"How much will it cost?"
"How much you got?"
   -Old Tinpanalley Proverb

"Tip him upside down, see if any money rolls out."
   -Revelation to George 99:01


PRINTER RIBBONS FLATBED SCANNERS AND OFFICE SUPPLIES
  a prime anarchist scene report.
Our biggest local computer store must have all their 
employees on commissions. 
  The homeless shelter I run had bought a gateway from them 
about a month ago and I went in with $50 US for color and 
black & white epson printer cartridges. They'd talked a
co-worker of mine into an epson rather than a new HP telling 
her the prices on ink we'll pay is "way cheaper." Well as it 
turns out the savings is about 5$ a cartridge on a 30$ 
purchase. I'd call that "a little cheaper," rather than "way 
cheaper," wouldn't you? Oh well. 
  I whip out 50 thinking it's going to be 30 or 40 all tolled; 
and he tells me it comes to 53 and change. What? OK, which of 
the two are more expensive, I ask, he tells me, a 1-dollar 
difference. I think out loud, "Then, I probably should just 
get the black and white today, and come back another time for 
the color."
  "Wait," he tells me, cash register key-clicking up a storm.
"Do you have 63 cents?" I fish in my pocket but don't find 
anything.
  "OK," he says, and works it all up telling me, "with tax 
it comes to 50 dollars even."
  Good for us, bad for the retail world. Probably neither
good NOR bad for the NASDAQ, and a tiny blip of an up tic 
for the National Product, huh? I like that he managed the
situation so well, as it benefits us and he's just a clerk 
and not a manager or store owner, but the part of me that 
runs a shelter and thinks overtime about ethics, and stuff
like non-violence drove all the way home bugging out about 
how that probably hurt someone else to help us.


   SUNDAY NITE  -  Christmas Special.
Christina Aguilera
Is she jerking off the microphone, playing a trumpet or 
what? What's with the tapping of the mic rapid fire to the
beat of the music, or even twice the beat of the music???
  Is she on speed? Heroin? And how come you don't hear her
tapping but you SEE her tapping. Hmmm.
  I also think she makes Kate Moss look plump.
  And I'd give anything to have her soundman working for
ME. I mean, how does he do it??? She moves that mic all in
and out of her face and he's right on top of it making it
sound like she never moved the mic at all. Perfect smooth
sound all the time. Even while she's dancing and rubbing
the mic on her leg. Makes it sound like she never moved the
mic at all! Magic.
  And to use that whole other sound system, or a different
setting each time a song ends so her speaking voice is so
so very differently mixed than her singing voice. Good
thinking. That sound man's really on the ball.
  I think I should write and publish an in-depth contrast
and comparison of Aguilera and Yanni. Her Christmas special
just now, against his PBS special, where was that, Greece?
Yeah, at the parthenon or some such. I think he was using 
the same sound man for his piano.
  Turkey maybe.


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We end this 'zine with a poem we've reprinted 
from the IMC where we first saw it.

I left Georgia with a strong feeling that I failed. 
Being there for me was not enough I realized that 
before I even got to the base. It was as if God 
was calling me to be his hand's and feet. The funeral 
procession was an amazing experience for me hearing the
name and ages of many especially those who were children 
tore apart my heart. I was humbled when a girl offered 
me her cross before she crossed the line. Many do not
understand the meaning of this line that so many crossed. 
Well I wrote this poem and hopefully it will help the 
many who still don't understand it: 


THE LINE
by Katie

A line 
white in color 
with an insignificant size. 
Holds my faith, my soul, my fate. 

But why this line? 
There are millions all over the world 
who have been persecuted, tortured, and killed. 

This ordinary white line, 
stands for all those who have 
experienced the rath of an unjust world. 

What an extraordinary line. 
Not as insignificant when looked at, 
from the eyes of the innocent it's claimed. 

As Martin Sheen spoke so fervently about "Here I am Lord 
is it I Lord, I have heard you calling in the night. 
I will go Lord if you lead me. 
I will hold your people in my heart."

Next year I will cross the line with the cross 
the girl gave me when she saw my torn heart in
my eyes.



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