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...<strong>Les</strong> <strong>Lettres</strong> <strong>Tristes</strong>...<br />
Ajemian & Bismuth December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight <strong>Foxy</strong> <strong>Production</strong>, New York, New York<br />
Tract Throw, May 1963 Isidore Isou and Maurice Lamaître
An amazing finish in the<br />
women’s 1500m at the<br />
North South Games as<br />
Dickie was able to come<br />
from behind to clinch the<br />
prize from Buttry, whom<br />
she had hounded all season.<br />
She tried but Buttry couldn’t<br />
hold Dickie off as she<br />
slipped through the crack in<br />
the final turn, successfully<br />
implementing a plan that<br />
she had mounted without<br />
success in previous events.<br />
In an interview with<br />
North South Times Buttry<br />
said: “I knew I had to<br />
throw down when I saw<br />
her making a move at the<br />
first bell. I decided to wait<br />
and wear down her resolve<br />
until the last turn. You can<br />
see her running scared in<br />
this photo, knowing that<br />
I am going to fuck her up<br />
if she ever comes near my<br />
boyfriend again. In fact<br />
right then I had just finished<br />
saying<br />
‘I can run over to your<br />
house so fast, you won’t<br />
know what hit you!’”<br />
We can only assume<br />
that Buttry sealed her own<br />
fate by giving Dickie the<br />
added motivation needed<br />
to defeat the overheard<br />
uttering archaic Coptic<br />
infertility curses against<br />
other female opponents<br />
in the Berlin, London,<br />
Chicago, and New York<br />
marathons. In the 2005<br />
NY marathon Ejigayihu<br />
Dibaba was famously heard<br />
pronouncing the kostre<br />
tayu death curse against<br />
Meselech Melkamu for<br />
laughing too loudly at one<br />
of her husband’s jokes.<br />
Melkamu dropped out at<br />
Text to Shit performance 2006<br />
mile 17 and Dibaba<br />
went on to win the<br />
race.<br />
Trash talking is<br />
commonplace in<br />
most sports, and<br />
one of the hallmarks<br />
of an accomplished<br />
competitor is the<br />
ability to ignore<br />
it and focus on<br />
the task at hand.<br />
Additionally, the<br />
public perception<br />
of Women’s<br />
running events is<br />
that of a small and<br />
somewhat tightly<br />
knit community<br />
of niche athletes<br />
who support one<br />
another on and off<br />
the field. However,<br />
the fact that these athletes<br />
exist in a relatively cloistered<br />
community means that<br />
the availability of sexual<br />
partners is likewise limited,<br />
since runners most often<br />
pair with other runners,<br />
and it is not uncommon<br />
to see the realignment of<br />
sexual partners within the<br />
group, causing emotional<br />
disturbances that are often<br />
amplified when rivals come<br />
together on the track or<br />
trail.<br />
Surprising as it may seem,<br />
animosity between female<br />
runners can be traced<br />
through antiquity, as far<br />
back as bronze age statuary.<br />
There exist several Turkic<br />
and Macedonian clay figures<br />
clearly showing a female<br />
runner with her foot upon<br />
the prone figure of another<br />
female figure.<br />
In the Balkan<br />
December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />
Text to Shit<br />
By Marie Sochor<br />
texte à chier<br />
Ingrédients : feuille azyme, encre alimentaire noire<br />
Fabriqué par Marie Sochor en septembre 2006<br />
À consommer avant fin 2008<br />
Dickie Slides Past Babcock & Buttry to Clinch It!<br />
By Sebastian Clough Grudge match in women’s running nothing new<br />
material we encounter<br />
the figure of ‘Red Vespa’<br />
who was recorded in the<br />
Krantijecks Codex as “the<br />
greatest of the courtesan<br />
runners who would run<br />
to seek out prizes placed<br />
in the field by the wazir<br />
Szerkmedis”, and that her<br />
method for thinning the<br />
pack was “ a high legged<br />
shrieking stampede of her<br />
rivals”. Below is a recreation<br />
of her probable dress and<br />
style of stampede.<br />
A l t h o u g h<br />
stampede techniques are<br />
relatively unheard of in<br />
today’s competitive events,<br />
there is no doubt that the<br />
‘fury of a woman scorned’<br />
has not diminished. Is it<br />
healthy for the sport? That<br />
would depend entirely on<br />
your point of view and how<br />
you feel about the efficacy<br />
of death curses.<br />
If I were Buttry, I’d make<br />
sure the door was locked,<br />
because Dickie can run<br />
really, really fast.<br />
RedVespa<br />
collection of<br />
the Quai Branly,<br />
Paris<br />
CIGAR<br />
By Robert Wilhite & Guy de Cointet<br />
Presented : 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, California,<br />
1977.<br />
CIGAR was a collaborative performance artwork by Guy<br />
de Cointet and Robert Wilhite. The piece was an interplay<br />
of three distinct sections. The first and third sections were<br />
dramatic monologues delivered by Marianne Duganne. The<br />
individual scripts were playful, oblique stories that linked the<br />
simple abstraction of the props to the familiar, everyday world<br />
of ordinary objects and experiences. These sections framed<br />
the central portion in which hypnosis and the spoken word<br />
were intended to manipulate the subliminal consciousness of<br />
the audience and affect their experience.<br />
Two oddly shaped paintings were the focus of the<br />
first performance section. Random printed letters, organized<br />
and arranged on white backgrounds, filled the design space<br />
of the paintings.<br />
Each painting<br />
was similarly<br />
encased in thin,<br />
colorful painted<br />
frames. The story<br />
line linked bothe<br />
paintings and<br />
brought order<br />
and meaning to<br />
the seemingly<br />
r a n d o m<br />
placement of the<br />
Prop for Cigar<br />
alphabet letters and color details. For this section, Marianne<br />
wore a bright red dress with matching red shoes.<br />
The second section was a hypnotic induction designed<br />
to influence the perception of the final monologue. A 36 “<br />
diameter black and white spiral « hypno-disc » was the central<br />
object that spun before the audience for the second section of<br />
the performance. The audience was instructed to focus their<br />
on the spinning disc while this single image was coordinated<br />
with a taped hypnotic induction and hypnotic suggestion. The<br />
suggestion was simple : the solor of the clothes Marianne<br />
would wear for the final section of CIGAR would be perceived<br />
by the audience as being in the complimentary hue of their<br />
actual colors.<br />
The last portion of CIGAR was a monologue relating<br />
a saga entitled « My Father’s Diary. » This large book with its<br />
green painted wooden binding and thick matte board pages,<br />
chronicled the life and wartime adventures of the performer’s<br />
father. Each page was very different and abstract, and as it was<br />
turned, each illustrated an episode or scene in the emotionally<br />
dense narrative. For this section, Marianne wore the same<br />
model of dress and shoes that she had worn in the first part,<br />
but in emerald green.<br />
The entire piece lasted a little more than an hour and<br />
was performed only once.<br />
The profiles of the props and their order of<br />
appearance are represented on the CIGAR flyer.<br />
Looking Up Window<br />
By Kirsten Mosher<br />
The right back passenger window acts like a skylight. I see sky.<br />
It’s over my head because the car is turned over. I turn the<br />
crank without the guidance of gravity on the down swing. The<br />
glass barrier slides out of my way. Nobody else is in the car. I<br />
am a passenger and I have to get out. I hoist, scraping myself<br />
up through the open square rectangle. Through the hatch I sit<br />
myself on the tabled door roof. Nothing is happening. It must<br />
have already happened. The engine is off. The wheels aren’t<br />
spinning. The car is fairly stable if not on all fours. I slip jump<br />
down the belly of the car. Now it’s a wall backing me up as I<br />
get my footing on the desert floor, a sandy white room as far as<br />
the eye can see.
