Which lens would you use? THIS IS NOT CHICKEN NOODLE NEWS: You Are Watching, ATI. _ _ _____ ___ ___ _ _ ( ) ( )( _ )( _`\ ( _`\ ( ) ( ) | |_| || (_) || |_) )| |_) )`\`\_/'/' | _ || _ || ,__/'| ,__/' `\ /' | | | || | | || | | | | | (_) (_)(_) (_)(_) (_) (_) _ _ _____ _ _ ___ _____ _ _ ___ ( ) ( )( _ )( ) (_)( _`\ ( _ )( ) ( )( _`\ | |_| || ( ) || | | || | ) || (_) |`\`\_/'/'| (_(_) | _ || | | || | _ | || | | )| _ | `\ /' `\__ \ | | | || (_) || |_( )| || |_) || | | | | | ( )_) | (_) (_)(_____)(____/'(_)(____/'(_) (_) (_) `\____) ___ ___ _ _ _ | __|| o \/ \| \_/ | _____ _ | _| | ( o ) \_/ | ( _ ) ( )_ _ |_| |_|\\\_/|_| |_| | (_) | | ,_) (_) | _ | | | | | | | | | | |_ | | (_) (_) `\__) (_) GR33TINGZ: I'm Prime Anarchist, It's almost midnite, the 22nd of December; and here's some Activist Times. PAC-GL: the Prime Anarchist Column Goes Long I shopped at Caldor the other day. I bought three things; all from different departments. I always like giving Caldor my money even though the original owners sold it many years ago; back in the 80's I'm told. Carl and Deloris Bennet live comfortably somewhere in Connecticut. One of the managers at the Norwich store tells me they're doing well, and last he knew they had a house in Fairfield. Once when I was young I went to the Groton Caldor wearing a shirt and tie; and I filled out a job application. Those were the days when you didn't need a resume for a minimum wage job. But a tie almost always assured you a "shoe in." I honestly don't know if it was a manager or an owner who took my application, but she directed me into her office saying it just happened to be a slow moment and if I was willing she could interview me right away. She offered me coffee and I obliged. I honestly didn't know how I liked coffee yet, so I asked for it "with everything." All went well with the interview until she got to the line about my date of birth. Yes it was my 14th birthday. She wished me a happy birthday and explained to me that by law she couldn't hire me for another two years. She said I was a very nice charming determined young man, and that she was certain I would do quite well for myself in all of life. If I came back in a few years, I had her word that she would personally find me a job somewhere within the company. I thanked her, shook her hand, and held up my face until I left the building and then cried all the way home. I never took her up on that job offer two years later as I'd ended up working at a local Elks Club that paid twice the minimum wage. A year later I found out at a family reunion while my father was picking on me for what I'll always remember as "that Caldor moment," that my grandmother used to buy fruit from Deloris Bennet back during the depression. Lots of fruit. My grandmother supported my grandfather's two failing clothing stores by selling apples in front of factories during shift changes and breaks. Her philosophy was, "If they can't afford anything else, they should buy fruit." "You actually knew Carl Bennet?" I asked my grandfather. "Knew him?" he said. "I helped him open the clothing departments to all his stores years ago. All the Caldor's AND all the Bradlees." When my grandfather sold his three clothing stores back in the 70's, you could say he went on to live and die comfortably in Pawtucket and Warwick, Rhode Island. I'll never forget when my 9th grade prom was coming up and my grandfather looked me up and down and said "38 short." No tape measure or anything. My grandfather still "had it." That was long after he'd sold off his stores. One became a chain of "Gentleman's Wearhouses," and the others are still in Warwick and Providence run by children of some of his original partners. My dad took me to Anderson Little to outfit me for a really cool tan cord 3-piece suit. "36 medium," the salesman said measuring me with tape. He tried a few suits on me and they looked almost right in the mirror, but never felt right. "Let's try a 38 short, the man suggested. I smiled politely and waited for the magic to happen. I never wore that suit to another prom, but it got me into a whole bunch of homecomings, and years later I wore the vest in 3 different rock and roll bands as part of my "duds." I thought of all these things on my way home from Caldor that day. 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Van "The Man". Maybe I should ask him too? Wanna hear something unpretentiously funny? Ask Marco to send you a copy of his "The Waffle Resturant" (the School of Americas in Georgia) "Mr. Yak Milk" 'China's sweatshops make McDonald's toys' mihra org HI again Marc, On a related topic, having just visited http://www.frucht.org/anizer.html. see attachment for excerpt from book-in-progress. Peace, Preston to ati@etext.org There are some funny songs at www.mp3.com/thehate cort [ I got a letter today telling me I got accepted to a major medical school. Pfunny thing is I've been putting off getting my bachelors degree for over 10 years now, AND to top it off one of the only majors I'd NEVER declared was pre-med. Hmmmm... -ed ] to ati@etext.org Note: We are changing the equipment we use to send this message and some of you who have attempted to unsubscribe in the last week or two may not have actually been [umm. yeah, right. -ed.] removed from the current list- if this is the case then we appologize, please unsubscribe again using the directions at the end of this message and we will make sure you are removed promptly. Thank you for your patience! [Name withheld to protect the dorky] Hi, My name is Christy and I just read what you had written in a newsgroup. Want to work together in 2001? I am responsible for expanding an Inc. 500 company. Read this and let me know what you think? I can send you more information. Christy [No thanks -ed.] Hey, check it out. Take something someone's written you and count how many times they use the following words: TopWords : people (63), that's (45), should (40)! Count some of the other words and see if these three aren't in the top. Yasmine the Yaltese Falcon (A.)(T.)(I.) [!--and --] [!-- on --] [!--the topic of --] [!-- Let My People Go... --] A guard was stationed right in front of that cell and was ordered never to take his eyes off me, not for an instant, and he didn't - though I swear he must have gone cross-eyed looking at me every time I took a crap or peed. For a while I tried looking back at him the same unflinching way he was looking at me until his face grew red, his nose twitched, and he raised a beefy arm with a trembling clenched fist, his eyes more fearful and pleading than murderous. I half smiled, shrugged, and looked away. We both new that I had him just as much as he had me. We were both prisoners, that guard and me. -- Reprinted from Leonard Peltier's "MY LIFE IS MY SUNDANCE: Prison Writings" _(A)(T)(I)_ FROM THE DECEMBER 20 WIRE Get a load of this. Is Associated Press getting senile in their old age or what? Wed 7:36 am - Bush To Announce Cabinet Picks Wed 7:25 am - Bush's Cabinet Picks Announced & 1 TING I HATE MOR'N PROVING NOSTRADAMOS WRONG? Provin' her right! In 1555, s/he wrote: "Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader." // Peter King (R) NY. //Related to Steven King or not? // Sure looks like him. ------------------------------------------------------ README for Activist Times Zine December 2000 ------------------------------------------------------ (c) Copyleft ATimes, 200 This document provides complementary or late-breaking information to supplement the documentation. You can also look at the Mind Numbing (tm) FAQ site for the latest information. ------------------------ HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT ------------------------ 1) open eyes 2) scan left to right 3) rinse 4) repeat This is an ATimes 'zine utilizing laptops and notebooks designed to produce issues which embody a full frequency response covering the total range of human feelings, essence and being and embracing the full spectrum of spiritual and political thought. Readers with widerange-mindedness should compensate for the R.I.A.A. curve. Use only a mind and body specially designed for 'zines like ATimes and always keep brain surfaces clean and dust free. -=(A)(T)(I)=- Well, that's it for ati 254. Hope you liked it. Merry Merry, And a Happy Health and Human Services, marco ati@etext.org http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist