The Last Exit for the Metallic Onslaught - August 29, 2003
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Ok, last week Plan 607 made their way to The Metallic Onslaught. They were
cool. The interview will be up with a bunch of others soon (if not
already). Jeffie's big deal last week was that he brought one of his
'successful' clones with him. He seemed to enjoy watching his clone get
slapped around and in the end, beat him down himself. Weird. This week, I
have no idea what is coming up...

Last week's Last Exit, saw the unfortunate return of Vern. This didn't go
so bad, though, as I retrieved Friend and had him deal with Vern. Sure,
there was the time there were friend was trying to smear some kind of Friend
Cream on my forhead, granted, but in the end, he grabbed Vern and dragged
him off screaming. Friend was singing "Here Comes the Friend..." apparently
forshadowing a wedding to Vern... Um. Yeah. I'm not sure what we have
coming up this week. I have something planned that I hope will make up for
Vern's appearance last week. But it's not a definite, so you will have to
tune in and see. Hopefully Vern will not be back. Hopefully. Feature
artist this week will be Shotgun Messiah / Skold...

Oh, and I have been meaning to pass this on for a while. From A Day without
Rain... This is a shoutout to all the local bands from Ithaca and
Syracuse.Anyone looking to trade off shows in Rochester contact Nate at
withoutrainband@... or call at 1-585-750-8945.

Ok. Cool. Website is being updated. Here is news...
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-- NEWS --

THEATRE OF TRAGEDY
the group has parted ways with vocalist Liv Kristine due to “differences
of opinion that cannot be bridged” - the rest of the band will continue
working with full force under the name Theatre of Tragedy

HAMMERFALL
guitarist Oscar Dronjak fractured his arm in a recent motorcycle accident
– as a result, the band has been forced to cancel their appearance at
England's Bloodstock Festival

AGHORA
drummer Sean Reinert (Cynic, Death, Gordian Knot) has rejoined the band
and will record the anxiously awaited ‘Formless’ album in Los Angeles this
Autumn

THROCULT
vocalist Chris Vigil has parted ways with the band in order to pursue
schooling and work - he will be performing at all remaining shows until a
suitable replacement is found

REBELLION
the band has parted ways with drummer Randy Black in the wake of his
appointment to the drum position in Primal Fear

MUTILATED
drummer Tony Cosgrove has left the band on good terms and will continue to
do artwork for the band – his replacement is Zach Gibson (Gut Rot, Cut
Rate)

DEVOURMENT
the band has called it quits - Ruben Rosas intends to start a new project

BLACK MASS
guitarist Joe Jablonski (Hatred) has been added to the lineup

HELL ON EARTH
the industrial / goth / metal unit and their label, Neptune Records, were
questioned by Law Enforcement Authorities last week for taking part in an
alleged drug smuggling operation after they mailed out individually
packaged candy corn as promotion for the latest album ‘All Things
Disturbingly Sassy’

DARKEST HOUR
the band’s van and safe were broken into during a show on August 21 in
Toronto resulting in the loss of a significant amount of cash earmarked
for tour expenses – the band is continuing the tour alongside God Forbid,
Atreyu and Underoath with the help of donations from fans and the other
bands on the bill

OZZY OSBOURNE
the madman has been forced to postpone his upcoming UK tour dates so that
he can have a foot operation – the dates have been rescheduled for October

NEW SIGNINGS
Nuclear Blast Records: Exodus
Amputated Vein Records: Gemisuadi
Crash Music: Hypnosis, Illogicist

-- HELP WANTED --

VOCALIST wanted – Denver’s Throcult seeks vocalist - must be willing to
relocate if necessary – must have influences of black / death extreme
metal and be very serious - must be willing to tour and contribute
financially at times - vocals will sound similar to (but not limited to)
Dark Funeral, Naglfar, Satherial, Dimmu Borgir, Destroyer 666, Dissection
- contact: info@...

GUITARIST and VOCALIST wanted - San Francisco Bay Area’s Vile seeks lead
guitarist and vocalist - need people to relocate and secure these
positions - will work with people on a permanent or temporary basis -
guitarist needs to be experienced in soloing (sweeps, fast scales, etc.)
with their own style - vocalist needs intelligible low and high ranges,
and command over the crowd – contact: colindavis@...

DRUMMER wanted - Big Yellow Mama seeks drummer - must have own gear, be
ready to play shows and go on the road and must be, to some degree, into
doom or stoner rock (i.e. Bongzilla, Electric Wizard, ATP, Saint Vitus,
Earthride) – contact: AMPWorship@...

