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The EW'I!It'green 8tateColtege
Olympia, w.tungron .98506
KERRY NOT DOVE, PAGE
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Myth
I've taken a look
Because I cared
Too
I wood n't care if you'd
Take a look
too
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There s a black myth
And there s a white myth
There s a myth about you and me
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. Truth be told
Myth be bold
Deep as ocean
swash
bucklin~
piracy
ot reeality by tees
I am like a book
Two continents of conscience
... tradition, reendition, contradiction
I am filled with pages
and little birds of posteerity
And pages yet to be lived
Conscious of self
Himself
I am one binding away
... foundation, fornication, reetribution
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Herself
From falling apart,
and all the inneer beeauty of May, June,
Is but a blur
July and Au~ust
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a part
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.. . contrafusion, cO r1 plicateed, controveerteed
well it's a start
Brutal truth
Suffering you
I am one cover too many
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au~ust skin and the ~eeneeral lack of inhibition
Suffered me
I am filed away on a bookshelf
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We all seefor
Yet discovered
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hangs from a tree
Dust off the dust ...
f or m al
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Sahara sandy dusting sand-impressions of
printed in the press
tradition
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Rowers, bugs and hair
feemalee to malee
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and
locks gently placed between my pages.
onee
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It's the quiet rage and then she placed burnt
voiced in song
teear
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sage
wails in siren
teearin~ away at
at page 100, Chapter 4 ...
is worthy of study
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How about you?
What tree speaks for you?
What tree are you shaved from?
What draws your sap?
Which rings speaks for you?
fear
cheer
I've taken a look
Because I cared
Too
I wood n't care if you wood
Take a look
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feearin~
cheerin~
on and on wee
In the dark
dogs bark,
bark, bark, bark, bark
what crawls up your bark
What's the most fashionable bark
Out there, isn't forest fashion all green and
leafy
like really sexy sex and tall. .. very productive
High up in the canopy
I see my way
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is a deeper truth
in myth
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Me and you
a myth as a race
is a race
is all about race
As mystical as a myth
That black and white
Can t begin to understand
One another
Truth is bold
Should be told
I see in every man a part of me
My fear
My homelessness
My stupidity
My ignorance
My suffering conscience
My fallibility
My fall-everyday
Is recovered
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Race is realized ...
Isn t hesitated
Isn t fabricated
But is created ...
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v 0 I .u m e 32 • iss u e 2 7 • may 20, 2 0 04
Vp~luli
by
Andrew James and Corey Young
What is your oph'1iot1 of
Affirmative Actio"?
''I'm in favor of Affi r-
mati ve Action being
in the picture , but it
is only one step within
the framework of eradi- .
eati ng inequality."
Scan Maung
JIII/ior
II/dep endent COl/tract: Th e Phallic
Stroke of Christ
Margaret Cho, who performed last Thursday night a/ Evergreen 's College Recreation Center before a sold-out crowd.
Margaret Cho gives funny, heartfelt
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Black and white
Is as beautiful as black and white
Is as noble as the love of God in Christ Jesus
Where there is neither black nor white
But all are one in him ...
of student
work
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"Affirmative Actioncan
be use ful for empowerment; however, it being
quite legislative and top
down , it is important
for ordinary people to
use more grassr,oots
approaches in resolvin g iss ues involving
race and segregation.
Sara Lankutis,
Freshman
Kaori Suzuki,
Sophomore
Independent
contracts
"The vas t inequality
in society as a whole
means it 's absolutely
necessary."
John Haltiwanger
Sophomore
A uthor! Author!
TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Service Requested
performance at Evergreen
by Connor Moran
Given the f(lc US here at Evergreen on
political awareness where art is concerned,
it is interesting to watch the various styles
of political art that show up on campus.
A particularly fascinating example came
in the form of Margaret Cho 's stand-up
comedy perfonned last Thursday in the
CRC, put on by S&A. Certainly there was
an explicitly political aspect to the show,
both in Cho's routine and in the opening
act perfonned by Bruce Daniels. Daniels,
an African-American homosexual, spent
his opening mocking the media for its
sexism, chiding the Bush administration,
and discussing racism in the homosexua l
community. Cho's perfonnance began on
very topical issues. The result was emotionally charged but showed a di stinct
lack of polish. Neverthe less, Cho drew
cheers and applause fro m her heartfelt
discussion of the disturbing lack of love
in the world.
