletter by the International Mars Patrol (I.M.P.),
an observing program of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
(A.L.P.O.)
Edited by: J.D. Beish
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INTRODUCTION
The International Mars Patrol (IMP) is a cooperative program by planetary
observers located around the Earth, that makes possible a 24-hour surveillance
of all Martian longitudes. The IMP was organized during the early 1960's by
the late Charles F. Capen and cataloged nearly 20,000 visual observations,
more than 3,000 black & white and color photographs, and thousands of Martian
surface measurements contributed by amateur and professional planetary astro-
nomers.
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (A.L.P.O.) is an international
group of students of the Sun, the Moon, the major planets, minor planets, me-
teors, and comets. Our goals are to stimulate, coordinate, and generally pro-
mote the study of these bodies using methods and instruments that are available
to amateur astronomers. Observations carried out by professionals or with pro-
fessional equipment are also welcome. We provide a service for the advanced
amateur specializing in particular investigations, for the novice who wishes to
develop techniques and general knowledge, and for the professional scientist
interested in group studies and systematic patrols of our Solar System neigh-
bors. All interested persons are welcome as members. Our activities are on a
volunteer basis and each member can do as much or as little as she or he wish-
es. Of course, the A.L.P.O. gains in stature in proportion to how much and
also how well each member contributes.
The Mars Section Recorders coordinate and instruct the cooperating observers
in using similar visual, photographic, photometric,and micrometric techniques
employing color filters and standard methods for reporting their observations
which results in homogeneous sets of observing data that have good analytic
value. Each apparition the Mars Section receives thousands of individual
observations of visual drawings made with the aid of color filters, black-&-
white and color photographs, intensity estimates of light and dark albedo
features, color contrast estimates, and micrometer measurements of polar caps,
cloud boundaries, and variable surface features during the 10 to 12 month obs-
erving period. The chronological filing of this large quantity of data requires
the observation information obtained for each night Universal Date be recorded
on one or two standard observing report forms!
It is with this regard that a simple, efficient and standard Mars Observing
Report Form has been prepared by the Mars Recorders. This Standard Form can be
used for reporting all types of observations such as; micrometry, transit tim-
ings, intensity estimates, etc. Photographs may also be attached to the top
or back of the forms and the relevant information blanks to be filled in at the
telescope. Planetary aspects blanks can be filled in at other times than while
observing.
The A.L.P.O. was founded in 1947, by Walter H. Haas, and now enrolls over 700
members, of which about 160 live in foreign countries on six continents. Our
group is organized into Observing Sections that study each Solar System body or
type of body.
We have held conventions every year beginning in 1956, usually together with
the meetings of the Astronomical League or of the Western Amateur Astronomers.
Our chief means of communication is our quarterly Journal ("The Strolling As-
tronomer"), although several of our Observing Sections also publish their own
newsletters and handouts.
Membership dues in the A.L.P.O. include a subscription to our Journal and are
$14.00 per year for members in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; and
$16.00 per year for other countries. (2-year rates are $24.00 and $29.00 re-
spectively.) Payment should be by check or money order payable to "A.L.P.O."
If our organization sounds of possible interest to you, write to:
Harry D. Jamieson, A.L.P.O. Membership Secretary,
P.O. Box 143, Heber Springs, Arkansas 72543.
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***IDENTIFYING A MARTIAN DUST STORM***
Although immense global dust storms are firmly entrenched in Martian lore,
they may be rare. Lowell Observatory's Leonard Martin has written that there
have been only five well-documented "planet-encircling" Martian storms. These
storms occurred in 1956, 1971, 1973, and two storms in 1977 (these were dis-
covered by Viking Spacecraft). However, smaller dust storms or dust clouds
are observed on Mars. These dust clouds are very difficult to identify in
their beginning stages and, in some cases, go undetected even after they have
fully developed.
Numerous reports of yellowish hazes have appeared in the literature and in the
International Mars Patrol archives. Mars observers frequently report "albedo
features" lacking in contrast, the planet is "washed out," or Mars' atmosphere
is "dusty." These terms have been employed in the past by the A.L.P.O. Mars
Recorders. While such descriptions may have merit, generalized yellow hazes
and temporary losses in surface contrast is usually omitted in our reports.
Photographic evidence for these phenomena is also weak, since the proper sen-
sitometric calibration is usually lacking.
While working with Leonard Martin (Planetary Research Center, Lowell Observa-
tory, Flagstaff, Arizona) and Richard W. Zurek (JPL) on problems of correctly
identifying and classifying Martian dust clouds or storms, new guidelines have
been established by the A.L.P.O. Mars Recorders for interpreting Martian dust
clouds and dust storms, they are classified as:
I. Type of Observation.
1. White cloud or bright area mistaken for dust cloud.
2. Visual observation(s) of dust clouds in a dust storm.
3. Instrumental observation(s) of dust cloud/storm (Includes
photographic, polarimetric, spacecraft data, or other data
obtained by instrumental means).
Table I (con't)
II. Martian dust clouds.
1. Obscuration -- Not sure if surface or atmospheric.
2. Dust Haze -- Partial obscuration with displacement.
3. Bright dust cloud -- Bright obscuration with displacements.
4. Limb projection/terminator protrusion by dust cloud.
III. Martian dust storms.␍
1. Local -- Dust storm with major axis not to exceed 2000 km
(1,243 miles or less than 34 degrees).
2. Regional -- Dust storm with major axis that exceeds 2000 km
(1,243 miles or less than 34 degrees) but not encircling either
or both hemispheres.
3. Planet Encircling -- Dust storm with major axis that completely
encircles either one or both hemispheres of Mars.
Confusion over the colors of Mars is nothing new. When the bright planet Mars
is observed against a nighttime sky, the planet's predominantly orange colored
surface becomes highly saturated to the eye. The darker albedo features, when
observed against this saturated background are perceived as complementary hues.
This effect is known as "simultaneous contrast" and is explained the May 1989
Sky and Telescope Magazine, Vol. 77, No. 5, page 474, inset "Mars from Mauna
Kea" in an article by W.K. Hartmann, "What's New on Mars?".
COLOR FILTERS
A full set of photo-visual color filters is a most important observing aid the
planetary astronomer can have in his or her arsenal of telescopic accessories.
Color filters help overcome image deterioration caused by atmospheric scatter-
ing of light, permit separation of light from different levels in a planetary
atmosphere, increase hue contrast between areas of differing color, and reduce
irradiation within the observer's eye. All of these factors increase the
sharpness of surface and cloud details that are seen on the planet Mars.
Using color filters at the telescope can be a most challenging an rewarding ex-
perience, although several weeks of practice may be necessary to condition the
observer to detect those subtle wisps of clouds and hazes often observed in the
Martian atmosphere. Without the aid of these filters, many interesting phenom-
ena may go undetected.
Table I. Eastman Kodak Wratten Color Filters used for visual and
photographic observations of Mars. Transmission Characteristics
are given.
RED (W25,29) -- Gives maximum contrast of surface features, polar
cap edges, enhances fine surface details, and dust cloud bound-
aries.
ORANGE (W21,23A) -- Further increases contrast between light and
dark features, penetrates hazes and most clouds, and brightens
dust clouds.
Table I (con't)
YELLOW (W8,12,15) -- Brightens desert regions, darkens blue and
brown features.
GREEN (W56,57) -- Darkens red and blue features, enhances frost
patches, surface fogs, polar projections,and polar cap boundaries.
BLUE-GREEN (W64) -- Enhances ground fogs, limb and polar hazes.
BLUE (W80A,38A)-- Shows atmospheric clouds, discrete white clouds,
and limb hazes, and darkens reddish features, which probably con-
tributes to the illusion of blue or violet haze.
VIOLET (W47) -- Shows blue and blue-white clouds,limb hazes,equa-
torial cloud bands, polar cloud hoods, and dark dust clouds,and
aids in the detection of the Violet Clearing phenomenon.
MAGENTA (W30,32) -- Enhances red and blue features, darkens green
features.
THE MARS RECORDERS
To participate in our Mars observing program, receive the Martian Chronicle, an
observing form (to copy as many times as required) -- please send 8 Self Ad-
dressed Stamped Envelopes to the individual listed below that corresponds to
your local area. Each of the following ALPO Mars Recorders will be responsible
for receiving and corresponding with observers in a specific geographic area:
Jeff D. Beish, 9460 Toni Drive, Miami, Florida 33157 (CompuServe 72317,3306)
-- Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Harry Cralle, 3902 E. 29th Street (J-4), Bryan, Texas 77802
-- Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Carlos Hernandez, 2714 Plaza Drive, Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095
-- Alaska, Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New
Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvanian, Road Island, and Vermont.
Don C. Parker, Coral Gables, Florida 33156 (CompuServe 72317,3157)
-- Overseas and U.S. Territories.
Dan Troiani, 629 Verona Ct., Schaumburg, Illinois 60193
-- Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS -- MARS, 1990-91
03/06/90 -- Martian Southern Spring Equinox. South Polar Cap (SPC) should be
near maximum diameter. Is South Polar Hood (SPH) present? Look for North Polar
Hood. Disk diameter only 4.9 arcseconds ("). Mars rises approx. 2.5 hours
before Sun.
04/01/90 -- Disk diameter 5.4". Mars rises over 3 hours before Sun. Can the
major albedo features be seen? SPC large and bright. Is the eastern border of
Syrtis Major withdrawing? In violet light are orographic clouds present over
Tharsis-Amazonis? April Fool's Day!
04/27/90 -- Disk diameter 6". SPC rifts developing. Watch for those Martian
dust clouds (red filter), orographics clouds (violet filter).
05/12/90 -- Novissima Thyle appears as a bright SPC projection. However disk
diameter still small.
05/21/90 -- Southern hemisphere mid-spring. Any dust clouds yet? Orographics
over the Tharsis volcanoes -- W-Cloud? Maximum earthward tilt of Martian South
pole for this apparition, affording good views of SPC. Has Novissima Thyle sep-
arated from SPC to become Mountains of Mitchel? At disk diameter of 6.6" are
the Rima Australis and Magna Depressio visible in SPC?
06/05/90 -- Disk diameter is now 7". Rapid SPC retreat. Quality micrometer me-
asurements of SPC possible.
06/29/90 -- Mars at perihelion (closest to Sun). Disk diameter now 7.8". Views
of surface details better. Rapid SPC retreat. W-clouds possible. Dust clouds?
Is Novus Mons (Mts. of Mitchel) detached from SPC?
07/15/90 -- Late Southern spring. SPC now more than 20 degrees diameter. Watch
for dust clouds (red filter!). Numerous white patches possible on surface.
07/30/90 -- Martian Southern Summer Solstice. SPC continues to retreat poleward
Disk diameter 9".
08/16/90 -- Disk diameter is now 10". Some photography now possible. Discrete
(white) clouds and white areas should be minimal. SPC small, offset from pole.
09/01/90 -- SPC retreat slowing--stable polar remnant. Is Syrtis Major narrow?
Blunted? Possibility of dust storms again increasing. Large northern winter
North Polar Hood (NPH) should be prominent. Measure latitude of NPH -- does it
retreat or disappear when dust storm present?
09/14/90 -- Disk diameter 12". Begin high resolution visual observations and
high quality photography begins.
10/17/90 -- High probability of dust storms. Disk diameter 15.4". Tilt of Mars
now affording good view of both polar regions: large NPH. Look for tiny SPC
remnant near South limb. SPC offset, so easier to see when CM near 30 degrees.
Is SPC remnant present in mid-summer?
CALENDAR OF EVENTS -- MARS, 1990-91 (con't)
11/09/90 -- Continued alert for dust storms. SPC remnant visible? Antarctic
hazes present? Is NPH variable, occasionally bright? (Use a violet filter for
NPH measurements, observations.)
11/20/90 -- Closest approach (0400 UT) to Earth. Disk diameter 18.1".
11/27/90 -- Opposition (2028 UT). Disk diameter 17.9". Late Southern summer: Is
SPC remnant still present. Photographs needed of SPC. NPH still observable.
Watch for signs of NPH thinning. Are South polar hazes present?
12/17/90 -- Disk diameter 16". NPH should be easily visible if present. Close-
ly monitor hood from now on. When does it disappear and the NPC appear? Is SPC
remnant still present? Any evidence of SPH? Watch Syrtis Major for signs of
expansion to east.
01/05/91 -- Southern hemisphere autumnal equinox. Carefully monitor antarctic
region for evidence of SPC remnant and/or hazes. Will SPH form? N. hemisphere
vernal equinox. Monitor arctic closely for date of disappearance of NPH. Watch
for possible reformation of polar hood. NPC at maximum extent with edge near 55
degrees areocentric latitude. Disk diameter 13.2". Begin micrometer/reticle NPC
measurements, using red/orange filters.
02/01/91 -- Disk diameter 10". Photography difficult but visual observations
and NPC measurements still possible. Monitor antarctic for SPC remnant, hazes.
Are Hellas, Argyre brightening?
02/24/91 -- Disk diameter rapidly shrinking--now 8". Early Northern hemisphere
spring. Continue NPC measurements. Is North Cap fairly static or entering rapid
retreat phase? South polar regions becoming difficult to observe. Any signs
of SPH?
3/14/91 -- Disk diameter 7". Limb clouds/hazes should start to increase. Look
for them in violet light. What is size, shape of Syrtis Major?
04/04/91 -- Disk diameter 6". N. hemisphere mid-spring. Is NPC beginning rapid
retreat? Are limb arcs increasing in frequency, intensity. Use filters! Ant-
arctic hazes, hood? Cloud activity increases.
For complete details for the physical and geocentric positions of Mars send for
the "A.L.P.O. Solar System Ephemeris," $6.00 in the U.S, Canada, and Mexico;
$8.50 in other countries. Write to: John E. Westfall, A.L.P.O. Director/Editor,
P.O. Box 16131, San Francisco, CA 94116.
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THE 1988 APPARITION OF MARS
By the end of June 1989, the ALPO Mars Section had received more than
1,000 letters and cards from interested amateur and professional astronomers
located in 42 foreign countries and U.S. territories: Arabia, Argentina,
Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brasil, Canada, Mainland China, Repub
lic of China, Czechoslovakia, Columbia, England, Faroe Islands, France,
Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Guinea,
New Zealand, Norway, Nova Scotia, Okinawa, Philippines, Polynesia, Puerto
Rico, Romaina, Rwanda, Scotland, South Africa, Somoa, Spain, Sweden, St.
Croix, Taiwan, the USA, and Venezuela.
The massive response to the most favorable Mars apparition in over a
century is largely the result of the late Charles F. Capen's efforts in
establishing the IMP. Because the IMP network was already intact, there was
unprecedented international cooperation. Additional tactical support was
provided by the Oriental Astronomical Association (OAA), the British Astro
nomical Association (BAA),the Arbeitskreis Planetenbachter (Germany) and the
Groupement International d'Observateurs des Surfaces Planetaires (GIOSP).
A total of 411 telescopes were used by IMP Mars observers this appari-
tion averaging 11.8 inches in aperture. Although most of the telescopes used
by observers ranged between 3 to 16 inches in aperture, several astronomers
employed reflectors of 20, 42, 60, and 90 inches and refractors of 6, 23,
24, and 33 inches.
By Jun 12, 1989, 304 observers from 22 countries had contributed 7,063
quality Mars observations (4,818 drawings, 2,038 photographs, 16 CCD images,
and 191 micrometer measurements), an indication of increasing interest in
scientific study of the Red Planet. Included in the voluminous collection of
observations were several VCR tapes with hours of images of Mars. A very
successful observing program indeed!
THE 1900 APPARITION OF MARS
The ALPO Mars Recorders wish to thank those who participated and to
extend our welcome to any one wishing to contribute observations during the
1990 apparition. The ALPO Mars Section comprises of five Mars Recorders that
have been assigned specific geographic locations and/or areas of interest.
Those who are interested in participating in the International Mars Patrol
and wish to receive the more advanced IMP newsletter, the Martian Chronicle,
send 8 Self Addressed Stamped Envelopes (SASE) to the following ALPO Mars
Recorder that reseides in your location:
J.D. Beish, 9460 Toni Drive, Miami, Florida 33157 -- Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Harry Cralle, 3902 E. 29th Street (J-4), Bryan, Texas 77802 -- Arizona,
California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Carlos Hernandez, 2714 Plaza Drive, Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095
-- Alaska, Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New
Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvanian, Road Island, and Vermont.
Don C. Parker, Coral Gables, Florida 33156 -- Overseas and U.S. Terri-
tories.
Dan Troiani, 629 Verona Ct., Schaumburg, Illinois 60193 -- Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, and Wiscon
sin.
Those wishing to join ALPO please write to: Harry D. Jamieson, ALPO
Membership Sectretary, P.O. Box 143, Heber Springs, Arkansas 72543.
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DUST STORMS ON MARS
What Mars may lack in white clouds and hazes during its southern spring
and summer is more than made up for by one of the most spectacular phenomena
seen in nature -- the great Martian dust storms. The current apparition
(1990) is termed "perihelic" because Mars will be close to the Sun (and
therefore the Earth) when it is at opposition. At perihelion, which occurred
on June 29 of this year, Mars is some 43 million kilometers closer to the
Sun than at aphelion. Current theory holds that the resultant 40% increase
in solar radiation provides enough thermal energy to raise dust and hold it
aloft for prolonged periods. Thus when Mars is near perihelion as it is now,
we frequently see dust clouds form which often spread with tremendous veloc-
ities to cover large portions of the planet. Occasionally one of these
storms will have enough energy to cover the entire planet and is termed a
"global" dust storm. Such massive obscurations occurred in 1956, 1971, 1973,
and 1977 (two storms).
While numerous dust clouds have been seen on Mars in the northern
spring and summer, extensive and long-lasting dust storms are extremely rare
for these seasons. Transient or short lived and small dust storms have been
reported in past but they were observed to last only a few days and did not
expand or move about very much.
Much has been written about the characteristics of these dust clouds
and how to detect them. These dust clouds are very difficult to identify in
their beginning stages and, in some cases, go undetected even after they
have fully developed. On the other hand, some observers have confused bright
Martian desert regions or bright fog areas with dust clouds. Others see the
bright orographic clouds in Tharsis as dust clouds. While many observers
accept that the yellow-white appearance of some clouds indicates the
presence of dust particles, they should not classify all bright clouds that
appear to be yellowish as "dust clouds."
THE COLOR OF MARTIAN DUST CLOUDS
In the past, astronomers have identified Martian dust clouds and/or
obscurations as "yellow clouds." Confusion over the colors of Mars is
nothing new. Observers often report several of Mars' darker albedo features,
or "maria," to appear quite green or even blue at times. This has led scien-
tists of the past to speculate that vegetation grew on Mars during its
springs and early summers. When we observe bright Mars against the dark
nighttime sky, the planet's color hues are often perceived as complementary
to the dark background sky. This effect is known as "simultaneous contrast"
[See Sky & Telescope, May 1989, p.474, "What's New on Mars?" by William K.
Hartmann].
If we consider that Mars only varies from a dark gray-orange/brown to a
slightly brighter grayish-orange or grayish-brown, it becomes interesting
when attempting to describe the color of Martian dust clouds as "yellow."
While dust clouds may appear yellowish when observed without the aid of
color filters, they are in fact brighter in red and orange light than they
are in yellow light. Thus it may be necessary to reclassify these clouds as
simply "dust clouds."
Martian dust clouds usually form rapidly when finely divided surface
materials are raised by the Martian wind. These clouds may be small, local-
ized, and short lived, or they may expand to cover most or all of the planet
in a matter of days. Dust clouds brighten faintly in yellow filters and
reveal sharpened boundaries through orange and red filters. During the
initial stages of formation, they often appear very bright in violet and
ultraviolet light (photographic), suggesting the presence of ice crystals.
Thus dust clouds are frequently confused with bright white areas, frosts, or
high localized clouds on Mars. Because these dust clouds are often confused
with bright surface deposits it becomes more difficult to determine the
extent of the dust cloud expansion once the observer identifies it as dust
on the move. Fresh surface deposits of dust tend to brighten the area where
its has fallen and appears to colease with the dust cloud on the move.
In recent years, the popular media has played up the romance of Martian
dust storms to such an extent that virtually any form of meteorological
activity has been reported as dust. Therefore, in analyzing your observa-
tions, the ALPO Mars Recorders have had to exercise considerable caution in
defining dust clouds. We have applied the following criteria:
1. The sine qua non of Martian dust clouds is movement with obscuration
of previously well-defined albedo features. Absence of this criterion in the
present study disqualified a candidate from inclusion under dust clouds.
2. They are bright in red light.
3. When these clouds reach heights of several kilometers, we have
proposed that they may cast shadows -- that are observable from Earth.
There are numerous reports of anomalous transient dark surface markings
appearing near dust clouds, especially when the solar phase angle was rea-
sonably large.
THE NOT-SO-RED PLANET
Further evidence for a dusty Martian atmosphere is not nearly so sophis-
ticated as that obtained by professional instrumentation. In fact, it comes
from "the man on the street!" In 1988, we received numerous phone calls and
letters from nonastronomers as well as from experienced observers stating
that Mars is not red this year, but rather orange, even when it is near the
horizon. During the 1988 apparition, however, Mars' contrast was subdued
more than "usual" and visual and photographic colorimetry do indeed reveal
frequently greenish hues. Perhaps the most compelling evidence for the
presence of persistent dust in Mars' atmosphere comes from observations the
most prominent feature on the planet -- the South Polar Cap.
ALPO GUIDELINES FOR MARTIAN DUST CLOUDS/STORMS
New guidelines have been established by the ALPO Mars Recorders for
interpreting Martian dust clouds/storms, they are as follows:
I. Type of Observation.
1. White cloud or bright area mistaken for dust cloud.
2. Visual observation(s) of dust cloud or storm.
3. Instrumental observation(s) of dust cloud/storm (Includes
photographic, polarimetric, spacecraft data, or other data by
instrumental means).
II. Classifications of Martian dust clouds.
1. Obscuration - Not sure if surface or atmospheric.
2. Dust Haze - Partial obscuration with displacement.
3. Bright dust cloud - Bright obscuration with displacement.
4. Limb projection/terminator protrusion by dust cloud.
III. Classifications of a Martian dust storm.
1. Local: Dust storm with major axis not to exceed 2000 km.
2. Regional: Dust storm with major axis that exceeds 2000 km in
either or both hemispheres of Mars.
3. Planet Encircling: Dust storm with major axis that completely
encircles either one or both hemispheres of Mars.
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OBSERVING AIDS
The physical and geocentric positions of Mars is available in the "A.L.P.O.
Solar System Ephemeris," send $6.00 (for those living in the U.S, Canada,
and Mexico; $8.50 (for those in other countries) to: John E. Westfall,
A.L.P.O. Director/Editor, P.O. Box 16131, San Francisco, CA 94116.
"Introduction to Observing and Photographing the Solar System," by Thomas A.
Dobbins, Donald C. Parker, and Charles F. Capen. Available from Willmann
Bell, Inc., P.O. Box 35025, Richmond, VA 23235
Also, see the latest news on Mars in the August 1990 issue of Sky&Telescope
**********************************NOTICE***********************************
The Mars Observer's Handbook is out of print and no longer available.
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Is Mars' South Polar Missing?
Several observers have reported the disappearance of the Martian south
polar cap (SPC). Because southern summer began on July 30th. the SPC was in
rapid retreat during August and should not be very large. For those of us in
the United States, observing Mars' during mid-August (Central Meridians (CM)
from 150 - 270 degrees) the south limb will resemble a great "bald spot" where
the SPC should be. The cap will be very hard to see for Northern Hemisphere
observers because the cap is offset 7 degrees from the pole towards 30 degrees
longitude. Therefore, the SPC is on the other side of the planet from us.
From mid-August, the planetocentric declination of Earth (De) will be -11.2
deg. and decrease to -3.9 deg. by the end of September. This will also place
the south polar region of Mars in a difficult position to observe for every
one.
The two polar caps of Mars are composed differently. The north cap is a
water ice cap covered with layers of carbon dioxide ice. While water has been
detected in the south cap, it is mostly carbon dioxide. Because the atmos
pheric pressure of Mars is too low for liquid water to exist on its surface,
frozen materials in the caps do not melt but sublimate at temperatures above
zero.
Mars looks strange?
Are we seeing new dark features on Mars or just changing shadows? Those
who regularly observe the Moon know that shadows cast by Lunar surface fea
tures change its surface appearance from day to day. Although certain Martian
surface features are known to physically change in shape and darkness, shadows
also effect the appearance of the Red Planet's surface. Shadows have a direct
effect on the appearance of regions such as Tharsis -- with its steep rise
from a large valley floor to its 12 and 16 mile high volcanoes -- or Hellas,
which is shaped like a very large and deep crater. Remember also that shadows
are longer near the planet's morning and evening limbs or terminator and are
shorter nearest to the planet's noon hour (sub-solar point). In August, Mars'
south pole is tilted toward the Sun, so, the shadows will appear to point in a
more northerly direction. As the Martian seasons change from summer to au
tumn, these same shadows will change directions as well, giving its surface a
slightly different appearance.
However, don't let the shadows fool you, report all changes on the Mar
tian surface to the ALPO Mars Recorders as soon as possible.
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* Again, we must caution observers not to confuse those Martian white clouds *
* or bright white surface deposits with dust clouds.We have received several *
* calls and letters this month from observers claiming to have seen a large *
* dust storm on Mars. While observing both visually and with sensitive CCD *
* cameras, the ALPO Mars Recorders can find no trace of dust either on the *
* Martian surface or in its atmosphere as of August 27, 1990. Remember, dust *
* clouds are very bright in red light and they usually move about covering *
* over portions of the Martian surface. *
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*** GUIDELINES FOR IMP OBSERVERS ***
1. ALPO MEMBERSHIP: Membership in Association of Lunar and Planetary Observ
ers (ALPO) is not mandatory for the IMP. However, we strongly urge our observ
ers to join, if for no other reason than they can see the fruits of their
labor in print in the apparition reports and other papers in The Strolling
Astronomer. Subscribing to the J.A.L.P.O. also gives one the opportunity to
read about others' observational techniques and methods of data reduction. In
addition, the observer may find other fields which stimulate his interest,
such as observing Pluto. U.S., Canada, and Mexico, send $14 for one year or
$24 for two years to Harry D. Jamieson, P.O. Box 143, Heber Springs, Arkansas,
72543. Other countries: $16 for one year, $29 for two.
2. CORRESPONDENCE: All correspondence should contain an enclosed S.A.S.E.
Remember that the A.L.P.O. staff is voluntary -- both with time and money!
OBSERVING AIDS
************************** MARS OBSERVER'S HANDBOOK **************************
* *
* Now available from the Astronomical League is the Mars Observer's Handbook *
* by Jeffrey D. Beish and Charles F. Capen at a new low price of $8.00. This *
* very important and informative book is in second printing due to popular *
* demand. Formerly published for The Planetary Society's Mars Watch '88, the *
* book was sold out and has been out of print for the past two years. Send *
* $8.00, check or money order to: Astronomical League Sales, Four Klopfer *
* Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15209. *
* *
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a) The A.L.P.O. Solar System Ephemeris: 1990. This contains the complete
ephemerides for the Sun, Moon, planets and minor planets as well as selected
comets. This is a "must" if one is to get full enjoyment from his observing.
Send $6.00 to A.L.P.O., P.O. Box 16131, San Francisco, CA 94116.
b) Introduction to Observing and Photographing the Solar System, by T.A.
Dobbins, D.C. Parker, and C.F. Capen. Contains both theoretical and observa
tional information on Solar System objects. Very detailed chapters on Mars,
astrophotography, micrometry, etc. Forward by A.L.P.O. founder Walter H. Haas.
Hardcover, $19.95 from Willmann-Bell, Inc., P.O. Box 35025, Richmond, VA
23235, (804) 320-7016.
c) IMP Astronomical Calculator (IMPAC). Computer program containing complete
ephemerides of Mars and Jupiter for any year and geographical location. Also
rise and set times, altitude, azimuths for all Solar System objects for
observer's location. Automatic correction for Daylight Time, lunar phases for
star party planning, telescope and mirror cell design, and comprehensive
astrophotography program. Subroutines for color filter calculations and auto
matic computation of Martian polar cap and Jovian belt latitudes from
observer's input. For IBM XT, AT and compatibles, monochrome, EGA, or VGA. For
a 5.25-inch diskette, send $49.95 to J.D. Beish, 9460 Toni Dr., Miami, FL
33157.
THE A.L.P.O. MARS SECTION -- 1990
ALPO Mars Recorders have been assigned to a geographical area. Observers
should correspond with the recorder in his or her area:
JEFF BEISH, 9460 Toni Dr., Miami, Fl, 33157: AL, AR, FL, GA, HA, KY, MS, NC,
SC, TN, and VA.
HARRY CRALLE, 3902 E. 29th St. (J-4), Bryan, Texas, 77802: AZ, CA, CO, KS, LA,
MO, NV, NM, OK, TX, UT, and WY.
CARLOS HERNANDEZ, 2714 Plaza Dr., Woodbridge, NJ, 07095: AK, CT, DC, DE, MA,
MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, and VT.
DON PARKER, 12911 Lerida St., Coral Gables, FL, 33156: U.S. Territories and
Possessions and all areas outside U.S.
DAN TROIANI, 629 Verona Ct., Schaumberg, IL, 60193: IA, ID, IL, IN, MI, MN,
MT, ND, NE, OH, OR, SD, WA, WI, WV.
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an observing program of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
(A.L.P.O.)
Edited by: J.D. Beish
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************************** MARS OBSERVER'S HANDBOOK **************************
* *
* Now available from the Astronomical League is the Mars Observer's Handbook *
* by Jeffrey D. Beish and Charles F. Capen at a new low price of $8.00. This *
* very important and informative book is in second printing due to popular *
* demand. Formerly published for The Planetary Society's Mars Watch '88, the *
* book was sold out and has been out of print for the past two years. Send *
* $8.00, check or money order to: Astronomical League Sales, Four Klopfer *
* Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15209. *
* *
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Sand Ships of Mars
Among one of the most exciting moments in a Mars observer's life is to
catch a dust storm on Mars on the move. It is rare indeed when one can watch
one of these great red clouds slowly move over the Martian landscape covering
over features that were dark and well defined just hours before.
While no two dust clouds are alike they nevertheless exhibit similar
characteristics. Dust clouds are frequently confused with bright white areas,
frosts, or localized fogs, and some dense white clouds. In addition, after
identification is made, it becomes difficult to distinguish active dust
clouds from fresh surface dust deposits. Such misinterpretation can make time
studies difficult.
A careful diagnosis of observational records of Mars from 1877 through
the seventeen perihelic apparitions since 1907 show evidence that Martian dust
storms have evolved in preferred southern locations near the latitude of
maximum insolation. Maximum insolation occurs during Martian southern summer
which corresponds to the terrestrial months of August, September, and October
of perihelic apparitions (Capen and Martin, 1972). Recent studies of Martian
dust storms reveal three periods in the Martian year when dust clouds and/or
storms are most likely to occur. These periods correspond to 105 dg Ls*
(northern summer), 255 dg Ls (southern spring), and 315 dg Ls (southern
summer). [Beish and Parker, 1990]. * NOTE: Ls is the Planetocentric Longitude
of the Sun.
Since 1971, the year of the "Great Dust Storm of Mars," the ALPO Mars
Recorders have suspected that these disturbances come in pairs. We have seen
that in 1971 a major dust storm occurred on 213 dg Ls, followed by a "planet
encircling" dust storm on 260 dg Ls. Again, in 1973 a major storm began on
244 dg Ls and was followed by a "planet encircling" storm on 300 dg Ls. The
Viking Lander recorded two "planet encircling" storms on 204 and 268 dg Ls.
Although the two dust storms of 1988 did not reach the "planet encircling"
stage, similar patterns emerged; during 206 dg Ls a major storm occurred,
followed by another major storm on 313 dg Ls.
Perhaps the statistical significance of the three periods above appear to
mislead us when attempting to predict when these disturbances should occur.
However, one should be especially alert when observing Mars during these times
-- even though we have passed through the first sensitive period, be watchful
in the next few weeks, alas, a major dust storm may be lurking just around the
corner!
REPORTING MARTIAN DUST CLOUDS AND STORMS
In analyzing the IMP data, the ALPO Mars Recorders have had to exercise
considerable caution in defining dust clouds. They have applied the following
criteria:
1. The sine qua non of Martian dust clouds is movement with obscura-
tion of previously well-defined albedo features. Absence of this criterion in
the present study disqualified a candidate from inclusion under dust clouds
[Beish, et al, 1990].
2. They are bright in red light. Repeat -- bright in red light!
3. Often, when these clouds reach heights of several kilometers, they may cast
shadows -- that are observable from Earth. There are numerous reports of
anomalous transient dark surface markings appearing near dust clouds, espe-
cially when the solar phase angle was reasonably large [Slipher, 1962].
A DUST CLOUD IN OCTOBER 1990
During the first week of October 1990 the phone at ALPO's International
Mars Patrol headquarters began to ring. News of bright spots on Mars, "maybe a
dust cloud or something," scoffed the cautious observers. Their words were
restrained and with good reason -- past experience has taught them not to jump
to conclusions, especially about this Martian dust storm business. After all,
these storms are very rare and often mislead the most experienced Martian dust
storm watchers!
The genesis of the latest disturbance began on September 25, 1990. Re-
porting from Paragould, Arkansas, Kermit Rhea noted that Chryse appeared
brighter than usual from the 25th. of September through October 2nd. His
observations indicate unusual activity in the regions of Chryse and
Xanthe.
Don Parker, fearful of awaking my family, avoided calling me while he
observed Mars at 0400 UT on October 4th (310 dg Ls), suspected that the
bright streak bordering northern Aromatum Promontorium in the south of Chryse
might be the beginning of a dust storm. The following night (310.5 dg Ls)
this Mars Recorder watched with delight as the dust cloud, correctly identi-
fied by Parker the night before, had moved southwest onto Eos, partially
obscuring Aurorae Sinus with what appeared as a bright oval spot followed by a
long streak. The morning side of Mars had lost its usual effect of limb
darkening and was replaced by a bright haze extending 10 degrees into its
morning. Subsequent visual reports and photographs show that a dust cloud
extended from eastern Margaritifer Sinus (30W, 0N) to just south of Aurorae
Sinus.
October 6th. (311 dg Ls) brought more meteorological delights, white
clouds now laced much of the morning limb and portions of Chryse, even a
bright white cloud was seen on the limb just to the north of Sabaeus Sinus.
Morning hazes were even brighter, extending 15 to 20 degrees away from the
limb. The dust cloud of October 5th. had moved 575 miles further southwest,
now obscuring the southern half of Aurorae Sinus and completely covered Eos
(40W, 12S). A dull streak or "dusty trail" was observed to extend from the
southeast of Aurorae Sinus over into Ophir -- one of the brightest areas on
the planet Mars.
Observers on October 7th. (311.8 dg Ls) reported an increase in meteorol-
ogy on Mars. Clouds had formed over Deucalionis Regio, Aram, and in the crea-
tor Eros. Several discrete clouds in Chryse mixing with white morning limb
clouds and hazes. The main dust cloud had moved west-southwest anther 475
miles to 50W, 20S). A peculiar Y-shaped dust cloud hung over Aurorae Sinus
extending into Ophir as if transferring dust particles in that region from
the main disturbance.
One asks what would have crossed Ray Bradbury's mind while viewing such
splendor -- might he think it was Martians on the run in their sand ships?
At last, the next day the small Martian dust storm appeared to be over.
With perfect on October 8th. (312 dg Ls), this Mars observer saw a familiar
Martian landscape, with only a few alterations to the usually dark and well
defined Aurorae Sinus. Eos appeared to have grown a little. As expected, a
dull dusty haze covered the south polar region and the morning limb was
bright with blue and reddish hazes [Beish et al, 1984].
Oh yes, all was quite again on Barzoom, lest we not forget Edgar Rice
Burroughs.
CONCLUSION
Although the October 4th. - 7th. dust disturbance is not considered a
major storm it was a significant meteorological activity. Moving over 1,000
miles of the Martian landscape it did alter small portions of previously dark
and well defined features. A secondary dust cloud appeared in Ophir, an area
over 650 miles west of the main dust cloud, on October 7th. We can theorize
that dust clouds on Mars may erupt in more than one place if the conditions
are right. Past observations of Martian dust storms indicate that the Red
Planet was very near its peak dust storm period at 315 dg Ls. [Beish et al,
1990]. Remember, 315 dg Ls will fall on October 18, 1990!
REFERENCES
Beish, J.D., and D.C. Parker, "Meteorological Survey of Mars, 1968-1985,"
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 95, B9, August 20, 1990.
Beish, J.D., Parker, D.C., and Capen, C.F., "A Major Martian Dust Storm in
1984", J.A.L.P.O., Vol. 30, Nos. 9-10, August 1984.
Capen, C.F., and L.J. Martin,"Survey of Martian Yellow Storms." Bull. Amer.
Astron. Soc. 4, 374, 1972.
Capen, C.F., "A Martian Yellow Cloud - July 1971." Icarus, 22, 345-362, 1974.
Slipher, E.C., "Mars, The Photographic Study. Northland Press, Flagstaff, AZ,
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 18:30:09 -0800
From: Jerod Pore <jerod23@well.sf.ca.us>
To: factsheet5-list@well.sf.ca.us
Subject: Fringe, conspiracy and SubGenius zine reviews
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Rant, Fringe, Conspiracy, SubGenius and assorted weird zines
Posted 6 March, 1993
This document is ShareRight 1993 by Jerod Pore; you may reproduce and
distribute this information as often and however you like as long as you
include this sentence.
Distributed as part of FactSheet Five - Electric. For more information
about F5-E (or, even, the *printed* version of F5) email
jerod23@well.sf.ca.us
Subscribers to F5-E, please DO NOT send mail to the account from which
this file was mailed. Thank You.
These are zines from people who live in, or desire to live in, a reality
that is wholly different from the one with which most of you are familiar.
Neo-Nazis, SubGenii, Conspiracy Theorists, UFO contactees, people who talk
to God and people who ARE God! I've tried to keep a very open mind about
these zines. I'd like to point out that I disagree with the goals of zines
like _Instauration_. I've disagreed with white supremicists violently
enough to carry a couple of visible scars on my face and scalp. But I claim
no monopoly on The Truth and, as was stated in the issue of Politically
Incorrect that is reviewed here, "You never know who is going to be right
about something." I would suggest using a PO Box or similar service, and,
perhaps, an assumed name, when contacting some of these groups. You won't
necessarily have anything to fear from them, but you may have troubles with
the government. My mail is being openned, and three 'gentlemen' in black
uniforms, complete with guns and big sticks, visited my mail drop and asked
for me by name.
%Title: AKANISTHA: Nirvana in Sumsurais
%Descr: "A synthisis of many years study of Buddhist Mystisism."
Anyone who expects $5.00 for 12 pages of badly photoreduced scribbles is
obviously a loon. "This mind devoid of mind finds nothing to cling to and
so rests in the fundemental bliss compost and vibrating melting in emptyness
releases the immutable vission of primordially free wisdom." Some of the 16
flavors of Emptyness include the "mtns of emptyness...mtns of Great Mtns"
Gee, for five bucks I would expect emptiness to be spelt out and spelt
correctly. And let us never forget the pervasive wind and, more
importantly, the downward cleaning wind.
Shouldn't this be free, as materialism traps one within the cycle of karmic
reincarnation?
%Info: $5.00 Each to
Adam Moes, 4050 Earlena Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95904
(12 Pages/D/JP)
No trades/no ads.
%Title: CRASH COLLUSION Issue 3 Spring, 1993
%Descr: UFO's, ethnobotany, orgone and more all come together in
this most excellent zine.
Ian Blake provides a couple of incisive articles that corellate Hollywood
trends, UFO hoaxes and government disinformation (in the first) and Whitley
Streiber's writings with Celtic Faerie tales. As with all great truths, the
obvious is unmasked. Paul Rydeen informs us that the ever-popular Bufo
Alvarius (the Sonoran Psychedelic Toads) use their psychedelic secretions
during sex to give their partners "the ultimate mind-blowing orgasm,
excellent impetus for the successful propagation of the species." H.P.
Lovecraft as a prophet of the Nuclear Age, Jim Keith's "Whose Saucers Are
They?" and data on B-carboline containing plants.
The best zine that deals with a variety of fringe subjects.
%Info: $3.50 Each , Subs: $14.00 for 4 issues to
Wesley Nations, PO Box 49233, Austin, TX 78765
(24 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: DELVE Issue 6
%Descr: Original and reprinted material on UFO's, Tesla, Forteana
and related subjects.
The main article in this issue is an exerpt from an unpublished book by the
late Bill Nelson on what was called "Alternative 3." The question
(originally asked in 1968) was how humanity would survive the impending, and
unstoppable environmental crisis. The third alternative was to leave the
planet. Towards such a goal, there is already a moonbase, but the
colonization of Mars is in a bit a trouble since there is life (albeit
primitive life) on Mars. Those pictures we saw from Viking? Left over
shots from the Apollo missions to the moon, slightly colorized.
Plus firsthand accounts of alien contact, Nostradamus and the Gulf War,
Quetzalcoatl stories, a Dulce-type story from 1956 that includes Tesla,
Fortean events, the Lost Tribe of Israel and the Hollow Earth, and
clippings.
Outside of a couple of factual errors and easily debunked events, this is a
good zine on fringe subjects.
%Info: $3.00 Each to
Gene Duplantier, 17 Shetland St., Willodale, ON M2M 1X5 Canada
(20 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: ELECTONIC SURVEILLANCE PROJECT: Microwave Harassment & Mind-Control
%Descr: Experimentation Issue 1 December, 1992
From the same publishers of _Unclassified_ comes THE most
frightening, paranoia-inducing publication that we've come
across.
If you ever thought there was a limit to how far the government will go when
it comes to complete denial of civil rights of citizens, let alone outright
torture, then the publications of The Electronic Surveillance Project will
force you into a new way of thinking. They have carefully documented the
cases of 25 people who *have* been the targets of electronic harassment, and
are working with an additional 23 victims. The victims are not street
crazies, they were almost all whistle-blowers. The ACLU won't help, Amensty
International won't help, and, of course, the FBI and local police are more
co-operative with the federal torturers than the victims. One FBI
spokesperson flew off the handle when "Project Slammer" was mentioned.
Before *you* go dismissing some 48 people as total loons, consider the
experiment the U.S. and U.K. governments executed on the women of Greenham
Common. Or the conditions of the Federal Women's Correctional Facility in
Lexington, KY. Or the U.S. and Canadian governments' mind-control
experiment/torturings under MKULTRA, where survivors (if they could be
considered as truly surviving) have, after 20 years, received pitiful
out-of-court settlements and luke-warm admissions of guilt. Or the
well-publicized cases of workers at the U.S. embassy in Moscow who were
attacked by Soviet microwave weapons.
The technology exists. The DoD and DoE have budgetted research funds
outside of their infamous "Black Budget" for such technology and have, in
certain cases, admitted just what the goal of said research was. And, most
sadly of all, our government has the will and enthusiasm to torture
citizens.
cf. _Resonance_ _Full Disclosure_ _Steamshovel Press_ and, if there is a
radio station in your area that broadcast's Dave Emory's "One Step Beyond,"
he has tapes on the subject.
Who *really* won the Cold War? The KGB. Our government has become the KGB.
%Info: Each , Subs: $15.00 for 4 issues to
Julianne McKinney, Electronic Surveillance Project, 921 Pleasant Street, Assoc
of Nat'l Security Alumni Des Moines, IA 50309
(23 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: GHOST TRACKERS NEWSLETTER: The Official Paranormal Publication of the
Ghost Research Society Volume 11 Issue 3 October 1992
%Descr: About the finding, and recording the presence of whatever it
is that many people call Ghosts.
Articles on recording ghosts, using an intriguing combination of tape
recorders and Ouija boards, and photographing them at Gothic cathedrals.
