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March 29, 2004
Kathy Kelly
Crossing Lines
March 27 / 28, 2004
Jennifer Loewenstein
A
Journey to Rafah
Jeffrey St. Clair
Empire of the Locusts
Gary Leupp
The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria
William A. Cook
The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the
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Faheem Hussain
Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army
Elaine Cassel
Is Playing Paintball Terrorism?
Larry Birns / Jessica
Leight
Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America
John Ross
Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead"
John Eskow
A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus
Alan Maass
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
Dave Lindorff
Spineless of US Journalists
Joe Bageant
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy
Dave Zirin
Reasonable Doubt: Why Barry Bonds is Not on Steroids
Craig Waggoner
Who Would Mel's Jesus Nuke?
The Kerry Quandry
Joel Wendland
Marxists
for Kerry
Josh Frank
Scary,
Scary John Kerry
Matt Vidal
Spoilers, Electability and the Poverty of American Democracy
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Hamod, Guthrie, Davies and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Say a Little Prayer
March 26, 2004
Christopher Brauchli
There's
a Chill Over the Country
Robert Fisk
The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Ordeal
of Mordechai Vanunu
Joe DeRaymond
Democracy in El Salvador? Think Again
Mike Whitney
Lessons on Apartheid from Ariel Sharon
Mickey Z.
Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead
Chris Floyd
The Pentagon Archipelago
CounterPunch Photo Wire
Cheney's Close Shave?
John Breneman
Bush's Comic Bomb
Website of the Day
Dick
is a Killer
March 25, 2004
Lee Sustar
Who
is to Blame for Lost Jobs?
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Offshore Banking Centers
Roger Burbach
Lula vs. the IMF: Brazil Begins
to Throw Off the Austerity Planners
Jimmer Endres
Elections Without Politics: The Military Budget Is Not an "Issue"
Larry Tuttle
Acting in Your Name: Identity Theft and Public Interest Groups
Toni Solo
Misreporting Venezuela
Dan Bacher
A Memorial Wall for Iraq War's Dead and Wounded
Saul Landau
Is
Venezuela Next?
Website of the Day
The Spiral Railway
March 24, 2004
Gary Leupp
General
Musharraf's IOU
Richard Oxman
Shakespeare
for Kerry
William Lind
The Beginning
of Phase Three: 4G Warfare Hits Iraq
Rep. Ron Paul
Iraq One Year Later
Michael Dempsey
Killing Rachel Corrie Again
Alan Farago
The Bad Math of Mercury: Bush's War on the Unborn
Benjamin Dangl
and April Howard
Media
in Cuba
John L. Hess
No Lie Left Behind: Judy Miller Does Dick Clarke
Greg Weiher
Two Cheers for Dems: "We're Not as Bad as George"
Eva Golinger
An Open Letter to John Kerry on Venezuela
Grayson Childs
Where's Cynthia McKinney?
Steve Niva
Israel's Assassinations will Only
Fuel More Suicide Bombings
Website of the Day
The Bushiad and the Idiossey
March 23, 2004
Phillip Cryan
The
Drug War's Next Casualty: Colombia's National Parks
Ron Jacobs
They Shoot Men in Wheelchairs, Too?
Dave Lindorff
A Spanish Parallel: Scare Tactics and Elections
Mike Whitney
Richard Clarke and Teflon George
Brian McKinlay
Bush's Lil' Buddy in Trouble: John Howard Starts to Wobble
JG
Driving Mr. Koon: "Jim Crow Lives Next Door"
Phyllis Pollack
Gettin' Jigga with Metallica: the Battle Over the Double Black
CD
Ahmed Bouzid
Sharon's One-Way Track
Sean Carter
The G-Word Goes to Court: One Nation Under [Your Logo Here]
M. Shahid Alam
World's Greatest Country: Do the Facts Lie
March 22, 2004
Mazin Qumsiyeh
On Extrajudicial
Executions
Uri Avnery
The
Assassination of Sheikh Yassin is Worse Than a Crime
Gilad Atzmon
Sharon's Rampage
Mike Whitney
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the Story of Captain James Yee
Jason Leopold
Firm With Ties to Cheney Faces Criminal Indictment in Cal Energy
Scam
Greg Moses
Stop
Walling and Stalling: a Report from Houston's Peace March
Phil Gasper
San Francisco: 25,000 March for an End to the Occupation
Lenni Brenner
Report
from NYC: Old and Young Parade for Peace
Julian Borger
The Clarke Revelations
Steve Perry
Karl Rove's Moment
Website of the Day
Enviros Against War
March 20 / 21, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Gay
Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path
Jeffrey St. Clair
Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe: What Would Lilburne
Do?
