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thanks to josephine bosma nn will donate $10000 to the thing.ny Nmherman@aol.com typed >Re: A great reason to say fuck Bosma and fuck the Thing. Incroyable. >++ > >This is truly an incredible post to nettime. Nettime censors everyone like >me or that likes me or is me. They censor us in the spring and summer, >morning and night, period. I doubt if anyone in the world could get a post >about Genius 2000 mentioned on nettime. Also, The Thing owns nettime. So >you get a post from Bosma, the foremost interviewer of interartists who like >the Thing, sending a plea as if from the barricades to donate money to her >clique of prejudicial NYC fakes. Her citing of Eno is offensive to a man of >my caliber, as if I could be swayed by some old electronic music guy telling >me what the internet is and who I am and how much I need the Thing to save >the great works of art made in the last five years by the Thing's favored >webmen: Cary Peppermint (their ace reliever); GH "no discussion of Genius >2000 on Thingist by anyone" and writer of sickening shit like Eryk alludes to >often in his poems. Bosma has of course declared Eryk to be brain dead or >"instinctual," very similar to the "instinctual" Brad Brace. Both Eryk and >Brad have proven to be conundrums for the Thing, because they don't live in >NYC so can't be bribed by party invititations and associate with known >cultural polluter Max Herman. Bosma wrote them their goodbye after Brad >drove her interview into the proverbial "dogshitpile." > >So read this. Imagine how you'd feel if you were in my shoes. And remember, >The Thing is a business hoping to make money. Its hangers-on are merely >there for the money and maybe the parties. They can't be there because of >the vital intellectual exchanges, that would be absurd beyond even Bush-era >American norms. > >A great reason to say fuck Bosma and fuck the Thing: the prose you will soon >see. > >Max Herman >(scroll down to see Josephine's stomach-turning letter filled with alarming >phrases and epithets like "new kids on the block.") >The Genius 2000 Network >http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/yellow.JPG > >(PS--George Gordon once said of his saucy Juan scribings "confess you dog and >be candid, is it not life, is it not the thing?" If Juan means anything to >you at all or ever could, let not tired former punks sully the potential >greatness of the oppressed and oppressive peoples of the United States of >America. We got many problems already don't add complete cutural fiasco. If >you try I will prevent you.) /_/ / \ \/ i should like to be a human plant \/ __ __/ i will shed leaves in the shade \_\ because i like stepping on bugs *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Netochka Nezvanova nezvanova@eusocial.com http://www.eusocial.com http://www.biohakc.com http://www.ggttctttat.com/! Neimandsland http://steim.nl/leaves/petalz *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- --*--*--*--*--*--*-- _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold