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A Prayer To J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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vocals: Saint Janor Hypercleets
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bass: Pope Keckhaver Sternodox
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guitar: $aint @ndrew
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Oh Dobbs, canst thou not hear my plea
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In my utter 'umbleness
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for Lo! Dobbs, I am nothing but a loathsome piece of shit
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before thy ultimate and divine power
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who smoketh the pipe of infinity, the pipe of the universe
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Can I not be washed in the smoke of the pipe?
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Hereth my request that Lo,
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I humbly beseech thee, Dobbs, that in thy justice
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in thy infinite mercy and righteousness that thou might allow me
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infinite power over all other living beings in the universe
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And, Dobbs, I humbly beseech thee that I might be allowed to control
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the food source for all nations on earth in order that every person in
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every country in every city in every town and every neighborhood might
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find it necessary to kiss my ass in order to obtain food, their
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mininimum daily requirements for nutrition for that day...
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And Dobbs, I do humbly request that Lo!
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every woman on earth, without exception
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(except those who don't meet my taste specifications)
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and those that are over seventeen years of age
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be made into my sexual slaves, Dobbs.
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I might be granted deaf ears to turn to all other males, Dobbs
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so that I in fact won't, how shall we say, in the vernacular, give a shit
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about the jealous cries of all other males O Dobbs
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After I enslave all other women, and Dobbs,
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from the beginning of time, mankind has had a vision
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a vision of all men, of all nationalities, of races, of all four sexes
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coming together and joining hands, and singing together in harmony
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And Dobbs, I humbly request that you just totally ignore this vision
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because it has absolutely no interest to me whatsoever.
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And Dobbs, I selflessly, humbly request that you instead
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by ignoring this vision you'll be able to channel more of your psychic
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and spiritual energy into my selfish requests
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And Dobbs, if I had but one wish for mankind it would be this:
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That I would be able to just blow off the whole "one wish" fairy-tale syndrome
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and instead that I would have an infinity of wishes and I'd never have to
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exist in some kind of storybook reality where a guy gets a pudding stuck on
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his god-damn nose or something like that
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or some kind of bullshit or something
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And O Dobbs, furthermore, I request that
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Humbly Dobbs, I beseech thee on bended knee
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looking up to you as the true and one and only source of wisdom
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I humbly request that I be allowed to replace Ye and that it shall be me
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that smoketh the pipe of knowledge and it be thee
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that standeth on bended knee before me begging mercy
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before me, in which case, I'd just laugh in your face, Dobbs.
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I'd turn you down even though it was ye who granted me this power
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in the first place,
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and Lo! Dobbs,
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I request that I be able to merge with the concept of hate
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that I might in fact become one with hate
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and Lo! Dobbs, that the concept of conscience be strucken from my mind
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that I would never again be able to feel guilt,
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and Lo! the word guilt be struck from my vocabulary
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So that I could never feel guilt for demanding any of these selfish things.
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Oh just little things, like power over all things in the universe...
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And Lo! Dobbs, I request that..."
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music fades.
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$aint @ndrew OGYR NETWORK PO BOX 53 PLAINFIELD IL. 60544
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(saint_andrew@anl.gov) (stumattheand@vax.colsf.edu)
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(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)
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Swingin' Love Corpses on Tour
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pdrummond@aol.com (PDrummond)
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As with most great bands, the Swingin' Love Corpses never remain in
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the same place for very long. Restless, adventuresome spirits,
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acknowledged giants in the field of improvisational music, men known
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in the industry as musician's musicians, they have constantly
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explored new avenues and new outlets for the incessant dynamics of
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their music. This has never been more true than on their latest
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cassette tape release, Last Tango in Pinckneyville. Again, the
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Corpses have taken yet another unexpected turn and come up with one
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of the most surprising, innovative, beautiful creations of their
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amazing career.
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It's been said that the Swingin' Love Corpses music is essentially
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cinematic, music of mood and emotion, and their soundtrack album for
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Scumsucker III: The Dominatrician is considered an enduring classic
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of the genre. And while their music is always alive and new, moving
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from free-form to a rich familiarity of soul 'n funk, it has never
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lost the driving, irresistible root of frap-a-billy that is at the
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very heart of the collective creative genius of these Po'Bucker-born
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masters.
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Last Tango in Pinckneyville opens with a wonderfully sensual, breezy
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yet inspirationally poignant reading of Gibbon's "Rise and Fall of
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the Roman Empire". The song grows and builds to include a disco
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backup vocal--the first of many innovations on this cassette. The
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Corpses music has never been more immediately accessible, and their
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delivery throughout on Last Tango in Pinckneyville carries a powerful
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impulse that forces the listener to get up and dance. The cassette is
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highlighted by three new Sphinx Drummond songs: "Scotch Tape
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Dispenser Blues", "Somatic Discourses on Cerebral Bi-cameralism", and
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"Funky Back-Seat Mama." On "Scotch Tape Dispenser Blues" they're
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joined by their longtime friend, Sterno, and in expressing his
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delight with the outcome of their subtle and intricate collaboration,
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Philo said: "The fact that Sterno played on "Scotch Tape Dispenser
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Blues" proved to me that dreams really do come true."
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The Corpses 1994 Tour Management Team, TEAM CORPSE headed by S.L.A.K.
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squad leader, Sphinx Drummond, will kick off this year's World Tour
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the weekend of July 15-17 in Atlanta, GA. at Dragon-Con/Atlanta
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Comics Expo.
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The Corpses, well known for their highly produced shows heavily laden
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with costumes, props, and audience participation, are equally well
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known for their cleverly crafted original songs and unusual
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renditions of other people's music. Their lyric sense straddles the
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fine line between genius and insanity never betraying either extreme.
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Their music has been described as "sort of like a cross between Sun
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Ra, Zappa, and Abba."
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"You never know what to expect at a Corpses show," said Ivan Stang of
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the SubGenius Foundation, "Once they appeared as Rock Stars in the
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Heavy Metal sense with all the flash and effects, and the next time
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they showed up as improvisational jazz masters with goatees and
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sunglasses." The Corpses continue to astound and mystify their
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audiences. Some have described their live shows as more akin to a
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"performance art" project rather than the average run-of-the-mill
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rock extravaganza. On-stage, the Corpses have an unusual knack for
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lowering the customary barriers which separate the artists from the
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audience. Their on-stage banter and improvisational comedic interplay
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with the attendees promote a party-like atmosphere which blurs the
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distinction between band and audience.
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The Swingin' Love Corpses have streamlined their lineup which at one
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time had swollen to nine members, down to a five-piece combo. After
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eight years together, the enigmatic Swingin' Love Corpses still
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remain a mystery to the most of mainstream and alternative music
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fans. However, their tapes have been heard around the world. China,
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Russia, The Netherlands, are but a few of the distant outposts that
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have been exposed to what has become known as, "The Swingin' Love
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Corpse Experience". In the behind-the-scene music circles they are
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well known as a musician's band, playing backup and doing session
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work for some of the biggest names in the business. (At this time,
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contractual commitments prevent us from mentioning any names). Having
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achieved international fame as the "A-Number One" premier band of the
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Church of the SubGenius, the Corpses have played to packed houses and
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rave reviews in St. Louis, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta and others
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places.
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A true genre busting band, the range of their material is too vast to
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pin down with any traditional labels. While most of their music is
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traditionally structured, the Corpses thrive on blowing away the
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barriers that hold the structure together. Their music has been
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described at various times as Industrial-Gospel, Acid Blues Polka,
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Surf-House, Psycho-Hillbilly, Mystery-Jazz, and even Anti-Music.
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Nuances of Punk, Swing, Avant-Garde, Rap, Folk and Glitter-Rock
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eventually find their way into most shows.
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>I HEAR you. I hear you saying you don't like Kibo. [...]
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In a way, I perceive the Xibo pure essence of anti-Kibo is more than just
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an antithesis. Yacatisma flux sundered the original *ibo into two distinct
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hemispheres, forever condemning them to nattering pee-shy pseudo-antagonism.
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They occupy this plane forever; yea, unto the end of this era and beyond!
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>>You alone are bad enough, but then we get xibo who follows-up every goddamn
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>>article simply to contradict you.
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Heloise's Hint #13013: to avoid a nasty duality inversion, keep mirrors
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away from workstation operators. NUXI! KibobiX! Do I win the prize?
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>>"You're not allowed." <-----correct choice
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Sure y'are! Least until July 5, 1998 when Earth becomes nothing more than
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a trashed-out Stuckey's in space. *I* will be on the pleasure saucers, some
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sex goddess workin' my joystick to pilot our little aluminum love nest to the
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15th dimension, while Kibo, Xibo, and Weemba continue their tired diatribe,
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barely aware that something has changed and they no longer need flashlights
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in the dark. And where will *YOU* be?
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>But what do we call it?
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>alt.kibology?
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>alt.xibology?
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>alt.ibos?