Ted Honderich
Tony Blair's Moral Responsibility for Atrocities
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
The Plot Against Syria: an Irresponsibility Act
Gary Leupp
On Viewing "The Passion of the Christ"
William A. Cook
Fence, Barrier, Wall
Phil Gasper
Bush v. Bush-lite: Chomsky's Lesser Evilism
Ron Jacobs
Fox News and the Masters of War
John Stanton
Which Way John Kerry? The Senator's Inner Nixon
Justin Felux
Kerry and Black America: Just Another Stupid White Man
Mike Whitney
Greenspan's Treason: Swindling Posterity
Augustin Velloso
Avoiding Osama's Abyss
Lawrence Magnuson
Eyes Wide Open: Is Spain Caving in to Terrorism?
Kathy Kelly
Getting Together to Defeat Terrorism
Tracy McLellan
Scalia & Cheney: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Kurt Nimmo
Emma Goldman for President!
Luis J. Rodriguez
The Redemptive Power of Art: It's Not a Frill
Mickey Z
The Michael Moore Diet
Jackie Corr
When Harry Truman Stopped in Butte
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Great Trial of 1922: Gandhi's Vision of Responsibility
Poets' Basement
Stew Albert & JD Curtis
Website of the Weekend
Virtual World Election
March 19, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Zapatero
to Kerry: Back Off, Senator, Our Troops are Coming Home
Ann Harrison
So
Protesters, How Well Do You Know Your Rights?
William MacDougall
Fortress Britain's War on "Economic Migrants"
Greg Moses
Sold American: Cowboy Nation Gets Ready to Vote
Cynthia McKinney
Haiti and the Impotence of Black America: Roll Back This Coup,
Mr. Bush
Norman Solomon
Spinning the Past; Threatening the Future
John L. Hess
"Missing" Evidence and the NYTs
Vicente Navarro
The
End of Aznar, Bush's Best Friend
Website of the War
Naming the Dead
March 18, 2004
Gila Svirsky
Rachel
Corrie, One Year Later: She Never Lost Faith in Decency
Christopher Brauchli
Drilling a Hole in the Sanctions: How Halliburton Made $73 Million
from Saddam
William Kulin
Report from Iraq: Just Another Baghdad Car Bombing
Mike Whitney
Resistance: a Moral Imperative
Rep. Ron Paul
Broadcast Indecency Act: an Indecent Attack on the First Amendment
Josh Frank
The Nader Question
Jack Random
They Lied & They Lost: Madrid and the Lessons of Democracy
Greg Bates
What Makes a Nader Voter Tick? A Survey
Sam Hamod / Alfredo Reyes
Contempt of the World: Hastert, Bush and Cheney on Spain
Gary Leupp
The
Madrid Bombings: the Chickens Come Home to Roost
Website of the Day
Privatizing Armageddon: Buy Your Own Doomsday Key
March 17, 2004
Marjorie Cohn
Spain, the EU and the US: War on
Terror or Civil Liberties?
David MacMichael
Untruth
and Consequences
Michael Donnelly
Wear the Green, But Skip the Green Beer
Tom Stephens
"Steady Leadership": Let the Buyer Beware
Wayne Madsen
Sen. Kerry, Let Me Help You Out
Karyn Strickler
Who Owns the Sierra Club? Anonymous Donors and Rigged Elections
Peter Linebaugh
Bush:
Blanc Blanc
March 16, 2004
Lenni Brenner
James
Madison: the Anti-Clerical Father of the Bill of Rights
Scott Boehm
Madrid
Diary: How to Change World Order in Four Days
Alexander Lynch
From Franco to Aznar: the History
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Sam Hamod and Alfredo
Reyes
The Truth About the Spanish Elections: Aznar Was Going Down Anyway
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
You Wouldn't Do a Dog This Way:
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Mike Whitney
The Case for a Nuclear Iran
Robert Fisk
The Bloody Price of the "War
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Bill Christison
The
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CounterPunch Photo Wire
The Passion of St. Teresa
Website of the Day
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March 15, 2004
Harry Browne
Terror Nothing New to Europe
Mike Whitney
Justice
Not Murder: the Tragic Symmetry of Terrorism
Lidice Valenzuela
Haiti: a Coup without Consultation
Greg Moses
Lessons
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Mickey Z.
Depraved Indifference: C-Sections, Patriarchy & Women's Health
Asaf Shtull-Trauring
AWOL
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CounterPunch Wire
Gen. Gramajo Executed by Bees!
March 12 / 14, 2004
Gabriel Kolko
The
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Saul Landau
Oh, Jesus...It's the Movie!
