neologism \

neologism \Ne*ol"o*gism\, n. [Cf. F. n['e]ologisme.]
from F neologisme, a learned formation (cf LOGIC);
and neophyte - perh via late MF-F neophyte - from
LL neophytus, newly planted (cf the Eccl LL neophyta,
a woman newly converted): trln of Gr neophutos.

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abrea ad habra

hurl your thunderbolt even unto death

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... the e-mails ...

Subj:More about the Performance of the 12th.
Date:11/4/01 7:36:50 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:KGKitchen
To:sylphs11@hotmail.com

Tressa,

A little here and there is going on behind the scenes to get the December 12th extravaganza organized. Naia has started editing a multimedia video backdrop.

I think the show will be a prototype for an evolutionary piece that the performer group will want to extend into future performances.

Windi Robbins who you met last Sunday has been emailing me here and there and is excited about it.

Jason Stevens, Leslie Raymond, Naia and I went to Leopold Brothers last night to see what we thought was going to be a performance of a friend of ours -- which didn't pan out for some reason or other. I don't know what the deal was.

We ran into Amelia there and I told her we'd like to have you and Amelia out to the house some time to meet some of the performers for the show. Amelia said she worked on Friday evenings, but maybe you can come out. I'm not sure if the meeting will be in Ypsilanti or Leslie Raymond's house in Ann Arbor.

I'll try to give you a call at the CWTR this afternoon to make sure you know about it.

Yours,
Kirk Kitchen

Subj:Great reading at the Crazy Wisdom tonight.
Date:11/15/01 12:04:44 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:KGKitchen
To:etherkeeper@hotmail.com
CC:sylphs11@hotmail.com
John

I enjoyed your writing (and reading) and think that you've got a vivid imagination. Keep writing.

Information about the December 12th Crazy Wisdom event is at:

http://sknkwrks.ath.cx:1957/writewiki/wiki.pl?Random_Synaptic_Orchestra_-_Neologism
Kirk Kitchen

Subj: Let me be crass and indelicate and then...
Date: 11/19/01 8:13:01 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: musealive@hotmail.com

Windi,

If you can handle it we can go from there.

I appreciate your participation in the RSO, but realize that I'm a non-serious art hacker. Its a hobby. I do have a political agenda of course, but I prefer conveying it in selfish ways. I have no interest in fame or popularity amongst the masses, but I do want to hang out with fellow hackers and play around. Part of my modus operandi is playing jokes on people and teasing them. It's cruelness by a basically kind-hearted person (rather than false kindness of a basically cruel person).

The ideas for the RSO are basically mine and you're a participant if you want to be. I want to avoid too much organization. Extreme chaos. Discomfort of the audience. I like that element. I really don't care about the audience one tiny bit. I'm doing my art and I'm making it good for me. If the audience hates it, I'll try something else or find a different audience. I've found that there are people who will get it and love it if you're devoted to your art and have craft to what you do.

Brittany Spears is a sex cow for the masses. I'm a thumbtack in the eye of God who would rather die damned and lonely than submit to groupthink.

Thanks
Kirk

Subj: ain't no joke
Date: 11/21/01 10:32:35 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: KGKitchen@aol.com (KirKitchen), NaiaVent@aol.com (naia), elray@umich.edu (elRay)

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0f.htm

scroll down to page 39 and read some...

obviously you folks already knew about this.
This is a hearing from several years back!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm

this report indicates that, long before September, US
military was planning action for October.

Man-oh-man, did they LUCK OUT that some people flew planes
into the WTC and pentagon just in time to justify military
action in Afghanistan.

That explains why GWBish and friends jumped right on the
idea of attacking Afghanistan, and made the enemy the
Taliban with or without evidence.

