the poem, adrift
the poem, adrift http://www.cgi7.com/peterimages/the-poem,-adrift2.jpg -- Peter Ciccariello http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
Loom blue
I walk through a storm when everything is blue. A car furiously escapes, peeling mosquito shaves from grounded air. And lightning shrivelling such aimless skies tonight. We’ll work through this together, but my feet cripple me later, by then all those houses stick to them. She started talking about ghosts and killings and shit. I guess you know what I mean; colds arrange their fluent sheaves around us, as on Toledo Road as on North Ridge, arresting walking sleep: this is a fuck of demon. They connect behind the Circle-K. I’ll speak to you in lights, and kneel. You’ve never lost anything. I win. Blue breath. -- Lewis LaCook Director of Web Development Abstract Outlooks Media 440-989-6481 http://www.abstractoutlooks.com Abstract Outlooks Media - Premium Web Hosting, Development, and Art Photography http://www.lewislacook.org lewislacook.org - New Media Poetry and Poetics http://www.xanaxpop.org Xanax Pop - the poetry of Lewis LaCook
_Fascist America, in 10 easy steps_
_Fascist America, in 10 easy steps_ http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Tuesday April 24, 2007 The Guardian -- ...knottings.in.the.sm.all.of.my.cortical.b[h]ack: :http://netwurker.livejournal.com :http://aliasfrequencies.org/m/ :http://disapposable.blogspot.com/
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
people coming going nothing ever happens 2007/5/1, P!^VP 0!Z!^VP [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 30-Apr-07, at 8:24 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) VERY SHORT STORIES ~ swath bond faun 21:10 4/30/07 702 bytes P!^VP
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
I sat I ate I wept John M. Bennett At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292145300) is spam: Spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Not spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292145300m=f4408c365d2a -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
The king feasted You ate dirt. At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292145300) is spam: Spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Not spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292145300m=f4408c365d2a -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___
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I came, she saw, she conquered.
ars poetica update
The ars poetica project continues to thrill and amaze at: http://www.logolalia.com/arspoetica/ Poems appeared last week by: Richard Denner and Ed Coletti. Poems will appear this week by: Ed Coletti, Lanny Quarles, Kaye Aldenhoven, Sheila E. Murphy, and Mark Young. A new poem about poetry every day. Enjoy, Dan
April's $100 winner at vispoets.com
In the reward for interestingness's now monthly event*, the winner for April is: Peter Ciccariello for this piece: love flies low whisper** Congratulations to Peter, there's $100 worth of materials on their way to you from Jukka-Pekka Kervinen's cPress, xPress, etc.. Enjoy! Thanks to everyone who uploaded images to the Gallery this month. Keep uploading new images for your chance to win. *http://vispoets.com/index.php?showtopic=481 **http://vispoets.com/index.php?automodule=galleryreq=siimg=1219 Regards, Dan PS: if you have a press that publishes visual poetry and are able to send $100 worth of publications, your choice, including postage to future winners, please email me with your interest. --- Our members have posted a total of 1218 images and made 138 comments. Total Gallery Size: 215.02mb Total Image Views: 12641
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Slug Glos
Slug dust the lamp the file the shoe the spork the glock the tang the fool the fuel the push the nate the gush the pill the flame the coast the wind the crash the neck the lunch the pall the flung the meat the Glos nudge my gland my lash my bridge my fall my neck my booth my fence my rock my sink my juice my rat my bowl my flash my growl my knot my blood my nag my hung my rant my bill my foam my John M. Bennett __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
I believe it was Perrin who wrote The King died; the queen died. Although a story, albeit very short, what we do not know is the plot, for the obstacle or frustration that lead to their deaths is not defined. To say The king feasted, readers are told the event, but not the obstacles that lead to the feast or the consumption of dirt. Interestingly, You ate dirt. addresses the reading audience, and does not include the characters who are present, at least implied, in the context of the king's feast. - Lawrence J. McKenzie English Department West Virginia University (Parkersburg) 300 Campus Drive Parkersburg, WV 26104 (304) 424-8000 (Campus) (304) 424-8301 (Division Secretary) [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this electronic mail message is sender's business confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone other than the intended recipient is authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken, or omitted, is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender believes this E-mail (and any attachments) was free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message (and its attachments) could have been infected during transmission, however. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. West Virginia University, and/or the sender of this message, is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments. Charles Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/01/07 7:33 AM The king feasted You ate dirt. At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292145300) is spam: Spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Not spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292145300m=f4408c365d2a -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___
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The real story comes after this.
