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Republican Party To Circumvent 2008 Election
2007-05-19 03:04:00
If you have witnessed the Republican Presidential debates, or have seen the opinion polls in regards to these debates, then you are aware of a simple fact: Ron Paul (R - TX) is the clear leader among the American people for the 2008 Presidential election.Ron Paul's support seems to stem from the populace movement in this country that expects its leaders to go back to being the type of statesmen and strict Constitionalist as were our forefathers. Gone are the Thomas Jeffersons of our once great party. They have been replaced by Corporate puppets and special interest PR men like George Bush. A clear message is being sent by the Republicans of this nation to our party. That being, we want our party and the foundations and beliefs it was built upon back.The Republican Party refuses to listen, despite Ron Paul's poll results and popularity among core Republicans. According to an Associated Press article :"The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to ...
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Rudy Giuliani Supports Torture Tactics
2007-05-17 19:45:00
Republican Presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani , and "alleged hero" of the New York 9-11 crisis while Mayor has stated clearly he supports torture.Despite the fact that the United States of America signed the Geneva Convention which paved the way to the setting of standards for international law in regards to humanitarian concerns, Rudy Giuliani came out for the support of a torture technique called "waterboarding" in last nights (May 16 2007) presidential debate."Waterboarding" is a defined as a form of torture by the United States Justice Department. The technique simulates drowning, making the victim believe his death is imminent while "ideally" not causing permanent physical damage.Giuliani went on to say he supports just about any technique that could be thought of in order to obtain information for alleged terrorists regardless of whether their guilt or innocence had yet to be established.Is this the man you want running your country or is this just a cheap Adolf Hitler knoc...
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Free Speech: For Who?
2007-05-16 22:01:00
Debbie Wolf, an acquaintance of mine and fellow listener of the XM Radio show Opie and Athony has formed a new free speech group entitled: People Against Censorship. Primarily founded to protect all free speech issue on the airwaves, sush as the recent Don Imus firing for repeating a line you would hear any day of the weak on any high school playground, this movement is now concerned with the recent "suspension of "alleged" shock jocks Opie and Anthony concerning an on radio piece in which they opened up questions to a black homeless man. In that questioning the man spoke of his desire to "rape" Condo Rice and a few other public figures.While certainly some may not find any of that funny and bordering on the absurd, but those people need to remember that XM radio is a private radio service supported by subscribers. Shouldn't you as a citizen be allowed to choose what type of entertainment you are willing to pay for? Please watch the following video, and then get involved:www.peop...
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Lipstick Bruise
2007-05-13 21:02:00
Alone in 3 a.m.bus depot silence,whiskey bottle lingerson my lips and tonguelike a kiss I once tasted,and now refuses to driftfrom my memory.Perhaps shetouched me in placesI never wanted herto touch, placesno one's touched before.I expecting onlya one night "I'm leavingfor LA tomorrow" affair.I never wantingof her lipsagainst my waking chestto only dream.Lips that tonight yearn out to me.Lips like fingertips.Fingertips that sting my skinLike fresh tattoos.RC Edrington
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Zero Zero
2007-05-13 20:52:00
"All the perfect drugs and superheroswouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero"--Aimee Manncashed outpawned outmemory smearedby soft, sweet poisonthat whispers stifflyfrom a thin syringelike a drunken whorekiss tounged thrumy bloodstream was Iever truly lovedas much as the heroin,Karen orwas that too imaginarylike all the dope moneyyou allegedly hustled& I never sawon 6th avenueseems every backseatof everymid-size sedan or every roach infected hourly rate motelyou disappeared intowas as emptyas the dull, bent syringeyou nightly lefton the crackedtoilet lidI being the soleone of usable to fill anythinghas left me at emptywhile youhitch hike awaya quite satiatedvampireRC Edrington
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Ron Paul For President 2008
2007-05-10 09:44:00
I rarely take any interest in current politics and even presidential elections these days. Mainly because most candidates are simply figureheads for corporate America pimped out by the mass media. Whether it is a Democrat or Republican, it has been shown time and time again that both parties are the same acting on the interest not of the American populace, but in the interest of some special interest group.The ideas and beliefs of our forefathers, and the concepts on which this country was originally founded have long ago been tossed out the window by a ruling class elite that has gained control of our country by manipulating public opinion and implementing policies that are no longer in the best interest of the American people.Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) is a horse of another color. A strict Constitutionalist that has never bent to the pressures of corporate America, he is the only politician for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound m...
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JFK: Conspirasist's Smoking Gun?