Cho then settled in and focused on
more traditional subjects: gay porn, dildos,
a gay cruise, and Bjork. Here, the marks
of greater preparation were clear and the
show got decidedly funnier. But the political undertones of the show did not fade.
Even when joking about her tendency to
end up on worst-dressed lists ("When you
can beat Parliament in a worst-dressed
contest, then you've got something"),
Cho was attacking a certain restrictive
structure. She turns her nonconformity
to a certain ideal from a negative into
a mantle of pride. In the question-andanswer period, she even joked abo ut how
she accen tuates her came l toe.
I cannot help but think that the most
effective political statements made by
people like Margaret Cho and Bruce
Daniels are not explicit ones but these
kinds of un spoken assumptions they
propagate. They don ' t need to mention
homophobia, for example, in order to
undermine it. Their frank , unapologetic
discussions of gay themes make it difficult
to think that homosex uality is anything but
a nonnal part of life.
Beyond that, both Cho and Daniels
consciously make a statement s imply
by being who rhey are. Cho, an AsianAmerican who is neither an expert in
kung-fu nor a math-obsessed nerd , and
Daniels, who is (gasp) both gay a nd
African-American, both defy stereotypes.
As Daniels said in response to a question
regarding the media white-washing of gay
culture, "According to the media, [ don 't
exist. " By their ab ility to claw their way
into the public consciousness and refusal
to fit into pat stereotypes, Cho and Daniels
force people to recognize that human
diversity is infinitely complicated. It does
not fit into boxes.
Evidence that this kind of covert
political stateme nt can have an impac t
came .in the question-and-answer period.
Audience .members gushed about th eir
experiences. One person went as far as to
say, "You've made growing up a gay man
much eas ier."
If you want change the world with
art, you ' d do well to take note of Margaret
Cho.
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Intercity Transit
Seeks Citizens for
Advisory Panel
Give ·Me Your Blood or
the Bunny Gets It!
Puget Sound Blood Center will be
on campus today (Thursday, May 20) from
to a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2: 15 p.m. to 4 p.m.
in the Library Lobby, second floor.
For more information , contact Kathy
Dean at 867.6804:
Celldom Heard: A
Day-long Benefit to
Break Out the Words
of Incarcerated Youth
Come one, come all' Wednesday, May
26, from noon to II p.m. at Red Square and
in the Lecture Halls. Join us for a day filled
with discussions , spoken word, hip-hop,
and information!
This event is being held to generate
attention to the societal ills surrounding
the prison industrial complex (focusing on
youth facilities) while also fundraising to
initiate the creation of a poetry anthology
by local youth incarcerated at Green Hill
and Maple Lane.
The first half will include organization s s uch as Gateways for Incarcerated Youth, Books to Prisoners, Media
Island, S.S.O. Press, Last Word Books,
the Evergreen I nfoshoppe, Crimethinc,
the Prison Action Committee, the Evergreen Political InfQrmation Center
(EPIC), Freechild, Free Radio Olympia, Building Revolution by Increasing
Community Knowledge (BRICK), and
Spacegnome Records. Richard Gold
will lead a presentation about Pongo
Publishing, and ihe infamous film Corrections will be shown.
The evening portion will begin with
an open mic focused on prison-themed
poetry. Local poet Kendra will perform
for the first time in over a year, followed
by a performance by spoken word artist
Piece. Jorah LaFlucr, Saints of Everyday Failures and Resident Anti-Hero
will close the night with a hip-hop show.
Please join us to spread knowledge,
share art and support the unheard voices
of incarcerated youth!
Final Sustainability
Lecture: Financing
Sustainability
The Sustain ability Lecture Series
concludes on Tuesday, May 24 from 7-8:
30 p.m . in
Sem II Bl105 with Nancy McKay's
"NGO/Financing Sustainability'.' McKay
manages design, implementation and evaluation of the environmental sustainability
program for the Russell Family Foundation. The former Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team Chair, McKay has 30 years'
experience working with issues regarding
water quality, land use, energy conservation , mental health , and education.
