on the wealth of neighborhoods

I bought drugs from a republican today. His work was surprisingly consistent with his ideology of free market capitalism in a competitive environment with little regulation. specifically, I bought xanax and dolophine, so the guy had similar but not identical taste in drugs to rush limbaugh, who was into OC. now, dubya's frat boy coke habit is actually not very consistent with classical conservative ideology. i have trouble reconciling cocaine with conservatism. It seems more like a drug for people who consider themselves clients of a large bureaucratic para-governmental institution. the coke cartels are not something that free market conservatism could permit. they would be a threat to the independent merchant's capital initiative. Additionally, reinvestment of drug capital in the products manufactured domestically of which oxycontin, a purdue frederick product is an example is more in keeping with conservative economic principles than using that same capital to invest in a relationship with overseas interests which depend for their security on leftist paramilitaries in latin america. Next time you do a bump, remember that you're doing it for free-trading wilsonian internationalism and next time you do an OC remember that you're supporting domestic industry. god speed the plowed.

where do they find these morons?

I hear tell of a chap that wanted to stay on unemployment, so he put a good two decades of the future on his curriculum vitae. in 2019 he claimed to have fought on the side of the arizona partisan brigades against the invading armies of the 3rd persian empire. these days he works for homeland security which goes to show there's no such thing as a sure thing.

and yet there are very probable things, despite!

take the lesson of our unfortunate friend:

don't get ahead of yourself.

through being cool

I started carrying this ipod shuffle around and every time I see a dude who looks cool hanging out with his laptop on campus I just say "hey, dude, format this and fill it up" and I never see the artists or track titles, cool, eh? sometimes they don't know how to randomize the tracks so I just get adagio in d and andre nikatina a lot, but you know, it's like an act against the archiving and categorizing and analyzing music in scholarly discourse on pitchfork dot com until whether or not it sounds good and is fun to dance to is a secondary consideration. I just want music to be fun again. it's like in high school when everybody would pass mix tapes around. honestly, most of them sucked, but it was my cultural education. A sucky cultural education for a sucky culture, and what we shouldn't overlook here is that we had a good time because we didn't even know we were lame.

explaining my conduct

Dear Professor Turner,
I'd like to apologize for walking out of your class this morning. I meant no disrespect. I consider your lectures to be generally stimulating and useful.
This morning I felt compelled to be a jerk and run off at the mouth, and since you get enough grief elsewhere I thought I would try not to give you any more. I suppose I have this unfortunate tendency to debate the validity of some of your points and to do so in your class which is an inappropriate venue. I would like to have an opportunity to discuss with you some concerns I have with the Zinn text. I don't think it's a piece without merit by any means, butsince its original publication in 1980 it may have changed with regards to its relevance to contemporary thinking. What I see as dangerous is that critical theory, which started out as the notion that it was incumbent5 upon us to challenge orthodoxy has itself become the new orthodoxy. I find it disturbing that Zinn seems to have no cumpunction about condemning people out of hand because they were on the wrong side of politics or the class divide. It's not that historical revisionism is necessarily unhelpful or dangerous, but the rigidity of the school of thought represented by a peoples history is alarming to me. If I argue with you in class, I'm playing devils advocate perhaps, but I am doing so out of these conderns I have.
I know you're very busy and a great many people depend on you for a great number of things, but I would appreciate it if you could find time do discuss this and related matters, perhaps during your office hours.
I'd like to reiterate my apology for walking out of your lecture, and for having been disruptive in the past. I know you have a difficult job to do, and I regret having interfered with the carrying out of your duties. Please forgive me, and if you could see your way to answering this email, that would be cool too.

Kind regards,
MonoWog

you never learn anything new driving around in a car but on the bus you become your own studs terkel. rip studs

I met this dude on the bus rocking mountain bike gloves, a canadian tuxedo and a halfro, he made end stage alcoholism look like so much fun, and he was wearing one of those dumb ass perry ellis shirts that are oxford but with a white collar, like he was cracking all his friends in the squat up when he was getting dressed that morning all "lookit me, I'm a white dude! got any chablisw? no? ok king cobra's fine. where the fuck did I park my benz?" when they say die laughing, that's exactly what homeboy was doin.' we're talking about a dude that doesn't know we're in a recession, hell he probably wouldn't notice a thermonuclear holocaust. God knows what it would take to disturb this dude's equanimity. if he goes around being this chill he's going to be the only wino with a bunch of disciples following him around. if you can take personal tragedy and turn it into a fashion statement that's a)spot on, social criticism wise and b) hilarious then you have done the impossible, flipped the3 dominant paradigm on its head and actually found a way to win at losing. it changed my whole perspective. suddenly I'km in love with the world and everything in it

Remember not to vote on Wednesday, November 5th

Don't vote on wednesday, cause that would be stupid. cause there's no election that day, and thank goodness for that, as well. The real currency of political legitimacy is checkpoints. ask anyone from west beirut. unless your militia has some in my neighborhood, you don't mean shit to me. Why would I join some punk ass crew like democrats or republicans that haven't even got any checkpoints?