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COLUMN
SEVENTY-EIGHT, NOVEMBER 1, 2002
(Copyright © 2002 The Blacklisted Journalist)
EMAIL TO MOLLY IVANS
Subject:
(no subject)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:27:47 EDT
From: Perzneight@aol.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Dear
Molly Ivans,
I
have followed your writings for many years. My beliefs and thoughts are like
yours. You have a voice! Please use it more and aggressively! Someone with some
kind of written power must speak out! Can
anyone tell what was said during the sixties protest? Has not what we protested against back then actually
transpired? Do Americans forget the past so quickly? Have Americans become so
placid that they do not recall? What is happening in America is extremely
troubling. You know Texas politics. I lived in New Mexico for 10 years and have
many friends from Texas. The politics of Texas has reached far beyond Texas.
Many people from California and New Mexico (and Colorado) have fought the Texas
incursion (Both politically and personally).
I
feel very strongly about the detrimental effect of the Bush family upon the
American way of life. This is exactly what we predicted what would happen in the
future of America (Capitalism?). Our rights of citizenship are rapidly being
taken away. But is this the agenda of the RICH? GOP? Suppress the peons in order
to control the masses? To protect the state? (THE RICH)? I have been keenly
aware of politics since I was sixteen years old. We now have a very few
controlling our media. We are now fed propaganda. I feel that the American
politics has been leading to this state ever since they fed money to the
educational programs of the fifties; then took it away when they realized that
they were creating intelligent people who would question the government. This
may sound like a "conspiracy" theory, but is that what
"they" say when things are said against them (Government)?
The
actions of our present government are scary to me. I am ashamed of the ignorance
of the American people. Does anyone read history anymore?
I
have been telling myself that I was going to write to you for some time now. I
am a fifth-grade teacher in Toledo, Ohio. I grew up here (During the Detroit
riots!), but have lived in many different places around the U.S.
I
would like my voice to heard, but feel it is muted by big money!
Thanks
for letting me vent to you...I feel that you may understand...
Best
regards, Dianne LaPlante ##
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Subject:
great story on online
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:31:37 EDT
From: BeatleGreg1966@cs.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Read
that internet piece re: Beatles/Dylan meeting. VERY interesting. I'm
Thanks
for printing that,
Greg from NJ
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OLD GET-WELL EMAIL
Subject:
Re: [AGALIST] EMERGENCY SURGERY
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 19:19:10 -0400
From: "Herbert M. Bryant Jr." hbryant@gte.net
Reply-To: hbryant@well.com
Organization: http://www.well.com/~hbryant/
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
I'm
sorry to hear of your emergency surgery, but am happy you've survived
-Herb
Bryant 08-02-01.
P.S.
-- My apologies for my belated reply, but this message was mistakenly
09-09-02. -hb. ##
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MOSLEM HATER
Subject:
moslems
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:50:42 EDT
From: Llycanis@aol.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
I
am writing from the UK
Last
year on 9/11 I was so disgusted that I wanted to kill every moslem I could find
I am not a big fan of "the American Way" and all that and in the 60s I
would have supported Ché Guevara and also the Viet Cong
However
Bin Laden and his "co-religionists" are just scum. Dark ages
mentality. We in the West are far too tolerant of this religion because of the
fact that we have let too many of the people in, as immigrants and are now
afraid of them. The western civilisation is secular, religion is up to an
individual not the state, this was sorted out in the European wars of religion
back in the C16th--- the "liberal" Moslem-appeasers would have us go
back to before then by even entering the debate on the moslem murderers own
ground. Moslems consider western notions of freedom and liberty as weakness and
as a vacuum to be filled. History proves otherwise. Free people fight better
than slaves---from Ancient Athens to World War 2 this has always been the case.
Moslems treat women like shit, have no respect for animals or nature and kill
homosexuals.
I
would like the Israelis to over-run Saudi blow up Mecca and Medina Holy
Be
to see the look of suprise on the faces of the adherents this dire
religion---not US troops in Mecca but guess what the rest of the world hates
them too!
rest assured I will continue to hate this religion ##
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JAN PANKOW OUT OF THE WORLD WIDE WOODS
Subject:
out of the w.w.woods - back on the beach with new email address
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 00:14:41 퍭
From: jan
pankow <thejob@zeelandnet.nl>
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
hello
dear friends / welcome new readers!
quite
a while since my last message about the literary renaissance at
what
happened? literally got LOST in the World Wide Woods: lost loads of early
work/drafts when my vehicle crashed. Couldn't get it fixed before summer
holidays, by that time i needed a fix too (had a great time with Conny &
kids in Belgium/France/Spain---that too went different than expected, still
wonderful) and so i missed deadline to update my 'hetnet' server account.
retrieved
my imagebank there and 'hetnet' are still trying to find a way to open and/or
forward my mailbox, several weeks passed so i fear all mail from mid-July got
lost too: PLEASE CHECK YOUR 'SENT' BOX AND FORWARD PERSONAL / PRO. MAIL TO THIS
NEW ADDRESS: thejob@zeelandnet.nl
thank you very much!
meanwhile,
we're close to 1000 visitors at literaryocean.blogspot.com, there's a netstat
button at the footer of the spot if you're interested in statistics.
