We wish we were in Puerto Del Sol right now, drinking beer with our friends, singing revolutionary songs, beating up fascists, and stealing their would-be-converts out from under them...
Spain is just so great and REVOLUTIONARY SPAIN, as I can only imagine, would be even better.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sorry for not posting a lot this weekend
I was really bummed about the Macho Man and I rewatched a ton of old matches and learned all about Elizabeth being beaten to death by Lex Luger and watched interviews with him and was generally bummed about really Randy Savage and Elizabeth.
It was fun watching old matches, but man how fucked up. I really wanted to find for you this interview with Bret Hart by Terry Gross about his book. I haven't read it but Bret Hart is super smart and interesting and if you ever get to hear that interview I highly recommend listening to it!
It was fun watching old matches, but man how fucked up. I really wanted to find for you this interview with Bret Hart by Terry Gross about his book. I haven't read it but Bret Hart is super smart and interesting and if you ever get to hear that interview I highly recommend listening to it!
Guide to Sabra Hummus For Hipsters
So yesterday they were giving out this Israeli hummus that we are all supposed to be boycotting.
I said to the person I was walking with (PIWWW), "I think we're supposed to be boycotting this."
PIWWW: 'yeah but its free.'
True. It was free. I took it too. But then I realized that as the arbiters of culture and cool we couldn't let the other people see us with the hummus. We hid it.
Later... PIWWW happily eating the hummus.
Me: dude put that away. We are the coolest people here. Everyone's going to think its ok to eat that hummus.
PIWWW doesn't ask for an explanation, doesn't say, 'why would all these yuppies think we are cool?'
PIWW carefully puts the hummus carefully away.
I said to the person I was walking with (PIWWW), "I think we're supposed to be boycotting this."
PIWWW: 'yeah but its free.'
True. It was free. I took it too. But then I realized that as the arbiters of culture and cool we couldn't let the other people see us with the hummus. We hid it.
Later... PIWWW happily eating the hummus.
Me: dude put that away. We are the coolest people here. Everyone's going to think its ok to eat that hummus.
PIWWW doesn't ask for an explanation, doesn't say, 'why would all these yuppies think we are cool?'
PIWW carefully puts the hummus carefully away.
On Justice Scalia
Careful readers of TrendingVampire will know that Scalia is obviously not a vampire.
This is obvious for several reasons. In covens, putting Vampires 'to ground' is reserved for very serious offenses, done carefully, thoughtfully and well seriously. We humans clearly don't do that with our criminal underclass. Its probably because when we put people to jail we use them as slaves, but when vampires are put to ground, or left floating in the bottom of the ocean, they aren't used to advantage their captors.
Scalia's dissent in Brown-v-Plata reads like a bad queer romance novel, where the justice dispensed by a glistening, ripped former
inmate, requires the Supreme Court Justice be chained in the basement waiting to take his punishment.
A new vampire (or Dexter) would obviously welcome this new segment of the non-innocent population, and all regular (100+ year old vampires) would probably be like 'What the fuck! Humans are 'mortal'. It's pretty fucking sick to leave them in jail for their entire lives!'
This is obvious for several reasons. In covens, putting Vampires 'to ground' is reserved for very serious offenses, done carefully, thoughtfully and well seriously. We humans clearly don't do that with our criminal underclass. Its probably because when we put people to jail we use them as slaves, but when vampires are put to ground, or left floating in the bottom of the ocean, they aren't used to advantage their captors.
Scalia's dissent in Brown-v-Plata reads like a bad queer romance novel, where the justice dispensed by a glistening, ripped former
inmate, requires the Supreme Court Justice be chained in the basement waiting to take his punishment.
A new vampire (or Dexter) would obviously welcome this new segment of the non-innocent population, and all regular (100+ year old vampires) would probably be like 'What the fuck! Humans are 'mortal'. It's pretty fucking sick to leave them in jail for their entire lives!'
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
From the mailbag
Sasha writes:
I wish I'd been clearer in that post, Sasha. I do apologize. Vampires, having been 'othered' for centuries, really understand intersectionality. They 'get it'. They kill, but they do understand oppression. They have a keen read on misogyny, (and racism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, etc.) and they really don't care about menstrual blood. Like it's just not a big deal to them. They like blood, and they like their victims, so they don't care what stage their victims are in their menstrual cycles. They aren't like worried about what you look like either. They care about the person inside you.
