Visual Orphans

Volume One

ISSUE NINE AND THREE-QUARTERS

Friday, 22 August 2003

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Visual Orphans on the Road

McCarthyism- 1)The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence. 2) The use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition. [After Joseph R. McCarthy, 1908-1957] - McCarthyist.

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"I have neither mother nor father
to pity my sorrow.
I am an orphan.
All alone I bear torment and disgrace
in the depths of my soul.
Such was the pain
of not finding a good woman
who would fill this great void,
which they left behind,
with tender love."
-- When Frida Kahlo was in Paris, Pablo Picasso taught her this song, which she often sang for Diego Rivera or for friends. It is called El Huérfano (The Orphan).

Finally, after six years of planning and development, Razee Ink, beginning in late August of 2003, begins an extensive North American tour! In the tradition of the bohemians and beatniks, this tour is composed of over twenty stops along the road, each one a potential writing and creative experience that will astonish the world. Cyberhitchhiking has replaced the conventional thumb on the side of the road, and the mission of this vision quest journey is to turn six years of typed words in a box into real and circumstantial relationships, documenting the experience the entire time. To be perfectly frank, it is a writer's dream of opportunity and promise.

With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that we will be in your neighborhood! Equipped witih a laptop, a camera, and a sleeping bag, our correspondent is wandering all over the vast highways of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, in search of a few good stories to accompany the miles. Let's do lunch! Would you like to join in the roadtrip of a lifetime, even for a few short miles? The more the merrier, and the merrier have already packed the circus tent and begun the pilgrimage. Where are Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters when you meed them, with their psychedelic-painted multimedia school bus driven by Neal Cassady, some crazed Denverite, anyway? Maybe we should ask Tom Wolfe. Meet me in the back of the blue bus.

This project will propel Razee Ink and its creator into the mainstream market, something that is long overdue. As we chronicle a new wave of interpersonal relationships, derived from both postal and electronic mail, this examination and documentation of people who make their home outside of the Internet promises to be a true bestseller. Prepare your release forms, collect up your bail money, and let's hit the road! We will see you there!

Until now is then, peace and happiness. Itinerary

Homeland Security Buys N.M. Town for Training

— SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has bought for about $5 million the small New Mexico ghost town of Playas, and plans to transform it into a terrorist response training center, officials said on Friday.

Training at the 1,840-acre town about 40 miles north of the Mexican border, could provide training for U.S. Marines in urban warfare and a first responders program that includes testing responses to various terrorist bombing possibilities, they said.

The facility could also be used to look at ways in which biological and chemical warfare may affect a small town, said an official responsible for running the training center.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, an undergraduate and graduate school specializing in science and engineering, will run the training center, which was purchased for "close to $5 million dollars" from Phelps Dodge, said Lonnie Marquez, acting vice-
president of administration and finance at New Mexico Tech.

"We've been pursuing this since the town was first made available so we're pretty excited," he said. "Our programs will be in support of Homeland Security."

Playas was built in the early 1970s to house the employees and infrastructure of the Phelps Dodge copper smelter, which shut down in 1999 leaving a virtual ghost town. About 40 families still live in the town, but may have to move once the federal government finalizes
the purchase, Marquez said.