December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />
By Jon Pestoni<br />
A Distracting Melody for <strong>Les</strong> <strong>Tristes</strong><br />
By Jason Ajemian<br />
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CHECK AND CZECH
A Transcription<br />
of an Interview<br />
with Dr. Jeffrey<br />
K, Zeig, Ph.D.,<br />
Director of the<br />
Milton H. Erickson<br />
Foundation,<br />
Phoenix, AZ<br />
For more information on Dr. Zeig and<br />
the Foundation, see:<br />
www.erickson-foundation.org<br />
Q: Could you maybe start by telling<br />
us a bit about Dr. Erickson, his<br />
life, his schooling, how he started<br />
working as a therapist?<br />
A: Dr. Erickson was born in a<br />
three-walled log cabin in Aurum,<br />
Nevada. The fourth wall of the<br />
cabin was the mountain; he went<br />
East in a covered wagon, which<br />
may have been a metaphor for his<br />
life, that is, doing things differently.<br />
And he then grew up on a farm<br />
in rural Wisconsin. His schooling<br />
was very simple—he had to walk a<br />
great distance to go to high school.<br />
Eventually he went to college.<br />
Erickson was the third of nine<br />
children born to his mother; she<br />
had eleven pregnancies, only nine<br />
surviving. I think only Erickson<br />
and one sister finished high school<br />
and went on to college. Erickson,<br />
of course, got his medical degree<br />
and then a master’s degree.<br />
Erickson developed polio when<br />
he was about 17; he was a good<br />
high school athlete and then spent<br />
about a year confined to his home<br />
where he hovered over death.<br />
Eventually he had to teach himself<br />
how to walk, and learn how to<br />
negotiate three-dimensional space<br />
again. As he recalled, he was very<br />
impressed by his family physician<br />
and said that when he grew up,<br />
he wanted to become a doctor. I<br />
don’t know why he wanted to work<br />
as a therapist but certainly it was<br />
his biological disposition to be a<br />
psychotherapist.<br />
Q: What is the Ericksonian<br />
approach to psychotherapy? How<br />
does it work and what would you<br />
define as its fundamental aspects?<br />
A: An Ericksonian approach to<br />
psychotherapy is one in which we<br />
conceive psychotherapy to be the<br />
problem: The problem is being<br />
in psychotherapy; the solution to<br />
the problem is getting the person<br />
out of psychotherapy, living life<br />
independently of psychotherapy<br />
as soon as possible. Ericksonian<br />
psychotherapy is basically a<br />
structural approach, and by that<br />
I mean that we don’t spend a lot<br />
of time analyzing the roots of the<br />
problem; we deal more with the<br />
present structure, helping people<br />
to live more effectively in the now<br />
and develop that effectiveness<br />
into their future. It’s a short-term<br />
psychotherapy, so the patients, for<br />
example, that I see in my practice I<br />
try to see as few times as possible.<br />
Bu, like an internal medicine doctor,<br />
I’m there for them over the course<br />
of a lifetime, and they can come back<br />
to me for sessions when they need<br />
to. One of the fundamental aspects<br />
of Ericksonian psychotherapy<br />
is eliciting resources: You take<br />
the position that patients have<br />
u n r e c o g n i z e d<br />
resources. For example, depressed<br />
patients have experience in their<br />
history about changing their<br />
mood; smokers know how to be<br />
comfortable without a ;cigarette;<br />
schizophrenic patients even know<br />
how to speak in a clear and cogent<br />
way, but somehow people are<br />
out of touch with the essential<br />
resources that they have. Part<br />
of the paradox of Ericksonian<br />
therapy, which is based in hypnosis,<br />
is that we work to stimulate into<br />
play previously dormant resources.<br />
The idea is to wake people up to<br />
their potentialities, not to put<br />
them to sleep, and a fundamental<br />
approach that’s used is one called,<br />
“utilization,” which is a philosophy<br />
that says that whatever exists in<br />
the greater therapy situation can<br />
be harnessed and utilized. Rather<br />
than analyzing, the approach is<br />
based in utilizing. It’s hard to find<br />
a simple example of this utilization<br />
approach but all of Erickson’s cases<br />
are based in this idea, so if the<br />
patient was small, Erickson would<br />
find a way of utilizing that. If the<br />
patient was intellectual, he’d find a<br />
way of utilizing that. If the patient<br />
was resistant, Erickson would find<br />
a way of utilizing that. I’d advise<br />
readers to look at any of Erickson’s<br />
cases. You would find that the<br />
fulcrum of change is utilization;<br />
it’s how Erickson helps the person<br />
utilize previously unrecognized<br />
potentialities, and from this vantage<br />
point there are no problems, just<br />
opportunities for utilization.<br />
Q: A substantial part of Ericksonian<br />
therapy involves form of clinical<br />
hypnosis and trance induction.<br />
Could you start by telling us a bit<br />
more of what a trance state is, how<br />
it is different from a waking state,<br />
and how hypnosis works?<br />
A: I could do that, but it would<br />
probably take an encyclopedia to<br />
be able to answer that question.<br />
Basically, we could think of trance<br />
as being a “state.” but I use that<br />
term in a very loose sense because<br />
we could describe intensity as<br />
being a state, or curiosity as being<br />
a state, or interest as being a state,<br />
or love as being a state, and we<br />
would know that love was different<br />
from curiosity, but it would be<br />
pretty hard to define what the<br />
difference was in clear, intellectual<br />
terms. Phenomenologically we<br />
would know the difference, so if<br />
I try to deconstruct trance into its<br />
phenomenological components, I<br />
would say it’s some combination<br />
of changing the focus of<br />
attention, changing the intensity<br />
of experience, experiencing<br />
dissociation, and responding to<br />
the implication of communication,<br />
all of which happen in a context<br />
that’s defined as hypnosis, either<br />
implicitly or explicitly. So for<br />
some people, if they just focus<br />
their attention internally, they say<br />
I’m in a trance. For others, if the<br />
intensity of relaxation increases<br />
they say I’m in a trance. Or if they<br />
don’t feel their body or the passage<br />
of the time in the way that they<br />
normally do; or if their arm starts<br />
moving in a dissociative way; or<br />
if memories suddenly happen in<br />
a dissociated way; then they say<br />
“I’m in a trance,” Or if people<br />
start to respond without realizing<br />
the cues that caused the response,<br />
they characterize that as being in<br />
a trance. So, for any given person<br />
I don’t know exactly what criteria<br />
that would indicate this person<br />
is in a trance, but when people in<br />
a situation defined as hypnosis<br />
experience some part of those<br />
components, they can be said<br />
to be in a trance… A trance is a<br />
physiological/contextual/psycho/<br />
social combination of components,<br />
and when people access this state,<br />
they are more capable of accessing<br />
those previously dormant capacities<br />
that I was talking about before.<br />
Q: How does Erickson’s approach<br />
to hypnotherapy differ from<br />
that of other practitioners? How<br />
would you describe his interest in<br />
hypnotism and hypnotherapy, what<br />
did he think such methods achieved<br />
or made possible? Why?<br />
A: Well, in modern psychotherapy,<br />
there are many different<br />
approaches, some that are based<br />
in psychoanalysis, others that are<br />
