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OVO at esozone.com [LINK-ZUM]

"The new issue of Trevor Blake's OVO Magazine features many Esozone participants: Anonymous, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Vincent Al Ken, Wes Unruh, and Edward Wilson. Plus many other fine contributors. For those not in the know, OVO has been published by Trevor Blake since 1987."

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Trevor Blake: Legal Torrents [LINK-ZUM]

legaltorrents.com has long been a mirror of OVO, for which we give thanks. I am shocked and pleased to see that they have distributed 300+ gigabytes of OVO. Recently the site celebrated a re-launch and issued the following...

"We're happy to announce that we have launched the new and improved beta for LegalTorrents. The site is now designed to make top quality open-license content available and to provide a support system to content creators (you) through financial sponsorship by site members and visitors.

"The re-launch of the site includes two important new features:

"(1) An Online Community. We are building an online community to discover, evaluate and publish content, for networking and information exchange, and to promote the site.

"(2) Sponsorship for Content Creators. We now accept voluntary financial contributions towards your work. We distribute 100% of payments to you if they come from members of the community, and 85% if they come from visitors to the site."

Visit legaltorrents.com today, won't you?

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Trevor Blake: OVO 18 Money [LINK-ZUM]

OVO 18 Money has been published. Featuring the work of Anonymous, Dmitry Babenko, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Witta Kelssling-Jensen, Vincent Al Ken, Ruggero Maggi, Mail Art Paul, Willi Melnikov, Thom Metzger, Emilio Morandi, No Institute, Wes Unruh, Carlos Valdez and Edward Wilson. Download as PDF here. Using OVO (public domain since 1987) in your own projects is encouraged, thus each page of each issue is available as a separate downloadable free image file here.

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Trevor Blake: OVO 1987 - 1992 [LINK-ZUM]

High quality scans of each individual page of OVO issues 1-14 (1987-1992) are now online. These images were used to make the PDF and OpenOffice editions of OVO. Additionally, there are more than sixty images now online for the first time. Some are color scans of original art to compliment the previously available monochrome scans of multiple-generation photocopies. Some are previously unpublished collages made during those years. Some are relevant photographs.

When I started publishing OVO I was just a self-important hayseed living in a small town making a dumb little zine among thousands of others. But OVO did accomplish a few things in the first fourteen issues. OVO was the first to publish several essays by Hakim Bey that later appeared in his book T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone. OVO published work by Mike Diana long before his work drew the attention of State and Federal employees. Photographs of body piercing appeared in OVO two years before the Modern Primitives issue of Re/Search. The phrase 'phone tag' appears in print for the first time in the first issue of OVO. 'Liberating Wednesday' by PM, author of bolo'bolo, appears in OVO for the first (and only) time; this is nearly a decade before and fifty-two times more radical a suggestion than 'Buy Nothing Day.' Crop circles and the Men in Black are referenced at a time when they were still obscure. The first appearance of Ride Theory in print occurs in Ignatz Topolino's contribution to OVO. And OVO was aware enough of the outer edges of scientific ethics to mention gene patents in the same year they first were granted.

OVO has a second life in the 21st Century. The contacts and content that informed the original photocopied editions remain active. At the same time, new issues are available that take advantage of the distribution capabilities of home computers, the Internet and print-on-demand services. Hundreds of thousands of pages of OVO have been distributed and new issues are in production.

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OVO blog at technoccult.com [LINK-ZUM]

"My 5 favorite blogs, right now: OVO blog - a new blog, from Trevor Blake. Trevor's been publishing the OVO zine for something like 2 decades, and has been blogging on American Samizdat for a few years as well. The OVO blog features extensive coverage of the damage done by religion, and the occasional old school fringe culture gem." - Klintron

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Trevor Blake in Willamette Week, 14 November 2007 [LINK-ZUM]

Thank you for Adrian Chen's article "Shifting Fortunes." I am glad that Portland has no laws against fortune telling. Fortune telling and psychic powers may or may not exist, and they may or may not be accurate, but even if they don't exist or consistently fail it does no good to outlaw what is wrong. People must be free to try new things, including things that might fail at their cost.

