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This guy is just a spammer. He has been spamming me with emails that make no sense for over a year. I have no idea where he got my email address.

You should not write about spammers. You should shut them down. Besides the stuff he writes makes absolutely no sense. I even tried to figure it out but could not. It is incoherent.

This man is an insane spammer. I second the above comments. He's been sending repeated e-mails trying to get people to write about him--don't indulge him.

I don't think that Nancy is pretty smart, since the Artist General emails are just quirky and Funny about our political fiasco of a government

ps: Nancy in your website you say that you promote the surrealist and the "different"
I don't think you get your own message! pretty hypocrite of you!
mindtheater.net ????

Michael Masley is brillant. His music is food for the soul -- his writings are food for the brain.

I suspect that people who cannot comprehend what Masley is saying are not hungry for the truth. I'm not saying they're soulless or brain dead, but I suspect they find George W. Bush completely "coherent."

How can Nancy claim to support the concept of the surrealist and not appreciate the the clever twists of language this man is spending a lot of thoughtful time in creating? Perhaps the government is truly the surrealist here and The Artist General is merely a clever calm Clark Kent covering a carnival (or calvacade if you wish) of insanity passing for public policy. This is not the time to think inside the box as they don't think inside the beltway either. Head spinning yet? Ordinary dialog goes right into one news cycle and out the other; we need more like the Artist General who will openly question what's going on and make you think. Nancy and Matt don't make me think.

The Dittoheady NancyMattzi of our culture are clearly out of sorts, what with the changing of the guard & such. Imagine what it must be like belonging to Bushelzebubbanation as it collapses into toxic disgrace! Of course any efforts to hasten it would be unforgivable in their view, "insane" "spam" etc. To that end I came across an "AG Warning" I hadn't seen before yesterday--"Spare the Truth, Spoil the Power"...NancyMattzi will likely never quite "get" grass-roots democracy. I'm guessing they go with the GOPetered Principle definition of same, i.e., mere "free markets"...a feudal cronyfe$t.

He's NOT a spammer. That was my first thought, but then when I saw him in the video I remembered him as the Berkeley guy who plays the cymbalom and hammer dulcimer. He has a little list where you can write your email down and get updates and stuff. That's when you opted in to get him emails.

I know Mike well. To make sense of his political poetry you have to read it out loud. If you just skim it it is not intelligible. But if you read it aloud you discover that it is quite coherent, full of scathing political commentary, outrage at the immorality of the current occupants of the executive branch, and humor. Plus his music is mesmerizing and awesome.

I have known Michael Masley for over 20 years, as a dedicated musician, excellent poet, and astute critic of our cultural and political environment. His gadly-like missives are as vibrant and quirky as any in a long line of worthy predecessors, whether Twain or Whitman or Thompson...and may not make any sense to those with short attention spans, missing humor genes, or lacking critical perception and political/historical education...it is definitely worth "struggling through" to find the gems for those open and willing to stretch. Sorry Nancy, whatever your other qualifications, you apparently have little clue as to what is REAL and what is SURREAL - your FAUX moral superiority is incomprehensible to me - I am embarrassed for you, and sad to realize just how pervasive your small-mindedness is in this pathetically unaware country free-falling into a moral and life-threatening abyss…

He is a spammer. When he won't take you off his email list then he is spamming you. Plain and simple. The only thing worse than this guy are the people that support him. Shame on all you that posted in support of this clown. He has no respect for other people.

You go Nancy!!!

Michael Masley is an amazing hammered dulcimer player. I am on his mailing list and don't get spam e-mails from him. His music is breathtakingly beautiful and is one of Berkeley's gems.

I met Michael Masley - He is indeed a real person. I did a photo shoot of him playing a very interesting fingerbow dulcimer. He is the self-appointed Artist General

I started to get sick of seeing this stupid vapid street spam all over so I began tearing them down. This douchebag should be cited by the city for putting this babble up everywhere.

Idiot.

Their numbers are of course thankfully plummeting. But L. Davis serves notice that hoppin' mad Bush toadies are still everywhere to found--even in the Bay Area. Poor "winners", these Dixie-Chick CD burners; and sorely clueless losers indeed. The days that lie ahead will test the bitter last of their civic mettle, little as it was to begin with. They are not, that is to say, known by any serious generosity of spirit whatsoever. Either their time, or America's, is over. Hell's Cherub (aka Bush's Brain, Turd Blossom, Karl Rove). Or, the BETTER Angels of our nature. Stay tuned: the Revolution WILL be TELEVISED.

Nice ad hominem Wyatt, actually I'm an Obama supporter that voted for Kerry in the last election. Why don't you address the real issue and that is street spam is as ugly as graffiti? Instead you have to resort to attacks that are without merit. Maybe it's ok if I protest Bush by coming to your neighborhood and peeing on your lawn?

Who knew? your overwrought 'reaction' is identical to far-right hot air. Do you react that way to every 'poster', etc, you see--especially when it shares (as you admit, with no mitigation of your hostility) a common adversary & shared goal (new leadership, and accountability for the abjectly corrupted old guard).

Your prissy attitude in part explains why we progressives so often seem to get our ass handed to us. Gratuitous 'friendly fire'. Why on earth would you so trouble yourself to tear AG 'warnings' down if they speak to your own political agenda? I can't believe you walk around tearing EVERYthing down,( mac doc, paint-your-house-for xx$, et al) do you? it would seem, just these.

Nope, all I hate is this sense of entitlement some people have. Very similar to spammers actually. You have the right to free speech but that isn't the same as the right to post up signs on street corners anywhere you want. I bet someone who works for the City of San Francisco is going to have to take down all your silly signs.

BTW, since when did you figure your signs carried a political message? I hate to tell you this but they lack any intelligent speech whatsoever. They sound like the sort of inane babble you hear spewing forth from homeless people, but that's just my opinion.

Oh, and by the way, you can believe people do walk around tearing down garbage posted by litterbug sociopaths. They're no different from people who pick up garbage on the street out of altruism in my opinion. They're CAUSS (Coalition Against Ugly Street Spam, http://causs.org/), so you see it isn't a political agenda at all.

http://flickr.com/search/?q=artist+general+warning

"litterbug sociopaths"...and their 'enablers'...

such fatuous hyperbole. What's left in your hyperventilated vernacular for the ACTUAL 'sociopaths' in the Bush-Cheney war cabinet?

And what of those who take & upload the growing photostream of "stupid vapid street spam" on flickr? (link above)...

Surely you're not going to let them continue their fool's errand of 'SHUTTERbug' sociopathology?!

Imagine the intellectual humiliation of acting from a point of view so overtly in opposition to your own, and not even realizing! Remember, "to whom much is given, much is expected."

All to say I think you owe them the superior authority of your assessment, difficult though it may be for you to rain on their charade (you seem such a kindly and thoughtful man regarding underrated crucial issues like litter & stuff).

In fact prior to your wuthering smackdown I'd have been flattered to have you think these 'warnings' were mine. But suddenly I see it for the insult it is. And in my bittersweet epiphany I can only assume you'll agree that others, misguided like me, deserve similar liberation.

Maybe you could upload a shot of you holding a sign from writ-large selections from your commentary here--you know, to address the whole 'group' @ once (?)

Wow, those are a lot of fancy words. Repeat after me: "I am a common street spammer and a litterbug"