They're building support for iraq attacks now, too. Despite
the fact that there is NO proven link between Iraq and the
WTC attack. They just need the right excuse. So, now I'm
waiting for some little incident that makes Iraq look bad,
so we all jump onto the "Kill Saddam hussein" bandwagon.

whew
ain't no joke.
politics are convoluted

From: KGKitchen@aol.com
To: <MatthewCamp@hotmail.com>, <seberbach@aol.com>, <coyotl@enteract.com>,
<picky@provide.net>, <james.cornish@emich.edu>, <profmood@aol.com>,
<rxnc@aol.com>, <moonwyse@aol.com>, <naiavent@aol.com>,
<sjbenner@mediaone.net>, <lmueller@aastrom.com>,
<gorillamommy@yahoo.com>, <sylphs11@hotmail.com>
Subject: Unocalistan - "We are a country --uh urrr uh - strike that-- We are a company..."
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:46:14 EST

48-119 CC 1998
U.S. INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS.
HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
FEBRUARY 12, 1998

Mr. MARESCA. "Congressman, I am not here to defend the Taliban. That is not
my role. We are a company that is trying to build a pipeline across this
country."

Mr. John Maresca is vice president of international relations for Unocal
Corporation. Prior to his Unocal service, Mr. Maresca enjoyed a successful
diplomatic career, having served as U.S. ambassador to the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as minister in our U.S. embassy
in France.

From: NaiaVent@aol.com
To: flabbergast@juno.com, sjbenner@mediaone.net, elray@umich.edu,
matthewcamp@hotmail.com, KGKitchen@aol.com, Ejw1134@aol.com,
spoke@umich.edu, jyeh@aastrom.com
Subject: this scared me alot...
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:30:12 EST

http://www.promiseofgod.com/lunch/

Subj: Re: Let me be crass and indelicate and then...
Date: 11/25/01 6:41:49 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: musealive@hotmail.com

Windi,

Yes, perhaps our fundamental performance style ideas are different. If you're uneasy, you are graciously excused and there are no hard feelings.

Best regards,
Kirk

I will relay your sentiments to the group.

From: KGKitchen@aol.com
To: spoke@umich.edu, NaiaVent@aol.com, MatthewCamp@hotmail.com,
elray@umich.com, sjbenner@mediaone.com
Subject: Fwd: Let me be crass and indelicate and then...
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:18:18 EST

Hello all!

Looks like I sent Windi packing. Well I'm a little relieved. She was
going
in an entirely different direction. Fellini vs. Martha Stewart sort of.

I propose moving in an even less structured direction -- more chaos. We
keep the basic framework of Overture, Set 1, Intermission Puppet Show, Set
2,
Summary. Rather than having defined "rounds", I propose letting the table
performers take as much time as it takes at each table, inscribed in
practical limits. The time for performers switching tables would be kind
of
an organic thing. As long as the table is captivated, then it goes on.
Audience members can also switch tables if they want. The idea would be to
flow with the energy of the crowd -- more of a carnival than a stage
performance. More like what we did for the "day of the dead" at the Green
Room several years back.

Naia's suggestion about the performers arguing is a good one. Rather than
planning an argument, I'd rather that the performers just turned down their
level of tact during the performance -- acted a bit like animals, short of
smashing the place up. Not trailer park Jerry Springer stuff, but more
like
Kafka meets Kant and Einstein vs. Newton -- that the audience feels the
sense
that the performers are all highly charged, and not entirely in agreement
about how the performance should be conducted.

Philosophically this is more consistent with the theme "Do you feel safe?"
We're trying to challenge the illusion of safety.

I'd like to use Naia's Wheel of Fortune as part of my work if I may.

K2

Subj: Re: Fwd: Let me be crass and indelicate and then...
Date: 11/26/01 12:37:19 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: matthewcamp@hotmail.com (MATTHEW H. CAMP)
To: KGKitchen@aol.com, spoke@umich.edu, NaiaVent@aol.com, elray@umich.com, sjbenner@mediaone.com

well why have a structure at all.
why not everyone show up and do whatever they want to for an hour.
why even have it at a cafe bookstore.
why not just go in the streets and have a parade of arguing and chaos and
you can show the movie on the walls of buildings as you pass through.
how about burning flags and crucifixes in the streets at rush hour.
if you want arguing, invite windi back and she can try to control it as you
try to send it spinning out of control.
i must admit i don't even get the concept here if there is one.
is the attempt to create a jumbled mess to make people think about war and
peace? how does that work?
do you want to challenge people's notions of safety by presenting a poorly
organized and unpracticed collage of randomness?
go wild but not TOO wild because after all this is a place of business?
count me out of this one. i am definitely not riding the conceptual bus
here with y'all. in fact, i can't even tell if the bus is going by.
i would like to explore further the idea of what sort of spontaneously
creative group activities can be achieved but this seems like a mission
hell-bent on not making any sense with a puppet show thrown in.