2007-05-07 21:48:00
I first heard the name of E. Howard Hunt sometime in high school. Most Saturdays, my friends and I would take the city bus down to the local University Student Union to shoot pool. We'd crank our RAMONES cassettes from our boombox while we dismantled the college geeks in games of Bank-8. Pool was a skill I easily picked up spending my pre-teen years in various taverns and American Legions sipping Coca-Cola while my father drank and drank beer after beer attempting to drown away the pain of a meaningless middle-class life of quiet desperation.E. Howard Hunt. According to J. Jonah, Hunt was the devil incarnate. Jonah was a burnt out hippie with bleached blonde shoulder length hair, that road his Schwinn bicycle with a granny basket around the campus handing out homemade cut and paste fliers that claimed the CIA killed JFK and that money was evil. A true nut job, we used to think. The one detail of Jonah I will never forget was the fact that he always wore this dirty knee length skirt...
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Cracked Ribs
2007-04-30 11:42:00
A few days ago I come rambling down the stairs of my apartment completely unaware that it had rained a light drizzle in the morning. This also made me unaware that the bottom stair still held water. So being completely oblivious, I wasn't paying much attention when my foot landed on the bottom step...and then my body was in mid-air. Of course I couldn't be normal and fall flat on my ass. I had to do some kind of gymnastic spin in mid-air and land sideways. My left chest area crashing hard against the bottom step. Three cracked ribs and a severely pulled ribcage muscle. Sweet. Of course the only treatment for this most painful of maladies is rest and pain management. Opiates were out of the question given my history and new dedication to staying far away from the drug. I promptly ripped in half the Vicodin script, and decided I was going to tough this one out. Under the best of circumstances, the soreness and pain won't be going away for three to four weeks.I can barely move. I am...
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Dope
2007-04-22 17:47:00
Jen's a still lifeon the sofawith her snake skin skirtbrushed up to revealthe tongue like wetnessof her pink silk panties,& her Judy Garland facelays half submergedin a syrupy red puddleof her new leather jacket,& if it wasn't for her eyesadrift in the liquid skyI just might accuse herof actually being alive,but now it's my turn to turn& as the heroin begins to burnI can bear witness to nothingbut the waterthat rusts snake-likedown this chipped& crackedporcelain sink"Outcast"Kirill Fadeyev RC Edrington
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Discourse Of The Absurd
2007-04-21 00:41:00
To write any type of political or social commentary in this age borders on the absurd. There is no context. No universal truths, and in some cases not even a universal reality in which arguments and debate can be formed. Reality and truth are merely concepts spoon fed by corporate controlled mass media and soaked up like pablum by the delusional working slave class.Let's face it, on a playing field where lies and hypocrisy are not only acceptable tools of discourse but in fact the preferred methods of communication between the populace and the ruling class, freedom of open debate and speech is fairly meaningless.Take for example shock-jock Dom Imus. I have listened to this radio show before. I find the man moronic. Idiotic...and more importantly not funny. They fired the guy for using the term "nappy headed ho" on air. The "alleged" black leaders rose up against him and in the firestorm Imus was fired. For what? Being moronic? Being an idiot? Being not funny? While these are certai...
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Call Me Ishmael
2007-04-19 07:05:00
The news is flooded with the tragedy that took place at Virginia Tech. Until all the final details are eventually worked out as to what happened and why, the media will be full of pundits offering their political slant. Please keep in mind that the truth will be slanted depending on what side is presenting it and what ax they have to grind.The latest "theory" that I have come across is based upon the multi-media package mass killer Seung-Hui Cho managed to mail to NBC during the two hours between killing sprees. That is correct. Cho killed two students in a dorm room, then took the time to mail a package to NBC news. The final event in his murder spree began almost two hour later. Where were the police?It seems the package had a return address with the name A. Ishmael. Because of this, the right wing neo-conservative conspiracy nuts are trying to link this killing spree to a terrorist act,perhaps with links to Al Queda. Facts also show that Seung-Hui Cho had the term "Ax Ishmael" on...