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
Reminds me of the old Second City skit in which Barbara Harris plays a child out with her grandfather and pestering him for a story. After much bother, the grandfather complies. There was a pig. It died. The child then wails, I don't like that story. End of skit. Hal Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. --Mark Twain (also attr. to Niels Bohr) Halvard Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
Perrin or E.M. Forster? Lawrence McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it was Perrin who wrote The King died; the queen died. Although a story, albeit very short, what we do not know is the plot, for the obstacle or frustration that lead to their deaths is not defined. To say The king feasted, readers are told the event, but not the obstacles that lead to the feast or the consumption of dirt. Interestingly, You ate dirt. addresses the reading audience, and does not include the characters who are present, at least implied, in the context of the king's feast. - Lawrence J. McKenzie English Department West Virginia University (Parkersburg) 300 Campus Drive Parkersburg, WV 26104 (304) 424-8000 (Campus) (304) 424-8301 (Division Secretary) The information contained in this electronic mail message is sender's business confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone other than the intended recipient is authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken, or omitted, is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender believes this E-mail (and any attachments) was free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message (and its attachments) could have been infected during transmission, however. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. West Virginia University, and/or the sender of this message, is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments. Charles Baldwin 05/01/07 7:33 AM The king feasted You ate dirt. At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292145300) is spam: Spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Not spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292145300m=f4408c365d2a -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___ - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
Herstory is what you make it. Jim Piat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real story comes after this. - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
yes Forster. William Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/01/07 10:09 AM Perrin or E.M. Forster? Lawrence McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it was Perrin who wrote The King died; the queen died. Although a story, albeit very short, what we do not know is the plot, for the obstacle or frustration that lead to their deaths is not defined. To say The king feasted, readers are told the event, but not the obstacles that lead to the feast or the consumption of dirt. Interestingly, You ate dirt. addresses the reading audience, and does not include the characters who are present, at least implied, in the context of the king's feast. - Lawrence J. McKenzie English Department West Virginia University (Parkersburg) 300 Campus Drive Parkersburg, WV 26104 (304) 424-8000 (Campus) (304) 424-8301 (Division Secretary) The information contained in this electronic mail message is sender's business confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone other than the intended recipient is authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken, or omitted, is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender believes this E-mail (and any attachments) was free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message (and its attachments) could have been infected during transmission, however. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. West Virginia University, and/or the sender of this message, is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments. Charles Baldwin 05/01/07 7:33 AM The king feasted You ate dirt. At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292145300) is spam: Spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Not spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292145300m=f4408c365d2a -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___ - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
Not here, here, not here again. -- Peter Ciccariello Image - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
Very short stories. Six words!