The psychics in your paper might be happy to learn that an easy one million dollars is theirs for the taking if they can demonstrate their powers to the James Randi Educational Foundation (www.randi.org). There are any number of charitable organizations who are in need of this money should the psychics in question not be in it for the money.

- Trevor Blake

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Trevor Blake: OVO blog October 2007 [LINK-ZUM]

Christ @ Work. The Bible does contain some fine moral advice in it. It also contains some inhumanly evil moral advice. It also contains some foolish nonsense that dresses itself up as moral advice. That doesn't make it much different from any number of other books, ancient and modern.

Extremophiles. What might humanity be able to engineer for ourselves to become extremophiles? What dangers do exremophiles present to humanity?

Interfaith Dialog. In some places, disagreements are resolved by discussion. In other places, disagreements are resolved by flogging.

Islam is Peace. Islam, like Christianity and all religions, is a collection of mean-spirited superstitions invented by illiterate pre-scientific nobodies that we have no reason to heed.

Krankheit. Sometimes sickness is a benefit.

The Latter-Day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America. Maybe it wouldn't be such a terrible thing if the Mormons got out of the Scouting business.

More Sperm. February 2005 saw the return of OVO after 13 years of hibernation. The theme for that issue was 'sperm.' Sperm remains in the news, and here are some of the top sperm stories from the past two years.

Peaceable Protests After Amsterdam Attacks. Police in the Dutch city of Amsterdam say several peaceful protests were held in the sixth night of memorials after officers shot a Moroccan man dead.

Priorities. It seems that other people being free to celebrate or have their own superstitions is intolerable to Muslims, while public whippings and stoning are just fine as long as they occur in-house.

Publius Enigma. It has something to do with Pink Floyd and the Internet and a treasure hunt.

Saturn Return. Saturn Return is when Universe picks you up from under the Christmas tree and shakes you to see if it can figure out what you are.

SB777. SB777 protects religious belief against discrimination. It also protects discrimination in religious belief. Only religion can distort the rule of law to this degree.

Sharia in the United States of America. It is illegal to non-surgically amputate people's hands as a punishment for a crime. Illegal under United States law, but legal under sharia law.

Superstitious Exemption from the Rule of Law. For better and for worse, it is not the case that we can all happily get along. But where there is the rule of law and not force, fiat or superstition we can at least get along peaceably.

Two Articles from All Africa. Replacing witch doctors with Christians is not going to help the situation.

Two Links via God is for Suckers. All money spent on religion is money wasted, wasted more thoroughly than money spent on weapons or torture. At least when someone is killed or tortured, something happened.

Workplace Religious Freedom Act (S. 893). If this bill becomes law, then religious employees will have rights and privileges that no atheist employee can have.

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Trevor Blake: OVO 18 MONEY [LINK-ZUM]

ownership / jobs / theft / economics / capitalism / libertarianism / socialism / gambling / doing without / consumer culture / do-it-yourself / black market / free market / alternative currencies / free / barter / strikes / banks / gold / class / blackmail / sex work / wealth / mercenaries / poverty / lotteries / open source / intellectual property / stocks / wages / counterfeit / sabotage / etc.

Deadline: Noon Pacific Standard Time, 31 October 2007
Publication Date: January 2008

Trevor Blake
P. O. Box 2321
Portland OR 97208-2321 USA

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Trevor Blake: OVO comments and forum [LINK-ZUM]

Many have requested some sort of comments feature or forum area for OVO. After much technical work behind the scenes, the comments / forum section of OVO is now open for business. Post your feedback about OVO at boing boing, digg, myspace, metafilter, youtube, yahoo, google, or anywhere else you like. No special software required, no new logins and passwords to remember. A link back to OVO [www.ovo127.com] is always appreciated.