based in a humanistic tradition,<br />
and others still that are based<br />
in a behavioral tradition, or in<br />
a cognitive behavior tradition.<br />
Erickson’s therapy was considered<br />
uncommon therapy. As a matter<br />
of fact, one of definitive books<br />
written about Erickson, written by<br />
Jay Haley, is called “Uncommon<br />
Therapy.” Erickson used hypnosis<br />
as the foundation of his work, but<br />
he didn’t necessarily use formal<br />
trance, so his was a therapy that was<br />
guided by hypnosis, if we think of<br />
hypnosis as a technique of impact<br />
and as a state in which people<br />
can more readily access resources.<br />
Erickson would take techniques<br />
from hypnosis and apply them.<br />
We call that “hypnotherapy<br />
without trance.” Erickson called it<br />
“naturalistic hypnosis.” The essence<br />
of the approach is that it is a brief,<br />
solution-focused approach—<br />
solution-focused meaning that it<br />
builds on strengths.<br />
We could consider hypnosis to<br />
be the mother of psychotherapy.<br />
Many great practitioners, for<br />
example Sigmund Freud, started<br />
with hypnosis, Joseph Wolpe in the<br />
behaviorist tradition, started with<br />
hypnosis, but many of these experts<br />
diverged from hypnosis and found<br />
other methods of eliciting change<br />
that were more suited to their<br />
personality. Erickson stayed with<br />
hypnosis and made that a mainstay.<br />
If you were to study the history of<br />
hypnosis, in the 18 th century you’d<br />
study about Mesmer, in the 19 th<br />
century you’d study about Braid and<br />
Charcot and Bernheim, but in the<br />
20 th century you would study about<br />
Erickson; he really dominated the<br />
field of hypnosis.<br />
Q: An important part of Erickson’s<br />
practice seems to involve not just<br />
language or dialogue, but a very<br />
sophisticated use of language. In<br />
the “February Man,” Ernest Rossi<br />
writes that he was often surprised<br />
by the complex and sophisticated<br />
motivations behind each and every<br />
one of Erickson’s phrases. Could<br />
you talk a little bit about this aspect<br />
of his practice, and more specifically<br />
about his use of language games<br />
such as punning, metaphors, and<br />
analogies?<br />
A: Well, this gets in to the area<br />
of art. If you want to increase<br />
impact, one of the things that you<br />
use is precision. If you want to<br />
increase impact, one of the things<br />
that you use is discontinuity. If<br />
you want to increase impact, one<br />
of the things that you do is use<br />
unusual communication such as<br />
punning, metaphors, and analogies.<br />
Think about a poet, when a poet<br />
communicates something, for<br />
example Carl Sandburg wrote a<br />
very short poem:<br />
The fog comes/ on little cat feet.<br />
/ It sits looking/ over harbor and<br />
city/ on silent haunches/ and then<br />
moves on.<br />
Now that’s unusual communication.<br />
Artists, poets, dramatists know that<br />
when you’re using a lot of precision,<br />
a lot of subtlety, when you’re using<br />
discontinuities and unusual forms<br />
of communication, it elicits a<br />
change in mood and perspective. If<br />
you just want a person to learn facts,<br />
then you can give them didactic<br />
information. But if you want to<br />
change their mood and perspective,<br />
you need to use techniques from<br />
art. And so I think that it’s easier<br />
to describe Erickson from the<br />
perspective of Art than it is to<br />
describe him from the perspective<br />
of psychotherapy, especially<br />
contemporary psychotherapy, much<br />
of contemporary psychotherapy is<br />
based on providing information.<br />
Q: Erickson and Rossi often speak<br />
of their approach as a two-level<br />
communication with the patient?<br />
What does this mean? How does<br />
this work?<br />
A: Well, really all communication is<br />
multiple-level, because there’s both<br />
a psychological aspect and a social<br />
aspect. The great linguist, Noam<br />
Chomsky, talked about the fact that<br />
there’s a surface structure and a deep<br />
structure. Gregory Bateson, the<br />
great anthropologist, talked about<br />
the fact that every communication<br />
has a report and a command. So,<br />
every communication has content<br />
but also there’s a message that<br />
frames the content and says what<br />
to do about it. You could say, “Hi!”<br />
and mean on the level of command,<br />
“Let’s spend some time together.”<br />
You could say, “Hi!” and on the<br />
level of command, mean, “Let’s<br />
just have a brief social encounter.”<br />
So, every communication is<br />
multiple level, and in hypnosis, we<br />
try to get the person to respond<br />
not to the indicative level, the social<br />
level, but to the injunctive level, or<br />
the psychological level, which is<br />
also essential in influence. If you<br />
want to have impact, then you<br />
increase the multi-level nature of<br />
the communication. Again, think<br />
about poetry. Poetry uses multilevel<br />
communication because it’s<br />
designed to influence mood and<br />
perspective, and in the same way,<br />
Erickson would use multi-level<br />
communication because he really<br />
wanted to have impact in changing<br />
mood and perspective.<br />
Q: One of the aspects of<br />
Erickson’s dialogues that we found<br />
to be of greatest interest to us were<br />
the breaks, departures, and other<br />
ruptures of sense or of trains of<br />
thought that he staged throughout<br />
his conversation with his patients.<br />
He seems to want to continually<br />
distract his patient, to direct their<br />
attentions to one thing, only to jar<br />
it away towards something else.<br />
Could you discuss this aspect of<br />
his technique a bit more? What was<br />
its purpose? What does it allow him<br />
to do with the patient?<br />
A: If you watch a movie, you<br />
know that the movie is based in<br />
discontinuity, and the discontinuities<br />
are a way of modulating tension,<br />
which then captures attention,<br />
which then has an effect on mood
So Erickson’s use of discontinuities, again,<br />
was similar to the poet’s, because poets<br />
would use these discontinuities in their<br />
composition, and certainly moviemakers<br />
and dramatists use this kind of discontinuity.<br />
When one normally thinks about hypnosis,<br />
one thinks of it as a gradual slide into a<br />
soporific state. When Erickson started an<br />
induction he often started by increasing<br />
the tension and then decrease the tension,<br />
and then introduce discontinuities, and<br />
then he would increase, and decrease,<br />
and increase and decrease the tension<br />
over the course of the induction, also<br />
during the utilization period of trance.<br />
That is exactly as the dramatist does. The<br />
purpose of destabilizaiton is to have impact<br />
because if you’re talking in a monotone<br />
and your communication is completely<br />
symmetrical, it’s not going to have as much<br />
impact as communication that contains<br />
discontintuities, especially when the impact<br />
that you want to have is to alter mood and<br />
perspective.<br />
Q: In conclusion, as you know, we are<br />
both artists, and thus are approaching this<br />
from a very different angle. In our previous<br />
conversations, you spoke of how you often<br />
looked to art and literature for inspiration in<br />
your practice. What do you think are some<br />
aspects of Ericksonian psychotherapy that<br />
could be of use to artists, and conversely,<br />
could you tell us a bit more about the type<br />
of things in the arts that have inspired you<br />
in your own practice?<br />
A: Well, ironically, it’s curious that you<br />
contact me to include aspects of Ericksonian<br />
