Subject: Re: English not first language?
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 2/17/11, 14:55
To: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>

Actually just got my application for SXSW credentials turned down two days ago because Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone is in Peshewar or some shit and I guess my letter of assignment from Sam Apple at Faster Times didn't cut it. How many federal agencies do I need after me before I get to report on Interactive? Do we need to knock over the House of Saud? Shadowrun the Pentagon? Institutions are nonsense.

I lived in Austin for seven years. Am currently hiding in Dallas, not very well. Will be in Austin soon, maybe even this weekend, and would love to meet. Lived in East Africa and Mexico through portions of my formative years, and in unusual circumstances. Yes, that will make one cyberpunk.

I've got a lot I need to tell someone and don't have anyone to which I can tell it all so 

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com> wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/27/anonymous-internet

*Hmmm.  So, how come you use Briticisms like "horrid," "keen on," and "one may retort"? And for that matter, why do you write for the Grauniad?  Not that I have any
problem with Anglophile Texans, being one myself.  You spent some formative years overseas,  maybe?  I sure did.

bruces, currently in Austin

PS.  I have to give a big speech at the end of SXSW Interactive in a few weeks,
and I wonder if you have any revolutionary manifestos I could quote at
length from the podium.  Something to make the hippie web designers sit up straight in their stackable chairs.  Like maybe five minutes' worth.




On 17/feb/11, at 12:07, Barrett Brown wrote:

Just saw your post on my al-Jaz op-ed. I'm actually 29 and from Texas. It's an open secret that I wrote this, see Guardian op-eds. Seriously, though, do you just think the linguistic structure is weird or what?

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Barrett Brown
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Barrett Brown
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