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alt.shish-kibob
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C'mon, RANT! RANT LIKE YOUR VERY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT, AS IT MAY VERY WELL!
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FREE-WHEELIN', SQUIRTIN' 'N OOZIN' GUT BLOWOUT!!!!! PUT SOME HIGH-OCTANE
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SUPER-LITERACY INTO THAT WIMP-DICK LITTLE WORKSTATION OF YOURS AND GET
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DOWN TO IT!!!! YOU THINK THIS IS SOME KINDA SUNDAY SCHOOL SING-ALONG?
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YOU WANNA BE A TOO-EARLY POTTY-TRAINED FASTIDIOUS WANNABE-BOBBIE-B'ZARRO?
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OF FUCKING COURSE NOT! AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! MY LEGS ARE ON FIRE! HOLD ON
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TO ME, I'M LEVITATING! I SET OFF FOURTEEN-HOUR ORGASMS IN OVER TWELVE HUNDRED
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SPECIES IN A THIRTY KILOMETER RADIUS WHEN I OPEN A CAN OF TUNA! MY LEFT BRAIN
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IS PLUGGED INTO THE INTERNET; MY RIGHT-BRAIN IS A GODZILLION GIGABYTE OPTICAL
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ARCHIVE OF EVERY CARTOON EVER PRODUCED AND YET TO BE IN THE FUTURE! I SURVIVE
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ON A DIET OF DIOXIN AND COCOA-PUFFS, AND WASH IT DOWN WITH CLOROX 'N TEQUILA!
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I LIKE MY WOMEN TWELVE AT A TIME, AND WHEN I GET THRU THEY GET BACK IN LINE!
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RATTLESNAKES SEE ME COMIN', THEY SHED THEIR SKINS, LUBRICATE 'EM, AND ROLL
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'EM UP - AND LEAVE THE RATTLES FOR EXTRA STIMULATION! I TOOK THE MAIL-ORDER
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KIBOLOGY PACKAGE KIBO *DIDN'T* SEND ME, EXTRAPOLATED THE GOOD PARTS INTO A
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SCIENCE, AND USED THE TECHNOLOGY TO BLOW THE PUBLIC ACCESS WORKSTATION LAB
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OFF THE FACE OF NORTH AMERIKA! HELL, I GOT WOMEN FLOCKING IN DROVES FROM
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NEW YORK/BOSTON/BERKELEY WEARIN' LSD-SOAKED EDIBLE PANTIES 'N BEARING GIFTS
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OF SUPERCOMPUTERS AND DIRTY PAMPHLETS! THE MUTANT HORDES I SIRE FROM THESE
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TECHNO SHE-BITCHES ARE HOLED UP IN THE VALLEY OF LIGHT IN NORTHWESTERN
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ARKANSAS, WAITIN' FOR JUDGEMENT DAY OR A GOOD $1 CIGAR! I DRIVE A STEAMROLLER
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TO WORK; I FUEL MY ELEVATOR WITH HYDRAZINE AND LOX! MY DESK IS A FOURTH
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DIMENSIONAL TIME-SPACE CONTINUUM EXTENDING TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, AND
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I STILL DON'T PUNCH A TIME CLOCK! YUPPIE NEW-AGE FANATICS FROM THE YEAR
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2475 ARE CHANNELLING *ME* FOR ADVICE IN LOVE, SALES, AND GOOD SEX! WHEN I
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FART IN THE WINTER, SKATERS FALL THRU THE FLASH-MELTED ICE! DON'T BELIEVE
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ME; MY WORDS ARE ALL LIES, AND ARE THE BASIS FOR ALL KNOWN MYTHOLOGIES
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AND PORNOGRAPHY VIGNETTES! I EAT RAZOR BLADES FOR DESSERT, AND SHIT
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TITANIUM RIBBONS FOR THIRD-WORLD SPACE PROJECTS! CLIVE BARKER AND STEVEN
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KING BROKE DOWN AN' STARTED CRYIN' AND SINGIN' NURSERY RHYMES WHEN THEY
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GOT A LOAD OF MY EEG'S! I STARCH MY UNDERWEAR WITH SUPERGLUE AND GROUND
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GLASS PARTICLES! I TWIDDLE MY TOES IN MOLTEN MAGMA AND WIGGLE MY EARS IN
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THE VAN ALLEN BELT! I BEAT THE HYDRA IN A STARING MATCH AND USED HER
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HAIR FOR FISH BAIT! I CAUGHT GODZILLA IN ONE CAST, AND THREW HIM BACK
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TO GO GET HIS BIG BROTHER!
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....whew....
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COMICS TO SAVE YOUR SOUL BY
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*** Amazing Strips #4 - Manga-style cartoon combining a rock-n-roll band,
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japanese spirits and ghosts, and lots of sex, at least to the degree that
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is allowed in Japan (no pubic hair, explicit genitalia, and other strange
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and inconsistent taboos). Venus Comics.
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*** Artistic Licentiousness #2, by Roberta Gregory - A look at the lives of
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cartoonists, and the screwed up relationships they are into. A lesbian who
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had a fling with the male cartoonist living downstairs, which leads to all
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kinds of misunderstandings and tensions between the lesbian couple, the guy,
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and his gay friend. Lots of interesting problems and questions were set up,
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but not much was resolved, except for various bits of escapism into their
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cartoons. Comix Bitch.
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*** Beavis and Butthead #6 - This summer issue has the boys at the water
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park from Hell. Not a whole lot of action, though, and the usual banal
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banter is getting a bit worn-out. The practical jokes page, things to do at
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the beach, is probably the best such section to date. Marvel Comics.
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**** Bondage Fairies #3 - More adult-fantasy manga, this one with fairies and
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assorted creatures. Very explicit and much, much hotter than Amazing Strips,
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this one hasa lot of bondage, some s/m, and very steamy scenes. In this one,
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a captive fairy is tortured with drugs which make her horney. Venus Comics
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*** Carnal Comics #2 - The story of Sarah-Jane Hamilton, part 2 - Sarah
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continues with her story of how she got into the porno business, including
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getting into the LA scene, and her experiences in the "industry". She likes
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to make very high-class movies, and absolutely demands that she be in control-
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and the result is quality. Plus, her historical fantasies, and pictorials.
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Extremely explicit, but no violence nor gore. Revolutionary Comics.
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**** Damnation, by J.R. Williams - collection of various strips and stories by
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J.R. Williams, including the "Bad Boys", perverted sexual adventures, religious
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caricatures aimed directly at the Religious Right, plus the contents of an
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early collaboration with Peter Bagge, "Eat Shit Or Die". Lots of good stuff
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here- don't miss the pure slack intro piece. Fantagraphics Books.
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***** Drama - The first real continuation of Cry For Dawn since the less-than-
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friendly parting betwen Joseph Michael Linsner and Joe Monks. This is a
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radical departure from the regular CFD books- this one starts to delve directly
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into the strange and often confusing metaphysical nature of Dawn herself. She
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is revealed to be the goddess of birth and rebirth, and is woven into a tale
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with Ahura Mazda, Lucifer, Death, and an "everyman" character from New York.
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Full color, with tons of the great pictures of Dawn and the other characters
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that made this particular story line famous. Sirius Entertainment Inc.
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*** Duplex Planet Illustrated #8 - More stories from the rest home, this batch
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was a bit more interesting than most. Drawings by Dave Cooper, Wayno, Chan,
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Pat Moriarty, George Parsons, and many more. Good issue of this series, much
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better than the average. Fantagraphics Books.
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**** Eightball #13 - A descent into societal and relational hopelessness
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guided by Daniel Clowes. He does a great one-page commentary using Peter
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Bagge's characters Buddy Bradley, Lisa, and Stinkey, plus stories of hopeless
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roommates, depressing critiques of possible relationships with different types
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of girls, and another episode of "Ghost World", which is developing into a
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continuous, coherent story instead of a single strip. Fantagraphics Books.
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**** Flowers on the Razorwire - Two stories, plus the "Jesus Crispies" cartoon
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by Mike Diana make up this twisted horror/gore comic; like all other Boneyard
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Press books, this one doesn't pull any punches. Vampire/cannibal British
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troops attack a rebel revolutionary camp, slaughter and eat the patriots. The
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ultimate asshole macho guy, his hooker girlfriend and militant jesus freaks
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become pawns in a sick cosmic game when Jesus visits a band of demons. Not
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for the easily offended or sickened. Boneyard Press.
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**** Galaxias #2 - In a strange combination of Macross, H.R. Giger, and Mars
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Needs Women, this story is about a mutant race that is abducting humans
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in order to regenerate their mutated DNA, and the Transformer-like human
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space fleet doing battle with them. Naturally, this involves massive
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orgies with weird aliens and each other, and everyone is naked. There's
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a weird sexual shape to *everything*. Very original, and not a bad story.
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Rip Off Press.
