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Those who may have watched the GOP Convention on tv or merely read LR's fine columns on the subject may want to check this link;


http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0903-16.htm


and read about some much-deserved awards.


--Z

Dear All: What are your feelings about the National Identity Card ( with 'biometric identifiers") now being advocated for the US by members of Congress and many others in the National Security Biz? These cards, mandatory for every US citizen, could then be demanded by various bureaus at "screening p...

Dear e_dog: Charles Nicholl wrote a whole book on the subject of Rimbaud's activities in Africa, you probably already know. (web site--review) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8161/rimexpskea.html Nicholl denies that Rimbaud was involved in the slave trade. Like Gauguin, AR tried to leave Europe behi...

See any parallels in being "On Message", LR? ( from Joseph Goebbels "Principles of Propaganda", 1934/ points 14-19) 14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans. a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses b. They must be capable of...

For anyone who might be interested:


My art is featured in Jeannie and Andrew's "Tin Lustre Mobile" this issue:


http://www.poeticinhalation.com/tlm_v4i5.html


--Zlatko

Dear Glorious: I'm glad we agree about Gary Oldman. Have you seen the excellent Canadian film "Beautiful Dreamers (1990) about Walt Whitman? (link) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101413/ Veteran character actor Rip Torn brings Whitman wonderfully to life in this film, which contains many beautiful and...

Here's a nice little patch I came across while reading Borges' non-fiction collection this morning ( there's one to put in your empty forum, Doreen). It's from G.K. Chesterton and seemed to me to sum up the Republican Convention speeches rather well: "Man knows that there are in the soul tints more ...

Cat:


One of my favorites recently has come from The Freeway Blogger:


A giant sign ( on the freeway) that says:

WE'RE ALL WEARING THE BLUE DRESS NOW



--Z

Dear Cornelius: I read "White Noise" and was momentarily tempted by "Underworld", yet its baroque, nay, even byzantine webbings-together of incident and character turned me away finally. I was given a copy of William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" recently, a relatively short book ( compared to "Und...

Dear Cecil: I promise, Doreen, that I won't get in the habit of posting articles--invectives or any other kinds, on your nice new forum. But Garrison Keillor, one of the few surviving revivals of the "Radio Age", and a good ( and often funny) writer of satire, has a lively article out today. His use...

The last lines about "having a religious experience" are marvelous, LR. When Richard Nixon was running for governor of California ( in 1962, unsuccessfully) I was a junior in highschool. Going to hear the speech ( at the local college!), I waited in the reception line and shook his hand. It wasn't a...

I like both those films, Doreen, but "A Thousand Clowns" the better of the two. "Let's get back to reality" "I'll only go as a tourist" sticks with me among Herb Gardner's many other fine one-liners. "n.b: "Brainy History" gives the premiere year of the film as 1962, which do most of my film addict ...

Well said, LR. And in the thicket of believers, there are no Werner Wolf types ( see the link below--Obersturmfuhrers). They're out preparing to "nuke the towel heads . . ." But the guy I'm worried about isn't Werner Wolff-- he's dead. I'm worried about the guy who created this web page! (link) http...

"spatterned"

equals "splatter" ( or "spatter)


and


"patterned"


--Z

Hester! ( as the Brits say: Halloa!)


What a nice sentence:


"kick him out and do him a favor!"


As a 59-year-old survivor of three marriages ( over a period of 30 years or so)

I couldn't agree more.

A quick smootch on your jazzandbluesinger's brow, my dear.


--Z