In a message dated 10/1/98 5:30:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> You mean to tell me that we now need a tertiary alternative to the
>  alternative to the serious list?

I'm too tired to figure this one out. I guess I'm flumbustered by the peaches
& dishonesty movement. I get the impression that some people really took the
bubblegum sidewalk seriously and that I offended them as a result and have
compromised the line of integrity between BS and the serious. What else is
new? I feel really mixed up about this, it is sort of getting to me like the
first time I read D. H. Lawrence, or saw _Last Tango in Paris_, both of which
occured too early in my adolescent fug. I'm going through a brain warp here,
which is good... yes, it feels good in an odd sort of way. Male menopause or
alzheimers? Work has been a challenge of late, mainly because I feel that the
company is convinced it must flash out in little spurts of self destruction --
destruction is serious, imagined destruction is trivial paranoia. I see that
the bubblegum sidewalk would have been in context on BP, but the slip of tact
to allow it over into PL was sort of like Chernobyl. Speaking of the need for
containment, I am working on a plan to write a real story, a story not real
but really a story like in fiction only this time involving Gab & Eti in the
bubblegum sidewalk and having it translated into Polish with the idea to
publish in a Polish preservation venue. I'm also considering French, Spanish
and Urdu. I know it will not take much to sneak it into Ireland. Peru may be a
tough sell. This I think will be an interesting challenge, all those of a
super serious bent of mind will have to decide if this is how they want
Americans represented to the international community and will have to RACE me
to publication with serious and informative articles in order to prevent my
making idiots of all of us. I don't think I can do any worse than Congress has
been doing with their publications.

Ambaffador ][<en