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*** Horny Biker Slut #8 - The biker slut rescues a pregnant girl from the
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streets and lets her stay in the apartment with the roommates. After a hot
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and heavy session, they decide to get back at the creep who knocked her up and
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left. Plus, HBS strips by D.B. Velveeda, Scott Phillips, and others, very
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similar to the way that different artists do their interpretations in Cherry's
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Jubilee. Extremely explicit cartoons. Last Gasp Comics.
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*** Infectious, by Kevin Eastman - Strange gory, tale of an apocalyptic, low-
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life city. When a hooker is killed, she is inhabited by an evil spirit/demon
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which makes her immortal, and she goes on a killing spree with her customers.
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A former lover, who recognizes her, manages to drive out the demon and lets
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her die, but when he is killed, the demon continues in his body. Fantaco.
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*** The Iron Devil, by Frank Thorne - In probably one of the most explicit
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comics yet seen from Frank Thorne, he recycles the Moonbeam girl; the plot
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revolves around orgies with demons- a popular one these days. Somewhat
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confusing, but great artwork. No gore, despite the genre. Eros Comics.
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*** Itchy & Scratchy #3 - When Scratchy quits the movies, a string of new
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co-stars just isn't the same for Itchy. So, Itchy sets out to sabotage all
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of Scratchy's new jobs, and trick him into coming back to the studio. Plus,
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due to a strange energy field in the TV, Itchy and Scratchy come to real life,
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and wreak havoc on the Simpson household, leaving Bart and Lisa to explain
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the massive damage. Bongo Comics.
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*** Killjoy #0 - A couple of fairly short, but extremely violent and gory
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tales of (nude, of course) demonic women who kill their lovers. In the first,
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an innocent and proper girl has terrifying dreams of becoming such a monster,
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and is transformed by using her equally proper boyfriend. In "Tiffany", such
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a woman attracts the attention of an ancient and evil rival. Produced in the
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heart of Jesse Helms country by London Night Studios.
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**** Lowlife #4 - Ed Brubaker's tales from the Slacker world continue. In
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this one, Tommy tries to deal with, and breaks up with, his girlfriend who
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screws around on him. Its a sad commentary on how the current generation is
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trying to break out of the bullshit laid down for them by their parents, but
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more often than not, history repeats itself. Plus, tales of living on the
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cheap, and a look at his friend Felix. Does more to explain the angst and
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feeling of "Generation X" than all the books combined. AEON.
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*** Naughty Bits #5 - In this comic by Roberta Gregory, one of her more
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colorful characters, Bitchy Bitch, takes on men and the whole sexual harassment
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issue. She has to deal with a creep that she went out with once from a singles
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ad, and now he works at the same place she does, and is bugging her. I didn't
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see it as much as a male-bashing issue, as much as dealing with assholes and
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creeps of either gender, as well as other problems. Fantagraphics Books.
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*** Negative Burn #11 - Cover by Moebius. Great stories in this one: "We Can
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Get It for you Wholesale", plus another episode of the Twilight People. Plus,
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more Classics Desecrated, one of them by Matt Feazell, creator of the Cynical
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Man mini-comics. Also, Mr. Mamoulian, sketchbooks, and more. Caliber Press.
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*** Ren & Stimpy #21 - Stimpy decides to act like a real cat, instead of
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walking upright and living in a house. Plus, Ren becomes paranoid that a
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piece of space junk from Skylab will fall on him and kill him. The stories
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were almost good enough for a regular episode. Too many ads. Marvel Comics.
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*** The Tick: Karma Tornado #4 - While flying around the universe doing travel
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reports for the Nigh-Omnipotus, Tick learns that his boss is actually a
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genocidal monster who eats planets. After confronting him, the Tick is left
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on his own planet, and Nigh-Omnipotus destroys himself. New England Comics.
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**** Zap Comix #13 - New comics by Richard Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert
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Shelton, Robert Williams, and more. Crumb does a brief autobiography, which
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sheds a lot of light on his work. Other strips are a mix of the wild counter-
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cultural themes and outrageous artwork. Last Gasp.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
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Deadly Beer Can Conspiracy
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Subliminal persuasion through backwards masking is a technique through
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which a subliminal message (a message which imprints itself directly on
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the subconcious mind) is planted, usually in music. When played backwards,
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the message is revealed.
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On the side of every beer can is the warning: "According To The
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Surgeon General, Women Should Not Drink Alcoholic Beverages During
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Pregnancy Because Of The Risk Of Birth Defects." But did you know that
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it contains a subliminal message?
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Using high-tech computer equipment, a friend and I recorded the warning. We
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then played it backwards. To our suprise we found a hidden message: "Michigan".
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What could be the signifigance of this message?
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Budweiser beer is made with rice, like saki, instead of barley like good
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American beers. We believe that this is all part of a plot by Japanese
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corporations to destroy the American automobile industry, which is based in
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Michigan. Through the "Don't drink and drive" campaign, a subliminal
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connection between beer and cars was formed in the consiousness of the
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American people. Then, by subverting our beer, the Japanese could also
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crush our automobile industry!
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What can you do?
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Write to the FBI and CIA and demand they investigate this matter further.
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Also write to the Pentagon and demand military strikes against Japan.
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Remember Pearl Harbor!
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Dave Palmer <arxt@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Sacrifices to the New World Order PO Box:
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Juggling with Slack - The Church of the Great Juggle shows us how the Path to
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Slack is very similar to juggling, and has a detailed and illustrated pamphlet
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teaching you precisely how to juggle nearly anything. Send for yours today;
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no price listed, but $1 or so wouldn't hurt. Church of the Great Juggle,
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2002-A Guadalupe #623, Austin, TX 78705
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Strange, But True News - This zine is precisely as the title implies, real
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news stories that actually happened, and as usual, truth is much stranger than
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fiction. Fun little things that your next-door neighbors JUST MIGHT be doing
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include: sleeping with the dead, gouging out eyeballs to exorcise demons,
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commercially endorsing Tonya Harding (TONYA!!!), playing with human skulls, or
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fooling the public with ClintonSpeak. Its funny how much stupidity and strange-
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ness come directly from the boys in blue. This is a great barometer to gauge
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the amount of weirdness and insanity in the world, and there's no shortage.
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1 year (12 issues) is only $13 and $2 for a sample copy- mention you read this
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in HToMC and get it for $1. SEND HIM YOUR WEIRD NEWS CLIPPING!!!!
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Here's the address which was stolen by space goblins from the last issue:
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SBTN 7522 Campbell Road, Suite 113, Room 162, Dallas, TX 75248
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Riverside Art Scene - A strange mixture of sick humor, warped cultural icons,
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conspiracies, regurgitated and warped nightmares from Catholic school, and
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countless other demented topics, plus reviews. Not a square millimeter is
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wasted, with more artwork, collages, drawings, and assorted strangeness than
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publications ten times the size- lots of good stuff in a small package, that
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takes a while to absorb completely. Highly recommended. They not only trade
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zines, but weird and underground videos as well, and have their own local
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cable access TV show. No price listed, but send a trade or a buck or so to:
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Ski-Mask, Riverside Art Scene, PO Box 638, Kenmore, NY 14217
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Xenon vol. 1 issue 3 - Not exactly a riot grrrl zine, this one obviously
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shows things from a girls point of view, although they do touch on some other
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topics. They also have lots of recipes- the ones for Beer Bread sounds
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pretty good, and the others made me hungry. Send a stamp and a quarter, or at
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least a couple of stamps, to: Monet, 161 Via de Laurencio, Chula Vista CA 91910
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Sniper's Nest #1 - From the fringes of the conspiracy watchers to anything
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interesting, this is a collection of hard-hitting "bullets" into the heart of
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the conspiracy. I particularly liked the one questioning the need for
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militarism as a government policy, though I have to admit that I reserve some
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doubts on some of the other articles which paint business and "property" as
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evils. Nevertheless, the varied mix makes for interesting reading. Send a
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trade, or 3 stamps, or $1 to: CN c/o Trevor Rigler, PO Box 2351,
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Galveston TX 77553-2351
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Snuff It - The Quarterly Journal of the Church of Euthanasia - Its hard not to
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like an organization whose pillars are suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and
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sodomy. What do those have in common? They are means of lowering the
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population. There's some good points here; there is also a healthy dose of
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urban guerilla warfare in what they self-describe as Dada in action: they have
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great "Save the Earth - Kill Yourself" bumper stickers, and have wreaked havoc
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on the "normal" environmentalist/animal rights/etc crowds by infiltrating their
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marches. Lots of fun here. Get 6 issues of Snuff It for $10, or join the
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church for $20 and get a lifetime subscription. They have strange music,
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T-shirts and other goodies. Kevorkian Records, PO Box 261, Somerville, MA 02143
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Spare R.I.B.S. #7 - Thick zine full of absorbing articles on individualism,
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freedom, and blasting censorship, the war on drugs, and other government
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actions more fitting a dictatorship than a free nation. Tons of intellectual
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ammunition, including parts of John Galt's speech. Not just armchair debate,
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this touches on real-life entanglements and battles against the bureaucracy.