Subj: Re: this scared me alot...
Date: 11/26/01 12:41:25 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: matthewcamp@hotmail.com (MATTHEW H. CAMP)
To: NaiaVent@aol.com

uuhhhhh
when do i get my military holybear?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??!?!
Naia i suspect you are modeling a twinkie snorting root beer huffing god
puppet right at this moment........
i have to go.
i have a date to have anal sex with god later

Subj: Re: Fwd: Let crass in dead then...
Date: 11/26/01 11:59:32 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: KGKitchen@aol.com
CC: matthewcamp@hotmail.com, naiavent@aol.com, elray@umich.edu, sjbenner@mediaone.net

First-->
this Debate [I definitely like this debate] makes I say:
let us get
together and jam a little. Assume some roles, whether we
perform those particular roles the night of the gig or not.
some sort of Practice

Kirk,--or anybody--know about Augusto Boal?, of Brazilian
street theatre?
elRay and I saw him talk recently here in Ann Arbor.

Second --> no.2

interesting debate
because I come from having cultivated myself in musical
terms so far into improvisation, I hardly /compose/ really,
in the traditional sense

but even still, in performance, even the free-est sets
could be much improved by some sort of style sheet.
(the wisened masters go all-out-free, of course...)
A /gimmick/ or a /theme/:
A plotting of narrative energy over time.
And cues.
-->Like when John Zorn flashes random symbols at his
orchestra,
they've come to associate particular events or moods or
combinations with each symbol, therein being their
structure, however they have surrendered control to the
conductor, who, in turn, has surrendered to Chance.

It's a delicate dance with Chance.

Order is subjective, anyway ...man...

> We're allowed to experiment here

John Cage said that true experiment by definition menas you
don't know the outcome. Experimental performance can fail
by definition. You accept that Risk to be experiMental.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
> No need to overburden this with purpose and significance.
But we're on this planet to have un
>

Kirk said Carnival. Kirk has bones in his skull and one of
his arms that came from the cadaver of the man with the top
hat in the middle of a three-ring circus--The Big Top!
That's a true
story.
THIRD------------->
I have ***NO expectations!***

> you can show the movie on the walls of buildings as you pass through.

Were you in on that?

> is the attempt to create a jumbled mess to make people think about war and
> peace? how does that work?
> do you want to challenge people's notions of safety by presenting a poorly
> organized and unpracticed collage of randomness?

One of the themes I always think I see running in Twentieth
Century Art--paintin', music etc.-- -->is that Order is
Subjective.

Spontaneous Art and
Improvisational Theatre and
Free Music
are as old as the
stars, and our current aesthetic setting is permeated by
them.

Um, I think it's our Heritage.

Art becomes communication when it can change before
the audience/spectators.

A Prepared Collage of Randomness is a low bar we can
achieve, experimentally, without expectations.

I vote YEAH on the development of some sort of cueing
structure, or graphic representation of climactical peaks
and valleys and streams. And cues. Whatever.

> go wild but not TOO wild because after all this is a place of business?

ain't nothin' wrong with doin' things peacefully every once
in awhile anyway

> count me out of this one. i am definitely not riding the conceptual bus
> here with y'all. in fact, i can't even tell if the bus is going by.

my first point-> p r a c t i c e

> >Looks like I sent Windi packing. Well I'm a little relieved. She was
> >going
> >in an entirely different direction.
> >
bummer

> >Philosophically this is more consistent with the theme "Do you feel safe?"
> >We're trying to challenge the illusion of safety.

my third point---> e x p e c t a t i o n s

> >
> >I'd like to use Naia's Wheel of Fortune as part of my work if I may.
> >

my second point--> s t r u c t u r e or c u e s

>
>
>

I QUIT!

no I don't

...

Subj: Re: Fwd: Let me be crass and indelicate and then...
Date: 11/26/01 1:08:58 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen

Whoah Matt.

Hold the fire. Are you being serious?

Tressa and Amelia (the people who run the show) LOVED our puppet show we did 2 months ago, and they loved our creative energy. People kept asking when we'd be back do do something else.

Realize, what we're replacing: Usually, the Wednesday night event at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore is a bunch of poets reading their stuff.

We're providing other experiences.

