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From: "The Illuminati Order" ::webmaster@illuminatiorder.org:: Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:02:34 To: bill@shunn.net Subject: The Illuminati Order The Illuminati Order would like to invite you to visit with us at: http://www.illuminatiorder.org This invitation is at the request of someone

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X-Originating-IP: [202.8.224.133] From: "Chris Minh" ::arizmug@hotmail.com:: To: bill@shunn.net Subject: Inhuman swill Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:37:37 +0800 I've been reading some things on your website: Inhuman swill, Mormon matter, missionary man etc. One of

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Politics

Make Your Own Bush Speech

Thanks to ❦pould, bringer of all things mischievous, for pointing out the Bush Speechmaker: http://www.lemonbovril.co.uk/bushspeech/ You can hear my own feeble attempt here. Yours will be far more clever than this. Totally Real Actual Speech! / George W. Bush0:00/0:001×

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Read My Palm

I may be behind the curve, but I'm currently reading a book on my Handspring for the first time—Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. (What I mean is, this is the first time I'm reading a book on my Handspring,

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Some Fucked-Up, Repugnant Shit

We had a delightful dinner with our friends Ron and Edie the other night. Despite the scintillating conversation that covered a plethora of topics, however, the high point of the evening was retiring to the iMac to play with the Samuel L. Jackson Soundboard. Shit, yeah.

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That, You Know, Kind of Bell

Say, does anyone know what you call one of those bells that sits on a counter at a window in an office and that you use to summon a clerk or receptionist? Is there a specific term for it?

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He Said What?

From the homepage of Doonesbury.com today come this remarkable quote from Dick Cheney: "Maybe it's part of our national character, you know, we like to have these problems nice and neatly wrapped up, put a ribbon around it. You deploy a force, you win the war,

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Bombing Nigeria

I laughed out loud repeatedly as I read this email exchange with a Nigerian scammer: Something Awful: Something Awful vs. Nigeria and/or Asia (Gee, this guy spends almost as much time in pointless email exchanges with stupid people as I do.)

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It's a Bird—no, It's a Bird—wait, It's—

This CNN article has to have the oddest accompanying photo montage I've ever seen. I mean, Big Bird and Larry Bird, too? CNN: Massive bird spotted in Alaska

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Literature

Is There an Eco in Here?

Last night my wife fell in love with another man. We went to see Umberto Eco reading and in conversation with Jay Parini last night at the 92nd Street Y. █████ was enraptured. Eco is a very charming, self-effacing, funny fellow—and the Italian accent probably doesn't hurt—

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So Good I Even Ate the Bowl!

Of course, I would fuck up pretty badly right after posting that. I ordered a steak and chicken tostada from Fresco Tortilla for lunch, and rather than stopping when the innards were finished, I accidentally ate the tortilla shell too. Oops.

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Missionary Man

A Lonely Old Sculptor

I've added a new audio file over in "Sound Bytes." It a third segment from my August 10 appearance on "Hour of the Wolf," and it contains my reading of a yet-unpublished story called "The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain.

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