"Follow the art surfer" she said
"Till doomsday, if you dare
Over the hills and far away.
Aladdin's lamp is there."
- Vachel Lindsay

• MUSEA WEBSITE UPDATE: A lot of zinesters have shown interest in being on our website. Stephano, "Opera Vagabond" had the best idea, that those invited and interested zinesters, go to a computer, type in 1-2 pages of the following: an intro to your zine, a sample article, your address (website or physical) your address and ordering info. Then e-mail to Donna, Musea's webmaster, at donna_turman@email.msn.com. Now that is easy for anyone to do and if it catches on, we'll have a zine directory. Stay tuned. If enough are interested, we'll open the site to zinesters that haven't yet been invited.
• MINIQUIZ: True or False: Warner Brothers is planning a remake of the sci-fi classic film "Charly" (Cliff Robertson is superb in the lead role) based on the book Flowers for Algernon. The new film will star cartoon characters Pinky and The Brain. (Answer later in this column).
• ART: The Hermitage is looking for a developer (and his cash) to construct a new Museum of Applied and Decorative Arts. The Russian government has allocated a 450,000 sq. ft. wing of the General Staff Building, formerly the local headquarters of the Soviet Army, for the collection that will include silver, porcelain, arms and armor, tapestries, etc. Right now, only 5% of the Hermitage collection is on display. This would bump it up to 40% and make it the world's largest museum complex, outflanking the Louvre. We salute!(WSJ)
• QUOTE ON SLAM POETRY: "I slam because my background in poetry started with Theater and before that, I was a musician, and as a poet right from the get go for me, poetry was a performance thing. I slam because I enjoy the competition. I'm a competitive person and I like the extra energy that it brings in a performance." Clebo. (The Word/Noemi A. Collie)
• MUSIC FOR DISCUSSION: Dutch orchestras must devote at least 7% of performing time to Dutch composers, and some must be living. If the orchestra does not, they lose state subsidy that can account for 75% of their funding. Is this good or bad? (World Press Reviews)
• "SAY KIDS, WHAT TIME IS IT?" It's time to remember the passing of these artists: We lost two classic kids TV show stars including Buffalo Bob Smith, "Howdy Doody," 2,543 episodes. He said: "We didn't have one puppet made for the first three weeks, so we just faked it at first...pretended that Howdy was in my desk drawer, kicking, trying to get out." Shari Lewis with "Lamb Chop". Both were kinder, gentler than present day kids shows. And finally, Choreographer Jerome Robbins West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, etc.
• ON THE MEDIA: "The Media treats politicians as if they were movie stars, asking 'what are THEY up to?' Instead, they should be treating politicians as servants of the public and ask what they are doing for the COUNTRY. A government of personalities is worthless, a government of representatives is worth something." - Art S. Revolutionary Also, if you have access to the web, you now have access to your government. Send e-mail directly to your rep or senator or etc. at "www.e-thepeople.com." I have had a chance to look, so readers tell me what you think.
• CHUMP OF THE MONTH: Animal activist and French kitten Bridget Bardot is RIGHT ON when she asks Austrians to boycott a 6-day art extravaganza by Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch (our chump) that will include slaughtering three bulls on stage and using the blood and entrails to create art. Nitsch needs to know that this is not art; it's animal cruelty, he's a moron, and nobody should support this nonsense. We salute Bardot for doing the right thing and condemn Nitwit for his idiotic behavior.
• LITERALLY: HAY-ON-WYE, Wales is claiming to be the second-hand book capital of the world. This English/Welsh border town of 1,400 has 35 used book shops with about 2 million books, and attracts about one million tourists a year. It sounds like heaven to me. (William G. Smith/DMN)...In the LONGEST OVERDUE BOOK dept. a contender must be the lost and found De Naturis Rerum a book on the middle ages, that was returned 135 years overdue to its original home at the county public library in Staffordshire, England. The book was checked out in 1863 and discovered in the University of Chicago Library. The $6,000 fine was waived. (World Press Review) And finally, this being our 6th anniversary as a 'zine, we have this quote on zines by Zine World's editor Doug Holland: "There remains...one haven for thought that's not "brought to you by" any corporate sponsors. The underground press - magazines so amateur they call them 'zines' - handcrafted news and opinion that can be brilliant, shocking, or, if you're not choosy enough, downright illiterate...and what do you get if you send for a 'zine? Typos. Bad grammar. Plain, black and white photocopied pages. And now and then, genuine vision, emotion, news and ideas that have never been filtered through a necktie." (from Found Underground/The Bay City Slug)
• DALLAS IN THE LIMELIGHT: Back on August 26, 1968, James Brown came to Dallas, and recorded a live concert. That CD, Say it Live and Loud came out in August 1998. we salute. Resident hippie, Woody Stock, rated JB as the best concert in his Musea book, Rating the 60s Concerts. Check it out. (CD info DMN). Also, you might enjoy this excerpt from the Dallas Gazette, July 1937 about Deep Ellum in its heyday: "Down in Deep Ellum in Dallas, where Central Avenue empties into Elm Street is where Ethiopia stretches forth her hands. It is the one spot in the city that needs no daylight saving time because there is no bedtime and working hours have no limits. The only place on earth where business, religion, voodooism, gambling, and stealing goes on at the same time without friction." By J. H. Owens, from the zine Dateline Unknown (Rick Waldrop, editor)
• MINIQUIZ ANSWER: False, that was just a fantasy remake thought up by Esther M. Friesner in the latest issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1998
• PAINTING: Our 2nd chump of the month is Accademie-Arte, a company that manufactures legal fake masterpieces that sell at a fraction of the cost of an original. When Musea advocates the selling of exact replicas on canvas, we DON'T mean this junk. We DO mean undetectable copies mass marketed so that we can get them out of musty museums and into peoples' town centers and exhibit halls. (Europe)...Quote "To say realism in painting is inconsequential is to say Velasquez, Raphael, and the other old masters are worthless. How absurd! Great realism painting, whether painted hundreds years ago or today are great art." Art S. Revolutionary
• ENDER : Shopper #1: "I just can't believe that some fat opera singer did it." Shopper #2: "A fat opera singer?" Shopper #1: "Yeah, they're saying Pavarotti was chasing Princess Di on a little motorcycle trying to get her picture." Shopper #2: That's paparazzi, not Pavarotti Shopper #1: Paparazzi, Pavarotti, whatever his name is." - (Gary Moseman, Treasure State review#18)

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