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Tuesday, May 02 2000

Robert Crumb

"In my own spaced-out, inarticulate way, I tried to draw the images I saw in my mind when I heard modern pop music on LSD ... clownish fools boppin' and jivin' in the garbage heap they were making out of the Earth. ... I was fooled by my own drawings. Other people thought they were happy images of relaxed cartoon characters just havin' a good ol' time ... so I did too! I forgot what they really were. Photographs of the dance of death! ... I guess I don't like to see people having a good time."

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NY Times : Newspaper prints codes that link readers to the Web

This has "Hey everyone! Come on over for our Y2K retro party tonight!" written all over it.

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Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail discovers fan fiction

"We've tried to get Joe's vote," says Joe's MP, Hermann Bulow. "I've told him that if we bring back capital punishment, it'll be injected, not electric. But he doesn't like it. I'll keep trying though. He's the kind of nice young man we want in our party."

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If you're in to that sort of thing

there's a live chat (or a "public conversation" in NPR-speak) with Ira Glass, host of This American Life, today at 20h00 EST.

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