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Plus reviews, poetry, and artwork. Try to send something, at least $1 to:
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David Kennerly, 2329 Glascock St. Raleigh, NC 27610
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Eat or Die #4 - Wild strangeness, with tons of discordant images, text; most
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pages are surreal artwork collages. Also has lots of cartoons- it continues
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the "Birdie" the cat story, plus the tale of the museum murders. Twenty-
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some-odd pages of weirdness for only $2 to P. Santo, 230 Avenue B, Apartment 4,
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Bayonne, NJ 07002 [and thanks for the mini-comic!]
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Prometheus Books - Summer 1994 catalog - Tons of great books, from debunkers
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and skeptics, to secular humanists, Jack Kevorkian, to books on just about
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every social issue imagineable. Considerable effort is put forth to counter
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any and all nonsense, regardless of the source, and there are few sources more
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complete than this. (800) 421-0351 59 John Glenn Dr. Amherst, NY 14228-2197
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Probosco #1 - Very strange and unusual comics, where the "characters" look
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like vertical pipes, with a nose pipe going horizontally. They do all sorts
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of absurd things to and with each other, Lots of fun, and completely original.
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Send $1 and a stamp or two to: Probosco, PO Box 1041, Berkeley, CA 94701
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Mongoloid Moose #5 - Musings and interesting things, this issue contains 101
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*other* things that can get you flogged in Singapore, movie reviews, odd
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thoughts, and miscellaneous adventures. A window on the strange world of
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overworked but fun-loving students who secretly desire to be super heroes.
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Don't we all? Definitely worth a buck or anything neat you can stuff into
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an envelope to: Scott Wilson, PO Box 642, Bloomfield NJ 07003
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Derogatory References #78 - This is Arthur Hlavaty's musing and adventures,
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primarily in various literature and related conferences and conventions that
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he attends, but it does wander from the topic and offers ideas and comments
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on lots of other things too. Interesting reading, although I'm not familiar
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with many of the books he talks about. $1, published 4 times per year, to:
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Arthur Hlavaty, 206 Valentine St., Yonkers, NY 10704-1814 hlavaty@panix.com
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comments and messages are invited.
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Your Freedom #5 - Concerned with how to regain part of your freedom in this
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increasingly totalitarian and controlled society, this issue has some good
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|
articles on the absurdity of gun control, workplace monitoring that turns
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bearable work into a hectic hell, a Senators response to making Social Security
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voluntary, and more. Lots of hard-edged anger here, and every bit of it is
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totally justified. $2 each, subscription for $18 check or $14 cash to:
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Your Freedom Newsletter, PO Box 54562, Oklahoma City, OK 73154-1562
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Smite #4 - Slackful articles on recycled movie ideas, woman trouble, the untold
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story of Popeye, lots of reviews of sleazy movies, zines, and various other
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things. I agree with everything he says, no lie. $1, although he's cutting
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a bit from the monthly publication. $1 to Smite, PO Box 624, Diboll TX 75941
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STUFF from NENSLO is available for only $1 to New Realisation Fellowship,
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Box 86582, Portland OR 97286. Although the Universal SubGenius Pilgrimage
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is over now, send it anyway.
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Bellows of Self - volume III No. 1 - Dedicated to freedom of expression, or to
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"bellow" in whatever manner you deem appropriate, regardless of any "PC",
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social, or ideological objections, this is a mixture of wild stories, stabs at
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Comrade Clinton and gang, and other unfettered expression. Submissions are
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greatly encouraged. Many pages for only $1: Bellows of Self, PO Box 17285,
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Salt Lake City, UT 84124
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Slab -O- Concrete - Small press, comics, magaines, and weird stuff distributor
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for the UK. If you want to consider distributing your works in Europe, these
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might be the people to see. They carry titles like: Too Much Coffee Man,
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Infinite Onion, Way Out Strips, and more. Plus, they look like a good
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connection for ordering material produced over there. Write to: PO Box 298,
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Sheffield, S10 1YU, UK, or c/o PO Box 821388-162, Dallas TX 75382. AGE STMT!!
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ManPower - vol. 1 #1 - In a reaction against the radical feminist agenda that
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doesn't treat men as equals, but as savage animals to be reverse-discriminated
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against, this newsletter urges men to stand up for equal rights. They speak
|
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out against the "take daughters to work day", in that sons aren't encouraged
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to do the same, and are browbeaten and humiliated for offenses they didn't
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commit, except for being male. Plus, other stories and articles along the
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same lines. The Men's Action Council, Box 27365, Golden Valley MN 55427
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$15 for one-year subscription, or free with $25 membership
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Interesting! #2 - Everything that the editor thinks is interesting. Since he
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comes from a medical background, there is a lot of that sort of thing; one of
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his projects is sending letters to network TV shows that make medical mistakes
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or give misleading information. There is also a wide range of strange news,
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quotes, interesting facts and stats, and things to write for. $3 per issue
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FROM CROSSBOWS TO CRYPTOGRAPHY: TECHNO-THWARTING THE STATE
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by Chuck Hammill
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Given at the Future of Freedom Conference, November 1987
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Public Domain: Duplicate and Distribute Freely
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You know, technology-- and particularly computer
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technology--has often gotten a bad rap in Libertarian cir-
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cles. We tend to think of Orwell's 1984, or Terry Gilliam's
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Brazil, or the proximity detectors keeping East Berlin's
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slave/citizens on their own side of the border, or the so-
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phisticated bugging devices Nixon used to harass those on
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his "enemies list." Or, we recognize that for the price of
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a ticket on the Concorde we can fly at twice the speed of
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sound, but only if we first walk thru a magnetometer run by
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a government policeman, and permit him to paw thru our be-
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longings if it beeps.
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But I think that mind-set is a mistake. Before there
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were cattle prods, governments tortured their prisoners with
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clubs and rubber hoses. Before there were lasers for
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eavesdropping, governments used binoculars and lip-readers.
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Though government certainly uses technology to oppress, the
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evil lies not in the tools but in the wielder of the tools.
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In fact, technology represents one of the most promis-
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ing avenues available for re-capturing our freedoms from
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those who have stolen them. By its very nature, it favors
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the bright (who can put it to use) over the dull (who can-
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|
not). It favors the adaptable (who are quick to see the
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merit of the new( over the sluggish (who cling to time-
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|
tested ways). And what two better words are there to de-
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scribe government bureaucracy than "dull" and "sluggish"?
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One of the clearest, classic triumphs of technology
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over tyranny I see is the invention of the man-portable
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crossbow. With it, an untrained peasant could now reliably
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and lethally engage a target out to fifty meters--even if
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that target were a mounted, chain-mailed knight. (Unlike
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the longbow, which, admittedly was more powerful, and could
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get off more shots per unit time, the crossbow required no
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formal training to utilize. Whereas the longbow required
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elaborate visual, tactile and kinesthetic coordination to
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achieve any degree of accuracy, the wielder of a crossbow
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could simply put the weapon to his shoulder, sight along the
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arrow itself, and be reasonably assured of hitting his tar-
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get.)
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Moreover, since just about the only mounted knights
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likely to visit your average peasant would be government
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soldiers and tax collectors, the utility of the device was
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plain: With it, the common rabble could defend themselves
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not only against one another, but against their governmental
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masters. It was the medieval equivalent of the armor-
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piercing bullet, and, consequently, kings and priests (the
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medieval equivalent of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
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Crossbows) threatened death and excommunication, respec-
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tively, for its unlawful possession.
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Looking at later developments, we see how technology
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like the firearm--particularly the repeating rifle and the
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handgun, later followed by the Gatling gun and more advanced
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machine guns--radically altered the balance of interpersonal
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and inter-group power. Not without reason was the Colt .45
|
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called "the equalizer." A frail dance-hall hostess with one
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in her possession was now fully able to protect herself
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against the brawniest roughneck in any saloon. Advertise-
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ments for the period also reflect the merchandising of the
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repeating cartridge rifle by declaring that "a man on
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horseback, armed with one of these rifles, simply cannot be
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captured." And, as long as his captors were relying upon
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flintlocks or single-shot rifles, the quote is doubtless a
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true one.
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Updating now to the present, the public-key cipher
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(with a personal computer to run it) represents an equiv-
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alent quantum leap--in a defensive weapon. Not only can
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such a technique be used to protect sensitive data in one's
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own possession, but it can also permit two strangers to ex-
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|
change information over an insecure communications
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channel--a wiretapped phone line, for example, or
|
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skywriting, for that matter)--without ever having previously
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met to exchange cipher keys. With a thousand-dollar com-
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puter, you can create a cipher that a multi-megabuck CRAY
|
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X-MP can't crack in a year. Within a few years, it should
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be economically feasible to similarly encrypt voice communi-
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cations; soon after that, full-color digitized video images.
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Technology will not only have made wiretapping obsolete, it
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will have totally demolished government's control over in-
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formation transfer.