William Blum
Neo-Con(tradictions)
William S. Lind
Why They Throw Rocks
Rahul Mahajan
The Meaning of Madrid: War on "Terrorism" Makes Us
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Neve Gordon
Demographic Wars
Kurt Nimmo
Kerry and the Progressive Interventionists
Mickey Z.
The "New" UN Blames the Poor
Mike Whitney
War Games: the American Media Leads the Charge
Helen Scott and Ashley
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Aristide's Fall: What Led to the Coup?
Justin E.H. Smith
Loïc Wacquant: Against a Sociodicy
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March
29, 2004
The Pitts
A
9/11 Burrow of the American Family
By RICHARD OXMAN
"Was I sleeping, while the others
suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think
I do, what shall I say of today?"
--Samuel Beckett's Vladimir
"For many, the theatre is the abode
where dreams are created. You, players, sellers of drugs, in
your darkened houses people are changed into kings and perform
heroic deeds of safety. In rapture over themselves, or seized
with pity they sit in happy distraction, forgetting the toils
of daily life. Runaways...."
--Bertolt Brecht
In his epic theater, Bertolt Brecht sought to
illuminate the historically specific features of an environment
in order to show how that environment influenced, shaped, and
often battered and destroyed the characters. Unlike dramatists
who focused on the universal elements of the human condition
and fate, Brecht was interested in the attitudes and behavior
people adopted toward each other in specific historical situations.
In Mahagonny and The Threepenny Opera
Brecht demonstrated how people relate to each other in capitalist
societies. In Mother Courage, he showed how tradespeople related
to soldiers and civilians during war in an emerging market society.
In The Measures Taken, Brecht depicted revolutionary relationships
in the struggle in China. He believed that with this "historicization"
one would have the best possible chance to adopt a critical attitude
toward one's society. Brecht wanted audiences to view present
social arrangements and institutions as historical, transitory,
and subject to change. Epic theater was intended to show emotions,
ideas, and behavior as products of, or responses to, specific
social situations and not as the unfolding of the human essence.
When you see Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston
in the movies or on televison, their vehicle --the particular
dramatization-- is not intended to "estrange" or "distance"
the spectator, preventing empathy or identification with situations
and characters; a critical attitude toward the actions of a given
plot is not encouraged. They are not paid to detour empathetic
illusion or a mimesis of reality. On the contrary, their bosses
do not want them to expose the workings of societal processes
and human behavior, showing how and why people behave a certain
way in this society of ours. And they are paid handsomely for
their work. I don't know how much Brad or Jennifer get per picture,
but I know that Mr. Pitt --if you average out his annual income--
pulls in over a million dollars a day; Jennifer's take is very
thick gravy on their Thanksgiving Turkey.
And speaking of "takes," I
could take or leave Jennifer, but Brad has won me over in a big
way a number of times. That said, a million dollars a day is
something we have to address, regardless. Not because it says
anything about the Pitts being greedy. Rather, it's something
essential to confront because their collective take is peanuts
in our present predicament, small fried potatoes in The American
Feast. All the fuss about Oprah's bucks and Martha's millions
notwithstanding, when it comes to the disparity in this land...which
is growing each day, exacerbated worldwide...the whole lot of
entertainers put together (including Michael Jordan, Madonna.
Rosie et. al.) don't amount to much when stacked up against some
of NPR's sponsors, those Corporate Behemoths.
The greed in Mahagonny and The Threepenny
Opera, Mother Courage's sufferings, and persecution in Galileo,
were all to be understood as historically specific constituents
of a social environment, and dramatic presentations were intended
to induce spectators to reflect on "why" these events
happened, thus providing the audience with better historical
understanding and knowledge.
The intention was to produce a kind of
"shock and awe," if you will, posing questions such
as: "Is that the way things are?", "What produced
this?" It's terrible! How can we change things?" His
montage of images and other techniques were designed to provoke
the desire to implement radical social change. A very far cry
from what the Pitts are engaged in, of course.
Brecht's epic theater broke with the
"culinary theater" that provided each spectator with
a pleasant experience or moral for easy digestion. He rejected
theater that tried to produce an illusion of reality.
Samuel Beckett hated both to talk about
his work and his war time activities. He had been a courier for
the French resistance, nearly caught on several occasions by
the Gestapo, and later in the war he would go out with the Marquis,
sabotaging German soldiers in the Vaucluse mountains. He was
personally decorated by Charles de Gaulle, but would never mention
it. When Jerome Lindon, a early SB publisher, was put on trial
for revealing the use of torture by the French military in 50s
Algeria, Beckett came to his rescue risking much personally to
do the right thing. (1) From San Quentin (where he made a major
contribution on behalf of the prisoners) to Saint Lo in France
(where he threw caution to the wind assisting the Irish Red Cross),
Beckett devoted himself to selfless acts of kindness and compassion.
