PLEASE EXCUSE OUR MESS : WE'VE BEEN REMODELLING SINCE 1988. "Haiku For Peter by Erica Adele Grossman Pinstriped shirt and pants Too much coffee and Winstons This boothe is ugly ALLERGY INFORMATION: THIS 'ZINE MANUFACTURED ON THE SAME EQUIPMENT THAT ALSO PROCESSES ALMONDS. <><><><><><3><1><2><0><0> <> <> <> AA TTTTTT IIIIII <> <> A A TT II <> <> AAAA TT II <> <> A A TT II <> <> A A TT IIIIII <> <> <> <><><><><2><1><5><><><><> Hi there, I'm prime anarchist and this is the weekly ATI thing. Hope you like it. Packaged with care, just for you. Happy Sunday. Hope you're having a great weekend. "Money does free you," says a guy here in a coffee shop to a girl who's agreeing with every single thing he says. "The only reason I work," he says. Uh; Hmmmm... How come every time I write http://www.rsub.com in my notebooks to click on it later I never do??? I missed Moxyfruvous again Feb 27. Aargh!!! BUMPER STICKER EX-MILITARY: & Damned Proud Of It She gave me the "I want one" smile. You know it, right? THE FOLK PROCESS I have a new verse for Kingston Trio's "Zombie Jamboree." Ready? One record executive said to me I can totally make you happy. If you just sign here on the dotted line I tol' him maybe that'll be just fine For somebody else, but not for me, I say no wanna be your zombie. Oh no, sweetness of mine. I don't believe in dotted lines. KatieKuric.COM How many people are trying to get their website block lettered on a posterboard in NYC right this moment for 2morrow's GannettMorningAmerika? Yutzes all of them! Golf? a prime anarchist poem You sat there rockin All wrinkled amongst the Carrots and crumbs you almost got me in trouble you know, I was payin more attention to you Than my driving - You lookin me up and down - Me doin likewise... You rolled down my shirt to my pants ^^^ I watched you tumble, now We're rompin like a Summer plum and a nectarine All juicy, wet, and sweet. Rock -n- roll, I'll just call you My raisin girl. -=Want another poem?=- This one's called: Title At The End What's it serve an economy forcing or enticing, fooling or "incending," instituting or interesting each of us to save about $12 extra rather than Spending it the moment we cash our paycheck? State Quarters ==== ==== I start this ATI with a poem from my friend Nini. It's called UNDERSTANDING earths children.. while I sit and watch you slumber.. Another day in your treatment passed.. A program started - a journey to begin - here in my poetry you will find your spirituality.. - look and win! Somewhere in tha' space of my time I engulf the wisdom of the Elders... I speak of Ancestors' rhythms that flow through my soul...i know that they can HEAR ME... out here... Somewhere in the mountain of my dream.. Drifting in silence the beauty of tha' river takes my speech... Wind races through my fingers as I pull to the sky... African drums and Native alike ring out a pulsing Note to my heart... The ones who were brought here by others found themselves in them that stood here before... Stood before..stood here before.. I could go on and on but you... YOU are the only who can look deep into yourself and live the legacy - the legacy of PEACE that was meant for you.. Reach out and deal with the reality of a mindset so beautiful that sunsets shudder at the arrival of your dawn... Manage your SPIRIT and float endlessly into the MOON.. Eclipse with the might of many thunderstorms... Take my hand it is a seven fold knowledge grip... One is to show you the way two is to provide you with wisdom..knowledge three... truth of you..four, five a feeling of love..six the space between my thumb and forefinger that holds you tight as you accept peace within your heart.... And seven...the palm of my hand releases opening and you live life... Program over. The completed turn of your beings axis is.. Understanding. |=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=| Now a short Guthrism (*of or pertaining to woody guthrie) and that's it for my rant 2day. Then we got #'s, Letters, Exclamations, abreviations, and assorted other font-like materiel. WOODIE'S VOICE (as transcribed from "Will Geer reading Guthrie" on Folkways: The Original Vision [Folkways CD SF40001, 1989]) (Research help by Dennis G) I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you're just born to lose, no good to nobody, no good for nuthin' because you're either too old, or too young, or too fat, or too slim, or too ugly, or too this or too that. Songs that run you down, or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelin'. I'm out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I'm out to sing songs that'll prove to you that this is your world. That it has hit you pretty hard, knocked you down for a dozen loops. And no matter how hard its run you down and rolled over you. No matter what color, what size you are, how you're built. I'm out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and your work. And the songs I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folk, just about like you. #'s http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/031000-03.htm http://www.hear.com http://www.el-comandante.com http://burgesses.com/suspects.htm http://burgesses.com/al.htm http://www.oyate.com http://www.solcommunications.com/bigmountain/otherhtml/deadlinefence.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~cooper17/cc/home.htm http://www.gluetrain.com http://www.szarka.org/music/index.html http://www.benedict.