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I'd like to take just a moment to sketch the mathemat-
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ics which makes this principle possible. This algorithm is
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called the RSA algorithm, after Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman
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who jointly created it. Its security derives from the fact
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that, if a very large number is the product of two very
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large primes, then it is extremely difficult to obtain the
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two prime factors from analysis of their product. "Ex-
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tremely" in the sense that if primes p and q have 100
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digits apiece, then their 200-digit product cannot in gen-
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eral be factored in less than 100 years by the most powerful
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computer now in existence.
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The "public" part of the key consists of (1) the prod-
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uct pq of the two large primes p and q, and (2) one fac-
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tor, call it x , of the product xy where xy = {(p-1) *
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(q-1) + 1}. The "private" part of the key consists of the
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other factor y.
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Each block of the text to be encrypted is first turned
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into an integer--either by using ASCII, or even a simple
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A=01, B=02, C=03, ... , Z=26 representation. This integer
|
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is then raised to the power x (modulo pq) and the resulting
|
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integer is then sent as the encrypted message. The receiver
|
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decrypts by taking this integer to the (secret) power y
|
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(modulo pq). It can be shown that this process will always
|
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yield the original number started with.
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What makes this a groundbreaking development, and why
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it is called "public-key" cryptography," is that I can
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openly publish the product pq and the number x , while
|
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keeping secret the number y --so that anyone can send me
|
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an encrypted message, namely
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x
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a (mod pq) ,
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but only I can recover the original message a , by taking
|
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what they send, raising it to the power y and taking the
|
|
result (mod pq). The risky step (meeting to exchange cipher
|
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keys) has been eliminated. So people who may not even trust
|
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each other enough to want to meet, may still reliably ex-
|
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change encrypted messages--each party having selected and
|
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disseminated his own pq and his x , while maintaining
|
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the secrecy of his own y .
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Another benefit of this scheme is the notion of a "dig-
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ital signature," to enable one to authenticate the source of
|
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a given message. Normally, if I want to send you a message,
|
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I raise my plaintext a to your x and take the result (mod
|
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your pq) and send that.
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However, if in my message, I take the plaintext a and
|
|
raise it to my (secret) power y , take the result (mod my
|
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pq), then raise that result to your x (mod your pq) and
|
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send this, then even after you have normally "decrypted" the
|
|
message, it will still look like garbage. However, if you
|
|
then raise it to my public power x , and take the result
|
|
(mod my public pq ), so you will not only recover the ori-
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ginal plaintext message, but you will know that no one but I
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could have sent it to you (since no one else knows my secret
|
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y ).
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And these are the very concerns by the way that are to-
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|
day tormenting the Soviet Union about the whole question of
|
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personal computers. On the one hand, they recognize that
|
|
American schoolchildren are right now growing up with com-
|
|
puters as commonplace as sliderules used to be--more so, in
|
|
fact, because there are things computers can do which will
|
|
interest (and instruct) 3- and 4-year-olds. And it is pre-
|
|
cisely these students who one generation hence will be going
|
|
head-to-head against their Soviet counterparts. For the
|
|
Soviets to hold back might be a suicidal as continuing to
|
|
teach swordsmanship while your adversaries are learning
|
|
ballistics. On the other hand, whatever else a personal
|
|
computer may be, it is also an exquisitely efficient copying
|
|
machine--a floppy disk will hold upwards of 50,000 words of
|
|
text, and can be copied in a couple of minutes. If this
|
|
weren't threatening enough, the computer that performs the
|
|
copy can also encrypt the data in a fashion that is all but
|
|
unbreakable. Remember that in Soviet society publicly ac-
|
|
cessible Xerox machines are unknown. (The relatively few
|
|
copying machines in existence are controlled more inten-
|
|
sively than machine guns are in the United States.)
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Now the "conservative" position is that we should not
|
|
sell these computers to the Soviets, because they could use
|
|
them in weapons systems. The "liberal" position is that we
|
|
should sell them, in the interests of mutual trade and
|
|
cooperation--and anyway, if we don't make the sale, there
|
|
will certainly be some other nation willing to.
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|
For my part, I'm ready to suggest that the Libertarian
|
|
position should be to give them to the Soviets for free, and
|
|
if necessary, make them take them . . . and if that doesn't
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work load up an SR-71 Blackbird and air drop them over
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Moscow in the middle of the night. Paid for by private sub-
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scription, of course, not taxation . . . I confess that this
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is not a position that has gained much support among members
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of the conventional left-right political spectrum, but, af-
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ter all, in the words of one of Illuminatus's characters, we
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are political non-Euclideans: The shortest distance to a
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particular goal may not look anything like what most people
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would consider a "straight line." Taking a long enough
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world-view, it is arguable that breaking the Soviet govern-
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ment monopoly on information transfer could better lead to
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the enfeeblement and, indeed, to the ultimate dissolution of
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the Soviet empire than would the production of another dozen
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missiles aimed at Moscow.
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But there's the rub: A "long enough" world view does
|
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suggest that the evil, the oppressive, the coercive and the
|
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simply stupid will "get what they deserve," but what's not
|
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immediately clear is how the rest of us can escape being
|
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killed, enslaved, or pauperized in the process.
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When the liberals and other collectivists began to at-
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tack freedom, they possessed a reasonably stable, healthy,
|
|
functioning economy, and almost unlimited time to proceed to
|
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hamstring and dismantle it. A policy of political
|
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gradualism was at least conceivable. But now, we have
|
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patchwork crazy-quilt economy held together by baling wire
|
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and spit. The state not only taxes us to "feed the poor"
|
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while also inducing farmers to slaughter milk cows and drive
|
|
up food prices--it then simultaneously turns around and sub-
|
|
sidizes research into agricultural chemicals designed to in-
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crease yields of milk from the cows left alive. Or witness
|
|
the fact that a decline in the price of oil is considered as
|
|
potentially frightening as a comparable increase a few years
|
|
ago. When the price went up, we were told, the economy
|
|
risked collapse for for want of energy. The price increase
|
|
was called the "moral equivalent of war" and the Feds swung
|
|
into action. For the first time in American history, the
|
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speed at which you drive your car to work in the morning be-
|
|
came an issue of Federal concern. Now, when the price of
|
|
oil drops, again we risk problems, this time because Ameri-
|
|
can oil companies and Third World basket-case nations who
|
|
sell oil may not be able to ever pay their debts to our
|
|
grossly over-extended banks. The suggested panacea is that
|
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government should now re-raise the oil prices that OPEC has
|
|
lowered, via a new oil tax. Since the government is seeking
|
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to raise oil prices to about the same extent as OPEC did,
|
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what can we call this except the "moral equivalent of civil
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war--the government against its own people?"
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And, classically, in international trade, can you imag-
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ine any entity in the world except a government going to
|
|
court claiming that a vendor was selling it goods too
|
|
cheaply and demanding not only that that naughty vendor be
|
|
compelled by the court to raise its prices, but also that it
|
|
be punished for the act of lowering them in the first place?
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|
|
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So while the statists could afford to take a couple of
|
|
hundred years to trash our economy and our liberties--we
|
|
certainly cannot count on having an equivalent period of
|
|
stability in which to reclaim them. I contend that there
|
|
exists almost a "black hole" effect in the evolution of
|
|
nation-states just as in the evolution of stars. Once free-
|
|
dom contracts beyond a certain minimum extent, the state
|
|
warps the fabric of the political continuum about itself to
|
|
the degree that subsequent re-emergence of freedom becomes
|
|
all but impossible. A good illustration of this can be seen
|
|
in the area of so-called "welfare" payments. When those who
|
|
sup at the public trough outnumber (and thus outvote) those
|
|
whose taxes must replenish the trough, then what possible
|
|
choice has a democracy but to perpetuate and expand the tak-
|
|
ing from the few for the unearned benefit of the many? Go
|
|
down to the nearest "welfare" office, find just two people
|
|
on the dole . . . and recognize that between them they form
|
|
a voting bloc that can forever outvote you on the question
|
|
of who owns your life--and the fruits of your life's labor.
|
|
|
|
So essentially those who love liberty need an "edge" of
|
|
some sort if we're ultimately going to prevail. We obvi-
|
|
ously can't use the altruists' "other-directedness" of
|
|
"work, slave, suffer, sacrifice, so that next generation of
|
|
a billion random strangers can live in a better world."
|
|
Recognize that, however immoral such an appeal might be, it
|
|
is nonetheless an extremely powerful one in today's culture.
