May 9, 2007 journal, Revelation prophecy being fulfilled in our time with world on fire, burning from Florida to Los Angeles including southeast Georgia the O'Keefe Gnocchi swap, the midlands are flooded along the Missouri River and the governor of Kansas has called for her National Guard troops and equipment to save people but it is all deployed to Iraq and largely destroyed already. One city is completely destroyed and the first storm of the season arrived late yesterday on the Isle of Palms in Charleston South Carolina as a tropical storm hoping to bring much-needed rain to stop 220 raging wild fires in Florida. while children ar dying of hunger on the African continent and elsewhere in the world we are wasting hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the foolish war over lies and so many distortions. on Tuesday of this week 11 Republicans met in private with the president to say "you have lost your credibility on the war". Wal-Mart sales are reported down three and a half percent while Target is down 6%. Fires and floods ravish this country just as I saw in the vision. Dick Cheney's Halliburton war has I believe killed a million people and is still killing everyday as we get deeper into this quagmire where there's no salvation for us. Tony Blair is stepping down and not too soon. Oxey Condin pain relief admitted in court today that they lied saying their pain medicine was safer and more effective but it killed many of their victim's. They are fined $600 million. Pharmacy is not safe I say in any way. People must learn to live without Wal-Mart, Walgreen's, CVS, CBS, NBC, ABC and even Time magazine's Warner CNN. Our government is bankrupt and our National Guard is deployed internationally in the wholesale war killing business of real human beings. Dear Robin and Bill-thanks for your encouraging words. You are my greatest advocate from my first painting and you are responsible for my journal since December 15, 1997. in the case of the slanderous book the colorful apocalypse by Greg bottoms, it is not a case of forgive and forget, it is the case of willful intent to destroy us as he diagnosed us all as insane in his book even though he is barely a professor of English and not of psychiatry. Now he in his rage professes to know law and many other subjects. he does not know religion and all the many facets' such as fundamentalism which I do not claim. I do not have the religion of Falwell or even Pat Roberson or even James Dobson. I may be fundamentalist in mind but not In organization. Pentecostal's are not considered fundamentalist. I am even alienated from the Pentecostal's due to my art expression. I have travel plans to go to Green Bay Wisconsin in two weeks at the invitation of the University of Wisconsin to use their art studio while school is out to paint our fifth collaboration and show our art. I would be coming through Chicago about May 28 . bottoms evil book is not selling and is only available on the Internet. They printed only 4200 copies and used our collaboration idolatry on the cover unauthorized. bottoms potentially destroys 17 years of my painting art and writing journals. even though the book may disappear it will be the history of my art and the others even Howard Finster, M. West whose work was featured by the University of Memphis, Revelation art. I have a black lawyer friend here Theo Mitchell that may take the case against the powerful University of Chicago Press, Greg bottoms and the University of Vermont for giving him a grant to write fiction while hiding behind the term he teaches as 'creative nonfiction memoirs'. a famous creative nonfiction writer said on television last week that one's writing must be accurate. Bottoms burys his lies in confusion and argues with anyone posting a negative comment on the Internet book websites. see his ranting and raving against opposition on Powells books, put in search 'the colorful apocalypse' by Greg bottoms. metroactive weekly of Silicon Valley has a site written by Michael Gant whoever that is wherein he calls us all wild people saying I had a stroke after which I found Christ which proves he did not read the book but metroactive keeps a going not letting anyone post a rebuttal. I never dreamed of such contempt and hatred could be directed against us. bottoms sent Norbert 2 ranting e-mails in one day offering to change his mistake about the front cover at his own expense. One e-mail he admits threatening Amazon to not carry our rebuttals and they did take them off in the U.S. Canada and in Europe. Chicago Press gave one free copy to every Barnes and Noble. every line has contempt for people one way or another. Bottoms I believe is sick like his brother he writes being imprisoned for crimes resulting from his insanity. bottoms refers to our art as blackwater, (dung) saying we're imprisoned by it. then there's bottoms white Jesus thing which he created like all the rest making inflammatory statements. I never have called Jesus White and I no longer recite that name with the J within the last seven years because the true name is Yesu. the old English Oxford dictionary shows how the name gravitated over the last 300 years. bottoms paintes me as racist and anti-Semitic as he does Norbert Kox. All of my artwork and journals are on the Internet. All my available paintings are on arthompson.com so I say to them show me one that is racist or anti Semitic. never did I dream I would face such a blatant attack. it's easy for bottoms to mark one racist from the South. His term 'poor Christian south' is unfair and nonprofessional. bottoms recreates my vision to paint art to that of the apostle John 1900 years ago and then says he has tapes and notes to prove that I told him that which I did not. Bottoms deliberately has Chicago Press to chop off the 666 figures on the cover so he would not be proven a liar on the cover of the book. I estimate 500 discrepancies in his book but Chicago Press says they will only correct it if they were to print another run. I have told him that his tapes would prove him a liar. the book has no art images inside. bottoms uses every chance he gets to slap us with false charges and falsely quoting loss-making inflammatory statements which he plagiarizes from political correctness. Bottoms is a compulsive pathological liar, the worst I have ever known. I have registered 4 new websites under the colorful apocalypse.com and similar names to print the truth. as of last night we have about four hours of raw footage in the new video documentary of my art and the gassaway mansion. and I have the third floor recreation room theater again outfitted with my art. mostly my sacred art is displayed there and finally I have lights. I have the entire third floor and fourth floor tower. The art school building across the driveway is decorated beautifully with my art on the top level. The first floor will be for events and it is all newly finished. A garden will be developed beyond the building. please come and see it. sincerely William