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Our Colleagues the Rootless Cosmopolitans

 
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mysteriousdeltarays



Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Food Pyramid Bldg. 5F, 77 Sunset Strip, Alphaville

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 1:31 am    Post subject: Our Colleagues the Rootless Cosmopolitans Reply with quote

ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANISIM
STRIKE FOR INDOLENCE & SPIRITUAL BEAUTY
CHAOS NEVER SLEEPS
RUST NEVER SLEEPS
SNAKE DEMONS AND COW DRAGONS
WHERE THERE IS DOUBT THERE IS GUILT
MOTHER IS DEAR, FATHER IS DEAR BUT MYSTERIUOS DELTAR RAYS ARE DEAREST OF ALL
AWAY WITH ALL PESTS
LACKIES OF MILUKOVINISM
Some of these are "sincere" slogans of International Tomunism, others
are meant to rouse public apprehension & misgivings, but I�m not sure which are which.
Some Delta Ideas Still Sadly Languish in the Realm of "Conceptual Art"
I need only mention in passing that there is a Curious Reappearance of the Delta Rays tradition in the popular Godzilla cycle of films which arose after the Nuclear Chaos unleashed upon Japan. In fact, the Symbolic Details in the evolution of Godzilla filmic �popular� parallel in a quite surprising way the traditional Japanese and Chinese mythological and folkloric themes of combat with an ambivalent chaotic creature (some of the films, like Mothra, directly recalling the ancient motifs of the cosmic egg/gourd/cocoon that is usually tamed, after the failure of the civilized order, through the special and indirect agency of children.
Happy birthdays to both Jajadude and Bobster. They have been around for awhile and
I make this stuff up out of boredom, not that I make much of this up, as a form of art.
I have a new idea suitable for such occasions as your birthdays.
Commemorative bronze plaques easily made in Itaewan to commemorate important occasions, any personal or public experience. Feel free to attach them public or private to any site worthy of note say an orgasm or revelation you may have had.
Since I�m on line again I will even mention your birthdays to Ms. Riefenstahl, the Manson family members and some other nut I met on line who for the moment, I seem to have selective amnesia, a major player in 20th Century strangeness. I remember being shocked by the response.
Have fun, be nice to the kids.

You guys think about time and history. Happy birthdays!



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Clutch Cargo



Joined: 28 Feb 2003
Location: Sim City 2005

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 1:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nanoo Nanoo Confused
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desultude



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Since I�m on line again I will even mention your birthdays to Ms. Riefenstahl, the Manson family members and some other nut I met on line who for the moment, I seem to have selective amnesia, a major player in 20th Century strangeness. I remember being shocked by the response.


Are you in heaven or hell? I am curious, since I believe Ms. Riefenstahl died quite recently.
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posco's trumpet



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



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buddy bradley



Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

posco's trumpet wrote:
Try learning what things mean before you co-opt them.


Gee, someone's in a bad mood today. Soju not agreeing with you?
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mysteriousdeltarays



Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Food Pyramid Bldg. 5F, 77 Sunset Strip, Alphaville

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I'm glued into my Google and Webcrawler toolbars 24 hours a day aren't I? 24/7 That is me!

Anyway happy birthdays Jajadude and Bobster and I, kind of liked the quote from whatever news source paraphased as Riefenstahl could have made home movies of Hitler being nice to his dog into "art." Maybe not but at least I wrote to her and tried to discuss her role in the world with her.

I guess the point is that say Jajadude and Bobster are old enough to appreciate my odd sense of humor. Happy Birthday!

Riefenstahl was odd enough to rationalize things as "it seemed like a good idea at the time." She knew the irony, and sick humor of writing that to me.

I'm a nobody. I liked that she would would write to me and tell me about her life. I don't think think the she just answered "fan mail" from skin heads.

Yeah she was a serious "rat" but at least she knew it. I for one am very saddened by her demise. I liked her e-mails. Next time you guys are jumping up and down so excited about what a work of art Pulp Fiction is, you might think about being real trash in this world is.

She really blew it. Her attempt at "defecting" and being laughed at it is heart breaking. I liked her because she really "blew it" she really messed up badly. She really f--kd up on a big time level.

People do that. It easy to get caught up in things, and then... It all seemed like a good idea at the time. "I was so cute, I was so hip, I was a wavelet on the great surge of historical necessity."