therapy to inform the arts because the<br />
project that most interests me now is what<br />
psychotherapists can learn from commercial<br />
filmmakers, and…social psychologists, The<br />
ellipsis is there because I think therapists<br />
can learn more from filmmakers than they<br />
can from social psychologists. When we<br />
study the structure of impact, we can look<br />
at the way that, for example, a moviemaker<br />
stages a particular frame, or sets up a<br />
dramatic moment in a series of small steps,<br />
or foreshadows a future event earlier in the<br />
movie. Well, these were things that Erickson<br />
did. I think that Erickson, who was very<br />
well-read, took a lot of his models from<br />
literature, so that the kinds of techniques<br />
that Thomas Mann would use, where for<br />
example Mann would bring a character in<br />
against an emotional background. Then<br />
some fifty or a hundred pages later against<br />
the same emotional background, that<br />
character would reemerge suddenly. That<br />
was a way of setting up dramatic impact.<br />
A lot of my work is teaching therapists<br />
around the world, but when I try to explain<br />
to therapists the idea of being strategic and<br />
setting up a future event; and the idea of<br />
using multi-level communication; and the<br />
idea of using discontinuities, their eyes start<br />
to glaze over. But when I can appeal to their<br />
media literacy and I can show them a small<br />
section of a movie, and demonstrate to<br />
them how the moviemaker uses those same<br />
techniques to have impact, then, because<br />
of people’s media literacy, they can more<br />
easily understand Erickson. So I can show<br />
my students a segment of a movie, and then<br />
I can tell them of a case of Erickson’s and<br />
rather than looking at traditional psychology<br />
as the foundation or the lens through which<br />
to understand Erickson, looking at Erickson<br />
through the lens of the filmmaker makes it<br />
easier to understand and integrate Erickson’s<br />
techniques. So in my workshops I’ll have<br />
exercises where my students will practice,<br />
for example, setting up a future event,<br />
foreshadowing, or using discontinuities,<br />
and learning how to have better impact by<br />
taking models from art. Now, the project of<br />
using commercial filmmakers, really that’s<br />
only a metaphor, because I’m interested in<br />
poets and dramatists and visual artists of all<br />
persuasions, including architects, because<br />
these are people who work to subtly influence<br />
mood and perspective. But, commercial<br />
filmmakers, because their medium combines<br />
music and visual composition—they turn<br />
out to be very useful in the way that I train<br />
psychotherapists, because there work is<br />
so multi-dimensional, and I can illustrate<br />
so much about impact by looking at the<br />
structural aspects of film. The viewer of<br />
the film and the artist create a moment of<br />
interpersonal impact. The viewer is having<br />
a relationship with the movie. The movie<br />
is about interpersonal impact. I hope that<br />
when the cinematographer and editor and<br />
the costume designer and set designer,<br />
etc. get together, they are thinking with<br />
intent about having an impact. I try to<br />
deconstruct those techniques and try to<br />
help therapists understand how to improve<br />
their communication by using those<br />
techniques. For therapists, communication<br />
is an underused medium; therapists don’t<br />
use all of the potentialities that are inherent<br />
in the medium of communication. I try to<br />
get therapists to explore the outer edges of<br />
communication, and how to better use their<br />
medium to have constructive impact on<br />
their patients. Art is provides a model from<br />
which influence can be studied.<br />
The Day’s<br />
Colors<br />
By Marie de Brugerolle<br />
Blue Monday<br />
Orange Tuesday<br />
Black Wednesday<br />
Yellow Thursday<br />
Green Friday<br />
Red and White Saturday<br />
Gray Sunday<br />
Blue as an orange<br />
Red as a peony<br />
Emerald yellow<br />
Scarlet rose<br />
Salmon blue<br />
Venetian green<br />
Indigo brown<br />
Ink orange<br />
Italic yellow<br />
Petroleum carmine<br />
Charcoal gray, like a tomato<br />
Seeing everything double<br />
Seeing everything gold<br />
Seeing everything Naple’s<br />
yellow<br />
Blond smoke<br />
Where does the white go<br />
when the snow melts ?<br />
SURVIVOR:<br />
REAL HOUSEWIVES ALL-STARS<br />
By Erik Ajemian<br />
On an Island: say Martinque<br />
5 weeks in a beautiful mansion, all the alcohol one can drink. One week,<br />
‘on safari’, tents and provisions provided w/o instructions.<br />
6 weeks total (+ Reunion Show)<br />
One rule: no hitting/ initiator of fight is kicked off island.<br />
Show is a competition, America votes via text message only (within<br />
continental United States)<br />
Winner receives $500,000 shopping spree<br />
THURSDAYS: 9pm NBC Must Watch T.V.<br />
ALL-STARS:<br />
1) NeNe (Atlanta)�<br />
2) Kim (Atlanta)<br />
3) Contess De <strong>Les</strong>seps (New York)<br />
4) Jill Zarin (New York)<br />
5),6) The two Younger-ish Hot Blonds (Orange County)*<br />
7) New York (I Love New York) **<br />
* not the one that married the rich guy and changed her face<br />
** Special Entry—not a orignal member of the Bravo Series<br />
spnsors t.b.d.<br />
Sculpture<br />
By Bob Wilhite<br />
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art LA CA Stept 27-Oct 5 th 1977, duration 20 min<br />
The performance was given to ten or less people per night for one week. The audiences were<br />
seated in front of a rotating spiral disc where they heard the following hypnotic induction spoken<br />
in a soothing monotone.<br />
Would everyone please be seated if you have not already done so. Make yourself as comfortable<br />
as possible. It would be best if you sat up in your chair and placed both feet on the floor in<br />
front of you. Make yourself as relaxed as possible. Give attention to the disc rotating in front of<br />
you. Breathe deeply and relax. Watch the spiral and relax. Watch the spiral. Watch it very closely.<br />
Don’t take your eyes off the spiral even for a moment. Concentrate all your attention on it.<br />
Spinning round and round, round and round. Watch it carefully. Breathe deeply and relax. You<br />
are feeling warm and comfortable. Relax and think only of sleep. Breathe deeply, very deeply.<br />
Soon your eyes will become very tired. Your eyelids so very heavy. You will hardly be able to<br />
keep them open. You will have to shut your eyes. When you shut them you will be in deep sound<br />
restful sleep. A deep sound restful sleep. Breathe very deeply and relax. Do not take your eyes<br />
away from the spiral even for a moment. Strain your eyes just a little to see the spiral. Soon your<br />
eyes will become very tired. They are beginning to water. Your eyelids are heavy, very heavy.<br />
Keep watching the spiral. Watch it. Watch it. Your arms and legs feel relaxed. You are so tired,<br />
you want to go to sleep. Think only of sleep. You are going into relaxed and restful sleep. With<br />
every breath you take your eyes are more and more tired. So very tired, keep them open. You<br />
must shut your eyes. Do not resist it. You have to shut your eyes. Shut your eyes. Shut them…<br />
shut them…shut them right now. Breathe deeply, very deeply. With every breath you are falling<br />
deeper and deeper into sleep. So very tired. You cannot keep them open. You must shut your<br />
eyes. Do not resist it. You have to shut your eyes. Shut your eyes. Shut them…shut them…shut<br />
them right now. Breathe deeply, very deeply. With every breath you are falling deeper and deeper<br />
