15.9.01
i have been talking with many about this, and am feeling more and more strongly about it each day: please, please do your part to stop the cycle of violence from continuing. write to your congressman, protest, or just plainold spread the word... but whatever your choice, do it now. we have to stop our idiot president and his cockandballs bullyontheplayground bullshit. regardless of who attacked us -- hell, it could even be an inside job -- it is sheer hyposcrisy to retaliate violently as we have innumerable times in the past. we are not Americans and this militant mentality is not patriotism. first and foremost we are citizens of the global community, and as citizens of this community must treat all peoples and lands as our own (Karma, baby). as huge a tragedy as Tuesday's events are, we had it coming. sometimes it takes a smack in the face to wake you up. we now know what many countries experience on a daily basis, often at the hands of the American government. violence breeds violence, and thus such actions will not show evryone how tough Amerika is, but only perpetuate a cycle that is sure to bring us all down in the end.
yoinked from angry red planet:
"~ after two days, we still have nothing to say.
the dandy little coxcombs who are saying 'the u.s. deserved this' are hardly addressing the fact that the comfort in which they live - that enables them to understand this situation so fully - is inseparable from the system that brought this retaliation.
the jingoist warhawks who call for unilateral destruction of various people who are remotely related to the likely perpetrators of this violence are not heeding the certainty of a future retribution and the uncertainty of the u.s. security structure - both defensive and offensive - to handle it.
the likelihood of an american epiphany, in which the cause of this terrorist effect is recognized and addressed, is slim; the damage and violence doubtlessly rules out much sympathy for the perpetrators' cause. it would not seem out of the question that would encourage more of this activity in the future, when other demands are wished to be met. thus, and this is the greatest fear at the angry red planet, it seems realistic that those at the helm of the u.s. military will take measures to not just retaliate or exact some quick vengeance - they must know what that will inspire - but will make every step to wipe away any technical or economic possibility for any persons or peoples to ever attempt some act similar to last tuesday's. will other nations step in the way of the u.s. before this level of destruction is reached, thereby raising the scale of warfare beyond imagination? or will they, with their own fears and memories of terrorism - stand by and allow the obliteration of a large part of the world to take place?
we at the angry red planet suppose that, upon a couple of days tired reflection, there is no course but to realize that this is not, as many have declared, the 'ending of our way of life' or anyone as much as it is a beginning of an wretched, inhuman way of life for everyone."
saidby !rebejah . : 01:26
12.9.01
wear a white ribbon. = solidarity against violence and discrimination towards those of certain ethnic backgrounds in lieu of yesterday's events. no one went around roughing up white christian males when Timothy McVeigh bombed Oklamhoma City.
and once again: nyc.indymedia.org
saidby !rebejah . : 15:22
11.9.01
thismorning i wake midstream, dreaming Nazi thugs. have pulled me into their large bla kish car: are shouting in german, roughly at me, clutching my clothing. my roommate is talking to me from across the room. she tells me that the WTC has just been blown up. i laugh. i am still dreaming i think.
wander down the hall to the ba'throom (pardon that loose and nebulous pun), fridgebuzz barrading my ears. evry TV in the hall must be on, every phone, every internetconnexion. lines are jammed and people crowd round smallish blinking cubes whilst illinformed and biased anchormen feed us proAmerican antiIslamic bullshit. i talk at munch with those around me about future ramifications: political, economic, societal over my salad cranbergejuice and raisintoast.
please, please go here in addition to places like CNN.com:
nyc.indymedia.org
there are some lovely links to the right of your moniter once you are there.
saidby !rebejah . : 17:49
9.9.01
random predator:
how pretty is your tawny coat,
how deadly is your sting.
(let's hope that isnt foreshadowing)
saidby !rebejah . : 16:25
8.9.01
coming up the hill thisafternoon from interviewing profs for me prospective classes, and i hear an electronic sort of bweeoop pulsing at regular intervals through the air and ricocheting off buildings and such. the beatbreaks just as i mount the crest of the hill, and before me is a tremendous setup blaring trance at brunchtime on the backlawn. how lovely: also i did this brilliant play lastnight in Ultimate Frisbee... it was so hot... this pitch the disc and then run and then snatch it out of the air reelquick bidness... getting pretty decent at UF myself i say i am, at least by SLC standards. and then i went to MansellHaus whereish we had some more brie, but with water crackers cos we were outof grapes and rollinpapers (ie Francielanden Bread).
