Hurry, there's just 11 shopping days until the largest attempt at a new pre-Christmas- retail-booster-day in over 40 years. _ _ _ _ __ _ __ | |_ (_) __ __ (_) ___ | |_ / _` | / _| | _| | | \ V / | | (_-< | _| \__,_| \__| \__| |_| \_/ |_| /__/ \__| _ _ | |_ (_) _ __ ___ ___ | _| | | | ' \ / -_) (_-< \__| |_| |_|_|_| \___| /__/ Will "xmas" decorations go up in stores this Columbus Day? 911? Labor Day? Tune in a couple weeks from now to find out. Hi, welcome to ATI issue 327. What's new with you? The other night I sang "Solidarity Forever" with a couple hundred flight attendants. That was neat. The Native American Music Awards are coming up. That's very cool. The MTV awards were stupid this year. Just kind of dumb. Midwest Express stock ended the week down .04 and Boeing was -.36 How did you do? http://flag.blackened.net is down. Should go back up pretty soon. Check out this 'zine. Hope you like it. marco -=-m0=-=m0-=-0m=-=0m-=- Preaching Ignorance a poem by KAT What new morals do you have That my own mother don't? Do you know something great That I can't, or I won't? Without stolen prestige Tell me what have you earned, Behind false integrity It seems you have not learned. Preached to me on my life Yet you live without conscience Claimed status with God In mindless alliance You tell me I'm godless And therefore I'm lifeless While your peers chase me down With Church Souvenir Pricelists You tell me I'm making A dangerous dance Yet your whole argument's founded< On close-minded ignorance. 9 July 2002 [ed note: You can read lots more KAT poetics at: http://www.dormant-emotions.tk Much of her stuff is blowing me away right now. She's an awesome writer. ] #'s (486 and growing...) 0208310847 http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/feature.cfm?ID=163&issue=v22n7 http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/music/audio.html http://www10.brinkster.com/cafemocha/poetry.html http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=96546 http://www.newint.org/issue333/jamming.htm http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4529 http://miller.senate.gov/releases.htm http://www.manataka.org/page112.html http://www.reclaimthemedia.org http://www.nammys.com http://valganon.com http://netwar.onlyhere.net http://www.awakeningearth.org http://www.neumu.net/twinklepop http://www.aztlan.net/index.html http://www.notbored.org/msnbc.html http://www.notbored.org/11mar01.html http://ailecia.tripod.com/southerngirls/home.html http://www.weinstein.org/media/video/qt/eff02.html http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/thirdhack.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/09/03/3983827 REMEMBER ANYTHING YOUR ELDERS TAUGHT YOU? Yes, we do this every year or so. New readers will appreciate this more, but maybe people who've already seen this idea will get something new out of it too. GRAMPA: (mom's dad) If you want a long healthy life, every morning the moment you wake up you should stare up at the ceiling or sky and daydream, meditate, wander in your thoughts for a minute or two, hour or two - as much as you can, really. No matter how busy your day is going to be, give yourself this. BUBBE: (dad's mom) If you have access to soap and clean water, wash your hands really well at least once a day. If you only have access to water, wash them at least once each day. If you don't even have access to water, at least wipe them really well on something fairly clean. POPPOP: (father's father) Gather up your first hundred thousand dollars and then relax. NANA: (mom's mom) Learn Spanish. -=-o0O=-=o0O-=-o0O=-=O0o-=-O0o=-=O0o-=- VERY SHORT REVIEW OF NYTIMES.com Monday 3+ good stories. I think I'll start reading it every Monday and scrap the rest of the week. Someone in there on Mondays is doing a splendid job. "Web's real money is in the gutter," gives mention to Project Gutenberg as well as interviewing Bruce Sterling. Hmmm. -=-o0O=-=o0O-=-o0O=-=O0o-=-O0o=-=O0o-=- How to Leave the Planet 1) Phone NASA. Their phone number is (713) 483-3111. Explain that it's very important that you get away as soon as possible. 2) If they do not cooperate, phone any friend you may have in the White House - (202) 456-1414 - to have a word on your behalf with the guys at NASA. 3) If you don't have any friends in the White House, phone the Kremlin (ask the overseas operator for 0107-095-295-9051). They don't have any friends there either (at least, none to speak of), but they do seem to have a little influence, so you might as well try. 4) If that also fails, phone the Pope for guidance. His telephone number is 011-39-6-6982, and I gather his switchboard is infallible. 5) If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives. -Douglas Adams http://www.douglasadams.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SCHOOL'S IN. DRIVE RESPONSIBLY Have you opened your "For Him" or your "For Her" bag at college yet? Did it have the smelliest Sure Advantage sample in it? Yikes! I thought I lived near Proctor & Gamble again... WAKE ME UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE!!!... How about Davidoff's Cool Water Eau De Toilette? I'll try that and get back to you. If it's as bad as the Polo Sport last year, I'll go right back to the Polo green bottle. How about the handy (not really!) disc organizer that was nothing more than a psychodelic-looking cardboard book with a huge ad on each page? Tide, Old Spice, Pantene. WHAT IS THIS, MT FUCKING V??? Olay? Sure? Hold still, I think I'm going to vomit in your handbag. OK. 3M's got this Command Adhesive thing going on. I'll try these too. The claims are: holds on strongly comes off cleanly no damage to walls or posters no staining walls. The best thing since sliced