BASSIST wanted: New York black / death metal band needs bassist –
influences: Death, At the Gates, Autopsy, Dissection, Morbid Angel - gear
a plus, but not necessary - no racists - contact: ceremonium@...

DRUMMER wanted – seeking drummer in Connecticut area to create original
music – must live and breath true death / black metal – influences:
Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Emperor, Mayhem, Absu,
Cradle Of Filth – contact: IRONWORKS02@...

MEMORABILIA wanted – producers of a documentary on the thrash movement of
the late 80s called ‘Get Thrashed’ seek photos of fans in their metal gear
(concert t-shirts, denim back patches, leather jacket, etc.) and old
school concert flyers/ads from '89 and earlier pertaining to bands like
Metallica, slayer, anthrax, Megadeth, Overkill, Nuclear Assault, Exodus,
SOD, Testament, etc. – contact: rick@...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: R.I.P. WESLEY WILLIS

Dear Friends and fellow Wesleynauts,

We are deeply saddened to report that one of our artists, Wesley Willis
passed away yesterday, Thursday, August 21st. Wesley will be greatly missed
by all that had the privilege to know him, as well as the fans who have been
fortunate enough to experience his genius.

Wesley was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) at the end of
2002, and had to undergo emergency surgery on June 2nd to identify the
source of, and to suppress internal bleeding. It is not clear if this
bleeding was related to his leukemia or not, and the exact cause of death is
still unknown. Wesley had been recovering at a Hospice in Illinois, and
since the surgery his health had declined.

His songs were simultaneously disturbing, hilarious, blunt, and
intoxicating. Wesley's sheer excitement and unaffected honesty about every
cultural phenomenon defined his music as truly individual, and truly punk
rock. Wesley released well over 50 albums--three of which are on Alternative
Tentacles, and a fourth, entitled "Wesley Willis Greatest Hits, Vol. 3" (CD)
had already been scheduled for release in October of this year.

For more information on Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, please visit
http://leukemia-lymphoma.org.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WESLEY WILLIS 1963-2003

A letter from one of his biggest fans, Jello Biafra:

We lost Wesley Willis some time before 9PM Chicago time August 21, 2003.
Word is he died peacefully. The likely cause may be heart failure. Wes had
been battling leukemia for less than a year.

No services are planned as of yet. There will probably be a memorial
concert, or at least a gathering in his honor in Chicago in the near future.
We will let you know.

Wesley will go down as one of the most unique songwriters and entertainment
personalities in history. His music, lyrics, drawings, insight and the way
he put them together are like no one else. Ever. There will never be
another.

As I got to know Wes, what really struck me was his sheer will power, his
unrelenting drive to succeed and over come his horrifically poor background,
child abuse, racism, chronic schizophrenia and obesity among other things.
He was the most courageous person I have ever known.

Yet through it all he had such a deep, all-encompassing love of life. Little
things, big things. He loved bus rides. He loved watching trains. He loved
writing songs about how much he loved his friends. He loved travelling to
new towns so he could headbutt new friends. Is there any band he saw that
escaped being in their own song about how much he loved their show? He was
so warm, so sweet, so giving. He could be a handful when he came to visit;
but as soon as he left, we'd miss him immediately.

As his long time friend Dennis Cooper said, "No More Demons." The voices in
Wesley's head can't yell at him and put him down any more.

Wes was deeply religious. He was afraid that if he died he would no longer
get to go see bands play. If there is a hereafter I hope he's right up front
as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, his beloved Otis Redding and his dear
friend Bradley from Sublime "storm the stage" as the crowd "roars like a sea
monster." All opening for Wesley, of course.

It will be hard now that he's gone, but I'm not going to let myself stop
enjoying the funny stuff, or the look on people's faces when they first hear
"Rock n Roll McDonalds," or the memories of the good times and Wesley's many
adventures. He wouldn't want it any other way.

There are many down times when all I have to do is think of one of Wes's
songs, something he said or simply marvel at his Wesley-isms, and the clouds
part and a smile comes to my face. I think he does that for a lot of people.
He always will.

Rock over London
Rock on Chicago
Sail on, Wes. I love you.