into sleep. A peaceful sleep.You are paying attention only to my voice. Nothing else seems to<br />
matter. Nothing will disturb you. Let yourself relax competely now. It is very pleasant to feel so<br />
relaxed, so relaxed. As though all your cares have gone away. As though nothing else matters at<br />
all. You are so listless now. Give way to this feeling. Let yourself go. Drifting deeper and deeper.<br />
Deeper with every breath you take.<br />
You are listening only to my voice. Nothing else matters. You noice a feeling of heaviness in<br />
your arms and legs. Your breathing is slow and easy… slow and easy. Give way to this drowsy<br />
listlessness. Let all of your muscles relax. Relax them completely. Do not mind if your head falls<br />
forward or to the side... it will be perfectly comfortable. You are giving my voice your complete<br />
attention. The art of memory is the art of attention and retention. You must pay attention in<br />
order to remember. People who do not pay attention do not remember. Relax, breathe deeply,<br />
and pay attention only to my voice…only to my voice. You have always been able to picture<br />
objects in your mind. From a simple description you have been able to see crystal clear images.<br />
Using your ability to concentrate and see objects in your mind, I am going to show you a piece<br />
of sculpture I have made.<br />
The sculpture is a saucer-shaped object with a white opaque glass bubble on the top. It is four<br />
feet in diameter and is hovering in one spot about two feet off the ground in the open area<br />
in front of you. As you look closer at the sculpture you notice that it is spinning and has a<br />
wonderful satin appearance. The spinning action is what keeps the object in the air. It is secure<br />
and stable as it gently bobs up and down in one spot…suspended on a cushion of air. The<br />
sculpture is totally silent except for a slight whir of the air as it spins. You can hear it if you<br />
listen closely. It is a pleasant experience seeing the object. The sculpture I;ve made for you. You<br />
cannot help smiling because the experience is so enjoyable. I will soon count from 1 to 10. When<br />
I reach 7 you will be wide awake and you will feel comfortable and relaxed… with a warm glow<br />
of health and well-being. You will remember having seen the saucer-shaped object I have shown<br />
you. It will be a clear memory. The actual object however will not be present in front of you<br />
because I have taken it away. I will now start counting from 1 to 10. When I reach 7 you will be<br />
wide awake and feeling fine…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10<br />
An auditory description of the new letteric<br />
alphabet.<br />
( where learning to pronounce, without vowels, becomes the<br />
new sound for each new letter)<br />
or<br />
N dtry dscrptn f th nw lttrc lphbt<br />
(whr lrnng t prnnc, wtht vwls, bcms th nw snd fr ch nw lttr)<br />
By Jon Pestoni<br />
alpha / nhltn (hrd)<br />
beta / xhltn (hrd)<br />
gamma / hssng (whstlng btwn th tth lke snd f nke)<br />
delta/ rttlng n th thrt<br />
epsilon/ grwlng (lk dg bt t brk)<br />
eta/ grspng (hrs snd) md wth th wndpp by pffng p th blly<br />
theta/ sgh (md smltnsly by th wndppe, mth, nd, ns<br />
kappa/ snrng<br />
lamda/ grglng (wth th r vbrtng btw nth tng nd th plt)<br />
mu/ whmprng<br />
nu/ hccgh<br />
omicron/ cgh, clrng th thrt<br />
pi/ blch<br />
ro/ clckng th tng<br />
sigma/ frtng snd (wth th lps)<br />
tau/ crcklng ( s f mttng th nse f n t)<br />
upsilon/ spttng snd ( srt f p-ph-pty tgthr)<br />
phi/ kssng (nsly)<br />
psi/ whstlng ( smpl, nt mldc)
Distractions for Men<br />
By Michael Bouchet<br />
1 In The Pink 1 In The<br />
Stink<br />
100 Percent Natural<br />
Wonders<br />
110 Percent Natural<br />
12 Nasty Black Girls<br />
Masturbating<br />
13 Cum Hungry<br />
Cocksuckers<br />
18 And Asian<br />
18 Legal And Latin<br />
18 Yesterday<br />
6 Black Sticks 1 White Trick<br />
A Group Thing<br />
About Face<br />
About Face POV<br />
Absolute Ass<br />
Adult Movie<br />
All About Ass<br />
All Natural<br />
Almost Jailbait<br />
Almost Virgins<br />
Alone In The Dark<br />
Amateur Angels<br />
Amateur Cream Pies<br />
Amateur Hardcore<br />
Amateur Hood Humpin<br />
Amazing POV Sluts<br />
American Ass<br />
American Ccksucking<br />
Championship<br />
American Cream Pie<br />
American Nymphette<br />
American Pornstar<br />
Anal Addicts<br />
Anal Angels<br />
Anal Annihilation<br />
Anal Assault<br />
Anal Athletes<br />
Anal Cumsumption<br />
Anal Divas In Latex<br />
Anal Driller<br />
Anal Excursions<br />
Anal Expedition<br />
Anal Fever<br />
Anal Hazard<br />
Anal Intruder<br />
Anal Life<br />
Anal Nurses<br />
Anal POV<br />
Anal Rage<br />
Anal Romance<br />
Anal Teen Tryouts<br />
Anal Thrills<br />
Anal Violation<br />
Analgeddon<br />
Analogy<br />
Ancient Amateurs<br />
Appetite For Ass<br />
Destruction<br />
Apple Bottomz<br />
Army Of Ass<br />
Ashtons Auditions<br />
Asian Assault<br />
Asian Divas<br />
Asian Erotica File<br />
Asian Insemination<br />
Asian Lollipops<br />
Asian Lust<br />
Asian Mouth Club<br />
Asian POV<br />
Asian Prostitutes<br />
Asian Street Hookers<br />
Asian Thighs Creampies<br />
Ass 2 Mouth<br />
Ass 4 Cash<br />
Ass Brand New<br />
Ass Breeder<br />
Ass Busters<br />
Ass Cleavage<br />
Ass Cream<br />
Ass Deep<br />
Ass Driven<br />
Ass Eaters Unanimous<br />
Ass Feast<br />
Ass Fuck<br />
Ass Fucked<br />
Ass Fun<br />
Ass Holes<br />
Ass Intake<br />
Ass Pounders<br />
Ass Quest<br />
Ass Slaves<br />
Ass Stretchers<br />
Assassin<br />
Assault That Ass<br />
Assed Out<br />
Asses Galore<br />
Assfensive<br />
Assploitaitons<br />
Asswhole<br />
ATM City<br />
Babes In Pornland<br />
Babewatch<br />
Baby Doll<br />
Baby Fat<br />
Back Seat Bangers<br />
Backyard Boogie<br />
Bait<br />
Bakers Dozen<br />
Bang My White Tight Ass<br />
Bangin Beaver On The Bus<br />
Bangin In Da Hood<br />
Bangin It Out<br />
Bangin The Girl Next Door<br />
Bangin Whitey<br />
Banzai<br />
Barefoot And Pregnant<br />
Barely 18<br />
Beach Bunnies With Big<br />
Brown Eyes<br />
Beautiful Couples<br />
Beef Eaters<br />
Bell Bottoms<br />
Bellas Perversions<br />
Bend Over And Sah Ahh<br />
Bend Over And Say Ahh<br />
Beverly Hills 9021 Ho<br />
Beyond Reality<br />
Big Babies In Budapest<br />
Big Black Beast<br />
Big Black Beef<br />
Big Black Beef Stretches<br />
Little Pink Meat<br />
Big Black POV<br />
Big Black Wet Asses<br />
Big Bodacious Knockers<br />
Big Boob Heaven<br />
Big Boob Teachers<br />
Big Breasts Of The West<br />
Big Butt Brotha Lovers<br />
Big Butt Smash Down<br />
Big Cock Seductions<br />
Big Fucking Titties<br />
Big Shots<br />
Big Tit Anal Whores<br />
Big Tit Brotha Lovers<br />
Big Tit Paradise<br />
Big Titties Of Europe<br />
Big Titty MILFs<br />
Big Toys No Boys<br />
Big Wet Asses<br />
Big Wet Butts<br />
Big Wet Tits<br />
Biggz And The Beauties<br />
Billion Dollar Booties<br />
Bitches In Heat<br />
Black Bad Girls<br />
Black Bros Bangin White<br />
Hos<br />
Black Bubble Butt Hunt<br />
Black Cheerleader<br />
Gangbang<br />
Black Cheerleader Search<br />
Black Dick For The White<br />
Chick<br />
Black Dick In Me POV<br />
Black Dicks In White<br />
Chicks<br />
Black In The Crack<br />
Black Inside Me<br />
Black Juizz In New White<br />
Cooze<br />
Black On Black<br />
Black On Black Crime<br />
Black On White Crime<br />
Black Street Hookers<br />
Black Thai Affair<br />
Black Up That White Ass<br />
Black White Wet All Over<br />
Blackballed<br />
Blacks In Blondes<br />
Blind Sex Dates<br />
Blow Me<br />
Blow Me Sandwich<br />
Blowjob Adventures Of Dr<br />
Fellatio<br />
Blue Jean Blondes<br />
Bombshells<br />
Boob Exam Scam<br />
Boobsville<br />
Booty Climax<br />
Booty Duty<br />
Booty Full Babes<br />
Booty Hunter<br />
Border Hoppers<br />
Boss Bitches<br />
Bottomless<br />
