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Issue 518 Of ATI Zine.
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"What should be the length of the compressionist short story?
For the purist, somewhere around 1,000 words. Of course, this
is only a suggestion. But an image-driven story will always be
able to say more, and more importantly to imply more than a
non-compressionist story of similar wordage. We are not talking
poetry here. We are talking about a prose that reaches beyond poetry,
a prose that with luck reaches a third and fourth and even a fifth
dimension.

"What should be the ultimate goal of Compressionism? To produce work
that revitalizes the language; to have the works of compressionist
writers read by the many and studied in our halls of higher learning;
to ultimately have the very short story take its rightful place alongside
the poem, short story and novel as one of the great artistic forms of
literature."

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Live, from some cave in the middle of the city in the
middle of the town inside of the county where the state
and the government squeeze it in, It's ATI!

All That's Ingestible.

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5:02 PM 3/22/2008

7:52 AM 5/12/2008

9:07 PM 4/15/2008

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http://www.gatt.org
http://www.etsy.com
http://3trillion.org
http://oldversion.com
http://www.timwise.org
http://www.submedia.tv
http://www.warez-bb.org
http://rockonthebook.com
http://www.peteseeger.net
http://angryjournalist.com
http://www.buyhandmade.org
http://trackingtransience.net
http://ashesandglass.blogspot.com
http://www.raven1.net/warathom.htm
http://www.climbingpoetree.com/live
http://www.voydofcourse.blogspot.com
http://www.joe-anybody.com/id104.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZAe9RV6XY
http://www.twofrog.com/flash/nokcarries7.html
http://blastfurnacetv.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/audio
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=65&id=13article
http://www.dylanchords.com/professors/dylans_guitars.htm
http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/anorexic_models-3299/4
http://www.nativevillage.org/Editorials/toxic_trailers_and_smallpox_blan.htm
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/09/11/frickes-picks-blackfire-pearl-jam-and-eyvind-kang

PUBLISHERS COLUMN

I was asked to comment about the Mascot issue
recently and figured I'd share the same thing
with you here.

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the mascot is at the very roots of our racism.
it is the iconic representation of the very words
that get embedded into our thoughts as we belittle
fellow human beings who will share the planet with
us for a short time.

I get really hurt when I hear someone saying it's
not a very big thing.

Maybe because I've struggled so diligently to
recognize and remove sexism and racism from my
own language.

It's not just the words themselves. It's the logic
and actions behind and supporting them.

I wish I had an easier way to articulate this.

I've removed words like "rule of thumb" and "paddy wagon."

the thumb was a unit of measurement of where abuse
began in early american home husbandry. If you beat your
wife nearly to death with a switch that was narrower
than your own thumb, it was not abuse.
But if you even tapped her lightly with one that was
THICKER than your thumb, that was major abuse and you
could do jailtime.

The Paddy Wagon was the transport vehicle that racist
cops used to use when raiding an Irish Pub and they
would throw all the "Pattie's" into it no matter whether
they were drunk and disorderly or not. Pile up Irishpeople
the way you might fill a slaveship across the middle passage.

Most people think these words don't mean very much anymore.
The worst thing about it linguistically is that if I
say the cops beat me up and put me in a paddywagon, and
I don't even know the etymology of it, and neither do you,
you know exactly what I mean in plain english but once
again, we've both put out that racist energy underneath
our words for all the world to perpetuate.

If a college professor teaches me macro economics and he
suddenly says "general rule of thumb," thinking he only
means the current "definition one," of it, and I don't
call him on it, again, neither of us know the roots of
it, or anything, we both just transfer that first meaning
to each other, but we're putting out that underlying root
of racism parallel to what we're saying there.

Chief Wafrigginhoo or Illinoyance or whatever at a
ballgame does the same friggin thing.

And I often feel so alone tackling it because so many
people think it's not that crucial.

Even Lou Diamond Phillips who claimes to have been adopted
by Dine families AND Lakota families told a TV audience
"sometimes people take things too far" when asked about
the mascot issue.