Jello Biafra
8-22-03

For more info and MP3's:
http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=wesleywillis
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Playlist for The Last Exit for the Lost: August 23, 2003
(R) = Requested

Background: Midnight Syndicate "Soundtrack to AD&D"

My Dying Bride "Silent Dance / Sear Me"
Thyrane "Firework"
Julie Laughs Nomore "From the Mist of the Ruins"
Graveworm "Beauty of Malice"
Silent Stream of Godless Elegy "Winter Queen"
The Plankboys "Better Off Dead"
Avenged Sevenfold "Eternal Rest"
Matt Smith "Tribute to St. Anger" (R)
Born of Thorns "To Eve the Art of Witchcraft"
Arch Enemy "Exist to Exit"
Green Carnation "Crushed to Dust"
Moonsorrow "Unohduksen Lapsi"
Impaler "Dead Babies"
Otep "T.R.I.C." (R)
Static-X "Destroy All"
Dope "Now is the Time"
Wesley Willis "Feel the Power of Rock and Roll"
Wehrwolfe "Godless We Stand"
Dark Lunacy "Through the Non-Time"
Le'Rue Delashay "Aetheric Fibonnichian Re-Sequencing"
Faith and Muse "Willow's Song"
Sepultura "Godless"
Sulaco "Follow the Cloud"
The Bouncing Souls "Born Free"
Killing Joke "Blood On Your Hands"
HavocHate "When God Dies"
Skinny Puppy "Optimissed"
Ministry "Animosity"
Pigface "Bitch"
Hanzel Und Gretyl "Komm Zu Uns"
Android Lust "The Want"
Goatwhore "Baptized in a Storm of Swords"
Enslaved "Havenless"
Nevermore "I, Voyager"
Acumen Nation "Dirty Fighter"
Hampton the Hampster "The Hampsterdance Song"
Vampire Moose "Admantium Elbow"
Nora "Nosferatu"
Stretch Armstrong "Devil Shoots Devil"
The Bled "Porcelain Hearts and Hammers for Teeth"
The Plankboys "Bottom of a Bottle"
Misery Index "Demand the Impossible"
Sick of It All "Paper Tiger (Fakin' the Punk)"
Inhuman "Darker than You Think"
Crappy the Clown "I Wanna Marry a Porno Star"
Murderdolls "Welcome to the Strange"
A Day without Rain "A Setting Sun"
Aborted "Plastic Flesh Resection"
Spineshank "Stripsearch "El Terrible"
Mondo Generator "Day I Die"
Warlock "Without You"
User Ne "Main Ort"
The Bronx "They Will Kill Us All (Without Mercy)"
Thrice "Under a Killing Moon"
Pro-Pain "Weeds"
Battlelore "Attack of the Orcs"

Feature Artist: My Dying Bride
Sear Me MCMXCIII
Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium
The Crown of Sympathy
Cry Of Mankind
The Stance Of Evander Sinque
It Will Come
My Hope, The Destroyer
The Return of the Beautiful
Sear Me III
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SHOW LISTINGS

August 30th Sunday -BUG JAR FREE SUMMER MUSIC FEST at HIGHLAND BOWL
Highland Park, 1200 South Ave, Rochester
ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK, MODEY LEMON, THEE SHAMS, THE MOFOS
THE FRANTIC FLATTOPS, THE GRINDERS, EL DESTRUCTO, VELUXE, SULACO

Aug 29-31: Musefest at Newhart's Lodge and Love Shack, Newfield (Boiler,
King Snyder, The Witching, Pile of Heads, Patchwork Down, JMJ, and many
more.) (www.musefest.com - Free Show)

Sat, Sept 6: Death Angel at The Cruise Inn, Lackawanna

Fri, Sept 12: The Witching and Antigone Rising at The Haunt, Ithaca

Fri, Sept 12: Hatebreed, Madball, Cephalic Carnage, and Ringworm at The
Water Street Music Hall, Rochester

Sat, Sept 13: Hatebreed, Madball, Cephalic Carnage, and Ringworm at The
Haunt, Ithaca

Fri, Sept 19: Delusional Spell at The Haunt, Ithaca

Wed, Oct 22: Queensryche, Dream Theater, and Fates Warning at Turning Stone,
Verona

Fri, Oct 31: Punch Drunk Monkeys featuring Crappy the Clown at The Haunt,
Ithaca

Fri, Oct 31: The Plankboys and The Witching at Castaways, Ithaca

Fri, Oct 31: KMFDM at The Water Street Music Hall, Rochester

Also check out; http://com-site.com/cnymusic/index.html
All kinds of info on local clubs and other similar things.
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TOP STRANGE STORIES FOR THE PAST WEEK