Unfortunately, there were no reprints of the photos. General pieces on the
paranormal and some fiction, which wasn't labelled as such and which I first
thought was some flowery rendition of a first-hand account. Plus lots of
book reviews and upcomming events of the GRS.
Good reporting on the subject from the believers' point of view.
%Info: $5.00 Each , Subs: $12.00 for 3 issues to
Dale Kaczmarek, Ghost Research Society, P.O. Box 205, Oak Lawn, IL 60454-0205
(31 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: GOD'S LOVE: The Envelope of the Soul's Ultimate Light. December, 1992
%Descr: Dense, very dense. I'm probably failing to understand this
completely, but I think that Women are spiritual beings, Men
are beings of corruption and sex (corruption and sex might
be the same thing) and that Jesus was the first Androgyn
that will allow women into a plane where men are not needed.
"So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: (Sun
Seed) it is raised in incorruption (The Immaculate Conception), _where woman
needs not a man!!!_ (She crystalized Jesus Body into a church, a rock, a
stone he builds his church upon in the temple of the soul, the atrium of
God. The Alter of God on Earth, is within the body of man. "It is sewn in dishonor: It is raised in Glory: It is sewn in weakness
(Sex) it is raised in Power (Spririt)!!!"
Got it? I hope so.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Dr. Julia Gonzalez, 4790 Jackson Street, Apartment #219 Rvierside, CA 92503
(9 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/no ads.
%Title: HEADLINES Issue 25
%Descr: Bulletin of that most "Bob"-like of churches, the 1st Mobile
Church of Bay Hill.
"Bob" sightings; the bridge named after the SubGenius Messiah; Arnold
Palmer as the Satanic agent of bleeding head disco soccer; clues to X-day
events in a retrospect on college football coach Bobby Dobbs; "Bob's"
near-death experience at the hands of the Nazis; the pink conspiracy in
Orlando; Bush/Dahmer in '92 and SubGenii zine reviews.
If you need more slack, then you need this zine.
%Info: $2.00 Each , Subs: $ 5.00 for 3 issues to
Dave Mitchell, 1st Mobile Church of Bay Hill, PO Box 5094, Winter Park, FL
32793-5094
(12 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: HOLY TEMPLE OF MASS CONSUMPTION Issue 14 Februrary 1993
%Descr: The spirit of "Bob" lives online. Like _Factsheet Five_ and
_Practical Anarchy_, HToMC exists as both a print zine and
ezine.
Issue #14 reprints the Bay Area Skeptics rundown of Psychic Predictions for
1992 that didn't come close to reality. There's the infamous "Save the
Aliens" flyer and weird news from the Talking Heads. #13 has Fundie Xtian
failures and a great anti-Bush rant. All issues have comix reviews, "Bob"
sightings, Ren & Stimpy news, and convention and rave listings.
A very slackful source guide. Back issues are at quartz.rutgers.edu
%Info: The Usual Each to
slack@ncsu.edu , PO Box 3094, Raleigh, NC 27622
(10 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email slack@ncsu.edu
%Title: INFOCULT: The Journal of Strange Information Volume 1 Issue 3 1991
%Descr: Very strange information, indeed.
InfoCult, while not a cult in of itself, takes on several in this issue of
weird religions. The strangest, by far, is the connections between UFOs and
the Nation of Islam. In his autobiography, Malcom X describes a visitation
in his cell, and one could apply aspects of that visitation with the Men In
Black phenomenon. Then there was Louis Farrakhan's ride in a UFO that later
helped defend Libya against U.S. raids. Also, psychedelic Jesus freaks who
contend that psycheldelics without Jesus are Satanic, personal accounts of
being an altar boy and smoking dope with the Rastafarians, murderous cult
leaders, Crowley, Criswell, Krishnas and more.
Worship within the Cult of Information, or be lost in the strangling
darkness of The Conspiracy, forever!
%Info: $2.00 Each , Subs: $ 9.00 for 4 issues to
Johnny Walsh, P.O. Box 3124, East Hampton, NY 11937
(12 Pages/T/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: INSTAURATION Volume 17 Issue 9 August, 1992
%Descr: Well-researched news, articles and opinions on the subject
of race politics. The writers of Instauration are obviously
educated and well-read.
Two articles of historical revision are sure to make you question what you
think racial politics in America. The lead article is about Negro soldiers
and American Indian officers in the Confederate Army. The second is about
how almost one third of all lynchings done in America from 1882 to 1970 were
against white people. Nietzsche, Darwin, miscegenation and decadence; plus
news, letters and articles on many more subjects.
Instauration is the intellectual vanguard of the Aryan movement.
%Info: $4.00 Each , Subs: $30.00 for 12 issues to
Howard Allen, Howard Allen Enterprises, Inc., Box 76, Cape Canaveral, FL
32920
(28 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: NATIONAL VANGUARD: Toward a New Consciousness; a New Order; a New
%Descr: People. Issue 112 Februrary, 1992
A glossy, well-produced zine of Aryan thought.
The lead editorial is not what most people would expect from an Aryan zine,
as it condemned the Gulf "War" as an act of mass murder. There's an article
on the statistics of incidents of STDs and AIDS among the Black and White
communities in America. Another article quotes from the _Jewish Chronicle_
on how some 100 Orthodox Jews attacked the home of a 5-year-old girl who was
molested by an Orthodox Jew. They called for the expulstion of the girl's
family for reporting the crime to the police. The cover story is about the
dumbing-down of universities through affirmative action programs. "Forced
equality and excellence cannot coexist."
%Info: $2.50 Each , Subs: $12.00 for 6 issues to
William Pierce, National Vanguard Books, PO Box 330, Hillsboro, WV 24946
(24 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: NEXUS: New Times Volume 2 Issue 5 Nomvember 1991
%Descr: One of the better collections of information from the
fringes of reason.
This issue of Nexus contains an article on what is certainly the Grand
Unified Conspiracy; the penultimate bulldada; the Holy Grail of secret
history; it's more complex and far-reaching than The Shaver Mystery, the
King Kill to the 33rd Degree theory on the Kennedy assassination, and the
works of R. A. Wilson, William S. Burroughs and Umberto Eco combined. It's
the Philadelphia Experiment and it involves John von Neumann (the original
architect of today's sequential methods of computer processing), T. Townsend
Brown (who built a functional flying saucer), President Franklin Roosevelt,
Dr. Nikola Tesla (who may still be alive), the Grey and non-Grey aliens,
time travel, the Krupps family and IT&T, the $10 billion in missing Nazi
gold, Wilhelm Reich and orgone energy, Stealth Bombers, the missing
children, 23 U.S. military bases, teleportation, invisibility, alien mind
control technology, aliens from the Pleiades, age regression, soul transfer,
orgasm drugs, mind amplification and the UFO crashes at Roswell NM.
Whew.
Plus information on "The Opal File," an Australian equivalent to The
Gemstone File, but dealing with CIA experiments with subliminal television
in New Zealand and Australia. The great fluoride hoax, yowies (Australian
Big Foot), US Air Force handbooks on UFO's and a lot more.
One mindblowing magazine. Note: I've given the price for an overseas
subscription.
%Info: $6.50 Each , Subs: $35.00 for 6 issues to
Duncan Roads, Nexus Magazine, C/O Post Office, Mapleton Queensland, 4560
Australia
(76 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: NOTES FROM THE HANGAR: Quarterly Journal of the National UFO Museum
%Descr: Volume 1 Issue 3 December 1991
Lots of interesting and, best of all, credible UFO
information.
Except for Ruth A. Leedy's "Arguments For A Hollow Earth" (which relied on
too much on limited bits of old data, much like Fundie Xtians and their
single Bible quotes), this issue is made up of a lot of great data. William
Fuller presents an interesting riddle, how come many ancient cartographics
were able to accurately map Antartica? There's a guide to the infamous Area
51. And, in an early case history of UFO's and agricultural products, the
account of UFO sightings in the 20's and 30's in Queensland and how they
relate to some 15,000 missing pineapples. Plus news about the Museum, ads, reviews and contacts.
One of the better UFO zines.
%Info: $4.95 Each , Subs: $25.00 for 4 issues to
The National UFO Museum, 150 N. Center St., Suite 223 Reno, NV 89501-1603
(60 Pages/D/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: ORVOTRON: East Coast Power Point Transformation Updates June, 1992
%Descr: "Our main focus is...to keep people informed and therefore
alive until this cycled event occurs." The cycled event
being the Photon Light Cloud, the full extent of which is
due before 1997.
Some 5,000 years ago evil beings (aliens, perhaps) descended upon the Earth
and proceded, in their subtle ways, to enslave humanity. Some of the
alien-run institutions include the Church and the IRS. The enslavement will
lead to death, or worse, by 1997. But, there is hope!
World-Wide Unification under the command of Ashtar and a fine web of energy
lines will change the planet to Divine Essence of White Light.
I wondered how IRS agents could be so inhumanly evil at times.
%Info: Each , Subs: $30.00 for 6 issues to
Judith Wells, Route 2, Box 309B Vilas, NC 28692
(20 Pages/D/JP)
No trades/no ads. email BBS 704-297-5973
%Title: POLITICALLY INCORRECT Volume 1 Issue 7 August 23, 1991
%Descr: OK, it's old, but it really fits in with this category. I
don't know what PI is 'normally' like.
PI presents thumbnail sketches of, and lists books about, known secret
societies. I know that's an oxymoron, as truly secret societies wouldn't be
known, but as the author writes, "Since I value my sanity and my life, I
will not here write of Really secret societies." From the lost continents
of Atlantis and Mu to the Freemasons, Illuminati, IRA, Trilateral
Commission, Multinational Oil Companies, the Mafia (Morte Alla Francia
Italia Anela [Death to the French is Italy's cry.]) and every other famous
secret society and conspiracy around. Plus "Bob" and the number 23.
This and The Little Black Book should get you going on the wonderful world
of weird.
%Info: $2.00 Cash Each to
Politically Incorrect, Box 170 400 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43215
(31 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: RESEARCHER: An independent newsletter of revisionist historiography &
radical tradition Volume 3 Issue 10
%Descr: News and opinion on racial issues.
"If I were a negro I would be ashamed unto my innter being by the sight of
so obvious a token as Clarence 'Long Dong Silver' Thomas." Thomas is also
portrayed as "another dutiful beauracratic monkey in a suit, as vacuous as a
Thorazine-loaded mongoloid." Plus gloating over the African-Jewish conflict
in New York City, abortion as a disaster for the Nordic race, television as
an anti-Nordic and anti-Christian tool, news, satire and George Hennard and
the number 23.
Well-written and opinionated views.
%Info: $3.00 Each , Subs: $30.00 for 12 issues to
Michael Hoffman II, Wiswell Ruffin House, PO Box 236, Dresden, NY 14441
(8 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/no ads.
%Title: RESONANCE: Newsletter of the Bioelectromagnetics SIG of Mensa Issue
25 January 1993
%Descr: "The purpose of _Resonance_ is to review scientific
literature dealing with the subject of bioelectromagnetics;
that is, the interaction between electric and/or magnetic
fields and living organisms, and related topics."
Issue #25 begins a thirteen-part reprint of the Napa Sentinel's 1991 series
of articles on government experimentation with electronic and non-electronic
forms of mind control. This series was named as one of Project Censor's top
ten under-reported stories of 1991. At this point in the reprint series,
most of the torture is in the form of drugs (especially LSD) and more
typical methods of brainwashing, such as hanging naked people upside-down
until they cooperate. I'm looking forward to members' comments on the
electronic techniques used in Project Slammer (cf. _Electronic Surveillance
Project_). Also presented is U.S. Patent #3,773,049 a.k.a. LIDA, an
aparatus used in Soviet and Western mind-control experiments. A schematic
is provided, in case you need to build one at home.
Plus news on abstracts in five languages (English, French, German, Georgian
and Urdu) available from issue #23 on.
Issue #24 continues where #23 left off, reprinting an article from _Full
Disclosure_ on Project Pandora and remote mind-control technology. This
part of the article covers how microwaves are used, how FEMA was ready to
use microwave weapons against nebulously defined 'terrorists,' and, in the
largest known case of government electronic torture, the effects of
microwave weapons on the women at Greenham Common.
Heady, and frightening stuff. A working knowledge of biology and magnetics
helps.
%Info: $4.00 Each , Subs: $15.00 for 4 issues to
Judy Wall, Mensa BEM SIG, P.O. Box 69, Sumterville, FL 33585
(23 Pages/D/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: ROOM 101 REVISITED Issue 36 August, 1992
%Descr: Discordian rants and new conspiracies from the author of
"The Illuminoids"
Issue #36 departs from the "Bob"-laden contents of the prior 5 issues for a
serious look at police brutality in Albuquerque, which had 10 cases of
police killing 'suspects.' With a population of 382,000 that ranks
Albuquerque pretty high up there in per-capita police murders. There's also
an article linking the Men In Black phenonmenon to the Kennedy assassination
and Watergate. Could MIB's have stolen the Gemstone file? Plus cows
listening to Elvis and subversion in Sunday Schools. Prior issues dealt
with Dobbshead sightings, bloviation as the key to Slack, "Bob's" secret
number, SubGenius cosmology and "Bob" in the Cosmos.
The scary thing is that he's probably right.
%Info: SASE Each to
Neal Wilgus, Juxtipedia Press, P.O. Box 25771, Albuquerque, NM 87125
(2 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: ROSES: The Message of Our Lady and Our Lord to Veronica Lueken October
6, 1992
%Descr: The latest news from heaven, conveyed directly to Veronic
Lueken from The Virgin Mary.
The news this time is the imminent emergence of the Antichrist, precipitated
by the assassination of Pope John Paul II. The message about the pope was
delivered by a polaroid photograph. "A standard procedure has been
established by Heaven for each vigil. Veronica holds three blessed candles,
and three designated workers each snap three photographs. The end result is
always miraculous." The picture shows what looks like a neon picture of a
man holding a gun and two "Ps" and an "8". The interpretation, "The 2 'Ps'
stand for: the Pope and prayer. The '8' represents the priesthood or the
Holy Eucharist. The meaning now is quite evident. Unless we pray (P) - and
pray hard - for the life and safety of John Paul II (P,8), the satanic plans
will achieve its cursed objective: the brutal and violent end to the life
of the beloved Vicar of Christ." Always wear your Scapular!
%Info: Each , Subs: $ 1.00 for life to
Veronica Lueken, Our Lady of the Roses, P.O. Box 52, Bayside, NY 11361
(4 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/back issues/no ads.
%Title: SATAN'S, WORD OF LUCIFER: Poetry from B. Q. Voltair March 1992
%Descr: This isn't a zine, but we thought that we'd share this with
you.
Mr. Voltair, according to his letter to Hudson, "[is] a prisoner at
Bridgewater State Hosp. for the criminally insane...they won't release me
because they think I'm a danger, to everyone, on the Earth, with my
blasphemous, blasphemies, of blasphemous truth about Santa Claus."
Mr. Voltair sent seven poems. Except for "The Clowns and The Fools," almost
every line of them starts with "I am," have a lot of commas and contain one
or more of the following words: Lucifer, Devil, Evil, God, Satan, Bible,
Jesus, Beelzebub, Santa, Lord, 666.
I've arbitrarily titled his work by the first poem in the bunch. Here is an
exerpt from "Satan's, word of Lucifer"
"I am Satan's, words of Evil;
I cause guilt and fear,
I am the, Evil, words, in the, Devil's book;
I am lies, you do not hear.
"I am Satan's, words of Evil;
I make it hard to think,
I was created, by the lies, of Satan;
I am why you drink."
Mr. Voltair seems willing to have his works published for either $1,000,000
or a copy of the zine.
%Info: The Usual Each to
B. Q. Voltair, M.C.I. Bridgewater, 20 Administration Road, Bridgewater, MA
02324
(7 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/no ads.
%Title: STEAMSHOVEL PRESS: Caries, Cabals, Conspiracies! Issue 5 Summer,
%Descr: 1992
Well researched and well documented information about
popular conspiracies.
Issue number 5 has great interviews with Mark Lane, Kerry Thornley, Jim
Marrs and Dick Gregory about the Kennedy Assassination conspiracies. Mr.
Lane, the author of "Plausible Denial" and "Rush To Judgement" was the
Liberty Lobby's lawyer in their case against E. Howard Hunt. He was able to
convince a jury that Hunt was indeed part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
Kerry Thornley, one of the authors of "Principia Discordia," talks about his
relationship (or lack thereof) with Oswald, MKUltra and Nazi breeding
experiments. Jim Marrs, author of "Crossfire," talks about Jim Garrison's
investigations and the secret government. Dick Gregory talks about
disseminating information and connections between the assassination of
Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
But even more chilling than all that are two articles on more recent
nefarious activities. Tim Wheeler writes about David Duke's connections
with the intelligence community and his amazing ability to avoid being
convicted of crimes. The most frightening piece of all is by John Robert
Martin on the staged assassination attempts on Ford and Reagan. Essentially
Reagan replayed the Kennedy assassination, but survived to become, in the
public mind, a new Kennedy or even a new Christ. How convenient that
Hinckley attacked (or was programmed to attack) around Easter. Within the
context of secret governments that experiment in electronic and drug-induced
coercion, the scenario is all too plausible.
All that, plus a story about Gerald L.K. Smith, an American Nazi from the
30's who got into the tourist business; Robert A. Wilson on Santa Cruz's
over-broad anti-discrimination laws; G.J. Drupey on alternative AIDS cures
and how the government would rather not admit to their effectiveness; Roy
Lisker on Chomsky's language systems; Jim Keith on the origins of UFO's and
X. Sharks DeSpot on UFO's as disinfotainment; and book reviews. Issue number 4, which may still be available, has an interview with Abbie
Hoffman's brother; the roles played by George Bush and Richard Nixon in the
Kennedy assassination; Black Holes and the Trilateral Commission (second
only to the Philadelphia Experiment in _Nexus_ in the mind-blowing
category); Walter Alter on multiple TV's and maximum human information
throughput; Jim Keith on his attempts to collate and verify all the
manifold versions of the Gemstone File; G.J. Krupey on AIDS as biological
warfare; plus the nature of conspiracies, California prison abuse, Reich
and Einstein and more book reviews.
An awesome conpendium of conspiracies and allied data. Get it!
%Info: $5.00 Each , Subs: $20.00 for 4 issues to
Kenn Thomas, 5927 Kingsbury, St. Louis, MO 63112
(60 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email skthoma@umslvma.bitnet
%Title: THE FRANKLIN'S WORLD SENTINEL 4 September 92
%Descr: "One day, while I was hiking up in the mountains near
Montyzuma, a spirit came to me and told me to write this
book in 'zine form -- all for Saint Ryan White! A Testament
to HOPE!"
B.L. Franklin has been declared God by the media. New Jerusalem is a ski
resort in Colorado. Saint Ryan White is the way to the King of Kings.
Meanwhile, alcohol causes 75% of violent crime and the minimum wage is
brutally low, term limits are the way to go and God *demands* equal rights
for homosexuals.
Of all the people who talk to, or claim to be God, B.L. Franklin is the only
one preaching peace, compassion and cross-county skiing.
%Info: The Usual Each to
B.L. Franklin, 58 West Ferry, #7 Lexington Place Detroit, MI 48202
(4 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: THE GEIS LETTER: Thought Crime, Dogmacide, and Intellectual Heresy
%Descr: Issue 12 Februrary, 1993
A zine of holocaust-revisionism (and proud of it) that is
evolving to a personal zine.
This issue has a simpler format. Most of the contents is news about the
legal troubles of Randall Weaver (who held off Federal Marshalls in a seige
last year) and the publisher's impending operation. Plus letters and
thoughts on Clinton.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Richard Geis, PO Box 11408, Portland, OR 97211
(8 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/no ads.
%Title: THE HAMMER OF TRUTH: An Official Publication of the National
%Descr: Cynicratic Party Issue 19 12/26/92
Jimmy Zero must be a Republican who found "Bob" There is no
other explanation.
#18 has football games of the future will be played in civil courts. Sorta
like what computer companies do today. An open letter to Spike Lee about
the AIDS conspiracy. More stupid political limericks and a Wanted Poster
for Barbie's crimes against feminism.
#19 has a plan for making the Clinton administration 'look like America' by
giving cabinet appointees two week terms. "Let's suppose you're a fat,
left-handed, homeless, female, homosexual Eskimo. Then you are perfect
Cabinet material."
The open letter is to the mayor of Boulder, CO and has an application test
to help cure Boulder's malady of "Too Many Rich White Guys."
More dippy limericks.
Just what is it with Texas?
%Info: SASE Each to
Jimmy Zero, General Delivery, Gainseville, TX 76240 USA
(7 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK Issue 1 Februrary, 1993
%Descr: A listing of hundreds of 'fringe' publications and
organizations.
Paul Rydeen, who used to publish the funny "Field Trip," has compiled a
comprehensive listing of groups left out of Ivan Stang's "High Weirdness by
Email." No reviews of publications are given, and the only clues are the
categories in which they are placed and their names, but as one is risking
all of one stamp, the informaation presented is sufficient. Categories
include Astronauts Who Founder Their Own 'Religion,' Christian Extremes,
Essenes, Fortean Researchers, Orgone, Radionics and Psychotronics,
Schizophrenics, Smart Drugs, Tesla, Unpopular Cosmologies and Zion
Bashers. Paul also provides tips for ensuring contacts and pleas for
understanding.
An extensive listing of important information about the fringe.
%Info: $5.00 Each to
Paul Rydeen, VIVO, P.O. Box 537 VAMC, Tuskegee, AL 36083
(18 Pages/D/JP)
Trades OK/no ads.
%Title: THE MISSING LINK Issue 114 March, 1992
%Descr: First-hand reports of UFO contacts, abductions, encounters
and channellings.
Much of #114 is taken up with the controversy of a being that identifies
itself as TRO and claims to be an alien opertative. Further investigation
points to the TRO letters as being yet another government disinformation
campaign. A Soviet UFO encounter and an interview with a Russian UFO
expert. Pictures of something that fell from the sky which looks, to me,
more like an old communications satellite than anything from an alien
culture.
#113 has much information on the Giant Rock gatherings that started in the
late fifties and continue today. While there are several genuine reading
cases of contact, there is too much New Age channelling and guru-ism for my
taste. I do not doubt the sincerity of the channellors, nor do I dismiss
channelling as a method of communicating with something that is beyond
humanity, I just find it hard to accept direct mind-to-mind communications
between two very different cultures without a lot more 'traditional'
inter-action first.
A mixture of good information with the overly gullable.
%Info: $2.95 Each , Subs: $20.00 for 12 issues to
Aileen Garoutte, UFOCCI, 3001 S. 288th St., Federal Way, WA 98003
(28 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: THE MOORISH SCIENCE MONITOR Winter, 1993
%Descr: The Pacific Northwest edition of the floating zine of the
new, multi-media Sufis: The Moorish Orthodox Church.
The Manifesto of The Black Thorn League, an obscure branch of the Masons.
These were the so-called Black Masons whose leader was Noble Drew Ali.
Among their heresies was the inclusion of the Celts among the Asiatic races.
The MOC has concluded that the Irish are Persian. Antero Alli gives us the
initiation into the three stages of fun. Why the 19th century never ended
and why Sufis should stay drunk. Plus Mykel And & Elizabeth Was on
Hypermedia, meet the Moors, MOC news, letters and the great collages.
Bring the Jubilee into being!
%Info: $4.00 Each to
James Koehnline, Autonomedia, P.O. Box 85777, Seattle, WA 98145-1777
(60 Pages/D/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: THE PATRIOT REVIEW: Defending the Republic Volume 6 Issue 3
%Descr: November, 1992
News on the struggle for a Christian Republic.
Mostly bad news. States forcing children to attend state schools, despite
the tradition and effectiveness of home-schooling. Lots of news about IRS
and other government agencies seizing the property of alledged citizens.
There's news about a government defeat in a seizure case (an unfortunately
rare event) and some tips on how to avoid such an incident. Plus Bo Gritz.
The CPA also publishes a huge catalog of books on subjects you won't find at
Crown Books.
Scary, and timely news about government repression of people who hold
controversial views.
%Info: $4.00 ? Each , Subs: $24.00 for 12 issues to
Christian Patriot Association, PO Box 905, Sandy, OR 97055
(16 Pages/T/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/takes ads.
%Title: THE PROJECT: Dedicated to Identifying the Nature of the Ruling Class
%Descr: Conspiracy Volume 9 Issue 2 Summer 1992
Partly a zine, mostly a catalog for the books they sell, The
Project presents fascinating data on a variety of
ruling-class conspiracies. Primary information revolves
around the secret machinizations of overt and covert organs
of the British Empire (including Masons) and The Vatican.
Departing somewhat from their usual concern, this issue of The Project sheds
some light on some of the popular conspiracies making their way through the
African American community. "Few conspiracy theorists would dispute the
nearly universal Black conspiracy theory that the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy
to rule the world descends from the Egyptian Occult Theocracy." And
identifying the "'White dominated' Council on Foreign Relations as the
'public face' of the conspiracy. Black conspiracy theorists uniformly
suspect that AIDS is an artificial disease specifically designed by the
White Power Structure to destroy people of color and that crack cocaine is
purposely allowed to flood the Black-Hispanic ghettos." The Project
theorizes that racism is but a tool of the Judeo-Masonic/Royalist
conspiracy, and not necessarily its ultimate goal.
Their catalog includes many of the so-called Black conspiracy books, along
with many others dealing with Masonic, Vatican, Neo-British Empire and a
variety of other subjects.
The Project is *the* source of detailed information about The Conspiracy.
%Info: $2.00 (?) Each to
A-albionic Research, P.O. Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220
(28 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/takes ads.
%Title: THE RATIONAL FEMINIST Volume 6 Issue 2 Spring 1992
%Descr: A *very* different viewpoint from within the Aryan movement,
The Rational Femminist focuses on, but is not exclusively
about, the rights of women, children and animals.
Send an SASE to inquire about *qualifying* for discount or
free prisoner subscriptions, which are at the editor's
discretion.
Much of this issue of TRF is taken up by a reprint of a series from 1988 on
the Trilateral Commission and its iron lock on American Politics. While
none of the information presented is new to me, it is a good starting point
for those interested in this infamous group of the power elite. Also
reprinted, but often illegible, is an essay on Jesus as a political
activist. Plus musings on the awful veal industry, euthanasia, abortion as
racial suicide, the innate ugliness of humanity, and Kathy Metzger. There's
also health tips and contacts.
A unique perspective.
%Info: $3.00 Each , Subs: $15.00 for 4 issues to
Molly Gill, PO Box 28253 Kenneth City Stn, St. Petersburg, FL 33709
(16 Pages/L/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: THE SKEPTIC Volume 6 Issue 6 December 1992
%Descr: Taking the skeptical view of anomolous events and guillable
trends.
This issue debunks cold fusion, the 'miracle' of Ann Moore (who alledgedly
fasted for several years), ball lightning and acupuncture.
%Info: L4.50 Each , Subs: $40.00 for 6 issues to
Dr. Steve Donnelly, The Skeptic, PO Box 475, Manchester, M60 2TH U.K.
(28 Pages/A4/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads. email Love@uk.ac.daresbury
%Title: THE SOUTHERN NATIONAL NEWSLETTER: Dedicated to States' Rights and the
Republic of Dixie Volume 14 Issue 1 Winter, 1992
%Descr: Concered with how and why the Republic of Dixie should be
formed as a Christian State.
Comparissons between the South and Ukraine in their respective struggles for
total independence. A variety of tactics and resources are presented to
further the cause of Secession, including the works of Thomas Paine and
Sergey Nechayev. The fundamental principles of a Christian state are
detailed, including the rights and responsibilities of the citizenry. Plus
more articles, letters, newsclips and questions that would seriously
embarrass a school teacher.
A powerful document on political warfare.
%Info: Each , Subs: $12.50 for 4 issues to
Southern National Party, P.O. Box 18214, Memphis, TN 38181
(20 Pages/L/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: THE WHITE EAGLE: For Welsh Independence Issue 4
%Descr: "TWE is a Welsh political journal which fights for Welsh
Nationhood. We consider the only way to ensure the survival
of Wales, her culture, language and identity is an
independent Welsh Nation.
"Our ultimate aim is a federation of the True European
Nations, from Brittany to Croatia, Scotland to Ukraine. A
such, we totally reject the current European States which
are firmly based on imperialism."
These might be good, if bloody times for the cause of European
self-determination. TWE, however, covers news about people you may have
thought to be completely assimilated, if you heard of them at all. There's
an interview with Strollad Broadel Breizh, the Nationalist Party of Breton,
covering the group's history and goals. Welsh history, news, how land
would be re-distributed after English-built cities in Wales are destroyed
and a plan to replace police with community deputies.
An eloquent call for self-determination. I hope an independent Wales does
away with those God-awful British Postal codes.
%Info: 1.00L Each to
The White Eagle, P.O. Box 299, Cardiff, CF2 3XQ Wales
(12 Pages/A4/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/takes ads.
%Title: THREE L1 REVELATIONS: Convocations of L1 communique materials.
%Descr: February 1992
"To tide the concerned and the curious over until
publication of THE WAR BIBLE, BOOK ONE, we here present 3
convocations of L1 communique material." The communiques
are 'Life is War, War is Life' 'Pagan Atheism, Atheist
Paganism' and 'Fascist Aesthetic, Aesthetic Fascism'
In the first communique we are told how peace is the ultimate tyrranny, the
god of the inept and the inebriated, the stagnant cesspool of dreary
submission. Equality is a prison, a forced mediocrity. Love is not
democratic.
In the second communique the usefulness and effectiveness of ritual is
demonstrated, while all gods are renounced as a waste of time and energy.
The third communique is a manifesto against laziness, stupidity and
mediocrity. "ONLY WITH DISCIPLINE AND DETERMINATION WILL HEAVEN ON EARTH BE
REACHED." The useless will be discarded.
"You ARE right, and the entire world IS wrong."
%Info: $6.00 CASH Each to
C.O.W.A.N., P.O. Box 15, Altadena, CA 91003
(16 Pages/D/JP)
No trades/no ads.
%Title: TRANSMISSIONARY PROGRESS REPORT: The Temple of The Holy O-Scope Issue
2
%Descr: How one person found "Bob" and activated his third nostril
by meditating on an oscilloscope.
Details just how an O-Scope can help YOU! Aiiii-yada-yada-yada Praise
"Bob!!" Lots of comix and collage's about copping some much-needed slack
while performing one's slavework for The Conspiracy, roommates from hell,
alien furries, the Outhouse effect and random violence.
Dobbs-approved bulldada.
%Info: $3.00 Each to
Dr. Agon, P.O. Box 1282, Fort Collins, CO 80522
(41 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: TRASH CITY Issue 11
%Descr: A trash kultur zine that should appeal to the zombies for
"Bob."
Reprints from "Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride" an anti-sex
manual from 1894. "GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY.
Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual lust." 10 steps to acheiving slack at work. American Excess, from
the homeless to ads for animated Bible videos and Toxic Crusader cartoons.
A review of an amazing art installation, Visions of Japan. An interview
with Manfred Jelinski, who produced the "Nekromantik" movies. Yow, we're
only half way through! Zine reivews, Heavy Metal (the film), comix and
manga, Klaus Kinski, Big Music, Chinese and Italian B movies and, finally,
"Bob" himself.
One stop shopping for your trash fix.
%Info: $3.00 Each to
Jim McLennan, Forbidden Planet, 7 Tummons Gardens, South Norwood Hill London,
SE25 6BD U.K.
(48 Pages/A5/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: TSUJIGIRI Issue 1 August, 1992
%Descr: Eastern Orthodox Discordianism?!? You bet!
It's Malcalypse the Elder meeting Buddha, and how many of them can dance
around a zen Koan? "The Flesh of the Gods is Blue" Meeting one's guru at
Rocky Horror. The Church of the SubGenius as the Left Hand Path of
Discordianism. Synchronicity and Erisian fables in the Vedas.
A Discordian zine that is definitely out there.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Greg Carden, 7216 Briarcliff Drive, Springfield, VA 22153
(5 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: UFO'S, LSD AND ME.
%Descr: An entertaining one-shot about the author's contacts with
aliens (although he isn't too sure about the closest
encounter as he was under the influence of LSD), conspiracy
talk radio shows at 2 a.m., making no-budget SciFi flicks in
High School, meeting Jesus in Ojai and life, such as it was,
in Fresno in the the early Eighties. This is a highly
amusing read with many glimpses of truth into the UFO
movement and the government disinformation campaign.
Funny and enlightening, you can't ask for much more.
%Info: $3.00 CASH Each to
Adam Gorightly, Infinity Limited Press, PO Box 1475, Oakhurst, CA 93644
(30 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/no ads.
%Title: WHITE LIGHTS: Devoted to the Spirit of the White Race Issue 1
%Descr: _White Lights_ deals with subjects considered heretical,
even within the Aryan Movement.
Victor Noble's solutions for freeing the White Race from the strangle-hold
of the Jews involve a fascinating mix of eugenics, yoga, Christianity and
the Holy Grail, and communication with beings from more advanced
civilizations to produce Nietzsche's Ubermensch. The guiding historical
figures are Charlemagne (a possible Overman) and Jesus. "Hitler's fatal
mistake was his rejection of Christianity." Information about the root- and
sub-races of humanity is reminiscent of Madam Blatavasky. More information
about conciousness and identity are provided by Hitheryon House, and of
Yashua and the Time Arks come from A.T.A. Base. Plus "Lucifer's Lexicon"
and Ace Backwords.
Fascinating data.
%Info: $2.00 Each to
Victor Noble, PO Box 17231, Philadelphia, PA 19105
(36 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.
%Title: WOULD YOU BELIEVE?: The Controversial Phenomena Magazine Issue 39
%Descr: Winter 91/92
Like the _F_ or _Blue Ryder_ of publications on the fringes
of reason, W.Y.B. reprints choice articles, from a variety
of sources, about UFOs and related topics.
Reprints from _FATE_ on censoring sightings and Canadian UFOs; Aztec
calender stone decoded; Alternative 3 from _Delve_; the purposes of Pine Gap
from _Notes from the Hangar_; even Bo Gritz(!) as a believer in UFOs, but he
exposes Willaim Cooper as a charlatan. That, and more.
A good collection of exerpts from so-called fringe magazines.
%Info: $3.25 Each , Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to
Armand , W.Y.B. Publications, HC 80 Box 156, Marshall, AR 72650
(25 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
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Disclaimer -
To those who read this file we wish to make clear the following.
: FoG itself is an absolutely fictional society who's express purpose is
an abstract form of roleplay.
: We are not politically orientated ( at least to any politic of this
day and age) in any way shape or form.
: Any information you might find in the following is meant purely for
your amusemant ,not subversive activity against the corporate entity.
: We in no way support such DERISIVE behavior as Phreaking ,Hacking or
crashing.
: Any threats or opinions are meant really in the best way possible as
well as any admission to certain acts is completley untrue and meant
only to amuse.
-FoG-
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³ ÛÛßßÞÛßÛÞÛßß Fist of God ³ Members of FoG ³
³ ÛÛß ÞÛ ÛÞÛ Û ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³
³ ÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÞÛÛÛ FoG News 01 ³ Billy Jesus The Sentinel ³
³ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ Dt 00/00/00 ³ Roots Radical The Neon Nihilist ³
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³ Section 1 ³ Introduction and Preface on FoG by the President of FoG ³
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For those who would inherit is a message of the simplest kind;
quiet revolution. There are those who say the meek shall inherit the
Earth, I am inclined to agree. And I say that we, the computer users,
the Hackers, the Phreaks, Crashers, and even Pirates, are the meek.
There are none more suited to take the reigns of authority in this age
so quickly spiraling to the tune of silicon opiates. We are the future
as we so often hear from the totalitarian fascists the system has the
nerve to call teacher, from the burnt husks we acknowledge as elders.
They tell us that we hold the keys to a future they would be happy to
enjoy.
What will we then? Will we be any more than educated slaves?
In my eyes there is only one solution to this; a quiet
revolution of more than verbal outcries that will only fall upon deaf
ears anyways.
My solution is this; rise up while you still can. You as a
computer user are beyond suspicion, you are the gems in the eyes of
society. Rise up against the immense bulks of data floating, awaiting
eagerly to be absolutely and irrevocably raped for all their worth.
Take what you can and destroy the res. Leave an unmistakable mark of
impact in the name of change.
As well as electronic havoc, there are other ways to voice your
displeasure with our current diseased society. By way of guerilla
warfare.
Being users meat is usually inconsequential to us who
concentrate mainly on more asthetic and challenging aspects of daily
existance (Meat being muscle, and whatnot). There are those who would
take advantage of this with the sheer force of ignorance and violence.
These are the fools that would rule over us with intimidation and fear,
part of a long chain of supression. We cannot fall victim. If you are
having these sorts of difficulty, then read, learn, and remember these
words. Take no more abuse. Stand up!
Billy Jesus [FoG]
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³ Section 2 ³ FoG Newsletter 1 Intro ³
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The FoG newsletters are tools to use in the fight against
informational supression. The letter contains many sorts of things.
There are anarchy oriented files, retaining to real-world conflict,
physical superiority over your enemy. There are Hacking files, to give
the ignorant the power over the Net that all deserve. There are also
programs to use in your daily struggle (Utilities, Viruses, whatnot)
against those who would hoard the resources that belong to us all.
This first letter is a sort of introduction to FoG, to show you
what we're about, what we stand for, and what we're going to do about
it. Its to allow you to make your decisions, decide what you beleive
in, where you stand.
The letter is also to bring to light problems which the public
does not realize, under their blanket of induced ignorance. To show you
who you really are and what you can do. You can make a difference.
®The Sentinel¯ [FoG] - Together, we can change the world
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³ Section 3 ³ Current News and Events ³
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This is the events of the area that seem to have some importance
or relevance to some people. They may be inconsequential to some, but
not to all. This is what happened in our eyes.
-FoG-
The Fist of God comes into existance, for the purpose of ending
the opression of the weak. A Free Information Society dedicated to the
destruction of the sacred data institutions.
-ICE-
A group whose purpose is to create little files on other
people's personal info and give it to the public. It seems to me that
this group must be comprised of all the people who used to be classroom
whiners and squealers, whose prime source of entertainment is to watch
others hurt because of something they, the squeal, did. Its the lowest
form of insecurity and ego boosting.
-ARJ240-
The file, ARJ240, was a file package created by us that was sent
to Octopode one night while we were mildly intoxicated. By some twist
of fate, it has found its way onto other boards. This is most probably
the work of a user named Benjamin who is in charge of files on that BBS.
The original file (ARJ300) is included in this file package. Benjamin
caught the package because he knows the ARJ company and that the highest
version they were up to was 230, thus it is our suspoicion that he was
the culprit (As the 240 would show that someone knew the current version
well). The ARJ package contained a masked FISH virus. Nothing to
damage with, it was mainly to get past the File Scanner and into other
people's computers, or even infect via the scanning process, so each
scan would either be infected, or the scan would say that there were
viruses in memory.
-Virus Epidemic-
Well, we admit to putting out the viruses that cant be scanned
for, but it was only for our purposes in some areas, Ie, to one bbs or
two, it was from these bbs targets that they got to other boards.
Therefore you can blame us in some ways, but its not us who are directly
responsible for your problems. Besides, what you do with your system,
or what other things do with your system, is not our concern.
-PetroCan Loop-
This is mainly towards all the try-hard elitists who've been
using and spreading the petro-can loop number. Its monitored, and
you're diggin your own grave. You're not untouchable, nor are you cool
for using a public knowledge divertor.
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³ Section 4 ³ Charter of User Rights from Opression ³
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It has recently come to my attention that some system operators
seem to think that they can manipulate and control users as they please.
I will use my example of my recent visit to Octopode.
It was made clear to use that we were to stop swearing and to
start being curteous or we would be devalidated. Our good curteous and
honest friend Benjamin threatened my access there.
I'll make this very clear. Opening your system is like opening
your home. If you let people in, then you cannot tell them what to do,
they came in by their own will, and will leave when they will and do as
they please, unless you can stop them. Its the way the world works. If
someone is going to fuck with my access then I will retaliate with
whatever means nessecary to make them hurt. I will not be the
submissive little sheep and conform to someone else's ideals. I am who
I am, and if you dont like me, or others like me, then you shouldnt have
opened yourself to the real world in the first place.
By that right, I have drawn up the Charter of Rights for the
user. These are YOUR rights, you must beleive in them and fight for
them.
<1> Every user has the right to an account, without neccesity of
payment, on any system which is at all accessable by them (Accessable to
the public in general). If a person chooses to open a system, then they
must allow the people on it, and forcing them to pay is a crime in
itself. This is doubly so if its in the guise of donations (Ie, you
dont need to donate, but you only get 30 seconds per day if you dont).
<2> Every user has the right to access any information which does not
directly affect the personal safety of another. This is data inclusive,
meaning all files must be accessable to all users.
<3> No user can be forced to change for the benefit of the System
Operator. A person is what he is, and you have no right to change that.
You must accept a person for who they are, or you should not encounter
other people at all.
<4> Each user has freedom of speech. You must be allowed to speak your
mind and beleifs. To supress a persons beleifs is the worst crime you
can commit, punishable by any means available. You can say anything you
like. Only the insecure will assert their power over you for this
reason.
These rights are just extentions of basic human rights. If you
do not have these rights and privledges then you are not human.
Therefore it is justified to fight for and to die for these rights and
privledges, for life as a conformist sheep is worse than death as a
free human being.
M”bius Sobriquet
<<NOTE>>
Those who find it in themselves to to breach these
afforementioned rights WILL encounter immeasureable HARDSHIP!
ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ Section 5 ³ Virus Tid-Bits ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
Yes, boys and girls, they've done it again. If you all recall
when PKLITE and LZEXE appeared, there was some commotion about the fact
that these programs, in compressing the files, altered the HEX values
that identified the various viruses. But McAfee, those wily guys in
california, designed their SCAN.EXE to see through both PKLITE and
LZEXE. That put an end to about 2 weeks of rampant fun and games with
previously obsolete viruses. Well, its back....
The relatively new DIET.EXE is another in that genre of
programs. It compresses a file while allowing it to stay executable.
SCAN does not pick up viruses, even those it normally would, when
they're DIETed. This is the reason the FISH virus managed to spread
like it did, in the DIETed file, ARJ300 (Aka ARJ240).
So, as a bonus to our subscribers and avid fans and worshippers,
we have included your very own copy of DIET.EXE and a few already dieted
files (Including the ARJ240 in its original form, for you collectors out
there.) so that you may inflict damage to any non FoG supporting BBS you
may choose.
ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ Section 6 ³ Urban Terrorism ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
- Flamingo Suprise -
As it seems a rule that all assholes have lawn ornaments, here
is a simple way of getting at these individuals.
First, get a piece of copper tubing about the same width as the
hole that the lawn ornament sticks into. Then stick a shotgun shell
down the tubing, with a pebble against the primer and the bottom of the
tube. Then go onto the person's lawn, and rudely remove the flamingo,
or gnome, or whatever, and stick the tube/shell down the hole; and walk
away.
The result : When the individual sees his ornament laying on his
lawn, and forces it back into the hole, he loses a arm or a head.
Suprise..
- BrakeBomb -
First you might if you were so inclined ,find the vehicle of your
choice;note it's color and make. After this point get yourself some
transparent red tape ,6ft of electritions wire a crowbar and a wire stripper.
Go to the vehicle strip the elc wire crack the brake light pop the gas cap
and run the stripped wire (wich you have hopefully spraypainted the color of
the car) connect it to the brake light and then run it into the gastank. After
wich you should tape the broken light casing with red tape and walk away
carefree.
The result ;if all has gone right the next time the owner of the vehicle
steps on the brakes his car with make a nasty crack sound and thereafter blow
straight to hell.
- Living in Fear -
In all of our lives there is that one special person that inspires an age old
emotion in us all;hate.
