Couple things I wanted to get out the way, hoping that if I say them now, at the end of December, I can just point any idiots to the archive if they decide to say or do fucked-up shit.
I'm not putting up with fucked-up shit around here next year. Just so you know. Messages might vanish with no warning, so if you decide to type some long, accusatory fucked-up shit, either save a copy, or use a real email address, so's I can mail it to you, so you can post it someplace somebody cares. Your own site, perhaps.
Oh, you don't have one?
Well, you ain't using mine.
And use a real email address anyway. Ain't saying you got to use your real name -- I can totally understand not wanting to be associated with this place in the Real World, and (potential) employers do Google folks -- but if you can in no way, shape or form stand behind what you say, don't even bother saying it.
Cracka.
- If you're white and thinking of offering me advice on How to Properly Confront Racism. . . fuck you.
- If you're black and thinking of offering me advice on How to Properly Confront Racism. . . fuck you. Well, unless you older than me and actually got more experience with this sort of thing. If that's the case, though, you probably ain't wasting your time reading blogs, so I feel pretty good about that first sentence.
- Anybody else, I probably ain't heard your perspective, so offer away. Just don't be surprised if afterwards I say, "Wow, that's really interesting. I never looked at it that way before. And fuck you."
- Much of my humor, like the previous entries, is deadpan, and based on conscious violation of social rules/mores/manners. If you're thinking of correcting the nigger who don't know no better. . . I bow to your wisdom, and feel I cannot learn sufficiently from you in this impersonal venue. Please, I urge you to meet me, in person, and say what you have to say to me that way. However, see previous message re: Louisville Sluggers.
- Update: Because I just know it's gonna bite me in the ass sooner or later. . . sorry to go all semantics/semiotics/Matrix Revolutions quotes on y'all again. . ."Nigger" is a word. What matters is not the word, but the connection the word implies. It's quite possible -- I can give you some links to comments here, if you'd like, the most recent from Gray -- to make the connection without using the word. Alternately, it's possible to use the word divorced from the usual connection. Though we can argue all day about what "usual" means in this context.
Speaking of context, "The fucking fucker's fucked" is not only a perfectly grammatical sentence of English, it's also a meaningful one in context. From a linguist's point of view, anyway.
This is why we shouldn't be asked about usage.
But I digress. As per usual. Point is, just because I'm slinging the word around with abandon (which, of course, I'm not, but I like the expression), that don't mean other folks should feel free to do so.
Might be adding to this as the day/week goes on. Or idjits do shit piss me off.
Guess I could explain that first numbered point. . . although it's all well and good that you've decided to confront racism, do keep in mind that, thanks to that pesky white privilege, you could make that decision. And can decide at any point that you don't feel like dealing with it, because you're too tired or whatever.
Not all of us have that option.
Hence, your opinion is. . . no, "suspect" isn't the right word. "Not as valuable or informed as you'd like to think it is, " perhaps.
Yeah, yeah, it's horribly racist of me to feel that way. Was that your Racist Incident for the Day? Did it impact your enjoyment of life in any way whatsoever? Can you easily avoid dealing with my horrible, racist self by just not visiting this site?
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth fingers?
Not the choir of regulars, y'all's cool, it's the tourists I'm trying desperately to keep schtum.
What if a cracker who lived in the ghetto for 25 years has to speak?
Depends on what he gots to say.
If it's "Let's go to the White Castle on Lake Street, I feel homesick," yes, the response noted in the entry applies.
And how are things in Coon Rapids these days?
I'd visit, but, you know, my black ass ain't going noplace named Coon Rapids.
What is it about the end of the year that seems to piss off so many intelligent people?
Wow, my dad lives in Crapids, Amazing!
And now for somthing completely different (no really, I mean it). The Hallmark movie for this month is a two parter (and started last night, "curse my metal body...") and is about (anticipate the amazing now) Injunz! So far I've spotted Farmer and Truedell - plus a few other stock native actors.
Synopsis- Gang banging lakota kid owes the local Bloods some dough and they come a knockin about the same time his mom requests him to take his grampa down to the all nations ceremonies in Arizona. Junior bitches and angsts most of the way down (revelaing his issues) and gramps tells stories (which reflect and remedy said issues with a neat lil moraly parable thingy) from varying nations while jr. drives and aforementioned Bloods pursue. Possibly the young man grows along the way.
Part two is on tonight Aaron - 8 central on ABC (or was it CBS???) You'd dig it the most.
Elayne, massive case of l'esprit d'escalier, I'm thinking.
uppity-shinob, saw an article about the show, made a mental note to tune in. . . and missed it just the same. Thanks for the reminder on Episode II.
I hear Jar-Jar is more realistic in that one.
Word. I'm purchasing said video from Hallmark as we speak. Perhaps some jolly pirating and distribution is in order.
Yo Ho!
Ehhhh not much. The city is still buying up local businesses around the alternative high school. I guess they figured out that its not a great idea to put a pawn shop, liqour store and a motel that has rooms by the hour right next to a bunch of troubled teens.
Now I just got to figure out what to do with my afternoons. I can no longer pick up a single mother teen, buy her a six pack of Red, White & Blue, take her to the motel during her lunch break to fire off my newly aquired used pistol in the room.
At least I still have a White Castle down the street for whenever I feel I need a cleansing.
Other than that, not much. The wife surpassed me on the surgery tally. She leads 2 to 1. If this doesnt work I'm going to look into knocking up a retarded girl and sue for custody.
"What is it about the end of the year that seems to piss off so many intelligent people?"
Because, perhaps, that the world, so screwed up, has not improved (and IMO has gotten worse) at the end of yet another year.
Lord Shagariffic comments brought to you by the emotion drunk and the letters T, M and I. . .
You could always adopt a kid from Cambodia. Me and Redpac saw this way-cool Angelina Jolie movie about that sort of thing, and we both highly recommend it as a rental for everyone!
(I'm going to hell for that too, yes.)
Natalie, you may have a point there.