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29431 Oliver Button in SF -- rank: 1000

[Haven't seen this, but John's a fine fellow.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oliver Button is a STAR! Sneak Preview Benefit Screening at the Castro Theater, San Francisco Sunday Morning, January 27, 2002,10AM Sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation Benefiting: Frameline and Gay and Straight Alliance And The Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus $10 General Admission at door; $5 for students $15 includes reception following film Tickets available at door, Film PG, appropriate for children age 9 and older All c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 23 18:52:22 PST 2002

29432 Hello Kitty -- rank: 1000

Someone made disparaging reference to the SF Bay Guardian's piece on Hello Kitty. It may be a bit more serious than it seemed. The author, Annalee Newitz, writes of it: At 11:17 PM +0000 1/23/02, brainsploitation wrote: >My latest screed on pop culture is the cover story in the San >Francisco Bay Guardian this week . . . it's about how the >overwhelming cuteness of American culture (think Hello Kitty and >Harry Potter) is infecting our political rhetoric and turning US >citizens i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 23 18:24:14 PST 2002

29433 Hockey and Music/ was Eating and Working -- rank: 1000

Eric Franz Leher wrote: >They'll have a smaller amount of embarrassing memories to look back upon >and wince about. See? The Revolution has something for everyone! Except >the Backstreet Boys. And Metallica. Why Metallica? Because there'll be no need for pop nihilism once all the contradictions are resolved? Or because you think they suck? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 23 06:15:06 PST 2002

29434 Hockey and Music/ was Eating and Working -- rank: 1000

Eric Franz Leher wrote: >Of course we would have to do without high-quality musical satire a la >the Dead Kennedys, simply because targets would be lacking. No landlords >to lynch, no poor to kill, and no holidays in Cambodia. > >On the plus side, no Backstreet Boys and so forth. Hmm, well, the Backstreet Boys are lots more popular than the DKs, which are a relatively elite taste (and now an antiquarian one too). So popular entertainments will disappear? Or is the popularity a sym ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 23 06:13:53 PST 2002

29435 Science, Science and Marxism -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Also anecdotally: In the year and a half I have spent in Russia, I have met >one, count 'em, ONE person who thinks the collapse of the USSR was a good >thing. And the people I hang out with are "middle-class" Muscovites, with >university educations and jobs that give them living standards at or near >the level of most middle-class Westerners. (It's hard to explain what >"Muscovite" signifies in Russia. Moscow is like Paris plopped into the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 23 06:01:41 PST 2002

29436 Hockey and Music -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Will there be camping allowed at all? Camping will be allowed. But no banjo playing once it enters my earshot! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 22 15:56:28 PST 2002

29437 Hockey and Music -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 02:46 PM 01/22/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>Oh, we won't need professional entertainers - that's so hierarchical >>& alienating. We can all entertain ourselves, sitting around the >>campfire, strumming our homemade instruments, noshing on the >>delicious wild berries we've just gathered, singing nonviolent >>folksongs. Paradise, eh? > >Why are you making fun? Because I find that sort of thing in the actually existing nonutopian world ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 22 14:25:58 PST 2002

29438 Rappers show the flag (And Rock Music???) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >It all started with The Who, for replacing optimism with cynicism, >("Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.") I think Bob Dylan beat them to it, with "My Back Pages," which I thought of as a conservative anthem in my right-wing days. I was so thrilled he used the word "liberty," dear to every libertarian heart. Doug ---- MY BACK PAGES Bob Dylan (1964) Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 12:08:58 PST 2002

29439 Mormons as Marxists (Re: Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >The lesson that I draw from these examples is not "this is how >we should be". Rather, they are very clear refutations of the >repeated claim that human nature is by nature acquisitive and >selfish. Whatever human nature is, it's plastic enough to >allow people to participate in a variety of economic systems, >ranging from communal hunting & gathering to industrial capitalism. > >Maybe I'm just naive, but this gives me hope that we're ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 11:55:00 PST 2002

29440 Rumsfeld on Caribbean holidays -- rank: 1000

A passage from a Reuters story on Rumsfeld's press conference this morning: >'SUNNY GUANTANAMO BAY' > >Rumsfeld also said the climate in Cuba was warmer than in >Afghanistan and so holding the detainees in open-air cells with >roofs was not mistreatment while a more secure facility was being >built. > >``Guantanamo Bay's climate is different than Afghanistan. To be in a >eight-(feet)-by-eight cell in beautiful sunny Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, >is not inhumane treatment,' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 11:41:22 PST 2002

29441 Hockey and Music/ was Eating and Working -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >So just kinda curious what will happen to the >"entertainers" of the world in a "post-capitalist" >society? > >Athletes for example get exploited for their labor by >the owners, but will the players still be making >millions of dollars? > >I know, dumb question. But my friend wants to become >a famous musician and he's always asking what will >happen to entertainment under socialism.... Oh, we won't need professional ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 11:46:18 PST 2002

29442 JEC: World Bank should shift to grants -- rank: 1000

[for the strange bedfellows file - I can't wait to hear the liberals defending usury for the poor!] For Immediate Release Press Release #107-63 January 22, 2002 Contact: Christopher Frenze Executive Director (202) 224-5171 WORLD BANK SHIFT TOWARD GRANTS WOULD IMPROVE EFFECTIVENESS -- Reform of World Bank Operations is Needed -- WASHINGTON, D.C. - The World Bank should move toward providing international development aid in the form of performance-based grants instead of loans, according to a new ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 12:06:05 PST 2002

29443 Hockey and Music/ was Eating and Working -- rank: 1000

Mark McEahern wrote: >Doug: >> Oh, we won't need professional entertainers - that's so hierarchical >> & alienating. We can all entertain ourselves, sitting around the >> campfire, strumming our homemade instruments, noshing on the >> delicious wild berries we've just gathered, singing nonviolent >> folksongs. Paradise, eh? > >Yes, but who will be the porn stars? There will be no porn. Porn is a product of capitalist alienation. Erotica, maybe, tho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 12:12:05 PST 2002

29444 One,two,three,many Afghanistans -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Many lbo'ers were sceptical when I said the US was aiming to acquire >military bases in Central Asia. Who could be skeptical about that? The U.S. would set up bases on the moon if it could. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 22 14:16:24 PST 2002

29445 Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Charles Jannuzi wrote: > >> actual making of things than in research in labs. The other reason, perhaps, >> is to counter wild currency swings (this hasn't happened a lot in the past >> decade but collective memory about such things is a longer than that at a >> Japanese company). > >Fascinating, that Japanese firms have such lengthy collective memories, >no? According to neoliberal theory, Japan is imp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 15:33:10 PST 2002