As a rule, his work did not address politics directly, but one
could not find a greater humanitarian. Consequently, in a deeply
hidden way (often), a sense of history is crucial to understanding
much of Beckett. We are uprooted people, we Americans, and in
Waiting for Godot Beckett underscores the amnesia that afflicts
us all:
Vladimir: At the very beginning.
Estragon: The very beginning of WHAT?
Vladimir: This evening...I was saying...I
was saying...
Estragon: I'm not a historian. (2)
We are forgetful and intolerant of true
inquiry:
Estragon: ....Yes, now I remember, yesterday
evening we spent blathering about nothing in particular. That's
been going on for half a century.
Vladimir: You don't remember any fact,
any circumstance?
Estragon: Don't torment me, Didi. (3)
Today, we not only have historical amnesia
and are forgetful, we have select concerns about what we're willing
to talk about, even within the realm of progressive issues; that
goes for very involved activists/leftists too. On top of all,
we have no time, and time is moving at a breakneck speed. We
are all virtually, to a one, sucked dry by the syndrome Leilla
Matsui and Seth Sandronsky touch upon in "The
Passion of the Donald Getting in Touch With Your Inner Psychopath":
"Reality TV (and "The Apprentice"
is no exception) reinforces the notion that "success"
hinges upon one's ability to tap into his/her inner psychopath
to reap the benefits that come with a jobless recovery. On planet
Reality, life imitates what kindergarten would be like if John
Waters and the cast of "Pink Flamingos" were running
the show. On planet earth, the Bush team has taken the farce
even further with their tax cuts for the rich."
Whether or not we actually watch the
nonsense, we've already bought into notions like pushing for
"war money" to be allocated to the public school system.
That's the educational industry that brings you children volunteering
to serve in the military, and parents serving as their willing
cheerleaders. We push for that for the same reason, I suspect,
that we push for Condoleeza Rice to testify. There's a common
denominator between the Trump fans and the traditionally trumped.
There are a handful of exceptions, but, for the most part, the
American public --voting and non-voting, activist and full-of-ennui
others-- are crippled by the notion that (on some level) they
can be Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston, that it's the Bush administration
that's brought about all the disparity and death, and that tuning
into PBS, CNN, CBS, BBC, NPR or whatever is going to provide
more than entertainment protecting the status quo. Hardly anyone
is acknowledging that a complete overhaul of the system is requisite
to creating the communal concerns necessary for personal prosperity,
planetary survival. The 9/11 talk has descended to the level
of Spectacle. What wasn't known already? Why are people surprised?
How come the partisan political aspects aren't paramount in people's
minds? What is anyone prepared to do about all that's on the
stage that would have them behaving differently than they did
during the S&L crisis, the Irangate scandal or the Baneful
Theft of 2000?
Entertainment, with the Greek root meaning
"to hold" (attention) being primary, is what the Pitts
and their colleagues and supporters are all about, whether or
not some of them take an occasional foray into enlightening the
public periodically. History has its place, a hit here, a huge
hiatus there. Bush wants the general populace to be distracted
by the likes of the Pitts, the Winfreys, the Texas Rangers and
all the so-called reality shows that seem to rule the entertainment
roost these days. He doesn't begrudge them their income because
they're helping him to stay in the loop of much larger stakes.
At our expense. Bush pushes the "culinary theater"
that Brecht so detested, "entertainment that provides the
spectator with a pleasant experience or moral for easy digestion."
His abominations in the real world are presented merely as Spectacle,
and Entertainment Tonight --all of its varieties-- makes sure
that we don't delve into things like the fact that on July 26,
2001, John Ashcroft had stopped flying on commercial airlines.
The Attorney General, just like Janet R. before him, used to
fly commercially all the time. So why, two months before Sept.
11, did he start taking chartered government planes which cost
$1,600-plus per hour? Why would he choose to go G-3 Gulfstream
when he could have flown the way he'd always flown for a fraction
of the cost? And, perhaps most importantly, when the FBI advised
Ashcroft to stay off commercial aircraft, why did the rest of
us just have to take our chances? We will not go there, down
that baleful burrow. We are too comfortable. We are too uncaring.
We are too ignorant, stupid about our own history.
The irreparable devestation, the sheer
suffering call out for something other than mere academic debate,
waiting for the Electoral Godot, our grande passion. But why
not when we've got the Pitts with which to wile away the time?
