Found Xeroxed Folk Poem (at a Coffee Shop in Gresham)

2006-02-23 Thread Lanny Quarles
one night i had a dream
a strange occurence
dark and mean
a dream about our leader's fall:

the executioner has put on
his best red velvet hood
his smart tuxedo
looking good

the axe is shiny
curved in space
to part the head
with loving grace

the leader's chains
clink on the wood
his face is proud
what a weird dude

the redcapped masses
howl and pitch
but the executioner
will make no glitch

no missed attempt
no sidling glance
this human chicken
will not dance

this wretched pilot
was taken down
proletariat promethu
rage unbound

but at the last
the executioner sighs
unbinds the leader
and slaps his thighs

he slaps his head
he slaps his mouth
he slaps his face
he slaps his pout

the leader weeps
and the audience sighs
what the fuck
is up with this guy

now do you see
how all this feels
we don't want this
on our real

the leader nods
he understands
the executioner
shakes his hand

you work for us
not for our things
we want to help
not murder kings

the leader sobs
the band strikes up
a doggy prances
a newborn pup

a woman sings
in high clear notes
the nation cheers
and casts new votes

the moral of this tale
leader is this
don't lie to us
or we'll be pissed.

then I awoke
and was frightened still
I am some strange bloke
I need a pill.


New book

2006-02-23 Thread John M. Bennett


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Why, *sob*, Why?

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim

Why, *sob*, Why?


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FW: Kenji Siratori on Azimute

2006-02-23 Thread Dirk Vekemans
BTW i'm trying to revive the Deleuze list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All input is extremely welcome, even if you get nasty symptoms on hearing
the name mentioned
greetings,
dv


-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Robert Lort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Verzonden: donderdag 23 februari 2006 12:35
Aan: Undisclosed.Recipients :
Onderwerp: Kenji Siratori on Azimute

Hello,

A brief announcement to let you know that Azimute has just published two new
texts.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] by Kenji Siratori
http://www.azimute.org/literature/siratori_angel.html

and

Mechanical Hunting For The Grotesque, An Interview with Kenji Siratori
http://www.azimute.org/literature/siratori_interview.html

Kenji Siratori: is a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding
the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising,
progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with
tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind
of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William
Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age,
his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused,
with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over
linear narrative and character development. With unparalleled stylistic
terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack. An unprovoked assault on the
senses. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David Bowie.

Azimute is an online publisher focused on publishing theoretical texts
concerned with Deleuze and Guattari and related aspects of their work.

Regards

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images from the everyday sem.eme

2006-02-23 Thread phanero

as an afterthought..

images from the everyday sem.eme
http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/netart/YD/

6. sarcophagi of the 3 micron alien pharaoh
+ various wyrms and hieroglyphs


Gunm

2006-02-23 Thread John M. Bennett


 
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lake ,fluttered like a spindle


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ticking mob door ,mud spender

glow wall a fake rabbits dung

semble reach yr hand ,flag gun

John M. Bennett

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2006-02-23 Thread John M. Bennett


 
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1 switzerland and sweden curling on

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim

 1 switzerland and sweden curling on
 2 television, i'm thinking about video,
 3 whether context is everything, and /
 4 or whether there's anything at all,
 5 other than context, after all one can
 6 like anything, set up like a curling
 7 shot, i went out yesterday, down the
 8 street, perhaps the day before, i'm
 9 not sure, past willie sutton's house,
10 made a short video, actually into the
11 memory stick at not so good
12 resolution, with 'this PAL' camera
13 i'm testing, he was the most wanted
14 by the fbi at one point, bank robber,
15 famous for something he didn't say,
16 the house is a wreck what with all
17 the development and gentrification
18 going on, the owner wants 1.2 million
19 for the property and the adjacent
20 one, the house will have to be torn

21 down, that's certain, it's been
22 it's already falling, you can see
23 through the walls, looks like sweden
24 is ahead, rooting for switzerland, so
25 it's the decay of a bank robber's
26 home, he'll never get the money, i
27 mean for the property, it's about one
28 and a half times the footage everyone
29 else is asking, still unbelievably
30 expensive, there were toughs living
31 there a while ago, they wrecked the
32 place, i think the owner was waiting
33 for that, now it's boarded up,
34 falling apart, dangerous to the new
35 neighborhood, the contiguous houses
36 are in fine fettle, excellent shape,
37 you might be able to tell with the
38 video, i'm not sure, they're coded
39 for better times, it's a shaky place,
40 the neighborhood, going up at the
41 moment in terms of property values,
42 wait until the next terror and
43 everyone leaves new york, we'd go, we
44 we'd go too, you can reach us at
45 http://www.asondheim.org/sutton.mpg
46 but we won't guarantee we'll answer,
47 we've got no electric, toilet,
48 nothing but the walls and the place
49 of the man who robbed banks, did he
50 have children, was he married


Re: images from the everyday sem.eme

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim

really like the sem stuff - years ago I worked with one and did a number
of pieces - what were the larger ones? also from or modified from
something else?

debris on the tracks... - alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


as an afterthought..

images from the everyday sem.eme
http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/netart/YD/

