Like-minded, What with tha B&S fest in England happening shortly, the flourishing picnic scene, general list camraderie, et al, it seems silly that the idea of a commune, composed of this list, has not taken hold. Perhaps a few baby steps could be taken at the Camber thing: impregnating ladies, growing beards (not you, ladies!), wearing macrame, etc. Of course, I can't take credit for the idea as I purchased an amusing little trifle of a manifesto last night called "Hey Beatnik," put out around 1970 by a Tennessee commune. Lots of heavy and helpful information, so try not to let the shocking misogny bum you out. Here's a few choice bits, please contact me for a transcription of the entire book. 1) If you plan to keep horses, remember you're getting involved with life and death karma. 2) To get through the [commune's] gate, you've got to work it out with the gate man. The gate man believes in telling the truth. It's a yoga, the gate is a yoga unto itself. 3) We say that we're like a mental nudist colony, and you have to take off your head clothes. 4) (On making outhouses) We've been working out our cultural shit-shock as we go. 5) Deep in your heart, you know that it's a lot harder and takes a lot more patience and a lot more character to tune a car than it does to write an English paper. 6) Sometimes folks are so heavy at weddings-people say their vows so heavy and so pure it just stones everybody. 7) Talk about women's lib, how about unborn babies' lib? 8) Ladies are supposed to take it upon themseles to create a field among them as far as their influence can reach that's nice and smells good and feels good. 9) Single cats shouldn't never spank nobody else's kid. That causes a lot of beatnik trouble. If this is working right, y'all should be smelling me smelling good right about now. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+