...did i mention that i love it here?
saidby !rebejah . : 16:18
6.9.01
yesteryear some of us wandered into East Village. went by NYU but cudnt find my Lee Eve and then we came back, laughed as we gotso soscared hearing Add N to (x) simultaneously reading Edward Gorey (an advertisement).
If you can't eat you got to
smoke and we aint got
nothing to smoke:come on kid
let's go to sleep
if you can't smoke you got to
Sing and we aint got
nothing to sing; come on kid
let's go to sleep
if you can't sing you got to
die and we aint got
Nothing to die,come on kid
let's go to sleep
if you can't die you got to
dream and we aint got
nothing to dream(come on kid
Let's go to sleep)
tonight before dinner we had an appetiser we rolled a fatty see, this kids Zak and Kat rolled it: it was bagette and brie between and even some grapes in there and we passed it round and i roached it, but actually it made us less hungry bc it really was a sandwich. how sillie
i love it here
saidby !rebejah . : 21:26
2.9.01
how lovely to have me appetite back (and now i plan to lose it again tonight)! Id forgotten how hungry school can make a body. all i do is hang out in the dining hall an eat. freshman 15, man. !sud electric is now coming at you straight from NY (thus The Little Apple is cominatcha from The Big Apple). oof. Im going to eat icecream now on the lawn.
saidby !rebejah . : 20:58
29.8.01
oof. eyes feel awful:
leaden pits in the centres
and coated wit cornsyrup.
drift all you want fromocean to ocean.search the whole world. but drunken confessions and hijacked affairs will just make yumore Alone. if you come home Ill bake you a cake made of velvet eyes of all their yeyesi wish you coould seeme dressd for the Kill.what a nastySUPRISE
unplug thephone.
stop all the taps.
itall comes flooding back
um
i really want to fix this place up. walls are looking shabby. maybe look for changes very soon, changes like what are in my life right now. OK? eating a snadwich that tastes like nicotine, eating a nikoteen sandwich and a canteloupe with a face like the pumpk n k ng just for five minutes please and feeling more Alone. yor ready for it. plees i have thinking she will be just anotherone, just another pretty face but i must hav her thinking freshmeat, i want to make you these plasticoffins are luciteboxes in which are my collegia things. they are not coggins, whichare likesprockets onlyfriendlier (all kinds of -mnkey). they drive with me up to college.
wee hee hee cant catch me
we're going on a bear hunt.
(or rather i wish this but am already ensnared)
saidby !rebejah . : 14:17
28.8.01
"my, those wacks certainly are handy!"
"that;s why they call them 'handywacks'"
"how many wacks does it take to get to thee centre of a wack?"
"how many salmoncolour ba'thtowels does it take to get to the centre of the billy ocean?"
"how many honeycombs does it take to get to thee centre ofthe handywack?"
when we woke up thisafternoon Terry and i honeycombed the floor with ridiculous croquet. "shut the door and honeycomb on the floor, wake up hav biscuits an gravy"
saidby !rebejah . : 14:40
27.8.01
evrybody needs a bosom for a pillow
mine's on the fortyfive
77 000-piece orchestraset
evrybody needs a bosom for a pillow
mine’s on the RPM
i played apothecary thismorning, funneling salt into innumerable glass jars.
saidby !rebejah . : 16:55
19.8.01
have begun reading Harry P tter book and like very much British humour. novel inwhich owl is called Hedwig; last night seeing Hedwig and the Angry Inch with The Taylor and The Davey recommendin bc is funnyashell and a bit philos here and there as well poignant. and then seeing Trans (also a good one, like if i were to make a filmish) (click on that link i left a comment)
Baduism, song#8. not #10.
saidby !rebejah . : 11:51
and now song#6. sigh (of relief)
saidby !rebejah . : 23:01
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