Monkey Business
04-Aug-2003
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=2976

Formosan macaques are legally protected in Taiwan, so the monkeys feel free
to pester local farmers. In Taitung County, the owner of a poultry farm says
groups of the monkeys play pranks on his chickens, like plucking out their
feathers or placing the hens on branches high up in trees.
A farmer who raises boars says they tease them by riding on their backs like
cowboys. A goat rancher says one of them is trying to have sex with his
female goats. He bought six dogs, but the monkey tamed them within ten
minutes. It stood out of the reach of the dogs, which were kept on long
leashes, then slapped them in the face when they got tired of barking at
him. Eventually the dogs became afraid of the monkey, so the farmer finally
had to have it captured with an anesthetic dart gun.

In Wulu and Litao, farmers grow cabbages and green peppers, but they're
having trouble harvesting any, because the monkeys always get there first,
by crawling through the irrigation pipes to get to the fields.

It's almost as if the monkeys know they're protected by law. Farmers have
resorted to setting off firecrackers and playing tape recordings of gun
shots. They should try playing loud rock and roll—it worked when we were
trying to flush out that Panamanian dictator.
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Topless 3-year-old makes waves at pool
August 2, 2003
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/swim2_20030802.htm

BY JACK KRESNAK
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

It may be all right for girls to bathe topless in pools in, say, Brazil, but
don't try going topless at a water park in Detroit -- even if you're only 3
years old.

Karima Sorel and her daughter Suhayla Smith, 3, learned that the hard way
Wednesday when security guards at Wayne County's Chandler Park Family
Aquatic Park called police on Sorel because she allowed her daughter to play
in the pool topless.

Sorel, of Detroit, said she came to the park at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The park, complete with water slides, wave and wading pools, is owned by
Wayne County and managed by Winco Enterprises of Detroit.

Suhayla had her bikini bottom on, but her mother had forgotten the matching
top.

"If I had the top, I would have put it on her," Sorel said Friday.

But Sorel saw nothing wrong with her daughter going topless, just like the
3-year-old boys splashing around in the pool.

Topless toddlers apparently can spark lust in adults who are sexually
attracted to children -- at least that's what Sorel said the park's security
guards repeatedly told her during the standoff.

"If there are pedophiles in your park, please harass them and leave my
daughter and me alone," Sorel said she told the guards.

So Sorel held her ground -- or better still -- waded deeper into the pool.

The guards then threatened to call Detroit police on Sorel and her topless
tot. And finally, at Sorel's own urging, they did.

At about 1 p.m., a police officer from the 5th (Jefferson) Precinct arrived,
assessed the situation and, according to Sorel, told the park manager,
Lorenzo Douglas, Sorel was doing nothing wrong.

Sorel said Douglas apologized. On Friday, Douglas declined comment,
referring a reporter to Wayne County officials.

Sharon Banks, a spokeswoman for County Executive Robert Ficano, said the
park personnel are working to maintain a family atmosphere where rules are
consistently enforced.

Sorel said she and her husband, New York restaurateur Charles Sorel, have
visited beaches in Brazil where swimsuits are a mere accessory.

"What I'm not understanding is the sexualization of a 3-year-old," Sorel
said.
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--------------- He Just Feels a Little Gassy ---------------

ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri dog that doesn't bark apparently
doesn't care to die either since he survived the St. Louis
pound's gas chamber. The dog is believed to be a Basenji,
a breed that doesn't bark. He was dropped at the pound last
week. His owners were moving to a "no-pets" facility, the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The pound keeps dogs only
five days before gassing them. Tuesday morning, the Basenji
and seven other dogs were sedated, then placed in the gas
chamber to breathe carbon monoxide for 15 minutes. Animal
Control workers were stunned to see the dog staring back at
them. The seven other dogs were dead. Workers renamed the
dog Quentin -- for the famous prison -- and are determined
to find a family for him no matter what. Quentin myster-
iously shows no ill effects, and isn't talking either.
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--------- Traveling With Just the Bare Necessities ---------