She was an a monster but nothing more than any of us could become.

She was nice to me when many people were not.

Try to be nice to the kids, so much for being "cool and hip".

I turn the computer off at times, even for weeks at a time, out here with the rubes and the cows, I'm often not so sharp at times.

A rootless cosmopolitan.
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mysteriousdeltarays



Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Food Pyramid Bldg. 5F, 77 Sunset Strip, Alphaville

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Incidently Posco's trumpet I loved your site of Soviet jargon. Very cool!
How the h--l did you you dig this thing up from?

Do you spend time searching these things?

It just pops in your mind I'll go looking for "Communist jargon." I'm not laughing at you or insulting you.

An odd site! One has to wonder why create the site? Not that I'm promoting a conspiracy angle.

It is nice that somebody is doing it.
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buddy bradley



Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I take pride in the fact that I'm a "vrag naroda".
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posco's trumpet



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



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posco's trumpet



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

posco's trumpet wrote:
I didn't need a website to know what a rootless cosmopolitan was. I first encountered it while reading Isaac Deutcher's biography of Stalin. I gave you the link as a way of saying what I wanted to say, without having to say it myself.

I done read me a book!
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posco's trumpet



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



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mysteriousdeltarays



Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Food Pyramid Bldg. 5F, 77 Sunset Strip, Alphaville

PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I only know it as meaningless jargon, Actaually from Ossip Mandelsteim's wife's autobiography. It was I guess a catch all phrase. It has no more meaning the Snake Demon or Cow Dragon. That is why there is humor in it.

It is amazing that you would remember the name of the author of a biography of Stalin. Again I'm not attacking you, just wondering.

Well whoever it was who popped the news on Riefenstahl. It sent me for a loop. Well it must have been a secure email site to her. I kind of wondered if it at times it was her or her "significant other" writing me. Something of a shock.

Hell, if is that word is OK with the censors, Beat the crap out out of the kids, hoist their little heads on poles along side the Mekong.

Riefenstahl was a Nazi. The bottom line or maybe something like it. Yeah she was. I liked her story, as she put it to me. It might as well been entitled don't f---ck up.

I'm not a big fan of the Nazis, but I can see how it would "seem like a good idea at the time." She explained it to me from her version of events.

Just a "show girl" gone aray how ever that is spelled. It must have seemed like "good idea at the time."

Incidently I'm aware that rootless cosmopolitans was a catch phrase for jews, also of intellectuals and artists as well. Writers and painters in particular.

A couple of topics down, don't beat the crap out of the kids, much as we all want to be Steven Segall. I'm not sure beating the kids is cool. Three years in Vietnam I try to keep things light.

I write nonsense, they are kind of jokes really. Give a lift to our spirits so to speak.

All of these tough guys, look through the site. It is always beat the kids into submission or I should have slapped them silly in the subway, or ... it goes on and on.

Read through the submissions. Of course we were whimps in Vietnam. I think a little more kung-fu we could have "licked" them.

Whatever I submit is basicly jokes or straight forward facts.
Have a sense of humor. Who knows what a rootless cosmopolitan is (a cross between a snake dragon and a cow demon?)

Anyway nice site on the jargon! You will no doubt be seeing more of this!

As far as Riefenstahl, I don't think that she ever really figured out anything beyond "I'm cute" and therefore things come to me. I don't think that she ever realized what she had created. She was into art. It is odd that she outlived them all if only to babble at me.

Anyway don't punch out the kids, much less come up with more "dramatic" ideas.

I'm for beheading the kids and putting their heads on poles.

That doesn't seem so much to ask does it?
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah the Mysterious one,

Good to see you aboard again, whatever the hell your posts mean, who cares? Hope all works out wherever fate sends you. Give me a shout and we'll hang out on a sidewalk somewhere.
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue

PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I only know it as meaningless jargon, Actaually from Ossip Mandelsteim's wife's autobiography. It was I guess a catch all phrase. It has no more meaning the Snake Demon or Cow Dragon. That is why there is humor in it.



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Incidently I'm aware that rootless cosmopolitans was a catch phrase for jews, also of intellectuals and artists as well. Writers and painters in particular.



Well, which is it? Meaningless jargon or an anti-semitic code word?
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