6. sarcophagi of the 3 micron alien pharaoh
+ various wyrms and hieroglyphs




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New York: Support Bill to Restrict Cruel, Dangerous Chaining of Dogs (fwd)

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim

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Subject: New York: Support Bill to Restrict Cruel, Dangerous Chaining of Dogs

Dear Alan,

As you know, keeping dogs chained-sometimes called
tethering-is cruel because it deprives these highly social
pack animals of proper socialization and often leaves them
unable to reach whatever shelter, food, and water they've been
provided. The dogs grow aggressively protective of their tiny
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legislation that would help make the state a safer place for
dogs and the public-Assembly Bill 9744-was introduced in the New
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the tethering of a dog to any fixed object or running cable
trolley system for more than six hours in any 24-hour period.
The bill would require that all tethers attached to a fixed
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Amazon News - February 23rd 2006

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
Amazon NewsFriends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon Amazon News is a weekly information service provided by www.amazonia.org.br, the largest bilingual site on the Brazilian Amazon region, in partnership with several Brazilian media. Its publisher isFriends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon, a Brazilian non-profit and public interest registered organization. 





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Flooding in Rio Branco: water level continues high Amazonia.org.br - 02/22/2006
Small-scale deforestation advances
O Estado de S.Paulo - 02/21/2006 
Forest Business - Taking advantage even of the hulls Amazonia.org.br - 02/21/2006
Civil Defense sends food and medication to flood victims in Acre Radiobrás - 02/21/2006 
To NGOs, Madeira waterway is still the objective behind the hydropower project Radiobrás - 02/20/2006
Flooding of the Acre River leaves 10% of the population in Rio Branco homeless Amazonia.org.br - 02/20/2006
"Water rats" loot flooded homes A Tribuna - 02/19/2006
Bishop reaffirms that more people are involved in the death of Dorothy Stang Radiobrás - 02/17/2006
Publicity campaign encourages consumption of certified forest products Amazonia.org.br - 02/17/2006
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Program Amazonia will provide a basis for sustainable development of the region, states coordinator Radiobrás - 02/16/2006
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Re: zBone(2): 0 pages

2006-02-23 Thread Bob Marcacci
a bit far removed from it's original post... i don't usually save things for
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Re: images from the everyday sem.eme

2006-02-23 Thread phanero

not sure. i think they were just old experiments
left in the folder or as mina loy says:

In some
Prenatal plagiarsim
Foetal buffoons
Caught tricks

lq

- Original Message -
From: Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: images from the everyday sem.eme



really like the sem stuff - years ago I worked with one and did a number
of pieces - what were the larger ones? also from or modified from
something else?

debris on the tracks... - alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


as an afterthought..

images from the everyday sem.eme
http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/netart/YD/

6. sarcophagi of the 3 micron alien pharaoh
+ various wyrms and hieroglyphs




For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt .
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Re: images from the everyday sem.eme

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim

Sometimes I think you're Lautreamont reincarnated!

- Alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


not sure. i think they were just old experiments
left in the folder or as mina loy says:

In some
Prenatal plagiarsim
Foetal buffoons
Caught tricks

lq

- Original Message -
From: Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: images from the everyday sem.eme



really like the sem stuff - years ago I worked with one and did a number
of pieces - what were the larger ones? also from or modified from
something else?

debris on the tracks... - alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


as an afterthought..

images from the everyday sem.eme
http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/netart/YD/

6. sarcophagi of the 3 micron alien pharaoh
+ various wyrms and hieroglyphs




For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt .
Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General
directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .






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Re: images from the everyday sem.eme

2006-02-23 Thread phanero

I feel more like George Axelrod with a
Vestigial half-duck-torso flopera-singer-goiter
hanging from my neck like a mayan ballcourt victim's
stone U-collar put there by ugly and magnificient insect deities
who will smoke me in a pipe later if they feel like it..



- Original Message -
From: Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: images from the everyday sem.eme



Sometimes I think you're Lautreamont reincarnated!

- Alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


not sure. i think they were just old experiments
left in the folder or as mina loy says:

In some
Prenatal plagiarsim
Foetal buffoons
Caught tricks

lq

- Original Message -
From: Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: images from the everyday sem.eme



really like the sem stuff - years ago I worked with one and did a number
of pieces - what were the larger ones? also from or modified from
something else?

debris on the tracks... - alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


as an afterthought..

images from the everyday sem.eme
http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/netart/YD/

6. sarcophagi of the 3 micron alien pharaoh
+ various wyrms and hieroglyphs




For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt .
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The Boy who cried Wolf; Corporate Control of the Ports (fwd)

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim


-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:33:28 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Boy who cried Wolf; Corporate Control of the Ports

Two articles on the UAE Port controversy from The Nation

==
1.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
by William Greider

posted at www.thenation.com 2/23/06
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060313/greider

David Brooks, the high-minded conservative pundit,
dismissed the Dubai Ports controversy as an instance
of political hysteria that will soon pass. He was
commentating on PBS, and I thought heard a little
quaver in his voice when he said this was no big deal.
Brooks consulted the experts, and they assured him
there's no national security risk in a foreign company
owned by Middle East Muslims--actually, by an Arab
government--managing six major American ports. Cool
down, people. Thisis how the world works in the age of
globalization.