Although he has been deterred by eight arrests, a naked
traveler continues walking the length of Britian wearing
nothing but socks, boots, sunscreen and a smile. Steve
Gough has been walking in the buff to celebrate the joys of
nudity. Throughout his journey, he has undergone an exam-
ination at a psychiatric hospital and many nights in prison.
This week, he had to start over at the beginning after being
shipped back to his starting point by Scottish police after
a court appearance in Cornwall. However, he is determined
to carry on his celebration of himself as a human being.
Aside from being beaten up in St. Ives and told by a farmer
to "put on your trousers," Gough said that the public's
reaction has been mostly positive. "Some people have been
really enthusiastic," he remarked.
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* According to Norway's Newspaper VG (which is currently
running a series on odd summer jobs), teenager Svein Tore Hauge's
job may take the prize: Armed with a shovel and a container, he
works at Saerheim Plant Research, following cattle around and
catching their excreta before it can hit the ground. Because the
work-product is used for scientific study, it must he "pristine," free
of grass, dirt, foreign bacteria, etc. Sometimes, it's easy, he said,
but, "Sometimes it just sprays in all directions."
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* Update: In the latest news from Philadelphia's Monell Chemical
Senses Center, a researcher said in June that his study had found
that men's underarm odor has a stress-reducing effect on women.
The week before that, the Wall Street Journal, profiling Gillette
Company's research lab, reported that lab director Ahmet Baydar is
working not just on ordinary antibacterial-plus-fragrance products
but on a substance that actually blocks odor receptors in other
people's noses. (Gillette's tests use a synthetic malodor compound
so strong that more than a few molecules can make a room
inhabitable, and involve five odor judges who sniff actual armpits
and rate them 1 to10, with 10 meaning "your head snaps back.")
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* Seriously in Denial: Syracuse, N.Y., dungeonmaster John
Jamelske, 68, sentenced to 18 years to life in July for holding a
series of girls and women as sex slaves underneath his house
(though all were eventually released), told the judge that he thought
of the slaves as his "buddies," that he would get together with them
in the "party room," and that he did not "kidnap" them because no
ransom was requested. And in Doylestown Borough, Pa., in May,
ex-pediatrician Alva Hartwright, sentenced to 15 to 30 years in
prison for sexually abusing homeless teenage boys in his care,
continued in May to insist that the many enemas he gave them were
"medically necessary" and that the reason he had a huge cache of
child pornography was because he found the pictures "aesthetically
pleasing," in the same way as his other photos of landscapes and
wildlife.
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Man charged with sexually abusing mare
MAGGIE BORMAN, The Telegraph August 07, 2003

CARROLLTON -- A Chesterfield man was charged Wednesday with sexually abusing
a mare in Macoupin County, even as prosecutors in Greene County filed new
charges against him of aggravated cruelty to animals.

Horse owners from the two counties attended Wednesday’s preliminary hearing
in Greene County Circuit Court for Kevin Eugene McAfee, whose 43rd birthday
also was Wednesday. A number of horse owners say they believe McAfee has
been sexually abusing their mares oversome 20 years.

Macoupin County State’s Attorney Vince Moreth charged McAfee with one count
of sexual conduct with an animal, as well as criminal trespass to property
and criminal damage to property.

McAfee allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with a mare belonging to Cory
Suttles of rural Chesterfield on March 30 of this year. The charges also
allege McAfee, on the same date, damaged a padlocked door of a freezer at
Suttles’ residence in Chesterfield, with damages not exceeding $300, and
criminally trespassed on Suttles’ land.

Glen Suttles is the father of Cory Suttles, and their property is adjacent
to each other. The elder Suttles said Wednesday that he and his wife, Nina,
and the rest of the concerned horse owners in the area were elated that
McAfee finally has been charged with sexual misconduct with an animal.

"I am glad not only for us but also for all the people’s sakes that have
been putting up with things for 15 to 20 years that we could never fully
explain," Glenn Suttles said.

Suttles said he had been hearing such rumors for years but that until the
death of Steve Barnes’ mare last month in Greene County and McAfee’s arrest
for criminal damage to property in the death of the mare, horse owners had
never gotten together to compare experiences.

"I had heard rumors for years, but you always hear stories, so I never
wanted to say anything without something that could be proven," Suttles
said.

Suttles said his son telephoned him March 30 and told him he had found a
bale of hay on his property on fire and smoldering. Glenn Suttles went to
help his son, and while they were putting out the fire in the bale of hay,
they found a cigarette butt and then found the freezer broken into.

"We called Chesterfield Police Chief Bob Berrey, and he came out and
investigated thoroughly, took fingerprints," Suttles said. "We knew he and
the Sheriff’s Department were seeking charges against (McAfee), but we were
not to say anything until the investigation was complete. We were told that
McAfee confessed to having sexual contact with the mare, and the charges
were filed."

