fire apes
this came from ..herb sorrell
it doesn't suggest herb
has a particularly
high sense
of our purpose here at the house
but
go ahead
and
make of it what you can...
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i got this e mail
a ways back
from comrade chig
didn't
know what the fuck to do with it
since it had no place on my site...
but here it is
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while on the lowest
of low profile south of the border
missions of omission
after he'd gotten sucked
into the the very eye
of the opaque turbulence
that eventually
engulfed all of usat the S ranch
in the wake of last summer's
now infamous
afl- XXX convention
solidarity center
cadre snatch caper-fiasco
at any rate
chig on the bounce
found himself
in the sierra madre
" just my pony rifle and me "...so to speak
minus the pony
well
late one night out there
under the twinkle of dry stars
and
after another de rigour
' gotta keep movin '
12 hour on and off
mnountain cross picks
don't
he glimpse
this fire centered encampment ...
just down below him
in a gulch or raven or box canyon
or whatever the fuck
'hmm ' sez he to self
'doubtful its g-men
away
out here in this god forsaken....'
so he approaches without excessive ginger....
the aroma of eats and hot coffee
' wooooo some ugly ..guys eh???' sez him
but nope on closer look not just ugly...
ugly....apes
yup thats right
honest to god .....apes
'5 foot
chimpy ish chaps '
shirtless shoeless
indeed
'cept for jeans totally cladless
apes makin griddle cakes
and near ' gourmat quality java '
6 ... apes
workin an open fire like cowpokes might
speechless but errr friendly ...
up to a point anyway
the point??
till one had 'worked around behind me ...
and BONK
laid me out
into a two hour snooze'
with a hidden spare frying pan
' I awakes
to their fire ALONE'
thats it
THEIR FIRE and his rifle
and no more
end of story
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now i had some doubts obviously
sure chig's a sensible sort
but he'd been alone for a pair of weeks
eatin nothin but canteen water
and
jerky
"on a mountain range
remote and lurky"
and that doubt clung to the tale
for me
and my guess even for him
till i ran across this three year old
newspaper article
right here at the kapshow site
a couple days ago :
Mexican Lab Seeks
to Turn Apes into
Wage Workers
PUEBLA, MEXICO, April 22- Cloned
apes may be the wagelings of
the future. That is, if
Dr. Anita Guzman of Clonexico
Research manages to reach her
"impossible dream."
"We’re designing the drudge
jobster of the future here,"
says Dr. Guzman, "and she's
an ape."
The research company located
here in Puebla, Mexico, is at
"the cutting edge" of primate
clone work, according to the
doctor. "And gene splicing,
too."
"We have plans to build the
better wage worker," she says.
"Better, cheaper, more
plentiful, more trouble free."
She says her research started
even before the world learned
of Dolly, the now famous
Scotish sheep clone.
"I've had my sights on this
for twenty years," she says.
"Ever since I got out of
Stanford."
"I returned here to my home
town because we Pueblistas
are so open to new things,"
says the doctor.
That's not exactly the story
up north, in the US.
Transgenetic work with
primates is still "off-limits
in the States," says Miguel
Arroyo, Director of
Biochemical Oversight for the
State of puebla.
"Down here, we’re at closing
speed and doing it 24/7,"
he says.
"Remember the birth control
pill? That started here, too,
you know. We did the job when
it was still too hot to handle
up in God's country," adds
Arroyo, with obvious pride.
"To us, this is the future and
we are not afraid of the
future."
"We’re taking a very simple
approach," says Madame Guzman.
"First we’re starting with a
chimp chassis, then we’re just
going to drop in enough added
cerebral fire power to get a
decent day's work out of them."
"Of course, we’ll have to
figure out how to balance their
temperament a bit," she adds.
"Chimps can be nasty and
resistant to routine."
"Fortunately," according to
Dr. Guzman, "we know docility is
just chemistry." She adds, "As
soon as we isolate the molecules
involved we can gene them with
it."
So, one asks, what's in all this
for Clonexico?
