Do you think we could make it policy that if you can get 10 people to legally sign their name on a hit list of sorts that you could legally kill someone else?
Or is that too far-fetched.
May 31, 2006
May 27, 2006
pictures
dude i got franked when i tried to post my pictures on here, i guess blogger is not entirely free.... maybe i can post them one by one on a photo-hosting thing
wtf.
i hate getting franked.
wtf.
i hate getting franked.
san francisco pictures
the ozz-fest tour bus on haight st.
the view from the fairmont hotel in sf
maxfield's cafe, somewhere in the mission
May 17, 2006
Alternative Culture, Gringo Style
I went to a Black Sabbath reunion tour concert in San Jose, CA about six years ago or so (2000). At the time I was working for an Internet company in the bay area, not really doing anything worthwhile, but they paid me more than I had ever earned before and I only had to go to work from around 10-3 every day, including my lunch breaks which were up to about 2 hours by the time I left.
These guys I went with were all "crusty" punks from Oakland and Berkeley. The kind with black clothes, music with screeching screaming guys over heavy, dark and fast guitars. The kind you can't understand what they are saying, but it doesn't really matter. These guys all had dreadlocks (E-40 stole that style I think, for his hyphy movement) and they smelled pretty bad. We all went from Oakland to San Jose in someone's tiny jeep with about six of us. One guy sat in the trunk-thing in the back, four of us crammed into the back seat, and the two in front. One dude with long dreadlocks had to sit on my lap pretty much. He had a boombox with him and a tape of his new band, the fick-killing-shitebangers or something.
In any case.... a bunch of people had rented a motel room in San Jose to stay the night and after the concert everyone decided that it was our room that was party time room.
That meant that it was crowded with these jack-offs. I mean jack-offs in a general sense, of course. Several of them worked at a Berkeley based vibrator factory called "good vibrations" and much of the conversation revolved around their jobs. One guy wanted to get a job there. The other guy talked a million miles a minute about the job. Yeah yeah yeah dildos and vibrators, how alternative.
The guy went on though, about the job position, how you worked under a union contract, under some hippy ass thing, and everyone was a worker/owner of the company somehow. He was going on about how he made like $11 an hour, but after a certain period it would go up, then maybe, because he already was one, maybe the new guy could have a shot at being a floor manager eventually, which would mean he would make #$@! amount of money and have all kinds of benefits. Then he outlined the company's benefits, outlined the career track of a vibrator factory worker, outlined all the business-end type stuff of the deal.
This went on for literally hours.
I felt like I was at a job fair in Ohio State. There was nothing I could learn from these people about their "sub-culture" other than that it wasn't sub-anything. It was more of the same.
I remember one German punk rock girl who used to hang around in Berkeley. She was fully confused about everything because all the US punks talked about jobs and crap. She lived in a squat in Germany and used to go firebombing skinheads and fighting to overthrow capitalism.
She was a jackass too, don't get me wrong. But it was different.
Thank you.
These guys I went with were all "crusty" punks from Oakland and Berkeley. The kind with black clothes, music with screeching screaming guys over heavy, dark and fast guitars. The kind you can't understand what they are saying, but it doesn't really matter. These guys all had dreadlocks (E-40 stole that style I think, for his hyphy movement) and they smelled pretty bad. We all went from Oakland to San Jose in someone's tiny jeep with about six of us. One guy sat in the trunk-thing in the back, four of us crammed into the back seat, and the two in front. One dude with long dreadlocks had to sit on my lap pretty much. He had a boombox with him and a tape of his new band, the fick-killing-shitebangers or something.
In any case.... a bunch of people had rented a motel room in San Jose to stay the night and after the concert everyone decided that it was our room that was party time room.
That meant that it was crowded with these jack-offs. I mean jack-offs in a general sense, of course. Several of them worked at a Berkeley based vibrator factory called "good vibrations" and much of the conversation revolved around their jobs. One guy wanted to get a job there. The other guy talked a million miles a minute about the job. Yeah yeah yeah dildos and vibrators, how alternative.
The guy went on though, about the job position, how you worked under a union contract, under some hippy ass thing, and everyone was a worker/owner of the company somehow. He was going on about how he made like $11 an hour, but after a certain period it would go up, then maybe, because he already was one, maybe the new guy could have a shot at being a floor manager eventually, which would mean he would make #$@! amount of money and have all kinds of benefits. Then he outlined the company's benefits, outlined the career track of a vibrator factory worker, outlined all the business-end type stuff of the deal.
This went on for literally hours.
I felt like I was at a job fair in Ohio State. There was nothing I could learn from these people about their "sub-culture" other than that it wasn't sub-anything. It was more of the same.