Of course, he is correct. But what a killjoy. This is
a fun flap, the kind that brings us together.
Republicans and Democrats are frothing in unison,
instead of polarizing incivilities. Together, they are
all thumping righteously on the poor President. I
expect he will fold or at least retreat tactically by
ordering further investigation. The issue is indeed
trivial. But Bush cannot escape the basic
contradiction, because this dilemma is fundamental to
his presidency.

A conservative blaming hysteria is hysterical, when
you think about it, and a bit late. Hysteria launched
Bush's invasion of Iraq. It created that monstrosity
called Homeland Security and pumped up defense
spending by more than 40 percent. Hysteria has been
used to realign US foreign policy for permanent
imperial war-making, whenever and wherever we find
something frightening afoot in the world. Hysteria
will justify the long war now fondly embraced by
Field Marshal Rumsfeld. It has also slaughtered a
number of Democrats who were not sufficiently
hysterical. It saved George Bush's butt in 2004.

Bush was the principal author, along with his
straight-shooting Vice President, and now he is
hoisted by his own fear-mongering propaganda. The
basic hysteria was invented from risks of terrorism,
enlarged ridiculously by the President's open-ended
claim that we are endangered everywhere and anywhere
(he decides where). Anyone who resists that
proposition is a coward or, worse, a subversive. We
are enticed to believe we are fighting a new cold war.
But are we? People are entitled to ask. Bush picked at
their emotional wounds after 9/11 and encouraged them
to imagine endless versions of even-larger danger.
What if someone shipped a nuke into New York Harbor?
Or poured anthrax in the drinking water? OK, a lot of
Americans got scared, even people who ought to know
better.

So why is the fearmonger-in-chief being so casual
about this Dubai business?

Because at some level of consciousness even George
Bush knows the inflated fears are bogus. So do a lot
of the politicians merrily throwing spears at him. He
taught them how to play this game, invented the
tactics and reorganized political competition as a
demagogic dance of hysterical absurdities, endless
opportunities to waste public money. Very few dare to
challenge the mindset. Thousands have died for it.

Bush's terrorism war has from the start been in
collision with theprecepts of corporate-led
globalization. One
practiceshyper-nationalism--Washington gets to decide
where it goes to war,never mind the Geneva Convention
and other obsolete internationalrestraints. Yet
Bush's diplomats travel the world banging
ongovernments for trade rules that defenestrate a
nation's sovereignpower to run its own affairs. The US
government regards itself ascomfortable with this
arrangement since it assumes the superpower canalways
get its way. Most citizens are never consulted. They
are perhapsunaware that their rights have been given
away, too.

It would be nice to imagine this ridiculous episode
will prompt reconsideration, cool down exploitative
jingoism and provoke a more rational discussion of the
multiplying absurdities. I doubt it. At least it will
be satisfying to see Bush toasted irrationally, since
he lit the match.

This article can be found on the web at:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060313/greider

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2.
Corporate Control of Ports is the Problem
by John Nichols
Published on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 by The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1pid=62081


The problem with the Bush administration's support for
a move by a United Arab Emirates-based firm to take
over operation of six major American ports is not that
the corporation in question is Arab owned.

The problem is that it that Dubai Ports World is a
corporation. It happens to be a corporation that is
owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates, or
UAE, a nation that served as an operational and
financial base for the hijackers who carried out the
attacks of 9-11 attacks, and that has 

Re: images from the everyday sem.eme

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Sondheim

Exactly what Lautreamont would have said...

- Alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


I feel more like George Axelrod with a
Vestigial half-duck-torso flopera-singer-goiter
hanging from my neck like a mayan ballcourt victim's
stone U-collar put there by ugly and magnificient insect deities
who will smoke me in a pipe later if they feel like it..



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Sometimes I think you're Lautreamont reincarnated!

- Alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


not sure. i think they were just old experiments
left in the folder or as mina loy says:

In some
Prenatal plagiarsim
Foetal buffoons
Caught tricks

lq

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really like the sem stuff - years ago I worked with one and did a number
of pieces - what were the larger ones? also from or modified from
something else?

debris on the tracks... - alan

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, phanero wrote:


as an afterthought..

images from the everyday sem.eme
http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/netart/YD/

6. sarcophagi of the 3 micron alien pharaoh
+ various wyrms and hieroglyphs




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eralo Wrote errata lilt

2006-02-23 Thread david divizio
Not certain of anything, but happy writing errors...

the cheese stands alone ~
 eralo Wrote errata lilt

This composed simultaneously watching a movie that
caught my interest.. mid channel surf...
Somehow I chose to stay with the opening credits of
Scorched with Woody Harelson and John Cleese...
rather than return to a rerun of nostalgic Trevoltaic
indulgence... Welcome Back Kotter... damn I loved that
show.

I WHOLE HEARTEDLY recommend this hilarious flick.

Ana and I were both engaged and inspired.

There's something in this... you gotta listen to it
   (The Farmer in the Dell)








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