Upward Bound
Accepting Summer
Applications
Upward Bound- Evergreen'seducational enrichment program that promotes
achievement in post-secondary education
among low-income, first-to-college high
school students- is now accepting
applications for summer employmcnt.
Positions include drama production ,
bridge advisor, tutors/counselors, residence hall managers, resident counselor!
instructor, crew s upervisor /v ide o
production, instructional staff, dorm
office manager/night security, and crew
supervisor/photo journalism.
The program serves seve n high
schools, in Tacoma , Puyallup and
Lacey.
There is no application deadline,
though students will be selected on a
fi rst come, fi rst served basis.
For more information , contact Program Assistant Juana Vaughan in Library
1605.
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Populi question, what the cover photo
should be, and what should be in the
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Intercity Transit is seeking citi- All Islands
zens for its advisory panel, the CitiConference
zens Work Group. The Group provides
May 25· to June 4
broad-based community input on public
transportation in Thurston County as
Featuring a variety of presentations
well as advises Intercity Transit's governfrom study abroad , including short
ing board on a variety of policy issues.
films. visual exhibitions, music, poetry,
In addition, the 19-member panel
and research papers from the program
represents a wide range of community
Islands.
and business interests. Over the years,
.. . Schedule is available online at hflP.
this Group has been comprised of
Ilmediaspace.evergreen.edulislands/ or
both transit supportcrs and critics,
pick up a hard copy in Com 301.
including senior citizens, persons with
disabilities , students, business owners,
and representatives of social serv ice
agencies, medical community and
neighborhood associations .
The Intercity Transit Authority
recognizes the value of ongoing citizen
Be a Super Saturday
input. "The availability of focused and
Volunteer!
informed input from citizens within the
communities we serve is useful to the
Super Saturday (June 12) is the
issues we must address," Authority Chair
largcst one-day festival in the state,
Graeme Sackrison stated.
Evergreen's gift to surroundin g commuCurrently, the Group meets monthly
nities.1t draws between 13,000 and 30,000
from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on the third Monday
guests, more than any campus event. The
of the month .
Super Saturday Committee is busy develCitizen Work Group members must
oping and promoting a wonderful array of
reside within Thurston County. Appliactivities. As Super Saturday is the only
cations are available by calling 705time many come to campus. we want those
5856, or picking one up at the Transit
who visit to have fun while experiencing
business officc - Iocated downtown
our hospitality and good cheer.
at 526 Pattison SE- or online at http :
Volunteers make it possibl e for LI S
/Iwww.intercitytransit.coml. The applito have Super Saturday and serve valucation deadline is May 27.
able roles as Eve rgree n amba ssadors.
New members will be appointed
They also send a message of support and
at the July 7 authority mceting. All
appreciation to their campus colleagues
applicants will receive acknowledgewho have worked so hard to put on the
ment and notification of his or her status
event. We nccdyollr hclp to dircct trafin the selection process.
fic, assist vendors, greet visitors, scrvc
For more information, contact Rhoas runners, hand out balloons and
delta Seward at 705.5856.
cmcec events. Many of volunteer slots
require two hours or less of your time.
And ifs fun!
To volunteer, please contact a volHelp Bridge the Gap
unteer coordinator (Phyllis Lane at
Between Athletics
8676034 or Steve Hunter at 867631U)
and Students
Either of these brilliant schedulers will
accommodate YO llr interests and tim!'
constraints. [look forward to seeing you
Discussion/Information Meeting
Monday, May 24, CAB 110, 2 at Super Saturday.
p.m.
-Art Costantino
This is for everyone! We will discuss
2004 Super Saturday Committee
what we want to do about this. Will we
create a Geoduck Student Booster Club? Chair
Who knows? It is up to all of those who
show.
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Olympic Cards and Comics'
Bank Bag was Boosted
by Talia M Wilson
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even reached thirty, and the store, her baby,
is turning 11 this year, meaning she started
the business at the same age that I stressed
over college entrances and finishing out high
school. She's a real go-getter.