I have died to live today. Gerald Schwartz At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292145300) is spam: Spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Not spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292145300m=f4408c365d2a -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
Yes, it was Forster; sorry about that. Charles Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/01/07 10:10 AM yes Forster. William Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/01/07 10:09 AM Perrin or E.M. Forster? Lawrence McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it was Perrin who wrote The King died; the queen died. Although a story, albeit very short, what we do not know is the plot, for the obstacle or frustration that lead to their deaths is not defined. To say The king feasted, readers are told the event, but not the obstacles that lead to the feast or the consumption of dirt. Interestingly, You ate dirt. addresses the reading audience, and does not include the characters who are present, at least implied, in the context of the king's feast. - Lawrence J. McKenzie English Department West Virginia University (Parkersburg) 300 Campus Drive Parkersburg, WV 26104 (304) 424-8000 (Campus) (304) 424-8301 (Division Secretary) The information contained in this electronic mail message is sender's business confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone other than the intended recipient is authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken, or omitted, is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender believes this E-mail (and any attachments) was free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message (and its attachments) could have been infected during transmission, however. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. West Virginia University, and/or the sender of this message, is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments. Charles Baldwin 05/01/07 7:33 AM The king feasted You ate dirt. At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292145300) is spam: Spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Not spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292145300m=f4408c365d2a Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292145300m=f4408c365d2a -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___ - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Very short lecture by John Cage
the other day, while expounding in my own academic drone Cage's concept of chance operations and what it means for artistic production, my wife presented her own (six-word) version of the theory: Everything is art, nothing is art. she said it in a weird voice, like a sock puppet's, while shrugging her shoulders like I don't know or whaddya gonna do? -- made me think of recreating a Cage lecture or performance using only sock puppets: John Cage Sock Puppet Theatre. anyone interested? On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, at 09:52AM, Gerald Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have died to live today. Gerald Schwartz At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, mIEKAL aND wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments)
Re: Very short lecture by John Cage
I would love to see such a thing the sock puppets could alternate words of the lecture, and go faster and faster, reach a scream, and then go silent john At 11:16 AM 5/1/2007, you wrote: the other day, while expounding in my own academic drone Cage's concept of chance operations and what it means for artistic production, my wife presented her own (six-word) version of the theory: Everything is art, nothing is art. she said it in a weird voice, like a sock puppet's, while shrugging her shoulders like I don't know or whaddya gonna do? -- made me think of recreating a Cage lecture or performance using only sock puppets: John Cage Sock Puppet Theatre. anyone interested? On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, at 09:52AM, Gerald Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have died to live today. Gerald Schwartz At 11:24 PM 4/30/2007, mIEKAL aND wrote: NOVA COOKIE FROZEN HELL Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words : For sale: baby shoes, never worn. and is said to have called it his best work. So I asked writers to take a shot themselves. Very short stories. Six words ! http://novacookie.blogspot.com/ SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. Any language. Send your six words story to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments) -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 292631845) is spam: Spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=292631845m=5a2070356175 Not spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=292631845m=5a2070356175 Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=292631845m=5a2070356175 -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___
many gigs
