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- ..... Y Gadz. Special
- .Issue. Issue of Giving
- . 105 . Thanks Giving that is...
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- -----> Random Notes from Ground Zero
- By Ground Zero
-
- Hey folks! I'm putting up my very own web site soon! Watch for it!
- And now..
-
- A Chat with the Phone Man (A work of fiction)
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-
- As I sat at the bar, the blue baseball cap sported by one of
- my neighbors' caught my eye. It sported the new Bell Atlantic logo.
- I couldn't resist.
- "Hey, do you work for the phone company?" I asked.
- "Yeah," he answered. "This is the brand-new baseball cap they have.
- I'm one of the very first to get it."
- "So what do you do for them? Repairs, installations?"
- "Yeah, both," he replied. "Been there for a few years."
- "Interesting. I always wanted to work for the phone company.
- Do you like it?" I asked.
- "Yeah, it's fun," he replied, sipping his beer.
- I gulped down the rest of my beer and ordered another one.
- "What's your name?"
- "Keith."
- "Hmm, sounds like fun. I'd love to see what one of those central
- offices looks like from the inside," I mused.
- "Well the public isn't allowed in the central offices."
- "I'm more than just the public," I said, smiling. Keith looked
- at me strangely, trying to discern the significance of my remark.
- "How is it that you're allowed in the central office when your
- job is repairs and installations? You don't need to go to the
- central office to do those things."
- "Because *I* work for the phone company," he replied, grinning.
- "But don't the people at the central office know you don't
- really belong there?
- "Do you have to show them ID?"
- "No, we just walk in."
- "So theoretically I could just walk in one of these central
- offices myself if that's true," I reasoned.
- "What if they ask you who you are and where you work? What would
- you do?"
- "Start running, I guess," I said, laughing.
- "No wait, I got it! I'll just tell them I work with you!
- So what do you do in one of those central offices when you visit one?"
- Keith considered me for a moment. "We just hang out."
- "Really? What do you do then, listen to people's conversations?"
- "Not really."
- "Yeah, I'll bet! I know what you do in there!" I said, teasing him.
- "So Keith, what do you think of hackers?" I asked.
- "Who?"
- "Hackers. You know, people who can get into other people's
- computer systems, including those belonging to the phone company."
- "I never really thought about it. Why?"
- "You should learn about these things if you want to get ahead!
- Don't you want to advance in the company?"
- "Yeah, I'd love to have one of those corner offices," Keith answered.
- "Well, think big! Learn all you can!" The beers were starting
- to kick in. I decided to test Keith's knowlegde. "So do you guys still
- use COSMOS?"
- "No, that hasn't been used in a long time. That's way old. How do
- you know about that? Are you one of them?"
- "One of who?"
- "Hackers."
- "I could be," I said tenatively. "How about LMOS? Do you use that
- or is that outdated by now?"
- "Yeah, we use that."
- "What about REMOBS?"
- "REMOBS?"
- "Never mind," I said, laughing. "You know we know how to
- use loops."
- "Loops? Hey wait a minute. You said 'we''. Who are 'we'?"
- "Fruit Loops," I said, laughing.
- "Yeah, you're a fruit loop all right. But you *looked* like such a
- nice girl!"
- "Appearances can be deceiving, you know. Hey I know what the
- ANAC is. How do you like that?"
- "ANAC, huh. I'm not even going to touch that one!"
- "Yeah, you know, dial 958 and it reads back the number you're
- calling from. The public isn't supposed to know about that! So can you
- get me a test set?"
- "No," Keith said, laughing.
- "How about one of those cool terminals you use?"
- "No, not unless I want to keep my job."
- "You know I'm only kidding, right? How about one of those new
- Bell Atlantic baseball caps? I wouldn't want it for free, I'll give you
- the money if you can buy one for me."
- "No, I had a hell of a time getting one for someone who worked
- for the phone company for over 35 years and is retired now. They're
- that hard to get," Keith replied.
- "Well, that makes me want one all the more!" I ordered another
- beer for myself and one for Keith. I put my arm around him.
- "Keith, stick with me. You'll go straight to the top!"
-
-
- .....................
-
- In an unrelated story, Bell Atlantic just announced the cost of a payfone
- call is rising in NJ to 35 cents. What a rip!
-
- The new issue of Cybertek has an interesting article on payfones and why
- the red box is going to be obsolete. For more info, see:
- http://www.osuny.com/~areff/cybertek.html
-
- See you next time. And remember, Be Creative!
-
- -GZ!
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-
- Thanks Ground Zero. It's always nice to hear from Joiz-ee.
- OK, this is the special giving-of-thanks issue of ATI, Active
- Thanksgivings Indicated.
- We give thanks to GZ, and Fah-Q; thanks to the world wide web,
- Angelfire, Geocities, Etext.org, oh, let's not forget suck.com.
- Thanks, people. And an especially big indication of thanks to
- all my readers "all-over-the-haus," and I mean that from the
- bottom of my art. All of you. Portugal especialmente, hola:
- que tal la familia??? Gracias, gracias al todo.
