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You may remember Aldous Huxley from such public school assignments as Brave New World and SOMA.

I've been thinking about the state-raised-baby aspect of BNW, so when I saw The Island on the $ .48 cart I was curious enough to start reading it.

I had some respect for Huxley on the basis of his non-fiction Doors of Perception, about LSD experiments...I remember thinking as a teenager that BNW had some frightening predictions about THE FUTURE. I guess reciently I started realzing that (to quote Joe Neff's Drexel Grandview sci-fi marathon t-shirt) THE FUTURE really IS history.

The Island has some interesting arguments about the nature of god and humans...I've been reading it on the subway on the way to work. It's a bit confusing with not much action and lots and lots of what is the word...dogma? pedantry? preaching? I don't know what I'm saying here.

It's a bit preachy, i guess...well informed but preachy...not unsual for utopian literature i suppose. I was wondering aloud to Krishna the other day about what impact Huxley's books have had in the US. I suspected that public acceptance of his ideas has increased greatly in the last 50 years. Krishna thought not.

WANTED: RESPONSIBLE LANDLORD
phote taken with my lovely mini dv camera

bedbugs, adverts, and laws

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sigh...heavy sigh...arrgh...sigh...arrgh.

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apparently this is not covered by my extended warranty.

community garden day is here again.
I will go stare at some plants...sniff some mint
and maybe read this book about Rajasthan.

Bon Anniversaire(sp?), Amie rica

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2030 years after some big event I sat with some STRAND friends at East River Bar in Williamsberg, Brooklyn, NYC, NY, USA basking in the glow of fireworks and BBQ waiting to view strictly Platonic and Angry Lemon (not necessairly in that order.).

Soooooooooooooooooo

A.L. was Grrrreat...He started off with a HOWL to wake the dead...by the time strictly Platonic got going it was way past my bedtime and I had to split. I have tried to see three S.P. shows now and this is as close as I've come. I did get to take some pictures of the band though with my real old 120 camera just before the sun set over the Williamsberg Bridge. I hope they turn out.

My plan is to put them in a zinie-zine-zine called PROJECT with artwork and interviews. So far I have pictures (fingers crossed...chickens not yet hatched) of Mitch Cohen graphic comix teacher extraordinaire...Tom S. of Bikini-Blood-Bath fiction-caja fame...Jon Plant of the music, (PRAT?)(PRATT?) NJ, Kids Book illustration world, and now (finger still crossed) Strictly Platonic...today I'll see if I can talk Z into letting me shoot her posse.