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What is Class? What is Work?

November 17th, 2001 at 4:18 pm » Comments (0)

“All systems are necessarily abstractions, and all generalization violates the living reality of the individual”-Bakunin
“When People are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘The People’s Stick’.”
My history is strongly rooted in the working class.  I think I get my radical tendencies from my father who was a [...]



Ramona the Great

November 17th, 2001 at 4:15 pm » Comments (0)

“I’m not speaking to Pamela,” said Beezus.
“Why not?” Ramona often yelled at people, but never refused to speak. Nothing could happen if you didn’t speak, and she liked things to happen.
-from Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary



How to Stop Time: Heroin A-Z

November 15th, 2001 at 11:16 pm » Comments (0)

“Addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia.  The drive to return to the past isn’t an innocent one.  It’s about stopping your passage to the future, it’s a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience.
And the love  of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage [...]



Food Snob

November 15th, 2001 at 11:12 pm » Comments (0)

My Sister died from clogged arteries at the age of 40 about 6 years ago.  She weighed over 500 lbs.  She couldn’t walk more than a block without resting, had really bad knee problems and ate all the time.
My father is diabetic.  He gives himself insulin shots like 5 times per day and he still [...]



My Ass

November 9th, 2001 at 4:26 pm » Comments (0)

My Ass. Some guys think it is fat, some guys think it is phat. Black boys like to stare at it and talk about it. White boys don’t. Regardless, men almost always seem to have an opinion about it. They either love it or they hate it.

Some people use it to judge [...]