1. A video collage Overture.
2. Intimate non-traditional performance of multimedia works at the table in a Show-and-tell format.
3. A puppet show.
4. An opportunity for Jerri Dodge to discuss her Border Walk project and solicit a few donations from interested and generous patrons.

Nobody EVER asked us to be thematically consistent. Tressa and Amelia are thrilled to have artists wanting to do something different. I proposed a tie-in to the sense national security, and that can be a general theme, but that's not a requirement.

We're allowed to experiment here. I'm sure a lot of the people will find it a refreshing change of pace from the usual format of watching a random assortment of poets talking behind a podium.

No need to overburden this with purpose and significance. As usual, we're just trying to have a little fun making offbeat art. Art can and hopefully will challenge and can make people think about issues. But we're on this planet to have fun or we're damned from the get go.

Kirk

Subj: Re: Fwd: Let me be crass and indelicate and then...
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 1:37:29 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: "MATTHEW H. CAMP" <matthewcamp@hotmail.com>
To: KGKitchen@aol.com

i understand this and i am serious. but throwing a bunch of unlabeled
chemicals in a jar is not an experiment.
i don't get a sense of this being an alternative to the usual performance
format. i get a sense that an alternative is desired but no one has one
figured out so the plan is to just make a mess of it all.
now if you want to make a real mess i am down with that but maybe crazy
wisdom is not the venue (what with their being the ones to have pay the
cleaning bill and all...)

Subj: Re: Fwd: Let me be crass and indelicate and then...
Date: 11/26/01 2:09:42 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: matthewcamp@hotmail.com
CC: NaiaVent

Matt,

I think we'll give them a fine show and something to think about. I think they'll get a kick out of it.

I think we'll have fun.

There's already quite a bit more structure planned than what usually goes on there on Wednesday, so I don't get your analogy to random chemical jars.

1. Overture video collage.
2. Show & Tell sessions.
3. Puppet show.
4. More show and tell sessions.
5. Jerri Dodge giving her schpiel.

We'll do what we have time to pull off, ultimately. It'll be fun. I think people will like your painted- man experience (so long as we don't glop on the carpet).

Think of it as a cabaret old chum.

K2

Subj: Re: Unocalistan - "We are a country --uh urrr uh - strike that-- We are a company..."
Date: 11/26/01 1:12:46 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: matthewcamp@hotmail.com (MATTHEW H. CAMP)
To: KGKitchen@aol.com, seberbach@aol.com, coyotl@enteract.com, picky@provide.net, james.cornish@emich.edu, profmood@aol.com, rxnc@aol.com, moonwyse@aol.com, naiavent@aol.com, sjbenner@mediaone.net, lmueller@aastrom.com, gorillamommy@yahoo.com, sylphs11@hotmail.com

i pledge alliance
to the state
and to the industrial corporations
for which it enslaves and poisons the globe
and to the republics
for which it scams
one nation
worshipping the white jesus of colonization
full of capital
with a television for all

UNITED WE SHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subj: Re: Unocalistan - "We are a country --uh urrr uh - strike that-- We are a company..."
Date: 11/26/01 2:14:39 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: matthewcamp@hotmail.com

That sounds to me like it might make a script for your painted-man piece. You could recite that and wear a "UNITED WE SHOP" sign around your neck or something like that. OR not.

BTW. Are you bringing all this art concept conflict issues stuff up because you're really chickening out on doing the painted man gig? Tee hee hee hee.

Subj: Re: Unocalistan - "We are a country --uh urrr uh - strike that-- We are a company..."t;We are a country --uh urrr uh - strike that-- We ar
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 2:58:19 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: "MATTHEW H. CAMP" <matthewcamp@hotmail.com>
To: KGKitchen@aol.com

kirk it don't take more than a jack and a coke to get me out of most of my
clothing

i was thinking of attending and loitering out on the sidewalk with a flag
bandana and some scales covered in paint, sort of linking inside and outside
and who knows drawing attention to the madness without being subjected to
dubious structural or non structural constraints, and then i realized THIS
IS FUCKING DECEMBER IN MICHIGAN so i'm either in the (warm) bus or not

now if I could build a fire on the pavement.....

anyway, i told you long ago this was probably not the venue of choice for me
but i was interested in the decentralization of artistic performance and
nothing has changed

Subj: Re: Let grass in bed then...
Date: 11/27/01 8:09:23 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: spoke@umich.edu
CC: NaiaVent, sjbenner@mediaone.net

If Windi wanted back into the carnival, I'd welcome her with open arms. She wants to be in charge, but she doesn't want to do the work. Doesn't work both ways. I'm willing to hear people's shit, but I don't have to swallow -- crass.