McAfee has remained in the Greene County Jail in Carrollton in lieu of
$75,000 bail since his arrest July 9 in the death of the mare belonging to
Barnes, of Rockbridge.

McAfee appeared Wednesday in Greene County Circuit Court for a preliminary
hearing, which was continued until 10 a.m. Aug. 18 to allow his newly
court-appointed attorney, Charles Theivagt, time to prepare. The first two
court-appointed attorneys cited conflicts of interest in representing the
defendant.

Besides the charge of criminal damage to property in the death of Barnes’
mare, Dolly, Greene County State’s Attorney Elliott Turpin’s motion to add
the additional charge of aggravated cruelty to animals was accepted by
Circuit Judge James Day. The charges allege that McAfee tied the mare to a
fence with a strap in such a manner that it caused the horse to choke to
death and that he intentionally caused the death of a companion animal.

Barnes and horse owners throughout the rural Rockbridge and Chesterfield
communities recently began getting together to share their concerns and
suspicions about McAfee.

Almost 30 of the concerned horse owners met with a Telegraph reporter at the
home of Don Bollini shortly after McAfee’s arrest. While some were not
willing to comment on the record for fear of retaliation by McAfee after he
gets out of jail, others spoke their minds.

"People are tired of putting up with McAfee," Bollini said. "We have had
unexplained things happening to our horses for years, and as one guy said,
any of us who had mares have to figure this guy’s been on our property and
at our mares."

Barnes said Wednesday he was glad so many fellow horse owners attended the
preliminary hearing to show the court they are counting on it to prosecute
McAfee to the fullest extent of the law.

"We want him stopped," Barnes said. "It’s gone on too long, and it’s not
just for my horse to see some justice. It’s for all the people who have
dealt with this for at least the last 20 years."

"We will give (the Greene County charges) a few more days," Bollini said.
"We understand there are charges pending in Macoupin County court that are
far more egregious, and after all, McAfee has the right to a proper defense.
But the longer this drags out, the longer lots of people will remain on pins
and needles. And I’ll be back in court on Aug. 18 to support Steve Barnes
again."

"What scares me is that he has been doing things for so long and is
suspected of doing even more than he has been charged with, that he may only
get a few years and be out on the street," Barnes said.

Several of the horse owners admitted they were very slow to put two and two
together about the incidents, because "your mind doesn’t really want to go
there," they said.

After filing the charge of sexual conduct with an animal against McAfee,
Moreth’s only comment about the case Wednesday was, "It’s sick."
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-------------------- Give Them a Brake ---------------------

Houston police have arrested a transgender who they say in-
jected other transgenders with what was supposed to be pure
silicone...but it wasn't. Guadalupe Camerena, a man who
looks like a woman, was trying to make other men look like
women by injecting them with brake fluid. "Any type of
liquid silicone that could be found at any type of auto
parts or hardware store is what essentially is being injec-
ted into these people," said Captain Steve Smith with the
Houston Police Department. One of Camerena's clients died
of asphyxiation three days after the injection, a dangerous
procedure that transgenders go through so they don't have to
pay for much more expensive plastic surgery. Detectives
say Camarena charged clients between $200 and $400 for each
procedure.
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---------------- Making a Strong Impression ----------------

Whatever it was that slammed into a Michigan Road Commission
parking lot, it left a fine crater. "It happened sometime
on Sunday when the yard was locked up and no one was work-
ing," road commission spokesman Craig Bryson commented.
"Two workers came in Monday morning and found an impact cra-
ter outside the main garage near the employee parking lot."
Bryson said the object left a 12-inch-by-18-inch-by-3-inch
crater in the lot, which may not seem impressive until one
learns that the crater is in 6 inches of asphalt. "The edges
of the crater are seared black, and there's a fan-shaped
debris field spread out all around the site," Bryson said.
David Batch, director of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan
State University said: "If this was a meteorite, it was pro-
bably about the size of a fist or larger."
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---------------------- Going Bananas ----------------------

After a man wearing a gorilla costume stole a bunch of bana-
nas from an elderly woman's shop in downtown Hong Kong, the
woman chased him with a broom, thinking at first that he was
a ghost. Eighty-year-old Tse Lai slipped and fell during
the pursuit. The man in the gorilla suit, who was not iden-
tified, was hired by a film company to stage the prank. "I
didn't realize that it was a gorilla at first. All I saw
was something big and black with a lot of hair. I thought I
saw a ghost so I tried to drive it away with a broom," said
Lai. The belief in ghosts is common among many Chinese
people in Hong Kong.
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------------ Cutting the Problem at the Source -------------