Many headed monsters -- unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance, in which case Brad - for all his age and sensitivity - was nothing less than a time-bomb, ticking softly away until his appointed time; in which case, we should either - optimistically - get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning, and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a _why, or else, of course, we might - as pessimists - give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought, decisions, action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway; things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos? It was only a matter of time... http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_1.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_2.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_3.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_4.0 Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-books -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters... http://www.bbrace.net/id.html http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/id.html bbs: brad brace sound http://69.64.229.114:8000 http://www.bbrace.net/undisclosed.html
Vote Now to Impeach Cheney Bush
Vote Now to Impeach Cheney Bush * The People's Email Network, Posted May 1, 2007 Straight to the Source VOTING ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php Cast your vote and send your message to Congress at the same time! As courageously drafted by Dennis Kucinich in H.Res. 333 filed just last week, the first and most central ground stated for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney was that he led the charge in fabricating a case for invasion of Iraq, based on phony weapons of mass destruction. Now almost as if it were timed to coincide with that initiative, former CIA head George Tenet reveals they knew their evidence was flimsy, erroneous and just plain bogus all along, but that Cheney just kept exaggerating the threat anyway. This is without question the most momentous issue of our time, and whether you agree that Cheney should be impeached, or not, your voice is needed to speak out now, and tell Congress what they should do about it. You can vote yes. Or you can vote no. But we cannot remain silent. Of course, anyone who's been honestly and fairly paying attention has known at least since the exposure of the Downing Street Minutes that we were misled into the Iraq quagmire, by an executive branch that could not be bothered with either the actual facts or a serious policy debate about them, Richard Clarke told us the same thing and he was smeared in the corporate media for his truth telling, as has every other previous lesser whistle blower. What will the contemptuous talking heads say now that the chief of the CIA at the time is another, and perhaps the most clinching, confirming witness? Apparently what so galled Tenet enough for him to spill the beans on his own complicity (beside an O.J. scale book advance) was that the Bush administration, in its typical coward's fashion, tried in the media to pin on him the ENTIRE blame for the failure of their wrong- headed strategic debacle. Tenet told us it was a slam dunk, Cheney pleaded on TV, as the five time military deferment king again tried to escape any public responsibility for his own primary malfeasance. But now in an astonishing twist, Tenet reveals what the words slam dunk actually meant in context. In the book, Tenet confesses that he was NOT being asked at the time to vouch for the quality of the intelligence. He says he was being asked if the case could be SOLD to the American people. That's all they cared about, not whether there was any actual support for their arguments, but whether they thought they could get away with bum rushing the rest of us. So when Tenet said slam dunk, what he MEANT was they were sure they would be able to stuff their cooked intelligence down our throats. This is incredibly damning stuff. Tenet has unleashed the intelligence community equivalent of If I Helped Them Do It. They were not having a policy debate about the strength of the case against Iraq, they were having a sales meeting of con men to plot how far they could go in cheating the American people out of our lives and the contents of our treasury. And they were determined to go all the way. Slam dunk was not an intelligence assessment, it was a SALES PROJECTION of their fraudulent product. Tenet was neither the victim of a bad rap, nor the unwitting excuse. Instead he was a willing co-conspirator, happy enough to play along with the war fever and collect his ill-gotten medal of freedom while mooching all the other various perks of the power they seized. But the criminal mastermind of the whole sordid affair was none other than Richard B. Cheney. And that truth can no longer be hidden by even this most secretive of administrations. What will it take for Congress to impeach him and put him on trial in the Senate for highest of all high crimes, launching a war of immoral and unjustifiable aggression, that has cost more Americans their lives than died on 9/11 (and upwards of a million Iraqis), based on NOTHING but deliberate and calculated lies? VOTING ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php What it will take.. . . and all that is required . . . is your voice, and the voices of your friends, neighbors and acquaintances. VOTE now in the National Impeachment Poll and send your personal messages to Congress at the same time. In just a couple days we have had over 18,000 submissions already. We need everyone who has ever submitted an action page to cast their vote in this one. There's no reason why we can't present Congress with a million votes on this. We're GOING to do it. And when we do, impeachment hearings WILL become a reality on Capitol Hill, no matter what a handful of corrupt and overpaid pundits may have said. Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know. If
