__ __ \ \ /_/i e w e r issue 5 vol. 2 Sept. 28/99 \ \/| |i s c r e t i o n ISSN 1481-2266 \__| |/ v_d@iname.com | _ |/ archived at disobey.com |___|/ http://www.disobey.com/text/ __ __________________ _ __________________ _ _________________ __ __ ________________ _ __________________ _ ___________________ __ __ ______________ _ __________________ _ _____________________ __ T h e r e a r e 9 4 d a y s r e m a i n i n g . . . In this issue: WELCOME QUOTABLE QUOTABLE SIMPSONS - SUBMITTED BY ANDREW M. SHADES OF CHRISTINE SHITE RUDOLPH IS IN THE RED - SUBMITTED BY ANTIPRESS MIASHITE ETC :: WELCOME :: Welcome to the "let's pick on A-P" issue. Whatever. First off, for those of you who didn't get it, last issue was a joke. Actually it was more than just a joke - it was my lame assed of saying I was to freakin' busy to put fingers to keyboard to pound out something so what you saw was what you got. And here is what a few of you had to say: Paul L. thus spoketh: > Comment on THE JOURNAL OF SEDENTARY LIFE: > > I will not dare to say that this is the best issue of VD I have ever > seen. If an elegant paradox, it would be an excessively controversial > statement... > > My congratulations to the editor nevertheless. > > frankly, it was funny. Thanks Paul - spoken like someone who teaches philosophy... But I wonder - if you didn't read it would it still be there? And our ever so eloquent pal AFeXT had this to spew forth: > You didn't link me! You son of a bitch! What the HELL was that about > anyway? Humour. Try it sometime mr. miserable pigmy-pony boy. > Funny, yet utterly unsatisfying. I bet your girlfriend said the same thing about you last night And everyone's favourite media critic A-P even decided to bellow forth from Splattsburg: > So what else have you been up to besides wasting bandwidth? Uh...wasting even more bandwidth reading various online rags like...AntiPress A-P also added: > We think "Sedimentary" is a more apt word... Yeah, just the response I'd expect from someone from Splattsburg?!?! (What the hell does that mean?) But you know what? After reading your bitching I figured the best way to get back at you was to go out and buy the new Stephen King novel - Hearts In Atlantis. And so I did. Muhahahahahahaha.... Bite me muthafugga!!! Oh well, enough of last issue lets go a little further back to even older emailshite and we find that AFeXT had this to say after our Britney Spears mailing list sub-a-thon threat: > Link you!? > > Sure! (Bastard) > > I'll get that up as soon as possible.. > > Even if you did call me a pigmy-pony boy with homosexual fantasies... > > At least it makes me laugh... Kinda.. > > I am deeply emotionally scarred though, because I'm never going to > get over the fact that you did, in fact, call me a pigmy-pony boy, > that REALLY hurts, man. > > You think you know a guy... *sob* Get over it ya big baby. And through his tears he managed to also type out this sentimental message about his favourite rag - VD: > it's the only newsletter I go out of my way to read all the way > through... Can you say brownie (not to be confused with brown-eye) points?!?!? OK you're redeemed. Everyone go and check out AFeXT's most incredible, unbelievable, fanfuckingtastic site: http://www.blairwoods.com AFeXT was also featured in an L.A. Time's article as well but the link is no longer active so I can't point you to it. I guess he's been sucking up to more than just VD lately...slut Well, if you have an archived version of the LA Times article somewhere online there AFeXT let me know so I can let the vast multitudes of readers know as well. We wait with baited breath (and that's not cause we live in Splattsburg) Ok enough of that drivel - try this drivel instead - Andrew M. decided to send us some unsolicited Haiku shite (what people won't stoop to to get published - what VD won't stoop to to publish some shite!?). So here's his unabridged note: > Haiku > > I'm a little peetot, stort and shout > Here is my spandle > here is my hout! > > regards, > andy > > p.s. have you told your kids "FUCK YOU" today??? Uh...no. But I'm about to tell you... But you know what? For some really juvenile reason every time I read that fucking haikushite I laugh - it's just so......stupid... In completely unrelated news... Here's an advance notice for y'all about an up and coming new webzine that looks real promising: *spark - exploring electronic consciousness... http://www.spark-online.com *spark will be launching its first issue this Saturday, October 1. So go there check it and you can tell people that you were there right from the start... Good luck Kristopher... OK. So the last issue joke is over. Here's a real issue, real being a subjective term so don't bother sending any notes there A-P . Quit bitching and start reading bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla..... :: QUOTABLE :: "fuck the rest and stab it dead" -T. Reznor _Somewhat Damaged_ "Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." -Foghorn Leghorn (submitted by Andrew M.) "You can't be a real country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER." -(the late great)Frank Zappa (submitted by Andrew M.) "I would rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." -Emma Goldman (submitted by Andrew M.) "I would rather have tulips on my organ than roses