in
the past few weeks i've been working on a new template, now installed---better
routing, crisp layout, neat links to your sites (or soon to be re-installed) and
related sites of interest. again, Watch it come alive...,
look
forward to reading/posting your back -> current messages!
stay
tuned - jan pankow
just
drop your: release list - reviews - events - tour data - other matter you desire
to share @: thejob@zeelandnet.nl subject
heading: blogthis, jan! and i will push it further. (or notify you in the rare
case of rejection). constantly under construction with a rapid growth of
contributors, so:
watch it come alive with movement.... ##
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GUNS, DOPE & OIL
Subject:
Re: [AGALIST] SPECIAL WAR EDITION
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:08:21 -0400
From: "Charles Plymell" <cplymell@nycap.rr.com>
To: <AGALIST-owner@yahoogroups.com>
Yeah,
well why do you think they dropped the Okla. City /Iraq connection
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A WAR POEM
Subject:
Spin Doctor, Spin a Tale of War
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 20:47:23 -0400
From: Gary Stonecipher <Gary@ADHDelivers.com>
Organization: A Natural Bohemian Philosopher
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Spin
Doctor, Spin a Tale of War
A
spin doctor doctors the spin till a web
A mirthful bombastic rant of empty words
The cognitive process of supposing,
that it is a clear definite possibility; maybe
Saddam
Hussein, how sane is sane?!
The Great American hunter Elmer Fud,
has vowed your d-de-de-demise
Once the hunter, now prey of the hunt
King
George the First stayed him in his hole
King George the Second needs to best Dad
No matter the cost of life, liberty or appendage
King George the Third must truly be amused
All
of the people of Iraq, wish the head dead
One for all, and all want to get the one
One oppressor against so many oppressed
Still he lives, so what is the secret of his success
A
limbless scaly elongated serpent of wickedness
One man against one world, and still he lives
He taunts the hunter, just like the Rabbit
Flaunting his success, as you see he still lives
Damn,
The Bush's have gotta be pissed
____________________
Gary
Stonecipher
311 Second Street
Liverpool, NY 13088-4931
(315) 491- 3119
Gary@ADHDelivers.com ##
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EMAIL FROM A NEIGHBOR OF LONG AGO
From:
"Trevor Irvin" tirvin@irvinproductions.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Subject: Mr. Aronowititz from Berkeley Heights NJ
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:57:21 -0400
Mr.
Aronowitz,
A
friend sent me the link to your article "Lets 'ave a larf".
My
name is Trevor Irvin; I lived 4 doors down from your family in the 60's when you
lived in Berkeley Heights. I was pretty small back then, but I do remember
playing with your son Joel and I remember your office (in your house) was
totally off limits to us kids. Joel had some younger siblings, a sister and
brother I think, but I can't dredge up any names any more.
After
you had moved from Berkeley Heights your family had become, sort of mythic with
us young 60's rock and roll kids. There were many stories of rock bands coming
to your house and Sue Vecchio who said she had baby-sat for you told us Dylan
had called looking for you one evening. You can imagine the stories and rumors
that floated around, because no one else's parents in Berkeley Heights had
rock'n'roll going at their houses. I remember your next door neighbor Mrs.
Fawcett complaining about the rock music coming from your house one day. the
rumor was it was the Stones. As you said in your article, Berkeley Heights was a
Mecca for innocent middle class nerds. (Although as I grew up I don't think of
Throughout
the years I have had very little contact with Berkeley Heights, New Jersey or
even New York but occasionally your name pops up in my circles and I share what
I know with them. for instance while I worked at the newspaper the Atlanta
Constitution in Atlanta (I'm an illustrator) I became good friends with a writer
Steve Dougherty who now works at "People" as their rock writer. We
spent many years terrorizing the Atlanta bar scene and late one evening he told
me that one of the writers he really loved as a kid was a guy named Al
Aronowitz. Well I
I
saw a short clip of you being interviewed for the PBS rock documentary and I
touched base through the magic of the internet with Ricky O'Regan who was your
next door neighbor and he told me Joel was a photographer living in NYC. So even
after all these years. Briarwood Drive West still drifts into my life from time
to time.
Although
I have no real reason for writing this letter I would like to ask you one
question.
Many
years ago I read an obit in some paper about the death of your wife. I remember
thinking she was pretty young to have died and although late, I send my
condolences. I only remember that she was small, quiet and if I remember
correctly (which I probably don't) blond. I think the article said that she had
been driving in Bob Dylan's car on a long drive from someplace and he ended up
writing a song about her called "Al's Wife". Is this correct? I have
looked all over the place and have never located this song. If this song exists,
I would like to know where I might find the words and I would like to listen to
it if it has been recorded. If you could find a moment to answer this question I
would appreciate it.
I
hope this finds you well, and hope you find many more outlets for your work.
Much
luck to you and your family,
Sincerely
Trevor
Irvin
Trevor
Stone Irvin
330 Southerland Terrace
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
Tel: 404 377 4754
Fax: 404 371 1891
E-mail: tirvin@irvinproductions.com
Web: www.irvinproductions.com ##
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