What's in that container?

Did you know that William Burroughs was working on a book about Jesus Christ? I don't know if he ever finished it but here is an excerpt from an interview in 1987 where he mentions the project:

I've been predominantly painting for the last five years, since The Western Lands, though I'm working on this book about Jesus Christ. I can't really go into it to a great extent except to say that it's not a religious approach. You know, there's a whole spate of scholars who say that Christ never existed, sort of like the Baconian sort of thing, that the whole thing was cooked up by the church. I think this is completely erroneous, I don't care what they say. It was either Jesus Christ or somebody else! But just like Shakespeare it was done by one person. The same is true here. The same person is speaking; one person is speaking. So that line is all bunkum. Though to a certain extent, yes, because, well, his miracles. You know what the Buddhists say about miracles and healing? If you can, don't! In the first place you're upsetting, you're setting all sorts of factors into motion and upsetting all sorts of order with incalculable long range consequences. You don't know what you are doing in other words. The healer is often motivated by the most reprehensible self-glorification. I remember Wynn Chamberlain and his guru: they stopped in this little Indian village and the head man's son was very ill and dying and the guru said, "Well can't do anything about it." And Wynn said, "What's the matter how can you not be sympathetic?" So he said, "All right, you'll see what happens." So he went in there and did a couple of mantras and the boy got better. So he said, "We better get out of here fast." They barely escaped with their lives. Well, the people say, "If they can do that they can do something else." [Laughs] So there's that factor. But even so, I Think he did perform some of the so-called miracles. They're not so remarkable. I mean, any competent magic man can heal the sick sometimes. He can cast out devils, particularly if he installed them in the first place. Furthermore, I've seen weather magic. Many practitioners can perform weather magic, call up storms and things. I've seen it done. So what he actually did was not all that remarkable. But what was the result? A sort of miracle monopoly by the church, that they can only be performed by authorized personnel, that is, church personnel. And they have to have meticulous verification. They can't have too many saints, you see, they've got enough right now. So then in the story the Christ Virus gets loose in the museum of extinct species. Do you know their keeping small pox alive in three locations? Did you know that? There's one here, one in Sweden, and I forgot where the other is. Three locations. I bet they couldn't bear to see the last of it. So in my story the Christ virus gets loose in an unvaccinated population, so you have hundreds and thousands and millions of people all absolutely convinced, "I'm the way! None comes to the Father except through me!" Well one was more than enough, imagine if you had millions! And all of them gaining adherents, performing miracles. After all, special effects have come a long way since Christ. (ed. Lotringer 699-700)


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REMEMBER THEM THIS WAY

Ok, wasnt that amazing?

Alright, Liz's show tonight, to quote Wall Street "no RSVP required, just be there."

Also, Mitch Mitchell died. Sad for many reasons. Incredible drummer yes, but more than that truly one of the good guys. Someone who really understood what this is all about and had a great sense of humour.

THERE'S THIS GUY NAMED IGGY POP, HE'S REALLY QUITE SOMETHING

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RIOT IF YOU HAVE TO

Wow man, it's been great, thanks for the memories I wont be able to forget if I wanted to...oh and you and your overlords are the most evil and savage motherfuckers on the planet and judgement will be severe and brutal on your hollow souls. Fuck you forever- here's the news

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the U.S. presidential candidates sprint toward the finish line, the Bush administration is also sprinting to enact environmental policy changes before leaving power.

Whether it's getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks, loosening regulations for factory farm waste or making it easier for mountaintop coal-mining operations, these proposed changes have found little favor with environmental groups

The one change most environmentalists want, a mandatory program to cut climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, is not among these so-called "midnight regulations."

Bureaucratic calendars make it virtually impossible that any U.S. across-the-board action will be taken to curb global warming in this administration, though both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have promised to address it if they win Tuesday's U.S. presidential election.

Even some free-market organizations have joined conservation groups to urge a moratorium on last-minute rules proposed by the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.

"The Bush administration has had eight years in office and has issued more regulations than any administration in history," said Eli Lehrer of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. "At this point, in the current economic climate, it would be especially harmful to push through ill-considered regulations in the final days of the administration."

John Kostyack of the National Wildlife Federation, which joined Lehrer's group to call for a ban on these last-minute rules, said citizens are cut out of the process, allowing changes in U.S. law that the public opposes, such as rolling back protections under the Endangered Species Act.

WHAT'S THE RUSH?

The Bush team has urged that these regulations be issued no later than Saturday, so they can be put in effect by the time President George W. Bush leaves office on January 20.

If they are in effect then, it will be hard for the next administration to undo them, and in any case, this may not be the top priority for a new president, said Matt Madia of OMB Watch, which monitors the White House Office of Management and Budget, through which these proposed regulations must pass.

"This is typical," Madia said of the administration's welter of eleventh-hour rules. "It's a natural reaction to knowing that you're almost out of power."

Industry is likely to benefit if Bush's rules on the environment become effective, Madia said.

"Whether it's the electricity industry or the mining industry or the agriculture industry, this is going to remove government restrictions on their activity and in turn they're going to be allowed to pollute more and that ends up harming the public," Madia said in a telephone interview.

Industry- now and for the future. Let's hear it for industry. It made the economy so much stronger, cuz we're all millionaires and the war is over. Hurray for industry.