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TODAY'S RDR: Okay, his cussedness kicks back in. "Thanks for The Love - Part 2" -- PLUS our Web Site Pick of the Day. Don't forget the Readership Poll ("Internet news sources need to ...?")

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Updated: Saturday, 31 March, 2001 (GMT)*EVENT # 260: FEED YOUR HEAD
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The Mystery

ROD AMIS

My friend Rico thought the best thing to do was send me a poem. The final version of it reads like this:

"the meat of the matter"
for my journalist friends on the frontlines of destiny
a man on a hill watching the herd of humanity fork around his island of solitude
the herd heading for a blood red horizon is he the point
the home guard
a last flower fading,
his visionary seeds
spent on the dry dust
of indifferent history

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COMING TUESDAY

[Yes, we're taking Monday off to give our publisher a break. See you in a couple.]

KEVIN CARY talks about the flaws of US foreign policy toward Macedonia in DAY ONE. BOB POWERS spins new music in POWERSSOUND. And much more!

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G21 WEB EVENT CENTRAL:

The next great Webcast is from Ginuwine. "April 3 is the scheduled release date for "The Life," the new album from the hot R singer Ginuwine. But if you'd like to hear cuts from the new album ahead of time, tune in to a series of listening parties the day before. Ginuwine's newest will grace the airwaves on Monday, April 2, at 9 a.m., 12 p.m., and 4 p.m. PT (That's US Pacific Time). For more details, visit the Ginuwine website."

RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: : I'm blaming it on solar flares. That bombardment of ionized gases that are lighting up the skies this weekend probably had a lot to do with my thinking it was time to close up shop. Then there is the fact that if you lived in some areas here on the East Coast today, G21 was down, the New York Times was down, so were the Washington Post and LA Times, not to mention the e-mail server I depend upon. Oh-oh! Cosmic Message?

That gave me a lot more time to think. I certainly didn't like being cut off from the G21 by outside forces, so why should I like not being able to find it because of my own decision?... "Thanks for The Love - Part 2" ROD AMIS More

RDR 03.30.01: All good things come to an end. After 11 years, (five here on the WWW) ROD looks at walking away. Is this Miles turning his back to the audience, an early April Fool's joke or the real thing? WE don't even know. "Thanks for The Love"

RDR 03.27.01: ROD AMIS on dreams. "Time for Love"

RDR 03.24.01: Author and journalist LIONEL ROLFE comes clean about dissidence, socialism and writing. "Rolfe on Rolfe"

VOX POPULI: From Stu W., Kingston, ON, CANADA:

SUBJECT: FROM KINGSTON, ONTARIO

I'm 50 years old. I've devoted my life to scriptwork since finishing graduate school in '78. I am not successful; I will never be a success. Not in business terms. I will labour in obscurity -- the obscurity known as Canada. (My American wife never wants to return stateside.)

That said, I consider myself a creative success. I do good work, and it satisfies my soul. One must learn to live without recognition in this world of ours -- or better still, to recognize oneself.

A co-writer in Philly emailed me your article on the writers strike and the vanity-credit issue. You have said everything I've ever throught about the industry and more. The writer is Hollywood's favourite kitchen-nigger. As everpresent and as enduring as Faulkner's "negroes" ...More

Photo of an African mask. G21 AFRICA: : Compared to most teens in Africa, my circumcision was fairly tame. I was twelve. I had completed primary school, and was about to go to boarding school like most Kenyans at that age. My dad invited me to play golf with him one Saturday. In the showers afterwards, he clapped me on the shoulder and said, "You are a man now. We go Monday."

My big brother spent all of Sunday describing the operation in great detail. The pain, he said, was indescribable. Crying was taboo.

My mom made roast chicken for lunch, and gazed at me proudly throughout the meal. I was allowed two servings of ice-cream. My dad drove me to the hospital, and we parked the car.

He lit a cigarette, looked out of the window, and launched into a detailed biological explanation of what girls and boys do, which I musn't do till I am 77 and married, but if I do, I must use an -- er -- condom...

His technical jargon was superb, and I finally found out what Vagina Hygiene meant. There was a programme on radio that always talked about it, and I thought she and her friend Herpes, Syphilis and Gonorrhea were bad girls from Greek Classics for Adults only... "Circumcism" BINYAVANGA WAINAINA More

GAIA is a French-based site (available in multiple languages like ourselves) that offers the opportunity for people all over the world to connect for humanitarian action.

It makes sense.

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