Bound To Cum<br />
Boy Fucks Girl<br />
Brand New<br />
Breakin Em In<br />
British Teen Girls<br />
Bros And Blondes<br />
Bubble Butts Drive Brothas<br />
Nutz<br />
Buckets Of Cum<br />
Built For Sex<br />
Buried In Tits<br />
Butt Busters<br />
Butt Gallery<br />
Butt Junkies<br />
Butt Quest<br />
Butts 2 Nuts<br />
Buttwoman<br />
California Calendar Girls<br />
Camel Hoes<br />
Camel Toe Obsessions<br />
Cameltoe Perversions<br />
Candy Girls<br />
Candy Stripers<br />
Casting Couch Confessions<br />
Casting Couch Cuties<br />
Central Anal<br />
Chasing White Booty<br />
Cheating Housewifes<br />
Cheating Housewives<br />
Cherry Bomb<br />
Cherry Bustin<br />
Chicas<br />
Chick Flick<br />
Chicks And Salsa<br />
Chicks Gone Wild<br />
Chocolate Cream Pies<br />
Chocolate Vanilla Cum<br />
Eaters<br />
Christoph Clarks Euro<br />
Domination<br />
Chubby Chasers<br />
Chubby Chicks<br />
Chunky School Girls<br />
Cindys Way<br />
Clean My Crack<br />
Cluster Bang<br />
Clusterfuck<br />
Coming Of Age<br />
Confessions Of A<br />
Cooter Pie<br />
Coxxx And Soxxx<br />
Crack Addict<br />
Crazy Big Booty<br />
Cream Filled<br />
Cream Filled Asses<br />
Cream Filled Holes<br />
Cream Of The Crop<br />
Cream On My Camel Toe<br />
Cream Pie For The Straight<br />
Girl<br />
Cream Pie For The Straight<br />
Guy<br />
Cream Pie Housewife<br />
Cream Pie Initiations<br />
Cream Pie POV<br />
Creamed Cuties<br />
Creampie Cuties<br />
Crow In The Snow<br />
Crude Oil<br />
Cum Beggars<br />
Cum Catchers<br />
Cum Craving Teens<br />
Cum Drenched Tits<br />
Cum Drinkers<br />
Cum Drippers<br />
Cum Guzzlers<br />
Cum Hungry Leave Full<br />
Cum In My Gaping<br />
Butthole<br />
Cum On In<br />
Cum On My Hairy Pussy<br />
Cum Stoppers<br />
Cum Swallowing Whores<br />
Cum Swapping And<br />
Lollipops<br />
Cum Swapping Fuck Dolls<br />
Cum Swapping Sluts<br />
Cumback Pussy<br />
Cumplexxx<br />
Curry Cream Pie<br />
Daddys Girl Is A Bad Girl<br />
Daddys Little Princess<br />
Dark Meat<br />
Darker Side Of Sin<br />
Debbie Class Of<br />
Decadent Divas<br />
Deep Throat This<br />
Dementia<br />
Deviant Behavior<br />
Devil Girl<br />
Direct Deposit<br />
Dirrty<br />
Dirty Dans POV<br />
Dirty Girl Gangbang<br />
Dirty Little Secrets<br />
Dirty Newcummers<br />
Disturbed<br />
Dont Tell Mommy<br />
Double Anal Climax<br />
Double Cum Cocktails<br />
Double D Dolls<br />
Double Decker Sandwich<br />
Double Dip Er<br />
Double Filled Cream Teens<br />
Double Impact<br />
Double Parked<br />
Double Teamed<br />
Double Teamed And<br />
Creamed<br />
Double The Fun 2 On 1<br />
Down And Dirty<br />
Down Your Throat<br />
Dp Me Baby<br />
DP The Hole DP And<br />
Nuttin Butt DP<br />
DPs And Orgies<br />
Dreamgirls - Casting Couch<br />
Cuties<br />
Dreamgirls - Girlfun<br />
Dripping Fucking Wet<br />
Dripping Wet Sex<br />
Drive Thru<br />
Early Entries<br />
Eight Teen Cum Swallowing<br />
Tryouts<br />
Eight Teen Gang Bang<br />
Tryouts<br />
Eight Teen Tryouts<br />
Eighteen And<br />
Interracial<br />
Everybody Wants<br />
Some<br />
Exquisite <strong>Les</strong>bians<br />
Extreme Penetrations<br />
Extreme Teen<br />
Exxxtasy Island<br />
F Ing Teens<br />
FABs<br />
Face Sitting Fanatics<br />
Facial Deposits<br />
Fantastic 40s<br />
Farmers Daughters Do<br />
Fast Times At Deep Crack<br />
High<br />
Femdom Violations<br />
Fetish Desires<br />
Fill Er Up<br />
Fill Her Up<br />
Filth And Fury<br />
Filthy Anal POV<br />
Filthy First Timers<br />
Filthy Talkin Cocksuckers<br />
Finger Licking Good<br />
First Offense<br />
Fishnets<br />
Flash Flood<br />
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Flowers Squirt Shower<br />
Foot Traffic<br />
For Your Eyes Only<br />
Freakazoids<br />
Fresh Asses<br />
Fresh Euro Flesh<br />
Fresh Jugs<br />
Fresh New Faces<br />
Fresh Pink<br />
Fresh Porn Babes<br />
Fresh Young Meat<br />
Frosted Faces<br />
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Fuck Me Please<br />
December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />
Fuck My White Ass<br />
Fuckin Foreigners<br />
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Fuel Injected<br />
Full Anal Access<br />
Full Service<br />
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Gallery Of Sin<br />
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Gangland<br />
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Getting Stoned<br />
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Girls Home Alone<br />
Girls Of The OC<br />
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Give Me Gape<br />
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Go Fuck Yerself<br />
God Daughter<br />
Gonzomania<br />
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Good Whores Take It In<br />
The Ass<br />
Grand Theft Anal<br />
Grandmother Fuckers<br />
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Gringo Dicks In Latin<br />
Chicks<br />
Group Therapy<br />
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Hand Jobs<br />
Hand To Mouth<br />
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Her First Anal Sex<br />
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Hot Indian Pussy<br />
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House Party<br />
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I Love Em Asian<br />
I Love Em Latin<br />
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Yesterday<br />
If It<br />
Aint<br />
B l a c k<br />
Take It<br />
Back<br />
Illegal Ass<br />
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Inside Shooters<br />
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Latin Lickers<br />
Latin Mother Fuckers<br />
Latin Obsession<br />
Latina Fever<br />
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Legal Skin<br />
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London Shaggers<br />
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Mad At Daddy<br />
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Mature Women With<br />
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Ass<br />
M e a t<br />
Pushin In<br />
The Seat Cushion<br />
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Meet The Twins<br />
Mexicunts<br />
Miami Maidens<br />
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MILF Seeker<br />
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Miss Behaven<br />
Mixed Company<br />
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Naughty Amateurs<br />
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No Cum Spitting<br />
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Oh Thats Tight<br />
Older Women And Younger<br />
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Girls<br />
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Men<br />
On The Prowl<br />
Open For Anal<br />
Open Up Slut<br />
Oral Hygiene<br />
Oral Intake<br />
Oral Junkies<br />
Otto And Audrey Destroy<br />
The World<br />
Out Of Control<br />
Paste My Face<br />
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Peeping Tom<br />
Perfect Pink<br />
Phat Ass Tits<br />
Photographic Mammaries<br />
Pick Up Babes<br />
Pick Up Lines<br />
Pimp My Ass<br />
Pink Eye<br />
Planet Silver<br />
Play With Me<br />
Please Drill My Ass<br />
Point Of View<br />
Pop That Cherry<br />
Porking With Pride<br />
POV Casting Couch<br />
POV Centerfolds<br />
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POVerted<br />
Pretty Pussies Please<br />
Prom Team<br />
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Pure Sextacy<br />
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Pussy Play<br />
Pussyman Auditions<br />
Pussymans Asian Assault<br />
Pussymans Big Boob<br />
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Pussymans Big Tit<br />
Paradise<br />
Pussymans Bikini Butt<br />
Babes<br />
Pussymans Face Sitting<br />
Fanatics<br />