This individual or group of individuals may be school yard bullies or
perhaps that neighbor will never stop having the loud parties that interrupt
you sleep. Whatever the case may be here is a simple efficient and clean
non-violent way to deal with it. Everyone no matter how loathsome and evil
lives or at least frequents someplace.
Find this place ,hopefully their house or apartment. After thisi point you
must get a camera of types preferably a poloroid. Or, if you have access to a
photolab, developed photos look more professional. <grin>. (black and white
for the most optimal scare). When you do such a thing, it makes great clout to
scare the crap out of someone.. if you know where they live, and make them
think that you have some covert surveillance setup, they're not gonna see you
as a highschool kid, or, a modem "geek", they're gonna see this mysterious
individual behind the camera as a very serious threat to their existance. Next
step: Draw, or print or somehow have crosshairs(targets-like through a rifle
scope)on the guys head, or his arms if you want to come off as a
sadist(heheh). And, basically, it is as easy as mailing them, or taping them
to his door or dropping them in his mailbox. When he comes home from work, or
the bar. He'll find pictures of himself going into his house, with corsshairs
on his head, going into his "safe" abode, like he is now. Except, he won't
feel so safe........
-One Step-
Cheap effective ways to create landmines are a dime a dozen. The
problem being that most homedeals will only remove select parts of your
unfortunate victims. This is a remedy to this problem.
First you should get a hold of two peices of ceramic tile a foot long
and wide ,after wich you must obtain twelve solid or buckshot for a 20
or 12 shotgun shells. As well the shells purchase copper tubing in wich
they might fit ,then slot them in the asighned tubes.
With that complete take one of the ceramic sheets and glue six ball
bearings adjacently to each other on the ceramic. When they have dried
firmly glue the tubes holding the shell with the primer snug to the
bearings .
When these too have set then glue the other sheet of ceramic over the
shells. If done right it should resemble two ceramic sheets held apart
by two columns of roman pillars twelve in all. Now you are set to bury
the mine. Keep in mind it takes very little weight to aggravate the
primers so remain alert at all times.
The desired result if all go's well would be a multiple blast
sufficient to take out a small vehicle and most certainly a person ,or
in cases of buckshot several persons.
ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ Section 7 ³ The Local Scene ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
Our local scene is at best unhealthy. We are plagued by idiotic
pay boards run by power hungry social outcasts. As well as inept sysops
we are ridden with inbred semi sentient users who feel that the modem is
an extension of the social lifes they wish they truly had.
The users are of course inconsequential ,they can at least be
ignored the sysops are a different story altogether. Their are several
systems in the city that deserve nothing more than contemp (and of
course the occasional virus) I won't name them for you because we of FoG
are not in the buissness of distributing opinion. If you can't pick them
out then perhaps you were meant for them.
Althoogh I am sure you can think of several boards that would be
deserving of unwelcome attention ,I know I can.
There is of course a solution to this problem ;education through
fear. If a sysop is being particularly facsist or restrictive in any way
,crash his system ,visit him with immeasurable grief. Perhaps next time
he will consider his actions more carefully.
In our opinion all boards unless offering some truly fantastic
service is not worth paying for; this includes chat. There are ways to
pay for your system aside form taxing the user ie.Advertising. Boards
that persist in this corporate frame of mind deserve the trouble that
will surely come their way.
Also the local scene seems to be very globally unaware ,most make
no attempt to communicate with the outside world. This really is a
shame. Some people have to realize that there is a world beyond local
chat boards. Hacking is as well almost unheard of and most off those who
do venture that way are of the caliber you often read about in the local
papers ,,,,,,,,busted.
FoG beleives fully in freedom of information meaning that in
return for info. we will divulge ours. Also in a grteat many instances
we will simply make our knowledge as we come by it,,,,,freely availible.
We encourage others to the same.
By the end of August we plan to network and become very active
until then we will be sending the odd newsletter and basically enjoying
a lull. Yet we encourage people who are interested in joining our ranks
to drop us a line at the well of souls 270 8504. The board itself is
relativley lethargic currently ,but a few users could change that
,,,access is denied to none provided you are least honest about the
questionaire ,we regret to even place one but for reasons of security it
necessary. The info is only accessible by the sysop of W.O.S. and by no
means would be abused.
-Billy Jesus-
ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ Section 8 ³ Philosophy ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
Free Reign Of Babylon
Over the last few years, our world has been tortured and brought to its
knees. Our world, some call 'CyberSpace', I and I call it the World. In many
ways it is like the _REAL_ World. In frightening ways, it is very much like
the world that can be alternately peered into on the 6 'o-clock news. There
be no dying because dying already happened. Individuals(I and I uses this
term very loosely) appear to be far more content without innovation or
creation. I and I mean You and Me. Mean the common man.
Those others, for there are many of them -- refuse to embrace love, and
new ideas. They, so unhappy with what they have.. break down what others
have, and what others someday may have. And all locations assume the same
faces. Death, is to die.. to die inside possibly even before birth. And
that, children is what is called Babylon. This is only a reflection and
projection of our shatter world. A World in which things can only change.
And for change, it starts here.
(Roots Radical)
"Oh, there is a way out. It's a natural plan, the natural plan. How many
days do we sit around? While they keep on burying our leaders in the ground.
Organize, centralize. It's time for us to fight for our lives. Destroy
Babylon!"
-Bad Brains
ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ Section 9 ³ Spread the Words ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
The only way to overcome our opressors is to beat them at their
propaganda war. Strike back with malicious hate, and calculated
cunning. Their subjugation overcome by education. The more who know,
the more who fight the rule of those who would make us slaves. Even if
a single percent of the people who read this beleive or act on it, then
we will have accomplished our goals.
You can be instrumental in this, by spreading these words to
everyone you can. If you know of a system that does not have this
package, then upload it there. If you know of a person who doesnt have
the files, give them to him/her. If you are reading this and dont have
a computer, then copy and distribute. You can make a difference.
Operators of Bulletin Board Systems, you must decide whether
your system is to be free of the bonds of opression, or whether it will
be assimilated like its predecessors. If you support the upheaval, then
place the letters "FoG" at the upper left hand corner of your title
screen. This will show everyone that you aren't subscribing to the will
of the corporate entity and that you support freedom of the data stream.
In this we would ask that any crashers or simmaler minded
individuals give these boards amnesty from their attention. Note
especialy if you have aqquired your method of destruction through us.
Following this there dependant on the reaction we recieve we
shall publish other news letters. With info on Neo-Trojans ,virus hiding
,uploading ,local accessable systems. And other fun Stuff. Till next
time.
-FoG-
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ATTENTION GROUP MEMBERS:
As you may or may not be aware, a new review/scoring electronic magazine
has come into existence over the past five months. Pirates Analyze Warez
(PAW) published three issues in the latter stages of 1992 and is looking
towards bigger and better things in 1993.
The magazine will be published every second Sunday of 1993 beginning
with January 24th and is designed to review and score each and every
release in the period since the last release. These scores, based upon
aspects of quality, size, completeness, etc, will then be used to rank the
various releasing groups as the Warez Report once attempted but in a more
complete and unbiased manner.
One aspect of the scoring system is to decide with group came first with a
multiple release game (such as Comanche: Maximum Overkill) and, after much
deliberation, we are asking for support from the various groups in this
regard. However, rather than subscribe to the self-centered approach of
requiring releases to appear on a designated board (as the Warez Report did
and as we, admittedly, previously required), we have developed a more
amiable system which should work out to the benefit of all.
Quite simply we ask that a designated member of each and every releasing
group be appointed to track ALL of the official group releases, their
EXACT date/time of release, the boards on which they were first uploaded
and the courier or member that uploaded it. Such a list can then be
forwarded to the PAW WHQ by a designated courier on Saturday if each week.
In the case of a dispute (ie - two groups claiming release), PAW couriers
will be assigned to contact the boards in question and request evidence
(most likely in the form of the usage log) to settle the dispute. If the
logs still do not provide a clear winned, the release will be scored as
a tie.
It is our opinion that this system will allow groups to function pretty
much as they normally would. The compilation of such a list and the periodic
delivery of such will unsure that releases are scored accurately to benefit
both the releasor and our magazine. We ask that the group member assigned
to the task (as small as it is) be reliable and in a high enough position
so as to know what got out when and to try and meet deadlines in submitting
the list to us.
If this system recieves encouraging support, it will provide the pirate
community with an accurate, unbiased ranking of releases complete based on
quality complete with reviews of the releases every two weeks.
Replies to this request can be submitted in the form of a message to the
PAW WHQ, A.T.B. at [416] 527-8852. Simply log on, apply for access and
leave the reply as a file attached to the new user application.
Thank you for your attention.
- Newton P. Forgery
01/20/93
Copies of this request are intended for: DRG
FAIRLIGHT
INC
LOP
PYRADICAL
QUARTEX
RAZOR
SiNiSTER
SKILLION
THG
TDT
TRSI
UNiQ
UNLIMITED
WiLD CARDS
XAP
If any were unknowingly missed, please add and forward.
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iNSOMNiA E-Mag Interface History written by fade/rem
[both the e-mag interface AND the revision notes =)]
iNSOMNiA #1's interface was written in Turbo Pascal 7.0, and unless
it gives me any more trouble, then i'll probably revise it in tp7...
iNSOMNiA #1's features include:
0% ansi.sys-reliant
ansi gallery you can scroll around in...
neato multicolored article viewer
easily recompilable article index (just add articles!)
umm...pretty pictures? =)
those lightbar menus you've probably all come to love.
far, FAR too much nin influence in the code.
- when i needed another throwaway var and i didn't know what to
name it... well... what am i listening to? all right.
for ruiner := 1 to length(hurt) do inc(piggy)....
well, you get the idea.
i sure hope no one is taking this too seriously, because i sure as
hell ain't. =) if anyone says "dude, the coding on your mag sucks!", i'll
snap in reply, "you can read the articles, can't you, fucko?"
er, you >can<, you know. can't you? if you have any problems, let me
know. /msg me, e-mail me (wagner@crl.com), or kmb - network 23 - 4153812137
nup: zikzak...
version 0.01a
article viewer kludged together. doesn't work very well. files
not read or displayed correctly. fuck. =)
version 0.01b
article viewer revised. changed the input routines from scanning for a
CR/LF to stop reading one string to just readlning a string... neat eh?
can now read the sample article i wrote for it, but cannot distinguish
articles in the same file. progress bars and scrolling functions still
don't work. only uses '8' and '2'...and as i said before, scrolling doesn't
work... ain't that a bitch?
version 0.02
finally got around to putting in the "line/total" thingamabobber. it
works, sort of. had to kludge this too, to get it working. depending on
where i want the viewer to stop scrolling on something, gotta change the
scroll procedure as well.
version 0.03
added in a help screen, pageup,pagedown,f1,home,end, and arrow key
support. enter & escape both quit the viewer. unfortunately, there's
not much for it to go back to (haven't done the main menu/filesys).
version 0.05
well, the article viewer can practically stand on its' own. it
determines article length by the first null string in the article, so i
hope no one is going to hit ENTER a lot and not put any spaces in, because
then that will fuck it up. i'll see what i can do about that. for now,
it looks like you'll have to make do with that.
version 0.06
added in the progress bar. wrote it in asm. AAAARRRGH!!!!!
it was tedious, yes. kids, the inside of your computer is a very
dangerous place. don't mess with the BIOS unless you know what you're
doing.
<i didn't, but it's still good advice. =)>
also added in the title/author thing. iNSOMNiA scans the ARTICLE.DAT
file for characters at the beginning of the line, and if it finds them,
it adds the rest of the line into the article database. this allows me
to add articles on the fly. just gimme an article and i'll show you.
dead simple.
also added an "EOA" (end of article) character... groovin'. now the
viewer doesn't fuck with null strings and just scans for that character. if
that char ain't there, then it scans for the next article title... finds that,
then it stops... well... almost. need to tweak that.
version 0.07
well, the viewer pretty much works and it's impossible to crash,
unless you count a successful exit to DOS as a crash. =) which i don't.
made it into a unit and i am now working on the main menu and fsystem.
fsystem shouldn't be too hard, just have to write it. =)
menu should also not be too hard. the worst is over!
version 0.10
filesystem works. kinda. scans the ARTICLE.DAT for article names and
authors (which don't get confused, mangled, shredded, OR truncated... <cough
cough>terbium!<cough>), and adds them to the Glorious People's Article
Index... it's so beautifully simple i could cry, but i won't.
version 0.11
kludged the main menu together. it works. kinda.
of course, the main menu doesn't exactly DO anything at the moment...
filesystem works, but better than kinda. now if i can only get it to
recognize the end of an article... d'ooooooh!
version 0.12
all right, the filesystem finally works the way i want it to. even
added a few test articles and it worked fine. i can increase the max # of
articles any time i damned well please...
starting on the article menu. may not have enough space (using approx
same sized menu window as the main menu, but a bit wider). but it should
work, at least in theory.
art gallery still not done. i'm putting that off as long as possible.
this mag doesn't need an art gallery. it DOES need everything else.
<it's a frill, IMO>
ansi parsing has always been the bane of my existence. =) yes, i am a bit
lazy. =)
version 0.15
had a teeny tiny problem with the viewer unit... it's such a hog that
i had to move all the screens into a separate unit (ANSIS)...
to further conserve memory, i'm drawing the screens myself, that is,
i'm not displaying an article screen and a main menu screen and an art
screen, i'm just displaying the insomnia menu background and drawing a
box and window of the appropriate size.
version 0.16
forgot to set the viewer's buffer (200 lines, max) strings to
string[80]s or so, and that crashed the mag just as i had it integrated.
ain't THAT a bitch?
well, now let's see if it works... <crash!>
version 0.17
widened the article menu to about 70 columns x 10 or 15 or so lines.
much better. me like. not everyone has a name as short as fade/rem.
i just imagined someone like nemesis/renaissance trying to fit his
article name and such on the old menu (tiny!). well, it's not that big a
deal since i'm drawing them with a few routines now...
version 0.20
whoops! don't tell anyone, but i used a goto in the article menu
code... i feel so bad for doing that... haven't used a goto since my BASIC
days. =) i used it in the wrong place, anyway... where the local option
variables are initialized is in the beginning of the loop (duuuuh?) and
the label is in a position that causes it to reset you back to the beginning
of the list instead of where you last read an article. works now.
added color support. #170-#172 or so does it. only for a word or
until it finds another word (meaning, a space). replaced the article
printing loop's "writeln(placeinthearticle)" with my own code. =)
version 0.21
as soon as i get out of this hole (i've been coding since 0.02 on a
laptop... =Q), i am going to definitely start soliciting articles. i have
some scrolling functions in the article selection menu, but i currently
do not have the following working:
BGM <background music =)>
ANSi file support <UNLESS i cheat and save 'em as .PAS in thedraw>
VGA >ANYTHING< <if you've seen my abortive attempts at VGA, you
know why... if someone wants to help, GREAT!!!>
other than that, the mag is theoretically ready to go. it needs a
.DIZ, a k-k00l nfo file, and SOME FUCKING ARTICLES .. =) ...
i'm hoping for an early september/late august release date.
version 0.22
okay, the scrolling in the article menu DOESN'T work. waaaaah....
i'm working on it, though. it's only a matter of time, now. =)
version 0.23
goddamn, that was quick. article scrolling : fixed.
this is probably good enough to pass around to people and show them
that i've been doing something and not just riding my damned bicycle all
the time. =)
i will probably have to revise the filesystem if/when i ever try to
add ansi support. it's a bit beyond me right now... i think i could prob.
code it if i could just THINK IT OUT... i'm getting there, but slowly. =(
version 0.23a
ok, i'm not going to let this thing go until i have the ansi support
at least in a fully-kludged form... right now it's...really ugly. that's
just about the best way i can describe it without having to get really
upset. the code's rather nasty now, but it DOES recognize most of the
more common codes... it even recognizes that <esc>[;XXH thing that obv/2
does... =) ... well, by accident, but it works. i don't have that much to
test it out on, but i think the cursor movement codes are a teeny bit off.
version 0.25
i can't believe it. in just about 90 minutes i managed to clean up
the ansi parser. it works. fully. 'course, now i have to clean up the
filesystem unit and add in the ANSi gallery........ =)
version 0.26
okay, so i got a bit sidetracked.
instead of REALLY putting in the ANSi gallery functions, i tweaked
the article menu. but since i will pretty much be duplicating the article
menu in the art menu (yeah, THAT'S RIGHT. ahhhhh, i cheat so much... =) ),
there's not much point, really.
version 0.27
art gallery function works, as long as you don't fuck with them funky
h codes... =) ... who needs to change video modes for ansis, anyway?!
there is currently only ONE bug with the art gallery... it sort of gets
goofy with the two sample ansis i have there... ugly to look at, but it works
OK. you can still select them... and the error isn't fatal. it's just a
bug... if i don't bother with it, i'll just call it a feature. =)
version 0.28 7.aug.1994
tweaked the viewer again. now tells ye when you're at the end of the
article. also no longer uses a screen clearing function when updating the
screen. the new output procedure fills the line so there's no need for it...
right now the mag works fine, i'm just trying to get rid of as much flicker
as i can... and on a laptop, you see a LOT of flicker (damned LCD display)...
version 0.29 8.aug.1994
well, in my opinion, i probably have enough done so that i can just set
insomnia aside (it's done ENOUGH, at least =) ) and start working on a new
REMVIEW proggy. i have noticed that the file list in REMVIEW is apparently
hard-coded. i am going to apply the knowledge i've accumulated in coding
iNSOMNiA to writing this viewer and perhaps then i'll move on to something
bigger & better... bbs soft? =) <maybe a forum hack... naaaaah...>
this will probably be the final version of insomnia #1 for a while...
all the functions work. =) i will not add in anything unless i code
it myself (no "hmm, i'll just take this VangeliSTracker source...").
we'll see...
version 0.30 12.aug.1994
ok, i'll tweak it a bit more. and i have.
insomnia was reading the raw menu fine, but the raw was about one line
too big... shaved off about five characters from it and it's fine... however,
all of the menu windows are shifted up one line. fixing that right now...
viewer now reads "end/end" when you reach the last line of the article and
when you try to scroll down afterwards, as well.
changed the closing screen. will add the hella k-phunky phresh insomnia
logo i drew for it after i get home & can color it... <i leave tomorry>
also fiddled with the menus a bit, not just the locations of them... =)
fixed the bug in which the "introduction" article (the first one) appears
in the article viewing menu. it now skips over it completely, so you have to
go back and go to introduction if you wanna read it.
there's also a little bug when you hit pagedown in the article viewer...
it tends to...er...quit.
version 0.31 12.aug.1994 2:08p
pagedown still tends to quit (it's not THAT MUCH like "enter" is it? =) ).
menus are now drawn correctly. flicker is all but eliminated. wheeee!
changed ansi parser a bit - it was incorrectly reading <esc>[?7h codes
as <esc>[? and then printing 7h on the screen... baaad. however, 'tis now
fixed and if i actually gave a shit about the ?7h code i would write the code
necessary to parse it...... =) after all, who wants to switch screen
modes?
there are only two insomnia bugs at this point, and they've been around
for so long i'm about to call them features... there's the pagedown bug and
the ansi menu, which is violently fucked up when you hit "up" at the first
choice... other than that, it works fiiiiiiiiine.... =) probably needs more
bound-checking...
version 0.32 12.aug.1994 2:12p
er... nevermind. fixed the ansi gallery bug. it MAY reappear in a new,
monstrous form when i put in the other ansis... but... oh well. i'll fix
that when i get to it...
version 0.35 7.sep.1994
escape bug fixed. it now works. i hated it when people said "d00d your
mag is fucked, it doesn't quit with escape." well, hey, i was on vacation and
the laptop's keyboard had an escape key that was so far out of the way that i
forgot an escape key existed. =)
the pageup/pagedown bug is still there. gotta work on that one.
version 0.36 10.sep.1994
with the help of some source someone posted on impact net, i've finally
figured out dac fading... which was eluding me for quite some time ("can you
help us? we look for things, to make the screen get dark." =) ) ... so now
that it works, i am happy and won't feel so bad about releasing the mag. =)
people continue to drag their asses when it comes to articles. dorks. =)
hehe...
just downloaded MIDAS but i haven't read the docs yet. but gosh, i'm so
confident... i've already asked a few composers to write some tunes for
insomnia. they will be packaged outside of the executable becase, hey, why
make work for the mod rippers? it's so much more not-satisfying this way. >=)
version 0.37 11.sep.1994 16:15
fading routines are finding their way into most of the rest of insomnia.
they actually work and don't fuck up, now. =)
update on sound support/MIDAS:
working with a temporary module <Krystall/KLF's Space Track S3M>, i have
actually gotten the fucker working very well. ends rather abruptly when you
quit the mag, but other than that, no problems.
insomnia now turns off the cursor when you run it and restores it when
you quit the mag. looks a lot better now. =)
version 0.38 12.sep.1994 22:01
all right, i lied. the cursor doesn't come back on. boo FUCKING hoo.
i can fix it, though. i'll fix it in the next version. right now, i want
to release this as the next pre-release. <hopefully the final pre-release. =)>
send comments, etc., to wagner@crl.com or /msg me on irc... i, surprisingly
enough, go by the handle Fade. =)
changes for the pre-release version:
music support has been removed, ONLY FOR THE PRE-RELEASE. i have it all
set up, but since i want to keep the size of the zip real tiny, i just removed
the init routines... and since they set a music flag, it performs silently so
well you'd swear it never had any music support at all. hmm ... =) trust me,
it's not a hoax...
i'm waiting for them damned musicians to start sending me those
extremely-elite muzax...
and i also need a music selection screen, mofos! =) don't make me draw
another one! =) i coded the fucking mag, ain't that enough for ya? hehe...
version 0.40 23.oct.1994 18:21
well, it's been a while, and i think i've left out a bit of revisions here.
so let me just get to the point... i have been seriously tweaking the mag.
for starters, hadji gets brownie points for being the first musician to
give me a mod. and then he gave me another one. =) "what," sayeth he,
"you're actually going to use that?!" ... well, yeah. why not? it's nice.
cosmetic change! normally, this wouldn't happen until the mag was
actually seriously released. but i'll make an exception. =) thanks to
halaster[fire, as of this writing =) ], i have a k-spammy main menu screen.
and i'm using it, too. since this will require a rewrite of the screens
unit, i'm rewriting the screens unit. arrgh. while i'm at it, why doesn't
someone draw me a message header so i can rewrite THE ENTIRE FUCKING VIEWER
while i'm at it?! =) seriously, though, if you draw an ereet header, i'll
take it, as long as i don't have to totally rewrite half the viewer (i.e.,
someone gives me a header longer than 4-5 lines with no space for the article
info). =) i'm going to switch to another one soon, i think. that i drew. so
it sucks. =)
also, i will be relocating the previous main/article/gallery menu ansi
to the music selection screen. neat, eh?
version 0.41 29.oct.1994 17:09 [spring forward, fall backwards...]
well, pretty much replaced the casper menu with hal's...however, the mag
has the annoying habit of clearing the screen after returning to the main
menu. it's only a matter of time before i track it down.
am thinking about adding a reviews and interviews section or something.
dunno if i need it right now, though. i'd have to spawn a few more copies
of the filesystem or otherwise tweak it. maybe it's not worth it. =)
version 0.42 29.oct.1994 17:23 [fnord!]
ah, it is such a wonderful thing to squish all the bugs into tiny little
splotches. if you were to look at insomnia at around 0.20, you might think
it's a different mag by now. =) heheh...well, gee, if things were on time,
i'd be releasing #2 by now. but at least the mag looks like a #2, even tho
it's a #1.
still waiting on a few more articles, and also Nemesis's tune for the mag,
if he is in fact doing one. i don't really want to get pushy about it
because i'm sure he's got better things to do anyway. =) but it's time to
crack the whip...if i could FIND HIM... =) now what was the name of that mud
he frequents.......
version 0.45 27.nov.1994 1:30
got the spontaneous quitting bug. the keypad keys send out two signals -
one is a 0 value and the second is a value from 0-255, as normal. but pagedown
sends the same value as the 'Q' key, hence it quit all the time.
oopsie. it's fixed.
also have a weird new fader in, using it here and there... =)
hal turned in his article. yay.
version 0.46 29.nov.1994 20:46
rewriting input routines to make things easier. except, of course, it's
turning out to be harder. dagnabbit! the article and main menus work a lot
better now, since they handle pageup/pagedown/home/end as well as up/down,
as well as q/Q/esc/Enter. might add F1 support if it seems necessary, but i
doubt it.
i might add Save to File support, maybe. dunno.
version 0.50 30.nov.1994 23:27 halfway point? =)
that music selection screen still irritates me. it's not pretty. =(
other than that, the mag's pretty much ready to go. i'll send it to mage
and he can take care of the rest, i suppose. the universal input processor's
in... it uses two routines, one for handling lightbar input and moving the bar
as it deems appropriate, and the other for scrolling lightbar stuff (scrolling
article selection menus, etc.). i have made this expandable in case it
becomes necessary to separate the "articles" section into "articles,"
"reviews," "interviews," whatever.
discounting the chance of getting a few fonts or getting a music selection
screen, this will probably be the second-to-the-last revision of insomnia for
a while. i might try to beautify the music selection screen, anything to make
it a bit less disgusting than it looks right now. =)
version 0.51 4.dec.1994 15:48
i lied. =)
first of all, i fucked up on the ansi gallery menu and forgot to add a few
things. like responding to the "ENTER" key. oopsie.
got a couple more articles. huzzah! rewrote the ansi displayer to include
scrollback and other k-spammy shit. might try a few other things. like
including reviews of the ansi or artist's comments which will appear in a popup
window. =) i dunno.
version 0.60 19.dec.1994 19:43
ansi viewer routines work pretty well. smooth-scrolling routines are
there but buggy, so i'm disabling them for the final magazine release and i'll
work on them for ish 2. perhaps i'll toy with vga after i'm satisfied with
the ansi interface...
rewrote the progress bar indicator as well. it's now a bit more accurate
in its portrayal of one's position in the article...
this will most likely be the final version before the release of insomnia
issue#1. i hope so at least. =)
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IN A FREE LAND #1
(formerly ALL? NO! ALL!!/ANA)
An Experiment in Free Speech Gone Horribly Right
10/3/93 - 12/13/93
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Distribution:
This E-zine and all information within is (c) 1993 Rageboy
Publications, unless otherwise stated. Feel free to quote
portions, but please give credit where credit is due.
This E-zine can be found as IAFL.00x (x being the issue number).
If this file arrives at your domain by any other name, someone
fucked with that file bigtime.
*** IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER! ***
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The editors of and contributors to IN A FREE LAND will NOT be held
responsible for any misuse of the information within any issue of this
E-zine. All articles are intended for an INFORMATIONAL or HUMOROUS
purpose solely.
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Staff of I.A.F.L:
Matt Shaw - chief editor/contributor
Netrunner - asst. editor/contributor
Neuromancer - Indianapolis correspondant
Contributors:
Q-Man - "Milo Aukerman's Corner"
Jeff Hell - various
-----------------
Table of Contents
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1.01 .......... Welcome To Our Show/Editorial (MS)
1.02 .......... Uncle Frank's Neighborhood (JH)
1.03 .......... Slam List (Everyone)
1.04 .......... White Punks on Punk - Music and Video releases (compiled by MS)
1.05 .......... Fuck School (JH)
1.06 .......... Clinton and The Music Underground (JH/MS)
1.07 .......... Cooking With Joe (A Review) (MS)
1.08 .......... The Day Punk Rock Came To Parnellville: Part I of a
Series (MS)
1.09 .......... A Short List Of Things That Are Wrong With The World (JH)
1.10 .......... The Wit and Wisdom of My Cat (MS)
1.11 .......... Waiting For The Phone To Ring (MS)
1.12 .......... The Library (MS)
1.13 .......... Milo Aukerman's Corner (Q-Man)
1.14 .......... Why You Should Never Join A Cult (Or Call the Home Shopping
Network) (JH)
1.15 .......... Why? (MS)
1.16 .......... Piss Off/Well, G'Night, Everybody! (MS)
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1.01 Welcome To Our Show/Editorial
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Hi, everybody. Welcome to the 1st issue of IN A FREE LAND,
formerly called ALL? NO! ALL!!, or ANA for abbreviation purposes.
The name change came about when I heard of a fascist newsletter
that used the "ANA" name. Seeking both to make a statement about
my displeasure about such things, as well to find a new, cool name
for the mag, I picked the title of one of my favorite Husker
songs. Well, aside from that, I should probably get to work
talking about things that have no relation to the rest of the
issue:
When I was in high school (no, I'm not ranting about that again,
that's Jeff's job this issue), there was this guy who was an
artist and who everybody thought was cool, etc. Why did everyone
think Artboy was cool? Because he drove a BMW and his grandmother
had shitloads of $$, that's why. He made it a point to ignore
people he believed were "lower" than him, and then had the sheer
balls to lie and say he treated everyone equally. I just tried to
get along with everybody, which I did, for the most part.
My point of dredging all this shit up is to say that if you're
like Artboy was/is, you might as well go put a gun to your head
and pull the trigger, because you'll never be a productive member
of our society. If you can't get along with people outside your
little clique, you're useless to me and to any employer who's
offering a steady job of any worth.
That's today's lesson, kids, thrive on it. Go out and insult an
ego maniac today! (I suggest starting with Paul Westerberg.)
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1.02 Frank Black's Neighborhood
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"Hey, kids!"
"HEY, UNCLE FRANK!"
"Today, I have a special treat for you, kids! I'm going to sing a
song from my album!"
"ECH.."
<Frank extends his middle finger at the kids, then starts playing
"I Heard Ramona Sing">
"Not so fast, Black!" <Kim Deal steps out of the wings, Frank
collapses like a sack of bricks to the floor, but the music keeps
playing. Hmm..>
"Ah-hah! Now I finally have you right where I want you.. on the
verge of DEATH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" <The other 3
Breeders step out of nowhere and tie Frank up, the scene changes
to:>
<A Studio: The studio is empty, except for Frank hanging upside
down from the ceiling>
"Ah, shit."
<Meanwhile, back on the show, Kim Deal is lecturing the kids>
"Anyway.. I feel bad for the hip-hop thing that 'Cannonball' has,
because we're stealing that aspect of black culture from its
originators."
<The kids are asleep! The Breeders have done away with Frank
Black! Can anything be done?>
<No, I guess not. I guess this bullshit ends here, too..>
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1.03 Slam List
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Scorn, hate, spit upon, curse. These things, that is:
* Teenybopper BBSes run by 13-16 year olds who think they're hot
shit (in our area, at least)
* My old high school
* church
* The recent morality attack America has suffered (import porn is
the way to go..)
* Paul Westerberg
* Top 40 Radio
* Whoever the dumbass was who claimed that Kurt Cobain was on the
same level as Darby Crash
* Frank Black
* The 90's, because it already looks like this decade is going to
fellate donkeys
* Anyone who calls the '90s "The Grunge Generation" because there's
too goddamn many people who want no part of being called that
* Major labels, because they're fucking killing the industry
* Neanderthal men who had nightmares that they were playing the
Brad Pitt role in "Thelma And Louise"
* Madonna, because she's pretty much showed all she can show and it
ain't getting any better
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1.04 White Punks On Punk
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We reserve the right to review things old AND new. New to us, in
our minds = new to you, as well.
Music:
_Strong Reaction_ - Pegboy (MS)
--------------------------
All I knew when I got this was that there was an ex-Naked Raygun
guitarist in this band. I found out, after listening to it, that
it's a hell of a great album. The title track, which kicks it
off, has an awesome mix that basically makes it all very very
LOUD. (Nods to Iain Burgess.) "Strong Reaction" and "Field Of
Darkness" were my favorite tracks from this one, mainly because of
their somewhat traditional 'core sound. "Field of Darkness" was
slightly different.. kind of like the Clash meets Big Black and
manages to make the song sound mostly like them. (Does that make
ANY fucking sense?)
Advice: Play it LOUD, as all good hardcore is meant to be
played.
(The CD also contains the _Three Chord Monte_ EP.)
- 1/4 Stick Records/Touch-N-Go
_Last Splash_ - The Breeders (MS)
----------------------------
I could spend the entire review raving about how beautiful the
Deal sisters are. I could easily do that, but what would be the
point of this being an album review rather than a text version of
toned-down locker room conversation? So, here goes..
The sound of the album is a lot more refined than the stark,
basic sound that greeted _Pod_'s listeners in 1990, yet manages
to add an all-around "hey-we're-in-the-studio-let's-party"
atmosphere, evidenced by the (overplayed) single/video
"Cannonball". (I really didn't notice the "hey now" during the
"in the shade" part, is what's sad.)
Seems like the group's tighter now than on _Pod_, since Tanya
Donnelly left to go form Belly and Shannon Doughton left
(presumably to go back to Slint.. hell, I dunno). Doughton was
replaced by Jim MacPherson, nicked from a Dayton band by Kim Deal,
and Tanya was replaced by Kelley Deal, who (as if this hasn't been
overstated by many a shocked MTV/Rolling Stone pawn) had no
idea how to play guitar when she joined for the _Safari_ EP (which
is out of print last I checked and which I keep forgetting to buy
when I'm in Indy).
In my own personal opinion, this is a hell of an album. Don't
let the fact that Kurt Cobain likes the band sour you on them,
if you're not a big fan of Nirvana (or Kurt himself, for that
matter.)
- 4AD/Elektra
_Red_ - King Crimson (MS)
--------------------
Okay, so I'm about 19 years late in reviewing this one. I just
discovered this group two months ago, give me a break.
Anyway. King Crimson went through about five lineup changes
(give or take) before they reached the _Red_ lineup, that of Robert
Fripp (guitar), John Wetton (bass, vocals), and Bill Bruford
(drums, percussion). This incarnation is, and always will be, my
personal favorite. Only the early '80's version comes close, but
only because I think Adrian Belew is cool.
The title track is the album's opener, a complex
progressive/metal instrumental in some weird guitar tuning that no
one I know can figure out. But, IMO, the best track on the album
is "One More Red Nightmare", with occasionally indecipherable
lyrics, and some interesting percussion.
In summary, if you can find it, get your hands on it and don't
ever let go. Something else that's fun to do is try to find
Fripp's pre-Crimson album, _The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles,
and Fripp_, and listen to it, then listen to _Red_. Those who
have heard both will understand the humor of my suggestion.
- EG Records (orig. Atlantic)
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1.05 Fuck School
--------------------
There comes a time in the life of every student when they must
say, "Fuck school!" Perhaps such an event is a direct result of
being taunted beyond human endurance, as in the case of Rodney
Flarg, from Backwoods, IN:
"One day, as I was walking to class, this group of jocks ganged up
on me and forced me to worship their stinky shoes. So I decided
I'd had enough, and jumped the leader and beat the crap out of
him.. I can say 'crap', can't I? And the school suspended ME, for
fighting. So, I had to say.. 'F--.. er, SCREW school!"
Uh, yeah, Rodney.. cut down on the caffeine pills. In another
case, that of Monkey-Face (a pseudonym; real name withheld by
demand), also of Backwoods, grades can be a real problem:
"Me no smart. Me no get good grades. Me eat schoolbooks; only
Home Ec book taste good. Wonder why."
Down, Mongo.
Our final example is that of Joe, of that famous Backwoods TV
program, "Cooking With Joe", who succinctly summarizes his point:
"Getting up every day and dragging your ass to school is a real
fucking drag."
We hope that these examples have given you the courage to simply
stand up and say, "FUCK SCHOOL!"
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1.06 Clinton and the Music Underground
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By 1996, by our prediction, the only music allowed to be played in
the United States will be saxophone music, reflecting His
Cluelessness's affinity for the somewhat phallic instrument. In
some circles, it is said that playing the sax is the only thing
Clinton can do without his wife or a friendly Cabinet member
pulling his strings, but this is far from relevant to the current
point.
By such a decree, major corporate machines will be put to pasture,
and only the independent labels will survive.. albeit illegally.
Imagine this: a world in which you have to go to an "album
pusher" to get the newest Bad Religion or Spooners album. If this
thought in itself is not frightening enough, consider the decreed
punishment for only BUYING the music: locked in a room in the
White House and being forced to listen to Bill's saxophone
playing, fully coherently, 24 hours a day. Such a torture would
quickly make a sane man into a babbling, mindless fool.
Frightened? Scared? Guilty because you voted for him? One way
to repair it now: Impeach the fucker. Say it loud and proud (but
without a gun in your hand, because then they'll have an excuse to
arrest you): IMPEACH THE FUCKER.
Thank you, and good remainder of term.
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1.07 Cooking With Joe (A Review)
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Well, this popular Backwoods cooking show sure brings out the
usual sense of watching two guys fuck around in a kitchen, making
a mess, and being entirely too camera-conscious. This, of course,
is the show's appeal. Joe and Bill's apparent fear of the camera
make for some wild moments, as their notably halted motions cause
all kinds of trouble for the stalwart pair.
Joe and Bill seem to spend every week's show trying to make toast.
When, at the end, the finished product is brought out, it's
declared either too light or too burned to be proper toast.
Occasionally, there will be the perfect toast, but Joe will move
haltedly toward Bill, grab the toast out of his hand, and take a
huge bite out of it, and smile at the camera, shakily.
Why simply toast? We may never know. Why never right? Joe and
Bill are a dying breed; Joe and Bill are culinary perfectionists.
No wonder Joe takes such a bite out of the "right" toast on the
rare occasions it is made.. he has earned it. For that matter, so
has Bill, who restrains himself. May this country one day
recognize the value of these two men, and may it repay them for
their toasty contributions!
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1.08 The Day Punk Rock Came to Parnellville (Part I of a Series)
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(fiction by Matt Shaw)
My cousin Tony had always been a rather unassuming type. In
school, he never got called on; seemed like the teachers just kind
of forgot he was there. So did the students, fortunately for
Tony. If the tougher types had realized the existence of a human
such as Tony, they would have instantly fell upon him like a pack
of really stupid lions.
At home, he had to remind his parents of the fact that he lived
there. I remember one Thanksgiving that Aunt Vicky looked at
Tony, her own son, and said, "Excuse me, are you lost?" I had had
to remind Aunt Vicky that time. Usually, Tony was able to
convince them well enough, and usually, Uncle Tim would accuse
Aunt Vicky of fooling around with the milkman, because, as he
would say, "the kid sure ain't mine!" Uncle Tim usually had a
bottle of Corona in each hand when he began these rants.
Finally, after about 16 years of being nearly invisible, Tony
couldn't contain himself any longer, and exploded one night.
"Look, you stupid hicks," he yelled at Aunt Vicky and Uncle Tim,
"I refuse to be invisible any more. I'm going to do something,
and it's going to be soon. Something that will make sure no one
will EVER forget me again." And he stormed out of the house.
Uncle Tim looked at Aunt Vicky, and said, "Who the hell was that?"
Aunt Vicky looked up and said, "Who, dear?" Uncle Tim just shook
his head.
Somewhere, right now, in some collector's glass case, there sits a
Fender Jaguar, one of the world's.. weirdest guitars. I hear that
the annoying guy from that Nirvana band plays one now, or
something to that effect. Anyway, years ago, Tony went to buy
himself a guitar, and brought one home.. the Jaguar. With a cheap
$20 amp that kept going out until he replaced a fuse, he annoyed
his parents and siblings with his practices. "Noise," declared
Uncle Tim, darkly. "Noise, endless noise."
If the noise from Tony alone drove Uncle Tim up the wall, his next
step must have nearly driven them insane. Tony formed a band,
with two of his friends, who played their first gig outside Uncle
Tim's barn.
General alarm and consternation was our reaction.
One killer hot day in August, Tony, Billy Barris, and Tommy Joe
Davis plunked down a drum set, two amps, and a microphone stand
outside the rundown old barn. It took awhile to set up (they had
to get extension cords - Billy had been in charge of getting them,
and Billy wasn't precisely the brightest light on the Christmas
tree), but around noon, they began to play, and Parnellville
changed forever.
Punk rock had come to Parnellville.
The next day, in the Parnellville Cafe, Buford T. Jefferson said,
"I asked the Barris boy what they were doing - he said, 'We're
jamming econo!'" We heard this and shivered at the use of this
sinister-sounding phrase.
This punk thing had to be stopped, everyone said. This was a
small Alabama town, and punk rock was not meant to invade God's
country, everyone said. Yet there was, as there always is, a
faction that disagreed with this thinking. Tony's group (called
the Fairy Godfathers) had gained popularity with the teens in
Parnellville. Sally Williams had a kid a while after the
Godfathers' first appearance at Parnellville High School, and
named the child Tony. The significance was obvious; the child had
been conceived at that legendary first PHS show. Tony (my cousin)
had been asked to be the child's godfather, and he readily
accepted.
The town's ultimate authority caught wind of all this, about a
year after it had started, and he left his office for the first
time since the previous election. This authority was Rufus J.
Parnell III, town Mayor and direct descendant of Rufus J. Parnell
I, who founded Parnellville a century before. His official
statement was "No more punk rock." His off-the-record statement
was "Get that shit out of my town!" according to Mary Lou Bagley,
who was Parnell's secretary.
As a result of this statement, punk rock and any references to it
were outlawed in Parnellville. Anyone mentioning the Fairy
Godfathers were to be arrested, and the Godfathers themselves were
barred from playing any more shows. Tony's past anonymity was
gone forever, and there were days that Tony wished he'd never left
the cover of his invisibility.
Yet after three months of being outlawed, Tony, Billy, and Tommy
Joe remembered the core of the punk rock ethic, that being
rebellion, and began to play shows again -- underground. Quite
literally underground; most of the shows were in friend's
basements, while their parents were gone.
The Godfathers' fans devised a new way to express their devotion
to their band of choice: the fan would cough sharply, three times
in a row, when they felt like letting the world know that the
Fairy Godfathers were still alive and well in the Hooper family
basement.
Soon, however, the Godfathers' resentment of Parnell's decree went
outside of the boundaries of the literal underground. Tony's band
made their last stand outside Uncle Tim's barn, in an ironic
reference to their first show; Tony and the rest of the teenage
populace of Parnellville pretty much knew that this would be their
last show.
Of course, the police department and town hall caught wind of the
show about 10 minutes after it started, and Mayor Parnell rode
down to Uncle Tim and Aunt Vicky's house in Patrolman Buck's car.
Once there, the Godfathers' renowned "wall of sound" nearly
deafened both the Mayor and the patrolman, as well as the other
police officers that had accompanied the Mayor on his mission.
Somehow, though, the Mayor and his blue-clad entourage made their
way up to the stage, where two patrolmen unplugged the six-bar
from the extension cord, leaving only Billy bashing away at the
drums until he realized he could no longer hear Tommy Joe's
thudding bass lines or Tony's relentless guitar and vocal
screeching.
Once Billy stopped, the Mayor spoke up. "By the power vested in
me by the last election, I'm placing you under arrest for
violating the Anti-Punk Law of Parnellville. Buck, take them
away." As the cuffs went on, first on Tony, and then on the other
two Godfathers, the crowd dispersed, with occasional screams of
"Fascist pigs!" and "We're behind you all the way, Tony!"
The Godfathers' equipment was confiscated by Parnellville police,
and each member spent 60 days in the town jail, located within the
scenic police HQ. Once released, the trio left for another town,
to buy newer, better equipment, and were never heard from again,
in Parnellville at least.
One day, however, young Tony Williams, who kept his mother's last
name, claimed that the previous night, he had heard a station come
in from Birmingham, playing a punk song, which had a very familiar
"wall of sound" effect to it, as well as a very familiar screaming
voice hollering the lyrics. He didn't catch their name, but he's
sure that somewhere, somehow, the Fairy Godfathers still exist.
As for me? Some days, I get to remembering. And when the
nostalgia strikes me, all I have to do is cough sharply, three
times in a row, and it's like I'm living back in those days,
when Tony was larger than life, and I was Sally Williams'
boyfriend. Other days, I don't need to get nostalgic; I look at
my son, the son Sally and I conceived while Billy Barris bashed
his drums, Tommy Joe plodded along on bass, and my cousin Tony, my
best friend, made himself unforgettable at Parnellville High. I
look at my son, and I remember.