It's often been hundreds of years of hunting human prey, so they've had time to think about the differences and similarities in all of us. I really think that it's not that they are anti-misogynistic, they've just lost a lot of their judeo christian hangups. You know? They're not like some 18 year old boy who is experiencing this for the first time. By now, they've learned that it doesn't behove them to be racist. Why would it? Why be like that? They also have had time to think about how racism, sexism, etc. affect all fo us, how it manifests in each of their victims. They've worked through, unpacked, broken down a lot of their shit.
This post was really helpful.
Are vampires anti-misogynistic, or do they just like the blood?
Thanks.
I wish I'd been clearer in that post, Sasha. I do apologize. Vampires, having been 'othered' for centuries, really understand intersectionality. They 'get it'. They kill, but they do understand oppression. They have a keen read on misogyny, (and racism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, etc.) and they really don't care about menstrual blood. Like it's just not a big deal to them. They like blood, and they like their victims, so they don't care what stage their victims are in their menstrual cycles. They aren't like worried about what you look like either. They care about the person inside you.
It's often been hundreds of years of hunting human prey, so they've had time to think about the differences and similarities in all of us. I really think that it's not that they are anti-misogynistic, they've just lost a lot of their judeo christian hangups. You know? They're not like some 18 year old boy who is experiencing this for the first time. By now, they've learned that it doesn't behove them to be racist. Why would it? Why be like that? They also have had time to think about how racism, sexism, etc. affect all fo us, how it manifests in each of their victims. They've worked through, unpacked, broken down a lot of their shit.
on hipsters and anarchists, again.
So I was thinking some more about this and the thing is:
Do you remember when chumbawumba released that ridiculous song 'tubthumping'? Of course you do! So I was watching the View one morning, its the show with a bunch of ladies sitting around talking about Tom Cruise, and Chumbawumba was performing on the view and they sang that song, except instead of the chorus they said, 'Free Mumia Abu Jamaal'. See Chumbawumba was trying to inflitrate hipsters! That's what they were trying to do. It failed miserably. It was so totally pathetic. Watch Timebomb! It's so great
So anyway - what they did was they tried to make themselves even more palatable and hip. They stopped being crazy, or wild or live vital anarchists, in order to bring Anarchism to the View. Someone asked them what anarchism was on the show and they politely explained it, but at that moment they ceased to be relevant because they ceased to be anarchist. You can like allow the legions to love you, but once you cross some line of dumbing yourself down to gain acceptance their scorn will burn.
I walk a lot of lines. Often unsuccessfully, but I know that everybody smells an unpracticed impostor a mile away. Hipsters crave our legitimacy and our secrets. They don't crave a bunch of has-beens trying to rekindle a lost childhood in their playground. In order to make revolution palatable it needs to be glamorous and sexy. Cool kids know the difference. They smell your weakness and your posturing. They don't like it.
Maybe you don't care and you are tired and you want to rest with your louis vuitton shades you claim to have dumpstered. That's cool. Lots of anarchists go to die among the hipsters. It's easy there. It's so fucking easy to be a hipster having navigated our terrain. It's easy but it's boring; if that's where life's brought you I understand. Just man up and own it dude.
Do you remember when chumbawumba released that ridiculous song 'tubthumping'? Of course you do! So I was watching the View one morning, its the show with a bunch of ladies sitting around talking about Tom Cruise, and Chumbawumba was performing on the view and they sang that song, except instead of the chorus they said, 'Free Mumia Abu Jamaal'. See Chumbawumba was trying to inflitrate hipsters! That's what they were trying to do. It failed miserably. It was so totally pathetic. Watch Timebomb! It's so great
So anyway - what they did was they tried to make themselves even more palatable and hip. They stopped being crazy, or wild or live vital anarchists, in order to bring Anarchism to the View. Someone asked them what anarchism was on the show and they politely explained it, but at that moment they ceased to be relevant because they ceased to be anarchist. You can like allow the legions to love you, but once you cross some line of dumbing yourself down to gain acceptance their scorn will burn.
I walk a lot of lines. Often unsuccessfully, but I know that everybody smells an unpracticed impostor a mile away. Hipsters crave our legitimacy and our secrets. They don't crave a bunch of has-beens trying to rekindle a lost childhood in their playground. In order to make revolution palatable it needs to be glamorous and sexy. Cool kids know the difference. They smell your weakness and your posturing. They don't like it.
Maybe you don't care and you are tired and you want to rest with your louis vuitton shades you claim to have dumpstered. That's cool. Lots of anarchists go to die among the hipsters. It's easy there. It's so fucking easy to be a hipster having navigated our terrain. It's easy but it's boring; if that's where life's brought you I understand. Just man up and own it dude.
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