bread. Or fun-tak Oh wow. A $5 off coupon for Nad's For Men. Lemme guess. The regular price is like $20 bucks, right? Stop lying to me! Tell me it's 25% off, not some vague number!!! I'm a human, not a lab rat! Oh I am? Hmmm. What else you got over there you can sell me on??? ------------- :NOTAS JOURNOS: ------------- Methinks this'll be a wild "Xmas" shopping season, eh? Labor Day, Columbus, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christ- mas. All attached to shopping days of increasing importance, revenue-wise. I expect each to miss the mark miserably. And that's going to make for some serious grumpiness among the men-in-suits. Oh, I left out the newest big shopping day. 9-11. It's sure to fall right into line too. Not quite as lucrative as Columbus, but a little better'n Labor. HOLLYWOOD NEPOTISM ALERT - (and I mean nothing racist here...) Nastassja Kinski and Lisa Bonet look like black and white duplicates of each other. Frat twins mayhaps??? \non\violence\difficult\y\a\lert\ If I have to hear the name Skakel OR Norwalk one more time I think I might just seek out a midwest Kennedy to throttle for a couple hours before going back to my non-violence vow. Do you not find it the least bit ironic that Jimmy Hoffa is generally considered by most people to be buried underneath a football stadium and the people of Guatemala just unearthed about 800 of their friends and relatives underneath a soccer field? They vanished about the same years. Victims of downright wrong US foreign and domestic policies, perhaps? MAKE-NO-BONEZ-ABOUT-IT The real reason Colorado College is likely to reject Palestinian moderate Hanan Ashrawi as a key-speaker Sept 12th is that Dick Cheney and his eldest daughter are both alumni of that place of "higher learning." Have you ever watched two Wes Anderson fliks back to back in one nite? Wow. AM/ERICAN/NUT/RITION/NO/TE/(OR/L/ACK/THERE/OF) A hundred years ago you saw 90-year-old farmers looking forward to many more seasons. And they lived on salty, fatty, butter, big old healthy beef cows slaughtered local, by hand, thanksgiving eve you chopped a turkey's head off and cooked him all night. WHY ARE WE BUYING PACKAGED HAMBURGER FROM 1,000 MILES AWAY, AND WHY OH WHY DO WE PAY PROCTOR&GAMBLE TO RESEARCH&DEVELOP FFF??? (fat free fat...) TWO 'GRAFS FROM MUMIA What phollows is from a recent column MAJ wrote. I won't trouble you here with the entire article. If you want it, just keyword search any three unique words from the excerpts, you'll find it all over the net. (at least you can as of publication here) As for the American insistence on the establishment of a state that doesn't have roots in terrorism, Americans are insisting on a purity that it did not possess at its inception. The ruthless and monstrous genocide waged against indigenous "Indian" nations, from Wounded Knee to Sand Creek, is a history of terrorism that has few parallels in the world. The same could be said for the racist exploitation of millions of Africans for centuries. Neither the U.S., nor Israel, wants "peace." They want the silence and acquiescence of the oppressed and the occupied. They want a Palestine that is but a state in name, a client state of the Americans, and a satrap of Israel. WHY I HAVE LITTLE OR NO TIME FOR FIGHTING THE UPCOMING WAR IN IRAQ by Marc Harry Ehrenfrucht I'm up to my neck resisting the war at home. Please do what you can. I don't know about others, but the Bush/Dulles/Prescott family has left me completely overwhelmed. A LETTER TO A G.I. (poem from an ex-soldier) If I were a soldier I would complain about D.U. I would speak out against war. I would insist upon non-violent direct action first. I would maintain "force last." I would call for the recall of George "Wimp Jr" Bush. Point out Dick Cheney's fascist roots. I would tread lightly on Powell's MANY and varied transgressions as he may be about the only strand left holding this planet together. (hate every minute of THAT) scold the DEA for putting Americans on both sides of the "Scar" border in harm's way. I would dismantle NORAD AND the Pentagone with my own bare hands. shove an MRE up Ashcroft's nostril. prove the FBI and CIA merged back in October, 1979. prove Bill Clinton is just as harmful as the Bushs. prove as quickly as I can that Lieberman is an anti-christ remind all that Tipper is never to be tusted Liddy Dole is much worse! Dismantle the USA Patriot Act with my bare hands. (or an antique fountain pen) But I am not a soldier. Why? Because I quit about 23 wars ago. So I shall have to aspire to all this and more as a civilian. Please help me all you can. -=-QO=-=QO-=-QO=-=QO-=-QO=-=QO-=-QO=-=QO-=- YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY ME FOR THIS LAUGH: One of about 3 Quaker jokes in existence (ask the Pope if you don't believe me): Scene is a Friend's Memorial Meeting, a Quaker funeral, which is held just like any other Meeting for Worship. Basically silent, with people standing and speaking as moved by the spirit. So one elderly Friend stands up, remains standing in silence for several minutes, concludes, "as our late Friend so eloquently said," and sits down. =-=QO-=-QO=-=QO-=-QO=-=QO-=-QO=-=QO-=-QO=-= ATI - No longer abusing puts and calls since 1991 .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ \ / `-' `-' \ `-' ` Well, that's about it for ATI issue 327. Send all the stuff to ati@etext.org Flag is back up, feel free to wander around: http://flag.blackened.net/ati I recommend the http://flag.blackened.net/ati/opm (other peoples' music) and the http://flag.blackened.net/ati/imagenes sections. [][][][][] This issue of this zine is dedicated to an artist in Groton, Connecticut who died the other day. Peace, out.