Olive harvesting season is upon us. Are you ready? OK, what I really mean is, are you ready for the zine? "29 Year Old College Drop Out, On The Brink Of Financial Ruin, Uncovers Secret Money System That Rakes In $55,247.25 In One Month..." Listen, I feel honored that you feel you must to spam so many people with this half-true legend (or should I say true half-legend) about me from so long ago I get teary-eyed each time just reading between the lines. But listen, tell the rest of the truisms along with it dammit. Inmediamente, I donated $12,000 to the NY Public Library, 15,230.50 to the Met, 25,432 to the Ade Bethune CW Homeless shelter, and finally 280.43 to the Westerlymystonington Art Society in Connecticut. 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If you want to just trade banners please e-mail me at this address your banner and your link to which you want it directed and also the page where our banner is located on your website. If you want to trade for our Artist Database simply let me know where our baner is on your website and I'll send you the database asap. Thank you for consider this proposal. Please find attached our banner. Best Regards, Kim Wilson http://www.entertainmentdatabase.com [ed note: no thank you, read our zine though, if you ever get a chance.] I'd like to see a report about the attack against America at Khobar Towers, june 25, 96. Fran H ====+===+=====+===+==+======= JUST THE OTHER DAY IN HISTORY ====+===+=====+===+==+======= sent in by J.D. Sep 30 1970 The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography issues a 646 page report concluding that all sexually explicit films, books and magazines aimed at adults should be legalized. One publisher, William Hamling, sold 100,000 copies of the report with 546 additional "illustrations", for which he received four years prison time. ATI Announces 2 new things! Ready? Next week, brace yourself. Newest issue will be composed from a brand new (well, used, but new to me, eh?) early pentium laptop. Should we use word? wordpad? notepad? edit? We'll cross that bridge when we get there. And secondly, a new feature each week. Titled "Live From Dahmer's House." We'll walk up the street over to where Dahmer used to live, and sit on the sidewalk in front, and break out a notebook, and write a few notes about non-violence. \DREAM\ 24sep02 ...yeah, and how come they closed off port 79? What do you mean, what's 79? I got pages to pull down at 79 all the time. Oh, you mean like 8079 or something? I just type in 79. [keep in mind this is all going on over expensive non-fairtrade coffee at a Hyatt with some pimply 16-year-old kid in a black "got root?" hat angry with us because s/he can't hack into indymedia the way s/he wants to. I oughta tell him/her "be glad we're like the only sysadmins left on the planet who won't just drop an email to interpol the minute we see ya, U skript kidd33 dorkish dw33b.] Hmmm. Dunno. Did you get it from port scanning or something? Nunya. Nunya bizness, hahahaha... You're talking to a sysadmin there, dork. Never mind... Wait, I'll tell you what happened without even lookin' over logs or anything. I bet I know. You were sitting there hitting this "port 79" and a techie goes "wtf is this dweeb doing in port 79???" "what's it even do?" "dunno," "can't be good havin' him here." "nuke it." But he prolly goes into IRC first and says "anyone here in port 79?" "not me..." etc., then someone says, "what's port 79 do anyhow?" "no clue." "can't be good havin' him there," "that's what I was thinkin," "nuke him..." But wait there's more, he prolly went to www-tech list and put out a quick note, "anyone using port 79 for something necessary, speak up quick or forever hold your winsock" And then your ip addy was prolly offed to it. ----- I wake up from this all-too-real dream in a hurry to jump on the net long before the obligatory first cup of coffee and find out what port 79 is. ================= - - go figure - - ================= How ironic. I grew up where I-95 N goes East and now I live where I-94 E goes South. Is coffee supposed to taste this bad?? I'm at a Mars Cheese shop along 94 somewhere. Or was it Cheese World? Although do I really care what they're called? Not meaning any rudeness, really. She's telemarketing in her car, the woman with the cellphone headset. Yikes. Haiku - Ivy covered house Glenwood Chicago recalls Boston vibrations Let everyone sweep In front of his own door, And the whole world Will be clean -- Goethe Dear Marco Capelli, Please consider using these quotes in Activist Times, Intentional. They're selected from the eBook "War: A Call to Inner Life". In this timely free eBook, ordinary people share quotes from their favorite authors that give them hope and courage in uncertain times. Download the eBook at http://www.plough.com You may reprint these quotes, or any others you select from the eBook, providing you include the following creditline: Excerpted from "WAR: A Call to Inner Life (Words of Hope for Uncertain Times)". Download the free eBook at http://www.plough.com You may also post this eBook on your website, attach it to your mailings, or use it as an incentive for new subscribers. Please let me know if you are interested. Regards, Sam Hine -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WORDS OF HOPE FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES It's been a year since 9/11, and the world is on edge. If terrorism and war don't leave you trembling, there's the state of the economy, the environment, and the political climate. Where do you turn for comfort and strength at a time like this? In this timely FREE EBOOK, ordinary people share quotes from their favorite authors that give them hope and courage in uncertain times. Download the eBook at http://www.plough.