Here's a new method to cure sex addiction, men...simply chop
off your own penis. This is what one German mad did last
week to fix his addiction problem. He drank a lot of vodka
to summon up enough courage to complete the procedure. Pol-
ice said that the man called a friend after he finished to
say he had done something stupid. They arrived to find him
soaked in blood and his organ under the kitchen table.
Emergency services rushed him and his penis to a nearby hos-
pital. Police said the man did not want his penis to be
reattached but did not know if doctors had complied with his
wishes.
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--------------- Blowing it Out of Proportion ---------------

A Brazilian man killed his parents because they demanded he
divorce his inflatable "bride." He believed a blow-up doll
was a human being, considered it his wife and talked to her.
His religious parents demanded he separate from the doll,
but he would not listen. When his mother took the doll and
cut holes in it with scissors, the man strangled and stabbed
both his mother, age 71, and father, age 70. The 44-year-
old unemployed man confessed to the crime after an interro-
gation by police. "My parents didn't love me and didn't
understand me," he was quoted as saying.
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-------------------- An Unlikely Excuse --------------------

TEXAS -- When a noise disturbance brought Longview police
officers to a local hotel, they discovered a woman covered
in blood and her boyfriend walking around naked. The man
claimed he wasn't wearing clothing because he was making a
porno movie, however, police did not find any video equip-
ment. He fought with the officers and also defecated and
urinated on them during the struggle. The woman, whose
throat was cut, was not seriously injured and is expected
to recover. The man will be charged with aggravated
assault, aggravated assault on a peace officer and assault
on a peace officer.
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Police in Westerly, R.I., arrested Robert Brayman, 51, and his
disciple Hobart Livingston in July and charged Brayman with
commissioning Livingston to build a pipe bomb to kill a woman
whom Brayman was stalking. According to police, Livingston
believes Brayman has spiritual powers and submits himself nearly
totally to Brayman, including having paid Brayman more than
$13,000 over a three-year period for protection of actress Natalie
Portman, who Livingston believes is in danger from creature-
implanted eggs that might otherwise hatch without Brayman's
guardianship. Among the exercises Brayman uses to upgrade
Livingston's avoidance of evil spirits: having Livingston try to
dodge BB's fired by Brayman at a local cemetery.
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As seen in _The Monster Club_, IIRC. Ahhh, Chetwynd-Hayes....

"Ksenia Vidyaykina performs as a 1920's era strip tease dancer who takes
off her cloths, and then her skin in a portion of 'Trapped,' a one woman
performance which tells stories of women alone, confined, and forced
into difficult choices, during a press preview of the New York
International Fringe Festival, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003, in New York. (AP
Photo/Mary Altaffer)"
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DEAD STRANGE: An angry group of "dead people" are holding protests
outside government buildings in India. The 24 individuals claim to be
alive despite having been declared deceased by officials.

Rashida Bibi, 62, a member of the Association of the Living Dead,
complained that more than 35,000 people had been wrongly classified
as having died in Uttar Pradesh state alone. In most cases,
individuals are reported to have died by sneaky relatives who want to
snatch their property. "My son produced a fake death certificate to
revenue officials and grabbed my 12 acres of property 10 years ago,"
Bibi told the Associated Press.

Anxious to provide irrefutable proof that she was alive, she
submitted herself for examination by a local dignitary, who later
agreed that she seemed more alive than dead. "I had been certified a
living person by my village head, but still the revenue officials
refuse to recognize me as alive," she said.

Lal Bihari, president of the association, said that he had been
declared dead by his uncle 18 years ago--and had spent the entire
intervening period trying to convince officials that he was still
moving about. On two occasions, he says, he was a candidate in
countrywide elections, and even managed to get his name on the ballot
papers. But to this day he remains officially a corpse.

