April 17, 2007 journal, The Asian man was from South Korea that shot up Virginia Tech. What would cause a man to go berserk and take his own live along with 32 other people? He had lived all but 8 of his 23 years in America. This one they cannot blame on Arabs as far as I know. Has America become too diverse? Are people having the illusion that there is no hope? American culture seems to breed violence as manifested in school shootings and this massacre should of been avoided if insanity were to be more revealed. If you search for colorful apocalypse on google.com you will get Amazon listings where Norbert has a rebuttal on the first page and John on the second calling the book a lie. Bottoms keeps changing his reply such as the one he has posted on Powells books and in all them he says he does not like being called a liar. Bottoms keeps changing his reply to sound less insane. I have never seen such an uprising against a book before and it cannot last with such opposition counteracting bottoms creative subversive writing wherein he dismantles his victim's almost like the guy Cho from South Korea who shot up the Virginia Tech campus. As a matter of fact Bottoms was born and raised near there. Wonder why he is fighting back his obvious intent with contempt to trash his victim's? Raw vision magazine issue 33 features me and my art and many other publications even one recently locally and very favorable. So who's doing the raving and ranting? Not me. Bottoms is the racist anti-Semitic white supremacists he accuses us of being. I cannot say anything good about the book because even when he happens to say something unobjectionable it is still flavored in his own tacky little disgraceful style of character assassination. Chicago University Press has a real mad man on their hands. Bottoms states in his most recent postings on the sites selling his book that we had to be told by their legal minds for the second time now that we just do not understand. In other words, we poor Christian right wing Southerners as fundamentalist Christians are not capable of understanding the great writings of their 'knight in shining armor' English professor and his deep and sophisticated intellectual eruption of vile dramatic language. We poor ignorant artist in other words are living in a visionary world outside of reality. These words are going to follow him home and the more he makes a fool out of himself by interfering with free speech on the site postings the more he loses ground. Bottoms says in his statements that we continue to attack him even though we have been told "by their legal minds" that we just don't understand what he has done to us. The student Cho at the Virginia Tech near Bottoms home wrote violent plays (MUCH LIKE BOTTOMS BLOODY WRITING) to the extent that his teacher asked for him to be removed from her class but nobody did anything until the Great tragedy. Bottoms running loose is just as dangerous to the minority of us, of unprotected visionary artist too ignorant to know his sophisticated language of his college English course. . He is intimidating us daily by saying in his postings that we are attacking him. We have been snake bit and will be scarred for life by this guy who confesses to being an agnostic or an atheist throughout his book and his postings. He is reiterating his claim that the museum's and galleries debunk our Christian message not realizing that we know that already, that it is true in some cases but the public views it differently. My work is often said to express itself even when no scripture is applied, even in multi languages and for that I am very grateful. It is good that Bottoms is advertising for us as he recites in his raging replies to public comments posted that since the books release he has been called a schizophrenic, multi personality, a smut writer and one better suited to write for the national inquirer. This speaks for itself and if that were said about me I would not recite it voluntarily. When I look back at great publications like Raw Vision 33 and the Coming Home show by University of Memphis that traveled from Florida to New York and so many more favorable publications featuring our work, my heart is warmed and I feel like traveling on past this bobbed wire fence he has erected in front of us. This is a dangerous madman we're dealing with and I think he is worse than the writer of 'The Million Little Pieces' who only exploited himself before he got busted. Perhaps this will energize us to be bolder and wiser in posting the truth rather than being deliberately obscure and invisible to the world. The book is a hoax. American culture with Hollywood and all that is happening seems to breed vi*ole*nce such as we have seen this week at Virginia Tech. I say we should advertise for a lawyer in the Chicago newspaper stating that we need to sue Chicago University Press and Greg Bottoms English professor at the University of Vermont for publishing a book of lies on us. They never ask us to review the book before publication and we're the only ones that would have known the book is largely a book of lies. We should even advertise in the University newspapers of each University. With keywords the name Greg bottoms could come up with liar attached to it every time you touch the keyboard. Mr. Thompson- > >I will write a review and submit it this weekend. You're such a >kind man, and it's infuriating that Greg Bottoms portrayed you the >way he did. He never mentioned that the man who owned the Dixie >Outpost was a painter, he just made it so you looked like a racist >hick, which is very very far from the truth. > >We appreciate you allowing us into your home and showing us your >work. It's all we talked about for the rest of the day. George and I >would like to make a film about you. We don't know how or when, but >we do. It must be difficult to let strangers into your house, and we >appreciate so much that you were so welcoming. > >Would you like help next Tuesday? At least one of us can show up >around 11 or so. We can start to get those journals in order and >clean up the office a bit. Have you got your viavoice program fixed that >allows you to use the computer? all the best-Tanya