Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steamshovel Press Electronic Newsletter, February 15, 2k DISINFO CON THIS WEEK!!! Steamshovel editor Kenn Thomas appears at Disinfo Con 2000 this Saturday, February 19 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. The speaker line-up also includes: Konformist editor Rob Sterling; Excluded Middle's Greg Bishop; 70th Greatest conspiracy theorist Jonathan Vankin; and the grand poobah his own self, Robert Anton Wilson, author of Illuminatus! (also the finest, most advanced example of humor and humanity on this planet.) All the information about this event is at www.disinfo.com with the speaker schedule residing at Con2000.disinfo.com. Also competing for attention at this thing is Douglas Rushkoff; visionary artist and architect Paul Laffoley; the Invisibles comix creator Grant Morrison; legendary filmmaker Kenneth Anger; RU Sirius; many others, including the fearsome Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey!! Richard Metzger, renown for his Infinity Factory webcast, the Disinfo web site and his BBC TV Show, Disinfo Nation, hosts this bash. It's a must go-to affair for the illuminated cognoscenti. Another major event: "Who Bombed Judi Bari?", on the controversy surrounding the bombing of the Earth First activist. Split opinion on this will no doubt lead to heated discussion--will it lead to a new prosecution? KSRO-AM Radio just lost personality Pat Thurston over the issue. Speakers include Bruce Anderson of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Mary Moore of the Sonoma County Free Press, Ed Gehrman, Flatland Jim Martin and Irv Sutley, owner of "the most famous Uzi" in Northern California. This happens at Black Oak Books in Berkeley, CA (on Shattuck Avenue, north of University) Thursday February 17th, 7:30-9 pm. Another one is scheduled for Copperfield's Books, Sebastopol on February 24, 7-9 pm. More at www.flatlandbooks.com. Also poke around for info on Martin's extraordinary new book, Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, available only through Flatland. A reminder: the new issue of Steamshovel Press, #17 is out now, at the stands and in the mail to subscribers. Non-subscribers can secure a copy for $6 from POB 23715, St. Louis, MO 63121. Also available now for $20 from Steamshovel: the Kenn Thomas video anthology, including recent television appearances, lecture videoclips and the audio of Thomas' Art Bell appearance. 2 hour VHS. AND....AND....the second volume of Cyberculture Counterconspiracy has arrived! Loyal readers know that the first volume contained web site material (the "Latest Word" columns) that has since been removed from the Steamshovel web. More of the same in volume two (the book reviews of "Offline Illumination" and newsbits/theorizing from "Things Are Gonna Slide"), but also some brand-spanking new material never before in print or on the web. This includes two graphix contributions from artist Kevin Belford, on the J. D. Tippit murder (a rosetta stone of the JFK assassination) and an update on the Manson family. It also includes new essays: the Pentagon origins of the Internet by Rob Sterling; Greg Bishop on Remote viewing; Richard Metzger on Jack Parsons; and Acharya S on warfare as occult ritual sacrifice. Volume two costs $14 from Steamshovel. (Amazon.com doesn't have it straight yet that there are two volumes, so be careful if you order there.) "Up until May of 1970, John was a normal, 24 year old married auto mechanic living in Santa Cruz. Then a car accident, a few mescaline trips and an intensive study of both the Bible and the Tarot coincided with the onset of adult schizophrenia. He soon afterwards left his wife and became a hippie..." So goes "John Linley Frazier, Killer Hippie", in a small comic book called Martin The Satanic Raccoon produced by Steamshovel reader Gabe Martinez. Martin also produced a calendar with conspiracy themes. Contact him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steamshovel learned from Robin Ramsay, editor of the UK conspiracy politics magazine Lobster, of the death last December of Jill Craigie, one of the earliest well-known woman film directors in England. Craigie gained additional notoriety with her claims that Arthur Koestler, the great anti-Communist and paranormalist writer, raped her in 1952. She told this to the author of a critical biography of