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*EXTRA!! EXTRA!! THE MARGINAL PROPHETS ARE PLAYING THE CALIFORNIA MUSIC AWARDS!!

this sunday!! in oakland!! the details:

Sunday, June 6, 2004, Noon -6PM.

Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, the lawn and plaza area in front of Oakland City Hall; Broadway & 14th Streets, Oakland. (close to Bart, 12th street exit)

Ticket Prices: FREE!!

we go on at 2:45pm…

sounds like we’ll be presenting an award, too…

*letter of the week:

Hey Keef,

>>

>> First off, lemme just say that I really love your strip. I don’t always fully agree with you on

>>all matters (for one thing I really enjoyed ‘Kill Bill Vol. 1’) but you’re damn funny, and that’s

>>what I look for in my cartoons.

>> That having been said, I have a little news tidbit for you that you might be interested in – it

>>didn’t get any national attention, but it’s pretty interesting nonetheless. I’m an ex-student at

>>Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. This is one of those very proactive liberal arts schools

>>that have very very active minority factions – there’s a women’s center, plenty of gay rights stuff,

>>etc., etc.

>> Well, anyway, one day in early April, a small group of black students wearing white masks with

>>black circles around the eyes and mouth (the exact polar opposite of ‘minstrel’ make-up) broke up a

>>meeting of the faculty, screaming that all white people were racist a-holes who were screwing them

>>over, and that, essentially, everything bad that happened to black students on campus was all their

>>fault. This was only the start of a lot more unpleasant things of this nature. It wasn’t very nice.

>> It got worse, though. Someone leaked this story to the local media, and it got on Ohio TV. Guess

>>who saw it? The local branch of the Klu Klux Klan, who scattered racist pamphlets all over town and

>>campus, and announced their intentions to hold a big march in Yellow Springs on the seventeenth.

>> Needless to say, nobody was at all pleased about this. The mayor urged everybody to stay indoors

>>until the march was over. People were panicking. The cops put snipers on the roofs in case things

>>got out of hand.

>> Guess what happened? After all the hype and panic, about ten KKK members showed up. They marched

>>up and down main street for a little while, until they were driven off by tourists. Yep, tourists.

>>See, it turns out that Yellow Springs citizens are very obedient, and so the only people out of

>>doors were some out-of-towners who got understandably pissed by the KKK, and chased their raggedy

>>asses right out of town. Nothing has been seen of them since.

>> Anyway. Don’t know whether you’re interested in this or not – it did happen a little while ago,

>>after all – but I thought it might make a pretty funny cartoon. Racism on both sides, big drama,

>>people afraid to stick their noses out of doors, the big bad bullies march into town – and they

>>promptly get their rears kicked by some friggin’ sightseers. I thought it made for a terrific news

>>story, and was amazed that it didn’t get any national coverage. Maybe you could do something with

>>it?

>>

>> Deneb T. Hall

>>

*oh…by the way..i loved “kill bill vol. 2”

cheers!

keef