Copyright (C) by Matt Shaw
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1.09 A Short List Of Things That Are Wrong With The World
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Everything but a few things.
Almost everything.
Not quite everything.
Wayne Newton.
Paul Westerberg.
Nirvana.
Articles that nearly duplicate the Slam List just for a cheap
joke.
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1.10 The Wit and Wisdom of My Cat
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I find that, looking back, my cat has always been one of the
greatest philosophers of our time. I remember sitting one day in my
kitchen, staring dejectedly at a picture of an ex-girlfriend, when
Arch would come up to me, rub against my leg, and purr loudly.
When I looked down to see what he wanted, he would look up at me
and say, simply:
"Meow."
And I would be consoled, for Arch was well-used to loss, himself.
Arch lost his mother when he was 7. Although for a cat, this is
advanced age, he was still despondent. (His mother, Kit, was
about 9 or 10, so it was kind of natural, I suppose.) Even in the
depths of his own mire of depression, Arch would still influence
my life's decisions. When I was choosing what college to go to, I
had narrowed it down to two choices, and I asked Arch what he
thought, and he replied:
"Meow."
Arch's response immediately illuminated some darkened corridor in
my mind, and I made my decision, knowing that the beneficial
wisdom of my cat, Arch, had guided me to make the right choice. I
would later credit all my scholarly success to Arch's guidance,
and would regret that he didn't get more recognition as a result
of my support.
Another situation in which Arch proved to be helpful was when I
fell on my ass one day, trying to run across a freshly waxed floor
wearing socks, rather than shoes. As I attempted to regain my
previous position of being upright, Arch's wit reached my ears
from the opposite end of the room:
"Meow."
After Arch gave me his opinion, he turned and walked away,
possibly in search of some Kit and Kaboodle. I felt that I was a
better human being for hearing Arch's say on the subject, and I
felt less foolish and resolved to never run across a freshly waxed
floor again, unless I was wearing cleats.
Daily I give thanks to whatever powers may govern our affairs, for
giving me this furry philosopher whose knowledge and experience
offers such a wide range of things to learn. So, I will take my
leave, leaving behind some of Arch's wisdom for you. I'm not as
good as he is at being a philosopher, but I hope that you'll at
least get my point:
"Meow."
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1.11 Waiting For The Phone To Ring
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Some nights I sit, entranced by the words and phrases, and
eventually, sentences and paragraphs that form upon my screen, and
realize it's all just a diversion to keep me from waiting for the
phone to ring. Then, I stop, and simply wait for the phone to
ring, thinking, "Hey, this could be Net, this could be one of the
Kids in the Hall, or maybe it's God Himself."
But then I wonder, why would God call me? I mean, He can just
connect with me telepathically, or something, right? And Net's
not even here, anymore. And the Kids in the Hall? They're in
Canada. Why would they call here? Eh?
Oh, I don't know. But one day, the phone may ring. Just maybe.
And maybe it'll be one of those people. Just maybe.
(I know this article made no sense. Nod your head and smile, and
go onward..)
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1.12 The Library
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Too many teenagers today, driven insane by the lack of any place
to go to hang out, end up going on shooting sprees and destroying
half of their town. I think there's something we can all do about
this: extend the library's hours to about midnight, and invite all
the kids in from the city and surrounding towns. Think about it:
the library becomes the city's cool new hangout, boosting reading
levels citywide.
But, then, the other downtown buildings will want to compete. The
banks will start offering their waiting areas to the kids; that
barber shop on the corner will be chock full of teenagers making
fun of their friends, who are getting their hair cut; the music
stores will let everyone come in and have a big ol' jam; and the
bookstores will start selling more import porn, and put down
chairs all over the store for everyone to sit in.
Then the competition would extend outside of the downtown area,
and the places the teens once frequented will be deserted.
Noticing their flagging business, they will start a huge
advertising campaign to get the kids back in, which would probably
succeed. Then it would be downtown v. Wendy's until the end of
our society.
Just think, man. We could start a revolution and no one would
care.. too busy running from the library to McDonald's and back.
But what would we revolt about? I say that we revolt to build a
new KFC. But that's just my opinion.
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1.13 Milo Aukerman's Corner
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Dear IN A FREE LAND Readers,
Nice name change, Matt, you asshole. [Thanks. - ed.]
Living in Backwoods, IN, this week, staying at Miss Ellie's
Boarding House. Thanks to Miss Ellie for making me feel at home.
Next week, I'm leaving for Asia. Not the band, the continent.
Backwoods isn't too bad of a place, if you ignore that bullshit
about the guy that drank all those beers in one sitting. He's
like a legend around here, or something, but he just looks drunk
to me. Some of the racier stories say that he pisses like a
racehorse. Hell, if I'd had fifty-something beers in one sitting,
I'd be pissing until the Judgment Day, so I can't blame him.
Bought ALL's _Breaking Things_, and got slightly pissed off at
Bill and everybody all over again for getting a new vocalist.
But I can't complain.. I sing backing vocals on a song or two. I
still think they should have kept Scott Reynolds [No kidding. -
ed.].
There's no DQ out here, so I had to miss seeing any more action
like what I did in Westfield.
Actually, it's fucking boring in Backwoods. How the hell can
these people stand to live here? I'll have a more exciting letter
next issue, guaranteed.
Later!
Milo
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1.14 Why You Should Never Join a Cult
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1. Chanting non-stop will give you a sore throat.
2. Those damn dues that they make you pay (Swaggart/Tipton cults
only).
3. It's no picnic (for you, at least) getting out if you get bored.
4. Unexplained loss of pets will break the kids' hearts.
5. Unexplained loss of kids will break your spouse's heart.
6. They force you to make lists like these. [Thanks, Jeff. - ed.]
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1.15 Why?
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Every issue has it's "Why?" section. Every issue will. This
issue's question is:
Q: Why do people think grunge is punk?
A: (Matt Shaw) Grunge has some of the attitude of hardcore/punk,
but is more commercialized. When's the last time you saw Jello
Biafra advocating major labels? Artist-owned is the way to go.
Before anyone can shove Sub-Pop down my throat, most grunge
acts have gone to major labels, leaving Sub-Pop a well-known
independent with nearly the level of popularity as SST/Cruz,
supporting more and more non-grunge acts.
The major problem with grunge is that it's treated more like
fashion than like music. Top 40 stations are playing grunge;
in fact, the first time I heard Nirvana was when I was being
forced to listen to a local Top 40 station. Top 40 stations
would be offended by and scared of real HC/punk. I like Pearl
Jam's music, but I'm not a voracious fan, and it's kind of a
pity that all these high school kids who play football and
don't know what the fuck alienation is like pick up a Pearl Jam
album, listen to the songs, and actually think they can relate
to Eddie Vedder's lyrics. All I'm saying is leave the music of
punk/hardcore/alternative where it should be: off MTV and Top
40 stations. Give alt rock back to the real alternative; give
it back to the underground.
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1.16 Piss Off/Well, G'Night, Everybody!
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We've reached the end of our sojourn into Backwoods underground
culture. Go and spread the word of our gospel; tell all you meet
on the Net about reading (and living) IN A FREE LAND.
This one's been a blast!
- Matt
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IN A FREE LAND #2
01/25/94
An Experiment in Free Speech Gone Horribly Right
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Staff of I.A.F.L.:
Matt Shaw - chief editor/contributor
Netrunner - asst. editor/contributor
Jeff Hell - contributor
Q-Man - contributor
Sonic Bellboy - contributor
Means of Contact:
Matt Shaw <jim_gould@billteds.com>
Sending constructive mail (critiques, praise, differences of opinion) to
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Table of Contents
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2.01 .......... Welcome to Our Show/Editorial/Oops! (MS)
2.02 .......... The Mystery of Barney Rubble (MS)
2.03 .......... doc martens, the mafia, and paul westerberg (SB)
2.04 .......... "Race Traitor" (MS)
2.05 .......... racism is pointless. (SB)
2.06 .......... True Stories of High School Hell #1 (MS)
2.07 .......... Ethics Quiz (JH)
2.08 .......... White Punks On Punk (Reviews) (edited by MS)
2.09 .......... Music Quiz For The Mentally Departed (SB)
2.10 .......... Dating In The 90's (MS)
2.11 .......... Mini-Slam List (everyone)
2.12 .......... damn junies (SB)
2.13 .......... Why? (MS)
2.14 .......... An Apology (MS)
2.15 .......... The Sonic Bellboy's canadian connexun (SB)
2.16 .......... Well, G'Night, Everybody! (MS)
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2.01 Welcome To Our Show/Editorial/Oops!
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Welcome back, my friends, to the 'zine that never ends. I'm your
editor for this (and probably EVERY) issue, Matt Shaw, and I'd
like to take this opportunity to fill you in on a new
development:
We've a new contributor! IAFL recently welcomed the Sonic Bellboy to
our staff. The Sonic One's contributions to our representation of
hardcore/punk/non-conformism (i.e., people who just say "fuck you")
begin this issue.
Anyway.. before I get to the part where I express my opinion on a
chosen topic.. there was a version of IAFL #1 released in which
the articles were listed as being "3.01" and such.. that has been
corrected.
The New Year.. 1994. So far, no different than any other year.
I lived through New Year's Eve, no problem. I didn't go out. Why
the fuck should I go out, when the only parties I knew of were
thrown by a couple of fucking Esprit/Gap asylum escapees? Okay,
so one was cute. But there was no alcohol there. No chance to
get her inhibitions lowered, and -- never mind. Accidentally
showed my carnal side, which is unusual, these days.
There's one thing that I hope, I pray, and will die to change this
year: All these flannel-shirted motherfuckers who only started
wearing flannel when Nirvana hit the Top 40.. STOP MAKING TRUE
COUNTERCULTURE LOOK BAD. (I hope that none of those people I
address are reading this publication. Sorry for screaming, for
those who aren't.) True punk or hardcore isn't a defined way of
dressing; it's whatever you want. Whatever's comfortable. Who
gives a shit what the girls who work at the Slurpee stand or The
Gap in the mall think of how you dress? If you've got the
attitude that is the aura of the truly dedicated punk, you won't.
If you're just trying to cash in on a look that's been popularized
and had all meaning stripped from it by some fashion consultant
out in fucking Paris or wherever, you're not worth the eighty
dollars you shelled out for that flannel shirt. It's like
pre-ripped jeans in the '80s: you have that much money to pay
someone else to rip your jeans, what the fuck are you doing being
"fashionable"? Why the fuck weren't people like that at
cotillions, or whatever the hell those things are? If you have
$80 to spend on a brand-name flannel shirt from some cool store in
the local jock/princess haven (aka "mall"), why even pretend
you're counterculture? Go to a Young Republicans meeting; sweat
Polo; do something expected of those of your financial level.
The Sonic Bellboy had an anecdote that inspired this rant, and I
think he summed it up better than I did with this multi-page
thing. Check it out:
i saw a guy, snowboarding, with a flannel-from-stitches and
oversized-jeans-bellbottoms with a georgetown hoyas hat at the ski place
i was at. i asked him if he thought he was counterculture. he said yes.
i asked him why. he said because he listens to alternative (he named
nirvana, pearl jam and some other poser band) and that he dresses
"different", i pointed out his jock hat. "it looks cool." there's the
word that has stunted this generation. "cool." is that a "cool" thing to
be? well, this guy was a perfect stereotype, and he was the first of (i
counted) _39_ similarily dressed kemper-blorgers wearing flannel and
likely freezing in those thin cheap jeans. well, i was warm in my black
ugly nylon pants. i was warm in my hydro linesman jacket. i was
protected with my 5oo glasses and my free giveaway touque. i was happy
with my mennonite craft sale 50 cent mittens. i was warm.
i was functional. and i was not "cool."
In closing, I'd like to say to everyone else what I said to SB:
Acting "cool" is difficult. Being _cool_ is easy, if you're not a
fake, like the people I spent most of this editorial being pissed
off at, and like that one guy and his 39 clones that SB saw.
"Alternative" = "cool". Hardcore/punk/underground = _cool_. 'Nuff
said.
Enjoy the mag.
- Matt
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2.02 The Mystery Of Barney Rubble
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While rotting my brain watching cartoons one day, I noticed
something about the "Fruity Pebbles"/"Cocoa Pebbles" commercials.
Fred Flintstone's life's goal in these things appears to be keeping
Barney Rubble away from those Pebbles.
My question: Why the fuck can't Barney go to the store and buy some
goddamn pebbles himself?
The Pebbles aren't manufactured by Fred (would someone as non-artistic
as Fred be able to design those cool boxes?), so they conceivably must
be sold at a store.
Barney _has_ a job (evidenced by his riding to work with Fred in the
original cartoon), so he's not too much of a lazy-ass. Obviously
not.. the fool designs all these new cool ways to try and convince
Fred to give him the Pebbles. Probably spends more money on these
fucking ideas than it would cost for a lousy fucking box of cereal.
My point is that it's pretty goddamn stupid for Barney Rubble not to
make it easier on all involved, and just go shell out a couple of
fucking dollars for some Pebbles. Do I make sense on this one?
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2.03 doc martens, the mafia, and paul westerberg
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have you seen the good old docs these days? they are TRASH... a
pair used to last a good 3 years without falling apart, but
these - give it two months of average wear, and they fall apart.
and look at the gaudy colors - Cheri Red, Paul Westerberg Green,
Blueberry Blue, Puke Yellow, FlannelFuck Plaid, Uma Thurman Pink,
the list goes on...and on...and on...
What happened to Black 3 holes? did the mafia buy up all of the
black shoes? now there are sandals! and high heels! and ones with
patterns! and custom band-logo ones...
I say all of us revolt, burn (if you have them) your docs. let's
all buy-(shuffle in the hat) BIRKENSTOCKS! (I AM just KIDDING!)
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO WEAR! no more uniformity. the nice thing about
punk culture is that there is no "punk look" i.e. we don't all make
our hair look permawet like the Jockfucks, we don't wear Flannel
and Wool Socks.
Here's a scary thing- the JOCK'S idea of a punk:
Leather jacket with chains
Safety pin through the cheek
Doc Marten shoes
Lots of pierced locations
Colored mohawk hair
etc.
know anyone like that?
Or my little sister's idea:
(remember GEM?)
Female lead singer who screams like a banshee
Red or multi-colored hair, cut randomly.
leather jacket with a big fluorescent skirt
big belt
a lot of makeup
a "keyboard guitar"
Sound familiar?
The Sonic Bellboy
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2.04 "Race Traitor"
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I discovered, long ago, that talking to racist "skinheads" (notice
the quotes; these fools just rip off true skinhead lifestyles) is an
exercise in fruitlessness. That knowledge was forever cemented in my
mind when the following discussion took place between myself and a
racist "skin":
Racist : Do you support the white race?
Me : What does that entail, exactly?
Racist : You must hate all non-whites, like blacks, Orientals, Jews..
Me : Wait just a fucking second.. Jews?! MOST Jews are WHITE!
Racist : No, they're olive-skinned.
Me : Look, whatever. I refuse to hate an entire race, just for
the fact that they're different from me. Besides,
generalization is stupid.
Racist : You don't hate non-whites?
Me : Fuck, no. Look, what the fuck are you, deaf?
Racist : Then you're a race traitor.
So. I am now a race traitor, according to someone who shaved his head
in an attempt to be "cool." Because his fellow "Aryan soldiers" did
it. Non-conformism at its peak of NON-EXISTENCE. Free thought is not
a concept for the majority of these people.
Matt Shaw, the race traitor.
I argue that I am NOT a race traitor. I don't support racist
philosophies, so I guess I don't support the neo-Nazi concept of the
"white race." They're the race traitors, just like Hitler before
them; they have betrayed the race that they have forfeited their right
to be a part of.
The human race.
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2.05 racism is pointless.
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helloooooo, people. look at yourself. are you politically correct?
are you anti-racist? political correctness has stunted the most
important movement of this century. we, the WAM, are a _minority_
in a global perspective. WAPM (white american punk males) are a
minority, so i guess most of you understand the basic minority
feeling. but unfortunately, when anything is politically correct,
people overreact. look at the enviromental movement. it's overdone.
it should have been left to the small, dedicated groups (another
minority, minorities are based on _beliefs_ not _color_) but look
at the system now. _minorities_ and _women_ are being given job
preference over an equally qualified male. that is trash. so is the
new "tolerance" policy. i am not a racist. i do not try to be nice
to a person just because they are black. or anything else. i am
friends with people on one and one only basis: how much like me they
are, _inside_. my best friend (although she lives a long ways away)
is chinese. my background is mixed. most of my friends are diverse.
i have indian friends of both varieties. i have swedish friends. i
have german friends, and i have canadian friends. you see, when a
chinese person has lived in canada/us all of his life, as well as
many of his previous generations, he is still called chinese. and
people give him a racial quality. chinese, therefore from china,
therefore no speako english, therefore after my job and my girlfriend.
sorry folks, _you_ are just as or less american/canadian then they
are. you are both _immigrants_ you are both _residents_ and you are
both _racially indifferent_, as in my eyes, we have Homosapien and
we have homosapien.
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2.06 True Stories of High School Hell #1
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Ah.. memories of high school. From freshman year to senior year,
I was caught up in both the miasma of passage through adolescence,
and the process of education. And I know exactly how to sum those
years up.
IT WAS HELL! IT WAS LIVING, FUCKING, SEEMINGLY ETERNAL HELL!
But now, I can look back, and laugh. Laugh because I'm not there
anymore, and because I'm doing what I want to do while the rest of
those pitiful fuckers are toiling away at Hardee's and
bullshitting profs who just re-teach them all the grammar classes
we took in high school. But I digress. Beginning with this
issue, I'm going to regale our faithful readers with tales of my
days of suffering. This is one I call "The Whistle of The Demon".
---
In my sophomore year, I was faced with the grim fact that I was
short a couple of credits, and I got called into the
principal/administrator's office. I wasn't in trouble, or
anything, it turns out; he simply told me I hadn't taken one
class that I should have.
I closed my eyes, hoping he wouldn't say what he inevitably would.
As he uttered the words "Physical education," I cringed inwardly,
and my mind was filled with the possible torments I could be put
through by the more athletic students. These days, of course, I
would just beat the holy shit out of anyone trying such a thing,
but that's beside the point.
The usual phys. ed. teacher had taken two years off to go live in
Pennsylvania, and the school alternated replacements. Sometimes
the math/algebra/etc. teacher would be in charge of the class, and
let the kids play basketball (hey, it IS Indiana) or dodgeball, or
something. The original teacher was kind of cool; he wasn't the
kind of asshole gym teacher you usually find, like the ones that
think they're the Terminator, and just come off like a bad
impression of Schwarznegger. He was, and still is, a rather nice
guy. I had hoped that we would get a replacement somewhat like
him for our class.
No such luck. We get a guy straight from the Purdue training
camps. Physically resembled a bulldog, both in face, and in
voice. Similar temperament, as well.
The first class, there we are. Decked out in sweats and T-shirts,
etc. He comes out of the supply room, and looks at us like a
sergeant looking over his troops. I'm already thinking, "Oh,
shit. What have we done?" The first words out of his mouth were,
"I'm Mr. H.," (real name withheld, although I should have no
mercy) "I am your instructor in physical education for the next
few weeks." Sounded just like a drill instructor.. uh-oh.
The next few weeks were sheer hell. We did incremental amounts of
pushups every day. He forced us to play football, but play with a
ferocity that would have astounded a Viking. When he was teaching
us some basic basketball maneuvers, he told us to dive for the
ball, saying he wanted to see our blood on the floor. He broke us
down and tried to rebuild us. He singled out the weak and made an
example of them. It was like the first part of "Full Metal
Jacket", only we could go home and complain to each other every
day.
For my part, I was so broken down, I did everything he said. I
kept myself in the shadows; he knew me by name only. When he told
us to dive for the basketball and get some blood on the floor, I
goddamn wanted to see my blood on the floor, I was that broken
down. I began to be scared of how seriously intent I was on being
a good soldier. We began to call him "Coach". To this day, I
would rather call him "Dead And In Hell" than "Coach". As for
that, I can only hope.
Soon, though, hell's omnipresent flames receded from roasting our
backs. In other words, the motherfucker left. His last day, he
shook our hands and talked to us like we were his equal. Although
then I didn't have half the sheer balls I have now, I had the guts
to glare at him and remain silent when he said goodbye to me.
The next week, the math teacher took over the class, and let me
tell you.. he was a welcome sight compared to the fucking maniac
we had called "Coach".
---
Okay.. that's all for this one. I have a million of these, I'll
keep 'em coming.
[Sonic wanted me to mention at the end of this article that he's
still in hell. Please send your sympathies his way. - ed.]
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2.06 Ethics Quiz
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I'm sure you've seen those stupid ethics quizzes, like the ones
that ask, "Susie steals a rubber band from the supply closet. Is
this ethical, unethical, or a crime?" We at IAFL make fun of
things that piss us off, so here goes:
1. The Trix rabbit constantly attempts to deceive children in
order to get some Trix. Is this:
a) ethical;
b) unethical; or
c) a clever marketing gambit?
2. Tom the cat always chases Jerry the mouse, for no apparent
reason except pure meanness. Is this:
a) ethical;
b) unethical; or
c) monotonous to all but toddlers?
3. Lucky the leprechaun is beset by pre-adolescents always trying
to steal his cereal. The children knock down other children's
snowmen ruthlessly to get these teeth-rotting bits of sugar and
the occasional fortifying mineral. Is this:
a) ethical;
b) unethical; or
c) setting a really really bad example for the kids watching?
4. In yet another example of the consumption of cereal being a
crime, the Cookie Crook wants to have some Cookie Crisps, but
the Cop will not let him have any. So the Cookie Crook steals
some Crisps. Is this:
a) ethical;
b) unethical; or
c) showing a pattern in kid's cereal advertising?
Okay.. enough kid's commercial questions.
5. Danny Tanner, father of the "Full House" clan, is being pursued
by rabid hellhounds as he rides an old two-speed bike in a
frantic attempt to escape. The hellhounds finally catch up to
him, ripping him to pieces. A space-time warp opens up and
throws the Olsen twins (Michelle) and Uncle Jesse in for good
measure. Meanwhile, Matt Shaw makes his move on Rebecca,
Jesse's wi -- er, widow. She becomes his sex slave for as
long as he deems her necessary. Is this:
a) ethical;
b) unethical; or
c) too good to be true (in the hellhound case) and not a chance
(in the Matt/Rebecca carnal union)?
Usual ethics quizzes have no "right" answer. This one did. If
you answered "c" to any of these questions, you think on the same
wavelength as we at IAFL do. We are superior, and must band
together to execute those who answered otherwise. Long live the
fighters!
[Uh.. yeah. Actually, I wouldn't mind a "carnal union" with
"Rebecca". But that's showing my carnal side again. BTW, Jeff,
thanks for that vote of confidence. Fuck you very very much.
- ed.]
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2.08 White Punks on Punk (Reviews)
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SOUND:
_Human Butt_ - Rollins (MS)
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Henry Rollins, ex-lead singer of America's seminal hardcore band
Black Flag and current frontman/vocalist for his own Rollins Band,
is equally well-known for his spoken word discs as his musical
exploits. _Human Butt_, a 2-CD set of spoken-word Rollins,
manages to be funny for the most part, yet tinged with Rollins'
own philosophy and that of the characters that populate his
true-life stories.
Consider his 52-minute "Adventures of an Asshole", in which
Rollins tries not to be an asshole for the duration of an
Australian tour with the Rollins Band. Or "Smokin' The Filter",
where he recounts the tale of his first date and his subsequent
letdown. Or (my personal favorite) "Donate Your Bodies To
Science, You Fools!", in which a homeless man called Crazy Paul is
made into a legend by a still-awed Rollins.
After hearing this album, you'll crave more of Rollins'
acerbic wit and wisdom; I know I did. A definite must, in any
home.
- Quarterstick Records
_Telephone Free Landslide Victory_ - Camper Van Beethoven (MS)
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Ska. Probably not in the form it was meant to be played by all
those Brits, but ska nonetheless. And GREAT ska it is.. a
half-speed, kind of folk/ska-tinged cover of Black Flag's
"Wasted", a few subcultural jokes with "Where the Hell Is Bill?",
and the classic "Take The Skinheads Bowling". With the loopy
"Opi Rides Again/Club Med Sucks" and "Ambiguity Song" closing the
album, Camper Van put out one of the strongest, and most confusing
debuts of the 1980's.
- IRS, orig. Pitch-a-Tent
War Wagon - _Finnigan's Tongue_ (SB)
-------------------------------
okay, well, its my cousin's band, SO WHAT...
1992, Independant, PUNK/FOLK/CELTIC
okay, ever heard of a cheesy irish band called the proclaimers (well
ah would drink five hundred boll's and i would drink 500 more just
to be the man who dran 1000 boll's to get so roarin' drunk
(doodaloodoo...etc.))? well, think of them, with excellent clean
guitar, harmonica and other mixed in. well, its definitely not pop.
this is a great tape to listen to to escape from the monotony of
everlasting grunge and soundalike punk (even i get tired of it at
times) the guitar is played with laid back chording, with a nice
clean tube amp sound. the bass is subtly added to provide backing to
the guitar, not to blow out your speakers. there are many instruments
dropped out of the music scene incorporated... the harmonica and the
lead tambourine (a large tambourine that you can hear over the guitar)
as well as good, fly-by-you lyrics, like "Watching the rain, falling,
washing all my troubles, down the drain" and not a single word of bad
language in all of the 45 minutes of music.
Grapes of Wrath - _These Days_ (SB)
------------------------------
Okay, its old, so what?
well, this is not punk, but it has a really nice feel, like the war
wagon, only bigger, with better equipment and less celtic-folk
influence. it isn't really pop, but it isn't really anything. just
cool to listen to when you are trying to concentrate.
The Butthole Surfers - _Hairway to Steven_ (SB)
------------------------------------------
okay, well, what can i say?
okay, this is one of the early BHS tapes, the one with the cheesy
faces on the front. this is the one with no song names, just pictures.
it's great. i love it. my parents hate it. it just pounds out so
loud... that bass drum... that bass drum... ahhh.... i could just die.
i patch it thru my bass amp and knock down small skyscrapers... and
the lyrics make sense... and you can hear all of the instruments....
Sorry. There will be NO Metallica reviews this issue, or ANY
issue. If that was what you came looking for, no such luck.
SIGHT:
20/20 (heh, heh.. I kill me)
Seriously.. I haven't seen any movies lately. Too busy keeping
myself literate (i.e., reading books). What a concept.
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2.09 Music Quiz For The Mentally Departed
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What music do you like?
a) what is music?
b) the stuff in the elevators
c) shopping mall muzak
d) classical all the way, man
e) pop is defini cool...
f) i wear leather and smoke and hang out at the coffee shop and like
classic rock like steve earle and that stuff. good ole greasy
classic wrock
g) none of the above, where is grunge? *
sorry. grunge is not allowed in this questionnaire as it is not
music and fits in with disco and polka, as in "not really music"
h) Other
* Heavy metal, Rap and "alternative" fit in this section.
if you selected "other" before even looking at the other choices you
are:
(i) a poseur. if so, go back and select 'g'
(ii) a person who likes cheating on surveys. select 'g'
(iii) a non conformist. good, different is bad, therefore different
is different (i could go into more on this but... no...)
(iv) some loser trying to be cool
okay, question number two..
What is a good concert:
a) Auditorium, no seats, festival
b) moshpit-style
c) amphitheatre-seated
d) opera/orchestratic hall
e) club
f) outdoors, woodstock style
g) outdoors, lollapalooza (ick) style
okay, number three of three..
Is it alright for performers to give organic refuse to the crowd?
a) yes
b) no
c) what the hell is organic refuse?
okay, write the answers (question plus full choice) on a standard
size postage stamp (the back, stupid) in a close approximation of a
courier font, and mail it (INSIDE the envelope) to:
I Play Alone in the Dark,
C/O Willen B Whacken,
PO Box 9210, Grande Spoute,
Michigan, USA,
68010
and i will mail you an official sonic bellboy acid blotter look
alike, not my fault if it has problems with customs and you get
charged.
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2.10 Dating in the 90's
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Being single in the 90's kind of sucks, to be honest. Too many
nasty diseases floating around. Here's our guide to dating in
the 90's, punk-rock, throwback to 1981 style:
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| The IN A FREE LAND Guide to Dating in the 90's |
| Heterosexual Males Edition |
| (in fact the ONLY edition) |
| by the editors/contributors of IAFL |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Dating. Argh. One of the topics that none of us know like we
know that there's no HC scene in our local area, but we're experts
on it anyway. Trust us.
The most important thing to remember is this, and I quote Henry
Rollins: "Women are evil. Guys are morons." There are
exceptions, I just haven't met a woman who isn't evil, deep down,
and there's not a guy I know, not even me, who isn't a fucking
NITWIT when it comes down to the possibility of getting a date
with a really great woman.
THE LOGICAL PROCESSION
----------------------
FIRST: Decide which you want.. a girl, or a woman. There ARE
differences. A _girl_ will not give head, usually. But she can be
coerced into going out, if you're suave enough (and older than she
is by a couple of years). And maybe you can work from there.
A _woman_, however.. that's an entirely different story. If you go
out with a woman, she will not giggle when you make a humourous
aside.. she will laugh. And chances are, if she likes you enough,
you'll be twisting yourself into varied positions all night long,
and enjoying yourself the whole time. A woman can LAST all
night.. a girl, if she decides that you're "cool" enough, will
last for one bout of intercourse, missionary position only, and
then complain about how late it's getting, or will want to (God
forbid) cuddle. If a woman wants to cuddle.. you'll WANT to, as
well. They're that good.
A word of warning.. some girls never grow up. They'll be girls
their entire life and will make whoever's fool enough to marry
them miserable to the point of suicide. Also be careful of women,
sometimes; it's entirely possible that you may fall in love with a
woman. This is never the case with a girl, because girls are too
flighty. If you do fall in love with a woman, and she returns
your love, celebrate. Do the Dance of Joy. If she doesn't, try
to forget her. And NEVER CONFUSE LOVE AND SEX. Sex does not
equal love. (although the confusion's fun for a bit.)
SECOND: Pick the right places to go to meet someone. If you want
a nice girl, one you'll have no sexual contact with, go to church.
If you want a sweet girl who you can have good sex with and be in
love with and all.. let me know when you find a place you can meet
one of those. If you want a slut.. go to a bar, with a lot of
money to buy her a few drinks. We don't advise going with the
slut, mainly because you could end up with some horrible STD.
THIRD: When you come in contact with the female of your choice,
be yourself. Don't come on like some cool-guy jock motherfucker
if you're not. If she's not impressed by you as you are, what
fucking good is she?
FOURTH: Unless the female is obviously a slut, do not try
anything sexual on the first date. To attempt a kiss is
admirable. To ask for a blowjob or a fuck is not. They don't
like that very much, and if you try it, they certainly won't like
YOU very much. Be as much a gentleman as you can, and show her
that it's the jocks/other normals who are the Neanderthals.
HINTS THAT WILL KEEP YOU INTACT
-------------------------------
1) Do NOT drop your standards for one SECOND. If you're looking
for a girl/woman who's slim, beautiful, sweet, etc., keep
looking for her. If you start looking at the girl you saw
when you came in that made you go, "There but for the grace of
God go I.." and thinking that she's not as bad as you
thought, remember: SHE IS! She was when you came in, she is
now, and you'll want to kill yourself if you wake up next to
her tomorrow morning.
2) Scope carefully for her possible male companion. It can be a
real damper on things if you approach a really great woman and
start talking, when some caveman wearing a letter jacket from
his high school glory days taps you on the shoulder and uses
his steroids-enhanced strength to beat you senseless. Always
look carefully before you leap, and make sure there's no other
guys hanging around her. Of course, if there are, it may be
her brother, which would be just as bad if he's
overprotective. Or if THEY'RE fucking (only applicable to
really remote parts of the States).
3) Protection. Although this has been OVER-stressed by the media
and anyone else who has no business knowing your business, we
suggest that you take precautions to keep from living in fear
of dying.
REJECTION AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT
---------------------------------
Okay, first thing.. rejection REALLY sucks. Especially if she's
hot. But that's beside the point.
How to handle rejection varies, depending on your location. If
you're in church, for instance, you could simply say, "The Lord
has not led our paths to cross one another." If that response
makes you ill, we'll use another example. In a bar, you could
always just say, "Okay, cool," nodding your head slowly. Then
walk away.
Truth is, it varies from person to person. I handle it with
humor. Other people handle it with cruelty and personal attacks.
The less imaginative of the latter group frequently use "Fuck
you!" as a comeback. The more imaginative would simply go up to
anyone else trying to hit on her and mumble something about her
sexual preference/sexual history. Be creative.
DO OPPOSITES ATTRACT?
---------------------
Fuck, I don't know. Sometimes. Two people who are called
"opposites" aren't entirely opposite. They could have a favorite
movie in common, or a favorite album/type of music, or something.
(I have yet to meet a female who's heard of Big Black by her own
investigation, rather than having one of her ex-boyfriends
introduce her. But that's just my experience.)
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
---------------------
Basically, be yourself and you'll do fine. if anyone has a
problem with you being who you are, tell them to fuck off. Stick
with your standards, don't hit on a girl whose boyfriend is
standing right next to her, and don't forget those little magic
prophylactics.
<END OF IAFL DATING GUIDE>
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2.11 Mini-Slam List
-----------------------
Decided there wasn't much to slam on except things we REALLY hate.
here goes:
My supreme bitch of an ex-girlfriend, who's one of those church
christians and, for that reason, is REALLY stupid
[yes, that was mine. - ed.]
argh! no more wannabe punks who think pearl jam = punk! death to
all of them!
the area mentality which drives us to believe we must slam on
ANYTHING
times that you just can't think of anything REALLY good to slam on
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2.12 damn junies
--------------------
okay, i used to work for a dj, selling tickets. now at one dance,
we had 200 people, (i counted) 61 of which were junior highs. i was
pretty drunk at the time, but shit.. these guys were roasted. this
one girl (they were _all_ girls) was about 4'8", maybe 80 pounds,
passed out in the main hallway. she had had a half a beer. the
police pulled 11 people out, all juniors for drinking. they puked on
the steps of the hall for 2 or 3 hours before getting the shit at home
(plus a handy 185$ fine) plus 6 or 7 _narc_ charges. while i spent
the entire night beside a cop, drunk as hell for the first 3 hours,
then refreshed in the washroom and drunk again... i had a damn lot of
beer - and i didn't get charged. or even got looked at funny. or
anything. but christ... they all smoke, they all drink... hell, people
said generation x was bad... this is generation degeneration. is their
quest to grow up while still immature, so impertinent that they can
only pick up on the bad habits? most of these 10-12 year olds,
promiscuous as hell, were all dressed like a pile of sluts. tight low
cut tops, super tight jeans, clear silk shirts, like hell - i don't
see people that desperate in high school, and i have seen some pretty
bad cases.
more bitching by the bellboy of noize...
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2.13 Why?
-------------
Following the recent, unintentional semi-sexist slant this 'zine
has taken in the past couple of articles (which is unusual.. I'm
just having a bad week) is this issue's "Why?", fielded by yours
truly, the editor:
Q: Why do women seem so evil?
A: (MS) Some are. Some just don't realize that lying to us isn't
cool. Some aren't at all. I'd like to meet one in that
latter category. It's pretty much just based on your
observations, and personal opinion, rather than a matter of
the woman actually being evil. However, most of the ones I
meet are REAL FUCKING BITCHES.
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2.14 An Apology
-------------------
I must apologize both to you, the reader, and to my fellow
contributors about my lack of strong contributions this issue.
Some really trippy shit's been going down, and I've been
distracted. Rest assured, next issue, I'll be my normal, ranting,
acerbic self again and you'll be howling just as much as you did
w/issue #1 and all of ANA.
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2.15 The Sonic Bellboy's canadian connexun
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Merry Fucking Christmas. This christmas i got a phone bill. it came
today. i can't wait for daddy to open it and ruin my christmas. you
see, it's over 300 dollars. i'm broke. damn. you see, in canada,
where the mighty Sonic one lives, everything costs a lot. well, for
christmas i want to get an axe, so i can axe murder my parents and
blame it on Iron Maiden. i think that that would be cool. The only
thing grease music is good for is as a fall music to blame things on.
!!! Friend update !!! well, it has been 3 months now, still no
friends. Heard a new band - Fl!pper... They are (like bodacious, man)
mildly "stimulating". very heavy. in canada the speed limit is 80
km/h. have you ever driven that slow? i don't even have my licence
(and likely never will) and even i drive faster than that... damn
amish and those damn buggys always getting hit...
i still don't see how you figure that the deal sisters are nice
looking :)
[ Well, they are. - ed. (being petulant)]
a fast list of things i hate:
tori spelling
maximus bbs system
taco bell
virgin wool
syndicated television
PEOPLE WHO TYPE IN ALLCAPS
(BRANCH- why are new users inclined to type in allcaps? do you forget
all of the shit they forced into your head in english on your first
message? don't fucking yell or i will come and type in allcaps with a
big hammer on your head)
the fender guitar company
my toes
UNIX computers
egyptian currency
people who are anti-asian
[ This almost went into the Slam list, but it fit better here.
I'm a purist, deal with it. - ed. ]
Okay, thats all for the Sonic Bellboy for this edition of Canadian
connexshun.
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2.16 Well, G'Night, Everybody!
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Thanks for reading. Next issue: the return of my asshole
attitude. <King Crimson's "Lark's Tongues In Aspic, Pt. I", just
before the main riff.. suspense building.>
Nods again to Sonic Bellboy, whose material basically carried this
issue. I just wish calls to Canada didn't cost so fucking much.
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"Brother, you'd better get down on your knees and pay,
a thousand more fools are being born every fucking day."
- Bad Religion, "1,000 More Fools", _Suffer_
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inter\face 5
summer 1993
contributors:
(in random order)
Susan Bertot
Emily R. Novack
John Malboeuf
Ron MacLean
David Connolley
Nancy Dunlop
Michael Rae
Katie Yates
Benjamin H. Henry
inter\face is.
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inter\face 5 is published at the University of Albany, State University of
New York, down in the basement of the Humanities building. If you would
like any information, to contribute, or have any comments, e-mail to
bh4781@rachel.albany.edu.
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Benjamin H. Henry
Aram Aram
Aram Aram big-u-ity
wise -o- wizened
ample morph, sit you on
meta morph - for
silly frightened : tetra town
building blocks
a no mo in men si ty
am probable
invincible
about a ble
in tense
too.
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Spring '93 Collage
1. An invisible man peers in,
offers his hand to shake, throttle, or excelerate to paced speeds,
raceway along city streets with postcard visions,
a woman with long hair smiling.
2. My motor failed exhaustive tests,
emissions blurted out; the priest says,
holding a subscription,
at the stairs of the empire state building,
clutching a plastic model,
an exact duplicate in structure
or taking elevators, their sliding doors
shutting, but the soft bumper and the button,
being pushed from some distant point...
3. I immediately failed to notice that
screeching sound, a horrible sensation,
a plenty of thirst, succumbing, ending.
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July 18, 1993
And, today, if you must know,
I am tread:
Tracks behind wheels,
behind a cylinder rolling down
an inclined plane --
I am a simple geometric figure,
drawn to perceive three dimensions
on flat paper --
I am fixed in movement and time.
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Susan Bertot
The Eucharist
I.
I am saved!
I am God
We are one
the blood I have drank
the wine flows within my veins
Drowning me in a sea of fumes
II.
Cannibalism's holy
Flesh tastes like bread
Toast would be nice
Red Blood toast
Where's the butter?
I want my country's cock
Blood is thick
I'd really like a cherry
coke
Get me one human
God gets hungry too.
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Emily R. Novack
Reena
now through recurrence
now through the long thin
hands
i
within
seizures
one woman I knew
raped, found behind
a store unconscious,
the water from the rafter dripping
long lines into
her face
twenty three years old
coat covering up where
the skin shows
said she saw
the running water
the
swallowing whole
the
swallowing
of her image
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Towards
you tell me
for years
I've longed for mountains
for the feeling
of rising
the flat land
agitated
by
wild
occurrence
and the smell
of dried flowers
your pale hands
reach for copper
crosses
loose on blankets
we've circled
these years-
a drawing open
of living things
and wounds
the smoke was clawing
from air
into air
and breaking
and
i said I've
lived like this
for so long now
the injury accumulating
a long
throat
of beads
shaking,
hands in snow.
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Nancy Dunlop
from: From the Window
"The divinities are the beckoning messengers of the godhead." (Heidegger)
hers on small head bobbing
under big goddess-sky-dome
she is sapling: a happy
blockhead shaking her baby leaves
warmth of spring and new starts
ow! so much it hurts
how can the pavement hold such radiance?
has heaven become so encrusted with jewels
that they are dropping
at her feet?
each step a little giggle.
"Earth is the serving bearer." (Heidegger)
and arches up her feet
the grasses its tentacles
its roots the cords to her belly
the tree of her uprooted
shaking its remnants of dirt
the tree of her striding
down this bright sidewalk
she's already shed her fruit
it straggles behind her on the pavement
a trail of seeds and cast-off reasons
limbs straining from force of new buds
she is so new her bark still gives to pressure
"Now woman is neither closed nor open . . . form is never complete in her."
(Irigaray)
and she is running through the forest she has chosen as her situation.
swathed in pre-raphelite fullness. hugged within her husk, within her moist
shell. and she is falling but the ground left her. she is rolling down moss
and spores. pulled toward this forest floor and veining as these leaves
around her. she is photosynthesis and arches toward the light. the tops of
the white pines. cathedral light in fractured colors. she is prismatic.
unfolds origami-like. like the finest tissue. she is her own envelope.
fool-hardy bride-of-air. bird fare. she could rise up. burst through upper
branches. thrust herself into being. or loll in wet leaves. little lute.
upon which strums celestial.
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John Malboeuf
Seen Your Dad on the Corner
The broken man was wearing new blue/purple jeans and a white T-shirt
which had "i am in hell and i can live with it" written on the back in
green magic marker. He made his living selling toothpicks which he carved
as he walked through the streets during the day. When I first saw him this
morning, he had part of a tree branch under his arm and he was whittling at
it, leaving a trail of shavings behind on the sidewalk. Now, he was holding
a coffee can, which I guess was full of toothpicks, and he was stopped at
the corner and was looking at people walking by.
I started playing some rhythm, hoping people would give me enough
change to buy a bus ticket. I had made one buck fifty-two and had four
strings left on my guitar.
The broken man walked towards me slowly, nervous and listening to the
music. His face was smeared. He was angry. He took the change out of my
hat, replaced it with four thin six inch toothpicks. "I've seen sky," he
said to me.
"Then dance," I replied. "I would."
The broken man scowled. "I've seen sky," he said again, touched my
shoulder, paused to let me look into his smeared eyes, walked away. I was
hoping he would get hit by a car.
it was about time I got a move on, so I smashed what was left of my
guitar on the front stoop. Stones go through me. Catch, cut,, a tear. Right
down the middle. Why do you expect so much from me? Stones and candy carry
a punch.
Standing, you said you'd visit. Causing a stir, it was just me. I
noticed the blink of your eye, your sudden hesitation, your cut short stop
breath before you returned my look. We don't need to do this, we could
forget it or the reverse. Sunday, over at the stones, I met you on the
corner. The pavement was all that I could, see it.
So wait. Stones cut, through me, I let them. I can't stop them, it
isn't human. A sudden stop, change of key. A zone.
I tossed the toothpicks out into the street. It had rained the night
before, so they floated in a puddle.
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Ron MacLean
How to be Happy
This year, she's decided to be happy.
She may not know what she wants, or how to get there, but she's
determined to accept the uncertainty that for years has depressed her.