|
|
If you can convince people to work energetically for a
|
|
"cause," caring only enough for their personal welfare so as
|
|
to remain alive enough and healthy enough to continue
|
|
working--then you have a truly massive reservoir of energy
|
|
to draw from. Equally clearly, this is just the sort of ap-
|
|
peal which tautologically cannot be utilized for egoistic or
|
|
libertarian goals. If I were to stand up before you tonight
|
|
and say something like, "Listen, follow me as I enunciate my
|
|
noble "cause," contribute your money to support the "cause,"
|
|
give up your free time to work for the "cause," strive
|
|
selflessly to bring it about, and then (after you and your
|
|
children are dead) maybe your children's children will actu-
|
|
ally live under egoism"--you'd all think I'd gone mad. And
|
|
of course you'd be right. Because the point I'm trying to
|
|
make is that libertarianism and/or egoism will be spread if,
|
|
when, and as, individual libertarians and/or egoists find it
|
|
profitable and/or enjoyable to do so. And probably only
|
|
then.
|
|
|
|
While I certainly do not disparage the concept of poli-
|
|
tical action, I don't believe that it is the only, nor even
|
|
necessarily the most cost-effective path toward increasing
|
|
freedom in our time. Consider that, for a fraction of the
|
|
investment in time, money and effort I might expend in try-
|
|
ing to convince the state to abolish wiretapping and all
|
|
forms of censorship--I can teach every libertarian who's in-
|
|
terested how to use cryptography to abolish them
|
|
unilaterally.
|
|
|
|
There is a maxim--a proverb--generally attributed to
|
|
the Eskimoes, which very likely most Libertarians have al-
|
|
ready heard. And while you likely would not quarrel with
|
|
the saying, you might well feel that you've heard it often
|
|
enough already, and that it has nothing further to teach us,
|
|
and moreover, that maybe you're even tired of hearing it. I
|
|
shall therefore repeat it now:
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|
|
If you give a man a fish, the saying runs, you feed him
|
|
for a day. But if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him
|
|
for a lifetime.
|
|
|
|
Your exposure to the quote was probably in some sort of
|
|
a "workfare" vs. "welfare" context; namely, that if you
|
|
genuinely wish to help someone in need, you should teach him
|
|
how to earn his sustenance, not simply how to beg for it.
|
|
And of course this is true, if only because the next time he
|
|
is hungry, there might not be anybody around willing or even
|
|
able to give him a fish, whereas with the information on how
|
|
to fish, he is completely self sufficient.
|
|
|
|
But I submit that this exhausts only the first order
|
|
content of the quote, and if there were nothing further to
|
|
glean from it, I would have wasted your time by citing it
|
|
again. After all, it seems to have almost a crypto-altruist
|
|
slant, as though to imply that we should structure our ac-
|
|
tivities so as to maximize the benefits to such hungry
|
|
beggars as we may encounter.
|
|
|
|
But consider:
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|
|
|
Suppose this Eskimo doesn't know how to fish, but he
|
|
does know how to hunt walruses. You, on the other hand,
|
|
have often gone hungry while traveling thru walrus country
|
|
because you had no idea how to catch the damn things, and
|
|
they ate most of the fish you could catch. And now suppose
|
|
the two of you decide to exchange information, bartering
|
|
fishing knowledge for hunting knowledge. Well, the first
|
|
thing to observe is that a transaction of this type
|
|
categorically and unambiguously refutes the Marxist premise
|
|
that every trade must have a "winner" and a "loser;" the
|
|
idea that if one person gains, it must necessarily be at the
|
|
"expense" of another person who loses. Clearly, under this
|
|
scenario, such is not the case. Each party has gained some-
|
|
thing he did not have before, and neither has been dimin-
|
|
ished in any way. When it comes to exchange of information
|
|
(rather than material objects) life is no longer a zero-sum
|
|
game. This is an extremely powerful notion. The "law of
|
|
diminishing returns," the "first and second laws of
|
|
thermodynamics"--all those "laws" which constrain our possi-
|
|
bilities in other contexts--no longer bind us! Now that's
|
|
anarchy!
|
|
|
|
Or consider another possibility: Suppose this hungry
|
|
Eskimo never learned to fish because the ruler of his
|
|
nation-state had decreed fishing illegal. Because fish
|
|
contain dangerous tiny bones, and sometimes sharp spines, he
|
|
tells us, the state has decreed that their consumption--and
|
|
even their possession--are too hazardous to the people's
|
|
health to be permitted . . . even by knowledgeable, willing
|
|
adults. Perhaps it is because citizens' bodies are thought
|
|
to be government property, and therefore it is the function
|
|
of the state to punish those who improperly care for govern-
|
|
ment property. Or perhaps it is because the state gener-
|
|
ously extends to competent adults the "benefits" it provides
|
|
to children and to the mentally ill: namely, a full-time,
|
|
all-pervasive supervisory conservatorship--so that they need
|
|
not trouble themselves with making choices about behavior
|
|
thought physically risky or morally "naughty." But, in any
|
|
case, you stare stupefied, while your Eskimo informant re-
|
|
lates how this law is taken so seriously that a friend of
|
|
his was recently imprisoned for years for the crime of "pos-
|
|
session of nine ounces of trout with intent to distribute."
|
|
|
|
Now you may conclude that a society so grotesquely
|
|
oppressive as to enforce a law of this type is simply an
|
|
affront to the dignity of all human beings. You may go far-
|
|
ther and decide to commit some portion of your discretion-
|
|
ary, recreational time specifically to the task of thwarting
|
|
this tyrant's goal. (Your rationale may be "altruistic" in
|
|
the sense of wanting to liberate the oppressed, or
|
|
"egoistic" in the sense of proving you can outsmart the
|
|
oppressor--or very likely some combination of these or per-
|
|
haps even other motives.)
|
|
|
|
But, since you have zero desire to become a martyr to
|
|
your "cause," you're not about to mount a military campaign,
|
|
or even try to run a boatload of fish through the blockade.
|
|
However, it is here that technology--and in particular in-
|
|
formation technology--can multiply your efficacy literally a
|
|
hundredfold. I say "literally," because for a fraction of
|
|
the effort (and virtually none of the risk) attendant to
|
|
smuggling in a hundred fish, you can quite readily produce a
|
|
hundred Xerox copies of fishing instructions. (If the tar-
|
|
geted government, like present-day America, at least permits
|
|
open discussion of topics whose implementation is re-
|
|
stricted, then that should suffice. But, if the government
|
|
attempts to suppress the flow of information as well, then
|
|
you will have to take a little more effort and perhaps write
|
|
your fishing manual on a floppy disk encrypted according to
|
|
your mythical Eskimo's public-key parameters. But as far as
|
|
increasing real-world access to fish you have made genuine
|
|
nonzero headway--which may continue to snowball as others
|
|
re-disseminate the information you have provided. And you
|
|
have not had to waste any of your time trying to convert id-
|
|
eological adversaries, or even trying to win over the unde-
|
|
cided. Recall Harry Browne's dictum from "Freedom in an
|
|
Unfree World" that the success of any endeavor is in general
|
|
inversely proportional to the number of people whose persua-
|
|
sion is necessary to its fulfilment.
|
|
|
|
If you look at history, you cannot deny that it has
|
|
been dramatically shaped by men with names like Washington,
|
|
Lincoln, . . . Nixon . . . Marcos . . . Duvalier . . .
|
|
Khadaffi . . . and their ilk. But it has also been shaped
|
|
by people with names like Edison, Curie, Marconi, Tesla and
|
|
Wozniak. And this latter shaping has been at least as per-
|
|
vasive, and not nearly so bloody.
|
|
|
|
And that's where I'm trying to take The LiberTech
|
|
Project. Rather than beseeching the state to please not en-
|
|
slave, plunder or constrain us, I propose a libertarian net-
|
|
work spreading the technologies by which we may seize
|
|
freedom for ourselves.
|
|
|
|
But here we must be a bit careful. While it is not (at
|
|
present) illegal to encrypt information when government
|
|
wants to spy on you, there is no guarantee of what the fu-
|
|
ture may hold. There have been bills introduced, for exam-
|
|
ple, which would have made it a crime to wear body armor
|
|
when government wants to shoot you. That is, if you were to
|
|
commit certain crimes while wearing a Kevlar vest, then that
|
|
fact would constitute a separate federal crime of its own.
|
|
This law to my knowledge has not passed . . . yet . . . but
|
|
it does indicate how government thinks.
|
|
|
|
Other technological applications, however, do indeed
|
|
pose legal risks. We recognize, for example, that anyone
|
|
who helped a pre-Civil War slave escape on the "underground
|
|
railroad" was making a clearly illegal use of technology--as
|
|
the sovereign government of the United States of America at
|
|
that time found the buying and selling of human beings quite
|
|
as acceptable as the buying and selling of cattle. Simi-
|
|
larly, during Prohibition, anyone who used his bathtub to
|
|
ferment yeast and sugar into the illegal psychoactive drug,
|
|
alcohol--the controlled substance, wine--was using technol-
|
|
ogy in a way that could get him shot dead by federal agents
|
|
for his "crime"--unfortunately not to be restored to life
|
|
when Congress reversed itself and re-permitted use of this
|
|
drug.
