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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9017)	3/26/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 71178

A little distraction for Alex: ~ ~ "Soul and Money" ~ ~ Special Feature in Spring Whole Earth Review. Fifty diverse, fascinatin, soul searchingly expensive pages in America's most interesting magazine my spouse tells me not to use superlatives unless I can prove it. Formerly The Co-Evolution Quarterly. [We were out in the desert near Silver City New Mexico, way out; found an abandoned "ranchers station" and Aeromotor Water Pump on a dirt road, and an old oil filter they cowpunchers shot the bejeesus and stuffing out of (for fun, or revenge?) and let it rust, just for me, to a bright burnt-orange; and I wrapped it's varying caliber holes up careful de tetanus and tucked it in the car, and packed its cheese and flesh grating surface for home, in the Cactus Motel. I'm ready. "I'm the only person on the plane with a shot-up rusty old oil filter" I say to her. She smiles. Heehee O heedles.....] On this oil filter pathology report, most all of the exit wounds are on the same side, which demonstrates something human or scientific, I'm not sure what. If they wanted it on a fence post (of course), it seems they were "for some reason" compelled to turn it's "face" to the front in setting it up - Did they "like" clean surfaces with no metal corollas? Afraid someone would shoot back from the other side? Keepin track of who got closest to the center of the hypothetical cylinder zenith? One plains drifter had a twenty two or so, but the other had a .45 ~ a father and son? But but - the lil holes are near the center and the honkers are all near the outside... So Timmy was a better aim, which probably pissed Frank off...and jeez, he knocks sonny upside the head, hard, and makes him walk to town for parts when he wakes up. The Aeromotor squeaks lazily in pain as the day-exhausted cattle straggle in. "Get some goddam WD-40 while you're in there!" screams Frank up the dusty rivulet of road. Could you get to the point, please? OK, there's also a section "Dark Comics"; an Amorous Slugs Field Guide; you can get yer rare cukes from The Cucurbit Network; there's a poster for "Lester's - America's Cheapest Ammunition - It Usually Works" (it's got a bear with a hunters pant-seat). Just the inside cover is rich ~ we get ~ ~ some creative person I'm jealous of's cutest little ant made of three cherries with stems for legs and feelers; ~ a photo of Queen Elizabeth with her gloved finger in her nose (I was going to say, "Not that there's anything wrong with that..." but, yes, there is something wrong with that); ~ a beautiful orange, khaki and avocado colored image of a fractal-like passion flower, which is really a ferro-fluid (ears-perk Alex? :o>): This drop of ferrofluid was placed on a glass sheet with yellow paper underneath for photographic contrast. In regions of high magnetic field, the fluid broke into spikes, trying to imitate the way iron filings line up in columns in a magnetic field. In regions of lower magnetic field, it remained a liquid, forming flat drops in a compromise between the siren call of gravity and its own cautious cohesion. The results are shapes seen nowhere else in nature. (A ferrofluid is a gryphon in the world of materials: part liquid, part magnet...a useful schizophrenia.) (From On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science). You really need to see this thing. It's got bracelety patches of coney spikes, like spider eyes, or black durian skin, or pointy gumdrop papaya roe. On a Chinese Checker board of glassy greens and cinched canals of caution yellow. Exactly. Stumble down to your local Food Co-op or Head Shop for a copy (we had The Cosmic Aeroplane Head Shop and Theatre in SLC) (go on bus, bicycle, or kneepads); although you really should be a subscriber. (Hey! These guys invented The Well.) ~ End of Public Service Announcement from Pledge Break Central ~ PS: Personally, bein' an Oregonian, I would be glad to sell xeriphobic idiots water. As my cousin says, when the proposal comes up: "We understand valves." Uh oh! Gotta get to the Post Office! Bummer! Gotta close!!!!! nuk nuk nuk. (Fade to cheers......