Everything you say is true more or less. The more we talk about it -- yah, it's not complete randomness. You communicate with your performers and you jam. You get good at finding the vibe. Then you can improvise. You have to practice. That takes time. Leslie, Naia, and I have a long history collaborating with Art, then Jason, and that seems very cool. Matt, I don't know yet.

I'm less interested in making the one Crazy wisdom gig succeed than I am the longer view -- getting better at jamming with the homies. Frank Zappa is one of my heros. His band was so tight --their message was defiant and rude, and they were able to pull amazing riffs out of their asses at any chiselling moment. People who love that tightness and ability to improvise are my ideal audience.

It's not dead serious, but I'd like to strive for at least something satisfying or move in that direction. My expectations -- that's the long view. Let's try it. It can't be any worse than TV.

K2

Subj: Re: grass bed.
Date: 11/28/01 10:28:45 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: KGKitchen@aol.com
CC: NaiaVent@aol.com (naia), sjbenner@mediaone.net, elray@umich.edu (elRay)

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 KGKitchen@aol.com wrote:

> practice. That takes time. Leslie, Naia, and I have a long history
> collaborating with Art, then Jason, and that seems very cool. Matt, I don't
> know yet.

Do you mean "than Jason"?
Jason spent most of the nineties on stage with
bands/performance groups--some improv, some
almost-well-rehearsed.

You folks weren't in any of 'em--I don't think you even ever
showed up in the audience, you jurks!
I didn't know you then, and we lived in different places,
what is going on here?!

This is more chaos and I'm getting frightened!!!

Stop it!

um..................what was it I really wanted to say?

> longer view -- getting better at jamming with the homies. Frank Zappa is
> one of my heros. His band was so tight --their message was defiant and rude,

I can't stand Frank Zappa!

He did drugs, for Heaven's Sake, Kitchen!

Don't bring Zappa up again or I quit!
I'm not kidding!

> It's not dead serious, but I'd like to strive for at least something
> satisfying or move in that direction. My expectations -- that's the long
> view. Let's try it. It can't be any worse than TV.

TV is a hell of a lot better than drugs Dammit!

No, it isn't.
Well, maybe!
Don't rule out the possibility, you pinko!

Or are you completely red?!
Frickin' commie TV smashers!
Don't smash one more TV or I quit!
And that's final!
I'm not kidding!
There are poor people in Africa who don't have TVs!

You make me soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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loopy sometimes, i can't control myself.

I'm sorry. I didn't really mean the things I said.

I hope you'll forgive me.

--Jason

post eMail: why isn't everybody in the group in the email
header? Why are some people in the loop and others aren't?

Subj: Miss Gnomer
Date: 11/28/01 11:25:07 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: SJBENNER@mediaone.net (Steven Benner)
To: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens), KGKitchen@aol.com
CC: NaiaVent@aol.com (naia), elray@umich.edu (elRay)

Frank Zappa didn't use drugs. In fact he fired two women in the band that
were using drugs. These two women gave up music and started a penis museum.
You can still see some of these peni on display today including a plaster
pecker molded from Mr. James Marshall Hendrix. Now if that doesn't keep you
off of drugs, well then maybe you are a prevert.

On communism...

Did you know that Nevada is the only state in the union that doesn't
fluoridate their water? Well maybe Cuba too but I'll be damned if I ever
recognize that poor excuse for an island as a state. I say we take star 51
off of the flag, no matter how cool it looks. Or maybe we could replace
Cuba in the union with Canada but certainly something must be done. That
goes for California and Kansas too.... Oh now that's interesting ....
Kansas - Kirk... I smell a big fat Konspiracy don't you Komrades?

Noah Tall

Subj: Re: ass bed surprise.
Date: 11/28/01 11:30:05 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: spoke@umich.edu
CC: NaiaVent, sjbenner@mediaone.net, elray@umich.edu

I think we should all wear Frank Zappa wigs get matching Visa or Mastercards and drink heavily before the performance. If Matt won't perform naked, we should kidnap him, drug him, strip him and attach chicken feathers to his butt.