According to company founder
Horge Pedroso, "It's all done
with faith. Faith and trust and
hope that someday there will come
a small profit from this
beautiful and bold vision."
"Of course, this isn't ivory
tower science we’re doing here,"
says Pedroso, a 28-year-old
self-styled "future freak."
The idea, according to
Clonexico’s chief is to turn out
"a one-size-fits-all laborer.
What we call in Spanish a
brassero. A brassero with a
permanent bad hair day."
"The science is really the easy
part," he says. "The challenge is
to find a way to turn them out
like Perdue turns out chickens.
Not simply ready for assignment,
but also marketable."
But beating the human competion
on price could prove to be very
tough, according to Pedroso.
"Yeah, to earn enough to pay for
themselves, their replacements,
and leave a little extra for the
stockholders- that's a tall
order," he says.
Even so, Dr. Guzman is not
detered in the slightest. "We
here at Clonexico all come from
the culture that gave the world
Don Quixote," she likes to say.
"This is our impossible dream
and we believe in the dream."
For the moment, apparently, a
lot of yankees believe, too.
Enough to put their money down
on it.
"Yes, we’ve got lots of eager
American investors," Pedroso
confirms. "Apparently, we’ve
created some real excitement
up there."
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no i haven't found any more news stories
haven't even looked
but hey sure as hell
there's one out there...
head lined
" lab's top secret
experimental apes escape "
but ewven without the missing links
you can do
the one plus one here
as well as I can
yup
some hairy fuckin " guy "
woops gal ya gal
clipped chig over the cabasa
eh??
at least makes ya wonder
and as chig sez
"it explains why my fly was open
when i woke up too "
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pinky post script
memory refresher
"THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin
ordered the creation
of Planet of the Apes-style warriors
by crossing humans with apes,
according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that
in the mid-1920s Russia's
top animal breeding scientist,
Ilya Ivanov,
was ordered to turn his skills
from horse and animal work
to the quest for a super-warrior.
According to Moscow newspapers,
Stalin told the scientist:
"I want a new invincible human being,
insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent
about the quality of food they eat."
In 1926 the Politburo in Moscow
passed the request to the Academy of Science
with the order to build a "living war machine".
The order came at a time
when the Soviet Union was embarked
on a crusade to turn the world upside down,
with social engineering
seen as a partner to industrialisation:
new cities, architecture,
and a new egalitarian society
were being created.
The Soviet authorities were struggling
to rebuild the Red Army after bruising wars.
And there was intense pressure to find
a new labour force,
particularly one that would not complain
, with Russia about to embark
on its first Five-Year Plan
for fast-track industrialisation.
Mr Ivanov was highly regarded.
He had established his reputation
under the Tsar
when in 1901 he established
the world's first centre
for the artificial insemination
of racehorses.
Mr Ivanov's ideas were music to the ears
of Soviet planners and in 1926
he was dispatched to West Africa
with $200,000 to conduct
his first experiment in impregnating chimpanzees.
Meanwhile, a centre for the experiments
was set up in Georgia - Stalin's birthplace -
for the apes to be raised.
Mr Ivanov's experiments,
unsurprisingly from what we now know,
were a total failure
. He returned to the Soviet Union,
only to see experiments in Georgia
to use monkey sperm in human volunteers
similarly fail.
A final attempt to persuade
a Cuban heiress to lend some of her monkeys
for further experiments reached American ears,
with the New York Times
reporting on the story,
and she dropped the idea
amid the uproar.
Mr Ivanov was now in disgrace.
His were not the only experiments going wrong:
the plan to collectivise farms
ended in the 1932 famine
in which at least four million died.
For his expensive failure,
he was sentenced to five years' jail,
which was later commuted to five years' exile
in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan in 1931.
A year later he died,
reportedly after falling sick
while standing on a freezing
railway platform.
------- btw the cuban heiress??
madame doctor Guzman's old lady ----------------------
Posted by pinky at February 24, 2006 09:54 AM