I remember one German punk rock girl who used to hang around in Berkeley. She was fully confused about everything because all the US punks talked about jobs and crap. She lived in a squat in Germany and used to go firebombing skinheads and fighting to overthrow capitalism.
She was a jackass too, don't get me wrong. But it was different.
Thank you.
May 16, 2006
Reading Time Kids
Many of these books were written well over 100 years ago. Most are from or about the US. This is a list compiled by Malcolm Cowley in a book he edited called "Books that changed our minds." It features essays on the different books listed below by professors and writers. Cowley had asked them to compile a list of important books.
Most of these books are extremely controversial. Much more so than anything Howard Zinn, Mecha, Islamic extremists, Jewish settlers, indy-media, soldier heroes, right-wing blah blah or any contemporary retarded version of ideas and ideals could hope to come up with. Most popularly circulated ideas are recycled and reader's-digestified garbage that, if followed, will put your path backward instead of forward. Don't listen to them. Look at the trees outside instead for your news.
Freud and "The interpretation of dreams"
"The education of Henry Adams"
Turner's "The frontier in American history"
Sumner's "Folkways"
Veblen and "Business enterprise"
Boas and "The mind of primitive man"
Beard's "Economic interpretation of the Constitution"
Richard's "The principles of literary criticism"
Parrington's "Main currents in American thought"
Lenin's "The state and revolution"
Spengler's "The decline of the West"
Most of these books are extremely controversial. Much more so than anything Howard Zinn, Mecha, Islamic extremists, Jewish settlers, indy-media, soldier heroes, right-wing blah blah or any contemporary retarded version of ideas and ideals could hope to come up with. Most popularly circulated ideas are recycled and reader's-digestified garbage that, if followed, will put your path backward instead of forward. Don't listen to them. Look at the trees outside instead for your news.
Freud and "The interpretation of dreams"
"The education of Henry Adams"
Turner's "The frontier in American history"
Sumner's "Folkways"
Veblen and "Business enterprise"
Boas and "The mind of primitive man"
Beard's "Economic interpretation of the Constitution"
Richard's "The principles of literary criticism"
Parrington's "Main currents in American thought"
Lenin's "The state and revolution"
Spengler's "The decline of the West"
May 15, 2006
People Not to Trust
people who tell you how important their job is
people who pronounce "poems" like this: po-eeems
people who use their fingers to make quotation marks in the air while talking
anyone who uses any of the following words out loud: hegemonic, cross-cultural, poignant, "in the book of Psalms...," rhetoric, "American Idol," fenugreek, misanthropic, Marxist, pre-1967 boundaries, racialize
anyone writing a blog
any news on the front page of any newspaper
anyone who mis-spells a word in an online forum
people who pronounce "poems" like this: po-eeems
people who use their fingers to make quotation marks in the air while talking
anyone who uses any of the following words out loud: hegemonic, cross-cultural, poignant, "in the book of Psalms...," rhetoric, "American Idol," fenugreek, misanthropic, Marxist, pre-1967 boundaries, racialize
anyone writing a blog
any news on the front page of any newspaper
anyone who mis-spells a word in an online forum
wipeout redux
Maybe the song wipeout riddim isn't exclusively Buju Banton.
It seems to be an entire album with wipeout by the Surfaris in the background while dancehall dudes chant over it.
The one i've heard (crazy one below) is insane. Buju's is good, but reserved somewhat.
I read on some dancehall forum (in dancehall-eze.... i.e. bhwy wat u wan dat white muzik fukky fuh?) that many dancehall lovers see the wipeout riddim as some white boy thing that should be discounted at all costs.
Who knows. It's pretty crazy though.
Give me some elbow room
I need some elbow room
So I can boom shakalaka boom
It seems to be an entire album with wipeout by the Surfaris in the background while dancehall dudes chant over it.
The one i've heard (crazy one below) is insane. Buju's is good, but reserved somewhat.
I read on some dancehall forum (in dancehall-eze.... i.e. bhwy wat u wan dat white muzik fukky fuh?) that many dancehall lovers see the wipeout riddim as some white boy thing that should be discounted at all costs.
Who knows. It's pretty crazy though.
Give me some elbow room
I need some elbow room
So I can boom shakalaka boom
May 13, 2006
buju banton sings wipeout
There's a new song with heavy rotation on Belize fm2000 in the afternoons. I think it's called
Mi And Unuh (Wipe Out Riddim) by Buju Banton. At least that's what I found when I did a search of "wipeout" and "buju banton."
What it is is the original wipeout instrumental song (by the Surfaris, not the Beach Boys) with Buju Banton chanting things over it in this unintelligable manic voice. It's pretty much the most amazing song in the universe.
It goes something like this:
"banna bye bye bye yacka jacka la la la la chow chow chow chow bing bing bing bing"
I suspect illicit drugs are involved in the making of this song.