Thank you very much.
K

Subj: ...........? ^o^ ?...........
Date: 11/28/01 12:28:45 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: NaiaVent
To: spoke@umich.edu, KGKitchen, elray@umich.edu, matthewcamp@hotmail.com, sjbenner@mediaone.net

Being as I've been in information gathering and collating mode lately as a result of the movie project, it has occurred to me that the e-mail exchanges regarding the December 12th performance (which I have been saving) may be used in some way within the event itself.

-Naia

Subj: Re: ...........? ^o^ ?...........
Date: 11/28/01 12:53:04 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: NaiaVent, spoke@umich.edu, elray@umich.edu, matthewcamp@hotmail.com, sjbenner@mediaone.net

Maybe I'll collect the flames and then post them on the web site.

Subj: Re: ...........? ^o^ ?...........
Date: 11/28/01 1:49:17 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: NaiaVent
To: KGKitchen, spoke@umich.edu, elray@umich.edu, matthewcamp@hotmail.com, sjbenner@mediaone.net

I was thinking that we could make little bookets of the e-mails that would be program-like and be placed around the room before the audience arrives. They could contain only the e-mail content with no explaination.

-n

Subj: Re: ...........? ^o^ ?...........
Date: 11/28/01 2:25:50 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: elray@umich.edu (Leslie Raymond)
To: NaiaVent@aol.com
CC: KGKitchen@aol.com, spoke@umich.edu, matthewcamp@hotmail.com, sjbenner@mediaone.net

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Subj: Re: Miss Gnomer
Date: 11/28/01 4:44:44 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: SJBENNER@mediaone.net (Steven Benner)
CC: KGKitchen@aol.com, NaiaVent@aol.com (naia), elray@umich.edu (elRay)

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Steven Benner wrote:

> Frank Zappa didn't use drugs

I knew there was a reason I didn't like him.

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Subj: Tired of the same old soda pop?
Date: 11/28/01 5:41:40 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: sjbenner@mediaone.net (S.J. Benner)
To: elray@umich.edu (Leslie Raymond), NaiaVent@aol.com
CC: KGKitchen@aol.com, spoke@umich.edu, matthewcamp@hotmail.com

Try new our new product Take A Chance Carbonates!
It's fun! It's Easy! Sugar water will never be the same again.
All you have to do is pour a glass of our delicious seltzer water. Reach blindly into the pantry and add whatever it is you grab, for a flavorfull vacation from the everyday ordinary cola. It doesn't matter what you mix with our specially formulated seltzer. When was the last time you drank a refreshing beverage made from purely accidental ingredients.
Look at what some of our customers have to say...
"Oops! it's catnip! Wow! It's fantastic!" -- Phil Glass
"It's something the whole family can do together. Nutrititous too!" -- Carrie Onmywaywardsoul
"I've never been a good cook. But now it doesn't matter." -- Nudnick Neuman
"Usually mayonaise makes me sick. Finally I can enjoy life again!" -- Anonymous Poet

Subj: Re: content only and no explanation
Date: 11/29/01 1:49:54 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: elray@umich.edu (Leslie Raymond)
To: matthewcamp@hotmail.com (MATTHEW H. CAMP)
CC: NaiaVent@aol.com (NaiaVent), sjbenner@mediaone.net, KGKitchen@aol.com, spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)

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Subj: Re: content only and no explanation
Date: 11/29/01 4:18:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: elray@umich.edu, matthewcamp@hotmail.com
CC: NaiaVent, sjbenner@mediaone.net, spoke@umich.edu

In times of War, we are often offered many "NO" explanations.

Tooth is the first casualty of war.
Gentile dentists flee to where
Their patients rinse and spit with little care.
But when the bombs begin to fly
No teeth are pulled and that is why.

Subj: Re: You don't have to like him...
Date: 12/3/01 8:54:32 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: sjbenner@mediaone.net (S.J. Benner)
CC: KGKitchen@aol.com, NaiaVent@aol.com (naia), elray@umich.edu (elRay)

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, S.J. Benner wrote:

> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Steven Benner wrote:
> >
> > > Frank Zappa didn't use drugs
> >
> > I knew there was a reason I didn't like him.
> >
>
>
> Even if you don't like him, you gotta give him props for fitting
> 'unmitigated audacity' into a pop song.