Problematics
Problematics Work to correct mistakes? Omar Khyam as a terrorist Forgets his Rubaiyat and hides. Poetry in motion--a song, A car, a truck once carrying Poets to their readings, Goes forward without hearing appeals. Use that seatbelt next time, poet. If you die, you fly. But The highway to the sky has collapsed. We consulted a potential earthquake But there was no response. Remain in charge of your own intelligence. What could have been done but wasn't Hasn't shown it's face for years. Pay your price; bear its responsibility. We have other burdens for you to sign onto If you answer to the description: fool. Pine for your own dead opinions As they follow you after you die. A public case for my removal Drowned under the test of time. The rest of your decisions have been shredded By forces beyond their own humanity. Your pet goat has asked to be cooked But our leaders insist on sheep. You didn't know you took action. Your witnesses speak softer than words. Words have exhausted their appeals. The fanatics have eaten all their fans. Setting the record straight Now requires more than a marriage Of imagination and circumstance. Our staffers are standing by To accept your gratitude and record your pleas. Your regime has been initiated into the truth And has been found to be beyond incorporation. Convenience as hyperbole Searches for a new planet it cannot find. However far back you go, The past rejects you and remains mute. The future has learned its lessons And refuses to appear while your shadow remains. So your attempts to turn a blind eye or a deaf ear Summon only some uncertified doctors Looking for medicines yet to be created. They can debate eagerly or without enthusiasm But their experiments have crashed into the void. Room is still available inside Hoping that you will care to join it Before or after your next lie. The need to compete just died of starvation. There is no chance for its resurrection. It disappeared without leaving your trace. No serious job remained for it to do. We feel no emotion but joy from its departure. The night backs us up in our determinations Even before today's sun goes down. Up and downscale retirees laugh at its wake. Tom Savage 4/30/07 - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
Six Word Short Stories: America Lost 1. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. 2. My two cents: a retreating silence. 3. Our birth is but a sleep. 4. I was shocked. Very, very surprised. 5. Republicans understand the importance of bondage: 6. Weed out all, one by one. 7. Is it necessary to say something? 8. Its details are still not known. 9. Whatever you say will be luminous. 10. Enjoy your visit, come back often. 11. I wonder if you are willing. 12. My question: Why do I care? 13. Dejected? WE SPECIALIZE IN APPROVING YOU! 14. A restless wind inside a letterbox. 15. And throw it in the ashes. Cecil Touchon http://cecil.touchon.com http://collagemuseum.com http://collagepoetry.com http://fluxnexus.com http://ontologicalmuseum.org
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Physics News Update 822
PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 822 May 1, 2007 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein www.aip.org/pnu THE EFIMOV EFFECT: THREE*S COMPANY, TWO'S A CROWD. At the April APS meeting in Jacksonville, physicists discussed the recent observations of the Efimov effect, a purely quantum phenomenon whereby two particles such as neutral atoms which ordinarily do not interact strongly with one another join together with a third atom under the right conditions. The trio can then form an infinite number of configurations, or put another way, an infinite number of bound states that hold the atoms together. The effect was first predicted around 1970 by a physicist named Vitaly Efimov, then a Ph.D. candidate at the time, but was originally considered too strange to be true, according to the University of Colorado*s Chris Greene, in part because the atoms would abruptly switch from being standoffish to becoming stuck-together Siamese Triplets at remarkably long distances from one another (approximately 500-10,000 times the size of a hydrogen atom in the case of neutral atoms). For decades, experimenters tried in vain to create these three-particle systems (which came to be known as Efimov trimers). In 1999, Greene and his collaborators Brett Esry and Jim Burke predicted that gases of ultracold atoms might provide the right conditions for creating the three-particle state. In 2005, a research team led by Rudi Grimm of the University of Innsbruck in Austria finally confirmed the Efimov state in an ultracold gas of cesium cooled to just 10 nanokelvin. How do the neutral atoms attract one another in the first place? At small distances, ordinary chemical bonding mechanisms apply, but at the vast distances relevant to the Efimov effect, it is mainly through the van der Waals effect, in which rearrangements of electrical charge in one atom (forming an electric dipole) create electric fields that can induce dipoles in, and thereby attract, neighboring atoms. The observation of the Efimov effect is a coup for being able to study the rich quantum physics between three particles. The effect can conceivably occur in nucleons or molecules (and any object governed