T r a p p e d I n A b s e n c e Issue number #1 COLLECTER'S EDITION Table Of Contents: 1: Editor's notes 2: Are the people at your school say who they really are? By: Mephisto 3: An interview with Evilive, creator of the zine GANJA ----- 1. To be short and blunt.. I hope you like TiA, if you don't, email phiber@en.com and bitch about what sucks in it. In case you have been woundering, my FULL alais is Mephistopheles-NX, Mephisto for short. The N stands for United States (as on the airplanes), And the X stands for eXperimental, which means.. WHO KNOWS WHAT THIS NUT IS GOING TO DO?! Now that we have that covered.. On with the first issue! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Are the people at your school say who they really are? By: Mephistopheles-NX Did you ever want to see your permanent record that the school has on you? Did you know you HAVE THE RIGHT to see that record? Do you know that in some states, you may destroy what you may disagree with in your record? Alot of teenagers don't know that. You see, the people who run your school neglect to tell you that. Do you want to know why? Part of it is so they can cover their own ass.. So they can sneek by shit that are lies.. Maybe not on purpose, but it HAS happend to me. Ever feel like the principal or the super intendent has a thing on busting your balls? That could be a sign of conspiracy.. In a soft term.. Not like the government putting radio active shit in your lunch.. A lot softer than that.. But it is still there. It might be a way for them to express their own anger and emptiness, to take it out on YOU! The average, yet not so average teenager. Did you ever walk in the principals office to get nailed? Like as in squeezed for information? If you tell them you dont want to answer a question, they keep on prying for the answer to it? STAND YOUR GROUND. Say NO! You have the right to say NO. Its in the constitution. Freedom of speech and public assembley.. Need I say more? Did you know that if you goto your *school* psychologist and/or guidence consuler, that they share all that happens in the room on record and to the pricipal, to the super intendent AND to the teachers? They can. They do. And they wont stop unless you stop it. By stoping it, I mean you can say ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to them. If they threaten with a suspension, or calling the police.. STAND YOUR GROUND. That will ad more feul to the fire on teenage rights. I have known people who went to their school psychologists and took one of those "sanity evaluations", one question was: "Do you feel that you can hold your alchohol better than your friends can?" A, for very often. B, sometimes. C, never. Thats not a question he could answer, HE DIDNT DRINK! But, the psychologist made him answer it and he put C, never. Then he got in with a meeting with the principal about his "drinking problem". 3 Days later after taking the test. Hmm, odd aint it? Bottom line is: Do not trust any of the faculty of your school. If you are going to see a psychologist, see a private one. It may cost more $$$, but that extra cash is worth your privacy, isn't it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. A interview with GANJA creator, Evilive. By Mephistopheles-NX %Start evilive.log Session Start: Wed Jun 12 03:31:23 1996 > hey dood, you in ganja? i am the leader and founder! :).. been running it for 3 years.. > keep it up! last one i read was 12 and then i couldnt find it anymore > One of the better ones go to 134.184.49.7 /reznor/GanjaCrop/ there are about 200 or so issues there.. > want a interview? :) interview for what??? > for tia.. would be nice to have one to put in my premier issue of TiA oh sure! :) > ok, cool, hold, lemme quit a download > ok, ready? yeah sure! :) > ok > some of these ?'s are nessessary, bare with me now.. > #1 what is ganja all about? no problems.. well it is just a bunch of stoners grouped together and writing shit for each other basically.. > #2 how many issues currently are out? there are 218 issues :) > #3 how many people do you think read ganja? thats a hard one.... I suppose that when released about 500, but give the issue a week and that reaches at least 2000, i have had tons of callers... some are not even into the scene at all. > cool.. there is also a group in washington DC wanting to contribute to it.. > #4 do you run a bbs? if so, number? > err fuck the numbers.. these are off my head anyway > :) > which group? i dont remember the name (it is rather long) but it is a group similar to norml.. it is a group that deals through courts and etc legal ways to help get marijuana legalized and to help out people who are in jail on marijuana possesion charges. that is pretty much all about the group that i know of so far.. other then that they are going to be writing articles for us... next question.. > Have you ever been in trouble from the authorities for your zine? or relating to? I used to be afriad of that. But everything we write is protected under the constitution. I have once gotten in trouble for plagurizm.. but it was a honest mistake so nothing happend.. just had to give the man credit in the next issue. > how many people are currently writing for ganja? there are about 25 active ones... 17 listed in the member list.. but they come and go.. there are only a few that have actually been with us since the very beginning. > What responses have you gotten from ganja, good or bad, from whoever both.. some people take us too seriously.. we are doing this for fun.. i ofcourse get calls from people calling us worthless drug addicts, etc.. but there are probably 100 positive remarks for every 1 negative.... we have outlived alot of the groups that we going around the time we started.. people told me we didnt have a chance.. but it had never been done before there was never a group that was 100% based on drugs and getting loaded.. so i said what the hell.. it took about 4 months before people actually noticed the mag out there. from there it just