From Frank L., [NO CITY PROVIDED]:

SUBJECT: FAX NIKITA

Jolly good! Made me laugh!

Thanks BOB POWERS....

From Mark L., [NO CITY PROVIDED], USA:

Help,

Just heard a few great cuts fom a great new Ruby Braff album. Its called born to play. Do you know where I can buy a copy?

Mark


BOB POWERS RESPONDS: Dear Mark,

Please forgive me for taking so long to respond to your note to my publisher Rod Amis. I just received a review copy of Ruby Braff's new album, "Born to Play," in today's mail. You should be able to order it from your local music retailer or on line at those Web sites that deal in music.

"Born to Play" is on the Arbors Records label out of Clearwater, FL. The album's number is ARCD 19203. National distributor is Allego, whose toll-free number is 800-288-2007.

You can access the Arbors Web site at http://www.arborsjazz.com. It's a great small company that releases wonderful albums by veteran jazz players.

And I agree with you that Ruby Braff should be declared a national treasure. He's truly unique, the best cornet player in the business.

Thanks for asking.

Huge Blush Time Again....

TO THE EDITOR

You people have produced on of the more intelligent, provocative, complex websites I have visited in the last year. I have been here for almost half an hour, which is more time that I normally accord a website.

(Your attempt at using frames was an abject failure, but your content is excellent.)

I came here for humor by way of GetWild! but following your links felt engaged and stayed to see more.

I will certainly recommend you to my friends and students.

One question, though: Why have you not promoted yourselves more?


ROD RESPONDS: Arthur, thanks for visiting G21 and taking the time to write us. In answer to your question, we're a shoe-string operation. If we could afford more promotion, we'd certainly do it. Fact is, we can't. But believe me, we don't enjoy being that "cool station at the end of the FM dial"(Thanks, and a tip of the hat to JEFF WINBUSH.) So *do* tell ALL YOUR FRIENDS about us.


From Gina Y., [NO CITY PROVIDED], USA:

this was the first time i have visited your page but i thought it was great keep up the good work ill be checking for new stuff thanks for the early morning laugh


From Paul P. [NO CITY PROVIDED,] USA:

Liked the laddle story. MA MA are clever.

Thaim in Grabh Leat - Gaelic


From Carma S., [NO CITY PROVIDED,] CA, USA:

I enjoyed reading your indepth story about the negligence in our Media. I have thought for some time that the Media should be held accountable for their lies, mistatements, and omissions of important facts. They have distorted the news so much. It is almost like the Media is spoon feeding the public only what they want us to know or hear.

Little do they know that after a while, we begin to see that there is a hidden agenda behind the propaganda. Not all of us are easily duped like the Christian Coalition would like to believe. They may end up shooting themselves in the foot.

Why can't the sealed files be opened? Surely Congress could unseal, what the previous members saw fit to hide. If enough public outcry for justice was heard, wouldn't Congress have to take action? The Media became lopsided during the Reagan years. During the time of the hostile takeovers and mergers, big companies swallowed up the small newspapers, magazines, etc. The worse think Australia did to America was spawn Rupurt Murdoch. Richard Mellon Scaife is a dangerous man and should be put away somewhere. I cannot pronounce his last name easily, so I refer to him as "Scabbies" . The people I work with, " We the People" and "Friends of Bill" think it is appropiate.

Thank you for letting me blow off steam.

Carma S.


From Daniel S., [NO CITY PROVIDED,] USA:

I think that the story you have written is good and true. Not enough people in the world realize the dangers and mental effects these pageants have on young children. I think that more people like you should help to stop the rise of youth beauty pageants!!!

But not everybody likes us....

What do you think gives them the right to interfere? Even though I agree that what they are doing to women is wrong treatment of human beings, I would not invade some country's cultures and traditions and tell them of the American way to do it. This is egotistical and as history has shown us such attitudes only cause other nations to hate us. I understand how Islam has absolutely nothing to do with the treatment (actually misinformation of Islam does) of women, but since Mavis and Jay don't even have a connection, it really isn't their call. It just doesn't seem fair for an outsider to wave their money telling how it should be. I agree change needs to be made in that country, but it has to be a gradual advancement, which must start within the country.

Young Men Will Dream Dreams....

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Lord, what giddy fun we're having already!

Here's the plan: I'm gonna compose more sublime ditties about love, lust, heartbreak, ballbreak, strippers, shysters, hooligans, sluts, Heaven 'n' Hell, vengeance and ketchup; then I'll record these songs and "press" them on CDs and other high-tech media; then I'll hawk them shamelessly to you and to record companies and radio stations in the hopes of becoming rich and famous (a "rock star"). All the while, I'll be performing these same heartfelt tunes for drunks at fleabag clubs for no money.

I know this whole plan is crazy-wacky and yet somehow glamorous but ultimately ill-conceived, but I'm doing it anyway, dagnamit, and this list will occasionally inform you of my incremental progress. To bone up on all things Sean, zap your sexy ass to the Seanosphere at www.bigsean.com. WELCOME, MY FRIEND!

