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News of the Weird
Stark fist is out
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 20:41:37 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9202260141.AA25401@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
I 've just heard of a new game: ``Spy vs ``Bob'' ''. That 's right,
it 's a Sergio Aragones spy vs the healed head of J.R. ``Blob'' Dobbs.....
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 14:53:50 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9202251953.AA02633@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: News of the Weird
So, we just got some OCR software to try out, and I gave it a test...
Here are some excerpts from a page of "News of the Weird" #11 (November 8,
1991), from Chuck Shepherd, PO Box 57141, Washington, DC 20037. Drop him a
note for subscription rates, and also keep an eye out for the collections he's
helped compiled ("News of the Weird", "More News otW", etc).
--Eric
- The Power Team, a group of muscle-bound evangelists, tours the country for
Christ, giving demonstrations of karate, breaking cement blocks with their
fists, and bending steel in their mouths--while raucous Christian heavy-metal
music blares in the background. The message is, ''With God, all things are
possible.''
- Among recent proposals by Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates to abate
criticism of his department's excessive force in making arrests was a training
program, complete with videos, to help citizens improve their behavior while
being arrested.
- In a May speech, English professor Constance Penley of the University of
Rochester mentioned a fan club of women who write and exchange erotic scripts
for Star Trek, principally emphasizing relationships between Capt. Kirk and
Mr. Spock. Among the club's themes is the women's fascination with the
''equality'' in male-male relationships compared to the dominance and
submission in traditional romance novels. Penley showed an audience a
homemade video in which Kirk looked ''longingly'' at Spock while a romantic
song was dubbed over the dialogue.
- In March, motorists in Stone Mountain, Ga., reported seeing the image of
Christ in a forkful of spaghetti on a Pizza Hut billboard. One woman said the
image caused her to abandon plans to quit her church choir.
- John E. Thomas, 30, was arrested in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in May after he
was found running naked over a bridge on I480. He told police that bolts of
lightning in a recent storm had instructed him to undress.
- In a muddy Thailand farmyard in April, Yooket Paen, 57, slipped and grabbed
a wire to brace her fall, but it was a live power line, which electrocuted
her. Later in the day, her sister, Pan, 52, was demonstrating to neighbors
how the accident occurred, grabbed the same wire, and was electrocuted.
- James Allen Manuel, 23, was arrested in Baltimore in June after walking into
a police station and asking for help in getting his money back from a drug
dealer so he could go pay for a prostitute. Cocaine residue around Manuel's
nose provoked police to search his pockets, where they found more.
- The Internal Revenue Service disclosed in June that it would purchase
healthclub memberships for 125 employees who work in its L'Enfant Plaza
building in Washington, D.C., because it would be too difficult for them to
walk the seven-tenths of a mile to use the agency's gym on Constitution
Avenue.
-Three physics students at St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas, were
hospitalized in July after a classroom argument. In the class on
airconditioning repair, students began discussing when radiant energy becomes
heat. They continued their argument in a parking lot, where a scuffle broke
out, and one student stabbed two others.
- The National Gallery of Canada was severely criticized in March for
exhibiting the work of Montreal artist Jana Sterbak. Her sculpture,
''Vanitas,'' of a woman's dress, was made of about 60 pounds of flank steak.
When the meat rotted, it was replaced by another $300 worth of meat. The
sharpest criticism came from advocates for the homeless, who complained that
hungry people could have eaten the meat.
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Stark fist is out
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 02:26:03 EST
Message-ID: <9441.699002763@ANKARA.MT.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Todd_Kaufmann@ankara.mt.cs.cmu.edu
I got mine over a week ago, and the next day I had mail in my pobox from
someone who read my name in it. THANKS BOB!
This was an answered prayer for me, as I have recently gotten back some
fine sound recordings from the developers (this stuff can shatter the
corpus callosum), and needed to re-establish contacts with distribution
channels (radio stations, network loci).
Its got some good rants, good low-brow art, and juvenile scatological and
poornographic humor writhings, and if you don't like it, you can suck my dick.
You should call all your local bookstores and ask for it by name.
No, they'll never carry it, but if you call enough times.. well, just try it.
better living thru biocircuitry,
stucco toast
ps: anyone got any info on SEXPO '92?
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