I knew there was a reason I gave him props even though I
don't like him.

>
>

Subj: Re: You don't have to like him...
Date: 12/3/01 9:10:48 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: KGKitchen
To: spoke@umich.edu, sjbenner@mediaone.net
CC: NaiaVent, elray@umich.edu

Subject: The context of Email. / The context of the Ypsilanti Eyeball.

Interesting how the email is kind of a rambling thread. You know you can also contribute to the Ypsilanti Eyeball and that's a better information capturing system. Email threads get lost and look here, Matt Camp is not on the distribution list.

Cheers,
K2 - over andout.

Subj: Re: You don't...
Date: 12/3/01 9:18:45 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: KGKitchen@aol.com
CC: sjbenner@mediaone.net, naiavent@aol.com (naia), elray@umich.edu (elRay), mhcamp@med.umich.edu

,On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 KGKitchen@aol.com wrote:

I know there are forces that want conversation to happen on
the web. Everybody has their pet killer ap, don't they?

I don't have time to check websites, etc., everyweek.
Email is read at least once or twice a week, sometimes three
times a day or more!

All Humanity Saved By Four Words!: God-Is-All-One!

Subj: Re: we haven't got much time
Date: 12/3/01 9:24:20 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: KGKitchen@aol.com
CC: sjbenner@mediaone.net, naiavent@aol.com (naia), elray@umich.edu (elRay), mhcamp@med.umich.edu

three things:

1. Naia: I need to practice with puppets. Any evening or
Sunday.

2. For the performance, Jason will intermiddently stand up
in the cafe, in full-costume, and chant an invocation
whilst performing a symbolic act. At the end of this short
action, the other performers will temporarily halt what
they are doing, and chant--in unison-- a pre-scripted
reply. Then the performers can resume their individual
activities.

3. Does anybody have a lead on Flashpaper (the material,
not the band)?

------Jason

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Subj: Re: we much time got haven't
Date: 12/3/01 6:57:39 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: NaiaVent@aol.com
To: spoke@umich.edu

Re: flashpaper

The last magic supply shop that I knew of closed a while ago, however Fantasy Attic Costumes is a likely source for flashpaper. Their address and phone number: 3010 Packard, 973-8000

Re: puppet practice

Wednesday evening or any time Saturday or Sunday.

Note: Movie night will be on Friday evening this week. Movie TBD (suggestions welcome).

Subj: Re: we much time got haven't
Date: 12/5/01 11:13:18 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: spoke@umich.edu (Jason Jay Stevens)
To: NaiaVent@aol.com

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 NaiaVent@aol.com wrote:

> Re: flashpaper

Thanks yous

> Re: puppet practice
>
> Wednesday evening or any time Saturday or Sunday.
>

SATURDAY

> Note: Movie night will be on Friday evening this week. Movie TBD (suggestions
> welcome).

Five-Easy-Pieces maybe

Subj: credits for neologism (fwd)
Date: 12/10/01 12:03:33 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: elray@umich.edu (Leslie Raymond)
To: NaiaVent@aol.com (NaiaVent)

Hi Naia,
Here's credit information

Future-Worker Girl
Medicine for Today: listen, draw
www.umich.edu/~elray

do you think this is enough ?

I also would like to have a couple pages in the program for related
materials to the Abraxis thing I'm doing-- got the impression that the
program could double a bit as a "workbook", with Kirk's page of questions,
etc.

How big will the book be?

can I send you some stuff for that too?

Leslie Raymond
new pages posted 11/16/01:
http://www.umich.edu/~elray

FREE STUFF SURVEY

Introduction
The items I have given you are to be considered a challenge to your imagination.

We live in a country that is rife with "stuff". I am reminded of the movie, Five Easy Pieces, which my friends and I saw the other night. In the movie, the two main characters pick up two women hitch hikers going to Alaska. One of the hitch hikers makes a long winded speech about how the problem with this country is that we have "too much crap".

While we have an endless supply of "crap", other countries face starvation. Why is it that these inequities exist?

I invite you to think about the item you have been given in terms of the concepts: "price", "cost", and "value".