by quantum mechanics). However, it will likely be harder to observe in those systems because physicists cannot alter the strengths of interactions between the constituent particles as easily as they can in ultracold atom gases (through their Feshbach resonances). But the effect could provide insights on such systems as the triton, a nucleon with one proton and two neutrons, in addition to the BCS-BEC crossover, in which atoms switch from forming weakly bound Cooper pairs to entering a single collective quantum state. (See also article by Charles Day, Physics Today, April 2006, Esry et al, Phys. Rev. Lett, 30 August 1999, and Kraemer et al., Nature, 16 March 2006). THE PHYSICS OF UTENSILS is explained by the University of Virginia's Lou Bloomfield in the May issue of Physics Today. Forget about cooking classes--cutlery can provide a rich lesson in crystallography and condensed-matter physics. Forks, knives and spoons are generally made of steel--an alloy of iron and carbon with other elements mixed in. A room-temperature iron crystal is soft, as it is susceptible to shear stress. In other words, pushing layers of the iron crystal in opposite directions causes the layers to slip, bending the iron permanently, which, as Bloomfield points out, is fine in a twist tie, not so good in a knife. When the iron crystal (known as ferrite) takes in even a small amount of carbon, the situation change s. Dispersed throughout the ferrite (the carbon is generally insoluble in it), the carbon makes it more difficult for crystal impurities known as dislocations to move, thereby frustrating shear forces and hardening the solid. Put even more carbon into the ferrite and it distorts the crystal into the hardest possible steel structure, suitable for the cutting edges of knives. Making useful steel cutlery generally requires heating an iron-carbon mixture to well over 727 degrees C, in order to facilitate structural transformations throughout the entire steel material. What type of utensil results depends on how quickly the steel is cooled, or quenched. Slowly quenched steel results in pearlite, a sturdy but relatively soft compound often used for spoons. The most quickly cooled steel leads to martensite, the hard steel used in cutting edges. Reheating the martensite rearranges some crystalline structures and tempers it so it becomes less brittle. Making stainless steel, Bloomfield says, involves adding elements including chromium. When the Cr content exceeds 11.5% by weight, a chromium oxide layer forms on the surface to prevent rusting. More details can be found in Bloomfield's article, which is freely accessible at http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_5/88_1.shtml (Bloomfield: 434-924-6595, [EMAIL
NASA rethinking death in mission to Mar
NASA rethinking death in mission to Mars POSTED: 2:35 p.m. EDT, May 1, 2007 http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/05/01/death.in.space.ap/index.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back? When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? Should NASA employ DNA testing to weed out astronauts who might get a disease on a long flight? With NASA planning to land on Mars 30 years from now, and with the recent discovery of the most Earth-like planet ever seen outside the solar system, the space agency has begun to ponder some of the thorny practical and ethical questions posed by deep space exploration. Some of these who-gets-thrown-from-the-lifeboat questions are outlined in a NASA document on crew health obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request. NASA doctors and scientists, with help from outside bioethicists and medical experts, hope to answer many of these questions over the next several years. As you can imagine, it's a thing that people aren't really comfortable talking about, said Dr. Richard Williams, NASA's chief health and medical officer. We're trying to develop the ethical framework to equip commanders and mission managers to make some of those difficult decisions should they arrive in the future. One topic that is evidently too hot to handle: How do you cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long? Sex is not mentioned in the document and has long been almost a taboo topic at NASA. Williams said the question of sex in space is not a matter of crew health but a behavioral issue that will have to be taken up by others at NASA. The agency will have to address the matter sooner or later, said Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania who has advised NASA since 2001. There is a decision that is going to have to be made about mixed-sex crews, and there is going to be a lot of debate about it, he said. The document does spell out some health policies in detail, such as how much radiation astronauts can be exposed to from space travel (No more radiation than the amount that would increase the risk of cancer by 3 percent over the astronaut's career) and the number of hours crew members should work each week (No more than 48 hours). But on other topics -- such as steps for disposing of the dead and cutting off an astronaut's medical care if he or she cannot survive -- the document merely says these are issues for which NASA needs a policy. There may come a time in which a significant risk of death has to be weighed against mission success, Wolpe said. The idea that we will always choose a person's