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    PARENTAL GUIDANCE WARNING

    This publication is not suitable -- and not intended -- for those below
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    If you don't meet your local ordnance requirements, stop reading
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                  The "Find Out Why They Call Me Stumpy" issue

                              November 14th, 1993

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    AXCESSerpt : Ice-T interview

    Q: So you've got a book coming out.

    I-T: Got a book coming out.  Book is called _The Ice Opinion, Who Gives
    a Fuck?_ and it's done. It's a compilation of all my interviews but it's
    done like one big long meeting -- speaking on topics : education, you
    know, race. religion, sex, ghetto mentality...and it's like at the end
    of each chapter it says "Well, that's my opinion on education, who gives
    a fuck?"  Because it's not supposed to be taken as so important, it's
    just, "Yo, this is how I feel about it"

    ....it's like one stop shopping for Ice-T, you know what I'm saying. So
    you could be sitting up and having a real hot argument about something
    and say "let's see what the fuck Ice says." Then you read it and you
    say, "Ice is a fucking asshole." Then take it from there. And somebody
    says, "fuck you, man, he had a point there".


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    Current subscribers     : you are always welcome to participate.
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    Question 1 -- Alternative Literature History

            Suppose that instead of William Gibson, _The Difference Engine_
            was co-written by Bruce Sterling and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
            (Nobel Prize winner for _100 Years of Solitude_; also well-known
            for _Love in the Time of Cholera_).

            Describe the outcome of this literary coupling.


    Question 2 -- Pacoidspeak Translator <tm>

            The latest issue of Fringeware Review makes heavy use of the
            phrase "cyberorganics".  Free subscription to anyone who can
            translate into English whatever the hell Jon and Paco are
            talking about.

            Alternative selection : neo-tribalism.


    Question 3 -- Henry Rollins

            Savage street poet or heavy metal butthead?


    Question 4 -- alt.cyberpunk.slag

            Write a RFD for alt.cyberpunk.slag, a special place in
            cyberspace set aside for those who have nothing better to do but
            mutter inane variations of _________ sux.  I think there should
            be a place for all the cyberpunk parasites to leech together.

            Bonus :  Top 10 List of fab alt.cyberpunk.slag topics.

                    Starters :  Billy Idol *sux*
                                MTV *sux*
                                Mondo 2000 *sux*
                                Wired *sux*
                                Fortress *sux*
                                Tribe *sux*

    Question 5 -- Alternative Cyberspace Utopians

            Suppose that the Well is destroyed and all hosts and moderators
            are dragged into the streets for public execution.

            Extrapolate.


    Question 6 -- For Kibo only.

            James, what are you wearing right at this moment?


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