SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!!
Sunday, September 19th at 4 PM. Mick Farren reading and signing KINDLING at Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia Street (at 19th.) 888 893 4008 (see Tuesday’s post)

QUOTES OF THE DAY, BOTH FROM THE LOVELY MAUREEN DOWD (sigh)
The Democratic paranoia is a measure of the intimidation the West Wing is wielding in a race where John Kerry can't seem to take advantage of any of the Bush administration's increasingly calamitous blunders. The administration has been so dazzling in misleading the public with audacious, mendacious malarkey that the Democrats fear the Bushies are capable of any level of deceit. Iraq is a vision of hell, and the Republicans act as if it's a model kitchen. The president and vice president brag about liberating Iraqis and reassure us that they are stopping terrorist violence at its source and inspiring democracy in the region by bringing it to blood-drenched Iraq.

Unlike the president, the young men and women trying to stay alive in the unraveling chaos of Iraq can't count on their daddies to get them out of the line of fire.

SOUND OF OWN HORN BLOWING
Exceeding fab review of Kindling in the Journal of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.
http://www.netaxs.com/~hlazar/sf.htm

MO’ LINKS, AYE?
Fightin’ radical librarians
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64945,00.html

George Bush's United States is clearly in a proto-fascist condition. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=17771&mode=nested&order=0
The Al Qaeda franchise
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6884.htm

Hurricane Ivan
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64952,00.html
Zippy the Pinhead
www.zippythepinhead.com