Michelle Shocked was the musical guest that nite, and rather
than come out and talk she sang one song and left. She
mentioned that it was because he pissed her off so much
she was afraid that she had only bad words and would need
time to get good ones or else she couldn't talk publickly
or she would shame not just him but herself, her people and
the rest of all of us.

Good on her, and poopoo on Lou Diamond Phillips.

Again, mascots are at the very root of our racism.
We're swimming in it so we don't even recognize how
deep it is.

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OK.

So Pope Ratzinger personally apologized to five Ameri
can victims of his sexual holo-cost.

That gets much mileage toward understanding and truth.

Perhaps.

But two things must still be reckoned with before there will
EVER be real reconciliation.

And I don't want to go too hard on Ratzinger because not all
of it happened on his watch; but they are in order:

Columbus;
Hitler.

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& LETTUCE

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Actors Strike Coming In July Maybe. Yay!!!
There's an actors' strike coming up.

Might start to ruin this fall's season, etc.

Um. Ruin what... bullcrap that doesn't come anywhere near
to the drama comedies and sitcoms and stuff from the 60s,
70s, 80s, etc?

Ruin that bullcrap???

Bring it on!

Maybe one of the "American" networks will get permission
to rebroadcast Canada's great sitcom "Little Mosque On
The Prairie."

Maybe they'll bring back some shows they'd killed off ONLY
for money reasons and not because the content or the acting
sucked or anything.

Maybe when they give the Actors what they ask for and THEN
come back on with a better contract in both directions,
we'll see better acting, better writing
and better directing.

Now wouldn't that be a hoot.

A reason to turn on television again?

Nah, doubt it, but there's your challenge.

Give us something besides horse shit to watch and maybe we'll
um,
er;
um...

watch.

Short Film Link

A few years back i did a show in vancouver and my friend spencer
estabrooks came over from victoria and hung out...after the show
i had a couple days off so i changed my flight and took the ferry
over to vancouver island...while we were crossing the strait i
asked spencer if we could shoot 'something' because i thought
it could be fun...so we woke up the next morning and this story
unfolded...

paste this link from youtube...it was 14 mins but he cut it down
to 7 mins...just an interesting story...davey rocks dude...
he's an angel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dAMc4pJ2Q

Convention Breaking Haiku

No reds or blues seen
There aren't any outside the
poet's window now.

Wanna see my favorite Interview Question of this millenium
so far?

Q: If you were stranded on a desert island (let's first
hope you have adequate food, water and shelter) and had
the ability to listen to just 5 albums, what would you pick?

YTW: The Bastard Fairies - Memento Mori (of course).
Then I would make my own best of compliations of the following artists
Tom Waits
Nick Cave
Charles Bukowski
And a copy of Ashlee Simpson's album just to remind me that if this
is acceptable listening to civilization then I am probably better
off being stranded on my own little island away from all that crap.

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And another ATI Rhetorical Question. You ready?

Answering to what u wanna b when u grow up.

1) Motorpool supply Sergeant
2) 3rd shift convenience store clerk
3) Frycook
4) Lesbian Kiss cameraman for Playboy channel
5) Cult member
6) Cleanup crew leader at festival grounds
7) Air Force One PMCS mechanic
8) Similac salesman
9) Wash dumpsters for rerental
10)Manufacture Soy Lecithin and High Fructose for Nabisco

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WUSOW: Word's Underline Suggestion Of The Week.

profitization

did you mean? propitiation

runner up was "hackathon."
try walkathon?

And runnerup?

ee cummings

The squiggly lines tell you it doesn't like old ee at all.
Right clicking either of the lines gets you its suggestion.

eel comings

Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com

March 27, 2008: twitterpated

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twitterpated&defid=70633

1)to be completely enamored with someone/something.
2) the flighty exciting feeling you get when you think about/see
the object of your affection.
3) romantically excited (i.e.: aroused)
4) the ever increasing acceleration of heartbeat and body temperature
as a result of being engulfed amidst the exhilaration and joy of
being/having a romantic entity in someone's life.