Pussymans International<br />
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Pussymans Large Luscious<br />
Pussy Lips<br />
Pussymans Shaving Starlets<br />
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Babes<br />
Pussymans Teen Land<br />
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Rain Coaters Point Of View<br />
Rainwoman<br />
Rake And Ho Em<br />
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Raw White Meat<br />
Ready To Drop<br />
Ready Wet Go<br />
Real Amateur Porn<br />
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Real Sex<br />
Real Squirters<br />
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Reverse Interracial Gang<br />
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Role Models<br />
Romancing The Ass<br />
Rough And Ready<br />
Rub My Muff<br />
Runaways<br />
Scale Bustin Bimbos<br />
Scandalous Sluts<br />
School Bus Girls<br />
Screamin For Semen<br />
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Scum Bags<br />
Secret Passions<br />
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Semen Demons<br />
Semen Shots<br />
Sex Hungry Couples<br />
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Share The Load<br />
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Sluts Of The Nyle<br />
Slutwoman<br />
Small Sluts Nice Butts<br />
Smokin Crack<br />
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Squirtwoman<br />
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Sluts<br />
Stinkers<br />
Stocking Secrets<br />
Straight To The A<br />
Straight To The Sphincter<br />
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Street Walkers<br />
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Suitcase Pimp<br />
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Your Ass Is Mine
By Tan Lin<br />
B 1 2007<br />
I read a story about people who, because they<br />
died of wounds inflicted any number of years<br />
earlier, are known as reclassified homicides.<br />
There were thirty-five such homicides in New<br />
York in the past year and they are a matter of<br />
public interest. Often they lead to upgraded<br />
criminal charges and new trials. The NYPD<br />
releases the information throughout the year,<br />
based on rulings made by New York City’s<br />
medical examiner and information that passes<br />
through New York City’s Office of Public<br />
Records, which is the conduit for all deaths that<br />
occur after 1949. The number of reclassified<br />
homicides was unusually high for 2006 and<br />
it lead to an uptick in the number of total<br />
homicides for the year, which was also greater<br />
than in 2005. No explanation for either of<br />
December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />
these increases has been found. During 2006,<br />
neither forensic methods nor the manner of<br />
reporting deaths changed within the office<br />
of the medical examiner, and Raymond<br />
Kelly, New York’s Police Commissioner, said,<br />
“They’re what we have to live with. It is a bit<br />
of a fluke.” Sirkime Stevenson died today<br />
(January 2006) though he was killed in 1991<br />
when bullets fired by a stranger in a passing<br />
car shattered his spine, eventually causing<br />
infections that resulted in the amputation of a<br />
leg (1997). Until that point, he had dreamed of<br />
walking again. The killer was never identified.<br />
B 4 1997<br />
I read a story of an older woman on the<br />
subway who offers her seat to a woman with<br />
a young child, both of whom get off the IRT<br />
No. 2 train at 72nd Street. A reporter in the car<br />
inquires after the older woman, learns that her<br />
name is Drane Shyti, an Albanian, fifty-seven<br />
years old, that she has been in America for two<br />
years and misses her own children, a son in<br />
England and a daughter in Greece. Ms. Shyti<br />
“works in a hotel laundry.” “Her husband is<br />
a porter.” Before coming to America, he had<br />
been a math teacher and she an elementary<br />
school teacher. On the same page, beneath<br />
the fold, an article documents a website that<br />
allows users to compare aerial shots of the<br />
same areas of New York taken at two points in<br />
time. The years, like most items in such public<br />
inventories, is arbitrary: 1996 and 2004. The<br />
site, oasisnyc.com is funded by government<br />
and private agencies and provides information<br />
on property ownership and land use. An aerial<br />
photo, one of three that are reprinted, shows<br />
a section of Coney Island with shadows cast<br />
OX to A to Z Journal, Like a Nocturne By Dave Miko<br />
by the Parachute Jump ride in 1996; in 2004,<br />
the shot of the same ground reveals different<br />
or conflicting information produced by the<br />
passage of time, which appears to be manually<br />
rendered: a green ball field that is used by the<br />
Brooklyn Cyclones.<br />
A 1 2005<br />
My head is bent over the obit of Frank Stanton,<br />
the understated, reserved CBS executive who<br />
was William S. Paley’s right hand man but never<br />
socialized with his boss, and who helped shape<br />
television as a medium “for the majority of<br />
Americans.” Stanton was so sure Paley would<br />
offer him the chairmanship of CBS that he<br />
refused President Johnson’s offer to become<br />
the next Secretary of Health, Education and<br />
Welfare. But in the end, Paley held onto his<br />
job, and Stanton was forced to retire without<br />
becoming chairman. He left CBS disillusioned,<br />
referring to the institution as “just another<br />
company with dirty carpets.” On his last day,<br />
he declined to attend a party that Paley had<br />
thrown for him and simply left the office as if<br />
it were another work day. He told Lillian Ross<br />
of the New Yorker: “I think I’ll make it home<br />
in time for the 7 o’clock news.” He left no<br />
survivors and asked that there be no memorial<br />
service and that no donations be made in his<br />
honor.<br />
A3 2008<br />
And then, as I read his obit, I think of a<br />
room that is ambient and incapable of being<br />
distressed by objects. Such a room of the most<br />
minor of anxieties (such as yours or mine)<br />
might be assembled by a computer in the same<br />
way that an airport might “use computers to<br />
schedule flights.” 1<br />
D2 1987<br />
Such a room might include a refrigerator<br />
produced in Korea by one company and<br />
marketed in China under a different brand to<br />
less or more stringent energy configurations<br />
that are consistent with terms set forth by the<br />
Kyoto Protocol.<br />
D12<br />
Such protocols, like the room, might include<br />
the sound of the rain, with which has picked<br />
up sulfur dioxides in the form of stack gasses,<br />
turning the leaves of a fern in southeastern<br />
Ohio yellow. And then, the rain will be heavy<br />
at times and will cause local flooding in low<br />
lying areas.<br />
C 3 1975<br />
As a rule of description, it may be necessary to<br />
“cause the parable to rain” or the crust of the<br />
earth to become a cigarette.<br />
C5<br />
And because it is early, such a room might<br />
also include the sound of the rain turning<br />
into something that looks like snow or a<br />
bottle of Bordeaux. Bordeaux is a novel or a<br />
newspaper.<br />
What is the minor anxiety of a novel? I believe<br />
it was something you were reading yesterday<br />
or the day before because the novel is a brand<br />
that is no longer made by hand.<br />
C9<br />
The newspaper is so plainly like all our other<br />
feelings. I remember plainly a lesson from<br />
1 Mark Wigley, “Network Fever” Grey<br />
Room 4, p 12-61
Backwards Honking<br />
By Kirsten Mosher<br />
I was talking with a friend about the frustration of being honked<br />
at, when the driver behind doesn’t understand or see the risks<br />