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phil, 52: During a typical work day, I'm in e-mail contact with so many colleagues around the world that it's easy to completely miss the people I share my office with, and to blank out the world situation. Ironic, isn't it? Just when you're accomplishing so much by your efforts, you can be "removed from reality," as Blumhardt puts it. It took my wife to point out this quote to me. Perhaps the greatest danger that threatens us comes from being overly involved in the small, ordinary happenings of daily life - from becoming so enslaved by them that they fill our heart and soul. To go about life in this way is to go about unprotected, unaware, distracted, and removed from reality. Let us never allow ourselves to be dragged down by pettiness, or to take the things of this earth so seriously that they burden us day after day. Let us live constantly in the Promise. --Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- One of the greatest risks in taking up arms against evil is to mistake the battle for something that must be fought on a human level, between opposing camps of "good" people and "evil" ones. It is tempting to carry out the fight in others rather than in ourselves. Horrified at the state of the world or at other people's lives, we may become filled with righteous (if not self-righteous) zeal. But rather than winning others over to a new life, or finding their hearts, we may end up distancing ourselves from them. As Gandhi once advised, "If you hate injustice, tyranny,lust and greed, hate these things in yourself." The battle must be waged in our own hearts first. --Johann Christoph Arnold -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tracy, 15: I'm a sophomore in high school. Looking through my journal, at the pages of anxious scrawl I wrote on September 11, 2001, I discovered a quote I'd jotted down from The Brothers Karamazov. That quote meant everything to me. I didn't know if I'd ever see another sunrise. I still don't. Tomorrow, next week, next year don't count. Neither do my plans for college or the vocation I choose. All that matters is now, and the people around me today. "One day is enough for a man to know all happiness." --Fyodor Dostoevsky -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Wanda, 49: The following lines by William Blake remind me how love can be found in the most unexpected places - even where there is great suffering and sorrow. Seek love in the Pity of other's Woe In the gentle relief of another's care In the darkness of night and winter's snow, In the naked and outcast. Seek love there! --William Blake -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dana, 48: I can still remember when I first read this quote, in the public library at Peekskill NY, in 1976. It was a decisive moment for me: to recognize that the line between good and evil does not follow political, social, or economic classifications; neither is anyone wholly good, or wholly unregenerate: each of us must contend with walking the knife edge. If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them! But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to de- stroy a piece of his own heart? --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Never burden yourselves by looking far ahead; always live one day at a time. If you can do this, you will live like children, birds, and flowers - for them, each day is a lifetime. Every day, new joy and hope unfolds, even if every day also brings you new shadows and new nightfall. Every day you may break down in guilt and failure; every day may show you a thousand times over how helpless you are. Yet each new day brings new sun, new air, and new grace. --Eberhard Arnold -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Excerpted from "WAR: A Call to Inner Life (Words of Hope for Uncertain Times)". Download the free eBook at http://www.plough.com The Ice Cream Manifesto. By: Steve S This is my poor excuse for publicizing my frustration in a metaphoric kind of sense. I want to start with saying that I am a huge hypocrite and this is just an ideal that I think is kind of appealing. I am finding my self-getting more and more fed up with quicker, easier, and more expensive then its predecessor way of life. The super sizing, T.V. dinner kind of western civilization that is engineering their way into making it easier for you to cram more stuff into your busy, family forgetting life style. I saw a commercial for a cell phone the other day. It had the coach of the green bay packers promoting how he hated to be disturbed when enjoying the great outdoors. I thought; oh . . .this is wonderful, what a great ad- campaign for a phone company. Expressing compassion for the loss of what they stripped away. And then I noticed, I quit imagining and realized that he was promoting the "text messaging" feature on his cellar phone. I was sick. Devastated. Acknowledging that it was only going to get worse after this. They will only twist the social knife till the only time that I can get away from them is when I finally move to the moon where sooner or later I will be able to enjoy a Starbucks coffee. It is the natural progression. Vanilla, to chocolate, to swirl, there is always a bigger and better, a rocky road, a bubble gum, 31 flavors that are all a little too over-board but you will be sick of them next week when we come out with something new and when you get sick of those we will add more nuts, bigger marshmallows, sweeter mind wash that will move so quick you won't have time to stop and think that . . . Zen is in simplicity, not in an extra value meal. That peace of mind isn't going to roam into your palm pilot, it is not going to microwave itself into your agenda. I was grocery shopping with my wife and bought some haagan daz vanilla ice cream. I thought, man . . .this is phenomenal. This is the best ice cream I have ever eaten. This is it. Nirvana. The first thing that popped into my mind was how fantastic this would be with some stuff in it. And then it hit me. How disgusting am I that I can't enjoy the purity of the un-carved block. Why would I need to pervert this simplistic perfection? Why would I need to manipulate, to twist and harness this already ideal thing. Because I think like an American. Because I am born and bred by television, pop culture and a natural progression that I call the ice cream manifesto. ATTENTION! PLEASE REMOVE THIS CORRUGATED DISPLAY DEVICE. IT'S NOT PART OF THE BAG AND SHOULD BE DISCARDED AFTER PURCHASE. THIS POP-UP EXPANDER IS USED FOR DISPLAY ONLY, AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. THIS IS NOT A TOY, DO NOT PUT IN CRIBS, PLAYPENS OR CARRIAGES. PATENTED, EXPERIENCE DESIGN. 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