on my piano" -unknown :: QUOTABLE SIMPSONS - SUBMITTED BY ANDREW M.:: Once again Andrew has supplied us with some funny quotes from his list. If you want his quotes sent directly to you then drop him a line at: amiller@teleport.com and say please.... THE WIT AND THE WISDOM OF HOMER J. SIMPSON "Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs." "Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen." "Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene.'" "Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaselling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel." "If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers." "Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time, just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. Well, good night." "Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get." "Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way." "Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'" "To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!" "I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'Cover for me.' Number two, 'Oh, good idea, boss.' Number three, 'It was like that when I got here.'" :: SHADES OF CHRISTINE SHITE :: I read an article in last Sunday's Toronto Star news rag about Stephen King buying the van that damn near killed him. Apparently he got his lawyer to contact the van owner - and person who ran King over - Bryan Smith to purchase the vehicle for $1500.00 US. King plans to "take a sledgehammer and beat it!" King also said that he must now wear wide bottom skateboard pants to hide some cyborg metal attachments on his leg. Sounds like another novel in the works... I actually only included this little tidbit to piss off A-P And I only include those little "" emoticon thingies cause they piss him off too. Everything pisses him off. He's like, the fucking Grinch Who Stole Splattsburg. hehehehehehe :: RUDOLPH IS IN THE RED - SUBMITTED BY ANTIPRESS :: Speaking of A-P... He did manage to send us this amusing article from _The Gazette_, Montreal, Sept. 16 edition. His comments follow the article (After the **** thingies - "thingies" is the special word of this issue). Anyways, here's the article: 'Really poor' reindeer highlights hardships of living on welfare By Darren Decker _The Gazette_ Christmas is still more than three months away but that didn't stop Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer from making an appearance in Cote des Neiges yesterday. But there is nothing festive about Rudolph's visit to the Cote des Neiges welfare office. Rudolph was, in fact, a member of the Project Genesis Social Justice Committee dressed up in a reindeer costume. Project Genesis, a Cote des Neiges-based grass-roots advocacy organization, organized the rally to draw attention to the more than $500 million the federal government has cut from welfare benefits since 1996... As part of yesterday's rally, members of the Social Justice Committee set up a scenario where due to downsizing at the North Pole, Rudolph suddenly found himself unemployed. Also, according to the scenario, because he put himself in a position to be fired by giving away toys for free, Rudolph was refused employment insurance and had to apply for welfare..." **** And then A-P added: You know how much we "enjoy" Xmas. Hope Rudolph gets hoof-and-mouth from a lady reindeer of ill repute. (Maybe he'll hook up with three of them-- ho, ho, ho.) And his nose will be really red when he starts snorting coke. That's one flea-bitten icon we wouldn't mind seeing in our headlights... The best line in the article was this quote by an organizer: "Another reason why we chose Rudolph was because a lot of people feel bad about the poor between Dec. 15 and Dec. 31 but forget that this is a year-long problem." There's some truth to that but we don't believe that most people feel "that bad" during the holidays. Hell, five seconds to throw a bit of money into a Salvation Army pot as opposed to spending five hours on finding "the RIGHT gifts", big $ flying all over. And the "working poor" retail clerks, most of them seasonal, only get a small piece of that action. (We speak from experience.) You want "social justice"?-- nail that fat jolly bastard up there at the North Pole who's been fronting for the rich capitalistics for too long. You know, if we weren't firmly attached to this cross, we'd come down there and really kick some ass... -Hmmm...Isn't he just a bundle of joy and glad tidings. Merry Fucking -Christmas to you too there A-P, hehehehehe I heard they're selling a -sense of humour on ebay - maybe I'll buy it for you...as a Christmas -present.... :: MIASHITE :: MIA = Morbus Is Absent. Has anyone heard from Morbus in the last two weeks? Last I heard from him he was mumbling something about the Internet being his - he invented it and we're all losers and he was on his way to Bubba's Bait, Burgers and Gun Shop to show us all... Morbus you out there? :: ETC :: You can catch VD. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. If you want VD delivered to your mailbox, send an empty email to: v_d-subscribe@makelist.com Conversely, if you don't want VD, figure it out (it has something to do with empty mail and v_d-unsubscribe@makelist.com - duh). 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