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Sugar and spice and everything nice…erm… #37 kinda like colonialism? September 2000 € Zdarma, 7,95 beton THINK MAGAZÍN ISSN.1212-13098 THOSE TO BLAME ã. 37 Creative Director: J. BENÉT Business Community Liason: BOB ‘JR’ DOBBS Editorial Director: KEITH KIRCHNER Regular Features: Art Director: Humanifesto: pg. 4, Letters: pgs. 4-5, “My Winner for the KATHRYN MILLER Kiosk: pgs. 6-7, Read or Die!: pgs. 8-9, Best Burrito in Prague Vedoucí redaktor: The New Prognosis: pgs. 26-27, MICHAEL KYSELKA (CZ) Sounds Like… pgs, 28-31, is Jáma.” -Think #36 ALEX ZAITCHIK (UK) Platters that matter: pgs, 32-33, Traffic/Prod. Manager At the Kino: pgs, 42-43, AKCE: pgs, RUTH N. 44-45, Camel Club Scene: pgs, 46-49, Assistant to Publishers: Banking On Disaster: PETRA HÁNLOVÁ Dr Paul Kail explores the impact of World SmartCard™ Sales: bank funded oil development in Africa, JOE BODIA (0604 678 645) and the damages that effect all life here Advertising Dept. on Earth, pgs. 10-13 HANY ·EVâÍKOVÁ (0604 835 723) Food for Thought: CyberCyber Café:Café: Chief Agitator: Two amusing and truthful looks justjust 90Kč/hr!90Kč/hr! 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These questions and as our greatest pop bard recommends: cool off your jets, take pester us as we strap on our flower belt and WWI era gas masks off your sweats — this war of attrition takes place on a hundred and prepare to pre-empt the critics, disarm them and give them fronts and will most likely last through the visible horizon of silken tongue kisses before they can point out the surface dry seasons. But we at Think have our humble sketch of what contradiction of a magazine with heated opinions on clothes redemption might wear. It looks like one of those Many Things atop the unfeeling presence of corpo- spray painted hippie visions of dusk where Vermont farms rate sponsors, some of whom appear on the global dot a verdant valley split by a clean winding river, with Most Wanted list, all of whom there but for the naked children and dogs beneath a purple pink sky, a big grace of cold hard ad revenue. So, dear reader, half moon bestowing a touch of the magical. It is a world before you pen a tired screed in imagined superior- without borders where they aliens are not afriad to show ity, and before you call us all manner of verbal themselves, where wooden bowls of slightly rancid green atrocities, please know that we are aware of your olives are traded for mules, a world of homely beauty arguments, have dealt with them at length in previ- queens and of functioning and ecological infrastructures ous issues, and, like imperfect but ultimately con- for every man, woman and child; a world of disco dancing tent mortals, have reconciled ourselves satisfactorily and mutual aid societies; of hardbound books and free to them. But thank you for your concern. love; a world where movie critics are replaced by film Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the Hapsburg critics, and where well-adjusted adolescents join the Empire, our hero, the dragon fly of history, ripcords circus and pay respects to the dead; a world where cops his floaties and prepares to swim the bloody waters make graffiti on the shells of empty missiles, long since of spleen, and if all goes according to plan, will give gutted because the naked apes finally grasped the the grey structures of mammon a jolt the likes of knowledge that love is the only thing that can defeat which they are getting used to. That redemption awaits hate. For this, fellow children, is a law eternal. Dear groovy magazine HA!!! found myself impressed with the content devoted I am researching a novel that involves British and You have been noticed by the high doktors of the to conspiracy, end of the world, Darwin awards, and American ex-pats in Prague having a brush with the Church of the SubGenius and you and your fine other general slack. I am off to Poland tomorrow Russian mafia. I’d be very grateful if you could publication seem to merit the high standing of (Wroclaw) but I shall return either this month or in direct me to a source/give me any info/recollect any „Dobbs-approved.“ But have you tithed your $30 to early Sept. I would like to request a direct meeting anecdotes etc. on this subject no matter how Dallas??? Well, maybe you purchased the Book of if you could find the time then. The reason is this - obscure they may seem. For example a friend the SubGenius or one of our fine products and you Pope Black, a resident of Kiel Germany is planning recently told me that outside U Zpûváãku there was have since tried to channel „Bob,“ a dangerous type a SubG tour of Europe with a stop in Prague - your Russian graffiti. I went down there with a friend of extreme sport which has been responsible for 16 knowledge and assistance would be most invaluable who speaks Russian and it was all about how the fatalities over the last 30 years. Anyway, I, the to our cause of world slack and defeat of the Russians were going to come back and take over Shining Path of Least Resistance, here in Prague for Conspiracy. Please reply, preferably after you have everything here again. a mere weekend, picked up two copies of Think and made a visit to subgenius.com to catch up on our Yeah right, but interesting nonetheless. A writer latest worldwide antics. has to have his ways of tying these kind of -Sincerely, the Shining Path of Least things together. So please rack your fertile Resistance, Western Japan Ministries, brains and mail me back or call me. -Thanks a [email protected] or [email protected] lot, Steve O’Donnell, tel: 4143 0040 or Well, I dunno, mom always said to be alert, coz email: [email protected] the world needs more lerts. And she also said to beware travelling subgenii, as they leave Hey, a mucous film on the furniture. Screws are Thanks for publishing my story. I want my tightening in the Conspiracy, and who knows royalties next week or you’ve had it! By the what? Kontakti! way, what is up with the Animal Rights thing? 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