|
|
|
|
So . . . to quote a former President, un-indicted co-
|
|
conspirator and pardoned felon . . . "Let me make one thing
|
|
perfectly clear:" The LiberTech Project does not advocate,
|
|
participate in, or conspire in the violation of any law--no
|
|
matter how oppressive, unconstitutional or simply stupid
|
|
such law may be. It does engage in description (for educa-
|
|
tional and informational purposes only) of technological
|
|
processes, and some of these processes (like flying a plane
|
|
or manufacturing a firearm) may well require appropriate li-
|
|
censing to perform legally. Fortunately, no license is
|
|
needed for the distribution or receipt of information it-
|
|
self.
|
|
|
|
So, the next time you look at the political scene and
|
|
despair, thinking, "Well, if 51% of the nation and 51% of
|
|
this State, and 51% of this city have to turn Libertarian
|
|
before I'll be free, then somebody might as well cut my
|
|
goddamn throat now, and put me out of my misery"--recognize
|
|
that such is not the case. There exist ways to make your-
|
|
self free.
|
|
|
|
If you wish to explore such techniques via the Project,
|
|
you are welcome to give me your name and address--or a fake
|
|
name and mail drop, for that matter--and you'll go on the
|
|
mailing list for my erratically-published newsletter. Any
|
|
friends or acquaintances whom you think would be interested
|
|
are welcome as well. I'm not even asking for stamped self-
|
|
addressed envelopes, since my printer can handle mailing la-
|
|
bels and actual postage costs are down in the noise compared
|
|
with the other efforts in getting an issue out. If you
|
|
should have an idea to share, or even a useful product to
|
|
plug, I'll be glad to have you write it up for publication.
|
|
Even if you want to be the proverbial "free rider" and just
|
|
benefit from what others contribute--you're still welcome:
|
|
Everything will be public domain; feel free to copy it or
|
|
give it away (or sell it, for that matter, 'cause if you can
|
|
get money for it while I'm taking full-page ads trying to
|
|
give it away, you're certainly entitled to your capitalist
|
|
profit . . .) Anyway, every application of these principles
|
|
should make the world just a little freer, and I'm certainly
|
|
willing to underwrite that, at least for the forseeable fu-
|
|
ture.
|
|
|
|
I will leave you with one final thought: If you don't
|
|
learn how to beat your plowshares into swords before they
|
|
outlaw swords, then you sure as HELL ought to learn before
|
|
they outlaw plowshares too.
|
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--Chuck Hammill
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THE LIBERTECH PROJECT
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Excerpts from Robert Wayne Pelton's Loony Sex Laws that You Never Knew You
|
|
Were Breaking (Walker and Company):
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In the quiet town of Connorsville, Wisconsin, it's illegal for a man to
|
|
shoot off a gun when his female partner has an orgasm.
|
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It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during
|
|
sex.
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In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or
|
|
fishing on your wedding day.
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No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions,
|
|
or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so
|
|
requests,
|
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law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
|
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Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to
|
|
take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you- or holding
|
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you in his arms.
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Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of
|
|
the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown- if they're nude.
|
|
(Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!)
|
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In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin
|
|
beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple
|
|
rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor
|
|
between the beds!
|
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The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each
|
|
guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are
|
|
married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they
|
|
are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts.
|
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|
|
An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having
|
|
sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!
|
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|
|
A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master,
|
|
not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
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In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There
|
|
was a civil-service job- for men only- called a corset inspector.
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|
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However, in Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets
|
|
because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a
|
|
young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."
|
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It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police
|
|
officers
|
|
aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer
|
|
who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn
|
|
three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car
|
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to investigate.
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Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table
|
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in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of
|
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clothing.
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Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful
|
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urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are
|
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frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term.
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In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it's legal for couples to have sex in a parked
|
|
vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has
|
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drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in.
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A Florida sex law: If you're a single, divorced, or widowed woman, you
|
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can't parachute on Sunday afternoons.
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Women aren't allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio- a man
|
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might see the reflection of something "he oughtn't!"
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No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the
|
|
boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a
|
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sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper."
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The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed.
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Springer, Julia Ecklar, John DeChancie, Kenneth von Gunden, Don Sakers,
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David Burkhead, Ted Reynolds, John-Allen Price, William Tenn, Andrew
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Keith, William H. Keith, Jr., Alexandra and David Honigsberg, Gwenyth
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Hood, Michael Betancourt, Joe Clifford Faust, Robin Wood, Diana Harlan
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Stein, Lawrence C. Connolly, Karen Rose Cercone, Astrid Julian, S.C.
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"Doc" Fisher, Mary K. Frey, Robin J. Nakkula, more. Memb: $20 until
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7/1/94, $25 after (Children 7-12, $10 until 7/1/94, $15 after). Info:
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ConFluence '94, Box 3681, Pittsburgh PA 15230-3681; email:
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tabasko@transarc.com.
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July 22-24, 1994 (Canada, Alberta)
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CON-VERSION XI. Calgary AB, Canada. GoHs: Frederik Pohl, Marion Zimmer
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Bradley; Canadian GoH: Sean Russell. Memb: C$35 until 7/6/94, C$40
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after. Info: Con-Version XI, Box 1088, Stn. M, Calgary AB T2P 2K9,
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Canada.
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July 22-24, 1994 (Canada, Ontario)
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TORONTO TREK VIII. Regal Constellation Hotel, 900 Dixon Road,
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Etobicoke, Ontario M4W 1J7; (416)675-1500 or (800)268-4838; rms C$79
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sngl, C$87 dbl, +C$15 per person extra. Actor GoH: Majel
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Barrett-Roddenberry; Author GoH: Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens; TM:
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jan howard finder; Guests: Nana Visitor, Larry Warner, Michael Cuneo,
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Arne Starr. Memb: C$35/US$32 until 6/15/94 (children 5-12 half-price,
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children under 5 free). Info: Toronto Trek VIII, Suite 0116, Box 187,
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65 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5J 1E6 Canada; (416)699-4666;
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email: 76437.1712@compuserve.com or c.lyon4@genie.geis.com.
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July 22-24, 1994 (England)
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DIMENSION JUMP. Angel Hotel, Northampton, England. Memb: L25 until
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6/1/94, L30 after. Red Dwarf convention. Memb: L25. Info: Garden
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Cottage, Hall Farm, Scottow, Norwich, NR10 5DF.
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July 29-31, 1994 (Kentucky)
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RIVERCON XIX. Executive West Hotel, I-264 and I-65, Louisville,
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Kentucky; rms $58. GoH: Forrest J. Ackerman; FGoH: Verna Smith
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Trestrail (E.E. Smith's daughter); TM: Julius Schwartz; Guests: Mike
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Resnick, First Fandom, more TBA. Memb: $20 until 7/15/94, $30 after.
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Info: RiverCon XIX, PO Box 58009, Louisville, KY 40268-0009.
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July 29-31, 1994 (New Jersey)
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PHROLICON 10. Clarion Hotel (formerly the Mt. Laurel Hilton), Mt.
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Laurel, NJ; rms $68. GoH: George Alec Effinger. Relaxacon. Memb: $20
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until 7/15/94, $25 after. Info: Phrolicon 10, PO Box 42195,
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Philadelphia PA 19101-2195; (215)342-1672.
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July 29-31, 1994 (Rhode Island)
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NECON 14. Bryant College, Smithfield RI. GoHs: Brian Lumley, Rick
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Hautala, Rick Berry; EGoH: Ginjer Buchanan. Memb (including room and
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meals): $180 sngl, $170 per person dbl. Info: Necon 14, Box 9202,
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Warwick, RI 02889; (401)739-2060.
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July 29-31, 1994 (England)
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WINCON 3. King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK. GoHs: Algis Budrys,
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James P. Hogan. Memb: L23; L16 supporting. Info: Wincon 3, c/o Keith
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Cosslett, 12 Crowsbury Close, Emsworth, Hamps. PO10 7TS, UK; (0243)
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376596.
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July 30-31, 1994 (Virginia)
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NOVACON II. Tyson's Westpark Hotel, Vienna VA; (703)734-2800. Guests:
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Walter Koenig, Michael Dorn, Bennet Pomerantz, A.C. Crispin, Dennis
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Russel Bailey. Memb: $35 in advance, $40 at the door. Info: One Trek
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Mind Productions, Inc., PO Box 3363, Merrifield, VA 22116.
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August 4-7, 1994 (California, Southern)
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SAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego CA.
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Memb: $40 until 7/1/94, $50 after (half-price for seniors & children
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7-16) Info: Box 128458, San Diego CA 92112; (619)544-9555; email:
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g.plana@genie.geis.com.
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August 4-6, 1994 (Ohio)
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PULPCON. Bowling Green State University, Toledo OH; rms $36 sngl, $21
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per person dbl. Guests: Hugh B. Cave, Harold Masur. A convention for
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enthusiasts and collectors of the fabled pulp magazines, where people
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went for their popular culture fix before paperbacks, comics, and tv put
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them out of business. Memb: $15 until 7/20/94, $25 after. Info:
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PULPCON, Box 1332, Dayton OH; email: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke).