Besides, she knows what she does not want. She's certain of that. She does
not want Ray.
Here are some of the things she does when she decides to be happy.
1. Walk by the river. Afternoons, after work, for at least an hour,
she walks on a footpath that runs alongside the Charles River. She's lived
her life near water, and cultivates this connection now that she's decided
to be happy. Since water makes her happy, she walks by it, right next to
it, every day. What does not make her happy is the pollution, but the city
of Boston claims the river is being cleaned up, that the Charles Watershed
Authority is having an impact. Liz maintains hope by taking a water sample,
once a week, in a glass, and leaving it on a shelf in her kitchen, watching
to see what will settle to the bottom of the glass, how it will compare to
the previous week's sediment. The shelf is above the antique stove that
Ray, her former lover, had bought for her, the stove that she is always
threatening to get rid of. Because it reminds her of him. Because it leaks
gas sometimes. But it's such a beautiful stove. Irreplaceable.
2. Read tabloids. Weekly World News is her favorite. Best covers, she
says. The photos are sometimes breathtaking, she says. A couple weeks ago
she showed one to her daughter Katie, about a bat child found in a cave in
South Dakota. A kid with fangs and pointy ears. She was right. The photo
was amazing. Airbrushed into a soft focus, the eerie child's open mouth and
sharp fangs dominating the page, eyes popped open. No hair anywhere on his
head. He demanded your attention. These tabloids are placed on the floor of
her second story bedroom, in a neat stack by the radiator, in the house
that she shares, most of the time, with Katie. It's okay to leave the
papers next to the radiator for now, because it's summer. The tabloids lay
under an article that Liz had clipped from The Boston Globe two weeks
before, headlined "4th slaying of lesbian reported in area," which
describes a stabbing in the Back bay, and which quotes a Boston detective
as saying that it's the fourth such murder in the past few months. There
are enough similarities in method that they are beginning to investigate
the possibility of a single killer, of a pattern. Liz has been unable to
dispose of the article. Each time she buys a tabloid, she lifts the article
off of the pile next to the radiator, places the new issue on top of the
old issue and then the article on top of the pile.
3. Make collages. Pictures cut from magazines, newspapers. Abstract
geometric shapes cut from construction paper. Objects she finds in her
travels, the refuse from the worlds around her. Ticket stubs. Gum wrappers.
Lately, it has taken a new twist. Words. Phrases clipped from publications
have started to appear, rubber cemented over images on the cardboard. These
have begun to capture her interest. Reminding her of a game she and her
brother, Otis, used to play as children, where they would chose a word and
recite it, chant it, invoke it, over and over until it lost meaning, and
then keep going. Later that day, whenever one of them would use the word,
the other would laugh, at the joke they shared, at the new meanings it
hinted at that no one else suspected. Now, visually, Liz does this with
words, placing them alongside other words in unexpected combinations,
pasting them on magazine photos, over cutout cardboard shapes. She has
started to send these to Otis. It is a way of keeping in touch.
4. Bake. She loves to make cookies, in her antique stove, but she
never eats them, so Katie ends up having to eat two dozen cookies, or
convince Liz to give some to friends. The numbers are escalating lately.
Even her friends are telling her they can't handle any more cookies.
They're starting to gain weight. Tell me about it, Katie says. Katie is
eleven, and mature for her age. The trouble is, Liz bakes really good
cookies. The successful recipes she keeps in a folder on the bookshelf.
There are many folders on the bookshelf. A folder of possible night courses
she might take, like the one in the Indian Cooking and Nutrition she just
signed up for. A folder of cover photos -- the really good ones -- from the
tabloids. A folder containing notes on her romantic relationships, and why
they ended. All part of an orderliness she's instituting into her life,
part of the same impulse that has led her to conclude, in the wake of Ray's
eviction, that what it really takes to be happy is to give up the
possibility of a relationship.
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David Connolley
Rampart reservoir pigs
play bluegrass
with dirty words
on a gray lake's
gravely shores.
It is hard,
this kind of life
water towers and skies,
the light of potatoes. Here we work.
We eat.
We starve.
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Michael Rae
band names
virtue and gender
naked melody
the 4th husband
JOLLY AS A PEA
with a wicked tongue
bullet the suicidal dog
palemento bug
at the master's gate
a urine sample
(stool).
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Katie Yates
Book Two had not the quality of beauty, was alone
life in fragile water mockingbird and clam kneedeep with tounge burning
nothing admitted change
tones of memory all at once held on to : couldn't touch
you were this source of amazement to me : beauty & anger propelling
terse transience explains the force of interruption
playbill volkswagon tentless numbness as free to carry us
penniless you wander to me finally at ease with method
we can't obtain assurance nor the insular logics of love -
?great morning. sky down to field. there is nothing between us
resolved as epithet
linger to wear longer
bright dales in lips
pocket-full-of-swim
Dive, she said & watch.
re(scind) ~ god-wanted you nearer than this tin midnight
hope ^ dire to be remembered pose at brisk lake - STOP
the sake of brittlest limnia scurvia metal wilder wilder
beast past coming
compelled by falling or awakening from a sleep more truthful than you are
separated into frames: tauto in - in toto - {{ vascular
limb in reflection - yours - take by Take - affirming
Covenant . envelope ^^ stasis . inside a mortal time
come to the defense
restricted by a memory
full-fold - quadrophenia
alert in most ways & dying
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in what we stole from you
in what we stole from the lovers
(scant blossoms with tremendous scent)
found equaled mingling
circuits, frets - finger locks in our heads
cling is to fervor
is to happen is too good
a choice
religio/region
cum
un
do circumstance
/
one
thunderous
secret
all secret matter came back for you
to
remember
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days before a Winter/close
friend of belittling syntax stung
a Most equall = squall
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halcayon the brightest
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# MISC
Unsorted Magazine Directory (Kind of like a Magazine Rack)
## FILES
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/1.strangeness [ 80885] Welcome to Strangeness Issue #1 (October 30, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/2.strangeness [ 40080] Welcome to Strangeness Issue #2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/3.strangeness [ 115514] Welcome to Strangeness Issue #3 (November 13, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/abuse-01.txt [ 46981] Abuse Magazine, Issue #1 (February 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/alembic2.txt [ 82944] The Alembic, Second Edition Summer 1989 Issue
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/alembic3.txt [ 73728] The Alembic, Third Edition Autumn 1989 Issue
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/alf.nfo [ 7044] NFO: AC-Find v1.0 by the Anti-Lamers Foundation (July 23, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/alive_0.txt [ 24154] ALIVE (Virus Magazine) Issue #1, by Suzana Stojakovic-Celustka (March, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/alliance [ 89125] The Guide to a Better Society Volume #1 Issue #1 by Alliance Productions (August, 1991)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/alliance.000 [ 37120] The Guide to a Better Society Volume #1 Issue #1 by Alliance Productions (Template)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/allnoall.001 [ 19562] ALL Zine, Issue #1, (October 17, 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/allnoall.002 [ 27707] ALL Zine Issue #2, (April 13, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/anarchives_2_2_1.txt [ 26732] The Anarchives: Volume 2 Issue 2 Part 1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/anarchives_2_2_2.txt [ 15622] The Anarchives: Volume 2 Issue 2 Part 2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/anarchives_2_2_3.txt [ 31496] The Anarchives: Volume 2 Issue 2 Part 3
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/apinews1.txt [ 7208] A.P.I: American Pirate Industries Volume 1, July 1989
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/apinews2.txt [ 5724] API: American Pirate Newsletter Issue #2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/asian_voices93.stx [ 136160] Asian Voices Volume 6 (1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/assem1-1.txt [ 21486] Assemblage Issue #1 (November 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/assem1-2.txt [ 24850] Assemblage Issue 2 (November 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/assem1-3.txt [ 15028] Assemblage Issue 3 (November 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/asylum.lit [ 4091] The first Asylum Literature Pack Introduction (August 6, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/at-01.txt [ 44063] Anarchy Today Issue #1 by Jack the Ripper: Acetone Peroxide Explosive
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/barney1.txt [ 14332] ABL's Barney Must Die Newsletter #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/bluebook.txt [ 170931] Project Bluebook Unknowns Part 1 by Don Allen (July 4, 1991)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/brain.nov [ 9344] Brain Waves Viewpoint, by Alex Jacobson, President of Inference Corportation (November 1986)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/break1n1.txt [ 34057] Breakaway: Debates on Modern Marxism Volume 1, Issue 1 (May 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/break1n2.txt [ 34083] Breakaway: Debates on Modern Marxism Volume 1, Issue 2 (June/July 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/break1n3.txt [ 41614] Breakaway: Debates on Modern Marxism Volume 1, Issue 3 (August/September 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/break2n1.txt [ 30772] Breakaway: Debates on Modern Marxism Volume 2, Issue 1 (November 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/bs0294.txt [ 26220] Bad Section Issue #1 (February 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/bs0594t.txt [ 23085] Bad Sector Volume 1 Issue 4 Series 1 (May 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/btw.app [ 3017] Application to Join Bizzare Types of Wares
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/btw.nfo [ 8586] BEER Issue #1 by Bizzare Types of Warez
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/callanon.ant [ 6163] Calling Anonymously, by Antediluvian (1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/cd02jan.txt [ 52648] Carrier Detect: The PC Communications Journal for Every Modem User (Volume 2, Winter 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/combat.g�d [ 2784] How to Win in a Combat Situation, by Iceman of GiD Productions
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/contact [ 796] How to Contact the Bizzare Types of Warez
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/core2.04 [ 27752] CORE: Volume 2, Issue 4: An Electronic Journal of Poetry, Fiction, Essays and Criticism
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/core2.05 [ 28763] CORE Volume #2 Issue #5 (April 24, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/cropd-01.txt [ 36412] Cropduster Issue #1 (1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/cropd-02.txt [ 138653] Cropduster Issue 2 (1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/cvm0201.txt [ 198704] Cyberspace Vanguard (Volume 2, Issue 1) (January 21, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/cvm0202.txt [ 183671] Cyberspace Vanguard (Volume 2, Issue 2) (March 31, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/cyber.v3 [ 91335] Cyberspace Vanguard: News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe Issue #3 (March 5, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/das-007.txt [ 15686] The Digital Anarchists' Society File #7: Renegade Hack by Mad Arab
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/daskvote.txt [ 2885] Voting for the Demo Scene (Application)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/db10.txt [ 11641] Dreamboy! Issue #10 (march 1, 1995)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/db5.txt [ 22165] Dreamboy! Issue #5 (October 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/db7.txt [ 12853] Dreamboy! Issue #7 (December 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/db8.txt [ 16680] Dreamboy! Issue #8 (January 1995)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/db9.txt [ 17081] Dreamboy! Issue #9 (February 1995)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/deton.bom [ 3530] Digital Detonators by Balin of BOM Squad (April 22, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dgrd--01.txt [ 25422] Digital Games Review Digest, Number 1 (April 17, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dgrd--02.txt [ 36052] Digital Games Review Digest, Number 2 (April 26, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dgrd--03.txt [ 34188] Digital Games Review Digest, Number 3 (May 16th, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/difi-1.txt [ 29704] Dial 'I' for Information, Issue #1, by The Phone Phantom (July 31, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/digital.asc [ 4434] Neil Sorenson Announces the Digital Edition of The Mouth of Xibalba
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dishnews.504 [ 42480] Dishcetera: The Satellite TV Industry Online Magazines Volume 5 Issue 4 (February 1, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dm-001.txt [ 9647] Dancing Monica Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dm-002.txt [ 8312] Damaged Mind Issue #2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dna.nfo [ 5377] DnA Magazine by Pazuzu (August 3, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dose002.txt [ 5147] Dose Issue #2: "The Evils of Business Corporations" by RAGE (December 1, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/drain100.txt [ 25856] The Drain Ezine Issue #1 (December 1, 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/dst.nfo [ 5358] NFO: Distortion Membership List (1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/emc-1.txt [ 15984] The Martian Chronicle, Issue #1, March 1990
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/emc-2.txt [ 17024] The Martian Chronicle, Issue #2, April 1990
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/emc-3.txt [ 12928] The Martian Chronicle, Issue #3, July 1990
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/emc-4.txt [ 8576] The Martian Chronicle, Issue #4, August 1990
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/emc-5.txt [ 11136] The Martian Chronicle, Issue #5, October 1990
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/f5930411.txt [ 61237] Fringe, conspiracy and SubGenius zine reviews by Jerod Pore (March 11, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/f5930421.txt [ 136914] Factsheet 5 Electric Political Zine Reviews (March 21, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/flam-f01.txt [ 101496] Toxic Shock: The Fetus by Bloody Afterbirth
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/flam-f2.txt [ 266785] Toxic Shock: The Flaming Fetus (October 19, 199))
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/fognewsl.001 [ 22517] Fist of God News Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/funhou02.txt [ 166131] FUNHOUSE: The Cyberzine of Degenerate Pop Culture (June 22, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/fyi22.txt [ 116625] FYI On Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked Primary and Secondary School Internet User Questions (February 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/greetz.lit [ 5428] Greets from the Asylum Staff to all their IRC Friends (August 6, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/grim1.txt [ 68113] The Grimore: Your On-Line Guide to Magic the Gathering
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/grim2.txt [ 109321] The Grimore: Your On-Line Guide to Magic the Gathering
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/groups.paw [ 3752] Pirates Analyze Warez Announce a new Magazine
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/history.txt [ 20700] The Insomnia Electronic Magazine Interface History by Fade of REM
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/iafl-001.txt [ 35467] In a Free Land Issue #1 (Winter 1993) by Rageboy Publications
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/iafl-002.txt [ 41347] In a Free Land Issue #2 (January 25th, 1994) by Rageboy Publications
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/iface5 [ 15334] Interface Issue #5 (Summer 1993) by Benjamin Henry
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/index [ 2594] Index to the Silicon Vortex
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/inews493.txt [ 31138] International Sysop's Guild Newsletter (April 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/interz02.txt [ 15880] Interzine Issue #2: Peter Meyer
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/intzine.2 [ 15801] Interzine Issue #2: Peter Meyer (June 11, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/itt0206.nfo [ 3251] The Internet Takeover Team .NFO File (February 6, 1995)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/itt0213.nfo [ 5572] The Internet Takeover Team (February 13, 1995)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/kaos01.txt [ 86656] The Chaos Advocate, Issue 1, by Mark Tanner
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/lch2-001.txt [ 5231] Leech Issue #2 (November 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/legalhi.bom [ 7283] Should Drugs Be Legal? By Mr. Sandman of the BOM Squad (October 14, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/legion-06 [ 76830] The Legion of Bitter Alumni Issue #6 (November 26, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/legion-07 [ 61639] The Legion of Bitter Alumni Issue #7 (1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/liminal-1.0 [ 25293] The Liminal Group Presents Liminal 1.0 (1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/liminal.v1 [ 23626] Liminal Issue #1, The Alternative Scholarly Culture Studies Magazine (April 17, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/liminal_1.1 [ 59398] The Liminal Group Presents Liminal 1.1 (1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/lost01.hac [ 68449] Legion of Schram Today Newsletter #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/lost02.hac [ 20927] Legion of Schram Today Newsletter #2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/majority.txt [ 33853] Operation Majority Final Release by Milton William Cooper (1989)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/message [ 1352] INFO: Necronomicon Logo
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/mjir93-1 [ 47821] The Mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results (November, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/mjir93-2 [ 19358] The mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results (December, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/mjir94-1 [ 21093] The mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results (January, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/mjir94-2 [ 15535] The mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results (February, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/mjir94-4 [ 19367] The mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results (April, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/necronomicon.1 [ 13544] Necronomicon Press Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/net11.txt [ 22107] Noted on the Net, Issue #11
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/neurosis.nfo [ 2456] Introduction to the First Issue of Neurosis Magazine by GH
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/newmag.008 [ 974] Newmag Issue #8 by Pip the Angry Youth
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/newmag.009 [ 986] Newmag Issue #2 by Pip the Angry Youth
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/newmag.010 [ 2382] Newmag Issue #10 by Pip the Angry Youth
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/news-001.nfo [ 3042] The UsU Newsletter #1 by CyberGlitch (October 20, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/nfx-001.txt [ 16768] The New Fone Express #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/nfx_001.txt [ 16768] The New Fone Express Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/nwoissue.001 [ 6268] The New World Order Computer Underground Magazine Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/obscure-03 [ 11359] Obscure Electronic #3 (June 1, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/obscure-04 [ 13167] Obscure Electric #4 (June 8, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/orgt-1.txt [ 28037] Organized Thoughts Magazine, Issue 1, June 5, 1992
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/orgt-3.txt [ 29266] Organized Thoughts Magazine, Issue 3, September 7, 1992
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/orgt-4.txt [ 40290] Organized Thoughts Magazine, Issue 4, October 30, 1992
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/out3.txt [ 29048] Out of Step Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 3, March 1992
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/outofs2.txt [ 36256] Out of Step Magazine, Issue 2, by Quadrac
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/p-m-s-1.txt [ 18157] Paranoia Media Scrutinization Volume 1, Number 1 March 1992
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/p11mag1.txt [ 56128] Pandemonium Magazine: Issue #1: October 31, 1993
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/paj1.02 [ 48747] The Phantom Access Journal Volume 1 Issue 2 (March 3, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/paov1n2.txt [ 13446] Practical Anarchy Online Issue 2.1 (January 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/paw.nfo [ 4779] Pirates Analyze Warez Issue #4 - March 29th, 1993
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pci.nfo [ 8158] NFO: International Tennis, from Power Crisis International (December 5, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pcro6-91.txt [ 39061] PC Review Online Issue #5 (June 1991)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pep1.txt [ 6512] Public Enema Productions Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pfa5.txt [ 24487] People's Freedom Association Issue #5 by Dr. Menace and Angel of Death
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pfa6.txt [ 15250] People's Freedom Association Issue #6 by Dr. Menace and Angel of Death
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pfa7.txt [ 28176] People's Freedom Association Issue #7 by Dr. Menace and Angel of Death
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pfa8.txt [ 82284] People's Freedom Association Issue #8 by Dr. Menace and Angel of Death
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phanews1.txt [ 35673] Phreakers Hackers Anarchists Newsletter #1 (May 14, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phanews2.txt [ 123519] Phreakers/Hackers/Anarchists Newsletter Issue #2 (July 26, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phate101.hpa [ 55018] Phreakers Hackers and Terrorists Issue #1 (December 15, 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phire1.txt [ 17153] Phreakin' Hackin' Informational Recreation Encyclopedia issue #1 by Kid Kopy and Ditto
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phire2.txt [ 17793] Phreakin' Hackin' Informational Recreation Encyclopedia issue #2 by Kid Kopy and Ditto
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phirst01.txt [ 81288] Phirst Amendment Issue #1 (November 7th, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phirst04.txt [ 113733] Phirst Amendment Issue #4 (December 1st, 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phirst09.txt [ 112873] Phirst Amendment Issue #9 (January 1st, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/phylox.res [ 6060] The Hack Report: Volume 2 Number 5, April 27, 1993
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/picric.g�d [ 3627] How to make Picric Acid, by Iceman of GiD
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pirate1doc.hac [ 94272] PIRATE Volume #1 Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/plstique.txt [ 3075] Quick and Dirty Plastique, by Adam Selene
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/plum_is1.txt [ 11366] Acid Plum Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/plum_is2.txt [ 16249] Acid Plum Issue #2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/plum_is3.txt [ 16347] Acid Plum Issue #3
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pot_1994.app [ 2727] APPLICATION: The Preachers of Texts
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pot_elt.txt [ 2595] Preachers of Texts: How to Become Elite in Days by Suicidal
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pot_hckr.txt [ 3375] Preachers of Texts: The Easiest and Fastest Way to Become a K-Rad Hacker, by Suicidal
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pot_hscl.txt [ 4443] Preachers of Texts: Hacking School Computers for Dummies, by Suicidal
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/pot_new.txt [ 2390] Preachers of Texts: Newcomers to the HPACTV Scene... What's Happening? by Suicidal
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/privatel.txt [ 97240] General Information on Private Line Magazine (1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/privl2n1 [ 91929] Private Line: A Journal of Inquiry into the Telephone System #4 (1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/privl2n2 [ 76257] Private Line: A Journal of Inquiry into the Telephone System #5 (1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/proj01.txt [ 30614] The Project Newsletter - 1 of 4 (Spring 1991)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/proj02.txt [ 64529] The Project Newsletter - 2 of 4 (Summer-Fall 1991)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/proj03.txt [ 34156] The Project Newsletter - 3 of 4 (Winter 1990-1991)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/proj04.txt [ 162959] The Project Newsletter - 4 of 4 (Winter-Spring-Summer 1991-92)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/psy4.nfo [ 1620] Psychosis Issue #4 Information
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/qbnws103.nws [ 110691] QBNews: International QuickBasic Electronic Newsletter #3 (May 22, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/rcdstore.bom [ 4313] Stealing from Record Stores by Cop Killer of BOM
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/reb.dpe [ 10187] Field Phreaking for the Absolute Moron by Rebel Angel
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/report.txt [ 3979] The Official Party Report From The Computer CrossRoad '93
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/rrg-1.hac [ 5036] Rebel's Riting Guild Volume 001
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/schidt.3 [ 14162] The Schidt Magazine Issue #3 (Thanksgiving 1992) by Scott T. Anderson and Dale L. Houston
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/schidt.4 [ 18707] The Schidt Issue #4 by Scott T. Anderson and Dale L. Houston (Christmas 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/schidt.5 [ 20926] The Schidt Issue #5 by Scott T. Anderson and Dale L. Houston (January 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/schidt.6 [ 24876] The Schidt Issue #6 by Scott T. Anderson and Dale L. Houston (Jan-Feb 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/schidt.7 [ 12709] The Schidt Issue #7 by Scott T. Anderson and Dale L. Houston (March 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/skipmisc.028 [ 45532] Skip's Computer Miscellanea #28 (1989)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/skwl001.pt3 [ 20073] Sqweril Issue #1 Part 3
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/soapbox.2a [ 40820] Soapbox Issue #2 (February, 1993) by Chad Skelton
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/soapbox.2b [ 30912] Soapbox Issue #2 (March 30, 1993) by Chad Shelton
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/speeding.bom [ 8373] Hints Towards Successful Speeding by Mr. Sandman of the BOM Squad
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/ssm-0001.txt [ 16089] Sabotage and Social Engineering Monthly Issue #1 (November, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/storm000.txt [ 9932] Subliminal Takeover of Your Mind (STORM) Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/storm001.txt [ 6791] Subliminal Takeover of Your Mind (STORM) Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/storm002.txt [ 6841] Subliminal Takeover of Your Mind (STORM) Issue #2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/story1.bom [ 13372] HIM: A Story, by Mr. Sandman of the BOM Squad
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/submission_guidelines [ 1362] CORE: Submission Guidelines
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/swat.nfo [ 5045] SWAT: Membership List and Invitation to Join
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/taep-1.txt [ 14880] The Acid Enema Press, Volume 1, Issue 1, August 26, 1991
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/takeoff!.002 [ 37525] Take Off! April Edition Volume 2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tbcore001.hac [ 12743] Taco Bell Core Issue #1, May, 1993
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tcsb.01 [ 3595] Telecom Computer Security Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tcsb.02 [ 5484] Telecom Computer Security Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tdkeb-1.txt [ 123055] TDKEB Issue #1 (March 1995)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/telegra1.txt [ 46959] Telegraph Issue #1 (June 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/telegra2.txt [ 42007] Telegraph Issue 2 (September 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tides.nfo [ 2013] BBS: Tides of Corruption BBS
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tno-001.txt [ 22341] The Network Observer (January 1994) Volume 1, Number 1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tno-003.txt [ 31964] The Network Observer (March 1994) Volume 1, Number 3
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tno01n02.txt [ 37230] The Network Observer (February 1994) Volume 1, Number 2
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tno01n04.txt [ 31159] The Network Observer (April 1994) Volume 1, Number 4
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tollscam.bom [ 3893] The Toll Booth Scam, by Mr. Sandman (July 15, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tos1a.txt [ 15083] The Tower of Song Canadian Culture E-Zine by Mike Winter Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tos2.txt [ 32785] The Tower of Song Canadian Culture E-zine by Mike Winter Issue #2 (September 26, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tr-0.txt [ 18717] TapRoot Issue #0 (August 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tr-11.txt [ 50735] TapRoot Issue 1.1 (December 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tr-12.txt [ 52511] TapRoot Issue 1.2 (December 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tr-20a.txt [ 59878] TapRoot Issue 2.0 (April 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tr-20b.txt [ 42936] Taperoot Issue 2.0 b (April 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tr_chapb.txt [ 58710] TapRoot Issue 3.0 (September 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tr_zines.txt [ 65554] TapRoot Issue 3.0 a (September 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/triad.6 [ 24947] TRIAD: Newsletter of the Syectic Underground #6 (May 20, 1989)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/triad6.txt [ 23427] TRIAD: Newsletter of the Systemic Undergound: Issue #6 (May 20, 1989)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/trl-001.txt [ 13136] Renegade Legions Technical Reports
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/trl-002.txt [ 16813] Renegade Legions Technical Reports
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/trw___10.rl [ 10999] The Renegade Legion Technical Reports (January 1991)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/ttp-1 [ 7818] THe Thrashing Pirana Issue #1 (February 22, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/ttp-2 [ 3534] The Thrashing Pirana Issue #2 (February 27, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/ttt-001.txt [ 27051] Thinking to Text Issue #1 by Ideal
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/ttt-002.txt [ 26398] Thinking to Text Issue #2 by Ideal
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/tzs-01.txt [ 34041] This Zine Sucks Issue #1 by Sed
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/udp-003.txt [ 49105] Underground Digital Press (Issue #3) January 1993
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/v3i81.txt [ 7346] The Teleputing Hotline Volume 3 Number 81 (October 16, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/v3i83.txt [ 7473] The Teleputing Hotline Volume 3 Number 83 (October 23, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/v3i87.txt [ 7430] The Teleputing Hotline Volume 3 Number 87 (November 6, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/v3i93.txt [ 7468] The Teleputing Hotline Volume 3 Number 93 (November 27, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/v3i95.txt [ 7431] The Teleputing Hotline Volume 3 Number 95 (December 3, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/v3i97.txt [ 7395] The Teleputing Hotline Volume 3 Number 97 (December 11, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/v3i99.txt [ 7474] The Teleputing Hotline Volume 3 Number 99 (December 18, 1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/voices1.1 [ 96507] Voices from the Net Issue #1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/watcher.v05 [ 47719] The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path (November 1990) #5
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/watcher.v06 [ 45038] The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path (February 1991) #6
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/watcher.v07 [ 43492] The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path (May 1991) #7
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/watcher.v08 [ 60738] The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path (May 1991) #8
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/watcher.v09 [ 37678] The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path (November 1991) #9
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/watcher.v10 [ 38547] The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path (February 1992) #10
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/watcher.v11 [ 46163] The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path (April 1992) #11
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/we17-1 [ 3023] WE Magazine Issue 17
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/weekly11.txt [ 7525] The Weekly Something or Rather Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/whirl1.txt [ 145020] Whirlwind Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1, 1994
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/wwivnew6.txt [ 20387] WWIV News Volume 1, Issue 6, June/July 1991
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/magazines/MISC/yizz2.nfo [ 2014] BBS: YIZZ BBS
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NightSoft BBS (508) 760-2147
ISG 91:91/0, FIDO 1:331/101
Vol. 1 No. 4 (April 1993)
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ( Andy's Rambling's ).......................... 2
2. New RC's : ............................................. 3
3. The BAck BOne ............................................ 5
4. Teen Sysops .............................................. 6
5. Dos 6 and DesqView........................................ 8
6. ISGNEWS INFORMATION.......................................13
7. The Echolist.isg .................................Attached
8. BOARDWATCH NEWS .................................Attached
ISGnews 1-4 Page 2 1 Nov 1992
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> EDITORIAL <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <
My apologies for taking so long to get this issue out.
Over the past few months ISG had a few set backs. But I'm happy to say
we have over come them and set in motion a program that will out allow
this to happen again.
Moderators:
We could use moderators in some of the echo
get involved, also we would like to see a few echo's
from he MidWest and WestCoast
BBS TAX.
The State of Florida is considering a BBS TAX of some kind .
Will some one down there dig up the info on this and send it
up to me along with the address of the Fl. State Senators and
Representatives. So we can start a letter writing campaign.
If any other state is considering the same someone please inform
us...
Attached to this months news is the BOARD WATCH news letter
normally I don't use other news letters , But this one contains
information that I thought was important to all sysop's.
ISGnews 1-4 Page 3 1 Nov 1992
Speaking of RC 'S :
Aubry Presha The Dark Side of Town has taking over as RC for Region 218
doing one hell of a job.
Ron Bowden Home Net BBS in West Cajon valley Ca will take over as RC
for Region210 ( The West Coast )
Michel Barthelemy The SoftWare Motel Saint Firmin France the RC for
Region 220 also Michel will act as ZC for Zone 92 Europe.
National Mail Hub.
The National Mail Distribution site is now 91:200/0 Largo Fl.
Mail Distribution Site North is now 91:200/261 Tisbury Ma.
Backup Mail Site 91:200/625 Cape Cod MA.
Europe Mail Distribution Site 92:400/10 France
We need a Mid West Site and a West Coast Mail Site
ISGnews 1-4 Page 4 April 1993
Welcome new Node's:
Welcome to the World of The International SysOp Guide ..!!!
Region - 218
Aubrey Presha - 91:218/0
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I would just like to take a second in say that Region 218 is growing with
New Nodes And NETS ..
NET-100 Michael Brisbois 91:100/0
~~~ Ken Mohr 91:100/3
~~~ Paul Berniccni 91:100/4
~~~ Scott Williams 91:100/5
(NET-100) Michael Brisbois from The Python BBS 91:100/0 will oversee all NET
operations in seek out new nodes in the SOUTH-WEST part of Florida..
Lets Welcome Michael Brisbois & the NEW NET to ISG !!!
============================================================================
(NET-80) Lets Welcome Ray Newton to NET-80 , Ray is from New Port Richey
his system will be up from 20:00 to 08:00 until future notice from him ,
Misty Base II returned online 03-19-93 from being down for about 1 month, so
we should be getting some more activity in the ADULT part of the ECHOs !!
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(NET-200) The BackBone 91:200/0 will soon be Gateing some ECHOS from Mustang INC.
(Home of Wildcat) soon as I can clear it with the Zone Council..
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Thinking about starting a U.F.O ECHO ,there have been alot of talk and rumor
about the creatures so if you have any information regarding this ECHO please
contact 91:72/0 or 91:216/1 Andrew should have more about the ECHO
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MORE TO COME !!!!
ISGnews 1-4 Page 5 April 1993
The BAck BOne
I also will take this time to point out that we do have
a backbone (90:200/0)
---High speed mania
Traffic is light, But if the other Regions would participate....
Who know's what we could do....
See Echolist.ISG for more information on the echo's....
ISGnews 1-4 Page 6 April 1993
TEEN SYSOPS
I've been following the discussion in the Fidonews about young sysop's
well I would like to put in my two cents.
Here in Net 5 we have a few YOUNG sysop's, some have gone by the way side
but a few have remained, as far as I can tell, you would not know who was
a teen and who was not. With only one bad experience , his Dad pulled the
plug on his system.
In general we do not ask the age of a sysop who wish's to join. I don't
think it's appropriate. Some of the teenager are really bright, and to avoid
them would be a loss to the network.
I would think that a teen in front of a computer would be preferred
over a teen standing on a street corner looking for trouble.
I would like to show one example, Our BackBone, when Aubry join ISG about
6 months ago he was a teen, he ran the teen echo, went on to be NC for
Net 80 and now Rc for 218, and our Backbone, he has brought more people
into the Network then the old RC ever did.. setup nets and so..
As far as I'm concerned any TEEN sysop who wish's to join the ISG is
welcome to do so, and I'll use the energy and enthusiasm that come
with their youth...
ISGnews 1-4 Page 7 April 1993
(50) 29 Mar 93 19:36:00
By: ANDRE CAR, Over Board (91:5/201)
Re: at&t modem deal
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AT&T Paradyne is offering everyone a limited time offer on
the same kind of modem that is being offered to sysops for
$222. Everyone has heard of AT&T, of course, and those of
you in commercial data communications have probably heard
of Paradyne over the last 10-15 years. I personally feel
this is the best modem available for the money anywhere in
the world right now for the money. Here is an overview of
their advertisement in PC COMPUTING (March 1993).
AT&T DataPort/14.4 FAX modem
LIFETIME warranty (as in "the rest of your life")
OLI (Optical Line Interface) - beats all other modems
V.32bis (14400 BPS/BAUD rate), V.32, 2400, 1200, 300 baud
Group 3 FAX, Send & Receive 9600 BPS
V.42bis/MNP-5 data compression & error correction
Effective throughput up to 57,600 BPS
QuickLink II modem/FAX software included
CompuServe bonus kit worth $22.95 included
LIFETIME toll-free technical support
$289 internal, $299 external, plus $5/order shipping
30-day MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
OFFER ENDS April 30, 1993. They honor Visa, MC, American
Express, or you can arrange prepaid shipment with check or
money order. Call 1-800-554-4996, ext. 4804. Ordering
hours are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST, State
& Local taxes apply.
ISGnews 1-4 Page 8 April 1993
ID:D6 MS-DOS 6 and Quarterdeck Products
Quarterdeck Technical Note #166
by Bill Burge
Last Revision: 31 March 1993
The information in this Technical Note assumes that you are using versions of
Quarterdeck products that are DOS 5 compatible: QEMM-386 ver 6.00 and later,
DESQview 2.40 and later, QRAM 2.0 and later, QEMM-50/60 6.00 and later, and
any version of DESQview/X.
1. Is Microsoft DOS 6 compatible with my Quarterdeck products?
Absolutely! There is nothing in DOS 6 that poses any danger to your system or
the data stored in it due to the use of any Quarterdeck product. The
Microsoft DOS 6 README.TXT file states, in Section 6.10: "Quarterdeck's QEMM
memory manager is compatible with MS-DOS 6." In addition, there are no known
incompatibilities between MS DOS 6.0 and Quarterdeck's DESQview or DESQview/X
multitaskers.
2. As a QEMM-386 user, what information do I need to install Microsoft DOS 6?
As a QEMM-386 user, the most important information that you can take with you
in the installation and configuration of Microsoft DOS 6 is the knowledge that
you are already running the most effective memory management system available
for the IBM-compatible computer. So, if you are already using QEMM:
a. Run the SETUP program from the DOS 6 installation diskette and
follow the instructions on the screen.
b. Install any of the new DOS 6 utilities that you desire. DOS 6
provides you the opportunity to add virus protection and other
things to your configuration. Remember: the default installation
of DOS 6 installs only the MS Windows versions of these utilities;
you have to tell it to install the DOS versions as well. This is
done on the Utilities screen of the SETUP process.
c. Run QEMM's OPTIMIZE to load those drivers into Upper Memory.
If you should desire to experiment with Microsoft DOS 6's MemMaker (the
program that attempts to provide more memory), we can recommend a couple of
safeguards. MemMaker will remove ALL the QEMM-386 commands and configuration
from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. We are confident that you will
want to return to Quarterdeck's QEMM-386, so we urge you to save a copy of
your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Before you begin to experiment, copy
these files from the root directory to some other directory or to floppy
diskette. This will allow you to restore them easily.
Next, be aware that even if you save the configuration created by MemMaker,
you can usually reverse its process by running MEMMAKER /UNDO. If the final
screen of the MemMaker process is NOT a numerical breakdown of how MemMaker
got you more memory (and every test that we've run says it won't be), select
the default exit by pressing the <ENTER> key. Do NOT press F3 to save the
current MemMaker configuration.
ISGnews 1-4 Page 9 April 1993
It may also be helpful to know that MemMaker does NOT handle CALLed batch
files. A CALLed batch file is executed with the DOS keyword "CALL". Doing
this tells DOS that you want the commands in the "CALLed" batch file executed,
and then you want DOS to resume executing the remaining commands in the
current batch file (the AUTOEXEC.BAT in this case). The significance of this
is that Quarterdeck's Optimize process DOES handle CALLed batch files, loading
any TSR's in those batch files into Upper Memory instead of just ignoring
them. This means that when MemMaker deletes the QEMM-386 commands from the
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, it leaves them in the Optimized, CALLed batch
files. These would have to be removed by editing the CALLed batch files and
deleting the LOADHI information. If NO changes have been made since the last
time that you Optimized your system, you could also run UNOPT.BAT. UNOPT is a
batch file, created by Optimize, that returns your system to the condition it
was in before the most recent Optimize. If you have Optimized more than once,
this may not remove the LOADHI information.
It is obvious that with the greater selection of features that QEMM-386 and
Optimize possess, MemMaker doesn't stand a chance of making more Upper Memory.
QEMM-386's Stealth feature adds 96K of Upper Memory. That's 64K better than
MemMaker's best attempt to find unused space in your System BIOS. Optimize
has the ability, through Quarterdeck's Squeeze technology, to "shoe-horn"
TSR's and device drivers into areas that are large enough for them to reside,
but too small for them to initialize. Optimize has a "What-If" feature that,
without editing your configuration and re-Optimizing, tells you the results of
rearranging the loading order of your programs and drivers. None of these are
possible with MemMaker.
3. Are any of my Quarterdeck products affected by DoubleSpace?
The most talked-about feature of Microsoft DOS 6 is DoubleSpace. DoubleSpace
was designed to be compatible with QEMM-386's Stealth feature. Disk
compression utilities, including Stacker, XtraDrive, and now DoubleSpace, have
gone to great lengths to be both Stealth- AND Optimize-compatible.
DBLSPACE.BIN is the driver that gets loaded so that your system recognizes
your DoubleSpace drive. It gets loaded by IO.SYS during boot time, BEFORE DOS
has even thought about loading QEMM-386. It uses about 43K, and when the
CONFIG.SYS has completed, the memory used by the resident portion of
DBLSPACE.BIN appears to be tacked onto the LAST driver loaded in the
CONFIG.SYS. The best way to use DoubleSpace with QEMM-386 is to make sure you
have a line in your CONFIG.SYS file that reads:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\DBLSPACE.SYS /MOVE
DBLSPACE.SYS has only one purpose, and that is to make DBLSPACE.BIN appear as
a "real" driver, separate in memory. It gets added at the end of the
CONFIG.SYS with the parameter /MOVE. DoubleSpace REQUIRES that the
DBLSPACE.SYS driver be loaded in order for any memory manager to load
DBLSPACE.BIN high.
At this point all you have to do is run Quarterdeck's OPTIMIZE. This will
load the 43K DoubleSpace driver into Upper Memory, space permitting. DESQview
or DESQview/X users should be aware that the DBLSPACE.EXE program cannot be
run from inside of DESQview or DESQview/X. DBLSPACE.EXE detects the presence
of DESQview and refuses to run. This program is used mainly for the creation
and maintenance of DoubleSpace drives.
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Quarterdeck has a program called NODESQ.COM that can be run, in a window,
before a program that detects DESQview. NODESQ defeats the DESQview detection
of DESQview-aware applications, like DBLSPACE.EXE. You can add NODESQ.COM
(available from the Quarterdeck BBS) and run DBLSPACE.EXE (as is the case for
most of the DESQview-sensitive DOS 6 programs), but you may run some risk.
You should see that all DoubleSpace drives are mounted before entering any
multitasking environment. You should not mount drives using DBLSPACE.EXE
inside of DESQview. This may make working with DoubleSpaced floppies slightly
awkward.
4. How can I restore my QEMM-386 configuration after MemMaker has removed
QEMM-386 from my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files?
Your ability to return to QEMM-386, after running MemMaker, depends on how
long ago you ran it. The steps that you follow depend on whether you have:
1. Not yet completed MemMaker 2. Just finished it for the first time 3. Run it
more than once OR have made numerous post-MemMaker changes to your
configuration.
For the Number 1's (those who have not yet completed MemMaker):
When MemMaker completes, and DOESN'T provide a better configuration than the
one you already had, it will tell you "Your computer's memory was optimally
configured before you ran MemMaker". At this juncture you can press <ENTER>
to restore your original configuration or F3 to save the MemMaker
configuration. Your choice at this time will be <ENTER>. Your existing
QEMM-386 configuration will be restored.
For the Number 2's (those who have just completed MemMaker):
Since you have completed the MemMaker process, it has probably become evident
to you that nothing provides more Upper Memory for loading your TSR's and
device drivers than QEMM-386. Hopefully, you followed our advice and made
copies of your QEMM-386 Optimized CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. You may then
just copy them back. If you didn't, and MemMaker has completed, there are a
couple ways to recover your configuration. You should first attempt the
MEMMAKER /UNDO command. This restores your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files
to the state they were in before the last time you completed MemMaker.
However, this might not be possible. It is not possible if you have deleted
the backup copies of the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files that MemMaker puts
in the same directory as MEMMAKER.EXE. These files are named AUTOEXEC.UMB and
CONFIG.UMB (and sometimes SYSTEM.UMB; this is a copy of your MS Windows
SYSTEM.INI file). It is also not possible to restore the QEMM information and
remove all the MemMaker information if you have run MemMaker MORE than ONCE.
This would mean that the *.UMB files created by MemMaker would NOT have the
QEMM information in them, but would still have ONLY MemMaker's options
installed.
If for some reason MEMMAKER /UNDO does not restore your QEMM-386
configuration, don't worry. When you installed DOS 6 by using the SETUP
program, it required you to create an UNINSTALL diskette. Your original QEMM
configuration was copied to that diskette as the files CONFIG.DAT and
AUTOEXEC.DAT. You can restore your system (and save the MemMaker
configuration for future reference) from the files found on the DOS 6
UNINSTALL diskette (CONFIG.DAT and AUTOEXEC.DAT) as follows:
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Place the UNINSTALL diskette in drive A: and type:
C:<enter>
CD\<enter>
REN CONFIG.SYS CONFIG.MEM<enter>
REN AUTOEXEC.BAT AUTOEXEC.MEM<enter>
COPY A:CONFIG.DAT C:\CONFIG.SYS<enter>
COPY A:AUTOEXEC.DAT C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT<enter>
Your previous QEMM configuration should be restored. You may now install any
of the MS DOS 6 utilities and then run Quarterdeck's OPTIMIZE. Your
restoration is now complete.
For the Number 3's (those who have made further changes after MemMaker):
It may not be feasible to run MEMMAKER /UNDO or copy back your configuration
files from the UNINSTALL diskette if you have made extensive changes to your
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files after you have completed MemMaker. It might
be quicker to follow the next steps than to repeat all the work you have done
in configuring these files.
Editing the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT:
The main objectives in editing the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT are to add the
QEMM386.SYS line and to remove the DOS 6 memory management. (You MUST edit the
files with an editor that saves the files in a DOS ASCII format. Do NOT use
an editor or word processor that saves files in a "document" format, unless
you are aware of how to save them in DOS text or ASCII Text.)
If you have done a significant amount of modification to your configuration
AFTER the MemMaker process has been completed, there are a couple of
conditions that have to be remedied. The first, and foremost, is that
MemMaker removed the QEMM386.SYS line from the CONFIG.SYS file and replaced it
with HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE and DOS=UMB. The other issue is that MemMaker has
added information to the device driver and TSR-loading lines in the CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT. You will need to replace the DOS 6 memory managers with our
Quarterdeck memory manager and you will need to remove the information from
the device driver and TSR loading lines in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
A. Adding the QEMM-386 memory manager
The addition of the QEMM386.SYS line should be as close to the top of the
CONFIG.SYS file as possible. There is usually no problem with making this the
first line of the CONFIG.SYS. If you have a driver for your hard drive
controller or special hard drive partitioner, that line will usually need to
precede the QEMM386.SYS line. If QEMM-386 was installed in the default
location of C:\QEMM, the line would appear as follows:
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS
To remove the DOS 6 memory managers you need to remove three lines from the
CONFIG.SYS. They will look like the following, assuming you installed DOS in
the C:\DOS subdirectory:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE (this may be followed by some parameters)
DOS=UMB
These lines will have to be removed. The DOS=UMB line may appear as
DOS=HIGH,UMB; you will then only have to remove the ",UMB".