You need to hear it. On Belize fm2000 they often play it in the afternoon several times in a row (with the "rewind!" feature of reggae radio, along with lazer noises, bomb sounds, echoes and shouting)......
Mi And Unuh (Wipe Out Riddim) by Buju Banton. At least that's what I found when I did a search of "wipeout" and "buju banton."
What it is is the original wipeout instrumental song (by the Surfaris, not the Beach Boys) with Buju Banton chanting things over it in this unintelligable manic voice. It's pretty much the most amazing song in the universe.
It goes something like this:
"banna bye bye bye yacka jacka la la la la chow chow chow chow bing bing bing bing"
I suspect illicit drugs are involved in the making of this song.
You need to hear it. On Belize fm2000 they often play it in the afternoon several times in a row (with the "rewind!" feature of reggae radio, along with lazer noises, bomb sounds, echoes and shouting)......
mordant
mordant \MOR-dunt\ adjective
*1 : biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive
2 : burning, pungent
May 10, 2006
Cinco De Mayo 2006
tacos lomo adobado
$17 cheeseburger with 3 types of hot sauce
1 taco al pastor with pineapple
it's time for revolution!
it took me awhile to get this, i admit
cleaning supplies
quesadilla con arroz y frijoles
salsa fresca y margharitacreation part deux
By banana as a product I mean something like the phenomena of the modern/contemporary writer. Every, well most, writers that I've met have been obsessed with the idea of their writing as a "product" more than anything else. It's a little off-putting but you really can't escape it unless you go and live in a cave and scrawl poetry on leaves before eating them.
While most writing worth anything has historically been far from a "product" most worthy writers led lives of obscurity and poverty. Many works of literature don't even have a clear writer (Homer, Shakespeare, Arabian Nights, etc.)....
We have been led to believe in the banana as a product rather than a banana, something that grows in the jungle quite naturally and can give life.
If we commodify entertainment in the same way, literature, art, philosophy, even science, then it all seems limited somehow. The way universities spend their time getting grants, being pc, and cowing themselves to corporate interests at the expense of important subjects.
In the hospital it's all about billing and insurance and very little about healing.
While most writing worth anything has historically been far from a "product" most worthy writers led lives of obscurity and poverty. Many works of literature don't even have a clear writer (Homer, Shakespeare, Arabian Nights, etc.)....
We have been led to believe in the banana as a product rather than a banana, something that grows in the jungle quite naturally and can give life.
If we commodify entertainment in the same way, literature, art, philosophy, even science, then it all seems limited somehow. The way universities spend their time getting grants, being pc, and cowing themselves to corporate interests at the expense of important subjects.
In the hospital it's all about billing and insurance and very little about healing.
May 8, 2006
Creation
I was thinking about a banana being a product the other day. I used to work at an Internet company and they had this big deal where they were going to put ads for the website on fruit in the supermarket.
Not only were bananas being sold as a product but they were also being used as a television.
Is a banana a product.
Not only were bananas being sold as a product but they were also being used as a television.
Is a banana a product.
May 4, 2006
peasants with machetes
04 May 2006 17:35:40
Source: Reuters
By Noel Randewich
SAN SALVADOR ATENCO, Mexico, May 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of riot police firing tear gas flooded into a rebellious town near Mexico City on Thursday to hunt for agents taken hostage during a riot sparked by flower traders that left at least one dead.
National television images showed scores of police clad in body armor sweeping into the fractious farming town of San Salvador Atenco, 15 miles (24 km) north of Mexico City, and hauling off bleeding protesters.
Violence exploded in the area on Wednesday when police arrested roadside traders suspected of illegally selling flowers. A 14-year-old boy was killed in the rioting by peasants armed with sticks and machetes.
Dozens more were arrested later, including a German and two Spanish women, who police said would be deported.
During the chaos, angry demonstrators cornered 11 policemen and took them hostage. They released several of them early on Thursday but officials said six had not yet been found.
It was the first time state and federal police have entered the town -- where many residents link themselves to Mexico's Zapatista rebel movement -- since machete-wielding protectors blocked President Vicente Fox's plan to build a new airport there five years ago with a standoff that lasted several days.
San Salvador Atenco has to some extent been under radical self rule since then, with local leaders trying to spread the system to neighboring villages.
The airport defeat and the subsequent failure to bring the area totally under government control have been held up by rival politicians as an example of Fox's supposed weakness in dealing with conflicts.
SURGE IN VIOLENCE
The storming of the town on Thursday was led by state police under the control of Mexico's main opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.
PRI presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo has referred to the town during campaigning for the July 2 election, saying he would not be scared off by peasants with machetes. Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon later picked up the same theme.