took off.. i used to have to work so hard back then just to release anything.. now I just sit back and let everyone else do the work.. > What are your opinions about other zines out now? any favorites? I dont really read any of the others out there.. some are soo juvinile and immature it drives me nuts.. i never have thought that ganja fits into the `zine` scene.. > ahh.. and it never really fit into the h/p/a scene... it was really all by itself for some reason.. there is no drug scene as of yet.. there are lots of calls i get of people that are.. > Which issue did you get in trouble for plagurizm? going to start their own drug magz.. but none of them can really find anything on drugs that we havent already released.. and they know they will be shot down for duping our releases.. we keep releasing new unthought of material... I mean we will never run out of material.. I got in trouble for duping a mushroom growing article by mescalito ted.. he called and was very upset.. I got to talking to him and he is now our best writer.. his stuff is simply amazing.. he is a genius.. > What is your opinion on your writers? I asked him on a simple article to make DMT from philaris grass.. a simple legal grass you can buy.. the next day he calls with one of the best articles we have released.. I think the writers try real hard to get what i want done.... I mean i cant release everything from them, some stuff i get is just shit.. without the writers ganja wouldnt be around.. > any stuff youd like to ad while i think up another question? > :) hrm.... it is such a pity that tim leary died... R.I.P... > who's tim leary? pardon for me asking He was a pro-drug professor.... the man preached, `Free your mind with LSD`.. > do you run a bbs? > or have a distro bbs? or is that shit in the new ganja? yeah.. black opium.. 701-523-5909.. runs amiga-express on a old amiga... yeah its all in the issues.. :) > ohh ok, nuf said cheers! :) > Tell me a little about evilive > Nonono, i didnt mean bye :) ahh! :) ok sure no problem. girlfriend is sleeping anyways.. > And maybe some of your opinions on today's society > bill clinton, etc.. A little about me... well lets see.. you could say i had a small drug problem for 6 years.. > What drugs did you try? shit.. anything you can name.. i quit alot of them.... I used to be stoned all day.. everyday.. people in ganja would call me up and I would always be having a party at my house.. > hmm.. if you had a drug _problem_ why are you putting together a mag that supports drug use? i was drunk for 28 days.. in february.. > by the way.. im just asking that.. im not one of those people "family men" type well.. > I still love ganja :) you know.. thats is a good question.. my girlfriend made me stop using that shit.. sounds dumb, but i was a mess.. so i mean.. who says i will never smoke agian.. infact i smoked today. :).. I just dont do it as often.. > ok, so you believe to legalize, but people should use it moderatly? like drinking perhaps? > or not? I really dont give a shit if it is legal or not.. I have always been able to get weed cheap.... and if it is illegal it adds to the fun you know. what is your zine again?? > What does it feel like when you are "high". have you tripped as much as you see things? > TiA: Trapped in Absence > coming soon! :) sure.. last week i went to another city to visit my old friends.. it was soo crazy, we got ripped.. high as shit.. and i had to drive.. you know.. I got onto the freeway.. and i turned a corner.. and i saw my hand just spinning around the steering wheel like 500 times.. it was so nuts.. I also thought i was going to hit wild dogs.. i locked up my brakes going 70 MPH for a imaginary wild pig in the road also.. kinda a bad trip.. oh wait.. > what techniques do you recommend for smoking dope? > i havnt had a bad trip yet.. guess im lucky > ok.. I like the grafix double chamber bong with sliding carb.. buy then at your local head shop for $39.. and make sure you buy grafix.. trust me.. it filters your buds pretty good.. i didnt change the bong water in mine for 6 months.. it was like black toothpaste TAR.. and my friend scopped it out with a spoon and ate 3 tablespoons of it.. he started to have a irregular heart beat.. we took him to the hospital and he had to wear a heart monitor for 3 weeks.. :) > holy shit dude!# just because he drank the bad bong water > damn.. all that thc and shit in the water? he turned real pale... puked all over.. we thopught he was going to die.. we laughed sooo much because we were soo high. > woah.. potent stuff :) i dont know what is in it.. but everytime someone i know has drank it.. they freak out.. dont drink bong water.. > ok, thats a tip from evil. DONT DRINK BONG WATER KIDDIES > :) that bong water will fuck you up.. you know there is a ganja senior member that just jumped into #ganja.. maybe you want to join and ask both of us questions.. he has been with ganja since the very beginning > heh.. btw, is there an app gen in your zip of the last ganja? shit he is lagged to hell... > Im running out of things to ask.. shit.. you caught me off guard in #zines :) i dont read apps anyways.. i dont want to know anything about my writers.. they just send me a article and if it is good. they are in the group.. > hey.. when i get better questions can i email them to you? sorry bout that.. what was the last question? > when i get better questions can i email them to you? > ^^^ that was it :) ahh.. i dont have a email address... > ohh ok.. ill just catch you on irc some time and dcc them to you? sure no problem.. take it easy. > a'ight.. later. Session Close: Wed Jun 12 05:09:16 1996 %End evilive.log There you have it! I should have another part to the interview in the next issue. This time with better questions and with Evilive and some of the GANJA members. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So concludes this issue of TiA. Next issue will be a LOT larger, I had deadlines for this issue.. :) Look for a tia release every other week!