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B. Removing the DOS 6 memory management information
The removal of DOS 6's additional memory management information is a little
bit trickier. You need to remove the MemMaker-added information from the
existing device drivers and TSR's, while not removing the device drivers and
TSR's themselves. DOS 6's LOADHIGH (or LH as it usually appears in the
AUTOEXEC.BAT) and DEVICEHIGH now support explicit region specification and
driver size specification. The resulting lines in the CONFIG.SYS may look
something like:
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,9072 =C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
and/or in the AUTOEXEC.BAT:
LH /L:1,15762 C:\DOS\DOSKEY
This causes a bit of a problem for Optimize. For the LH's, Optimize dutifully
strips away the LH (this was all that was required for DOS 5) and attempts to
do:
LOADHI /GS /L:1,15762 C:\DOS\DOSKEY
Here /L becomes an "invalid parameter" for LOADHI.COM. After a failed attempt
to Optimize, you may have lines in the AUTOEXEC.BAT that resemble:
/L:1,15762 C:\DOS\DOSKEY
These lines will not load and may cause certain actions to fail, due to that
particular TSR not loading.
The DEVICEHIGHs are completely ignored by the Optimize process and either load
low or sometimes load high (if DOS=UMB is present). You will need to manually
remove the MemMaker information from these lines. Even though the Optimize
process (since the release of DOS 5) will remove the "HIGH" and "LH" from the
lines, you might as well take out the LH along with the parameters, and the
HIGH from DEVICEHIGH as well as its switches. The example lines from the
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT would then look like:
Before editing: DEVICEHIGH /L:1,9072 =C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
After editing: DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
in the CONFIG.SYS and
Before editing: LH /GS /L:1,15762 C:\DOS\DOSKEY
After editing: C:\DOS\DOSKEY
in the AUTOEXEC.BAT. When you have successfully made these changes, you are
ready to run OPTIMIZE. After Optimize completes, you will have the best
memory configuration that also encompasses the other improvements that you
have made to your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
5. Will I have any problems with DESQview or DESQview/X?
Very few Microsoft DOS 6 issues confront the DESQview or DESQview/X user. Any
of the MS-DOS 6 utilities that might, in ANY way, cause a problem when run in
a multitasking environment are DESQview-aware. These particular programs will
post a message reminding you that you are currently multitasking. DOS 6 uses
portions of the DESQview API (Application Programming Interface) to detect if
DESQview, or DESQview/X, is running. There are no problems running these
programs outside of the multitasking environment.
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Available from Quarterdeck (via BBS, CompuServe, or other standard support
channels), is a program called NODESQ.COM. If NODESQ is run in the window,
before running a DESQview-aware program, that program will not detect the
presence of DESQview. You can add NODESQ.COM to a batch file that runs
DBLSPACE.EXE. You should mount all possible drives before starting DESQview
or DESQview/X. You should not mount drives using DBLSPACE.EXE inside of
DESQview. This may make working with DoubleSpaced floppies slightly awkward.
VSAFE is the resident program that watches for certain acts of virii and
provides a warning when it finds one. VSAFE can be loaded in XMS (23K
conventional, 23K XMS) or EMS (6.5K conventional, 64K EMS) before DESQview
loads. If you do this, then you CANNOT ALWAYS pop it up over DESQview. If you
try, most of the time DESQview will appear to lose control over the keyboard.
The DESQ key will NOT pull up the menu, etc. This is because VSAFE is up; you
just can't see it. You have to hit ESC to make it go away. Then all will
function as normal. If VSAFE is forced into Conventional memory (44K) it will
pop-up inside of DESQview. VSAFE cannot be unloaded while inside of DESQview,
if it was loaded before DESQview.
The DOS 6 Interactive Boot Process
DOS 6 now has an "interactive" boot process. You can program the CONFIG.SYS
to query you, every time the system boots, before loading a particular command
in the CONFIG.SYS. This is done by adding a "?" to the command before the "="
in the command. The line: "DOS?=HIGH" would produce the following on the
screen: "DOS=HIGH [Y,N]?" and you can make a choice as to load it or not.
Optimize removes the "?" from any line that is edited by Optimize. These
include the lines in the CONFIG.SYS that begin with BUFFERS=, DEVICE=, or
INSTALL=.
Another feature in the interactive boot process is the ability to build menus
of configurations in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. This is accomplished by
building "blocks" in the CONFIG.SYS, and having the name of the block
selection that you make on boot be passed to the AUTOEXEC.BAT as an
environment variable - %config%. The use of the environment variable, for
IF's and GOTO's, will then process a particular portion of the AUTOEXEC.BAT
file that is appropriate to that portion of the CONFIG.SYS.
Multiple configurations (as implemented via the CONFIG.SYS blocks) have to be
MemMakered one configuration at a time. The DOS 6 documentation discusses the
process of converting your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT into multiple copies
and then MemMakering them one-at-a-time. They warn users to avoid [common]
blocks and "first entries" in the AUTOEXEC.BAT. Since MemMaker is strikingly
similar to the Optimize process (which predates DOS 6 by two (2) years!!) the
same steps need to be followed to Optimize the multiple configurations of MS
DOS 6.
6. What else is Quarterdeck doing for DOS 6?
Quarterdeck's commitment to adding functionality to DOS, and DOS-based
programs, has kept our products at the forefront of memory management and
multitasking technology. With each new version of DOS comes an opportunity
for Quarterdeck to design new features and offer the DOS user an even greater
implementation of the world's most widely used operating system. Rest assured
that Quarterdeck intends to continue this pattern.
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Peter Meyer is best known as the developer of the MS-DOS software
_Timewave Zero_, which demonstrates Terence McKenna's fractal model of
time and history. In the "About the Authors" section of the software
documentation, we learn:
Peter Meyer received the first double honors Bachelor of Arts degree
awarded by Monash University, Melbourne, majoring both in Philosophy
and in Pure Mathematics. His mathematical research has been published
in _Discrete Mathematics_. He has travelled extensively, and spent
several years studying Tibetan Buddhism in India and Nepal. Peter is
an experienced software developer and has worked internationally as a
computer consultant. His interests include history, travel, cryptology,
geopolitics, anthropology, religion and psychedelic research. In
addition to _Timewave Zero_ he has written and published three C
function libraries, a Maya calendar program and a data encryption
software package. His DMT research has been published in _Psychedelic
Monographs and Essays_ and in the _Yearbook of Ethnomedicine and
Consciousness research_. His exploration of little-known areas of
consciousness has confirmed for him both the reality of other
dimensions of existence and of the Eckhartian/Buddhist undifferentiated
unity underlying all phenomena. He hopes to be present at the end of
history in 2012, 5125 years after its beginning.
- some questions and answers -
Q1. When you got your double honors degree in Philosophy and Pure
Mathematics at Monash University, what did you foresee yourself doing
in life?
A1. When I finished my five-year course of studies at Monash
University I was still somewhat naive and idealistic. During those
years I seemed to have access to some intuitive source of metaphysical
knowledge which apparently I have now lost - or perhaps it is more
accurate to say that I am now less inclined to accept what I imagine
to be the case as actually being the case (without confirming
evidence). As a university student I felt (probably like many
university students, at least in the 60s) that there were realms of
knowledge waiting to be explored, and deep truths waiting to be
discovered. This was why I studied Philosophy and Mathematics (having
switched over from earlier undergraduate studies in natural science),
searching for deep truths.
When I graduated I had no clear idea of what I was going to do in
life, beyond the general aim of continuing this search for deep
truths. I gave little thought to a career, or to the question of
earning a living. I had seriously considered doing graduate work in
AI with John McCarthy at Stanford University, but my interest in
psychology (especially that of Jung and of Piaget) won out. I had
inherited some property following my mother's death in 1970, and upon
graduating I sold this and left Australia to travel to Europe via
Asia, which I did.
Q2. What was the nature of the research you have had published in
"Discrete Mathematics"?
This was a paper entitled "On the Structure of Orthomodular Posets",
in the 1974 volume. It was my final-year undergraduate thesis in
mathematics, which I wrote in 1970. It is exceedingly abstract. In
it I prove a number of theorems about the construction of orthomodular
posets of various kinds from sets of sets satisfying certain mathematical
conditions. As far as I know no mathematician ever extended this line
of research any further. It was a path I went down that none cared to
follow.
Q3. What motivated you to study Tibetan Buddhism? Where in India and
Nepal did you go to, and who did you study with?
A3. As a first-year university student at the age of 18 I inclined to
atheism and agnosticism, but I then read Christmas Humphreys' book
"Buddhism", and immediately felt that this was a philosophy/religion
that made sense to me. However, I still cannot quite accept what
to some is the first principle of Buddhism, that this life is an
unmitigated realm of suffering. I prefer to see all sentient life as
an expression of a divine creativity, a viewpoint somewhat more akin
to the Hindu view of the world as divine play (illusion though it
ultimately may be).
I was, like many people, first attracted to Tibetan Buddhism when
I discovered Tibetan art, especially the thanka paintings of the
tantric deities. This was around the time, in 1967, when I began
doing acid, which really opened me up to metaphysical and religious
dimensions. In the late 1960s I (with many others) read the works of
Lama Anagarika Govinda and of John Blofeld, and I came to believe that
the deepest truths were surely to be found in Tibetan Buddhism.
I had some first-hand contact with the Tibetan tradition during my
first visit to India in 1971. I continued on to Europe to study
Jungian psychology, then returned to Australia in 1972 to do some
graduate work in Kantian philosophy. I returned to Europe in 1974,
where I met H. H. Sakya Trizin, the head of the Sakyapa Order of
Tibetan Buddhism. I expressed to him my wish to study Tibetan
Buddhism more deeply, and he suggested I return to North India (Dehra
Dun) to study with him, which I did. I spent most of 1975-1979
studying with, and in the service of, this lama (who spoke good
English). I also received teachings from another lama, H. H. Chogye
Trichen Rimpoche, head of the Tsharpa branch of the Sakyapa tradition,
and abbot of the Tibetan monastery at Lumbini in Nepal.
Q4. As a software developer and computer consultant, have you always
been freelance, or did you ever work for large corporations? I am
also curious about the nature of the "three C function libraries" and
the data encryption software package.
A4. I learned to program in FORTRAN IV in 1965, while working for a
year with the Post Office in Melbourne. I did no programming during
the 70s. In the early 80s I was a freelance software developer in
California, and developed software for the Apple // which was
published. Since then I have sometimes been employed at small or
medium-sized corporations and sometimes have been a freelance
consultant or developer. In the mid-80s I got into MS-DOS software
development and during the last five years I have programmed mainly in C.
In late 1989 I found myself in California, having just returned from
18 months in Europe, and was broke. The idea of getting a job and
being a wage-slave for the rest of my life did not appeal to me.
Instead I resolved to develop and publish software for a living. I
managed to eke out a a bare existence while developing software on
others' PCs, and during 1989-92 I created four C function libraries
(these are tools useful to C programmers) and three application
programs: a Maya calendrical conversion program, Timewave Zero
(illustrating Terence McKenna's theory of time and history) and some
data encryption software. The last incorporates an encryption method
which I developed during 1990-92.
Q5. What are "Psychedelic Monographs and Essays" and the "Yearbook of
Ethnomedicine and Consciousness Research"? Who puts them out? What
is their audience? Their content?
A5. "Psychedelic Monographs and Essays" (published by Thomas Lyttle,
first issued in 1985) evolved from the "Psychozoic Press" (published
by Elvin D. Smith, first issued in 1982). Both were/are collections
of essays and informative material dealing with all aspects of
psychedelics and psychoactive plants and fungi, with occasional
articles about psychedelic researchers and their work. The latest
volume of Psychedelic Monographs and Essays is #6, and has articles
classified under the headings of Spirituality, Psychotherapy,
Literature, Parapsychology and Pharmacology. It is available from
PM&E Publishing, P.O. Box 4465, Boynton Beach, FL 33424, for $20.00
postpaid within the U.S., $27.00 outside the U.S.
The "Yearbook of Ethnomedicine and Consciousness Research" is similar.
It is edited by the German anthropologist Dr. Christian Raetsch and
contains some articles in English and some in German. The first
volume was published in late 1992. It is available from the publisher,
Amand Aglaster, VWB, Postfach 11 03 68, 1000 Berlin 61, Germany.
Q6. How did you get into psychedelic research? DMT research?
A6. My initial awareness of the existence of psychedelics came from
reading Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception" in 1966. I knew
immediately that this was a field of research I wished to explore. My
opportunity came a few months later when an artist friend in Melbourne
informed me that some LSD had shown up. It was probably synthesized
locally, and was quite impure, but blew me away. Life has never been
the same since.
I know of nothing more interesting and worthy of study than the
multitude of conscious states available through the use of psychedelics.
Had psychedelic research not been made illegal (this is itself a crime
against humanity) I would presumably have pursued my biochemical/-
psychological/philosophical studies under the auspices of academia.
Instead I abandoned the academic world for the study of Tibetan
Buddhism in India and later got into software development in the U.S.
and in Europe. But I have never ceased to do psychedelics occasionally,
and sometimes frequently, garnering such information and understanding
as I can under the circumstances.
A couple of years after I began doing acid I discovered the delights
of marijuana and hashish, which subject I researched enthusiastically
in Asia beginning in 1971 (when the hash shops in Kathmandu were still
open and legal, before they were closed down at the insistence of the
U.S. Government). Morning glory seeds in 1974. In 1978 I discovered
psilocybin mushrooms at Palenque in Mexico. In 1983 MDMA in Berkeley.
In 1987 DMT in Hawaii. In 1988 Ketamine in Switzerland. In 1990
5-MeO-DMT in Berkeley.
My interest in DMT arose from hearing Terence McKenna speak of it in
some of his taped talks (especially his "Tryptamine Hallucinogens and
Consciousness"). My first experience with it was pretty strange; on
my second I thought I was dying. My initial encounter on DMT with the
alien entities did not come until two years later. As Terence has
said, and which I can confirm, the DMT experience is the weirdest
thing you can experience this side of the grave. The rational mind
retreats in utter disbelief when confronted with it. Thus I resolved
to research the topic, which I did during 1990-91 in Berkeley, where I
had access to the Biosciences Library at U.C. Berkeley. I gathered
reports from those few people I knew who had smoked it, and the
article which resulted appeared simultaneously in each of the journals
mentioned above.
- the blurb for Timewave Zero -
This software illustrates Terence McKenna's theory of time,
history and the end of history as first described in the book
"The Invisible Landscape" by him and his brother Dennis, and more
recently in his "The Archaic Revival" (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)
The theory of Timewave Zero was revealed to Terence by an alien
intelligence following a bizarre, quasi-psychedelic experiment
conducted in the Amazon jungle in Colombia in 1971. Inspired by
this influence Terence was instructed in certain transformations
of numbers derived from the King Wen sequence of I Ching hexagrams.
This led eventually to a rigorous mathematical description of
what Terence calls the timewave, which correlates time and
history with the ebb and flow of novelty, which is intrinsic to
the structure of time and hence of the temporal universe. A
peculiarity of this correlation is that at a certain point a
singularity is reached which is the end of history - or at least
is a transition to a supra-historical order in which our ordinary
conceptions of our world will be radically transformed. The
best current estimate for the date of this point is December 21,
2012 CE, the winter solstice of that year and also the end of the
current era in the Maya calendar.
The primary function of the software is to display any portion of
the timewave (up to seven billion years) as a graph of the
timewave related to the Western calendar (either Gregorian or
Julian). You can display the wave for the entire 4.5-billion-year
history of the Earth, note the peculiarities of the wave at such
points as the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs (65 million
years ago) and inspect parts of the wave as small as 92 minutes.
The software provides several ways of manipulating the wave display,
including the ability to zoom in on a target date or to step back
to get the larger picture.
A remarkable quality of the timewave is that it is a fractal.
Once a part of the wave is displayed the software allows you to
expand any smaller part (down to 92 minutes). This usually
reveals a complexity of structure which persists however much the
wave is magnified, a property typical of fractals. The idea that
time has a fractal structure (in contrast to the Newtonian
conception of time as pure, unstructured duration) is a major
departure from the common view of the nature of time and physical
reality. That time is a fractal may be the reason why fractals
occur in Nature.
The documentation describes the origin, construction and
philosophical significance of the timewave, the use of the
software, the mathematical definition of the timewave (with
proofs of some related mathematical theorems) and certain curious
numerical properties.
An interesting part of the theory is the assertion of historical
periods "in resonance" with each other. Resonantly we have (in
1993) emerged from the fall of the Roman empire and are well into
the transitional period known historically as the Dark Ages. The
software permits graphical display of different regions of the
timewave that are in resonance with each other. This allows the
period 1945 - 2012 to be interpreted as a resonance of the period
2293 BC - 2012 CE. New in this version is the ability to graph
trigrammatic resonances in addition to the major resonances, and
to construct a sequential set of eleven trigrammatic resonances.
There is a new appendix concerning some recent mathematical results.
The Timewave Zero software at last permits a scientific examination
of Terence's long-standing claim to have discovered the root cause
of the ups and downs of historical vicissitude. If his theory is
confirmed then we can look forward to a rough, but very interesting,
ride in the twenty years leading up to the climactic end-point of
history in 2012. During this time the events of the period from
745 CE are expected to recur (albeit in modern form).
Timewave Zero 4.12 requires MS-DOS (2.10 or later) and runs on
IBM PC compatibles with and without a graphics adaptor.
- a final note -
Timewave Zero is currently published by Fringeware Inc., P. O. Box 49921,
Austin, TX 78765, USA, and should also be available from Sound
Photosynthesis in Mill Valley, CA and from Nightbloomers in Berkeley, CA;
or from AO Corporation, 134 Granada Dr, Corte Madera, CA 94925.
Fringeware has a mailing list:
fringeware-request@wixer.cactus.org
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From: aleph1@stein.u.washington.edu (Mitch)
Newsgroups: alt.psychoactives,alt.zines
Subject: INTERZINE #2: Peter Meyer
Date: 11 Jun 1993 06:24:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1v98flINN4ci@news.u.washington.edu>
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{ Issue #2 : Peter Meyer }
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Peter Meyer is best known as the developer of the MS-DOS software
_Timewave Zero_, which demonstrates Terence McKenna's fractal model of
time and history. In the "About the Authors" section of the software
documentation, we learn:
Peter Meyer received the first double honors Bachelor of Arts degree
awarded by Monash University, Melbourne, majoring both in Philosophy
and in Pure Mathematics. His mathematical research has been published
in _Discrete Mathematics_. He has travelled extensively, and spent
several years studying Tibetan Buddhism in India and Nepal. Peter is
an experienced software developer and has worked internationally as a
computer consultant. His interests include history, travel, cryptology,
geopolitics, anthropology, religion and psychedelic research. In
addition to _Timewave Zero_ he has written and published three C
function libraries, a Maya calendar program and a data encryption
software package. His DMT research has been published in _Psychedelic
Monographs and Essays_ and in the _Yearbook of Ethnomedicine and
Consciousness research_. His exploration of little-known areas of
consciousness has confirmed for him both the reality of other
dimensions of existence and of the Eckhartian/Buddhist undifferentiated
unity underlying all phenomena. He hopes to be present at the end of
history in 2012, 5125 years after its beginning.
- some questions and answers -
Q1. When you got your double honors degree in Philosophy and Pure
Mathematics at Monash University, what did you foresee yourself doing
in life?
A1. When I finished my five-year course of studies at Monash
University I was still somewhat naive and idealistic. During those
years I seemed to have access to some intuitive source of metaphysical
knowledge which apparently I have now lost - or perhaps it is more
accurate to say that I am now less inclined to accept what I imagine
to be the case as actually being the case (without confirming
evidence). As a university student I felt (probably like many
university students, at least in the 60s) that there were realms of
knowledge waiting to be explored, and deep truths waiting to be
discovered. This was why I studied Philosophy and Mathematics (having
switched over from earlier undergraduate studies in natural science),
searching for deep truths.
When I graduated I had no clear idea of what I was going to do in
life, beyond the general aim of continuing this search for deep
truths. I gave little thought to a career, or to the question of
earning a living. I had seriously considered doing graduate work in
AI with John McCarthy at Stanford University, but my interest in
psychology (especially that of Jung and of Piaget) won out. I had
inherited some property following my mother's death in 1970, and upon
graduating I sold this and left Australia to travel to Europe via
Asia, which I did.
Q2. What was the nature of the research you have had published in
"Discrete Mathematics"?
This was a paper entitled "On the Structure of Orthomodular Posets",
in the 1974 volume. It was my final-year undergraduate thesis in
mathematics, which I wrote in 1970. It is exceedingly abstract. In
it I prove a number of theorems about the construction of orthomodular
posets of various kinds from sets of sets satisfying certain mathematical
conditions. As far as I know no mathematician ever extended this line
of research any further. It was a path I went down that none cared to
follow.
Q3. What motivated you to study Tibetan Buddhism? Where in India and
Nepal did you go to, and who did you study with?
A3. As a first-year university student at the age of 18 I inclined to
atheism and agnosticism, but I then read Christmas Humphreys' book
"Buddhism", and immediately felt that this was a philosophy/religion
that made sense to me. However, I still cannot quite accept what
to some is the first principle of Buddhism, that this life is an
unmitigated realm of suffering. I prefer to see all sentient life as
an expression of a divine creativity, a viewpoint somewhat more akin
to the Hindu view of the world as divine play (illusion though it
ultimately may be).
I was, like many people, first attracted to Tibetan Buddhism when
I discovered Tibetan art, especially the thanka paintings of the
tantric deities. This was around the time, in 1967, when I began
doing acid, which really opened me up to metaphysical and religious
dimensions. In the late 1960s I (with many others) read the works of
Lama Anagarika Govinda and of John Blofeld, and I came to believe that
the deepest truths were surely to be found in Tibetan Buddhism.
I had some first-hand contact with the Tibetan tradition during my
first visit to India in 1971. I continued on to Europe to study
Jungian psychology, then returned to Australia in 1972 to do some
graduate work in Kantian philosophy. I returned to Europe in 1974,
where I met H. H. Sakya Trizin, the head of the Sakyapa Order of
Tibetan Buddhism. I expressed to him my wish to study Tibetan
Buddhism more deeply, and he suggested I return to North India (Dehra
Dun) to study with him, which I did. I spent most of 1975-1979
studying with, and in the service of, this lama (who spoke good
English). I also received teachings from another lama, H. H. Chogye
Trichen Rimpoche, head of the Tsharpa branch of the Sakyapa tradition,
and abbot of the Tibetan monastery at Lumbini in Nepal.
Q4. As a software developer and computer consultant, have you always
been freelance, or did you ever work for large corporations? I am
also curious about the nature of the "three C function libraries" and
the data encryption software package.
A4. I learned to program in FORTRAN IV in 1965, while working for a
year with the Post Office in Melbourne. I did no programming during
the 70s. In the early 80s I was a freelance software developer in
California, and developed software for the Apple // which was
published. Since then I have sometimes been employed at small or
medium-sized corporations and sometimes have been a freelance
consultant or developer. In the mid-80s I got into MS-DOS software
development and during the last five years I have programmed mainly in C.
In late 1989 I found myself in California, having just returned from
18 months in Europe, and was broke. The idea of getting a job and
being a wage-slave for the rest of my life did not appeal to me.
Instead I resolved to develop and publish software for a living. I
managed to eke out a a bare existence while developing software on
others' PCs, and during 1989-92 I created four C function libraries
(these are tools useful to C programmers) and three application
programs: a Maya calendrical conversion program, Timewave Zero
(illustrating Terence McKenna's theory of time and history) and some
data encryption software. The last incorporates an encryption method
which I developed during 1990-92.
Q5. What are "Psychedelic Monographs and Essays" and the "Yearbook of
Ethnomedicine and Consciousness Research"? Who puts them out? What
is their audience? Their content?
A5. "Psychedelic Monographs and Essays" (published by Thomas Lyttle,
first issued in 1985) evolved from the "Psychozoic Press" (published
by Elvin D. Smith, first issued in 1982). Both were/are collections
of essays and informative material dealing with all aspects of
psychedelics and psychoactive plants and fungi, with occasional
articles about psychedelic researchers and their work. The latest
volume of Psychedelic Monographs and Essays is #6, and has articles
classified under the headings of Spirituality, Psychotherapy,
Literature, Parapsychology and Pharmacology. It is available from
PM&E Publishing, P.O. Box 4465, Boynton Beach, FL 33424, for $20.00
postpaid within the U.S., $27.00 outside the U.S.
The "Yearbook of Ethnomedicine and Consciousness Research" is similar.
It is edited by the German anthropologist Dr. Christian Raetsch and
contains some articles in English and some in German. The first
volume was published in late 1992. It is available from the publisher,
Amand Aglaster, VWB, Postfach 11 03 68, 1000 Berlin 61, Germany.
Q6. How did you get into psychedelic research? DMT research?
A6. My initial awareness of the existence of psychedelics came from
reading Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception" in 1966. I knew
immediately that this was a field of research I wished to explore. My
opportunity came a few months later when an artist friend in Melbourne
informed me that some LSD had shown up. It was probably synthesized
locally, and was quite impure, but blew me away. Life has never been
the same since.
I know of nothing more interesting and worthy of study than the
multitude of conscious states available through the use of psychedelics.
Had psychedelic research not been made illegal (this is itself a crime
against humanity) I would presumably have pursued my biochemical/-
psychological/philosophical studies under the auspices of academia.
Instead I abandoned the academic world for the study of Tibetan
Buddhism in India and later got into software development in the U.S.
and in Europe. But I have never ceased to do psychedelics occasionally,
and sometimes frequently, garnering such information and understanding
as I can under the circumstances.
A couple of years after I began doing acid I discovered the delights
of marijuana and hashish, which subject I researched enthusiastically
in Asia beginning in 1971 (when the hash shops in Kathmandu were still
open and legal, before they were closed down at the insistence of the
U.S. Government). Morning glory seeds in 1974. In 1978 I discovered
psilocybin mushrooms at Palenque in Mexico. In 1983 MDMA in Berkeley.
In 1987 DMT in Hawaii. In 1988 Ketamine in Switzerland. In 1990
5-MeO-DMT in Berkeley.
My interest in DMT arose from hearing Terence McKenna speak of it in
some of his taped talks (especially his "Tryptamine Hallucinogens and
Consciousness"). My first experience with it was pretty strange; on
my second I thought I was dying. My initial encounter on DMT with the
alien entities did not come until two years later. As Terence has
said, and which I can confirm, the DMT experience is the weirdest
thing you can experience this side of the grave. The rational mind
retreats in utter disbelief when confronted with it. Thus I resolved
to research the topic, which I did during 1990-91 in Berkeley, where I
had access to the Biosciences Library at U.C. Berkeley. I gathered
reports from those few people I knew who had smoked it, and the
article which resulted appeared simultaneously in each of the journals
mentioned above.
- the blurb for Timewave Zero -
This software illustrates Terence McKenna's theory of time,
history and the end of history as first described in the book
"The Invisible Landscape" by him and his brother Dennis, and more
recently in his "The Archaic Revival" (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)
The theory of Timewave Zero was revealed to Terence by an alien
intelligence following a bizarre, quasi-psychedelic experiment
conducted in the Amazon jungle in Colombia in 1971. Inspired by
this influence Terence was instructed in certain transformations
of numbers derived from the King Wen sequence of I Ching hexagrams.
This led eventually to a rigorous mathematical description of
what Terence calls the timewave, which correlates time and
history with the ebb and flow of novelty, which is intrinsic to
the structure of time and hence of the temporal universe. A
peculiarity of this correlation is that at a certain point a
singularity is reached which is the end of history - or at least
is a transition to a supra-historical order in which our ordinary
conceptions of our world will be radically transformed. The
best current estimate for the date of this point is December 21,
2012 CE, the winter solstice of that year and also the end of the
current era in the Maya calendar.
The primary function of the software is to display any portion of
the timewave (up to seven billion years) as a graph of the
timewave related to the Western calendar (either Gregorian or
Julian). You can display the wave for the entire 4.5-billion-year
history of the Earth, note the peculiarities of the wave at such
points as the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs (65 million
years ago) and inspect parts of the wave as small as 92 minutes.
The software provides several ways of manipulating the wave display,
including the ability to zoom in on a target date or to step back
to get the larger picture.
A remarkable quality of the timewave is that it is a fractal.
Once a part of the wave is displayed the software allows you to
expand any smaller part (down to 92 minutes). This usually
reveals a complexity of structure which persists however much the
wave is magnified, a property typical of fractals. The idea that
time has a fractal structure (in contrast to the Newtonian
conception of time as pure, unstructured duration) is a major
departure from the common view of the nature of time and physical
reality. That time is a fractal may be the reason why fractals
occur in Nature.
The documentation describes the origin, construction and
philosophical significance of the timewave, the use of the
software, the mathematical definition of the timewave (with
proofs of some related mathematical theorems) and certain curious
numerical properties.
An interesting part of the theory is the assertion of historical
periods "in resonance" with each other. Resonantly we have (in
1993) emerged from the fall of the Roman empire and are well into
the transitional period known historically as the Dark Ages. The
software permits graphical display of different regions of the
timewave that are in resonance with each other. This allows the
period 1945 - 2012 to be interpreted as a resonance of the period
2293 BC - 2012 CE. New in this version is the ability to graph
trigrammatic resonances in addition to the major resonances, and
to construct a sequential set of eleven trigrammatic resonances.
There is a new appendix concerning some recent mathematical results.
The Timewave Zero software at last permits a scientific examination
of Terence's long-standing claim to have discovered the root cause
of the ups and downs of historical vicissitude. If his theory is
confirmed then we can look forward to a rough, but very interesting,
ride in the twenty years leading up to the climactic end-point of
history in 2012. During this time the events of the period from
745 CE are expected to recur (albeit in modern form).
Timewave Zero 4.12 requires MS-DOS (2.10 or later) and runs on
IBM PC compatibles with and without a graphics adaptor.
- a final note -
Timewave Zero is currently published by Fringeware Inc., P. O. Box 49921,
Austin, TX 78765, USA, and should also be available from Sound
Photosynthesis in Mill Valley, CA and from Nightbloomers in Berkeley, CA;
or from AO Corporation, 134 Granada Dr, Corte Madera, CA 94925.
Fringeware has a mailing list:
fringeware-request@wixer.cactus.org
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:.:.::...::..:::..::.::..::..::::::...::::..:::.::...:::..::..:::..::..::...::
I T T
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
INTERNET TAKEOVER TEAM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seniors/Founders
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Phearless Leader: eL_diabLo
Script Kingpin: Wicked Angel
'Leetest Butt: Hermit
The Chronicler: Astinus
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Members
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Man With The Code: Zircon
Man With The Emm-Cee-Bee: DuSt
Man With The Warez: JuICe
Man With The Big Bust: iCePiK
Man With No Nook: Shaft
::..We have no others ..::
::..So umm ... contact..::
::..Any senior above ..::
::..To see if you have..::
::..What it takes!! :)..::
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
---NFO done Feb. 5, 1995 @ 12:19pm EST
---Wicked Angel
(c)1995 CSI/ITT
---NFO changed Feb 5, 1995 @ 1:19pm CST
- DuSt was added as a member.
- I (Astinus) have taken over
- maintenance of the userlist
---Astinus [WRATH]
---NFO changed Feb 5, 1995 @ 8:42pm CST
- Juice was added as a member.
---Astinus [WRATH]
---NFO changed Feb 5, 1995 @ 10:19pm CST
- iCePiK was added as a member.
---Astinus [WRATH]
---NFO changed Feb 5, 1995 @ 10:27pm CST
- Shaft was added as a member.
---Astinus [WRATH]
---NFO changed Feb 6, 1995 @ 11:44am CST
- Format was changed.
---Astinus [WRATH]
This Week's Quotes 'n News 'n Stuph
Hermit: "Wuff."
WAngel: "Astinus said 'blabf'"
Astinus: "Ribbit."
DuSt: "WAngel: TAKE sucks!"
On a lighter note, WAngel released a new improved version TAKE.IRC.
Astinus is still continuing his work on WRATH, including the now famous
WRATHBot.
Hermit is still proclaiming the 'leetness of his butt.
eL_diabLo is currently taking over #warez5 and #warez6, out of sheer boredom.
Zircon has just recently released his latest evyl creation upon the world.
DuSt has just discovered the wonders of mcb.
JuICe has recently disappeared, but have no phear, for he shall be found..
iCePiK is currently running around incognito, nick killing lamers left and
right.
Shaft is busy making #warez, #warez3, and #null his home.
Apparently, there has been a split in the warez world. ZillionZ has lost
a few members, which left to form a rival group, PaTW. PaTW is a collection
of former ZillionZ, Genesis, and Razor personnel. It is lead by ScRaTcH.
What else is new.. umm.. well.. nothing. Wanna buy a watch?
Ribbit.
Astinus [WRATH]
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INTERNET TAKEOVER TEAM
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Seniors/Founders
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Phearless Leader: eL_diabLo
Backup Phearless Leader: Warl0ck
Script Kingpin: Wicked Angel
'Leetest Butt: Hermit
The Chronicler: Astinus
Fuxing Megasplitter: onethumb
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Members
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Man With The Code: Zircon
Man With The Emm-Cee-Bee: DuSt
Man With The Warez: JuICe
Man With The Big Bust: iCePiK
Man With No Nook: Shaft
Man With No Pee Pee Pee: Mal_2
Man With The Cardz: LoTBD
Man SaRGoN
::..We have no others ..::
::..So umm ... contact..::
::..Any senior above ..::
::..To see if you have..::
::..What it takes!! :)..::
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
---NFO changed Feb 7, 1995 @ 08:27pm CST
- New Members were added:
-Mal_2
-LoTBD
-onethumb
- Fixed GLARING ommision of Warl0ck as
Founder.
---Astinus [WRATH]
---NFO changed Feb 8, 1995 @ 10:57pm CST
- Fixed dumb date error. Doh!
- Updated News.
- Added SaRGoN to membership list.
---Astinus [WRATH]
---NFO changed Feb 11, 1995 @12:25pm CST
-Updated all kinda happy stuph.
---Astinus [WRATH]
This Week's Quotes 'n News 'n Stuph
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Warl0ck: "Hi, I'm Warl0ck, don't fuq with me."
eL_diabLo: "Yes yes yall its itt yall."
Hermit: "Hugs are good, drugs are bad."
Astinus: "The Official ITT Bong!"
Mal_2: "We need a WWW Home Page."
Hermit: "so, yesterday, i beat the shit out of him with my official itt
fists."
WAngel: "tibbir."
Ripjack: "Sweaty Breasts."
Shaft: "rittib."
News: The Big News? fC are back from their self-imposed exile. You know
what that means: we'll finally have some QUALITY warez instead of lame-o
QUANTITY warez.
Other news? Well. We REALLY can't stand it when ppl we don't know keep on
asking us "Can I join ITT?" ITT is a very exclusive group, committed to
excellence in destruction. You must meet/exceed high criteria to join. To
join, 2 (two) founders and/or seniors must vouch for you. If this happens,
then the seniors are asked if they have any exception/objection to your
joining. If they do have an objection, then a discussion will ensue. If
you pass the seniors' scrutinous eye, then your case goes before the founders.
The founders have the power to veto the descision, thus, they have the last
word.
Anything else? Umm. This week marked the passing of Hermit's cat. To
mourn this loss to ITT, all members of ITT typed in black characters.
"Lucky" was put to sleep, to end the suffering. As Hermit delicately put it,
"he got cat-cancer."
/---------\
| Lucky |
| 1 9 8 6 |
| t o |
| 1 9 9 5 |
| Rest In |
| Peace |
-----------
Lucky, the official ITT cat, dead at age 9.
Though this has been a very sad week for ITT, there have also been some
highlights. We Have brought our Backup Phearless Leader (Warl0ck) out of
Cryogenic Storage. We now have 2 (two) leaders to bow to and live in phear
of. Welcome back Warl0ck.
Astinus' WRATHNite proved itself worthy when it was able to singlehandedly
take #warez back. Progress on the bot and the script is slow, but
proceeding well. Date of release of all of Astinus' WRATH scripts is unknown
but phear not, it shall (hopefully) be soon. WRATH will be released as an
ITT product. It will include, with Fiend's permission, Fiend's Killide
(v2.8 or whatever else we can find), Astinus' OPCollider, Astinus' Opper,
Astinus' WRATHNite (tm), and the general WRATHScript itself.
More news stuph: CoolBlue has found a way to kick anyone running linux outta
irc. An unstoppable nuke. A VERY useful trick.
We welcome onethumb, Mal_2, LoTBD, and SaRGoN to the fold. All very worthy
(and QUITE lethal) additions.
The Official ITT Lamer of the Week Award Goes To: "bushland@jolt.mpx.com.au
(Edward Hodgson)" has been making an ass of himself lately. Claims he can
take over any channel whenever he wants to, and likes to play with #warez.
I suggest we all add him our ABK's and then just ignore the lamer.
Hell, ban his whole provider too.
Miscellany: -Do we want a channel to call home, or are our usual haunts
all that we need? I suggest we deal with this soon.
-The ever protective SLOTHBots have reached v1.9i. Good job
Asudem. Now if only i could find those dirs....
-I've stopped adding ppl to the membership list until
ITT0213.NFO is released. Does everyone agree to the
criteria needed to join ITT?
Ribbit.
Astinus [WRATH]
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in the summer after I got arrested for manufacturing and detonating illegal
explosives (making and lighting off pipe bombs). After that, my piece of shit
computer was confiscated. LeECH went down as did Realm Of The Undead.
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and now I'm starting up LeECH again. If you are interested in writing, give me
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The BëM Squad
presents
"Should Drugs be Legal?"
by
Mr. Sandman
10/14/93
þDisclaimerþ
There is no need for a disclaimer in this article being that
it deals purely with opinion. If you don't like it then
don't read it! My views are not necessarily the views of the
BëM Squad.
þ Should Drugs be Legal? þ
This question has been asked many times throughout the years
and it seems that even though our country continues to fight this
so called "war" on drugs their use has not really declined. It is
necessary to look at both sides of this issue before one can make
a final conclusion. Let us look at why they are illegal and why it
is wrong or hypocritical that they are illegal.
Many people feel that drugs hurt people and their families and
a sad thing is that drugs can do this. However, is that a
reasonable cause to make them illegal? No. It is possible for any
substance to do this but that is the fault of the person who uses
it. Also, the government does not seem to care about this anyways.
For example, alcohol has been known to destroy more people and
families than most other substances. Yet is it illegal? Hell no!
The argument here is that the use of alcohol can be controlled. It
is also possible for people to control their drug use. Also, it is
hypocritical for the government to keep alcohol legal when it does
the same damage as drugs. You will also notice that cigarettes are
also legal and they can give cancer to those who smoke them and
those who are around people who smoke them. Yet for some reason
they are legal. Are you seeing any flaws in the claim that the
government keeps drugs illegal because they hurt people? I hope so
because they are numerous.
What most people seem to think is that alcohol is harmless
compared to let's say marijuana for argument sake. What people fail
to realize is that both do damage. Look at it this way: If you get
a buzz from it you are doing damage to your body. They have linked
the use of marijuana to impotence and Alzheimer's Disease. Alcohol
can also cause Cirrhosis of the Liver, brain hemorrhaging, death if
too much is consumed, and it also causes Alzheimer's Disease. Not
once have I heard of anyone dying because they smoked too much
marijuana but how many times have you heard of people dying because
they drank too much? Alcohol can actually be more dangerous than
marijuana and yet it is marijuana that is illegal. Once again, a
flaw in the claim that drugs are illegal because they harm you.
Another reason as to why drugs are illegal is that fact that
they alter peoples' moods and states which can cause bad things.
One of the great fears is that people will drive while they are
high. However is this a reason to keep them illegal? No. Alcohol
is legal and yet people drive on it all the time. However, it is
illegal to drive drunk. A law could also be passed to make it
illegal for one to drive while they are high. If people are
responsible for their actions when they are drunk then they can
alsobe responsible when they are high.
Then of course there is the great fear of, "What will happen
to our country if drugs are legalized? Everyone will turn into
zombies!" This is an exaggeration and also not anyone's business.
If people want to be zombies then it is their right to do so. It is
not illegal for anyone to be drunk all the time and yet it hasn't
messed up the country. The same would probably happen with drugs.
Just because they are legal does not mean that people would use
them all the time. In fact, usage would most likely go down due to
their availability. If it is an easy thing to get drugs then it
wont be a big deal for someone to have them and the urge wont be as
great to do them. You may have a little boom in their usage like
the usage of alcohol after prohibition but this would not last
forever.
Lets start looking at how the country could benefit if drugs
were legalized. Right now it is obvious that our economy is majorly
fucked up due to our national deficit and it is greatly affecting
our lives. Nobody wants to pay taxes in order to do away with this.
The legalization of drugs would greatly help our economy. Drugs
could become a totally government owned industry our drugs could
just be taxed to the extremes. By just legalizing Marijuana we
could generate a hell of a lot of money which we could put towards
the deficit. No Republicans our Democrats should have any
objections to this because taxes would not have to be raised.
Another benefit is where we could direct our crime
enforcement. A great deal of money is spent by the government to
fight a war on drugs and as we know drugs are one of the main
contributors to crime. If we legalized drugs we could cut off most
organized crime rings by the balls and they would have to go back
to the old days where they controlled gambling and prostitution.
The police could then focus their efforts on capturing murderers
instead of going after people who are just looking for a good time.
Millions of dollars would also be freed by this since the
government wouldn't have to finance a drug war which could all go
towards the deficit.
And last, but definitely not least, drugs should be legal
simply because people want them. Is it really the governments
business what chemicals we are putting into our body? No! And does
the government even really care what chemicals we put into our
body? Of course not because known substances which do damage are
still legal (ie. NutraSweet, Saccharin, Cigarettes, and Alcohol.)
If people want to do damage to their bodies then they should be
allowed to. Our bodies do not belong to the government! Therefore
the government should not say what people can and can't ingest or
inject into their bodies. The government belongs to the people so
if people want to be able to legally purchase drugs then they
should be able to.
However, drugs will not be legalized for many reasons. The one
theory I tend to believe is this. The alcohol has a heavy lobbying
group which gives money to the government in order to keep drugs
illegal. They do this because if drugs were legalized then they
would lose all the business of the teenagers which buy their
products. What teenager is going to go and buy a bunch of beers
for everyone at a party to get drunk on if he can go and buy a
little marijuana and get everyone feeling great without any
hangover effects afterwards? It is obvious that no teenager would
do this and that is one of the main reasons for drugs remaining
illegal. If people really want to see drugs legalized then they
must start a lobbying group of their own which can eventually
overcome the alcohol lobbyists. Talks and debates are not going to
do a thing because the government does not care. It is a money
thing. The day this happens is the day you will see drugs legalized
but this will probably not happen for a very long time if at all.

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The Liminal Group (of Bowling Green, OH & other strange places) is
proud to present the e-zine version of _Liminal_, an alternative
scholarly culture studies magazine.
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_Liminal 1.0: Manifestos, Rants, Crossword Puzzles, etc._
c. 1992 The Liminal Group. All rights reserved.
For info, write The Liminal Group, Box 154, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403
(email c/o swilbur@andy.bgsu.edu)
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*feel free to distribute this in hard- or soft-copy. just don't sell it.*
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
LIMINAL seeks to apply new inter and transdisciplinary methods,
theories, ideas, concepts, and approaches to the study of cultural
phenomena as well as the inventive application of existing approaches.
Submissions should be exploratory and questioning in attitude and
may take the form of verse, cartoon, photography, collage, etc. in
addition to research monographs and essays.