well-being over mission success, it sounds good, but it doesn't really turn out to be necessarily the way decisions always will be made. For now, astronauts and cosmonauts who become critically sick or injured at the international space station -- something that has never happened -- can leave the orbiting outpost 220 miles above Earth and return home within hours aboard a Russian Soyuz space vehicle. That wouldn't be possible if a life-and-death situation were to arise on a voyage to Mars, where the nearest hospital is millions of mile away. Moreover, Mars-bound astronauts will not always be able to rely on instructions from Mission Control, since it would take nearly a half- hour for a question to be asked and an answer to come back via radio. Astronauts going to the moon and Mars for long periods of time must contend with the basic health risks from space travel, multiplied many times over: radiation, the loss of muscle and bone, and the psychological challenges of isolation. NASA will consider whether astronauts must undergo preventive surgery, such as an appendectomy, to head off medical emergencies during a mission, and whether astronauts should be required to sign living wills with end-of-life instructions. The space agency also must decide whether to set age restrictions on the crew, and whether astronauts of reproductive age should be required to bank sperm or eggs because of the risk of genetic mutations from radiation exposure during long trips. Already, NASA is considering genetic screening in choosing crews on the long-duration missions. That is now prohibited. Genetic screening must be approached with caution ... because of limiting employment and career opportunities based on use of genetic information, Williams said. NASA's three major tragedies resulting in 17 deaths -- Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia -- were caused by technical rather than medical problems. NASA never has had to abort a mission because of health problems, though the Soviet Union had three such episodes. Some
Re: Very short stories. Six words!
highway mutants fire their guns. gotta go! Send your six words story to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Translations will be available in comments)
not bellmer berber anita's hans
not bellmer berber anita's hans transformed new early version of the avatar 'outt' behavior from the archives - http://www.asondheim.org/blue.mov . the avatar is blue in a construct-space of outt-structure. one after another, these avatars parade. i make them do things. what of this doing? it could continue, as-if forever. given the largesse of linden corporation. it could speak and eat. it could move about the place in a variety of ways. it could interact. it could move into buildings or spaces i could create or could purchase. it could hold or manipulate objects i could give it. it could give these objects away. it could attach these objects. it could detach these objects. this too could continue. i am tired of portraiture. i am bored by it. i am bored by images close to abject. i am tired of parades. i am tired of sex implications or violence implications. i am tired of mappings. there is nothing in second life that is not in first life. there is nothing in first life that is not in second life. i can move into buildings. i can manipulate objects. i can give objects away or create objects or sustain objects or destroy objects. objects can mediate for me. i can make objects speak for me. i can make objects speak. i can make objects show. objects can show for me. it is not boredom or tiredness. it is defuge in the verbal sense. it is 'i defuge' or in passive 'i am defuged.' neither one nor the other matters in terms of prime mover during a period of decathection. i can continue just like this forever. each avatar-video or each avatar-performance is different in content from each other but not in degree. sukara, dakshinanila, nandiskandhardhara, dhurya, prakata, pritvardhana, aparajita, sarvasattva, govinda, adhrita. analysis goes the length of the instantiation. each avatar is avatar-instance. come see my avatar move. come see my avatar think. my avatar is beauty beauty. the virtual is a desert. the virtual is depopulated. the energy infinite and the movement spectacular. and the movement forever. one after another until a genre is born. until genre is borne. until an atlas rises and collapses. until demarcation is lost in gamespace. now this avatar is a motion of second life avatar. this avatar portends second life avatar. you cannot walk through this avatar nor cross the other side. but this avatar is spectacular. this avatar moves in deadspace. this avatar lives in deadspace. this portends second life. second life is grand on a vast and spectacular scale. second life extends everywhere. close your eyes and there is second life. second life is the dream of women dream of men. i say there is too much of it. i say too much avatar. too much trope. too much behavior and too much behavior collision and too much stancedance and too much packaging. too much exchange and too much color. too much linden day and too much linden night. oh our nights are linden nights and our days are linden days. objects spaces and avatars and owners and behaviors and exchanges. i speak to you from my world. my world is a pretty penny. i hide my face from you. you do not look upon my face. my face is a pretty penny.
