I fully support the right to express oneself through written word. Thus, I'd like to share with you the following thoughts I had after reading your expose:
1. This stream of consciousness rubbish has already been done, better and more tastefully, by Ginsberg, Kerouac, and I'll even throw in Burroughs because he was never fettered by social injustice, only imagination.
2. Sensationalist media leaves zero room for constructive criticism or comment, and therefore cannot be classified as communication ( I do believe this is a "forum"). It makes me think of the Dada movement, but then again that was 90 years ago. Certainly, yellow journalism never died with Hearst, and Howard Stern now commands more bandwidth and listener access than the airwaves will ever give a Prairie Home Companion (i'm sure they stream as well, but if you never listened to NPR and Altman never...oh well...)
3. Obviously, you committ time and effort to this writing. Might I suggest an author of a more refined shock prose style:
Mark Leyner, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Et Tu Babe; Tooth Imprints on a Corndog; Tetherballs of Bougainville...he also writes for Esquire
Cheers, Trevor Cunningham
Chris:
> Hello,
>
> Hello,
>
> I understand a bit how you feel as I've had a bit too. However the suffering
> on the Palestinian side is just as terrible.
>
> The only victor in war is death. My civilian plane I was travelling in as a
> passenger was allegedly bombed by an Israeli agent. I bailed out but there
> were no other survivors.
>
> My friend (My Ex) and her daughter were killed when a Palestinian agent
> sabotaged the plane in the Paris air disaster.
>
> Twenty of my classmates were killed when Bin Lardin's agents took the twin
> towers down.
>
> The man who piloted one of the planes that hit one of the towers planned the
> attack in my office and when he realised I was there he shot at me but
> missed and I was prosecuted for damaging the chair where the bullet hit as
> it missed me since I got out the way. He was inexperienced but had fought
> the Russians in Afghanistan and trained with Bin Lardin.
>
> Liz was executed for treason while working with us a nude model and another
> 17 year old was shot in front of me for being left wing.
>
> My nearly wife Maia was sentenced to death in Britain for trying to prove
> the existence of life on Mars, it is believed someone got her out. She was
> sent insane by a local church where I attend. I was absent at the time but
> did object.
>
> Mum has had a metal object pushed through her head for the same reason and
> is a bit do-ally. She cannot look after herself without help and she is 93
> (now considered an insurrectionist and may get the death sentence).
>
> Only us four "dead" men survived our war in Indo China, then someone used
> the atom bomb.
>
> Two people and a dog volatilised in front of me a few weeks ago when a new
> type of mini atom bomb delivered by ICBM hit us as a cluster over London.
>
> A woman (Christian Medical worker) was knifed by an Islamic lady pharmacist
> in the clinic where was waiting to pick up my heart pills. I now have had
> some procedure including the repair of a hole caused by a bullet and the
> metal object removed; there were some other metal object too. So I don't
> need the pills.
>
> Annie was shot in front of me down on the hill where I buy my tea just
> because she was in the way of the burger entrepreneur and I won't see her
> again.
>
> I spent about a day making five 20 megaton hydrogen bombs safe placed in
> domestic premises round London one under Buckingham palace. The one in
> Portsmouth where I showed my brother how to defuse it (sister and her son
> came too to see the atom bomb) was a bit tricky and we got the warhead out
> but the firing pin slipped as I was trying to put the padlock In to make it
> safe and the detonator fizzed. My brother and sister ran out and I fell on
> the floor. I saw a flash and when it cleared I was covered with cobalt oxide
> and lithium granules. The canister was gone.
>
> I had a list of all the addresses the delivery men had left when I saw them
> wheel the last one into a house down the road from me. My doctor said I was
> mad and gave me a pill. I think all the other bombs may have gone off. But I
> don't know that of course.
>
> And the police might knock, we just know any more. There is slightly more
> chance of being shot by a policeman than a terrorist and a Christian attack
> is as likely as a Moslem one.
>
> It is a mad house here. So don't take the Moslems lightly they may use their
> ultimate weapon and of course so might you.
>
> And of course I might get picked up by a psychiatric "nurse" and have me
> brain taken out. "It only takes 5 minutes and you won't know yourself"
>
> Lovely and peaceful here now, and now you know the reason.
>
> Oh and lastly - I can't get any fuel for my controlled fusion reactor trial.
>
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
>
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pini Vollach
> Sent: 22 July 2006 19:28
> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
> Subject: War near my home
>
> Hi
> For the last 9 days my city is bombed by Hizbulla missiles.
> Every now and then we have a syrene call us to go into a shelter.
> Today for example we ran down nine times.
> Yesterday ~2:00 pm a moment after we came in the shelter an explosion of
> 45 kg was about 150 meters from my home.
> The boom noise and the blast were enormous and very frightening.
> I put 2 images of our shelter and 1 of the roof that was hit by the
> missile with the rescue people on it.
> The missile hit the roof and penetrate 3 floors inside.
> http://pinimage.com/Israel/Haifa/war2006.html
>
> Pini
>
>
>
>
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