Blaster works at Normal's and sometimes hides out in a dark corner in the
back...
At 05:14 PM 8/10/2004 +0000, you wrote:
doesn't Blaster Al Ackerman work in a bookstore in Baltimore?
normals bookstore. producers of the Shattered Wigs nights. check the
site (link sent by bennett), visit, observe or even perform.
BG
>
> From: "John M. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/08/10 Tue AM 11:12:24 EDT
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: Baltimore Fluxlist/Museum you see em experiences
>
> And there's also the first rate bookstore known as
>
> Normal's
> 425 E 31st St.
> Balto 21218
>
> and at http://www.normals.com/
>
> John
>
> At 09:37 AM 8/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
> >There sure seem to be so many fluxlist people in Baltimore!--I have been
> >forwarding the mails to friends in Baltimore--(non-Fluxus though one very
> >involved in Mail Art, visual poetry, poetry and painting)--
> >
> >Baltimore has the only sports team named for a poetry figure--The Ravens,
> >from Poe!--with their superstar accused formerly of murder Ray Lewis--
> >
> >A few days ago a friend forwarded a piece in the Washinton papers--re
zines--
> >
> >again!--in Baltimore!--
> >
> >a bookstore and site highly recommended for finding lot of zines:
> >
> >atomic books their site <http://www.atomicbooks.com>www.atomicbooks.com
> >
> >also mentioned <http://www.zinebooks.com>www.zinebooks.com
> >
> >maybe we all live in Baltimore and just don't know it!
> >
> >i spent once a very happy afternoon with John Waters--was to be an
> >interview--having tea--we decided to go walk about so i cd show him some
> >alleys and so forth--(this was in Cambridge, MA)--talked about crazy
> >vintage, junk and antique stores in baltimore, all the characters in that
> >scene--(my mom long involved with that in Vermont so he wanted to hear of
> >the people there)--
> >
> >last week a friend took myself and another fella to see immense egyptian
> >exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum--spectacular exhiit here for many
> >months--the final stage of the journey is to be inside a huge multi
somber
> >hued tomb-coverd with hieroglyphs--mainly texts form THE BOOK OF THE
DEAD--
> >
> >exiting this, you
> >
> >move along a slwoly sloping corridor--and emerge--into the giftshop!
> >
> >so this was the journey of the soul into the afterlife!
> >
> >immortality for sale!souvenirs!--postcards!
> >keychains!--statuettes--pens--cds--an explosin of light and
glitter!--what
> >a relief-- that long journey through darkness-and here we are!--in the
> >gift shop of immortality--
> >
> >in a way i suppose this is also a Visionary Museum Experience--
> >
> >the Art Museum here is free on Mondays and Saturdays--before noon
> >entrances--if you live in the County--wander among the excellent American
> >Folk Art rooms, the rooms of Haitian paintings-
> >
> >and inspiring indeed to me with these is the Papua New Guinea diorama at
> >Public Museum--free all day on Mondays--the beings in
> >it--seem--uncannily--to be whom i am part of i some way!--i want to move
> >in!--and there are no gifts stores among the Head Hunters!--those heads
> >are not for sale!--
> >
> >art for the people!--though some heads ARE for sale-- Paco, Puerto Rican
> >street person alcoholic friend of mine--had emerged form among
> >alleys--needed some cash--and produced for me a head looking like King
> >Kong'!--carved out of a cocont--with great carvings for nose mouth eyes,
> >painted, the teeth immense rows gleaming white--the hair made of cocunut
> >strands--
> >
> >my duagher and i had just been speaking of coconuts--her name is covay so
> >sometimes called "coconut"--so of course, i had to bring her a cocout
head!
> >
> >
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