In a land where documents carry far more weight than the evidence of
people's eyes, members of the Association of Living Dead fear that
their opponents can easily win the battle--simply by continuing to
stall until their allegations become true.
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TRUST FUND: A gang of bungling robbers raided a petrol station and
escaped with two bags of garbage. The robbers' van drew up at the gas
pumps in Melbourne, as the attendant was carrying some rubbish to the
bins. The van's side door slid open to reveal a masked man
brandishing a sawn-off shotgun. He demanded the bags. The attendant
clearly explained that they contained only trash, but the raiders
apparently didn't believe him. Grabbing the bags, the gang sped off.
Police have decided to treat the incident as a normal armed robbery,
the Associated Press reported. There's no comment from the villains,
who presumably are castigating themselves for not being trusting
enough.
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----------------------- What a Pig! ------------------------

LONDON -- A 72-year-old man was arrested after having sex
with a pig. He was caught in the act by a passer-by who saw
him abusing the animal at an inner-city farm. Police arri-
ved quickly and arrested the man, who was naked from the
waist down. The manager of the Stepping Stones Farm, Lynne
Bennett, said the man seemed to have purposely picked their
most docile pig. She remarked, "If he'd picked on one of
the others, he would have been in serious trouble. They
would have done him some damage." Police jailed the offen-
der until next month and the pig was given a clean bill of
health by the local vet.
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------------ Splish, Splash, I Was Takin' A Bath -----------

BERLIN -- A man was detained by police after he attempted to
shower naked in a car wash in the German town of Fuerth. A
police spokesman said that the man stripped off his clothes
and said he was going to take a shower, but he couldn't
start the machine. If he had succeeded, he could have been
smeared in car wax, scalded by steamy water and rubbed raw by
brushes. The owner of the car wash called police after noti-
cing the man gearing up for his shower near the brushes and
hoses. Police said the man had been searching for a place to
bathe since losing his home at the beginning of the month.
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MANOWAR STILL CLAIMING 'BITCHIN' POWER CHORD' CAUSED BLACKOUT
www.InfernalCombustion.com

Manowar Put the Power In Taking Power Out of Power Metal

As the American northeast recovers from last week's massive power outage,
during which an estimated 60 million people – from New York to Detroit to
Toronto – were left in the dark, power metal legends Manowar have issued a
statement claiming responsibility for the massive blackout.

“First of all, consider this not an Apology, for Kings of Metal grovel
before no one,” the statement – credited to bassist and founding member Joey
DeMaio – begins. “However, Manowar wishes to acknowledge to the world their
role in the Surge of Electrical Power that, much like our vaunted music,
rocked the world last week. Though it was not our intention to disrupt the
lives of millions of Poseurs, we consider it a Testament to Heavy Metal
Might and Thunder that one power chord from our steeled hands could wreak
such havoc in the lives of mortals.”

According to DeMaio, guitarist Karl Logan was tuning before a rehearsal at
the band's upstate New York studio, and his striking of a “particularly
bitchin' and typically intense” power chord coincided with the moment the
lights went out for millions of people.

“Real Men Play On Ten, and always have,” Logan comments. “As I am already
the fastest, loudest, and most determined heavy metal guitarist on this or
any World, I can only assume that it was the power grid itself, weakened by
two Decades of our Heavy Metal Assault, that finally surrendered to the
Glory and the Honor of True Metal Brotherhood.”

Several naysayers, including high officials in the electrical power
industry, insist that an overloaded line in Ohio, or even an attack from
computer hackers, are the only likely causes of the outage. “The notion that
a guitar player hitting a chord could knock out the entire northeast grid is
ludicrous,” commented Cleveland First Energy spokesman Wiffley Snidegarb, on
condition of anonymity. “I mean, maybe if it was DeMaio playing 'Flight of
the Bumblebee' on bass. Maybe.”

Manowar has stated that, despite their refusal to turn down or in any way
betray the heavy metal cause, they do feel sympathy for the cities left
hungry and powerless by the force of their might. “We hereby issue the call
to all True Metal Brothers and Well-Endowed Women of Steel – come to us, to
our studio, and we will teach you the primitive ways of hunting, gathering,
conquering and pillaging. These old ways of survival will be useful soon, as
it has become obvious that Manowar's uncompromising Sonic Savagery is too
strong for civilization itself to endure. Once the Blood-Forged Might of our
Victorious Anthems cause this weak-willed Society and its trappings to
crumble, the World's Loudest Band will lead you all to a new era, where Real
Men hunt for their meat in the woods, and Fuck their Metal Maidens with Lust
and Pride near a roaring fire next to a cave, while drinking their Beer from
a hollowed horn and bellowing praises to the Old Gods. The time is nearly
upon us, Brothers and Sisters!”

DeMaio concluded that, should fans be unable or unwilling to shed their
modern lives and move to the woods of upstate New York to live naked in a
cave, that purchasing a t-shirt or mesh-backed baseball cap from the band's
online store would be “almost as cool.”

- Keith Bergman
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