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Message 142: Paranoid Android

According to Justin Francazio, who recently wrote to Pulk-Pull*, there is a character named Marvin the Paranoid Android in the series of books titled The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The book also mentions myxamatosis, according to Francazio.

You can visit the BBC web site on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There is also an entry (with links) on Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Wikipedia. These same references are discussed in this blog, Polytropos.

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Message 141: Zinn and York

Howard Zinn and Thom Yorke were interviewed together by Sarah Burton of ZNet. You can read the interview here.

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Message 140: Creative Loafing

I was interviewed for this article on Radiohead in Atlanta’s Creative Loafing.

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Message 139: Book Update

For those interested, the book I am editing, The Music and Art of Radiohead, is being delivered to the publisher tomorrow. Two parting shots of the manuscript:

Book Title

a hefty stack of paper

Once the book is in the publisher’s hands, I will then have a better idea of when the book will be published. It will likely not be available until late 2004 or early 2005. An update will be posted here as soon as more is known.

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Message 138: Myxomatosis

A subsidiary web site that will be launched soon: Myxomatosis.

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Message 137: No Star Wars

In these photos from the Split Sides performance (a dance project with Sigur Rós and Merce Cunningham) Thom Yorke is wearing this No Star Wars t-shirt.

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Message 136: Cow

Stanley Donwood has painted a cow. For full information see Update 2 on the W.A.S.T.E updates page.

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Message 135: Snakes and Ladders

The parenthetical subtitle for “Sit Down. Stand Up.” is “Snakes & Ladders.” This page details the history of the game Snakes and Ladders, dating its origin to 2nd century BC India. The American version is commonly called Chutes and Ladders, board game still available for purchase.

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Message 134: Little babies eyes

For readers of the site who are interested, my wife gave birth to our baby girl at 11:01am on September 29, 2003. More information is available here.

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Message 133: WTO

Thom Yorke in a Guardian opinion piece: “The west is creating an extremely dangerous economic, environmental and humanitarian timebomb.” Via ateaseweb.com.