Koestler that has just now been pubslished in American edition. (The title and author will not be repeated here to avoid giving publicity to a bad book. All of this is discussed in Cyberculture Volume One, however.) Craigie said she pushed Koestler out of the door but then let him back in when the rape occurred, and she said nothing of it for forty years until this biographer came along lloking for lurid, disparaging details. Despite this, Craigie's charges have been repeated as fact in the British press and by columnist Christopher Hitchens (because he "knew her", as he explained to Steamshovel Press.) Koestler's bust at Edinburgh University was illegally removed and the theft was applauded by the current recipient of Koestler's endowment of a chair in paranormal study. It's a level playing field now: Koestler could never defend himself, and now Craigie can no longer make the charge. RAVE REVIEW FOR NEW STEAMSHOVEL PRESS WEBSITE "The new Steamshovel website -- besides the usual thought-provoking insights and content -- now features a great bold look, attractive conspiracy-friendly colors, and powerful graphics," says Professor Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist and author of Cryptozoology A to Z (Simon and Schuster, 1999). "If this is the future, I like it!" he concludes. In its new improved incarnation, the Steamshovel Press Website features ground-breaking feature articles as well as old favorites like "The Latest Word," "Offline Illuminations," and "Things Are Gonna Slide." It's a website with attitude in the face of relentless Monopoly Media Cartel propaganda. Other highlights include: * An exclusive interview with actor Richard Belzer, author of 'UFO's, JFK and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have To be Crazy to Believe.' * Alt. Media by Uri Dowbenko -- Movie Review of 'Magnolia': Bad Karma Ranting * Just Released -- Book Review of 'Mass Control' by Jim Keith * E-Mail Newsletter with news, updates and special offers Take a look for yourself -- http://www.steamshovelpress.com Steamshovel Press remains feisty, fresh and irreverent. Tell your friends and forward this email. Steamshovel Press. All Conspiracy. No Theory. Disinfo.Con: February 19, 2000 http://con2000.disinfo.com/ Disinfo.Con will be the first event of its type in New York since the legendary Nova Convention, honoring author William Burroughs, in 1979. Featuring a line-up of speakers drawing from the best of the underground media, new science and far fringes of the art scene, Disinfo.Con 2000 will turn New York City's majestic Hammerstein Ballroom into an 11 hour Technicolor dream house of revolutionary thought, visionary art and lysergic lectures. The event will be one part rave, one part performance, and one part mind fuck. * Marilyn Manson in a satellite presentation! * Kenneth Anger * RU Sirius * Grant Morrison * Robert Anton Wilson * Genesis P-Orridge * Paul Laffoley * Joe Coleman * Douglas Rushkoff * Adam Parfrey * Kenn Thomas (Steamshovel Press) * Robert Sterling (The Konformist) * Greg Bishop (The Excluded Middle) * Howard Bloom will present a special video lecture. There will also be an exclusive preview of the new Disinfo Nation TV series produced for Channel 4 in the UK, featuring a behind the scenes look at the Montauk Project, a biographical short about Timothy Leary, the brain damaged snuff film carnage of "Uncle Goddamn," Salvador Dali advertising Alka Seltzer and more! Disinfo.Con 2000 will take place on Saturday February 19, 2000 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street off of 8th Avenue in New York City. Doors open 10 am; the event starts at 11 am and finishes at 11 pm. The Ballroom is walking distance from Penn Station and The Port Authority Bus Station. There are also a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate reserved at the New Yorker Hotel, next door to the Ballroom. Passes for the full 12-hour event cost $99.95 and for the evening session only $49.95. Attendees can register online at <http://con2000.disinfo.com/> http://con2000.disinfo.com. ***** |d|i|s|i|n|f|o|r|m|a|t|i|o|n| http://www.disinfo.com free e-mail your boss can't read: http://www.disinfo.net Merchandise to bolster subversion: http://headshop.disinfo.com The Disinformation Company, Ltd. If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) 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