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_668000/668048.stm http://www.geocities.com/hardcorepinkgirl/index2.htm http://www.houseofgoddess.com http://www.fbicover-up.com http://www.kali.com http://www.envy.nu/heyurl http://www.justin.org/webpub/fuck.com.html http://www.disinfo.com http://www.punkplanet.com http://www.homestead.com/lucylittleland/vf.html http://www.hexadec.com/S_O_A_WATCH/SotAWW.html http://www.earthshare.org LETTUCE ARGH!!!!!!!! Drove me nutz dude! heh. --Hokie to ati@etext.org love the site, thanks for the info. PK. >**an**observation**from**the**front*** >When a customer puts money down on the >counter instead of touching your "icky" >hand - the clerk should be allowed to >reciprocate with the change. "4, 5 and >5 makes twenty." [places money on table >demonstratively, smiles "gotcha..."] >***ths**hs**bn*n*bsrvtn**fm**th**frnt*** Hey, in defense of at least waiters/waitresses, when there is a "fleeting" (just a brush of their fingertips) touch when they give you your change, studies have shown that they are are more likely to recieve larger tip. So there! P.S. I was pretty sure you were being sarcastic, but I couldn't resist using my college education. Akira the Padawan Dear Editor: Please consider the following poems for Activist Times. Thank you. John Curl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ POEMS BY JOHN CURL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHAT COULD BE EASIER THAN ERASING THE FACTS? startle the old men sit, shaking their heads startle afraid to speak, afraid to listen startle the attack dogs wag their tails startle all the pistons have been shot in the head the music is burned the sidewalks are removed snackfood piled rotting in the gutter the Treasurer books his flight trampling boots can be heard from the roof startle what you're left with after the passions of youth fade away startle the roses swaying in the breeze suddenly there are no secrets [ed note: there you go, more later.] To whom it may concern: Thanks for posting our logo on your site, but why not make it a link? [note: you got it...] We appreciate the exposure and all, but why no comment on your site about our site? Are you recommending it to your readers? Or are you using it as a heading for one section of YOUR site? If so, I must ask you not to do that... please. I can't tell what you're doing with our logo -- but could you please let me know? And by the way, how did your site come to be? John Moyers Publisher, TomPaine.com to ati@etext.org Whew! Read that. Too bad that's not appearing in like: Time, or Newsweek. Maybe the NY Times or Washington Post. (LA Times, even.) sisyphus lol m0nster wondering if you're still out there? prove to me how much you know about me when you write back. Doyle to ati@etext.org IT MADE ME LAUGH---THIS IS THE ULTIMATE WIND UP Leave a message for a friend, colleague or relative to call 'Dan Evans' wants to talk to them about a dent on his car on 07005 900622 Would you review me at: http://www.mp3.com/StevenBoyd I'm an artist that started an Independent Label (SBM Records}. I compose & produce music in Styles of Smooth Jazz, Hip Hop Jazz, Latin Jazz, Christian, Gospel, R&B and Pop. I plan to release another Cd in mid-spring 2000. I am looking for more exposure, publishing and distribution. Are you able to help? Thanks SBoyd Hey thanks for signing my book:) Thanks for mentioning you'll put me in your newspaper remeber the address is http://www.geocities.com/hardcorepinkgirl/index.htm It will be http://www.hardcorepinkgirl.com SOON!!! It's taking me awhile to move it over but it will be there SOON. bye thanks again- love Marianne *^*^*^*^*^*^*^* PICKING: On a Local News Story With Global Parallels. by Marc Frucht The new exec dir of DGBI (downtown _____ ___ inc. Insert your own town-name and see if it works.) believes that Mall #2 needs to open up to Main ST. to provide a better link between the new KI Convention Centers #'s 1 and 2, and the growing Washington Street Entertainment district. ____ ______ said many people now see the mall as a barrier, and a way should be found to encourage people to walk through... Wait a minute! "Entertainment district?" Entertainment district?? Wait. What street? Let's see, I remember a bar that closed a month ago that used to have bands every friday and saturday nite. Now it's some other bar that doesn't. I remember a Bootleggy type restaurant used to do a tuesday nite TV show from there featuring antiseptic local talent. It got renamed something or other, then it got renamed something or other again. Now it's the Daily Planet or something. Local talent, doesn't play there anymore. No talent does. I remember a place where the comedy troupe "Comedy Sports #2" used to ply their wares. They were a spinoff of a bigger group from a bigger city. I think they still do things, but I'm not sure where. Hmmm. I remember the Rhythm Chicken playing his drums for tips at least twice there a couple summers ago. When he's local he's usually on Main Street now instead since they don't hassle him as much. There's a bar that has a beer garden outside in the space next to it, (don't remember who they "drove out" to get that.) yeah, they still have bands pretty regularly. You know the kind: Rolling Stones song followed by Eagles song followed by Kiss song followed by Billy Joel song followed by Stevie Ray Vaugn song followed by Lynyrd Skynrd song followed by Rolling Stones song and then of course Billy Ray Cyrus' Achey Brakey with Chuck Berry's