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By Jim-beaux Lieyeah

Hello, Saturday, Nov.27, 1999. A month to go before we hit the new millen- nium and certainly lots to get through by then... if we get there. In line with the papers theme to produce an apocalypse issue, I have taken a new slant for my article. Thanks to Keith and Mick for getting me there...

I see ared door and I want it painted black, No colors anymore I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by dressed in their sum- mer clothes

I have to turn my head until my darkness goes...

The red door I am looking at has already turned black. The governing Liberals hearts are as dark as Cape Breton coal and equally as environ- mentally friendly. But this should not be a concern for us. Why?? The course of history has seen many highly prominent sayers. Folks like Leonardo Da Vinci, Edgar Casey, and Nostradamus would be predicting football game outcomes on Sunday; if they lived today. These boys had an incredible capacity to call things deep into

the future. Atthe _ time, they tended to write more than speak because these type of things could get your head cut off. But the one thing these boys all agreed on was that there was gonna be some crazy stuff happening at the end of this millen- nium. What’s crazy?? Try the apocalypse...

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black

With flowers and my love both never to come back

I see people turn their heads and quickly look away Like a new born baby it just happens everyday...

Today, I saw a line

“1. of cars but it had

more to do with a parade going through town than anything else. Usually, I'd be whipped into a minor frenzy at the complete incompe- tence by Charlottetown’s “finest” in creating alternate traffic routes. But what is the point?? By the time anything can be done about it, I’ll probably be dust. a eeeiped I

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saw this crazy report on CNN. Talked about all the atomic missiles in Russia. Yeah, so?? Well, for those who can recall the days when Montreal born William Shatner commanded the Enterprise, they might be able to

*envision what the

computer systems looked like on that bridge. Well this report showed me that the Russians could probably pick up a few tips from that, if they only had the Space

| channel. The scary

thing about this is — that the American army has all of these Y2K repair crews running around the Russian countryside trying to make these systems compliant. No small task but they are in a race with the clock, I expect them to lose...

I look inside myself and see my heart is black

I see my red door and it has been painted black Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts

It’s not easy facin’ up when your whole world is black...

_ When I look inside

Jimbeaulieyeah, all I see are black lungs and burnt brain cells. But my self destructive nature is my choice. I re- cently got an excel- lent E-mail that I can relate to. Basi- cally, it asked what would you do if somebody deposited $86400 in your bank account at midnight, with the proviso that it had to be spent in 24 hours. My natural instinct was to go on a massive shop- ping spree and whatever was left

would make for one © _ entertaining evening at the Barn. Well —

when I scrolled

down to see the rest \1 | ofthe message, —_ | sta basically it said that ©

that is how many seconds there are in a day and to make | the most out of

them. I certainly can

relate to this as I have an operating philosophy of “go hard or go home” (which has served me well)...

No more will my green sea go turna deeper blue

I could not foresee this happening to — you

If I look hard enough into the settin’ sun

My love will laugh with me before the mornin’ comes...

Well the sea just

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ecological play- _ ground it once was. — Pollution and deple- tion are probably

the words we asso- — ciate with it now. Our governing parties have always announced their initiatives with great fanfare. But their success at achieving these goals could prob- ably be equated with some Panther teams on campus. The only difference is at least one of them is trying. And that is the important thing. If you do

your best and don’ t

found all around

you. This seems to |

be the modem —

operatus of most

governments in power now...

I see ared door and I want it painted’ black

No colours anymore I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head until my darkness goes...

Probably the only — one to really grasp the destructive element of the — nuclear era when it was discovered was

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reservations oe what was going on. But when the mili- tary signs your checks and gives you a roof to live under, they are not too concerned about the long term pros- pects of your dis- covery. Well, we’ve reached the long — term now. The Y2K bug we’ve heard so much about doesn’t seem to concern us right now as much as work, Xmas, and how we’ll usher in -

| the New apes | nium. But CONG. 3

| Iwanna see it

painted, painted black

Black as night,

I wanna see the sun blotted out from the | sky

I wanna see it painted, painted, painted black (printed without permission from

The Rollling Stones)

As for myself I have been painfully

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