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Pussy Lickin' Good
2007-04-18 16:52:00
Pussy Lickin' Good edited by Misti Rainwater-Lites. "This anthology includes 50 delectable poems culled from the first year of Instant Pussy, a print poetry zine. Dig in, darlings."Instant Pussy is one of those great DIY poetry zines that reminds me of the the punk fanzines circa the early 1980s. It was hand stapled with plenty of porn images and poetry from some of the best small press writers out there. This was the way poetry used to be distributed thru the small press.Misti has culled thru her first year of publications and pulled out 50 of what she believes to be the best pieces (I was pleased she decided to use 3 of my own) and decided to release a perfect bound anthology. Some of the poets include: Brian Fuggett, S.A. Griffin, Karl Koweski, JD Nelson, Todd Moore, William Taylor Jr., and tons more. There is some great poetry in here kids. And for a price of only $6.45, a total steal. To view a sample and order, go here: eBuLLieNCe PReSS.RC Edrington
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Amy Winehouse - Interview
2007-04-15 14:23:00
I am hooked on Amy Winehouse . The music, the personality, the "I don't give a shit" tattoos. Stale cigars, and bluesy night clubs. Thin bird like solo guitar players belting out their sorrow for a bottle of bathtub gin in somewhere New Orleans...before it was destroyed by upper class college punks...before the flood. Darkness. A lone blue light floats down like dust from center stage. The ghost of Billie Holiday shimmers out the rear exit into a black sedan to chase the next fix. The band starts soft, slow. Jazz cut by Motown tinged in Blues. All eyes leave their drinks. Amy Winehouse takes the stage. Perhaps in a black velvet sequined dress...perhaps in torn blue jeans... Find out more:Amy Winehouse Home PageAmy Winehouse MySpaceAmy Winehouse @ WikipediaRC Edrington
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Need To Believe
2007-04-14 08:16:00
your moonlitbrushed wideadobe eyesfailed to blinkclosedwhen Reneeregistered& tappeda hidden veinthen meltedthe heroin liketortilla lardinto myhalf-decade purebloodthat drunkenSaturday nightI dragon chaseda 1/4 gramSummer criedfake black mascaraprison barsdown herbruised cheeksonto your pillow& swore to leaveclaimed everyonewould blameher dope demonsfor re-awakingmineso tonightyou hold melike a fallenbrittle idolyou fearmay shatterwhile Summer swimsthru vomit& piss stained dreamson the cold cementbathroom floor& you swear you love me& that Summer onlyever really criesif she hasto share her dopeRC Edrington
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Amy Winehouse -Rehab
2007-04-11 05:56:00
Amy Winehouse is a jazzy, bluesy singer from the UK (however she has quite an American lounge feel). I have been listening to her most recent album Back to Black a lot lately. In fact, I find it the perfect companion to those long nights spent with pen in hand forging words upon the page. A perfect voice and perfect music for long lonely nights with nothing but your lips and arms wrapped around a bottle...or even a syringe of dope hanging from the arm. Check out this video, then check out her website for more info: Amy Winehouse. This is required listening in my opinion.Amy Winehouse Rehab Jazz Blues Music RC Edrington
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South Tucson
2007-04-10 04:45:00
blood ofjunkies bloominto sharedsyringeslike the sweet,dewy fruit blossomon a wornbarrel cactusburied amidstbrokenCorona bottles& stale corn husktamale wrappersthat linethe pus filled veinof cracked asphaltseeping its wayup South 6th Avenueinto the crackedpresidioadobe houseswhere Mexicangrandmothersroll tortillasbetweenarthritic fingers& gunshotsRC Edrington
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What Would Bukowski Do?
2007-04-08 20:03:00
sunday morning televisionshows Frenchanti-Bush protestersspray paint blackswastikas on burntAmerican flagswhile I scratchmy cunt stained balls,smear hungover sleepfrom bloodyroad veined eyes,suddenly awareliquor storesare still closedfor 2 more hours,& the only booze herea half bottleof cheap French Merlot abandoned bythis homelycollege girlwho promised to scoreme an 8 ball of dope& a little cashif I agreed to whorea few pieces of my worthless poetryscribblesto her lamecollege journalof modern americanpoetry frauds,& who has nowabandoned meto the headache realizationthat for the next 2 hoursI can be a good americanor a good drunkRC Edrington
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Props
2007-04-08 07:41:00
single malt scotch& an English major bentnude over a chair& a syringe of tarcocked & readyto fuck a veindiversionsof gutless menlike yours trulywho lack the nutsto place our hands aroundthis worlds bloated neck& squeezeRC Edrington
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Fire Bug - Walk Again
2007-03-31 21:52:00
I don't often suggest new bands to the readers of this blog. Main reason most likely being that not much new music really does anything for me. However I stumbled across this fairly new band out of Los Angeles (via Chicago), and was blown away. Check out this video, "Walk Away" by Fire Bug. For more info, head over to here: Fire Bug. RC Edrington
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Press Release: MyMovieNetwork
2007-03-11 22:56:00
MyMovieNetwork.com announces the ?The Rise from Music Videocrity? music video contest. West Hartford, CT March 11, 2007 MyMovieNetwork, the unequalled filmmaker community dedicated to all filmmakers is pleased to announce the launch of their first ever music video contest-?The Rise from Music Videocrity?. The contest, one of many existent film contests, is open to all filmmakers, actors, musicians, directors and individuals who love music and videos. Anyone can enter the contest on MyMovieNetwork from March 4 to May 1. MyMovieNetwork loves music as much as it love movies. ?We?ve seen many run of the mill music videos, so MyMovieNetwork is rising above to find the best of the best,? said MyMovieNetwork CEO Clint Mazur. ?Our system allows us to recognize all who worked on the video, not just the singer, or the director. This is a very exciting competition for us especially since the public is doing the judging.? MyMovieNetwork is looking for amateur film makers to present musi...