Johnny B AboveAverage - Rinse, Repeat... Wait a minute, that's the street that hosts whatever part of the Summer festival doesn't spread east or west off of it, eh? Yeah. And then I must say there's some pretty good restaurants there. They moved the Bus station from one part to another. I'll betcha there's designs on that abandoned building. Oh yeah, there's the huge three floor bar&restaurant on the very next block that used to be 4 or 5 abandoned buildings, but the new owner/namer had to wait one month to get a few hundred thousand extra dollars off on his buying price for letting the city use it to train their SWAT team on munitions stuff before formally demoloshing it. (hey, be glad they train that way instead of practicing on West Afrikan exchange students) None of this would catch my attention particularly except that the following 5 things looked entirely too related. 1-The mall loses it's biggest anchor store this month. 2-The convention center comes on the heels of about 3 rejected gentrification proposals over a 5 or so year period 3-This reminds me way too much of Atlanta the year before they started vying so heavily for getting the Olympics to pick them. 4-Just last year this town took 2nd or 3rd in the very hokey annual America's City competition where cities with a big enough population compete locally, regionally and then nationally and then go to DC to get some award from the President no matter whether he's a Republican or not, and then there's 2 or 3 days of Caligula type stuff all over DC in their honor. 5-IMAX is looking for a place to put their new custom-theatre idea to play here in this area. There is also a failing movie theatre on that street that used to be a gorgious opera house, and the street is full of old tin ceiling lofty type places that would be just perfect for art galleries and places for starving artists (the real ones, not the ones that go from Holiday Inn to Holiday Inn please) Do you think some real good can come of this? Yes and no. No one wants to discuss the gentrification going on all over the place. It won't seem to matter a hundred years from now, and it surely doesn't make any noise in DC. But I've got to say it: Why spend so much money lookin like an entertainment district when you could, er, um. Uh. How should I say it lessee. Didja ever think maybe U could spend even 3/4 as much making it really BE AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT? God forbid music art and drama would really HAPPEN all of a sudden. Monday 8am A marco capelli poem Coffee and fried bread microwaved 40 seconds. The morning after a great sweat. A window opened behind the computer; Letting the spring air; spring's first light In. Nina Simone's "Live At Newport" album; On the turntable - Side One. Do you remember Side One? Liner Notes? Remember knowing WHO WROTE THE SONGS?? Who? Today is the day; After a great sweat. And that's always a good day. GUITAR ANARCHY TIP # 15 A Q&A with Ritchie Blackmore. Q - Who are some of your musical inspirations? A - J.S. Bach, J.S. Bach and J.S. Bach. PRIME ANARCHIST WORLD NEWS 2NITE WASHINGTOoN (PAwn) -- President Clinton coined a new phrase Thursday pledging to work harder at creating a better way of life for American Indians, saying treaties with the United States have unfairly rendered them victims of "apart-hood." "You gahh bum deal," Clinton said in his southern drawl, which critics are claiming was heard as "You gottem bum deal." The administration could not be contacted for comment by press-time. In the speech to American Indians who could afford $350,000 a plate to attend the Democratic congressional candidates forum, Clinton cast them as victims of a negligent U.S. government that took land and mineral rights in return for nothing but "those crispy crab cake thingies." He promised to remedy that. "This tha' part o' our histerical legga'see we wanna make fun o', and iddle neva' be righ' til right makes rite," Clinton said. "This a cuntree what s'posed ta' be foun' on equal opp'tunity, equal justice, mootch'l respek, ev'body havin' a chance. Can I getcha some a those red-n-white peppermints?" & ALSO IN WASHINGTOoN NEWS - Since the beginning of the year 2000. There has been an epidemic of unexplained exploding manholes throughout Washington DC since January. Actually the first exploding manhole was caught on video tape. The local authorities are still baffled. Just 3 manholes have exploded, so far. Will update in the near future. --copy filed by Joe B. Soul Sellers a poem by DC Dave He studied journalism And thought he knew the score: He was on the road To be a media whore. All too late he learned Of a better way: Ahead of him were those Who'd joined the CIA. A Haiku by Sukotto Not our resources It's not our land over there We do not live there We end with a poem by John Curl THE WALL BEHIND THE MIRROR the wall behind the mirror condors circling Brooklyn the wind between sleep and waking sparks spinning from a galaxy pus dripping from a factory the hard lump behind the eyes of a cop the hand slapping your pleasure broken angels marching lockstep into nightmare disarming drill sergeant curse rip off FBI agent's mustache jump out of crashing car evacuate corporations vacuum the floor of congress recongregate peach orchards look deep into an old person's eyes scatter summer showers ==== We're your phrendz at ATI. Write us: ati@etext.org & 4 a gud thyme kahl: http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati