Dexter Sinister presents ``Today's chip paper, tomorrow's news''

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``FIRST/LAST'' NEWSPAPER TO FOLD AFTER ONLY SIX EDITIONS --- Dexter 
Sinister will commemorate the printing of their final \textit{First/Last 
Newspaper} and closing of their Port Authority site this Saturday 21 
November from 7 -- 9pm. Visitors will be able to collect remaining stock 
produced during the paper's brief three-week existence, including the 
latest and last just delivered from Linco Printers in neighboring Long 
Island City. Also present in the Port Authority Space, at the corner of 
41st Street and 8th Avenue, will be Gareth Spor's version of Brion Gysin's 
seminal 1960s Dream Machine --- a stencilled cylinder placed on a 
revolving turntable with a 100 Watt lamp inside to produce a stroboscopic 
flicker that induces a supposedly hypnagogic state when viewed with eyes 
closed. Spor's update replaces Gysin's original pattern with open 
letterforms that spell out an aphorism by Gysin's friend and collaborator 
William Burroughs: ``Illusion is a Revolutionary Weapon.'' The public 
should note that this machine may be dangerous for people with 
photosensitive epilepsy or other nervous disorders. Also available will be 
portions of fish & chips wrapped in old issues of \textit{TF/LN}. Due to 
concerns over ink poisoning, particularly related to old lead type, the 
tradition of wrapping fish & chips in newsprint has largely been phased 
out despite industry workers' claims that modern newspaper inks such as 
those used in Queens pose no such health risks. Today's chip paper, 
tomorrow's news, as the old Fleet Street saying goes. Surely this is, at 
last, the ``artless art.''

Sinister stress that they will assume no responsibility for the public's 
epilepsy or poisoning. (DS) \QED

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