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[Ted Samsel]

Forwarded message:
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>          *****   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   *****
>                contact: cubensis at well.com
> 
>       ANNOUNCING the launch of the PRONOIA PAGE !
> 
>  A web site dedicated to PRONOIA: the suspicion others 
>       are conspiring behind your back to HELP you.
> 
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>      **       http://myhouse.com/pronoia/      **
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> 
> (July 4th, Central Colorado)
> 
> In the wake of recent events like the bombing in Oklahoma City and the 
> draconian Communications Decency Act, have you noticed an increase in 
> PARAnoia, and a growing cynicism about the future? What about PROnoia?
> 
> Exactly one year ago today, in the parking lot behind the Boulder Theater 
> in Boulder, Colorado, I stood blocking the path of Ken Kesey's massive, 
> rumbling Cadillac convertible.  The zippies had just finished throwing 
> the after-hours party for Naropa Institute's birthday party for Allen 
> Ginsberg, and Kesey and his aging Merry Pranksters had performed a new 
> play for the event.
> 
> "CHIEF!"  I cried, "In the name of the Zippy Pronoia Tour, I hereby kidnap 
> you for transport to the National Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming, 
> for the first-ever rave at a Gathering....  surely a prank worthy of your 
> pronoia!  Will you come along peacefully to this tribal summit?"
> 
> Kesey squinched-up his forehead at me, adjusted his hat, and squinted 
> into the light of the video cameras.
> 
> "I've bitten the ankle of the beast," said the Chief.  "Don't ask me 
> to bite where you want to bite."
> 
> "What about inspiring the next generation?"  I asked.
> 
> "Son," Kesey replied slowly, "I've done that movie... now it's your 
> turn!" And roared off in his Cadillac.
> 
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> Now, one year later, the _Zippy Pronoia Tour to US_ is one for the 
> history books.  Some say we made great strides in "biting the ankle of 
> the beast".  Others charge we were sellouts, in it for a media fix and 
> a fast buck.   Whatever your opinion, you cannot deny that following 
> the cover story in May 1994's _WiReD Magazine_, the _Zippy Pronoia Tour_ 
> caught the attention and imagination of millions of people, through the 
> seduction of the major international news media.
> 
> Following a year filled with successes, failures, general chaos, and a 
> mysterious split with the Pronoia Tour's spokesman Fraser Clark, the 14 
> members of last year's tour have been scattered to the corners of the globe.
> 
> **  But Pronoia remains.  **
> 
> **  And so does all the archived material from the Pronoia Tour.  **
> 
> This pattern of web is happily offered to serve as a resource center for 
> cross-pollination of pronoid activity. The mission of this site is to 
> help provide easy access to positive alternatives to paranoia and hatred 
> of diversity.  It also contains the offical archive of the Zippy Pronoia 
> Tour.
> 
> In coming months, there will be more audio/video experiments and direct 
> links to interactive communities. So please check out this offering
> ~~ an assembled collection of minds, media and links. 
> 
> LOVE, PEACE and PRONOIA
> 

Wanda needs to whup these rascals into shape!
Py yiminy!

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
     "driving a Hudson Hornet on the disinformation triple bypass:
      cruising for burgers & garage sales. Hooks baited, lines en-
      tangled, roadkill cooked"