Spam Nation

(A deliberate arrangement of unwanted & unedited email subject lines)

Hi, net-veined.

Let me give you some advice.

Don’t be inadequate anymore!

Don’t you wanna fuck like a pornostar

in the movie you saw yesterday?

Take control over your male body image.

Better Life, wing truss.

HOT’N'NEW!

Multiple explosions.

Soldiers wounded.

Become stronger.

Smaller cuts.

Show your volume.

Today’s winner

benefits second.

Jump on this breaking news

first thing.

It’s the best thing

you had ever seen!

Every man wants it!

New’n’hot.

Read a letter.

Impress your girl

with prolonged hardness,

plentiful explosions,

increased duration.

Pay attention to the letter.

For anyone who wants

to become an oil-hardening

pea-picking champion in bed.

Your future, palm willow.

Your money, myrtle-leaved.

Your future, methylene blue.

Your money, posh egg.

Your future, Norse-american

Your cash, oven-shaped

Your future, oil slick

Your health, palsy-stricken

palsy-quaking

Your cash, open-flowered

Your future, olive drab

Your cash, mind-healer

All medications to cure yourself!

To buy or not to buy?

Neutral point one-flowered

Any med for your girl to be happy!

Better Future, well-sanctioned.

Your money, olive-kernel oil

Better Future, witch-hunter

Your money, noodle-head

Better Success, wire edge

Better Future, whale-headed

Better Life, well-interpreted

Better Future, yellow-fever fly

Better Life, wind-beaten

Better Future, wing dam

Better Life, whole-feathered

Order status, mussel crab.

Pan-arab

are you jealous of cute porn stars

with enormous dicks?

Why be an average guy any longer

nose leaf?

Women care more about the girth.

This delivers amazing results

and makes your dearest limb bigger

and better-working!

Make your dick longer than the Great China Wall!

Make other men envy you

and girls worship you.

Enjoy the newest.

Make your girlfriend

or wife speechless

with increased hardness, richer orgasms

and more power in bed.

Enjoy ssex with her!

Rock hard manhood.

Pony rides – 25 cents – 2 for 50!

Banned by Christian group.

Open something new for your self.

Separate yourself from other men.

Several times more semen volume.

Stop the painful craving for more food.

Take just a candy and become ready for 36 hours of love.

It is absolutely safety for your health!

Forget about it and take pleasure every night!

As long as you live.

Brand new.

Want to be perfect lover?

And it’s not strange – you cuum very fast!

The head of your ppenis is so sensitive…

Don’t feel bad.

Feel Better Now!!

Harvest the cream from this stock,

seasoned traders recommend it.

Oh, you do it very fast…

It’s not wonder your girlfriend is very angry!

You always cuum during a sexxual performance…

I think your girl doesn’t like it at all…

It’s a pity, because you could do it with her much longer!

Stop doing it; this small thing will help you!

Buy Exttra-Time and forget your fears!

Work anytime, be creative, and make money.

Discover the latest.

Surely you only dream of it.

Enjoy.

Update your PayPal records.

---

~ Listen to M. D. reading Spam Nation at the Internet Poets’ Cooperative Open Reading on Oct. 12, 2006.

NOUVEAU DADA, A DADA FOR THE NEW CENTURY

The parallels are irresistible. The need for Dada and means for Dada are all in place almost 100 years after the first Dada emergence.

The need for an antiwar and antiestablishment cultural movement has never been more intense as it has been in recent years.   Just look at what has been going on since 2001.  I mean the need for some action in Afghanistan was at least understandable albeit what we did there as a nation was almost comically excessive. Uncle Sam became a swaggering Saturday Morning cartoon bully, a fumbling giant Dudley Dooright with a saddlebag full of nuclear grenades, a mad Mountie that never got his man. But our invasion of Iraq was pure insanity. In fact our country full of blind rage after 9-11 went after Saddam like a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob that found a Afro-American in its little town after dark. It did not matter that the Afro-American in question was really a Cuban cigar dealer. I remember the hate mail and threats I got when I tried to distribute a bumper sticker two months before the invasion that showed an American flag upside down and said “Ashamed to Be American.” Many of the emails came from people I had thought to be reasonably intelligent and who are now questioning many of the policies of the Bush administration. Our country was (is?) temporarily (permanently?) insane; perhaps we need a little Dada to bring us out of it or at least entertain us in our delusionary state.

The means for a Nouveau Dada are emerging inherent in the technologies for both the production and distribution of creative expression. In the visual arts, Dada often superimposed everyday images into evocative collages. Digital photography and computer manipulation makes this an explosively simple task. In addition, the ease of digital manipulation of image and sound allows anyone with a little technological savvy the ability to create various forms of individualistic expression without the limits of the disciplined skills previously a prerequisite. Not only can anyone now do do Dada, the internet greatly facilitates the distribution of digital works without having to pay dues to the art parasites, the hierarchal establishment of publishers, agents, galleries, critics, art juries and traditional museum boards. Along with the creation of digital art, however, comes the loss of uniqueness of a given piece. Although this is problematic for the economy of the art elite, it provides opportunity for the art lovers of limited means. Is this not at least part of what Duchamp was after when he massed produced and signed his “Ready-mades” in the early 1900’s.

Most importantly, most of what can be done with digital media has not yet been done. Digital expression has an undeveloped potential to transform the contemporary cultural experience far beyond the boundaries of traditional media. Please see http://www.digitaldada.org/to join in exploring the possibilities of Nouveau Dada.