>>Hmm, next time order it directly from us.
>Yeah. But I was still waiting for the first book to arrive and I ordere it
from you!
>It arrived 9-10 months after the order, and I had to e-mail Stang cause my
order was lost...
>And what about my two Stark Fist 4 numbers subscriptions (that means two
subscription, 8 numbers)?
>Did you publish some new number?
>Have you got some old one?
>However,
>you got to know how gratefull I was when I realized how much the church had
to spend to mail all the stuff to me.
>That was few less than the expense I had for the books!
>>>>P.S.
>>>Furio Colombo's
>>>Telematics and Religion:
>>>"Il Dio di Internet", ("The God of Internet") is on the way.
>>Thanks.
>You got to thank me for the htmlized version too! Still at work on it, I got probs with TIME CONTROL.
>And I don't know much about Colombo's position about copyright control too.
>At this time you can find the first part of "Il Dio di Internet" at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/4662/colombo.html
>(I typed all of it from beginning to " ..."Bob"...some million dollars.") It's in italian of course.
>I'm tryng to translate some of it.
>That's the first bit:
>------------
>CULTURE
>Telematics and religion.
>"Bob", an ex vendor, is the new leader of an invisible church celebrating
its rites on electronic freeway.
>The God of Internet.
>The story is crazy, how can I tell it from the beginning? And how can I explain that in this story the name "Bob" must always appear
between quotation marks, and that I'm not talking about religion, neither of a joke in the old meaning of this word, that all I say is, at the same time, true, a bit stupid and not blasphemous at all cause it don't deal about God, religion or our life but only the computer?
>Than I surprise myselfb sayng that "only the computer" doesn't mean
nothing. Or everything. Here, from the country where I'm writing, 80 million of people have the computer, and 40 million know "Bob" (do you see the quotation marks?)
>And then I'm not sure if I'm telling a true story or if I'm risking
prestigew with my readers.
>What can I say? It's not true. But it's true from the point of view of
Ivan Stang, that is called Doug Smith in real life (I mean outside the computer, but what is real life, inside or outside, for the million of people we are speaking of?) and that is the chief and guide of the church othe "SubGenius", that make proseliti inside Internet, and whose cathedral it's placed, dunque, inside the computer.
>The story start so."Bob" Dobbs (never forget the quotation marks around the
name of Bob, it seems to be a form of cult between believers) appeared the first time (obviously on the screen, during a trip of "browsing" in the at that time primitive freeway)
>to a certain Philo Drummond, that at thatb time was a vendor of ad of the
yellow pages.
>We are in 1989, and "Bob" appeared with the face of the tipical daddy of a
tv series
>...
>There is the boy looking for fun drawing the image of "Bob" (with
quotation marks) on his personal.
>What he did is very common it's called "clip art" ...
>---------
>You asked me if it was a bad article?
>Yes it was.
>His italian is worst of mine english, you know wath I mean. I suppose it was translated from english too.
>But it's a good article if you think of it as money. Yeah, you can call it very good.
>Colombo's ignorance has been manipulated from an odd inteligence to make the image of "Bob" very powerfull. That's bull-dada?
>I suspect it always happens when They are talking of "Bob". Colombo said that "Bob"'s image is worth some million of dollars! He said also that the publisher of "Revelation X" sell 10000 copies and
more of it each month.
>This publisher doesn't publish anything else and is offices are located at
Rockfeller Center.
>He have seen a tv interview of Stang and believed each word of it. It's all that true?!?
>So you got Rolls and live in a castle and you didn't send my stark fist
subscription too!
>:-(
>I'm going to contact two publishers in the next days. One of them is a very small one but he is friend of friends. The other one is quite strange, they publish computer guides and stuff
like Albert Hoffman "LSD: My Problem Child" or Re:Search "New primitives".
>And they are looking for new books idea too. But I don't know who they are, they can also be lost in same NewAge trip,
I really don't know.
>Salutoni
>dallo slitta
>(You must tell me exactly where your parents were from (in Italy) did they
were from Calabria? I know a lot of Bevilacqua in my country...)
>bye
>--
>Guido Slitta
>http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/4662
Rev. J.C. "Steve" Bevilacqua
Business Manager, Sleazy Promoter
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
Send $1.00 for more information on this fast growing cult! PO Box 140306 Dallas, TX 75214
http://www.subgenius.com
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