G21 - DON'T READ ME FIRST!

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(Continued from the Cover) Don't Read Me First

G21 INSIDER

Talking Back to the Night

Publisher's Note

New York - 13 April, 1999: This edition of the magazine takes your World's Magazine further out on the limb. We continue to bring you voices from the war zone that may seem heretical as compared to "the conventional wisdom."

Another voice from where the bombs are falling, this time documentary filmmaker DRAGANA VICANOVIC. She is not as tame as her colleague, RASTISLAV DURMAN. She doesn't attempt to make jokes about her life, and that her family is threatened.

For about half a New York second, I had reservations about publishing her essay, if not her photo-essay, because --- like most publishers here in "The Land of the Free" --- I had to realize that we are only free with qualifications. If you become too critical of American foreign policy you run the risk of being treated like Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Jr., or .... Steve Kangas.

On the other hand, much like Prof. Chomsky up at MIT, I have to believe that intelligent and reasoned voices of dissent are part of the "true democracy" we need to push this oligarchy toward.

If I stop believing that, I must become an expatriate or start building bombs myself...

This Edition, though, I go back to trying to maintain the balance between the "hard hits," as our cover puts it, and the yucks. HOUSE OF CARDS is back with more Jokes.

We also have a wonderful, almost pastoral, piece from Massachusetts writer G. TOD SLONE, the editor of The American Dissident, about the resort areas of the Magdalen Islands in Canada. A nice soft touch.

Along the lines of nice soft touches, don't miss our in-house Muse, FELICITY USSHER this week, as she takes you on a magical mystery tour. LONDON CALLING! is a mini-gem!

I'm listening to John Lennon tonight, having finished what I think is another great edition of the G for you, Loyal Rooters.

"Imagine there's no country,
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for...
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may think I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one...."

That seems in keeping with ROBIN MILLER's piece about how the youth in the '90s missed all the (sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll) fun of the '60s. Still.... I live in the city where Lennon was shot stone-cold-dead. Game, point and match.

Another site made on a Macintosh ABOUT THE KID: You know, I am really starting to feel like The Flying Dutchman.

When I first met my ex-wife, one of the reasons I fell so head-over-heels for her, besides our cinematic First Date (I was dancing on air!), was that she had run away to join the circus. That was just the type of independent adventurism which rubs God's Own Fool the best way.

It told me that she had the samewanderlustin her soul that I did.

But --- hey! I'm approaching 50, fercrimey's sake! --- I shouldn't still have this wild hair... But I do.

OR MAYBE it's just that I am looking for a place that feels like the truth.

Ladies and Gentleman of the Jury, Yours Unruly is moving again.

I don't know where, yet. It could be as parochial as somewhere else here in Manhattan.... Or I may go state-hopping again.

BELIEVE ME, if this next move doesn't rub me the best way, the country-hopping will start again....

Thanks for coming back this week.

We're glad you're here. We have a lot to offer this (and EVERY) week. Stick around. More importantly: TELL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS. We want you here EVERY DAY.

WHY?

Because we like you...

Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like no one is watching,
Rod

ROD AMIS has published this magazine since 1990. It first appeared as a hardcopy 'Zine. In March, 1996, he launched it here on the Internet. Rod was a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he wrote the " 'Net Publishing" feature. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, NRV8, and at WebLab's Reality Check site. Rod was also a contributing writer on technology for Faulkner Information Services.

Rod is a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he writes on web design and development issues every Thursday. He is principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviews technology issues five days a week. His opinions on the Info Age began appearing on MethodFive's HYPER technology newsletter in March.

When not busy with his publishing chores at this site, and answering sixty -to- one hundred e-mails a day, he likes to throw darts; seek female companionship; and listen to Tupac, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Joni Mitchell, James Carter, Eric Clapton, Snoop Dogg, Etta James, Miles Davis, Handel, Portishead, Toots & the Maytals, Bob Marley, Sinead O'Connor, techno, house, jazz....

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