-
- s prime.
-
- OK, we move right over to PRIME ANARCHIST WORLD NEWS and then a
- special guest star input from mr. nopie himself. Then not much
- else, I'll end with a poem of mine perhaps, or maybe steal one.
- Hey, cheer up, this only happens once a year. I mean 2 issues in
- one week only happens once. Not Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving happens
- every day. Every meal if you do it right. =) Yack!!! I sound like
- an earth day fanatic or something. <flashing two peace/victory signs>
- "turkeyday is every day, d00dz; hang eight." (Oh I forgot, I
- H A V E all 10. (good luck following that one: excessive brain
- dump de-activated))
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-
- (WallyHood - CALIF.) -PAWN. NEWTON SAYS HE LOST HIS PAINTINGS
- WHILE ZONKED OUT ON IBOGAINE.
- "I want my art back," said the famous opera diva, Huey
- P.F. Newton, of the paintings now held in escrow by a joint
- branch of the IRS and the Federal Marshalls.
- He claims the Dalai Lama, John F. Kennedy Jr., Robert
- Ulrich, Jimmy Carter and German rap trio Tic Tac Toe all saw IRS
- agents and US Marshalls sting him and then take his paintings away.
- He's demanding their return and 25 million dollars given him for
- all his troubles.
- "First they threw hot bubbling acid at my face," said
- Newton, which must hurt when you've already got white ibogaine
- powder up your nose and under your eyelids, "then they took my
- Pablo Picassos and Rembrandts. Ooh, they pissed me off."
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- editorial!
- U guessed it:
- The best
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- RE: Month. (this p.o.e.m. brought to you by PAP productions
- > in conjuction with Rhino Records and NOPE
- > enterprises. Risking redundancy for those who
- > don't remember, PAP prods. is Prime Anarchist
- > Productions, and NOPE ents. is No One in Particular
- > Enterprises. Thanks Sean.)
- I guess I have to reply to that one heheheh.
-
- As you have guessed this is Fah-q The Irish Roads Warrior! I guess
- since you have reprinted a cygnus blurb I have to come up with something
- new.
-
- Here I am in the heartland of central Illinois and I love it here.
- Most of the people in these old towns still think it is the 50's
- and some think that that is too new fangled for them. The kids
- get together and hang out on the railroad crossing and just drink " to
- use a word that they use here " "POP" you couldn't find a beer in this
- town if you had a million dollars and you best well go to some church
- on sunday morning....afternoon......evening......night or they will
- look at you like you are some kind of freak. I have hung a picture of
- jesus in my window ( jesus?.... or is that jeff...?) and when they come
- over and ask me to go to church with them I ask if they would accept
- the mormon missionaries some thursday evening for a visit. I drive too
- fast for the cop? ( he doesn't have a gun and his name is andy no
- kidding) and he says that I have to stop bothering the librarian to
- get Steal This Urine Test. The library is owned by the Piat County book
- worm society. They have some good books
- here in the stacks but since there is no T.V here to speak of I read most
- of the old books in the place and wanted some new ones. I tried to give
- them some that i had but they got turned down as too controversial ( tom
- clancy , alan ginsberg complete poems and white shroud ) nope noway.
- I am thinking of getting another chevette and a pen......
-
- well i have to get going so i can make it to lake decatur and listen to
- the art bell show on wsoy....
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- CALENDARIA
-
- 20Nov. 1820. Whaling ship ESSEX sunk by sperm whale.
- 30 1997. New Moon.
- 14 1997. Full moon. Aroughghghghghghghgh.
- 9 1965. NYC Blackout.
- 10 1998. International Buy Something Day.
- 24 Dec. Hanukah begins. 31. Hanukah ends.
- (don't miss it. My newyears resolution this year is
- converting to Tibetan Bhudeism. (Dylan'll be pleased.))
-
-
- Two Line Poem
- -by Harry Ehren.
-
- There I sat in Elija's Diner
- -for 25 hours:
- He never came.
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-
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- JOURNAL POEM 32
- by Prime Anarchist.
- Harmonarchy, a house hoping
- For harmonious anarchy.
- Got a Christ room and everything.
- Waking up I ask my wife wonderfully,
- Is margarine magnetic?
- If you're quiet, you can hear
- The owls go to sleep.
- Just a random thought
- Happily hazarded.
-
- So there we were thinking "here we
- Are slapdash in an unplanned spot."
- Gentrification -- a $10 word. If you
- Can't afford it -- means racism.
-
- Will the Yucatan pope show up at the
- Vatican peninsula? Expecting him
- Is like Pope on a hope.
- 2 Heyoka moons each month. Sometimes 3.
- If you own a dish you might see
- Him applying his clown white,
- Or noxeeming it off. Dare I call it
- Papal soap? Hope not -- nope.
- Diet pancakes in New Rochelle reduces
- Stresses from NYC driving.
- Half moon, heyoka -- a spiritual slap
- In the face. More fun than anything
- Pious, pompous, or pathetically
- Prudish any day.
- Fact, a clown each day makes
- For a nice clean smile.
- Even better than soap.
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