A bit of retro for the terminal as we enter the last month of the 1900's. To think as Y2K approaches that I get nostalgic for the Apple IIe of my elementary school days, sends a shiver of geekiness through my body strong enough to make me want to vomit in terror after biting the head off a chicken. The inviting black abyss backdrop for glowing lime-green words, I miss it. It whispered of fire flies' bioluminescent wanderings in the early night, cunning animal eyes shining out of ignorant darkness, and the delicacies of life overlayed upon the easy horrors of nothingness. The latter whisper a constant reminder of technologies' progress at the potential expense of natural resources. The black, the green, these were no mistakes. They were carefully planned metaphors, now vanquished by the colorful user interface of Windows and the paint brush garishness of the new internet. As the dawning of a new millenium pokes its green head into the blackness of our 20^th century, do not forget your computer terminal heritage.

Avoiding a rant on the WTO is very difficult. To further ignore global crisis, here is a poem I am writing to encourage cleanliness and good hygiene in children:

Scrotal Fungus

Scrotal fungus dangling to my toes
Scrotal fungus clogging up my nose
Yum! That fungus all I ever eat
Gets in the way when I pound my meat
Must destroy the fungus really quick
Pull it out before it eats my dick
Yanking fungus out sure is messy
Ripped free one of my poor lil' testes!

Why? Why? Why? It's getting harder to avoid it, okay, everything thus far written must be latently metaphorical for the evil that is the WTO. (As opposed to blatantly allegorical like "Star Wars: Episode 1.")
I'm not going to run with the 'Episode 1' bit since I'm fairly certain somebody else will and I wouldn't want to trample all over their original, poignant and scintillating observations comparing the "Greedy Trade Federation" with the "World Trade Organization." At least the greedy trade federation is defeated, but only at the expense of putting all the pawns in place for fascism to step in and take control. In Seattle we have 40,000+ people protesting and fighting the WTO. Which future fascist leader of America will step up and play political hero? George Bush, jr., perhaps? Something is going to give, with a major election coming up and the huge tide of anti-WTO sentiment, some keen-eyed politician's people will maneuver their man into a position that both appeases the labor organizations and keeps back door negotiations open with the powerful WTO. One word from them can keep many countries goods from hitting our soil, so back door shenanigans are most likely inevitable. But what about all the non-labor union oriented protestors? All ready these protestors are being labeled as "violent" and "destructive." American's aren't going to put up with the obvious beating and murdering of members of labor organizations anymore, but they're always up for some good old fashioned rubber bullet riddling and head smashing of uppity over educated faggots.

At this point, I'll take my bow before I start to sound like another Paranoia Now! presents...

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