James Allan on Wed, 23 May 2001 11:38:23 +0200 (CEST) |
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I am not the arms on the Victory of Samothrace. I am not the cause of the Peloponnesian War. I am not Hank Williams. I am not the book you left on the subway. I am not a rainbow trout. I am not repeating: reason over passion. I am not missing and presumed dead. I am not saying I love you to a perfect stranger. I am not 216 colours. I am not sharing a palette. I am not going up north on highway 35/115. I am not Ernest Borgnine in From Here to Eternity. I am not driving around Toronto like Glenn Gould. I am not as famous as you. I am not looking for molybdenite. I am not green with envy. I am not a fountain of eloquence. I am not very good at this. I am not saying anything until my lawyer gets here. I am not wearing running shoes to the prom. I am not going to hang up and try my call again. I am not getting a migraine. I am not reaching for my gun. I am not the discoverer of insulin. I am not suitable for framing. I am not going to hang myself just to spite you. I am not hungover. I am not in love with Mary Pickford. I am not going to apologise for cross-posting. I am not paying for that. I am not leaving you anything but guilt. I am not making headway. I am not spring fed. I am not checking the spelleng. I am not victim of union busting goons. I am not a Great Horned Owl. I am not going to slay all first born males. I am not just like someone I read about last week. I am not going to shake my booty. I am not a torrential rainstorm. I am not a welfare Cadillac spraying gravel at the door. I am not phlegmatic. I am not an incredibly ugly Flemish lutenist. I am not Barry White. I am not Nanook of the North. I am not Saint Simon Stylite. I am not Saint John the Dwarf. I am not Saint John of the Cross. I am not Saint Joan. I am not Saint Antony, Saint Collumcille or Saint James. I am not dreaming of escape. I am not scopophilic or is it scopophillic. I am not clutching a six-gun to my chest. I am not faster, baby, faster. I am not impressed with the way this is going. I am not a big boy. I am not roadkill barbecue. I am not going to get stoned in the morning and drunk in the afternoon. I am not looking for justification. I am not eating walnuts. I am not impressed with people who go on and on and on. I am not standing and waiting at the corner of Queen and Spadina. I am not a ward of the state. I am not sleeping on the couch. I am not cutting my hair like Franz Liszt. I am not good to the last drop. I am not an Iroquois warrior. I am not beating his head against a wall. I am not joining the French Foreign Legion. I am not asking questions. I am not following domestic affairs. I am not an astronaut floating in space. I am not 6 feet tall. I am not dead. I am not a cartoon character. I am not talking about guns anymore it's getting embarrassing. I am not falling for that trick again. I am not aware of any conflict of interest. I am not listening to you la-la-la-la-la. I am not going to rock and roll all night and party everyday. I am not a cigarette butt in the ashtray of your dreams. I am not wise in the ways of the force. I am not Elizabeth Taylor. I am not Richard Burton. I am not saying pantaloon in a funny voice at 3 am. I am not high-speed internet access. I am not running out of things to say. I am not dead in a ditch somewhere. I am not an opera singer though you'd think so by looking at me. I am not telling the truth. I am not aware of any precedent. I am not leaving work at noon. I am not a scientific American. I am not the man in a grey flannel suit. I am not desperately looking for you in a crowd. I am not comfortable with the habits of a monk. I am not Norman Vincent Peale. I am not Norman Levine. I am not telling anyone. I am not going to Montreal, I'm broke. I am not speaking into a microphone like Fred in Double Indemnity. I am not standing in your back yard. I am not throwing my vote away. I am not a ninja. I am not a Thuja Occidentalis on the Niagara Escarpment. I am not fresh as a daisy. I am not blowin in the wind my friend. I am not a U-boat captain. I am not going to hurt you or your friend but the dog's another story. I am not made in Canada. I am not a spy. I am not covered in oil. I am not moving slowly toward you. I am not wearing socks. I am not going to kiss you. I am not laughing she said. I am not living in a foreign country. I am not seeing red. I am not finished with you yet. I am not looking for a ride. I am not part of the X-men. I am not paying for your drinks. ........................................................ cross references http://www.petroleumplace.com/Resumes/Offshore/5-3870.html http://www-ciir.cs.umass.edu/~allan/ http://gaelnet.stmarys-ca.edu/about.smc/faculty/allan/ http://williamselfassoc.com/allan.html http://www.otago.ac.nz/law/staff/staff_summaries/allan_j.html http://www.canadianheritage.org/reproductions/20219.htm http://www.intermart.co.uk/jallan/webpage.html http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=a&id=2308196 http://www.jamesallan.co.uk/frame.htm http://collections.ic.gc.ca/hamilton/skyway2.htm http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/Magazines/docs/v20n3j_allan.asp http://www.ravie.freeserve.co.uk/g0000094.html http://forumhub.com/elit/17197.11.35.47.html http://www.pottsnet.com/treedata/d0002/g0000012.html http://www.jamesallan.com/ http://www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au/Stuart00.htm http://pages.tias.com/2001/PictPage/1013087.html http://www.bms.ed.ac.uk/gendev/JAllan/JAllen.htm http://blueberry.jellybean.co.uk/~steve/sgsuni2.html http://www.loras.edu/~EDU/allan.html http://altair.stmarys-ca.edu/~cybercul/allan.html http://plantfloor.com/mi/allantoolcompany.htm http://www.adesigncanada.com/competition/silver_winners.html http://www.eapgroup.com/allanj1.htm http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/20000527/news/scottishopening.html http://nz.com/NZ/Queer/HERO/MetroQueerTimes.html http://www.football-favourites.co.uk/sunderland_content.htm # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net