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- ATI79. May 26, 1997. 10pm. Happy Memory Day.
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- (ULTRA) MODERN VERSE found from Australia by Carl Franklin
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- The text of the poem is as below:
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- The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
-
- Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
- Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash
- Bang splat equal at dollar under-score
- Percent splat waka waka tilde number four
- Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash
- Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH!
-
- Carl
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-
- NOTAS PRIMAROS.
- Hello there. Welcome to ATI79. There will be no numbers run and no calendula
- section. No one mailed any #'s in this week.
- This may also be a fairly short issue. It's just starting to sink in I
- don't have any studying I have to do. So I can start doing the studying I
- pheel like doing. Neat, huh? OK, here goes nothing. Hoka Hey, Nada...
- Oye Como Va...
-
- <picture> San Francisco, CA - Police officers break up a circle of protestors
- sitting in the middle of a street in front of SF's federal building during
- a rally Monday, March 31, 1997, calling attention to the plight of Navajo
- families facing eviction in Arizona. AP photo by Robin Weiner.
-
- ATI 79's one and onliest letter to the editor.
- yes. i've received ati- i like it lots thanks:)
- -anon-
-
- PRIME ANARCHIST'S TAKE ON PAUL MCCARTNEY'S TOWN MEETING ON VH1.
- to the tune of the impromptu song Paul Played at the end. C and F are the
- chords for any interested.
- Paul has lots of money
- And now he needs some more.
- He's talkin' up his humble pie
- And they put him on the TV.
-
- (chorus-1) C'mon back, c'mon back.
- Back to the Bishops Gate.
- " " " "
-
- Don't get me wrong I like you Paul
- Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
- Brittany passed her a tax windfall
- And now you gotta "pie" and "pie."
-
- (c-2) C'mon back, c'mon back.
- Pay your taxes at the Bishops gate.
- " " " "
-
- Andrew sold a couple bottles of wine
- And the Queen bought up some more land.
- C'mon Paul, you're tryin' too hard;
- When it's so easy to understand.
-
- (second chorus)
-
- When you got too much money
- You think you don't have enough.
- You get so far back you're in front of you;
- And they put it on the TV...
-
- (c-1)
-
- ----------
- OK. We know all about crack babies and so with fetal alcohol syndrome
- We're beginning to get the results for what goes on with grandchildren
- of bodybuilders who used steroids.
- When on earth will we know how safe or dangerous it is to carry a baby
- to term while wearing the Nicorette patch???? Before it's too late?
- Hope and pray!!!
-
-
- (ed note: hands down ATI's world record shortest editorial to date.)
-
- Kurt Vonnegut was in a panel with Joe Heller and William Styron. I caught it
- on CSpan tonite. (Ooh, one more quick sub-editorial. I couldn't help myself.
- MSNBC. The only big change you will see to NBC's programming now that
- macrosofty is part owner, is the following: rule number 1. Guests on David
- Letterman are no longer allowed to make fun of Bill Gates' toupe.)
- So Kurt Vonnegut's lecture was about Buerocracy in War. Asked what book
- he hopes would outlive him he picked Cat's Cradle, surprisingly. Not
- Slaughterhouse Five. Neat. OK. Here's the main thing I wanted to grab from
- that talk. He recommended the following two books as our "must reads". Us
- being the viewing public... "Candide," by Voltaire. And "Midnite in the
- Garden of Good and Evil." Happy perusing...
-
- PART 8 OF MARCO'S GUIDE TO THE UNABOMBER'S MANIFESTO.
- 169...it is not all certain that survival of the system will lead to less
- suffering than breakdown of the system would. The system has already
- caused, and is continuing to cause, immense suffering all over the world.
- Ancient cultures, that for hundreds of years gave people a satisfactory
- relationship with each other and with their environment, have been
- shattered by contact with industrial society, and the result has been a
- whole catalogue of economic, environmental, social and psychological
- problems. One of the effects of the intrusion of industrial society has
- been that over much of the world traditional controls on population have
- been thrown out of balance. Hence, the population explosion, with all that
- that implies... and as nuclear proliferation has shown, new technology
- cannot be kept out of the hands of dictators and irresponsible Third
- World nations. Would you like to speculate about what Iraq or North Korea
- will do with genetic engineering?
- 170...technology has gotten the human race into a fix from which there is
- not likely to be any easy escape.
- 180. The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the
- unknown. Many people understand somethikng of what technological progress
- is doing to us yet take a passive attitude toward it because they think
- it is inevitable. But we (FC) don't think it is inevitable. We
- think it can be stopped, and we give here some indications of how to go
- about stopping it.
- 180...an ideology, in order to gain enthusiastic support, must have a
- positive ideal as well as a negative one; it must be FOR something as well
- as AGAINST something. The positive ideal that we propose is nature. That is,
- WILD nature: those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living
- things that are independent of human management and free of human
- interference and control. And with wild nature we include human nature, by
- which we mean those aspects of the functioning of the human individual
- that are not subject to regulation by organized society but are products of
- chance, or free will, or God (depending on your religious or philosophical
- opinions.)
-
- JOURNAL POME 9
-
- Colorado Ave. drinkin tea
- Tasting of a rusty old sewer
- Sitting on Sitting Thinking Stone
- Thinking of places never been to.
- Strongest coffee north of Santa Fe.
- Bike lock cable wedged into spokes
- Like steel spaghetti: thief runs off
- Into daylight yonder. Rage, I think
- About, letting go -- unravelling
- Bike lock. Tightening spokes to
- Hand-true. A ruined cable, I ponder
- Too- a saved mountain bike.
- Haiku: Cap'n Crunch, walnuts,
- Gatorade and elephant
- Peanuts. Yummy. Huh?
-
- Take a load off your mind-- your
- Cerebral cortex, corpus collosum,
- Cranial cavity. Your canoggin.
- "They're not bald spots," says
- Zac Taylor. "It's worry skin."
- What a yutz.
-
- Lady with bouffant falls like President Ford
- Off a piper plane-- cologne smelling like
- It cost more than my college education.
- What a clutz.
-
- Rock star tries to "pick up chick." Spandex
- Shirt, leather pants, 5'4" with 5-inch heels.
- You know me? I'm with that band. I'm the
- Light man, take my hand. He looks down
- Her 10-year-old cleavage-less concert t-shirt.
- What a putz.
-
- Army wife tries to pick me up. Spandex shirt,
- Leather skirt. 5 foot 2 blond hair with roots.
- I know you. I sat at the corner with Mai Tais.
- You dance real good, she says. I wasn't even
- In whatever bar she's cornered. Who she thinks
- I am I wondered. I look down her arm at her ring
- Finger, glittering shimmeringly. Sorry, I say.
- I don't date sluts.
-
- And Sleeping Buffalo lays pensively,
- Vigilant; brown and gray with white
- Splotches marbled in. Hills can make
- You forget what ocean would look like.
- Mountains drive me nuts.
-
- Tha-tha-tha-that's all f-f-f-folks.
-
- ATI 79 it was. This was Monday, Memory Day 1997. Hope you had a good
- Parade. And you got no reign.
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