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Poor Little Rich Girl: Courtney Love
2007-03-10 18:47:00
Perhaps the sympathy we found in the dark, doe eyes of Judy Garland made it easy for us to mourn her as we witnessed her implode from dope between the tattered pages of tabloid journals.Even Marylin Monroe garnered our sadness, pity, and goddess worship as we watched her create her "poor little rag doll" image and allow herself to be used as an empty-headed arm puppet...only to be tossed away and ignored when the reality of politics cut through the sleazy glamor of Hollywood. Poor Marylin seemed to forget that once you achieved top whore status, the only place to go was back to the streets from which she came...or check out much too soon in a lonely bed with a bottle of pills.And what about our waif Edie Sedgwick. Our poor, poor Edie. We watched her surf barefoot through the black, rain drenched New York streets begging for a fix...after Warhol had pimped her out for all she was worth, sucking every penny he could from her elven frame. All those fucking self important artists and mu...
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Yer Ropes - Giant Sand
2007-02-23 13:18:00
The Tucson, Arizona music scene in the 1980's was truly a strange place of blurred lines and mixed genres. We weren't in New York, so we didn't have to go for BoHo chic. Being only a stones toss from Los Angeles we were able to miantain a detached coolness without the trappings of trying to be ultra-hip.Of course a lot of bands didn't understand this simple philosophy and quickly dried up to roll like a tumbleweed through the downtown streets unnoticed. One guy who did get it, and still gets it, is Howe Gelb. He founded the Giant Sand worms sometime in 1980 (although it could have been earlier). The Sandworms were a blend of Tucson country/new wave/ straight ahead rock kinda sound that pretty much defies any description by me. The name was later shortened to just Giant Sand. Howe Gelb is still actively musically. Music fans would be doing themselves a strong disservice if they didn't check out some of the old releases and newer stuff Gelb has been putting out.I was really shocke...
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Dovetail: New Indy Film Platform
2007-02-01 07:41:00
YouTube is a pretty decent site to view pirated TV episodes or music videos, but it was originally designed as a platform for people to share their own self-produced videos. Sadly, about the only ones using YouTube for this purpose are teenage attention whores who have nothing better to do but sit in front of their web cam after school and offer up for display how shallow and ignorant the youth of this generation actually are.Enter Dove tail, an online distribution website dedicated to independent film and music videos. Here content and quality are key, as Dovetail offers viewers the abilty to watch DVD quality video by using a simple download peer to peer program. This is a perfect outlet for independent film producers and fans. You can easily browse through the available films and videos, watch the ones that interest you online via your web stream, and then you are allowed to download the video to watch it in full DVD quality.I have already assembled quite a collection of some fair...
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Tarot Cards & Mass Weirdness
2006-12-23 19:44:00
1983 in a rundown second story loft apartment off North 4th Avenue and 9th street. Streets and alleys below, full of hippies and post-punk artist hawking their wares to wealthy hip housewives who come down twice yearly from their perches in the Catalina Mountain Foothills to enjoy this spectacle of counter culture...and purchase the latest macrame plant holders with broken beer glass woven in to replace the stained glass of 1960.Two doors down at IBT's (It's About Time), transvestites flash their best Marylin Monroe poses to stir up a biker club of hard-ons. For certainly these painted birds draped in the finest New York fashions offered much more in way of beauty than the mall shopping housewife pigs stuffing their faces on Indian Pop-Over bread, cotton candy, and the various other typical diabetes inducing fat fare offered at these street carnivals.1983 in a rundown second story loft apartment off North 4th Avenue and 9th Street. Rick "the dick" was tying off in Janet's bath...
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Old Habits...
2006-12-18 13:11:00
I decided to give myself an early X-Mas gift this year and reassemble a working art studio. I haven't painted since I left Tucson about a year ago. Anyway, I went and picked up a few basic supplies to get me off and going. I have a spare room I use for computer stuff, and figured a corner of it would make a nice place to paint. Obviously, I am no great painter. I have taken no art classes (thank god). But it does relax me and gives me something to turn to when stress decides to invade the brain and nervous system. Besides, reaching for a paint brush is much better than reaching for a syringe. Although in my hands both produce pretty much the same thing...shitty art.Being that it's my blog, you are now my captive audience for a few seconds...here is the first piece I have painted in over a year. Not sure it is done...but then nothing I attempt ever seems to be done. It is called Withdrawal. The model is an ex-girlfriend from Arizona. Haven't seen her in about 4 years, but she will...
