-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Sterling <
bruces@well.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:54:14
To: Barrett Brown<
barriticus@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: English not first language?
*Whoops, sorry, that was just a surreal stray Salvador Dali drowned
ocelot.
This is the rhetoric:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/humans-are-the-routers/
bruces
On 27/feb/11, at 12:29, Barrett Brown wrote:
> Oh, also, just realized you'd asked me about manifestos to read
> from. I've got plenty. Looking for most Anon-related?
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Barrett Brown
> <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe. I'm not able to have a car, see, as I have warrants and also
> can't afford to maintain one as I work mostly pro-bono these days,
> although I'm doing a film now so should be rich soon. Also have a
> bunch of lawyers but they're busy with stuff. My GF has a car though
> and works as art consultant so can probably come down whenever, soon.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Bruce Sterling <
bruces@well.com>
> wrote:
> *No kidding. Swell. This weekend? Let's have lunch.
>
> bruces
>
>
>
> On 17/feb/11, at 13:56, Barrett Brown wrote:
>
> 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 use Briticisms out of contempt for all of
> man's works.
>
> I've got a lot I need to tell someone and don't have anyone to which
> I can tell it all so you've just volunteered.
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Barrett Brown
> 512-560-2302
>
>
>
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>
> Barrett Brown
> 512-560-2302
>
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>
> Barrett Brown
> 512-560-2302
>
>
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> Regards,
>
> Barrett Brown
> 512-560-2302