involved in taking a particular right hand turn on the red light at<br />
the off ramp exit from the Newburgh Bridge to 9-D. The fence<br />
that prevents bridge suicides also prevents drivers at that junction<br />
from seeing around the left corner. So I have to be pretty sure<br />
no one is going to speed up onto me as I take the right red. The<br />
driver behind can’t see it at all. That driver can either wait for<br />
the green light or wait for me to take the right on red when it’s<br />
safe to go. This is when I get the occasional honk. The driver<br />
behind thinks I’m dilly dallying, missing opportunities on this<br />
red and isn’t satisfied to let me wait for the green. Honk-Honk.<br />
As I said, I explained this whole situation to a friend<br />
and she said, “Well, that’s when I honk back.”<br />
“You mean backwards honking? How do you do that? Honks go<br />
forward, not backward. Then traffic in front of me is going to<br />
think I’m honking at them. Of course, the sound radiates in every<br />
direction so the sound of<br />
the honk will reach the car<br />
in back of me. So, how<br />
does the driver behind<br />
know the honk is for him?<br />
It’s like turning your back<br />
on someone and yelling at<br />
them. That’s unclear. You<br />
can’t bawl someone out<br />
facing the other way. You<br />
can’t backwards honk!”<br />
“Well, I do backwards<br />
honk,” she said. As she<br />
walked away from me she<br />
added a loud verbal “Honk”<br />
apparently in my direction.<br />
December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />
New York Stories...............................by Aurélie Godard<br />
HOROSCOPES 2009<br />
By Virginie Yassef<br />
G.DeBord<br />
an incomprehensible stab at describing their<br />
shared journey towards an equally shared goal.<br />
Both are becoming hoarse. Meanwhile, someone<br />
turns up the music, just as J starts to look<br />
for a better place to sit (he has been perched<br />
on the armrest of the rocking chair that M<br />
is sitting on). M, having spent quite a bit of<br />
time trying to listen to A and B and maintain<br />
eye contact with both, has now removed his<br />
glasses and is rubbing his temples as if to dispel<br />
a headache or a growing sense of frustration.<br />
A stops talking and draws a C with his<br />
finger on the glass tabletop. B falls silent as<br />
well, watching A as he carefully draws the arc<br />
of the letter. A has now sat down and is staring<br />
intently at J. With an unexpected blush,<br />
and a visible onrush of embarrassed sweat, B<br />
calmly walks over to M, gently lays his head<br />
on his tricep, and leads him out of the room,<br />
onto the balcony. This scene looks like an A,<br />
a B, a J, and an M (all lower case) drawn onto<br />
of one another.A taxi sidles up to a building.<br />
The building is a four-story apartment building.<br />
There’s a small cement “yard” on the side<br />
of the building, separated from the street by a<br />
low wrought-iron fence. A Hassid man dressed<br />
in a black top hat, black skullcap, long black<br />
satin coat, black suit, and white shirt, paces in<br />
the enclosed area, at a regular pace, pausing<br />
at the end of each cycle to warm his hands<br />
in his sleeves, or take off his hat and warm<br />
them in his hat. He looks behind him, looks<br />
around. It seems he’s waiting for something. A<br />
school bus pulls up, a yellow school bus, with<br />
Hebrew characters written on the side of it.<br />
A young Hassid boy runs out, into his father’s<br />
arms, who stops him, removes his scarf, places<br />
it on the boy, warms his hands again in his hat,<br />
then takes his son’s hand, and walks quickly,<br />
briskly into the building. The bus doors have<br />
closed, the bus has taken off, it rounds a corner,<br />
drives under the overpass, down a wide<br />
street lined with warehouses and small brownstones.<br />
A gang of umbrella wielding thugs<br />
enter the organic grocery noisily laughing,<br />
opening and closing their umbrellas and falling<br />
down the aisles causing one young man to<br />
drop a 5lb bag of basmati rice. They carried on<br />
so because they were malcontents. They did so<br />
because they were drunkards or having some<br />
unruly celebration that was better kept private,<br />
away from the uninitiated and unsuspect<br />
C is for Column<br />
ing. Whatever the reason, their behavior put<br />
everyone in the vicinity on guard as they slid<br />
and scuffled over the now rice laden floor. 3<br />
aisles over, a handsome middle-aged woman<br />
returned her gaze away from the direction<br />
of the ruckus to the package of frozen spinach<br />
she had been inspecting prior to the outbreak.<br />
The circled K; keep refrigerated. Her<br />
eyes wander further over the logo of a bird<br />
and she begins to imagine herself floating over<br />
a patchwork landscape of tree lines, pastures<br />
and lakes. The wobbly lines of country road<br />
as they begin to widen and split, occasionally<br />
dotted by a rooftop – she must be on her way<br />
home on an airliner. The roads breaks to the<br />
right, to the left and continue on ahead as if<br />
winning a race. Speckled with more rooftops<br />
which accumulate into clusters, pastures become<br />
smaller yards. Grassy passes turn gray.<br />
Just then she feels a violent poke in her lower<br />
back. She spins around to come face to face<br />
to with a dazed and wavering man of 41 holding<br />
a ragged umbrella. She clinches the cold<br />
brick in her right hand and, as hard as she can,<br />
strikes the man on his left temple. She turns<br />
back to the refrigerated shelf and replace the<br />
dented package for a fresh undamaged one<br />
and proceeded to the checkout line. Our protagonist<br />
walks out of the supermarket through<br />
a scatter of rice grains, in which one could<br />
read a potentially infinite array of signs, numerals,<br />
or symbols. The sun outside has just<br />
been dimmed by a cloud, a grayish cloud which<br />
she seemingly interprets as the approach of a<br />
storm, she flips up the collar of her raincoat,<br />
and checks to see that her umbrella is still<br />
in her handbag. A young couple are holding<br />
hands and kissing at a bus stop. Perhaps one<br />
of them is leaving, or perhaps has just arrived.<br />
As she passes them, a bus stops, and when it’s<br />
left, so have the couple. They have scampered<br />
into an alleyway, their interaction growing<br />
more heated, but just then a door opens up<br />
in the alleyway and a thick set man drags an<br />
oversized double-walled bag of trash out towards<br />
the dumpster. He mumbles as they make<br />
their exit, laughing, and seeking refuge in the<br />
gangway of a building, leading to a courtyard,<br />
in which they are once again interrupted by<br />
the arrival of a moped and the departure of<br />
a mother and her two children, each of them<br />
carrying five large decorated cardboard letters.<br />
They slink deeper into the courtyard, finding<br />
refuge in a doorway leading to the basement,<br />
at which point their interaction, after a brief<br />
moment of awkward reprise, heats up once<br />
more. Just then a retired translator and amateur<br />
cryptographer on the fifth floor waters<br />
his plants, the run-off splashing down along<br />
the wall, part of it dripping down the shirt of<br />
the young woman in question who jumps with<br />
a shriek, just as a car enters and proceeds to<br />
park alongside the two of them. It is 4 o’clock<br />
in the afternoon. The sky is filled with clouds.<br />
A flock of sparrows flies low over the city,<br />
first in a “V,” then in a “W.” The weather is<br />
mild, and the spirits of the nation (according<br />
to a radio broadcast blaring from the<br />
amateur cryptographer’s apartment) are high.