random reflections

[lapsedmodernist]

ohhhh, i am so tired and wired and braindead...
and i was going to write about the demonstration, but i can't even put together anything coherent, just random thoughts.
first of all, just as i logged onto AOL, why does the headline say "big brother standing guard"? keep in mind, this is a REASSURING headline, as in the gov't is protecting the people from terrorism. is anyone that ignorant that they would not understand what the reference signifies? or have we entered the world where orwellian=explicitly good? or is this some subversive shit? i think some subversive shit has been going on on TV today. CNN was doing all this pro-demo coverage, and they actually showed people getting arrestesd and beaten and riot police driving their horses into the crowd. and comedy central was running a marathon of "That's My Bush" which i don't think they have shown since 9-11. and SNL got better than it had been in the last few bush-lapdog months.
it's amazing how many people showed up today. of course, as usual the media downplays it, saying it was 100,000 or so, but BULLSHIT. it was at least half a million people. really creative people, at least some of the time. here are my awards for best/worst demo props:

best: valentine's day poster showing Bush making out with Blair, reading "Make Love Not War"
runner-ups: a poster I saw on TV covering the L.A. demo, saying "I See Dead People," and two that I saw here in NYC saying "How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Soil" and an impromptu synchronic made poster saying "I Survived 63rd and 2nd" where some people took down a police barricade.

worst: T-shirts donned by hippies near Times Square saying "My Bush Makes Love Not War"

anyway, i am exhausted and my foot hurts. somebody stepped on it with a big orange traffic cone while everyone was running away from the horses and then it got twisted. it makes more sense than it sounds like. then i got shooed off this fence i was standing on, and i think i strained it more when i jumped off. it was really chaotic, with the police creating chaos and then getting off on it. i think it was their revenge for being scared by the people, because at certain points they really seemed overwhelmed and scared by the demonstrators. and those horsies were really scared by the buses with the flashing lights. of course, the "new york boldest" riot police rode them into the crowd without any warning, blocking everyone off in such a way that people had no places to run and pretty much got squished against walls of the block, stomping all over each other to trickle out onto the next block through a narrow space between the barricades. oh yeah, and of course according to Fox news 50 people got arrested. yeah, right. i saw at least 30 people get arrested and manhandles into prison vans in one place. somehow i doubt it was localized to that block.

and why, why, why were Fox news headlines running on the Fox building not related to the protests or the inspectors, but instead informing people that a certain number of the British people listed Jedi as their religion on the census? and that the Jedi outnumbered the Jews and the Buddhists? what about Jews who are Jedis? do you mean to tell me that Luke Skywalker was not a Jew? i am so disappointed. he was all chosed and stuff.

and why does the cover of yesterday's New York Post have a headline about UN Weasels and above the caption has a DOCTORED PHOTO of UN reps, with actual WEASELS imposed over the French and German chairs?

there any many more questions, but i am exhausted, so i will stop this free-associative ranting for the moment.

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Rated R for irrational Regionalism

[nuncstans.livejournal.com]

These are important questions. First, you may recall that my sisters dressed up as the evangelical League of Jewish Jedis for Halloween, so you may want to question them about England. Although, as you may recall, I am an expert on England, based on almost entirely fictional and occasionally fictitious experience. So in my world, England is kind of like New Jersey. They're insecure, because they know they kind of suck. So weird cultural phenomena occur, like born again wiggaz appearing NOW in the East Village (who would have guessed?) and my mom's lawyer donating money to BLUESTOCKING in my sisters' and my name. That didn't have anything to do with New Jersey or England, but come on now WHAT THE FUCK?

I'm further putting myself out on a completely made-up limb, by insisting that hard core D&D, nerd fantasies involving saving the world, and internetiquette are weirder in England. Like, if you're some D&D person and you live in a country with real castles and an acknowledged imperial past (as opposed to ours...awwwwww, take that) then you probably have some FUCKED UP 8-year-old 8-mile delusions of future grandeur. God save us from the English Eminem, sure to be coming soon from a Swedish lab. Ay rowck it like dat/not like da spice/spice girls nice/but it ain't like dat/in may hood/wear a hood/pakistanis after me/da white boy in a po reality. Wehd.

Re: Rated R for irrational Regionalism

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

i've thought about it and thought about it and i am still not sure the whole D&D contingent is necessarily weirder in England. because in the US you have D&D discourse that is ahistorical in its ontogenesis and thus needs to overcompensate, big-time. in england D&D people are the logical historical result of having castles and shit. in the US, the people are "converts" to that aesthetic, and converts are almost always more zealous than those who come to -ologies by natural, organic means. cuz they have to establish their D&D cred. so, the nutcases that met and married in the virtual reality universe of Everquest, a.k.a. Evercrack (his avatar proposed to her avatar on a hilltop that was "their" spot in the game) were from, like, Omaha, or something. no castles there

Re: Rated R for irrational Regionalism

[nuncstans.livejournal.com]

I completely disagree. Like England D&D isn't ahistorical. I'm assuming there's D&D in England. Maybe I should clarify that I don't exactly know what D&D is. But whatever. The important thing is that it's a bunch of boys and a couple of girls fantasizing about castles and dragons, right? So it would be like saying that French westerns are ahistorical, and the French invented westerns. D&D is so obviously a total nerdfest having nothing to do with any version of history, even the whitest, weirdest, most aryan fantasy of history. OR, wait, I guess that's kind of what it is. I'm gonna stop talking about D&D now.