EVENT # 273: THE BIG EASY

Don't panic; we don't intend to make another move for a week or two. World travelling is an exhausting business. Pricey, too!

Meanwhile, it was a triumphant week for the Chinese. They get the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and they are chuffed! Congrats to them.

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Longest In Space:

The G21 Sergey Avdeyev Interview

Having been awarded Hero of the Russian Federation (Russia's highest honor ), member of both French and Russian orders, pilot-cosmonaut Sergey Avdeyev celebrated in orbit New Year and his birthdays (he was born on 1 January) three times. His wife passed gifts to him by cargo ship beforehand, with the inscription: "Open on 31 December". And she never knew which of their friends would give her gift from her husband.

Sergey Avdeyev holds the record for most time accumulated in space. In his three missions he was off Earth 747 days and had nine walkouts in space with a total length 41 hours.... More


G21 AFRICA:

Africa 2001: The AU

The final Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit ended (WednesdaY, 11 July) with the decision to transform itself into a stronger African Union (AU). The AU is modelled along the lines of the European Union (EU) and will focus on economic development, good governance and the rule of law, eliminating conflicts and poverty, and fighting pandemics such as HIV-AIDS.

The AU will work toward conflict prevention and resolution, restore and maintain economic stability, promote human rights and democracy. In return for these efforts, it hopes the developed world will provide material support for peacekeeping, accelerate debt reduction for heavily indebted countries, increase spending on aid to at least 0.7% of GDP for each developed country, and admit African goods to its markets ... More


G21 STUFF: We know. You want to let people know that you KNOW.

One way of doing that is buying our "stuff." Wear it, drink from it, click over it.

ACCESS Denied

The date is Dec. 13, 2000, and the Internet landscape is teetering on the brink of collapse. But we don't know it yet.

We are secure, successful, on top of the publishing world. Or so we believe. Even as the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding the presidential election for us. We are winners --- or so we believe.

Gathered in a large enough quantity in a hotel meeting room, we, the full-time, well-paid employees of Access Internet Magazine, create a convincing air of confidence, of go-go e-business wiles, high on the Net-savvy narcotic of the zeitgeist vibe, a self-assurance and self-pleased demeanor that would be comic if it weren't so tragic. Looking back at it now, that is. Sure, some of us worried rough times were ahead. At least I did. I'm a worrier, though. Yet, even considering my natural pessimism, it would be hard to imagine how quickly such things can end.... More




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RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: : As the advent of the Internet has transformed the way the world takes care of business, it has similarly revolutionized the world of sex work. Tanya is a professional escort residing in a major American city. She enhances her income by running an adult site offering live web-cam and chat services. Tanya maintains a full schedule as a college student. She is ambitious, self-assured and unsentimental about her job. She considers herself neither a hardened prostitute nor wide-eyed innocent. As a businesswoman and entrepreneur Tanya has learned that men will pay to enjoy the company of a beautiful woman. Her window of opportunity is open and she plans to maximize her potential (and profits) as long as she can for as much as she can.... "For Your Pleasure" JEFF WINBUSH More

RDR 07.09.01: KEVIN CAREY looks back on the extradiction of Milosevic and sees a precedent for "Tainted Justice"

RDR 06.18.01: ROD AMIS gives the first installment of his Serbian Diary "Tesla's Dreams"

RDR 06.18.01: MARGARET CAREY shares a moving look at how prisoners in Britain make the world a bit better for disabled orphans in India. "The Inside Out Trust"


DAY ONE: Even where records exist, it is difficult to trace causality without trawling through millions of words of private journal (I, for example, write more than 500 words per day), so I cannot say how much Gide knew of the theories of Freud; but I clearly remember feeling an inner jolt when reading Symphonie Pastorale; the child in fiction had lost its unquestioned innocence. Of course fiction is crammed with knowing children, assuming the language, responsibility and heroism of adults but Freud's specific adduction of their sexuality changed the child/adult relationship forever. They were ours no less than they ever had been but they were competitors.

The terms of trade in sexuality changed radically with the conjunction of the contraceptive pill and rock music. Since then, as our children have become more knowing, though no wiser (a condition frequently misdiagnosed as sophisticated) and as nutrition has (though not as much as is thought) advanced the age of puberty, we have become confused about what we think a child is. ... "Uninnocent Children" KEVIN CAREY More


G21 Easter Egg



MY GLASS HOUSE: 15 July, 2001 - NEW ORLEANS - I would be overjoyed to report that this hejira was now flowing as smoothly as the Mississippi river around a bend in New Orleans, but we both know that things never flow that way for the Butterfly Soul. In Life of Rod, things go from crappy to arduous to desperate more often than not. The mere act of surviving every day is like a magic trick for me, considering the odds stacked outside of my favor.

Lufthansa found my clothes in Munich. My clothes are in San Francisco, as Mike Mallen has not managed to send them here yet. He pressured me to produce some more work for VPS, after I explained the dire situation here, promising to send a payment on Friday. I did. He didn't. He went off to party in Sonoma instead..."The Big Easy" ROD AMIS More

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