The Howitzer - good for home protection

[kylon]

this is the funniest thing i've read in ages. Somalia has got a new 'Minister of Tourism'... The last one was kidnapped by militia in 2002 and never heard of again.. anyway, this is what the new one had to say

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great

[pointedstick]

awesome post. I do hear the italian food is great in mogadishu

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[kylon]

thanks - well, thanks go to that esteemed journal private eye really... although they nicked it from the economist.. good artists borrow, great artists steal, isn't that way of the world?

how you've come to find my journal i have not a clue. your comments on abu graib and bush's symbolic paradox (or crisis of the symbolic?) are insightful and entertaining, so i've friended you. hope you don't mind.

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[pointedstick]

Honored, esp. when I saw yr profile, and it reflected my current affairs nicely on enough points: I am reading Heros by Pilger, just forcing Dick on someone else (fnnr), listening to music has a right to children, and have a quote from Mencken on my montitor, and was just in Vegas. I recently discovered for myself Hurakami and read chronicle and wild sheep chase and have dance dance dance on deck

Disturbed by the W note, tho

Ever read Divine Invasions: A life of Philip K Dick by Lawrence Sutin? If you have read much Dick, this book is essential because a) Dick’s life was crazier than his fiction and b) the book does an excellent job of ytying together his madness and his work. I doubt it’s still in print, it was printed by Citadel Twiglight.

Otherwise, my favorite dick books are scanner darkly, three stigmata of palmer eldritch and radio free albumuth

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[kylon]

woah, this is wierd, i've just forced a scanner darkly on someone (ahura_mazda) - my favourite dick book, along with the three stigmata.... although i have a soft spot for the game players of titan.

Cheers for the heads-up on the Dick biography. I'm intrigued by the man - how did it write so much yet remain so original at every step? Today's sci-fi novelists are poverty stricken in comparison... well perhaps jeff noon is excused..

W note?

Music has the right to children is simply superb and the second one is good too. 'Twoism' isn't worth the money though. Try checking out 'Incunabula' by Autechre, and anything by Mum or Biosphere. I particuarly recommend a compilation called '42 more things to do in zero gravity part one' on Uni:form, has some simply beautiful tracks on it.

[digitalangel]

Thanks!

Needed a good laugh!

[gelflyng]

I think it's absolutely horrific. The great lakes and surrounding area of Africa is of astoundingly breath-taking beauty, but there is so much tragedy that is tearing apart the lives of this generation and the many to come... Huge emergency programmes are being franctically set up as we speak to continue to receive Internally Displaced Peoples and refugees... having to flee their homes and their land, these nomadic people have to seek refuge 'in the bush', and has caused some people to eat wild animals and bring certain species closer to extinction. And I'm sure the landmines are US made (even if Saudi and Egypt were accused for selling them), sold to corrupt officials through the dispicable arms trade to further destabilise the country and sew discontent and chaos... and I'm sure all for the economic gain of the western world and for the ideological and political crusade of the north african arabs.

[kylon]

it is horrific, completely and utterly horrific. it is one of those situations where the only alternatives are to laugh or cry and sometimes laughter is just as sympathetic

[names0fthedead]

HAHAHAHA! excellent!

[vivien_claw]

you can bargain them down to about $17,000 for a howizter if you don't mind a used one.... Ah well, that's Africa for you. You face the same in Zimbabwe and my 70-odd year old grandmother is still up there packing up her bits and pieces quite peacefully. The people are fine, if driven to commit crime by poverty, it's the politicians - driven by power lust - whom you should shoot.