The term "cultural phenomena" is taken to mean, but not limited to meaning:
1) an activity engaged in by humans as members of a social network,
2) the product(s) of such engagement(s),
3) the motivators of such activities or engagements,
4) the functioning of such social networks themselves.
Editorializing is encouraged, pontification is not.
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John A. Dowell
This is a public declaration of intent for the journal Liminal,
volume one, number zero. That is, here's what I declare I intend for
the public to do.
*Big Nutty Fun Puzzle Page*
Get out a sheet of paper, your ruler, and a sharp writing
instrument. Make a ten by ten grid on the paper; we're creating
a crossword puzzle. I'll go from left to right, top to bottom, and I'll
tell you where to put the solid blocks, open spaces, and the little clue
numbers that will go in the upper left corners of an open space.
Remember, this is a ten by ten puzzle that has absolutely no
semblance of symmetry.
Top line: block, 1, three blocks, 2, two blocks, 3, block.
Second line: 4, two spaces, 5, 6, two spaces, 7, space, block.
Third line: 8, space, block, 9, two spaces, block, space, two blocks.
Fourth line: 10, three spaces, block, space, block, space, two blocks.
Fifth line: 11, space, three blocks, 12, three spaces, two blocks.
Sixth line: 13, space, three blocks, space, block, space, two blocks.
Seventh line: space, two blocks, 14, five spaces, block.
Eighth line: 15, two spaces, two blocks, space, block, space, block.
Ninth line: space, four blocks, space, four blocks.
Tenth line: 16, seven spaces, two blocks.
Here are the clues:
ACROSS
4. two words Liminal should strive to use
8. a Roman pair
9. opsys for real propeller heads
10. to be truly this is to be truly aware
11. ai/bi/
12. sort of erbation, especially if you are a student, an instructor,
work in a service industry, or are a politician
13. yikes
14. only salad that fits
15. type of bastard (or, see likeness to President's genitalia)
16. if Liminal fails it could be retitled this
DOWN
1. eyes too close together, as are so many egomaniacal writers
2. unknowable (duh)
3. Vice President J. Danforth Quayle truly is an idiot. Is not. Is too.
Is not. Is too. Is not. Is. Ain't. Is. Ain't. Is. Ain't....
4. big talk word
5. only tape that fits
6. sly greeting, stupid clue
7. if you are a student, an instructor, work in a service industry, or are
a politician, you must always be this
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MANIFESTO THIS . : OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE
Ben Urish
LIMINAL: NEITHER ONE "THING" NOR AN "OTHER"
They call them "urine tests." We know better. There is usually little
or no doubt that the specimen is indeed urine. That is not what is being
tested. Urine is looked to as a great giver of truths, a "Dragnet" analysis:
Just the facts. There are more days in the week than Friday. Most animals
know better. We say Urine is a liar. Urine is a stool-pigeon, a pigeon
dropping stool with every flight. The Eagle and the Pigeon are one. Pluck
them, pluck them, pluck them. They have no urine.
LIMINAL: A STATE OF CONSTANT AND CONSISTANT BECOMING
If all government sponsored school loans were paid in full tomorrow,
the nation as a whole could afford a new fighter jet and a new ABM tank.
Soon, the South American countries (God Bless Junior Achievement) will
default on their loans. We will annex Mexico to stop boarder crossings:
Mexicans will already be in the USA, so there is no reason for them to cross.
When the beings from Epsilon Bootes arrive in summer of 2011, they will
not be pleased with our "progress" God Bless Junior Achievement. Sorry
about the Aztecs. How long can a cannibalistic enterprise last? To get to
the other side.
LIMINAL: DYNAMIC DISEQUILIBRIA
American culture forces the world to a Persistence Of Mammary.
The world floats on a box of cheese, watch it next time you are there.
You can't find love in a truckload of turnips, unless it's to the stars
through Milwaukee. A corpse, a corpse, a corpse, a potato corvette. I
am Freezer Burn, you are Paper Cut. We will take vacations together,
what of our jobs when it is never Paris in the the Spring? Dance on it
until a rider in blue, with wristwatch. And he knew it all the time, until
his prenatal nuptial regressive memory. A stinging indictment of our
times, ants, the grape master.
LIMINAL: CONSTANT MOVEMENT TOWARD AN UNREALIZABLE STASIS
If it doesn't matter, do it without delay. The important will always
be there, nagging at your houseplant. You may forget the inconsequential,
unless you keep it out of sequence. In a past life, you were just as despicable
In a future life, you will be just as dull. Take comfort in the ever growing
misery, it is your creation. Torture yourself, to show others the proper way.
Scream with agony at double-stuff oreos.
LIMINAL: THE PULSING MARGINALIA
We are coerced time travelers. Each passing second takes us into t
he future. The drawback: time travel causes us to age, and eventually
lose our biological integrity. Is knowing the future worth it? The tuxedo
of desire never goes out of style, but the evening gown of domesticity is
a slave to fashion. If thy right eye offends thee, starve your pet. The
quality of mercy was found in a two-bit hotel room with truth, justice
and the American way. They were watching public executions on
television, and why not? If nude dancing is outlawed, only outlaws will
dance nude. Gum doesn't kill people, people chewing gum kills people.
Ask the boy in the ceramic jar, before he gets fired. People who need
people are the ends justifying the means. My fiance and I went to a party.
She really got stoned. So instead of a wedding, we're having a funeral.
LIMINAL: THE TREE FALLING IN THE FOREST WHEN NO ONE IS THERE
And laughed until they shot him. How many miles to Babylon? Who
gives a damn? Can we get there by candlelight? No, and please shut up.
If I were a carpenter, and you were a walrus, would you staple my
doorknobs, with jar of lettuce? Stranglers in the night, waiting for
mourning. The most honest person alive still couldn't walk to Venus.
Leonardo DaVinci never drove a car, watched tv, rode an elevator, or
phoned his Mom. I have done all of these things. Yet they call DaVinci
a genius. He is a false memory.
LIMINAL: YOU, ME, AND ALL OF US SEPARATELY AND TOGETHER, NOW AND
FOREVER, UNTO THE END OF TIME WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. AMEN.
All power to Annette FunicelloUs aura.
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LIMINAL--THE MUSICAL
Christine J. Catanzarite
Words, words, words--I'm so sick of words. I get words all day
through, first from him, now from you. Is that all you blighters can
do? Don't talk of stars burning above. If you're in love, show me. Tell
me no dreams filled with desire. If you're on fire, show me. Never do
I ever want to hear another word. There isn't one I haven't heard.
Here we are together in what ought to be a dream. Say one more word
and I'll scream.
It ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do.
I've known what's right and wrong since I've been ten. I've heard a
lot of stories and I reckon they are true, about how girls are put upon
by men. I know I mustn't fall into the pit, but when I'm with a fella, I
forget.
No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless baby-doll baby--no sir,
that kind of child ties knots no sailor ever knew. I prefer to take a chance
on a more adult romance. I flinch, I sigh, when the lass with the delicate
air goes by. I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in. I
hope and I pray for Hester to win just one more "A." The sadder but wiser
girl's the girl for me.
Mother always said I'd be very attractive when I grew up. "Different,"
she said, "with a special something and a very, very personal flair. And
though I was eight or nine, I hated her. Now, different is nice, but it
sure isn't pretty--pretty is what it's about. I never met anyone who was
different who couldn't figure that out.
So suppose a dame ain't bright
or completely free from flaws, or as faithful as a birddog, or as kind as
Santa Claus. It's a waste of time to worry over things that they have not.
Be thankful for the things they've got. There are no books like a dame,
and nothing looks like a dame. There are no drinks like a dame, and
nothing thinks like a dame. Nothing acts like a dame, or attracts like
a dame. There ain't a thing tht's wrong with any man here that can't
be cured by putting him near a girly, womanly, female, feminine dame.
Women are irrational, that's all there is to that. Their heads are
full of cotton, hay and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating,
vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags. Why
can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; eternally noble, historically fair, who, when you win, will always give your
back a pat. Why can't a woman be more like that. Why does every one do
what the others do? Can't a woman learn to use her head? Why do they do
everything their mothers do? Why don't they grow up like their fathers
instead?
I'm quick on the trigger; with targets not much bigger than a
pinpoint, I'm number one. But my score with a feller is lower than the
cellar. You can't get a man with a gun. When I'm with a pistol, I sparkle
like a crystal. I shine like the morning sun. But I lose all my luster when
with a bronco buster. No, you can't get a man with a gun.
Gentleman, a
secretary is not a toy, no, my boy; not a toy to fondle and dandle a playfully
handle in search of some puerile joy. A secretary is not to be used for play
therapy. Be good to the girl you employ. Remember, no matter what neurotic
trouble you've got, a secretary is not a toy.
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Threshold Manifesto
Liminal is the initial stage of a process of scholarly exploration,
the verge of the new, the threshold of theory, the edge of knowledge,
the blurring of boundaries, the destruction of dichotomies.
Liminal seeks to present formal and theoretical experimentation, to
publish work which challenges and invents, to illuminate the
threshold of thought.
Liminal is founded on the belief that irrationality, non-rationality,
surrealism, subrealism, the unconcious, a sense of play, and irreverence
are beneficial, even necessary, to advancing scholarly work.
Torey King
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the paper edition featured cool collage art by Philip Dickinson
(Don't you wish you could see it?!)
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1992: Washington State Makes Rock & Roll Illegal for Minors...Cops
in Arkansas Arrest a Kid for Wearing a Van Halen T-Shirt...Retailers
Arrested in Omaha for Selling 2 Live Crew Recordings...Are you tired
of the censors?
Speaking out is the primary duty of every freedom fighter - or good
citizen, if you want to put it that way, and scholar. It's a job we all have
to do, separately and collectively; where we see justice and where
injustice has been going on for so long it has become invisible. Silence
is a form of censorship, and when important issues are at stake, silence
is a form of death.
Here are some things we can do:
Emphasize the Positive. The censors do NOT have the right to define
the agenda and pick the battleground. Aggressively expose the
history of what censorship has done to ruin democracy in countries
all over the world.
You Don't have to Spend Your Life Living Like a Refugee. The
majority of Americans are moral; they're also in favor of free
speech. A July 1990 Newsweek poll showed that 75 percent of
Americans felt that the right of adults to "determine what they
may see and hear" was "more important" than society having
"laws to prohibit material that may be offensive to some segments
of the community."
On the Other hand, Remember This: The First Amendment exists to
protect speech and activities that are unpopular. If it only served
to protect that which everybody (or the majority) agreed with, it
wouldn't need to be there at all. Limiting free speech is what is
unAmerican - without it all our other rights and liberties quickly
disintegrate.
Don't Believe the Hype. Don't let censors claims they aren't censoring;
if it restricts freedom of expression, it's against the First Amendment.
Freedom Isn't Free. The majority of censorship is economic, which
forces artists to work day jobs to stay alive, and prevents them from
creating freely, let alone acquiring the equipment to work with and
the space to work in.
Keep Your Sense of Humor. This will immediately distinguish you
from the censors, who donUt have any. Censorship fanatics never
tell jokes about the issue; they never let the air out of their own
bags of wind. Don't be afraid to help them out - or to deflate your
own gasbag once in a while.
Remember the Commandment the Censors Forgot. "Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbors." That doesn't just mean
don't lie; it means get the facts straight. So go after those half-truths
and expose the lies the censors promote.
Don't Mourn. Accept no easy answers. Find out where attacks on
free speech are coming from - even if it means going back 100 or
500 years. It's important to see both censored and uncensored art.
Teach yourself the history of free music, free art, free cinema, etc.,
so that the lies of the censors wont trick you.
Take Advantage of Resources - telephones, fax machines,
photocopiers - wherever you can find them. It does not take an
army to make a big difference.
Contact Other Groups in Your Area that should have an interest
in free speech - not just art councils, but unions, civil rights
organizations, churches, journalists, broadcasters, feminists. Make
sure they understand the issue. Ask for their support - and support
their causes whenever you can.
Speak out. Stay free.
Michael Leo McHugh,
Associate Editor, Rock and Roll Confidential
American Culture Studies, Doctoral Candidate,
Bowling Green State University
Liminal Editorial Board
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It all started like a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland movie
Well
not exactly
instead of saying
Hey, let's put on a musical
someone said
Hey, let's start a journal
How we finally came to produce Liminal will be
I'm sure
an issue of debate for
future scholars
or the basis of a made-for-TV movie
I will say no more of the roots of Liminal
let its roots be shrouded
in mystery
I will
however
shed some light on what Liminal means to me
Use
the holistic metaphor matrix (pat.pen.)
below
like a Captain Midnight Decoder Ring
Liminal Mind Self Thought Environment
Peers Boundary Brain Ego idea
scholarship Family Border Medulla i
ME Cognition socialization Threshold Cerebellum
Synapses id Rumination Superego Initial stage
James T. Coon
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CROSSING LINES: LIMINAL MANIFESTOS
shawn p. wilbur
I
LIMINAL is about thresholds, limits. It is about crossing lines.
We do it all the time, step across boundaries.
Wake up in the morning. Pass out of a sleeping state. Get up,
breaking the horizontal plane of repose. Walk out the door.
Take a walk on the wild side.
Or it is done to us.
The gun barrel is steadied on the windowsill, piercing the plane
where a pane of glass would be if the window had not been opened.
It draws a line from inside to outside, through the wall of the Book
Depository. And there is a sound like a handclap. Something breaks
the speed of sound.
And in the motorcade, other boundaries are breached. Inside gets
outside. Bone and tissue are pushed past certain thresholds.
Something is over. Something is just beginning.
Across the border. . .
LIMINAL is about thresholds, limits, boundaries.
It is about crossing lines.
II
Mostly, I study books.
Some of the books are pretty good. ("Oh. Literature. You want the
English department. Down the hall.") Others aren't quite so "literary."
(Popular Culture. Don't they do that at Bowling Green?)
Books are produced by publishing companies, which are often very
interesting in their own right. (Business? History?) Books often
have cool pictures on the cover, and on the inside, too. (Art. Well,
maybe not "ART." Design?) And they're put together in interesting
ways. (I think you want Material Culture.)
But, best of all, books are read by people, who read them for all sorts
of reasons. (That's Psychology. Gotta be.) And sometimes they get
together to talk about them, in classrooms and at conventions. (Oh,
yeah. Sociology.)
Mostly I study books. That's simple enough. Right?
LIMINAL
all this and more.
III
It's a LIMINAL world, and welcome to it. Send no money. You will
be billed later. Everything is in flux, moving from one state to
another. Magically reifying into rock-hard hypercommodity.
Melting into air. It's the more-than-double bind of postmodernity.
Knowledge becomes product. Opposition is transformed into New &
Improved DISSENT TM. (Coming soon to a theater or drive-in near
you! Read the book! Join the religion! Collect all 14,052 action
figures! Just in time for Christmas.--Series 103: The Frankfurt
School, including Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas (#7) and many
more. Just call 1-900-CRT THRY for more information.*) This is the
marketplace of ideas--with a vengeance--and I hope you brought
your VISA, because they don't accept American Express.
(* $2.50/minute, 10 minute minimum.)
It's a LIMINAL world, and there's no such thing as a free lunch, a
free moment, a free idea. We are constantly inundated, involved,
implicated in and by the workings of the culture machine. There is
no way outside, no privileged all-encompassing critical vantage point,
no chance for utopian visions. But, at the same time, everything
seems distant, mediated, as if it was behind glass. As if it took place on
a television screen. There is, as we have been told, precious little
"here" here. All that was solid has melted and air is all that is left.
Hyperreality is the "real" condition of our lives. Or so it often seems.
It will require more than rigor, more than dialectics to get us out of
this mess, or to get us into it in some way that allows us to believe in
ourselves as effective agents. It is not exactly that we must embrace
our fragmentation, celebrate the oh-so-local, abandon utopias. But
we must acknowledge uncertainty when we see it, experience it.
LIMINAL is ultimately about uncertainty, acknowledging it and then
going on, talking about the world anyway. Articulating it. The words
that it contains are not presented as true in any perfect sense, but
they are honest attempts to engage with the world as we experience
it, perhaps to move toward something like truth.
LIMINAL positions itself in that transitional nonspace between the
solid and the melting, one foot in the cash box and one in the void.
Our ideas are sometimes half-formed, our devices may malfunction,
our packages have a tendency to come unwrapped. That's life. LIMINAL.
Moving. Crossing lines. These manifestos represent one line being
crossed, a venture begun. And they are an invitation to you. Join us,
as a reader or writer. Enter this LIMINAL space. Come out and play
with our (broken) toys.
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The Liminal Group:
Christine J. Catanzarite, James T. Coon, Philip Dickinson,
John A. Dowell, Mark Howell, Matthew Johnson, Torey King,
Michael McHugh, Ginny Schwartz, Ben Urish, Shawn P. Wilbur
(& You?)
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is dedicated to:
Spike Jones, Salvador Dali, Dr. Seuss, John Lennon, Guy Fawkes,
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tristan
Tzara, Max Fleisher, Dave Fleisher, Charles Ives, Edgar Allen Poe,
Charles Plymel, Franz Boas, Gilbert Seldes, Siegfried Kracauer, Victor
Turner, Charles Mackay, Ruth Benedict, Edward Lear, W.S. Gilbert,
Isaac Asimov, Gore Vidal, Timothy Leary, Lewis Carroll, Leon Trotsky,
Allen Smithee, Frederic Jameson, Ray B. Browne, The Shadow, Joe
Strummer, Michael Oriard, The Four Dons (DeLillo, Dixon, Pendleton
& Barthleme), Alvin Toffler, Clint Eastwood, Adam Ant, Marshall
McLuhan, Einstuerzende Neubauten, SRL, Jack Woodford, Peggy Gaddis,
Donna Haraway, Laibach, Chuck Taylor, Erskine Caldwell, Gummo Marx
& Shemp, Chuck Jones, Bill Scott & Jay Ward, KMFDM, Dick Sargent &
Dick York, Mom, Jimmy Stewart, Liberace, Michael O'Donoghue, Bugs
Bunny, Dick Hertz, Charo, Johhny Carson, Carl Sagan, John Carpenter,
Judy Jetson, David Cronenberg, Jean Baudrillard, Arthur & Marilouise
Kroker, Gypsy Rose Lee, Kitten Natividad, Everyone Dead, Immanuel
Velikovsky, Simon Frith, Friedrich Nietszche, Stuart Hall, Gibby
Haynes & the Butthole Surfers, Abraham Zapruder, Vladmir Mayakovsky,
Chris Elliot, Spike Milligan, Richard Pryor, King Mob, the Diggers, Jan
Palach, Mindpower, Nancy Spungen, Daffy Duck, Leonard Nimoy, Annie
Sprinkle, Bryon Gysin, The Merry Pranksters, Valerie Solanas, Hunter
S. Thompson, John Coltrane, Hugo Ball, Bobby Campbell, Don Van Vliet,
Edie Sedgwick, Sandra Good, Squeaky Fromme, Sadie Mae Glutz, Sharon
Tate, Candy Asscheeks, Kim Gordon, Sally LeRoy, The Swamp Rats ('66),
Emma Peel, Negativland, No. 6, Hershell Gordon Lewis, Peter Fonda,
The Headhunters, Isaac Hyes, Arnold the Pig, Antonio Gramsci, Karl
Marx, Mikhail Bahktin, Guy Debord, Jean Genet, Alfred Jarry, Arthur
Cravan, Marcel Duchamp, Gil Scott Heron, Chuck D., Joe Friday, Maude,
Jane Caputi & her brother Rob, Karen Finley, The Slits, UT, The SLA,
Emmett Grogan, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, The Jimi
Hendrix Experience, Captain Beefheart, LBJ (for all the right reasons),
N.W.A., Public Enemy, Madonna, John Waters, Bruce Dern, Albert
Hoffmann, Patsy Cline, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Casey Kasem, Elvis
Costello, Marlo Brando, Mel Gibson, Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby,
Cindy, Mike (R.I.P.), Carol, Alice, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Phil
Donohue, Rock Hudson, The Posies, Traci Lords, Ginger Lynn, Dave
Marsh, Greil Marcus, Ray Davies, Pete Townshend, Hugh Wilson, Famous
Teddy Z, Mike Mills, Freddy Mercury, Bill Bailey, Charlie Parker, Barbara
Stanwyck, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joan Jett, Agent 99, Patti Smith, Mitzi
Gaynor, Jane Russell, Charlotte Vale, Susie Bright, My Grandmother,
Betty Boop, The Supremes, Kate Bush, Colette, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret
Atwood, Debbie Harry, Martin Scorscese, Mel Brooks, Martin Mull, Elvis,
Jorge Lius Borges, Umberto Eco, John Mellencamp, Paolo Soleri, Bruce
Springsteen, William Gibson, John Shirley, K.W. Jeter & Horatio Alger, Jr.
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The Liminal Group is dedicated to exploring the terra incognita of the
cultural map and to formulating novel approaches to the study of
popular culture.
Liminal is (becoming) a journal, a movement, a cry in the wilderness
(and you are welcome to wail along.) For more information, write to:
============================================================
The Liminal Group
Box 154, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403
============================================================
Come out and play with our (broken) toys.
============================================================
1.1-electronic is in the works.
1.2-paper is *now* available for $4.00. 48pp.
(Make checks payable to The Liminal Group.)
*enjoy.* And let us know what you think.
Submissions welcome.
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From: swilbur@andy.bgsu.edu (shawn wilbur)
Subject: liminal 1.0
Message-ID: <C5n71D.C5q@andy.bgsu.edu>
Summary: liminal 1.0 an alt.scholarly.culture studies zine
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 19:20:01 GMT
Lines: 450
minal Group (of Bowling Green, OH & other strange places) is proud to
present the e-zine version of _Liminal_, an alternative scholarly culture
studies magazine.
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_Liminal 1.0: Manifestos, Rants, Crossword Puzzles, etc._
c. 1992 The Liminal Group. All rights reserved.
For info, write The Liminal Group, Box 154, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43402
(email c/o swilbur@andy.bgsu.edu)
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*feel free to distribute this in hard- or soft-copy. just don't sell it!*
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
LIMINAL seeks to apply new inter and transdisciplinary methods, theories,
ideas, concepts, and approaches to the study of cultural phenomena as well as
the inventive application of existing approaches.
Submissions should be exploratory and questioning in attitude and may take the
form of verse, cartoon, photography, collage, etc. in addition to research
monographs and essays.
The term "cultural phenomena" is taken to mean, but not limited to meaning:
1) an activity engaged in by humans as members of a social network,
2) the product(s) of such engagement(s),
3) the motivators of such activities or engagements,
4) the functioning of such social networks themselves.
Editorializing is encouraged, pontification is not.
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John A. Dowell
This is a public declaration of intent for the journal Liminal, volume
one, number zero. That is, here's what I declare I intend for the public to
do.
*Big Nutty Fun Puzzle Page*
Get out a sheet of paper, your ruler, and a sharp writing instrument.
Make a ten by ten grid on the paper; we're creating a crossword puzzle. I'll
go from left to right, top to bottom, and I'll tell you where to put the solid
blocks, open spaces, and the little clue numbers that will go in the upper left
corners of an open spat has
absolutely no semblance of symmetry.
Top line: block, 1, three blocks, 2, two blocks, 3, block.
Second line: 4, two spaces, 5, 6, two spaces, 7, space, block.
Third line: 8, space, block, 9, two spaces, block, space, two blocks.
Fourth line: 10, three spaces, block, space, block, space, two blocks.
Fifth line: 11, space, three blocks, 12, three spaces, two blocks.
Sixth line: 13, space, three blocks, space, block, space, two blocks.
Seventh line: space, two blocks, 14, five spaces, block.
Eighth line: 15, two spaces, two blocks, space, block, space, block.
Ninth line: space, four blocks, space, four blocks.
Tenth line: 16, seven spaces, two blocks.
Here are the clues:
ACROSS
4. two words Liminal should strive to use
8. a Roman pair
9. opsys for real propeller heads
10. to be truly this is to be truly aware
11. ai/bi/
12. sort of erbation, especially if you are a student, an instructor, work in
a service industry, or are a politician
13. yikes
14. only salad that fits
15. type of bastard (or, see likeness to President's genitalia)
16. if Liminal fails it could be retitled this
DOWN
1. eyes too close together, as are so many egomaniacal writers
2. unknowable (duh)
3. Vice President J. Danforth Quayle truly is an idiot. Is not. Is too. Is
not. Is too. Is not. Is. Ain't. Is. Ain't. Is. Ain't....
4. big talk word
5. only tape that fits
6. sly greeting, stupid clue
7. if you are a student, an instructor, work in a service industry, or are a
politician, you must always be this
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MANIFESTO THIS ! : OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE
Ben Urish
LIMINAL: NEITHER ONE "THING" NOR AN "OTHER"
They call them "urine tests." We know better. There is usually little or
no doubt that the specimen is indeed urine. That is not what is being tested.
Urine is looked to as a great giver of truths, a "Dragnet" analysis: Just the
facts. There are more days in the week than Friday. Most animals know better.
We say Urine is a liar. Urine is a stool-pigeon, a pigeon dropping stool with
every flight. The Eagle and the Pigeon are one. Pluck them, pluck them, pluck
them. They have no urine.
LIMINAL: A STATE OF CONSTANT AND CONSISTANT BECOMING
If all government sponsored school loans were paid in full tomorrow, the
nation as a whole could afford a new fighter jet and a new ABM tank. Soon, the
South American countries (God Bless Junior Achievement) will default on their
loans. We will annex Mexico to stop boarder crossings: Mexicans will already be
in the USA, so there is no reason for them to cross. When the beings from
Epsilon Bootes arrive in summer of 2011, they will not be pleased with our
"progress." God Bless Junior Achievement. Sorry about the Aztecs. How long can
a cannibalistic enterprise last? To get to the other side.
LIMINAL: DYNAMIC DISEQUILIBRIA
American culture forces the world to a Persistence Of Mammary. The world
floats on a box of cheese, watch it next time yound
love in a truckload of turnips, unless it's to the stars through Milwaukee. A
corpse, a corpse, a corpse, a potato corvette. I am Freezer Burn, you are Paper
Cut. We will take vacations together, what of our jobs when it is never Paris
in the the Spring? Dance on it until a rider in blue, with wristwatch. And he
knew it all the time, until his prenatal nuptial regressive memory. A stinging
indictment of our times, ants, the grape master.
LIMINAL: CONSTANT MOVEMENT TOWARD AN UNREALIZABLE STASIS
If it doesn't matter, do it without delay. The important will always be
there, nagging at ye inconsequential, unless
you keep it out of sequence. In a past life, you were just as despicable. In a
future life, you will be just as dull. Take comfort in the ever growing misery,
it is your creation. Torture yourself, to show others the proper way. Scream
with agony at double-stuff oreos.
LIMINAL: THE PULSING MARGINALIA
We are coerced time travelers. Each passing second takes us into the
future. The drawback: time travel causes us to age, and eventually lose our
biological integrity. Is knowing the future worth it? The tuxedo of desire
never goes out of style, but the evening gown of domesticity is a slave to
fashion. If thy right eye offends thee, starve your pet. The quality of mercy
was found in a two-bit hotel room with truth, justice and the American way.
They were watching public executions on television, and why not? If nude
dancing is outlawed, only outlaws will dance nude. Gum doesn't kill people,
people chewing gum kills people. Ask the boy in the ceramic jar, before he gets
fired. People who need people are thewedding, we're having
a funeral.
LIMINAL: THE TREE FALLING IN THE FOREST WHEN NO ONE IS THERE
And laughed until they shot him. How many miles to Babylon? Who gives a
damn? Can we get there by candlelight? No, and please shut up. If I were a
carpenter, waiting for mourning. The most honest person
alive still couldn't walk to Venus. Leonardo DaVinci never drove a cr, watched
tv, rode an elevator, or phoned his Mom. I have done all of these things. Yet
they call DaVinci a genius. He is a false memory.
LIMINAL: YOU, ME, AND ALL OF US SEPARATELY AND TOGETHER, NOW AND FOREVER,
UNTO THE END OF TIME WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. AMEN.
All power to Annette Funicello's aura.
liminaliminaliminalinaliminaliminaliminaliminaliminali
minaliminaliminaliminaliminaliminaliminaliminaliminaliminalimina
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LIMINAL-THE MUSICAL
Christine J. Catanzarite
Words, words, words-I'm so sick of words. I get words all day throughm
first from him, now from you. Is that all you blighters can do? Don't talk of
stars burning above. If you're in love, show me. Tell me no dreams filled with
desire. If you're on fire, show me. Here we are together in what ought to be a
dream. Say one more word and I'll scream.
It ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do.
I've known what's right and wrong since I've been ten. I've heard a lot of
stories and I reckon they are true, about how girls are put upon by men. I know
I mustn't fall into the pit, but when I'm with a fella, I forget.
No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless
baby-doll baby-no sir, that kind of child ties knots no sailor ever knew. I
prefer to take a chance on a more adult romance. I flinch, I sigh, when the
lass with the delicate air goes by. I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch
of sin walks in. I hope and I pray for Hester to win just one more "A." The
sadder but wiser girl's the girl for me.
Mother always said I'd personal flair. And though
I was eight or nine, I hated her. Now, different is nice, but it sure isn't
pretty -pretty is what it's about. I never met anyone who was different who
couldn't figure that out.
So suppose a dame ain't bright, or completely free from flaws, or
as faithful as a birddog, or as kind as Santa Claus. It's a waste of time to
worry over things that they have not. Be thankful for the things they've got.
There are no books like a dame, and nothing looks like a dame. There are no
drinks like a dame, and nothing thinks like a dame. Nothing acts like a dame,
or attracts like a dame. There ain't a thing tht's wrong with any man here that
can't be cured by putting him near a girly, womanly, female, feminine dame.
Women are irrational, that's all there is to that. Their heads
are full of cotton, hay and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating,
vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags. Why can't
a woman be more like a, will always give you a pat on the
back. Why can't a woman be more like that? Why does every one do what the others
do? Why don't they grow up like their fathers instead?
I'm quick on the trigger; with targets not much bigger
tore with a feller is lower than the
cellar. You can't get a man with a gun. When I'm with a pistol, I sparkle like
a crystal. I shine like the morning sun. But I lose all my luster when with a
bronco buster. No, you can't get a man with a gun.
Gentlemen! A secretary is not a toy, no, my boy; not a
toy to fondle and dandle a playfully handle in search of some puerile joy. A
secretary is not to be used for play therapy. Be good to the girl you employ.
Remember, no matter what neurotic trouble you've got, a secretary is not a toy.
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Threshold Manifesto
Liminal is the initial stage of a process of scholarly exploration, the verge
of the new, the threshold of theory, the blurring of boundaries, the destruction
of dichotomies.
Liminal seeks to present formal and theoretical experimentation, to publish
work which challenges and invents, to illuminate the threshold of thought.
Liminal is founded on the belief that irrationality,iona irreverence are
beneficial, even necessary, to advancing scholarly work.
Torey King
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collage art by Philip Dickinson (Don't you wish you could see it?)
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1992: Washington State Makes Rock & Roll Illegal for Minors...Cops in Arkansas
Arrest a Kid for Wearing a Van Halen T-Shirt...Retailers Arrested in Omaha for
Selling 2 Live Crew Recordings...Are you tired of the censors?
Speaking out is the primary duty of every freedom fighter - or good citizen,
if you want to put it that way, and scholar. It's a job we all have to do,
separately and collectively; whera form of censorship,
and when imphasize the Positive. The censors do NOT have the right to define the agenda
and pick the battleground. Aggressively expose the history of what censorship
has done to ruin democracy in countries all over the world.
You Don't have to Spend Your Life Living Like a Refugee. The majority of
Americans are moral; they're also in favor of free speech. A July 1990 Newsweek
poll showed that 75 percent of Americans felt that the right of adults to
"determine what they may see and hear" was "more important" than society having
"laws to prohibit material that may be offensive to some segments of the
community."
On the Other hand, Remember This: The First Amendment exists to protect speech
and activities that are unpopular. If it only served to protect that which
everybody (or the majority) agreed with, it wouldn't need to be there at all.
Limiting free speech is what is unAmerican - without it all our other rights
and liberties quickly disintegrate.
Don't believve the Hype. Don't let censors claims they aren't censoring; if it
restricts freedom of expression, it's against the First Amendment.
Freedom Isn't Free. The majority of censorship is economic, which forces
artists to work day jobs to stay alive, and prevents them from creating freely,
let alone acquiring the equipment to work with and the space to work in.
Keep Your Sense of Humor. This will immediately distinguish you from the
censors, who don't have any. Censorship fanatics never tell jokes about the
issue; they never let the air out of their own bags of wind. Don't be afraid to
help them out - or to deflate your own gasbag once in a while.
Remember the Commandment the Censors Forgot. "Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbors." That doesn't just mean don't lie; it means get
the facts straight. So go after those half-truths and expose the lies the
censors promote.
Don't Mourn. Accept no easy answers. Find out where attacks on free speech are
coming from - even if it means going back 100 or 500 years. It's important to see both censored and uncensored art. Teach yourself the history of free music free art, free cinema, etc., so that the lies of the censors wont' trick you.
Take Advantage of Resources - telephones, fax machines, photocopiers - wherever
you can find them. It does not take an army to make a big difference.
Contact Other Groups in Your Area that should have an interest in free speech
-not just art councils, but unions, civil rights organizations, churches,
journalists, broadcasters, feminists. Make sure they understand the issue. Ask
for their support - and support their causes whenever you can.
Speak out! Stay free!
Michael Leo McHugh,
Associate Editor, Rock and Roll Confidential
American Culture Studies, Doctoral Candidate,
Bowling Green State University
Liminal Editorial Board
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It all started like a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland movie
Well
not exactly
instead of saying
Hey, let's put on a musical
someone said
Hey, let's start a journal
How we finalde-for-TV movie
I will say no more of the roots of Lime
Use
the holistic metaphor matrix (pat.pen.)
below
like a Captain Midnight Decoder Ring
Liminal Mind Self Thought
Environment
Peers Boundary Brain Ego
idea
scholarship Family Border Medulla i
ME Cognition socialization Threshold Cerebellum
Synapses id Rumination Superego Initial stage
James T. Coon
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CROSSING LINES: LIMINAL MANIFESTOS
shawn p. wilbur
I
LIMINAL is about thresholds, limits. It is about crossing lines.
We do it all the time, step across boundaries.
Wake up in the morning. Pass out of a sleeping state. Get up, breaking the
horizontal plane of repose. Walk out the door.
Take a walk on the wild side.
The gun barrel is steadied on the windowsill, piercing the plane where a pane
of glass would be if the window had not been opened. It draws a line from
inside to outside, through the wall of the Book Depository. And there is a sound like a handclap. Something breaks the speed of sound.
And in the motorcade, other boundaries are breached. Inside gets outside. Bone
and tissue are pushed past certain thresholds. Something is over. Something is
just beginning.
Across the border. . .
LIMINAL is about thresholds, limits,
boundaries. It is about crossing lines.
II
Mostly, I study books.
Some of the books are pretty good. ("Oh. Literature. You want the English
department. Down the hall.) Others aren't quite so "literary." (Popular
Culture. Don't they do that at Bowling Green?
Books are produced by publishing companies, which are often very interesting
in their own right. (Business? History?) Books often have cool pictures on the
cover, and on the inside, too. (Art. Well, maybe not "ART? Design?) And they're
put together in interesting ways.
But, best of all, books are read by people, who read them for all sorts of
reasons. (That's Psychology. Gotta be.) And sometimes they get together to talk
about them, in classrooms and at conventions. (Oh, yeah. Sociology.)
Mostly I study books. That's simple enough. Right?
III
It's a Liminal world and welcome to it. Send no money. You will be billed
later. Everything is in flux, moving from one state to another. Magically
reifying into rock-hard hypercommodity. Melting into air. It's the
more-than-double bind of postmodernity. Knowledge becomes product. Opposition
is transformed into New & Improved DISSENT TM! (Coming soon to a theater or
drive-in near you. Read the book! Join the religion! Collect all 14,052 action
figures! Just in time for Christmas! Series 103: The Frankfurt School,
including Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas (#7) and many more. Just call 1-900-CRT
THRY for more information.*) This is the marketplace of ideas (with a
vengeance!) and I hope you brought your VISA because they don't accept American
Express.
It's a LIMINAL world, and there's no such thing as a free lunch, a free
moment, a free idea. We are constantly inundated, involved, implicated in and
by the workings of the culture machine. There is no way outside, no privileged
all-encompassing critical vantage point, no chanthe same time, everything seems distant, mediated, as if it was behind
glass. As if it took place on a television screen. There is, as he have been
told, precious little "here" here. All that was solid has melted and air is all
that is left. Hyperreality is the "real" condition of our lives. Or so it often
seems. It will require more than rigor, more than dialectics to get us out of
this mess, or to get us into it in some way that allows us to believe in
ourselves as effective agents. It is not exactly that we must embrace our
fragmentation, celebrate the oh-so-local, abandon utopias. But we must
acknowledge uncertainty when we see it, experience it.
LIMINAL is ultimately about uncertainty, acknowledging it and then going on, talking about the world anyway. The words that it contains are
not presented as true in any perfect sense, but they are honest attempts to
engage with the world as we experience it, perhaps to move toward something
like truth.
LIMINAL positions itself in that transitional nonspace between the solid and
the melting, one foot in the cash box aand one in the void. Our ideas are some- times half-formed, our devices may malfunction, our packages have a
tendency to come unwrapped. That's life. LIMINAL. Moving. Crossing lines. These
manifestos represent one line being crosson to you. Join us, as a reader or
writer. Enter this LIMINAL space.
Come out and play with our (broken) toys.
==================================================
The Liminal Group:
Christine J. Catanzarite, James T. Coon, Philip Dickinson, John A. Dowell,
Mark Howell, Matthew Johnson, Torey King, Michael McHugh, Ginny Schwartz, Ben
Urish, Shawn P. Wilbur
(& You?)
====================
is dedicated to:
Guy Fawkes, Thomas
Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tristan Tzara, Max ried Kracauer, Victor Turner, Charles Mackay, Ruth
Benedict, Edward Lear, W.S. Gilbert, Isaac Asimov, Gore Vidal, Timothy Leary,
Lewis Carroll, Leon Trotsky, Allen Smithee, Frederic Jameson, Ray B. Browne,
The Shadow, Joe Strummer, Michael Oriard, The Four Dons (DeLillo, Dixon,
Pendleton & Barthleme), Alvin Toffler, Clint Eastwood, Adam Ant, Marshal
McLuhan, Einstuerzende Neubauten, SRL, Jack Woodford, Peggy Gaddis, Donna
Haraway, Laibach, Chuck Taylor, Erskine Caldwell, Gummo Marx & Shemp, Chuck
Jones, Bill Scott & Jay Ward, KMFDM, Dick Sargent & Dick York, Mom, Jimmy
Stewart, Liberace, Michael O'Donoghue, Bugs Bunny, Dick Hertz, Charo, Johhny
Carson, Carl Sagan, John Carpenter, Judy Jetson, David Cronenberg, Jean
Baudrillard, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Gypsy Rose Lee, Kitten Natividad,
E& the Butthole Surfers, Abraham Zapruder, Vladmir
Mayakovsky, Chris Elliot, Spike MIlligan, Richard Pruor, King Mob, the Diggers,
Jan Palach, Mindpower, Nancy Spungen, Daffy Duck, Leonard Nimoy, Annie
SprinkBall, Bobby Campbell, Don Van Vliet, Edie
Sedgwick, Sandra Good, Squeaky Fromme, Sadie Mae Glutz, Sharon Tate, Candy
Asscheeks, Kim Gordon, Sally LeRoy, The Swamp Rats ('66), Emma Peel,
Negativland, No. 6, Hershell Gordon Lewis, Peter Fonda, The Headhunters, Isaac
Hyes, Arnold the Pig, Antonio Gramsci, Karl Marx, Mikhail Bahktin, Guy Debord,
Jean Genet, Alfred Jarry, Arthur Cravan, Marcel Duchamp, Gil Scott Heron, Chuck
D., Joe Friday, Maude, Jane Caputi & her brother Rob, Karen Finley, The Slits,
UT, The SLA, Emmett Grogan, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, The
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Captain Beefheart, LBJ (for all the right reasons),
N.W.A., Public Enemy, Madonna, John Wa, Marlo Brancia, Peter, Jan, Bobby, Cindy, Mike (R.I.P.), Carol, Alice,
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Phil Donohue, Rock Hudson, The Posies, Traci
Lords, Ginger Lynn, Dave Marsh, Greil Marcus, Ray Davies, Pete Townshend, Hugh
Wilson, Famous Teddy Z, Mike Mills, Freddy Mercury, Bill Bailey, Charlie
Parker, Barbara Se Vale, Susie Bright, My
Grandmother, Betty Boop, The Supremes, Kate Bush, Colette, Jeanne Moreau,
Margaret Atwood, Debbie Harry, Martin Scorscese, Mel Brooks, Martin Mull,
Elvis, Jorge Lius Borges, Umberto Eco, John Mellencamp, Paolo Soleri, Bruce
Springsteen, William Gibson, John Shirley, K.W. Jeter & Horatio Alger, Jr.
============================================================
The Liminal Group is dedicated to exploring the terra incognita of the cultura
l map and to formulating novel approaches to the study of popular culture.
The Liminal Group is (becoming) a journal, a movement, a cry in the wilderness
(
and you're welcome to wail along). Write to:
The Liminal Group
Box 154, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403
============================================================
Come out and play with our (broken) toys.
==================
1.1-electronic is in the works.
1.2-paper is due out any day now.
*enjoy!* And let us know what you think.
Submissions welcome.
swilbur@andy.bgsu.edu
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EXPLORATIONS? cover/essay
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"The Liminal Group is dedicated to exploring the terra incognita
of the cultural map."
In our recent collection of manifestos, we used these words to describe, at
least in part, the purpose of LIMINAL. We stand by our words. However, the
reputation of explorers isn't what it used to be--with good reason--and, in the
aftermath of the Columbus Day Anniversary and the controversy that
surrounded it, some careful examination of "cultural exploration" seems to be
in order. Exploration, as a prelude to commercial exploitation or military
conquest, has been the cutting edge of Western History. And it has been one of
the dominant metaphors of progress-obsessed modernity--a metaphor
powerful enough to unite pioneers, Indian fighters, conquistadors and LRRPs
with scientists, entrepreneurs and philosophers in a grand movement toward
"truth." That modernist narrative has taken a beating lately, but consider
the current vogue of "mapping" in postmodern discourse. Consider the
independent use of the exploring metaphor by several members of this group.
One of the keys elements in postmodern experience is the "melting" of that
comfortably mapped, well-explored and -exploited modernist terrain, and the
result in a profound disorientation. And this comes at a time when the
repercussions of modernity run amok demand that we develop some way of
orienting ourselves to the world around us, so that we can intervene.
Can we live without exploration? Can we function as intellectually and
politically active scholar/citizens without at least attempting to survey the
land around us? I suspect that we cannot not map. But must our explorations
be intrusive, disruptive, possessive, colonizing? Are there some "lands" that
should simply remain unknown, or unthought, for the good of all? We can
only wait and see. In the meantime, we must realize that if we are to carry on
with a project of cultural exploration then we must take responsibility for our
actions, intrusion, colonizations. And we must come to terms with mapping a
landscape that is constantly changing, contingent, shifting beneath our feet.
Difficult, exciting work. May we engage in it with more wisdom and humanity
than we have shown thus far.
Shawn P. Wilbur
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LIMINAL Statement of Purpose
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LIMINAL seeks to apply new inter and transdisciplinary methods, theories,
ideas, concepts, and approaches to the study of cultural phenomena as well as
the inventive application of existing approaches.
Submissions should be exploratory and questioning in attitude and may take
the form of verse, cartoon, photography, collage, etc. in addition to research
monographs and essays.
The term "cultural phenomena" is taken to mean, but not limited to meaning:
1) an activity engaged in by humans as members of a social network, 2) the
product(s) of such engagement(s), 3) the motivators of such activities or
engagements, 4) the functioning of such social networks themselves.
