Re: Time stretching, Drugs and Mr. Baldwin..

["James Pokorny" <j.pokorny@worldnet.att.net>]

Whoa -- Lighten up, everybody!  Did no one else get the tongue-in-cheek,
self-effacing humor of the "inordinate amounts of time writing run-on
sentences" ?  I.e., the entire response was just that?

James
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Biffle <Mike.Biffle@wj.com>
To: K. Douglas Baldwin <dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us>;
loopers-delight@annihilist.com <loopers-delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 6:18 PM
Subject: Time stretching, Drugs and Mr. Baldwin..


>     Dear Mr. Baldwin,
>
>     I'd prefer a one line sentence with a typo, to your self-rightous
>     rhetoric anyday...
>
>     Your comment about the dullness and probable migration to more
>     "abusive" substances only point to your need to insult your intended
>     audience (I guess Mark, or anyone else referring to drugs). Your
>     inferences concerning perceived states of "dullness" or consciousness
>     are also mean spirited, self-righteous and serve no common good in
>     this newsgroup.
>
>     These drug related comments began with good humor, referencing a
>     thread concerning perceptions of time while practicing our looping
>     craft. Believe me... I guess you've pounded the last nail into that
>     particular thread for us...
>
>     -Miko Biffle
>
>Mark Sottilaro wrote...
>>>What ever happened to good o'l psychedelic drug usage?
>
>K. Douglas Baldwin replies...
>> This is an oxymoron in our culture. Anyone who has experienced
psychedelic
>> drug usage (and I would refer to the strong, clean hallucinogens like 
>LSD
or
>> organics like peyote or mescaline, not PCP or "Angel Dust" which are far
>> worse) would either realize that such states are incompatible with
creative
>> functioning, or moved on to other substances, probably for their abusive
>> qualities (and therefore either be dead and incapable of referring to
>> anything as "old" or be so useless as to be far away from this
discussion)
>> or not realized the extent of their own mental dullness and consequently
>> miss the misplacement of the apostrophe in "ol'" (not o'l) or spend
>> inordinate amounts of time writing run-on sentences to loop-based
>> newsgroups.
>
>