On Thursday, police, backed up by low-flying helicopters, over-ran roadblocks set up by the demonstrators, who were demanding the release of flower sellers and leaders arrested in raids and running street battles on Wednesday.
The speed, size and early hour of the operation seemed to take the town by surprise, and resistance was limited to small groups throwing Molotov cocktails.
Police used strips of cloth as makeshift masks against the swirling clouds of tear gas, and stormed houses to pull out residents in a hunt for protest leaders.
The riot was the latest outbreak of violence in the run-up to elections. A surge in drug-gang bloodshed has spread to beach resorts like Acapulco and two people were killed in April when armed police tried to break up a steelworkers strike.
Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Thursday the violence in Atenco was the work of a small group of people opposed to democracy and not a sign the country was slipping into further violence. "I can categorically assure you there is no lack of governability here," he told reporters.
Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, who headed a brief but bloody uprising in the Indian-dominated southern state of Chiapas in 1994, said his guerrilla army was on red-alert following the clashes.
Leftist Marcos, who is on a tour of Mexico City, has hardened his political stance in recent days, calling for the overthrow of government and vowing to expel foreign capital.
When they entered San Salvador Atenco, police found pro-Zapatista murals and slogans painted on walls.
Source: Reuters
By Noel Randewich
SAN SALVADOR ATENCO, Mexico, May 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of riot police firing tear gas flooded into a rebellious town near Mexico City on Thursday to hunt for agents taken hostage during a riot sparked by flower traders that left at least one dead.
National television images showed scores of police clad in body armor sweeping into the fractious farming town of San Salvador Atenco, 15 miles (24 km) north of Mexico City, and hauling off bleeding protesters.
Violence exploded in the area on Wednesday when police arrested roadside traders suspected of illegally selling flowers. A 14-year-old boy was killed in the rioting by peasants armed with sticks and machetes.
Dozens more were arrested later, including a German and two Spanish women, who police said would be deported.
During the chaos, angry demonstrators cornered 11 policemen and took them hostage. They released several of them early on Thursday but officials said six had not yet been found.
It was the first time state and federal police have entered the town -- where many residents link themselves to Mexico's Zapatista rebel movement -- since machete-wielding protectors blocked President Vicente Fox's plan to build a new airport there five years ago with a standoff that lasted several days.
San Salvador Atenco has to some extent been under radical self rule since then, with local leaders trying to spread the system to neighboring villages.
The airport defeat and the subsequent failure to bring the area totally under government control have been held up by rival politicians as an example of Fox's supposed weakness in dealing with conflicts.
SURGE IN VIOLENCE
The storming of the town on Thursday was led by state police under the control of Mexico's main opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.
PRI presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo has referred to the town during campaigning for the July 2 election, saying he would not be scared off by peasants with machetes. Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon later picked up the same theme.
On Thursday, police, backed up by low-flying helicopters, over-ran roadblocks set up by the demonstrators, who were demanding the release of flower sellers and leaders arrested in raids and running street battles on Wednesday.
The speed, size and early hour of the operation seemed to take the town by surprise, and resistance was limited to small groups throwing Molotov cocktails.
Police used strips of cloth as makeshift masks against the swirling clouds of tear gas, and stormed houses to pull out residents in a hunt for protest leaders.
The riot was the latest outbreak of violence in the run-up to elections. A surge in drug-gang bloodshed has spread to beach resorts like Acapulco and two people were killed in April when armed police tried to break up a steelworkers strike.
Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Thursday the violence in Atenco was the work of a small group of people opposed to democracy and not a sign the country was slipping into further violence. "I can categorically assure you there is no lack of governability here," he told reporters.
Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, who headed a brief but bloody uprising in the Indian-dominated southern state of Chiapas in 1994, said his guerrilla army was on red-alert following the clashes.
Leftist Marcos, who is on a tour of Mexico City, has hardened his political stance in recent days, calling for the overthrow of government and vowing to expel foreign capital.
When they entered San Salvador Atenco, police found pro-Zapatista murals and slogans painted on walls.
May 2, 2006
Money and Fear in the USA
Stan-furd?
It's amazing how easy it is to lead people.
Over 1,000 people in the US die every day from smoking cigarettes and their related effects.
In 3 days that is a 9/11's worth of deaths. In 30 days it is as if 9/11 happened 10 times in a row.
Yet people are still more afraid of some lame bearded guys in some mystical faraway land then a pack of cigarettes available right by their house. So much so that they will give up their liberties, give up their money, and give up their sons and daughters in the misbelief that they are doing it to protect their country.
Real terrorists are laughing their heads off to their big houses in the country while you hide in your basement from al-qaeda and smoke those cigarettes.
Check cdc.gov for more stats on smoking deaths.
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