Besides we can point to Paul Newman, eyeglasses akimbo, peering
out of a Nation ad advising us to bone up, Tim Robbins pontificating
on the pluses of invading Afghanistan on a Donahue show, Garafalo
going garrulous over grievances at gargantuan Media Reform Tour
fare, and Moore/Franken selling tons of (dead tree) books. It
all means about as much positive as the two cents that Ed Asner
keeps kicking in whilst applauding the troops. We can still talk
tears over Speilberg's Holocaust, but we won't allow ourselves
a shred of decency respecting 9/11. All of the Show begs the
question of How Who would Hold Up at the next House Un-American
Committee session following a 9/11 #2, if things got bad enough.
Hardly a Brecht in the bunch I'll bet. (4) In the Irish Times
of '46, Beckett touched upon the River Vire which ran through
Saint Lo, highlighting the difference between the mechanical,
obligatory building of civilizations and the effect on the human
mind of their destruction:
"Vire will wind in other shadows
unborn through the bright ways tremble and the old mind ghost-forsaken
sink into its havoc."
Three hundred years from now --should
we survive so long-- Beckett will be remembered more for his
poetry and prose than for his plays. A vision, a conception of
humanity in ruins, an inkling of a different way to think about
our condition once again is all available to the careful reader.
And even though SB would have been horrified if Brecht had gone
through with his plans to do a Marxist version of Godot, I'm
sure he felt much common ground with the communist. But we can't
say the same about Ground Zero groupies and grief-stricken victims
of the world's so-called terrorists. Let me suggest what we all
are likely to be remembered for, Churchill's "little Eichmanns"
and the rest of us. Recently, the new Hamas leader, Abdel-Aziz
al-Rantissi asserted that "God declared war" against
the United States and Israel - but stopped short of saying the
group would strike U.S. targets. The Hamas chief, Abdel Aziz
Rantisi, renewed threats to attack Israel in retaliation for
the assassination of the group's founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
Stopped short of saying that they'd strike at American targets?
How can that be believed? Who can believe that? Only by people
who don't want to tear themselves away from their habitual forms
of entertainment. Only by people who refuse to acknowledge what's
motivating 9/11-type terror around the globe. Only by people
who have Brad as their Baedeker. I'm starting to hear strains
of that old melodic Platters song, "Only You."
I looked up "Brad" in my Celebrity
Thesaurus, and I came way with "charismatic," "talented,"
"virile" and "wealthy." The telling trouble
is that many in America would make the same associations with
Bush. With all that's come down to date, at least half of those
polled, about 50% of those about to vote most likely. But in
looking for "the enemy" one should not dwell on Hussein,
Osama or GWB. It's the American public, not Bush nor bin Laden,
my foolish fellow citizens. Beckett, Brad, Bertolt Brecht and
Bush, baleful, baneful and burrow. Alliteration. It's all so
entertaining, isn't it?
To what end?
(1) Proceedings were instituted against
Lindon for "incitement to military disobedience." In
the U.S. we have laws on the books which would make comparable
actions by citizens vis-a-vis Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Iraq or
elsewhere equally dangerous...for similar reasons.
(2) and (3): Rather than cite the exact
locations of the passages above, the writer urges all readers
to read or re-read Waiting for Godot, a play which has been described
as the only dramatic work in theatre history in which nothing
happens...twice. Notices of good productions, rare these days,
are welcome.
(4) Brecht's testimony in front of HUAC
has been compared to a zoologist's being cross-examined by apes.
Richard Oxman
is a former professor of Cinema History, Comparative Literature
and Dramatic Art at various institutions of so-called higher
education. He can be reached at mail@onedancesummit.org,
but, out of respect, not on April 13 or May 13, one of which
is certainly the birthday of Samuel Beckett.
Weekend
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A
Journey to Rafah
Jeffrey St. Clair
Empire of the Locusts
Gary Leupp
The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria
William A. Cook
The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the
US
Faheem Hussain
Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army
Elaine Cassel
Is Playing Paintball Terrorism?
Larry Birns / Jessica
Leight
Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America
John Ross
Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead"
John Eskow
A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus
Alan Maass
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
Joe Bageant
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy
Dave Zirin
Reasonable Doubt: Why Barry Bonds is Not on Steroids
Craig Waggoner
Who Would Mel's Jesus Nuke?
The Kerry Quandry
Joel Wendland
Marxists
for Kerry
Josh Frank
Scary,
Scary John Kerry
Matt Vidal
Spoilers, Electability and the Poverty of American Democracy
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Hamod, Guthrie, Davies and Albert
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