Editorializing is encouraged, pontification is not.
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PERFORMANCE/THEORY
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In "Re/Search #13: Angry Women," Andrea Juno and V. Vale write of
gender bending by gays and lesbians: "The very act of subverting something
so primal and fixed in society as one's gender role can unleash a creativity
that is truly needed by society--like a shamanistic act" (4) [my emphasis].
Interviews with the women performance artists in the book refer to the
ritualistic power of performance as transformation. The performer becomes
someone or something else through her performance, like the participants in
a voodoo ritual trance. But performance can also change more than the
performer. Like a type of social alchemy, a performance or a series of
performances can transform audiences as well as media and representational
conventions and formulas. Performances of any type can become group
rituals which transcend the immediate environment of the venue. The power
of these performances can reach beyond the time and space of the
performance itself. And if utilized properly, this power of transformation can
change societies, cultures, the world. Think of the power of Hitler's Nazi
rallies and his own performances at those rallies and elsewhere. Think of the
power of performance (as one part of the total presentation) in presidential
campaigns in the United States. Think of potential that power possesses to
enact positive social change rather than to manipulate the masses.
Performance as transformation and as an agent of social change warrants
suitable theories with which to be explore it academically. I suggest that
theory itself become a process, a series of actions--theorizing--rather than an
object--theory. Theory as process can illuminate subjects such as live
performance in a new and perhaps more appropriate light. The potential for
change inherent within a performance becomes clearer if the theory used to
analyze it is capable of revealing that potential. Also, theory as process is
more appropriate to a perspective which seeks social change, such as feminism.
The characteristics which make theory a process are those valued by feminism.
Theory as process--feminist theorizing--is much more inclusive than traditional
theory. Not only can feminist theorizing analyze a performance by Karen
Finley in a more dynamic manner, a performance by Karen Finley can
potentially be feminist theorizing. Theory and its subjects become united in
the goal of social change, activism and theory are melded through public
performance.
In defining feminist theory or feminist theorizing, the humanist
standards of consistency and comprehensiveness often used to judge
theory should be discarded. I propose that feminist theory should be a
process which eschews rather than values mastery, closure, and totality.
By disregarding humanist standards of what theory should be, feminist
theory can avoid the sometimes static, monolithic, restrictive nature of
traditional theory by becoming a process. Each instance of feminist
theorizing, each action, is one in a series over time which accumulates
power--power to change institutions, practices, and perceptions. Feminist
theorizing is in part a process of meaning production in which women are
constituted with their own subjectivity recognized and represented.
As a process, feminist theorizing, theory as process, reconciles and/or
negates the usual dichotomies of thought/action and theory/practice.
Also, feminist theorizing strives to simultaneously illuminate the past,
evaluate the present, and expand the options for and point the way into
the future. To paraphrase Juno and Vale, to subvert something so
fundamental to academia as theory is to unleash a creativity that is truly
needed by academics who are working for social change. Perhaps it is
one step in descending from the isolation of the ivory tower and toward
making our work useful in the struggles of everyday life.
Torey L. King
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THE AFFECTATIONS OF ENTROPY
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I: IN WHICH DARWIN IS WRONG AGAIN.
Recently television's THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL (a dangerous misnomer in
this case) presented a limited series titled BRAIN SEX, based on a popular
book of the same name. (Please note: the following is all in reference to the
show and not the book.) Before you leap to wild thoughts about LBJ and JFK
be forewarned: the topic here is the inherent sexual dimorphism of the
human brain and not political cogito interruptus.
Quite simply the series is an excuse to pass off long discarded views of
biological determinism as cutting edge science. Recent revelations about
human brain physiognomy are incorrigably declared "proofs" for all
manner of social behaviors.
There's no denying that human brains are sexually distinct and that certain
behavioral differences between males and females of a given population may
have their root in those differences. But BRAIN SEX exceeds the grounds of
reasonable scientific inquiry as matter of course.
Particular examples are virtually endless, but major concerns should suffice
here. Viewers are frequently exposed to people having the amount of blood in
certain areas of their brains measured as they solve problems. Since men and
women differ in this, it is "proved" that the behaviors measured are functions
of biology, not sociocultural indoctrination. It actually proves nothing of the
kind. The things tested (face recognition, determining emotional states, etc.)
are clearly all culturally induced gender differences, not biological
imperatives.
We are then subjected to declarations that sexuality is also completely induced
through brain morphology. We are told this determination is good, since
"moralists" will now have to reevaluate their positions. What!?! Without going
into the tentative nature of the studies quoted, there is no reason to believe
that "moralists" will have to do any reevaluating about their positions at all
except to now declare that homosexual activity is a function of genetic
failure. In short, gays/lesbians are freaks with messed up brains. Hardly a
step toward tolerance, I would think. And I can't help but think of the
morphological determinism of centuries past which had societies locking people
up because of eyebrow hair and crooked noses, the obvious biological
manifestations of twisted criminal brains. Our science is perhaps more
sophisticated (perhaps) but it seems that, sadly, we are not.
Another disagreeable aspect of the series is the cloying narration, written and
delivered in a puerile sickeningly-sweet style that had me reaching for
insulin. Picture a series of happy-faces saying "Vive le Differance " and you
get the general idea of the omnipresent, overly smug voice.
Boys are seen playing sports and girls enact a domestic crises, all because of
our sexed brains, no process of enculturation at work here. Passing reference
is made to the few who don't fit the paradigm---they had some pre-natal
hormone problem which accounts for their aberrant socializing. Again, this
reeks of the old "His mother was scared by an elephant while she (the mother)
was pregnant" explanation.
What's really obnoxious about all this is that the whole show mixes legitimate
scientific discoveries with wild extremist sociobiology towards an end which
reifies the dominant paradigms involving masculinity and femininity in
Western culture. Women want and need to be "domestic" (culturally defined,
but the makers of BRAIN SEX will never tell you that) because their brain
morphology makes them be that way, and men--well, just fill in the dictatorial,
dogmatic sociocultural stereotype of your choice. It is very telling that BRAIN
SEX never deals with peoples of other cultures. Speculation: if they had, they
would have had to explain the differences they found by declaring then to be
racial variations, since to admit the importance of cultural determinants (in
all but the most shallow way they do) would cast doubt on the broader
interpretations made throughout the series.
Regrettably, the series will be endlessly repeated and can be purchased on
video. So students and the interested public at large will be subjected to this
series of reprehensibly simplistic explanations. The misinformation age
continues to swamp us, and it appears that Franz Boas was guilty of severe
optimism when he declared that this century would see the end of the nature
versus nurture debate. BRAIN SEX is brain dead, and watching it will give you
a headache.
II: IN WHICH WE ENCOUNTER A DIFFERENT STAMP ACT.
One interesting thing about the brouhaha over which Elvis stamp our nation
would spit on has been that it got some people to thinking about what Elvis, or
more properly his image/icon, means to this cultural system.
After all these years it still never fails to jolt me when I happen to see
footage of Mr. Presley from his final few concerts. Here, quite obviously, is
a very sick and a most assuredly dying man. I want to scream (and often have)
"Stop it! Don't do it for me! Stay home eating fried banana sandwiches if you
like, but don't kill yourself for my enjoyment!" But he still sweats and
strains his way through the songs, turning a little paler each second until
the wall of flesh he built to protect himself collapses on him and he's gone,
smothered and crushed by his image. Too much for anyone to survive.
The "Vegas Elvis" stamp was labeled the "Fat Elvis" stamp, but it wasn't. He
got a lot worse after 1973, the last four years of his life were Mr. Presley's
treadmill to oblivion, a nightmarish hell by all accounts.
Why did it happen? One explanation is that the simple country boy just got too
big for his "britches" and drowned in his own bumpkin excesses. But it doesn't
ring true. The Elvis story may be a cultural cautionary tale, but not in that
way.
When told "Elvis died," John Lennon supposedly remarked "Yeah, when he
joined the Army," a cold and inaccurate witticism--Mr. Presley didn't join, he
was, after all, conscripted against his will.
But it does mark an important event. With Mr. Presley himself unavailable to
make new recordings, films, and appearances, a system was set up to sell Elvis
without Mr. Presley needing to participate. The genius (evil, but genius
nonetheless) of Tom Parker (the real-life blueprint for GREEN ACRES' Mr.
Haney) was his early ability to totally commodify his product.
Corporate America used the two years Mr. Presley was in the Army to
domesticate the Elvis as rebel image ( Clift-Brando-Dean format, with music
added) in full. Gone is the troubled, disenfranchised youth of LOVING YOU (a
great and eerily prescient film which, in his later years, Elvis could not bear
to watch--its about a trusting rural singer who is manipulated by his
managers and the music industry until it almost kills him) and in his place is
the fun-loving maladroit of DOUBLE TROUBLE. No threat there, and easy to mass
market. The process once begun would intensify, despite Mr. Presley's valiant
(near heroic) attempts to counter it (the 1968 "Comeback" televised special
being the most obvious). By the way, it seems more than mere coincidence that
1958-1961 was also a bad time for Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry,
Little Richard, Gene Vincent, and Eddie Cochran. What was going on?
Probably not conspiracy, but clearly no advantage was left unused or
unmanipulated.
Mr. Presley found himself surrounded by sycophants masked as confidants and
criminal opportunists disguised as close friends. He lost his personhood in the
avalanching spew of publicity which fueled and fuels the corporate machine.
From the perspective of Mr. Presley's life, shooting televisions was a rational
and restrained act. Though it hardly pays to kill the messenger, he'd probably
tried about everything else.
Clearly Mr. Presley had a range of personal troubles and made some poor
judgments--like any human. His biggest guilt was his innocence.
Mr. Presley died as mortals must, but Elvis lives on as a corporate commodity,
a consumer good, a product. Mr. Presley was killed by the consumer culture of
greed, he was mythically iconized out of existence. Even his final resting
place has become a shrine to the manufactured image, a paeon to consumptive
excess and not to the real man. Mr. Presley died from excessive and prolonged
exposure to the sins of corporate capitalism. Participants in that culture
suffer a guilt by association.
Elvis Presley, the young, vibrant, cheerful Rockabilly who was bludgeoned to
death from 1958 to 1977 calls out to us. Our culture has spit on him enough. I,
for one, choose to honor the man by boycotting the image, coming soon to a
government sanctioned United States Post Office near you.
Ben Urish
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Married ... With S/Laughter
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"So you think I'm a loser. Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a
family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born?
Well, that may mean loser to you but let me tell you something. Every morning
when I wake up I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep
again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get
in my car--with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments--to fight traffic
just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people
like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know
the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving
without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause despite it all, me
and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be are still out there
being what we don't want to be, forty hours a week for life. And the fact that
I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner."
--Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill)
Married ... With Children
After thirty years, disgruntled shoe seller Al Bundy returns "The Little
Engine That Could" and pays a $2190.20 late fine to an evil, abusive librarian.
He does this after having radio editorialists--including Paul Harvey ("I used
to like him," says Al) --condemn him and hateful television newscasters show a
hidden-camera videotape of his attempt to surreptitiously return the book
without paying the fine. "Does this mean you'll be on America's Most Wanted,
Al?" asks wife Peggy Wanker Bundy.[2] Al tells the child-hating
hegemon(ster)y/librarian--and thus us--in the above speech that choosing
not to commit suicide and ending his--and thus our--years of suffering and
disappointment on earth is an act of courage. The studio audience cheers
wildly, applauding his intrepidity, laughing, sharing his mockery and
contempt for a nearly universal symbol of childhood terror, the wicked
librarian. And we do it even if we're not wholly convinced he's right; indeed,
perhaps even because we know he may not be right.[3]
On one hand, Al Bundy maintains the working class sitcom husband's
tradition of trying to "tough out the hard times" and "better his lot," even
though he knows he is as forever doomed to failure as were Jackie Gleason's
Honeymooners of the mid-1950s. On the other hand, quite unlike Ralph
Kramden, this is a postmodern Sisyphus who fully recognizes he is locked into
the TV hell of the dominant American metanarratives centering around his
despised service-oriented, postindustrial, postNuclear Family and marriage--
and thus so do we.[4] Al, like Sisyphus, is the absurd hero who refuses to
suicide.[5] Once again we see that if, indeed, you cannot know happiness
without knowing pain, most certainly the powerful reverse is equally true.
I would submit that this is perhaps the primary reason Married ... With
Children was once the most popular sitcom in syndicated television history.[6]
This includes the syndication of M*A*S*H, which was nominated for ninety-
nine Emmies. Such a phenomenon would seem to suggest not just a fondness
for, say, sordid laughs at "dumb blonde" jokes--the somber failure of, for
example, Bosom Buddies tells us that--or even a semi-cerebral celebration of
cultural burnout. Instead, Al, his family, and their neighbors recognize,
indeed revel in, the meaningless absurdity of their very lives in this
existential situation comedy of t/errors. We, the audience, love them,
since, as we recognize ourselves in them, we fear (for) them for the ultimate
truths they convey through their electronic whimpering. As they try to cope
with current problems ranging from the mundane (concerning holiday traffic
jams of no interest to the transportation department, the fetishization of
women, the traditional work ethic, PMS, Oprah Winfrey's alleged mesmerizing
effect upon bored viewers, inadequate secondary education, postcapitalist class
awareness, and the intense drudgery of "housekeeping") to the extraordinary
(space alien invaders, local celebrities who double as ax murderers, and
ancient Celtic curses on the family name), the pathetic Bundys and their
yuppie-bourgeois neighbors[7] are laugh-tracked stand-up tragedians for the
fin-de-millennium. These characters are enacting a spectacle of playful sign-
slide between aestheticized, nihilistic kitsch and the pure horror of the
dominant signs concerning the (half-life) "decay" of "traditional (nuclear)
family values" at a time when they are being (spuriously) (re)defined by a
poorly spelling Vice-President who condemns a fictional character for having
a child after its father-to-be runs out on its mother-to-be; as has been
feared, some people clearly do have trouble distinguishing between television
f(r)iction and reality.[8] Nevertheless, as a result of the Bundy's astonishing
popularity we may see that the characters of Married ... With Children--and
thus we--can be Very Funny in a Very Sick Way.[9]
In January of 1991, America's President George Bush, lagging in the
polls likely for desperate want of a domestic policy, embarked upon what could
easily be thought of as the first postmodern war, the "war against Iraq,"
perhaps best known as its "code name," Operation Desert Storm. Desert Storm
was the first war of pure images, of ardent appearances and twenty-four hour
coverage, of CNN and Smart Bombs; the first war of all light and no heat, for
the television audience, at least. Indeed, it had all the appearances of a hot
video game being played by somebody else's kid. With characterizations of
operatives either so broadly drawn they were either somehow almost less real
than even the cartoonish Bundy family [10] or so inconsequential and
insignificant as to be capable of producing no more human
empathy/sympathy/ pathos than a pixel-sized blip on a VDT. Other wars had
media coverage, to be sure; that is, after all, how the West learned of Homer
and his accounts of the Trojan Wars. And certainly no one may forget the
images of Vietnamese children running naked from a napalmed sanctuary or
of a bound Viet Cong prisoner grimacing as his brains are blown from his
head. Nor, most certainly, may we forget the images of the horrors of the Nazi
death camps.[11] But not until this decade's instant global communications
through a virtual spider web matrix of post-New Frontier satellites above the
earth could we watch the live progress of the horrors of killing from start to
finish.[12] By the end of the war, with his approval rating at around ninety-
one percent, it seemed--at that time--George Bush could replace Vice-President
J. Danforth Quayle with Willie Horton as his running mate in 1992.[13]
I mention the war for this reason: the postmodern nature of that event-
-its being so Elegant, so Efficient, so deadly-Mechanical, so Progressive, so
Technical, so Very Very Expensive; that is, so "dry" both as a series of images
and as a cause for emotion--is antithetical to the nature of (what I call)
s/laughter--which is so very "wet" in practically every sense. Though both are
ostensibly about suffering, about the taking of human life, about ritualized
primordial vision quests, about testings-in-fire,[14] we recall that while war
is hell, TV is fun.[15]
Like the Bundys, we recognize that we revel in the meaningless
absurdity of our lives in our own existential sitcoms of t/errors. But it is
first essential to cut far more deeply into the matter of violent humor in
the context of the family. It is, as we "winners" shall see, a most viscous
psychic fluid matter indeed.
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NOTES:
1 "Anything in Latin Appears More Important."
2 That the Fox Network broadcasts original episodes of both Married ...
With Children and America's Most Wanted should surprise no one.
3 However, even that may not truly matter as the series is what may be
termed a Virtual Cartoon with humans taking the place of anthropomorphic
animal characters. Indeed, in an attempt to kill a bunny rabbit which had
been plucking carrots from his garden one by one (making the appropriate
cork-popping sound as each entered the earth), Al inadvertently dynamited a
city gas main; Chicago was next seen as ground zero for a mushroom cloud.
The characters were, of course, a moment later seen as okay, save for their
exaggerated, cartoon-style splints and bandages.
4 See Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" from the book of the same
title.
5 Ed O'Neill said this on Into the Night the second week of Married ...
With Children's run in syndication (clearly, the operational word here is
syndication).
6 The latter so "normal-foil" and all-American they were divorced at
the end of the third season.
7 On 3 June 1992, Vice-President J. Danforth Quayle criticized the
previous night's episode of Murphy Brown, claiming that the title character's
choice to have a child "out of wedlock" contributed to the "decline" of "the
values of the traditional family. "Criticisms of the Vice-President were swift
David Letterman, for example, simply said the following during his opening
monologue that very evening: "Mister Vice-President, I don't know how to tell
you this, but Murphy Brown is a fictional character." Newsweek writer Joe
Klein said this, however: "... Dan Quayle--flawed, callow vehicle that he may
be--seems to have nudged presidential politics perilously close to something
that really matters...," the question of what or whom is to serve as national
arbiter/manipulator for Official American Values (Joe Klein, "Whose Values?
Whose Families? Whose Standards?" Newsweek 8 June 1992: 19). Less than two
weeks later, Mr. Quayle misspelled the word "potato." Letterman had this
question for Trenton, NJ, sixth-grader William Figueroa, the child who
corrected the Vice-President: "Do you think he knows how to spell the word
Ôre-elected'?" All this calls to mind a quote from a speech Quayle made to the
American Society of Newspaper Editors in April of 1991: "The American people
would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not
make" (Mother Jones 17.4 [July/August 1992] 15).
8 It was, according to Tony Hendra, cartoonist Jules Feiffer who coined
the term "sick" in its current, ironic, sense. See Hendra's Going Too Far: The
Rise and Demise of Sick, Gross, Black, Sophomoric, Weirdo, Pinko, Anarchist,
Underground, Anti-Establishment Humor (New York: Doubleday, 1987) 92.
9 One need only think back to the jingoistic media presentations
during the operation of Brigadier General "Stormin'" Norman Schwartzkopf,
Dick "Ice-Man" Cheney, "All-American Negro" Colin Powell, et al.
10 Though there is clearly a movement to try to make us forget just
those images. For a detailed discussion, see Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, The
Differend: Phrases in Dispute.
11 I am not really so na•ve as to suggest the war in the Middle East is
actually over; the current lull, however, signals the end of that operation.
12 Willie Horton was a parolee in Massachusetts while 1988 Democratic
Presidential challenger Michael Dukakis was governor of the state. Horton, a
black man with a singularly uncomplimentary arrest photo (very frequently
shown by Bush's re-election committee during the campaign), was on work
furlough release when he raped a white woman.
13 One need only think of how applicable the "men's movement"
mytho-poetics of Joseph Campbell is to this argument, especially The Hero
With A Thousand Faces (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1949). Additionally,
"men's movement" author Robert Bly has made some marks of this in his
writings about militaristic "male-bonding" events. See, for example, his Iron
John (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990).
14 I am not na•ve about TV just being for fun either, dammit.
John A. Dowell
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Making a Mythic Mountaineer:
The Creation of Junior Johnson
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When Tom Wolfe went to North Carolina in 1964, he was prepared to write
about Junior Johnson, the area's most popular stock car driver. What he
discovered was an individual undergoing a period of folkloristic transition.
Junior Johnson was more than a "good ol' boy" who could muscle a 1963
Chevy around a banked clay oval. He was becoming the Junior Johnson, an
icon of the rural South, the American Dream incarnate.
Wolfe knew Johnson was raised amongst the harshness of poverty-
stricken Wilkes County, an area where making and bootlegging moonshine
was an occupation of choice during the Great Depression. Those days have
become a part of history deeply rooted in our national mythology. For the
origins of this cottage industry, one must look to the eighteenth century,
when Scotch-Irish settlers populated the Appalachian range and made corn
whisky out of necessity. Crop yields were low, transportation was difficult,
and whisky more profitable. Junior Johnson was born into this tradition,
and carried his cultural inheritance to new levels of national recognition.
This national recognition came through Detroit automakers, who were
utilizing Johnson's abilities to win on the NASCAR Grand National circuit
during the early 1960s.
Junior Johnson's driving career spanned 13 years from 1953 through 1966.
He won 50 Grand National races as well as numerous local events. If Johnson's
bootlegging career was known throughout Wilkes County folklore, his driving
career elevated him to a national folk legend. His Driving career reads like a
collection of North Carolina folk tales. These tales would have been long
forgotten had it not been for the Detroit automobile companies, who
recognized the sales power of a winning stock car team.
These manufacturers were selling two distinct products. As certain makes of
cars would win Grand National events, their sales would increase sharply. As
the teams traveled the circuit and won races, the reputations of the drivers
and mechanics would be used as a means of adding human interest to news
reports. These "good ol' boys" were of interest to people outside the
Southeast. It was entertaining to see bootleggers battle on a dirt oval at the
fairgrounds. The sport's "hillbilly" image was its drawing power, thanks to
the stories spread by the media as the circuit wound its way across the country.
This made drivers like Junior Johnson more than just wild men on wheels; it
made them national personalities.
Johnson's racing career is the stuff of folklore. Legend has it that Junior's
brother, L.P., approached him in the fields where Junior was working with a
mule-drawn plow. L.P. had a pretty fast whisky car, and he asked Junior to run
it at the North Wilkesboro track. Junior was plowing barefooted, with no shirt
and a pair of dirty overalls, and L.P.'s offer sounded like more fun than
plowing behind a mule. Junior drive his brother's car and finished in second
place behind Gwyn Staley, a neighbor of the Johnson family who farmed
nearby. Ironically enough, when Tom Wolfe visits North Wilkesboro to see
Junior race in 1964, the race he sees is the "Gwyn Staley Memorial."
Junior Johnson's driving career, which began around 1947 with his second-
place finish to Staley, went "national" on September 7, 1953, when he managed
to finish in 38th place in the Southern 500 at Darlington, South Carolina. From
that moment, his legend grew.
People heard about the young driver. They knew he was in jail (eleven months
in Chillicothe) for his involvement as a moonshiner--although some people
said he was standing by the family still when the federal agents finally caught
him. People talked about his famous "bootleg turn," which Johnson executed
when he found himself facing an Alcohol Tax agent roadblock. Fans shook
with delight as they gossiped about Junior throwing his supercharged
Oldsmobile into second gear, locking the steering wheel at its maximum point
of movement, then mashing the gas pedal to the floor, at which point the Feds
would get sprayed with gravel as Johnson's Olds spun 180 degrees and roared
off in the opposite direction. This was great history, the stuff they never
read in school. What fun the Depression must have been in North Carolina, the
racing fans exclaimed.
It was Wolfe's 1965 article in Esquire magazine about Junior Johnson that
really shifted the folklore mill into high gear. All throughout his story,
Tom Wolfe inserted tale after tale about the driver as told to him by rabid
fans. "I wasn't in the South five minutes," Wolfe wrote, "before people
started making oaths, having visions, telling these hulking great stories,
all on the subject of Junior Johnson." Junior Johnson, to people of the rural
South, was their redeemer--a savior who drove the paint off a 1964 Dodge to
save his followers' souls. Here he was--the man who beat a federal roadblock
by installing a siren and flashing red light in the grill of his Oldsmobile
to resemble a lawman--out on Sundays giving 175 MPH novenas to the devout
who gathered at Our Lady of the High-Banked One-and-a-Half Mile Paved oval.
Wherever two or more have gathered in Junior's name, mouths will open and a
Rebel Yell will be heard, singing the praises of the New South. It will rise
again because of the powerful car makers in Michigan who worship rural heroes.
The Ford Motor Company, who Junior Johnson drove for in 1965, admitted
years ago it spent almost five million dollars trying to beat Johnson and his
Chevrolet in 1963. That year Junior put his car on the front row in 17 of 33
races (10 were pole positions). That year Johnson won seven races and took
home over $65,000. The bootlegger could beat Detroit at its own game, the
Southern fans shouted; this man from the mountains didn't need big dollar
sponsorship from General Motors. He was a legend, a man greater than mere
corporations, a man who was the South. As Tom Wolfe wrote in 1965, "Junior
Johnson has followers who need to keep him, symbolically, riding through the
nighttime like a demon.... [He is] a hero a whole people or class of
people can identify with."
Mark Howell
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COOL IS UNCOOL: THE "IN GROUP" ATTEMPTS OF THE 1992 MTV MUSIC AWARDS
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MTV attempts to posit itself as a "non-corporation," a group of media
pirates who happened to get control of a network and turn it into Ògarage TV,"
when in fact MTV is a multi-national corporation whose conglomerates form a
billion-dollar industry, the Home Shopping Network for disaffected youth.
The current MTV corporate image mumbles, "Hey, man, I don't know how
I got invited to this party, but look, I'm having fun." This, of course, is
just so much electronic bullshit. The station spends millions of dollars to
affect a self-mocking moniker wherein the (male) veejays are sloppy (Ricky ÒI
have enough tattoos on my right arm alone to be a metal dude"), the
commercial spokesmen are self-mocking (Denis Leary), and the best music is
seemingly raw (MTV Unplugged). MTV tries desperately hard to forget its
commercial history (and current purpose for being) by creating other
programming, and legitimizing its own art (while actually selling to the
industry again) by developing and airing its own awards show.
In response to industry criticism that past awards shows have been too
serious (imagine the Sony boardroom: "Son - we ain't makin' art here; we're
selling CD's. Cut the shit or we'll cut your funding"), came the 1992 MTV Music
Awards. Matter of fact, it's still coming: MTV sells so much ad revenue for
this program that you will probably still be able to watch it when Anthony's
"I'm a a Pepper" tits ('scuse me, pecs) hang past his balls.
So, what did they do to "lite-en" the show? Let's start with the host,
Dana Carvey. Carvey was chosen primarily for his role of Garth in "Wayne's
World." So we begin with a host chosen for fictional capabilities. Carvey
further pulls away from reality by not appearing as his self (if indeed there
does exist a self within this actor), but as different characters from another
network's program, "Saturday Night Live." The beginning of the awards show
is even more unreal, with Carvey as Bush as Jack Palance doing MTV Awards as
Academys.
Confused? No problem. Remember, the goal here is being cool,
appealing to the youth market (as seen not through this target market's gaze
but through the ideals of corporate owners from the US and Japan). So we
have Garth playing drums for U2 via video - and threatening to "hurl"
because he's so excited, you have Kurt Loder claiming to do a first in
interactive interviewing by interviewing U2 via Zoo TV video (come on, MTV
boys, you don't do interactive video conferences?)
That's not cool enough for you? Well, the boys at MTV really know how
to appeal to the youthful masses - through bodily function humor. Presenting
for the metal category (because those corporate whizzes certainly understand
that all metal listeners are dudes who enjoy lying around in their fecal
matter) was FARTMAN, a stunning "humorous" creation by Howard Stern. The
writers let no gaseous joke slip by, from exploding podiums and stereo sound
effects to Carvey's follow-up with "silent-but-deadlies" and "pull my
finger" as his Carson/McMahan incarnation. In the most significant display
of corporate humor, Stern was paired with Luke Perry, for the rock-n-roll
Beauty and the Beast innuendo. (Get it, dude?)
In effect, by attempting to appropriate standards and attitudes of a
subgroup the corporate leaders have never been part of, MTV undermines its
attempts at in-group humor and identification, mocks corporate standards
rather than succeeding in self-parody, and becomes in fact duller than all it
attempts to ascend from.
Another example of this is the wearing by hosts and presenters of
leather and sequined red ribbons. By taking what is a cool symbol of protest-
simple red ribbon and safety pins (via ACT-UP) - and garnishing it with gaudy
expense, MTV "kitches" what once was a true "in" symbol, rather like when
older men drive sports cars or wear cowboy boots, or your home-ec teacher
wears a "clip-on" nose ring. The power, the in-group identification is lost,
usually not even known, so what finally exists is a non-realized self-parody,
done not through being cool, but woefully stupid. In the end, what matters in
the MTV Awards is not who won, but who bought these nominations and
awards. Certainly you'll find this is not the "in-group" nor anyone
affiliated with the group.
Molly Merryman
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Bilateral/Tripartite
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I propose the investigation of the performance of folk music in bars,
clubs, and recording studios to determine the impact of technology and the
mass media on the performance of traditional materials and to establish a link
(and separation) between popular music and folk music. Moses Asch, who
founded and ran Folkways Records, admits to shortening songs and texts to
accommodate the necessary limitations inherent in the recording process. My
speculation is that the theories of oral-formulaic composition, developed by
Milman Parry and Albert Lord, provide a useful methodology for examining
the separation between the popular arts/media and the folk performance. That
is, the music performed in small group settings, generally consider "Popular
Music" can be profitably understood as extensions of the traditional processes
of lengthening and shortening of musical texts that occur organically in the
traditional "Folk" performance.
The line between classic folk culture and modern popular culture is one
of the tremendous gray areas for the popular culture scholar. It is my
contention that a simple model might be constructed which would enable the
scholar to examine the artifacts and texts collected to understand the
interrelationship between these forms of folk music and popular music. The
model also would be helpful to distinguish between genres and formulas
present in these artifacts.
I would suggest the following Bilateral-Tripartite system of observation;
a Contextual approach:
Context Tradition
Business
Audience
Aesthetics
context = synchronic tradition = diachronic
(specific place) (place over time)
Here I would study the context of a performance by examining the business,
audience, and aesthetics and the tradition of a performance by examining the
business, audience, and aesthetics. This would enable me to explore the entire
sphere of the artifact. By changing any one of these factors, the artifact
would either change genres or cross over the line from folk music to popular
music. My speculation is that the theories of oral-formulaic composition,
developed by Milman Parry and Albert Lord, provide a useful methodology for
examining the recorded traditional materials. That is, the changes required
during the recording process can be profitably understood as extensions of the
traditional processes of lengthening and shortening of musical texts that occur
organically in a performance.
Moses Asch was a leader in keeping oral formulaic songs intact while
working with artists to "...edit and think about time and everything else."
He said that while recording Woody Guthrie, he was "...interested in the
content, not in the engineering."[1] Asch's passion was for folk music.
Folkways boasts of ethnic, country and bluegrass, spoken word, classical,
children's, and sea chantey recordings. His theory of recording was
preserving "... what intellectual knowledge...we get from a record, rather
than...super high fidelity..." [2] At first he recorded directly on wax, then
acetate, and, finally, after World War II, tape. His practice was to record
texts as they organically existed to document culture. Starting with Asch
Records, evolving into Disc Records, and finally into Folkways, Moses Asch
made an important contribution to the recording industry, while preserving
cultural texts. Nevertheless, he did require folk artists to adapt their
material so that he could include much of it on commercially available
recordings.
The Parry-Lord thesis has been presented in Albert Lord's The Singer of
Tales According to it, oral-formulaic composition identifies a folk performance
as an interactive process in which the audience and performer influence and
alter the performer's text according to various aspects of the social context.
The performance of folk music to small group audiences involves the use of
formula: i.e. groups of words used to express concepts under specific
conditions. The audience will respond to the performer and the performer will
change Ð lengthen and shorten Ð the song to meet the desires of the
audience.[3] In performances which involve instrumental music along with
vocals, the theory can be applied to the music as well. I have come to use the
phrase aural-formulaic composition in place of oral-formulaic to assist in the
distinction made with the different spelling and implied meaning. Aural is
used to describe the musical notes and chords found in a folk music
performance rather than the words and linguistics of speech.
The emergence of the technology to permanently record a musical
performance permitted the collection of sung words and performed music
rather than purely verbatim transcriptions. When this technology began, the
length of a recording was limited to two-and-half minutes. This, as Moses Asch
has stated, lead the artist and producer to sometimes lengthen, but most often
shorten, the performance. The intersection of the traditional act of folk
performance with the act of recorded documentation changed the method by
which oral forms were transmitted and received by an audience. This
intersection of traditional performance with technology requires different
approaches to its understanding.
Recording is, in itself, not a traditional act and requires additional
perspectives, including the awareness of the impact of technology upon
culture. This dissertation, then, will involve both the use of folklore
methodology for the purpose of understanding the impact of technology on
folk culture and the impact of folk culture on technology and a new definition
of folk music in an era of mass media distribution of traditional folk texts.
The recording process involves the act of shortening and lengthening the
text to fit the technological time span on a ten-inch, 78 r.p.m. or 75 minute
Compact Disc record is a reaction to context. Unlike the natural context in the
field, however, the context of the performance is a technological content. The
technology is an element which must be studied to understand the culture
which produced the artifact. The technology and the text combine to make a
statement about the culture that produced it. The folk songs changed to meet
the requirements of a changing technological world. Asch managed to shorten
traditional material for publication on ten-inch records while at the same time
remaining true to those materials. The Folkways records appear to be faithful
representations of the traditions they document. It was through an instinctive
understanding of what can be deleted and how that Asch was able to do this.
The exploration of the musical notes and chords will be used as data to support
the project's basic assumptionÑthat the performance of folk music in clubs
can best be understood as extensions of the traditional processes of
lengthening and shortening of musical texts that occur organically in
traditional folk tale performances.
Oral formulaic composition. defines formula as groups of words used to
express a concept under specific conditions. This results in a performer
knowing the story, but not the exact words. The words change during each
performance to meet the needs, expectations, and reactions of the audience. In
this way, a folk performance is an interactive process in which the audience
and performer influence and change the performance to fit the social context.
Lord anticipates Dan Ben-Amos[4] who presents the idea of folklore as any
event, or thing, which holds as its root audience and performer interaction.
The same can be said of rock and popular music.
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NOTES:
1 Scherman, Tony. ÒThis Man Captured the True Sounds of a Whole World."
Smithsonian.
2 Dunson, Josh. Anthology of American Folk Music. New York: Oak
Publications, 1973. Interviews with Moses Asch.
3 Ben-Amos, Dan. Sweet Words: Storytelling Events in Benin. Philadelphia:
Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1975.
4 Ben-Amos, Dan . Sweet Words: Storytelling Events in Benin.
Michael Leo McHugh
American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
Associate Editor, Rock & Rap Confidential/
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CHARTING THE RHETORICAL TOPOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S FACE
AND NOTES ON THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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"take a look at yourself, and then make a change"
- "Man in the Mirror" Bad
"I'm not going to spend my life being a color"
- "Black or White" Dangerous
"The map is not the terrain"
- Alfred Korzybski
In the supermarket, the tabloids scream: MICHAEL JACKSON SLEEPS IN
HYPERBARIC CHAMBER! MICHAEL JACKSON TO BUY ELEPHANT MAN'S BONES!
MICHAEL ATTENDS LIZ'S WEDDING WITH (Choose one or more: BUBBLES THE
CHIMP, BROOKE SHIELDS, EMMANUELLE LEWIS, MARIO CUOMO)! JACKSON TO
WED SPACE ALIEN! MICHAEL HAS (Choose one or more: NOSE, CHIN, CHEEKS,
EYES, MOUTH, TOES) SURGICALLY ALTERED! Michael Jackson's eccentric
behavior and numerous plastic surgeries have been not only fuel for tabloid
stories, but also for standup comedy routines and endless popular and academic
discussion. Much of the discussion attempts to explain Jackson's actions; to
map the terrain of a seemingly inconsistent and erratic personality. In spite
of all the speculation, Michael Jackson remains an enigma, a land largely
unknown and uncharted.
As a member of American popular culture I have been appalled and fascinated
by Jackson's behavior and joined in the popular speculation by offering
explanations of stunted childhood in pop psychobabble. As a scholar of
rhetoric and an academic explorer I have become interested increasingly in
the suasory aspects Jackson's behavior, and especially his plastic surgery.
Michael is manipulating his image to such an extent that it alters our
perceptions of him; he is trying to persuade us to view his facial landscape in
certain manner. To explore this landscape and critique Michael Jackson's
effectiveness as a rhetor (in a neo-Aristotlean sense) we need to chart the
intent behind his actions and the goals he hopes to achieve. What is Michael
Jackson trying to persuade us about himself and the world? What does he want
from us? What lands does he want us to discover?
Jackson's songs, especially on Bad and Dangerous reflect, on a global scale,
concern with a variety of social issues including justice, racial equality, and
the environment. One of Jackson's goals seems to be to save us and our planet.
"Man in the Mirror" asks us to "make the world a better place" (Bad) and
"Planet Earth" shows the inseparable relationship between human beings and
their world (Dangerous). Given a messianic goal, Jackson's plastic surgery
can be seen as an attempt to influence his source credibility, or in
Aristotlean terms, his ethos. Part of the reason for the surgery seems
consonant with Jackson's pan-humanistic empathetic message. Jackson is
attempting to be aracial and nongendered or, at the least, be racially
indeterminate and gender nonspecific. To become aracial Jackson has had his
nose altered and his skin lightened, which gives him a Caucasian appearance.
This appearance, however, must be constantly realigned with our past
perceptions of a blacker Jackson and his image as an African American
entertainer. Jackson's thin physique, high cheekbones, mascaraed eyes, and
high-pitched voice contrast with the perception of Michael Jackson the male
and the patriarchal/ heterosexual content of many of his songs and videos.
Thus by creating dissonance between appearance and "reality" Jackson creates
an image that lacks racial or gender specificity to create an archetypal
"everyperson."
Jackson's intent as a pan-humanistic spokesman may be reinforced by the
psychobiological concept of neoteny. As Elizabeth A. Lawrence points out,
neoteny is a condition in which there is retention of youthful attributes into
adulthood. Human beings represent a neotenous species because they retain
into maturity certain characteristics that were originally juvenile traits of
other primates. Physical attributes of neoteny include a high and slightly
bulging forehead, large eyes, and rounded cheeks. According to Lorenz,
human infants and other creatures with these traits may initiate a parenting
or nurturing response in human adults. Lawrence points out that Mickey and
Minnie Mouse, many dolls, and most domesticated animals have neotenous
features .
Neoteny may explain partly Michael Jackson's intent as a public pan-
humanistic spokesman. Jackson is creating a face that stirs primal instincts in
humans. In addition, neoteny may explain some of Jackson's personal reasons
for surgery. Since neoteny is so tied to our perceptions of youth and aging,
Jackson's plastic surgery may represent an attempt to remain eternally
youthful. Although cosmetic surgery has been used for years to provide a
more youthful appearance by removing wrinkles or lifting sagging jowls,
Jackson is actively working to reconform his face to neotenous proportions.
Jackson's surgery goes beyond surgery that removes wrinkles and allows an
adult to look more youthful. Jackson's surgery allows him to look like a
juvenile or infant. This use of plastic surgery may help stave off the reality
of mortality for Jackson that is evidenced in his often morbid fascination
with death (e.g., purchasing John Merrick's bones, sleeping in a hyperbaric
chamber, paying for several people's funerals).
While one of Jackson's intents seems to be to recontour his facial topography
to a universally acceptable appearance residing in some liminal landscape
between male/female, and black/white, he is creating a face that is danger of
becoming unrecognizable as human. Jackson may have a face soon that is
alien and otherworldly terrain to all. Jackson's face is becoming similar to
E.T., the space child in 2001, the aliens of Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
and the "real" aliens of Whitley Streiber's Communion. Perhaps this is
Michael Jackson's main intent: to become the universal other. With
appearance and behavior strange to all Jackson would continue to be
infinitely readable, open to conjecture and the objectifying gaze of all, the
ultimate open text. This goal is also consonant with Jackson's messianic
intent. Instead of becoming the pan-humanistic savior, however, Jackson becomes
the alien savior from science fiction novels, films, and UFO encounter stories.
Jackson nikt barata Gort.
Jackson's creation of himself as ultimate other may have another intent: the
numerous plastic surgeries and bizarre behavior may be nothing more than
clever ploys to keep Jackson in the limelight so that he may sell more albums
and videos and increase his stock as a celebrity spokesperson. Indeed it is
said that Jackson created the hyperbaric chamber rumor and allowed it to be
spread. If Jackson's only motivations are recognition and monetary gain, his
pan-humanistic messages may be nothing but cynical devices to increase the
bottom line.
Jackson's effectiveness as a rhetor rests on his ability to remain in the
public eye. Up to this point his transforming facial landscape and eccentric
lifestyle have kept his pan-humanistic message before the public and assured
commercial success for his various creative projects. Several critics have
observed, however, a tenuous note to Dangerous that indicates that Jackson
may becoming uncertain of the direction to proceed with his music. If
Michael Jackson becomes less adept at manipulating the public discussion of
his persona, or if the public loses interest in constantly remapping the
terrain of Jackson's intent and meaning, he may be forced to abdicate the
title of "King of Pop."
Notes on the Columbian Exchange
How valuable is an exploration of the rhetorical topography of Michael
Jackson's face, or for that matter, any cultural exploration? Explorers after
Columbus brought disease and pestilence and destroyed civilizations. In
attempting to map meaning and explore culture, do I impoverish the culture I
explore? Do explorations of intent and meaning denigrate or reduce a culture?
Even explorations that posit positive aspects of culture, such as ethnographies
of dominant ideology resistant readers may have negative consequences.
Some critics have argued that reader response theory may reinforce passivity
in social action.
Do I give anything to the culture I explore? I may be able to say that
Jackson's potentially manipulative use of the media would have caused Aristotle
to call into question Jackson's good will, or his ethical motivational
relationship with his audience, and thus the ethics of his persuasion.
Observations of ethical intent, however, seem naive or simplistic to critics
of late capitalism and may not be useful or utilized by members of the popular
audience. I might argue that good will provides a means for evaluating action
in a postmodern society, but who do those empty words benefit?
Explorations into culture and meaning must not impoverish or destroy the
worlds they explore. They must be pragmatically applicable and beneficial, in
some way, to the larger culture beyond the explorer's club of the academy.
James T. Coon
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FUTURE LIMINAL
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SPECIAL ISSUES/PROJECTS
The Liminal Group is seeking submissions for special issues on the
following subjects:
THE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE: Cyberpunk SF, Netculture, virtual reality,
teledildonics, technoculture, artificial intelligence, computer culture,
cyborg politics, information anxiety, (post-)industrial culture,
xerography, etc. . .
Editor: Shawn P. Wilbur
AUTO-MANIA: Automobile culture, roadside culture and/or architecture,
social implications of the automobile, fast food and other drive-thru
business, cars in music and film, etc. . .
Editor: Mark D. Howell
Send submissions to
THE LIMINAL GROUP, BOX 154, BGSU, BOWLING GREEN, OH 43403.
Submissions for special issues should be directed to the project editor,
in care of The Liminal Group.
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LIMINAL 1.1 is dedicated to:
Franklin Rosemont, Sinead O'Conner, Jerry Mander, Richard Kadrey,
Matt & Andrew & Jay & Christian (& Gordon), Mason Williams, Neal
Stephenson, Neue Slowenische Kunst, F.T. Marinetti, & Eddie Vedder.
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The LIMINAL GROUP is:
Christine J. Catanzarite, James T. Coon, Philip Dickinson, John A. Dowell,
Mark D. Howell, Matthew Johnson, Crystal Kile, Torey King, Molly Merryman,
Michael Leo McHugh, Ginny Schwartz, Ben Urish & Shawn P. Wilbur.
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©1992 The Liminal Group
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