When he smiled at her, the rush of warm, fuzzy, excited sensations
that filled her made her realize she was completely twitterpated
with this man.

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The to=too typo might've gotten by an official mass email
by a company like Citibank but not the this=these one,
piled on top of the first one, and the overly awkward
sentence of "We ask you to complete..."

Those are most definitely English-As-A-Second-Language
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And for extra credit:

The recipient of this spam has not had an account with Citi
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Today's WOW, Word Of The Week is molybdenum.

Here's lyrics to a song I'm absolutely wild about lately

I've got to save the world, liberate
Eat the food that's on my plate
Recycling is really great
Whatever I can do
To get in bed with you

I'll be a Marxist, a Communist
A pacifict, an anarchist, a Democrat
Red, white, green or blue
Whatever I can do
To get in bed with you

I never knew I gave a damn
Until you told me who I am
And what to do
Whatever I can do
To get in bed with you

'Cause I know war is bad and love is really good
Taking a stand starts in your neighbourhood
I do the best I can just like you say I should
The ones who make a difference are few
So what can I do
To get in bed with you

I'd love to hear your world peace plan
Why don't you tell me in my van
We can discuss Camus
Whatever I can do
To get in bed with you

I've got to change my mind, masticate
Use condoms when I fornicate
Until I hyperventilate
Whatever I can do
Your balls are turning blue

I've got to save the world, liberate
Eat the food that's on my plate
Recycling is really great
Whatever I can do
To get in bed with you

What I can do
To get in bed with you
What I can do
To get in bed with you

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AND NOW THE BEST SPAM I'VE GOTTEN THIS MILLENIUM.

Hi,

It's been a tasking job enforcing the peace here. The insurgents
are buoyed by help from Iran & Syria to undermine what we have
achieved here. I have interesting piece of news which will really
blow your mind.

My platoon were deployed here near Tikrit Saturday @ 1900hrs
as a call had come about insurgent activity 20miles south on
the outskirts of Tikrit. Intel from insiders in Tikrit had it
that they were taking a delivery of arms from Iran.

We had to intercept, engage & control the situation. We could
call in air support if the need arose. We sighted and engaged
@ 2200hrs in a village SW of Tikrit. On perceiving our presence,
they first opened fire on us. We had to engage fully. It took
a while (30mins) but we outgunned them massively. Finally, we
brought the situation under control and some of them fled, 6
were killed and we were able to arrest 11 of them alive.

On the way back to our base in Tikrit, another call that
required urgent attention needed that we should block some
groups insurgents destroying lives and properties very far
way in Nasariya. We got there & rained peace within the city
and community after several hours of battle against the insurgents.

As the fight was going on, I had to take cover and shield in
a very thick forest. It was here I saw a trunk box and quickly
used my sword to make hole in the ground and buried the box.
The next day was Sunday and after devotional service, I went
there on a disguised to check the content in the box and fortunately
the box contained stash of $100 bills which I counted them and it
all amounted $4.3M. Right now I am still surprised how this box
of money got there and who must have kept it in the forest.

In fact I could sense it might be a fellow soldier who must
have hid the box in that forest because before I was deployed
here last year, I heard and read in the news there were some
soldiers who discovered lot of funds in Baghdad in the 2003.
Even five soldiers were questioned for some missing funds.

I had to start my research to confirm the news of the
discovered money in Iraq, I now became convinced through
the proof of the under listed websites that actually so
many funds were discovered here in April 2003.

http://www.jonathanforeman.com/military/nyp_iraq/04192003_chest.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

I believed my fellow airborne might be responsible for the
box in the forest probably after doing that he died in the war
because so many of us have lost their lives to the Iraqi insurgent.
You can verify that from this links;

http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm
http://icasualties.org/oif/us_names.aspx

One passionate appeal I will make is you must not discuss
this matter with anybody, if you have any reason to reject
this offer, please destroy this message as any leakage of
this information will be too bad for a U.S soldier here in Iraq.

