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From: This is the New America, 1997

Like in Dave Wave’s dreams.

Back when people sat in pairs and in groups to listen to entire albums and smoke out, This is the New America’s Old Hobo’s Infected Foot and Oy!ster Delhi Polka Parade served as the places where the smoking action went down.

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Downhill Monkeys and Apes!

Arpy Dubbs

2017.

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There was a time in this country when it seemed as if nothing would change and everyone liked it. But for every calm day on the ocean there is a storm over the curve of the earth. And for every quiet day in the woods, there is a mountain rumbling and bucking beneath. Most humans enjoy a forced ignorance until it is too late, but those who trust their animal instincts can feel the vibrations early enough to flee town, or get a good seat to view the carnage.

tKoL, 1997

2017.

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This is the New America plants the seeds, rallies the troops, and converts the savages for the subsequent chapters of the manifesto. It is the bait before the hook; the hook before the jerk; the jerk before the cruel, bright sun and the hot, suffocating air; one last dry look at the sky before the fatal whack above the gills.

tKoL, 1997

2017.

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TITNA

I’m in Montreal. Last night someone here reminded me that the tKoL album, This is the New America, turns 20 this year.

I basically avoided further conversation.

2017.

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Old America problems of a certain class.