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August 5-7, 1994 (Michigan)
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WEEKEND IN SHERWOOD. Sheraton Oaks Hotel, 27000 Sheraton Drive, Novi,
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Michigan 48377; (313) 348-9410; rms $55. Guests: Mark Ryan, Michael
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Praed, Richard Carpenter. Memb: $55 until 4/1/94, $60 after; $15
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supporting. Info: SPIRIT OF SHERWOOD, 1276 W. Marshall, Ferndale MI
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48220; email: j.spreng@genie.geis.com.
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August 5-7, 1994 (Texas)
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GALAXY FAIR/ARTCON '94. Sheraton Park Central Hotel, Coit Road, Dallas
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TX; rms $60. GoH: Harry Turtledove; EGoH: Toni Weisskopf; AGoH: Bob
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Eggleton; TM: Robert Asprin; Publisher GoH: Jim Baen; Media GoH: Nigel
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Bennett; ArtCon GoH: Real Musgrave, Filk GoH: Marty Burke; Guests:
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Elizabeth Moon, Bill Fawcett, Jody Lynn Nye, P.N. Elrod, Tom Martin, C.
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Dean Andersson, Nina Romberg, Carole Nelson Douglas, Leslie Fish, L.
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Sprague & Catherine Crook de Camp, Diana Gallagher, more. Memb: $30
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until 8/1/94, $35 after. Info: Galaxy Fair, Inc., Box 150471,
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Arlington, TX 76015-6471; (817)467-0681.
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August 5-8, 1994 (Washington D.C.)
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MYTHCON XXV. American University, Washington D.C.; rms $43 single, $28
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per person dbl; meals $60-$90 including Banquet. GoH: Madeleine L'Engle;
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Scholar GoH: Verlyn Flieger; AGoH: Judith Mitchell; Guests: Nancy
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Springer, Paula Volsky, Alexis Gilliland, Christopher Gilson, Michael
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Dirda. Theme: The Language of Myth. Special blend of academic,
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Literary and mythopoeic fantasy interests. Paper presentations and
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panel discussions mix with an Art Show and Auction, Costume Masquerade,
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Writer's Workshop, Gaming, Videos and more. Memb: $45/L26 until 6/1/94,
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$55/L32 after (US checks to Mythcon, UK checks to Wendell Wagner).
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Info: Mythcon, c/o Irv Koch, 5465 N. Morgan St. #106, Alexandria VA
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22312; (703)354-4176; email: irv.koch@f629.n109.z1.fidonet.org.
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August 5-7, 1994 (Washington)
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VIKINGCON 15. Western Washington University, Bellingham WA. GoHs:
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George R.R. Martin, Connie Willis. Memb: $20 until 7/31/94, $25 after.
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Info: VikingCon 15, Associated Students, WWU -- Viking Union V-1,
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Bellingham WA 98225-9106; (206)734-0919.
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August 12-14, 1994 (Minnesota)
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DIVERSICON 2. Minneapolis/St. Paul MN. GoH: Paul Park. Sercon. Memb:
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$25 until 7/15/94, $35 at door. Info: Diversicon 2, Box 8036,
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Minneapolis MN 55408.
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August 12-14, 1994 (Norway)
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INTERCON '94. Oslo, Norway. GoHs: C.J. Cherryh, Brian W. Aldiss.
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Memb: $15/L10 (for non-Scandinavians). Info: Intercon '94, Box 121
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Vinderen, N-0319 Oslo, Norway.
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August 26-28, 1994 (Alabama)
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B'HAMACON/DEEPSOUTHCON 32. Radisson Hotel, 808 20th Street South,
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Birmingham, AL; (205) 933-9000 or (800) 333-3333; rms $59. GoHs: Lois
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McMaster Bujold; FGoH: Bob Shaw; AGoHs: Debbie Hughes, Mark Maxwell; TM:
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Mike Resnick. Memb: $25 until 8/1/94, $30 after (Children 6-12 half
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price). Info: B'hamacon III, c/o Debbie Rowan, PO Box 94151,Birmingham
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AL 35220-4151.
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August 26-28, 1994 (New Mexico)
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BUBONICON 26. Howard Johnson East, Albuquerque NM; rms $45 sngl/dbl,
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$50 tpl/quad. GoH: Mike Stackpole; AGoH: Liz Danforth; TM: Simon Hawke.
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Memb: $18 until 5/31/94, $21 until 8/10/94, $25 after. Info: NMSF
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Conference, Box 37257, Albuquerque NM 87176; (505)266-8905.
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August 26-28, 1994 (Oregon)
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CASCADECON '94. Red Lion Inn/Coliseum, Portland, OR. Guests: David
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Bischoff, Steve Perry, Mel Gilden, Betty Bigelow. Memb: $35 until
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6/30/94, $45 after (children 5 and under - free, ages 6-12 - half
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price). Panels, workshops, Dealer's Room, Art Show, Art Auction,
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Videos, Masquerade, Dances, Filking, Autographs, Banquet, Buckaroo
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Banzai 10 year anniversary events, more. Info: CascadeCon, PO Box
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86734, Portland, Oregon 97286-4833; (503)777-0537; email:
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v.selander@genie.geis.com.
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September 1-5, 1994 (Canada, Manitoba)
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CONADIAN/WORLDCON 52/CANVENTION 14. Winnipeg Convention Centre,
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Winnipeg, MB, Canada. GoH: Anne McCaffrey; AGoH: George Barr; TM: Barry
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B. Longyear; FGoH: Robert Runte. Memb: $125/C$165 (Children under 12
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$30/C$35) until 7/15/94, C$200 at the door; US$25/C$30 supporting.
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Info: Conadian, PO Box 2430, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3C 4A7;
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(204)942-9494; email: conadian@genie.geis.com,
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j.mansfield4@genie.geis.com (John Mansfield); 70324.2252@compuserve.com
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(Linda Ross-Mansfield - CompuServe only). CANVENTION info only: Diane
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L. Walton; (403)924-3540.
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September 2-5, 1994 (Pennsylvania)
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CHOCOCON. Harrisburg, PA. Relaxacon for those not going to CONADIAN.
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Memb: TBA. Info: lmann@telerama.lm.com.
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September 9-11, 1994 (New Jersey)
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SHORECON '94. Sheraton Eatontown Hotel and Conference Ctr., Route 35N
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at Industrial Way, Eatontown, NJ; (908)542-6500; rms $79 sngl/dbl, $89
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tpl/quad. Guests: Jeff Menges (artist Magic: The Gathering), Jim
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Hlavaty, more. Gaming convention. Info: Andrew and Heleen Durston, 142
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South Street, Unit 9C, Red Bank, NJ 07701-2216; (908) 530-5211; email:
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acd@hotld.att.com.
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September 10, 1994 (Texas)
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TREKFEST '94. Holiday Inn Medical Center, 6701 South Main, Houston, TX.
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Guests: Grace Lee Whitney, Bjo Trimble. Memb: $5 in advance, $8 at
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door. Info: Trekfest 1994, c/o Starbase Houston, PO Box 981701,
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Houston, TX 77098-1701; (713)527-9277.
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September 16-18, 1994 (Idaho)
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MOSCON XVI. University Inn Best Western, Moscow ID; (208) 882-0550.
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GoH: Roger Zelazny; AGoH: Gary Davis; FGoH: Tom and Shelly Gordy;
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Science GoH; Gregory Benford. Memb: $20 until 5/15/94, children 6-12
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half-price, under 6 free. Info: MosCon XVI, Box 8521, Moscow ID 83843.
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September 30 - October 2, 1994 (Minnesota)
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ARCANA '94. Holiday Inn Bandana Sq., St. Paul MN. (Formerly known as
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Minn-Con). GoHs: Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem. Memb: $23 until
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6/30/94, $30 until 9/1/94, $40 after. Info: Arcana, c/o John Brower,
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3136 Park Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55405-1525.
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September 30 - October 2, 1994 (Virginia)
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RISING STAR 3. Salem Civic Center, Salem VA. Guests: Hal Clement, Bjo
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& John Trimble, media guests. Memb: $12.50 until 7/31/94, $15 after.
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Info: Rising Star Productions, 545 Howard Dr., Salem VA 24153.
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September 30 - October 2, 1994 (Wisconsin)
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FIRST CONTACT. Grand Milwaukee Hotel, 4747 South Howell Avenue,
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Milwaukee, WI 53207-5989; (800)558-3862; rms $69 sgl, $75 dbl, $82 tpl,
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$89 quad. GoH: Eleanor Arnason; AGoH: Susan Van Camp; FGoH: Lee
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Schneider; Dead GoH: Murray Leinster; Doer GoH: Dennis Chamberland.
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Memb: $20 until 9/10/94, $25 after. Info: MSFCI, Box 92726, Milwaukee
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WI 53202; email: welch@warp.msoe.edu.
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