I do not know how long we will remain here, and I have been shot,
wounded and survived two suicide bomb attacks by the special
grace of God that survived me.

This was quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what? No
compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives
in this hell hole. You can imagine my brother in-law was
killed by a road side bomb few days back.

My questions now are;

1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you the trust?
3. Can you keep this business very confidential?
4. If you can finance this project, is 30% acceptable by you,
as your commission?

If you are interested in carrying out this deal with me, reply
so that we can plan the means to move out the funds out from here.

Regards,
Sgt. Richard L. Zeppieri, U.S Army

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ACTIVIST issue 518 wowza
TIMES 518 have we
INC got this far???
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Here's a poem:

Another New London

by Marco Frucht

The fo[u]rth time I left Konetiuk
I just knew I will (re)visit/(re)turn
yet again.

No schooner had I, brought me back
When no train would bri[n]g me home.

'Twas PDX to PVD via Southwest

Turned my whole life around
back to the rusty Thames
to the Sound
to the old shopworn potato[e] fields
to the sea
and to my own heart

Moosup - (April 2008)

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nonlinear thought of the millenium.

u.s. tells mexico prez calderon all "illegals" are
free to come into the u.s. as long as they carry
1 barrel of oil with them.

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BITTER NEWS:

Angry Journalist 4122:

I am angry because of my love/hate relationship
with technology. I lost 5 innings of a softball
game due to a corrupted CF card.

[ref]=[http://angryjournalist.com]

Part of a poem for Shadia:

...Give me a quick, dark and ancient death.
Cold obsidian with no K-Y jelly,
slid roughly into the heart like rabid Israeli bulldozers
snarling unto Palestine.
Sand Creek plagiarized and mechanized.

from Adrian C Louis' poem "Witch Wind"
in his book "Evil Corn."

http://www.snreview.org/0405Louis.html

"If I were pushing one particular candidate, I would say 'yes we can.'"

-- Rev. Jeremiah Wright 27apr08

Remembering Leonard Peltier.

Wow, thanks Vicky.
I remember that evening far too well.
Leonard Peltier was confirmed to be on Clinton's
short list of people he was in fact going to pardon.

It was about 5pm.

I was working my normal volunteer job at Indymedia that
takes every extra hour I have in my life the past 9 years
or so.

CNN reported on their TV channel and on their webpage
that Peltier was on the pardon list.

Then they removed it from TV but it was still on the
webpage. I called CNN and was connected with the woman
who was handling that story. I've forgotten her name but
have it written down somewhere I know. She said they could
not confirm that he was on that list. I asked her how come
then they had run with it as an official CNN story.

She insisted it wasn't on the webpage OR the TV's sidescroll.
I told her it was removed from the TV but still on their
website.

She said if it ever WAS on the website OR tv that it was
gone now and that no one in their entire agency ever reported
that he was ever on that list. I told her she was wrong
and asked her why people above her were lying to the
American people. She told me our conversation was over,
and firmly but politely hung up the phone.

I went back to the website and it was gone.

A couple hours later Clinton gave his list and Peltier
was not on it.

Earlier that day, or the day before about 300 members of
the FBI had marched on the White House and were allowed
in for a "personal" private meeting with him. They were
bragging on the freerepublic websites that they were
demanding Peltier be removed from that short list.

I remember that moment like it was yesterday.

We end this edition with a Michelle St. John poem.

It became the ending song to "Business Of Fancydancing."

Who are you when you turn your back?
Where do you go when you leave here?
You can't hide from your truth
Can't run from where you belong

Some things you can't choose
Sometimes you can't have it all
I know your dreams remind you
Where you belong

Memories hold you tight
When there's no comfort in white arms
Loneliness will bring you back
Where you belong

--Michelle St. John

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