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Scatology in the News
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From: Todd Kaufmann <kddlab!atr-la.atr.co.jp!todd@uunet.uu.net>
Reply-To: kddlab!atr-la.atr.co.jp!todd@uunet.uu.net
To: The network Clench <SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Scatology in the News
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 91 16:23:40 V
Message-Id: <13822.683709820@atr-la>
WIS. JURY CONVICTS SINGER WHO TOSSED EXCREMENT AT CROWD DURING CONCERT
MILWAUKEE (AP) A rock singer who defecated on stage and
tossed excrement at his audience was convicted Thursday by
a jury that rejected his argument of artistic freedom.
Kevin Michael Allin, known as G.G. Allin, lead singer of
the defunct group Toilet Rockers, was convicted of
provoking a disturbance during the incident two years ago
at a nightclub. He could be sentenced to 90 days in jail
and fined $1,000.
``My body is a rock 'n' roll temple,'' Allin said Thursday
in an interview. ``It's like a communion to my people.''
Defense attorney Peter Goldberg said the verdict, which
followed a four-day trial at Milwaukee County Circuit
Court, will be appealed.
Allin described the jury as a ``bunch of narrow-minded
robotic puppets of society'' who looked like his ``dead
grandmother.''
Goldberg argued that Allin, 34, was a serious performer
who Feb. 28, 1989, performance had artistic value. He
siad other avant garde artists have incorporated human
excrement into their work, a practice known as scatology.
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Other related headlines in this paper (Japan Times, 24 August 1991)
include "Diarrhea kills 28 in Sumatra" and photo-caption
"Room with a Poo" showing a whale that `Bob' put on the beach in
Kennebunk to raise a big stink. Shit happens.
Dangerous memes department:
The-drugs-are-the-disease-(not-the-symptom) meme is loose in China now.
``China announced the execution of a major drug trafficker on
Friday as Beijin intensified its "people's war" against drugs
that has ensnared several westerners.''
Cites Mark Baber, a British businessman who is facing a possible
death sentence for smuggling 7.2kg of marijuana.
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