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Trevor Blake: More Sperm [LINK-ZUM]

February 2005 saw the return of OVO after 13 years of hibernation. The theme for that issue was 'sperm.' Sperm remains in the news, and here are some of the top sperm stories from the past two years. Court in the United States and in Israel have ruled that sperm can be harvested from dead men for use in artificial insemination. Competition between males in the race to impregnate females has caused evolutionary changes in male sexual physiology and behavior. A woman named Holly Marie Adams had sex with identical twins. The DNA tests administered to determine who is the father of her child are a 99.999-percent match to either man. OVO 15 SPERM included information about the mood-altering effects of sperm, but there is also some evidence sperm is addictive. Crossing the trail of destruction left by OVO 16 ANTICHRIST comes Ezekiel 23. To quote the Skeptics Annotated Bible, this is a tale of two sisters: "Two sisters were guilty of 'committing whoredoms' by pressing their breasts and bruising 'the teats of their virginity.' As a punishment, one sister's nakedness was discovered, her children were taken from her, and she was killed by the sword. And the fate of the surviving sister was even worse. Her nose and ears were cut off, she was made to 'pluck off' her own breasts, and then after being raped and mutilated, she is stoned to death." We place emphasis here on the lusts of one of the sisters, who preferred a man with a penis like a donkey and who came like a horse. If you'd like to have the inspirational Ezekiel 23:20 on a t-shirt or a thong, Landover Baptist Church can provide. The Quran claims that sperm comes from somewhere 'between the loins and the ribs.' Islam also forbids the oral stimulation of men, lest such include the consumption of sperm, but does not prohibit the oral stimulation of women. And if all that isn't enough sperm for you, here's a few hundred more articles...

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Kerry Wendell Thornley: Saint Distaff's Day, 7 Jan [LINK-ZUM]

There is no truth to the legend that St. Distaff, Patroness of the Spinning Wheel, was simply the creation of a medieval wit and did not actually exist. To hear some people, you would think St. Patrick and St. Christopher didn't exist!
Although never officially canonized by the Papacy, St. Distaff was a real person. What skeptics ignore is that her first name was Saint and her last name was Distaff (her middle name was Mary). A child of poor but ignorant parents who wanted to name her after Saint Mary's Hospital where she was born but didn't know how to spell hospital, Saint M. Distaff grew up to become the foremost champion of feminism of all Southern France in the dark ages. "God just ain't a man and that's that." She had heard of Eris from a passing needle sharpener who passed through her hamlet one January 7th just as the 12 Days of Christmas were winding down.
Seated at her spinning wheel near a window in a castle keep where she was employed as a maid, Saint Distaff was busy making flaxen thread when a mysterious gypsy called to her and asked if any of her needles were dull. "Just a moment and I'll look" she said. Upon discovering her sewing basked was in disarray, a chaotic hodge-podge in fact, she commenced to complain with the Five Noble Rhetorical Questions: 1) why do things get in such a jumble? 2) why cannot I find anything I need when I need it? 3) what did I do to deserve all this chaos? 4) why am I confused? 5) when will I get organized? Then the mysterious gypsy answered these questions by explaining that Eris Discordia was the answer to all but the last question, to which the proper reply was "never, so get used to it!" Upon hearing these words, Saint Distaff was enlightened - so the Inquisition burned her to a crisp.
St. Distaff is observed by embroidering samplers featuring Discordian proverbs.

[Previously unpublished. For more works by KWT, see OVO 17 The Dreadlock Recollections. - Trevor]

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OVO at Grey Lodge [LINK-ZUM]

[Thank you to the ever delightful Grey Lodge for this review. I can only claim to have published some of Hakim Bey's earlier published works, probably not his first. Among those works were essays that later appeared in the book TAZ The Temporary Autonomous Zone. See these works in an earlier form in OVO 2, OVO 7 Information, OVO 10 Mayhem and OVO 11 Control. See the more recent OVO 16 AntiChrist for another exclusive piece by Bey. - Trevor Blake]

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