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From *Diamond D.*, Higganum, CT, USA:

Subject: Master Plan: The Road Ahead
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 02:23:10 GMT
From: one@inetport.com (one)
Reply-To: one@inetportdotcom
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com Newsgroups: alt.consciousness.mysticism,alt.paranet.metaphysics,talk.religion.newage

Master Plan: The Road Ahead

Many millennia ago, on a continent long since swallowed by the waters of the Atlantic, there lived a race of human beings who had achieved a level of technical development comparable to your own, and who had evolved a civilization that met the needs of all of its citizens. There were two major racial types: a dominant group of tall, willowy, fair-skinned people who occupied all of the important posts, and a servant group of short, swarthy, muscular beings who did most of the manual work.

This arrangement operated to the satisfaction of everyone. The dominant race understood that they had a duty to the worker group: an obligation to foster mental and emotional growth among them, while at the same time treating them with the utmost kindness. The tall ones had been taught that both racial species were interchangeably used by souls belonging to a single group, and that these souls incarnated repeatedly in one or the other species, depending upon what life-lessons were most in need of being learned.

With the passage of time, the dominant race slowly lost sight of the ancient teachings. They began to treat the workers with disdain, looking upon them as inferior--fit only for exploitation. The programs that sought to help the workers develop mentally and emotionally were terminated. Laws were passed that prevented them from living within the major cities. By then, the tall race had developed technically to the point where very little manual labor was required.

In time there was a complete physical separation between the two groups. The workers, abandoned by those who had once befriended, taught and cared for them, descended into savagery. They fought among themselves and raided the settlements of the tall race for food and other necessities. Eventually the workers became more and more susceptible to disease, and their numbers steadily decreased.

The soul group we are describing is of course your own. That group has been trying to learn the essential lessons of the material plane ever since it began to use this planet as its main school at the physical level.

Unfortunately, the part of the Atlantis experience we have just described represented a phase of unlearning--one that was actually causing the soul group to lose ground. It became clear that the experiment would have to be ended. The guardians into whose care the human soul group had been entrusted decided there was only one way to accomplish the termination, and that was to sink the entire continent beneath the ocean.

The inundation did not occur without warning. In fact, the guardians arranged for many minor upheavals to occur beforehand, hoping that the Atlanteans would realize that they had strayed from the upward path, and would seek to make the necessary changes before it was too late. A minority of them did recognize the advance warnings of disaster, and managed to escape from the doomed continent before it sank. Even the sinking itself occurred in stages, again allowing those who had "eyes to see" to read the message.

Time turns in circles. The screen of human history repeats the major disasters many times, in the hope that individuals facing catastrophe will subconsciously remember that they have lived it all before, and will realize not only that the upheavals have a cause, but that they themselves are that cause.

Now, in the final decade of the twentieth century, the human race is being shown once again that the "wages of sin is death"--not in the literal sense of this biblical expression, but according to its true metaphorical interpretation: that prolonged disobedience to the cosmic laws results in failure of the support systems that sustain mankind's planetary existence.

Human beings imagine they can do as they please with all the lower kingdoms--savaging the forests, polluting the seas and rivers, bloating themselves on the cadavers of animals--and that these actions will have no consequence. They think they can pour their mental energy into the fashioning of apocalyptic weapons able to kill millions at a time--but that somehow they can prevent all that energy from 'manifesting' in the use of those weapons. Perhaps worst of all, they believe they are justified in the hatred and resentment which they carry about, often for generations, not realizing that they are merely staining their own souls with such negativity.

But everything in the earth realm comes with a price-tag, and every debt has its day of reckoning. For mankind on this planet, that day is now.

Just as happened in Atlantis, the pressures on humanity to reform and spiritualize itself will build gradually-- giving those who have retained a modicum of intuitive awareness an opportunity to recognize the yawning chasm of destruction into which the race is preparing to rush headlong. If enough souls can make the necessary changes, it is possible --even at this late hour--to avoid the complete break-up of human civilization. Only time can determine how the impasse will be resolved, for mankind has the gift of free will, and no higher spiritual source can say ahead of time exactly how that gift will be exercised.

Watch as the events unfold. If you find yourself fearing that the chaos and destruction will never end and that you are living through the final days of mankind on earth, remember that these things are merely a prelude to the emergence of a new and spiritualized race of human beings, to whom has been promised a golden age of peace, brotherhood and unity.

That golden age is not far off, as man measures time. A short period of darkness will come, but then the dawn will break and with it will begin an era of immense progress both materially and spiritually, truly an Age of Miracles.

You can be part of that wonderful experience. You need only to continue to practice kindness and caring, reaching out to help others whenever the opportunity presents itself. Above all, trust that there is a higher plan behind the negative manifestations on the earth, and that the deepening shadows around you will soon dissipate.

If you cannot bring yourself to believe in a loving Creative Source supporting your world, then at least believe in yourself, or in the inevitable victory of truth and goodness, or in the inherent nobility of the human spirit. In so doing you will be practicing faith, without which the journey through life loses all meaning, and the mountain of spiritual achievement can never be scaled.

May the peace and blessing of all the higher beings who care for humanity's struggle be with you forevermore.

Hilarion.
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From 'The Master Plan', believed to be created by the Master Hilarion & channeled through M.B. Cooke. The publishers encourage the copying and distribution of this message. Excerpted from THE MASTER PLAN, available from: Marcus Books, P.O. Box 327, Queensville, Ontario, Canada, L0G 1R0

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