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The Deceipt Of Western Civilization
2006-12-14 05:32:00
It has been over 20 years since Penelope Spheeris filmed her opus to the Los Angeles hardcore music and cultural movement of the day. Since then, fans have been clamoring for the release of a quality DVD representation of this effort. Certainly with the current climate, where pop music is hand fed to snotty nose wannabes sporting their latest pink IPOD as "alternative" music...the time would seem perfect for a multi-million dollar major deal to release this film to the masses.So where is "The Decline And Fall Of Western Civilization "? Hopefully, tucked away on a film rack collecting dust, never again to see the light of day.I recently came across a 3rd generation DVD copy of this movie duped from the actual film...from the friend of a friend of a friend. You know how that goes.Once the sheer excitement of actually holding the thing in my hands subsided, I slipped the little silver disk into the slot and waited to be confronted by the realities of history. My history.What a fraud. Th...
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Total Fucking Sell Out
2006-12-10 01:40:00
This post goes out to all you fucking little dickhead kids out in cyberland that have made the number one search term on Google: Britney Spears. What a talentless cunt this chick is. Sure I would fuck Britney Spears last few braincells out, but only after first taping her mouth shut with a roll of silver duct tape. Britney Spears this. Britney Spears that. Blah Blah Blah.I am thinking I may take this little photo of Britney Spears showing off her shaved gash, and use it for the cover of my next poetry book. Maybe then you little starstruck geeks will actually pick the thing up. Fuck copyrights. Modern culture is to be whored for the useless throw-away shit it has become.Anyway, this post is a fucking test. A test to see how many of you little useless fucks visit this site from Google looking for the hole shot of Britney Spears. Once you have seen the fucking thing, and jerked off your little hairless dick, maybe you will surf around this site and find stuff a bit more fucking intere...
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Tales Of Youth Wasted
2006-12-09 03:58:00
I think it was Kerouac that said something to the effect that you can't go back home. Sure, you can return to the physical place called "home"...but you can never really return to that moment in time where you actually felt you truly belonged.Time has a way of fucking with us. Friends eventually begin to dream different dreams than the ones we used to share in our youth, drugs begin to rip us from the community we once held so close or erase away everything we ever really cared about...and in some cases (ok in a lot of cases) friends even die. Sometimes, like in my case, an entire "scene" or world crumbles and memories become nothing more than fragments an archaeologist stumbles upon digging through a dumpster to discover evidence that our past really existed.So it is with the "Punk" scene of Tucson, Arizona in the early 1980's. Most of the people from those days are dead now, but there are a few still out there that do retain the fragmented memories that I do. Tonight, while talk...
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Streamer P2P Radio
2006-11-22 05:09:00
I first became aware of Stream er P2P while looking for some rather simple and lightweight software to broadcast an online net radio station. I stress simple, as I was very new when it came to online broadcasting. Streamer was the answer. Within in minutes, I had loaded a play list of some of my favorite punk tunes over the last 3 decades into WinAmp, and after following a rather easy step by step on the user interface I was online broadcasting.My online broadcasting interest lasted all of about two months. I bore easily. Bored myself and bored my handful of actual listeners even quicker.However, I did begin to listen to other stations broadcast on Streamer. This is where I found the "pirate" LIVE broadcast of Howard Stern on SIRIUS Satellite Radio . Of course, after listening to this low but listenable broadcast quality...and of course the anticipation and often let downs if the guy who was broadcasting was actually going to crawl out of bed and serve up the LIVE feed...I decided to ...
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PaperBack Swap
2006-10-28 01:57:00
For avid readers out there, how would you like to be able to trade your old books for other books free with no fees? Paper BackSwap is basicly a large online used bookstore where members list books availble to TRADE other members. There is no buying or selling or fees. For each book you list and ship (shipping on media mail is $1.59) you earn a credit to receive a book (the shipper pays the postage). This is the true barter sytem.No more hunting thru eBay and paying absurd shipping rates. For those of you not in a major city, you are well aware of how hard it is to find a quality used bookstore. I read several books a week. I found this a perfect way to trade off books I have read and get books I have yet to read...then I turn around and trade them right back. All it costs is the cost to mail thru media mail.I give this website program high marks and strongly suggest you check it out.RC Edrington
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