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Subject: Re: CHUNKLET 11 w/Don Caballero 7" (Still some copies left)
Todd Morman wrote:
I
> wonder if they have some sort of deal with the Association of
> Alternative Leftertainment Weeklies to get that stuff at a discount.
It's called AlterNet, and it's been around for a decade or so, I think.
I read a short blurb history of it someplace, but I can't recall where
or any specifics. Sorry. I have a cold. Anyway. You dial up (via
Compuserve, probably) and grab a set of current abstracts and then can
download the text of various articles from weeklies all over the
country. If you run 'em, you pay the paper they came from, or you pay
AlterNet and they pay the paper, or something. To submit stuff up (which
is how the whole thing works) you send your stuff up and somebody
decides whether it's general enough to carry nationwide.
Basically. Some of those details are probably inaccurate, but you get
the idea. Good in a pinch, if you need filler--though I, for one, would
prefer, given the "space crunch" they've alluded to, to read The
Straight Dope instead of random recycled stuff from AlterNet.
In all my years, never sold anything via AlterNet either, though my
friend Brad did.
> is anyone interested in that x-cheerleaders thing at Duke on Saturday
> morman
Yes! The odd thing is that Ms. Corbitt has had this cheerleader fetish
thing since way before I ever met her--she used to go see Cornelius play
and she and her friend Harper would do cheers for the band. Gimme a C,
gimme an O, etc.
So she was gonna try out for the local X-Cheerleader squad but was
swamped with the midterm period, so didn't get to. But we're going.
she still has dreams of punk feminist sex-positive cheer-based
performance art of her own.
see you all there?
grady
--
"I wish I could play stand up bass...will somebody teach me..."
--5er
"strap that thing around your neck and stand up.
that's all there is to it." --3.2.3
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