Talking about the theft, she expressed
in true Gabby fashion that she's glad it was
just the bank bag and some small things, " no
one was hurt .. . if it were someone hurt 1
would have done anything to trade the bank
bag for that person's well-being." Even so,
losing that money (which she didn't want to
measure for me in dollars as it was, well, a
bummer) does ding the business. It wasn't
enough to bring Olympic Cards and Comics
down , she said, but enough that they'll have
to tighten up for a bit to make sure things
are okay.
Knowing this economy, it's pretty tough
out there, but if you've got some spare
change or an impetus to directly affect
change in the community, send it Gabby's
way. Olympic Cards and Comics is a safe
hang out for kids who maybe aren 't into skate
boarding or loitering downtown after hours,
a great service for the Olympia and Lacey
area's young people. And I bet if everyone
put in a little, the bank bag could be replaced.
If you've never been to OCC, hop a 62 , it's
right across Pacific from Fred Meyers down
a ways from Sleater-Kinney. Even if you're
not a gamer and you're sick of The Lord of
the Rings, there's a Sock Monkey comic and
or a Garbage Pail Kid calling your name.
by Brian Flewell
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Today, I present to you an
Astronomer's Astrology. I have properly adjusted all constellations and
starting points to today 's skies because
the sky of2000 years ago is out of date
due to the procession of Earth's celestial
poles . Because Earth's axis is tilted 23
degrees, Eal1h slowly rotates like a top
spinning down, causing the stars above
to slowly change position over 20,000
years. In Greek times, and according
to Astrology, Spring starts in Aries, the
Ram ; today it begins in Pisces. where I
start my horoscopes.
Pisces (March II - April 17) :
Hidden in the twilight, Pisces waits to
: jump again come late summer and fall.
\- Take this time to enjoy the other shows
provided by the nighttime sky, and let
t your imagination !low like the river
l Pisces swims in .
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Olympic Cards and Comics
4129 Pacific Ave SE
Lacey, 98503
Asian Pacific American Community Summit
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• Free admission
• Meet the canidates for governor
• Culture performances
• Civic engagement workshops
Celebrating Unity and Civic Involvement
Saturday
May 29,2004
. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tacoma Dome Arena
For more info, please call Lin Crowley at 360-888-6243 or Brian Lock at 360-480-1035 -ore-mail: Lin at lincrowley@comcast.net -or- brian at brianloc@msn.com -or- visit www.apasummit.org
may 20, 2004
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Astronomical·Astrology
by Danjeanette Daubert
Checking out the new Emma Frost comic
and looking for the latest Spectrum art book
took me to Olympic Cards and Comics off
Pacific Avenue yesterday. While paying with
a check, I found that I was missing my license
(in my other pants!). Luckily I'm there often
enough that it wasn't a huge problem. But,
through this little mishap, I got the skinny on
a bigger one. Last week Olympic Cards and
Comics was burglarized, losing a bank bag
full of drop money and the owner 's pertinent
information out of the owner 's car, leading
to further loss, as identity theft has become
a problem.
I've been acquainted with Gabby, the
first owner, personally for several years
now, having learned of her and her business when it was crammed into an office
space in the same strip mall as the eastside
Hollywood Video through my partner who's
into Warhamm er 40,000 and role-playing
games (don 't knock it till you've tried it).
While I hung out admiring the paint jobs on
the various models and the Xena: Warrior
Princess action figures, Gabby introduced
herself. Since then Gabby always says "Hi"
at the very least, sometimes amid multi-tasking. When I pop in, she'll wave emphatically
and shout it out. Sometimes, while I look
through the art prints, models, and Monty
Python action figures (and now of course
root out Emma Frost comics), we'll chat.
Gabby's nothing if not congenial and open
to chatting.
What I know about Gabby, after a few
years of chatting like this, is that she is a
self-starter who began the business to create
a community space for young adults, kids
and adults who are young at heart. She hasn't
Music! Music! M ;usic!
Pari 12.1: God Sava Rock-D-Rolli
the cooper point journal
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and follow the curve of the handle out
and around the sky to the bright red star
Arcturus; from there continue on the "
curve to find YOUR brightest star.
Libra (October 31 - November 22):
It is a time of change in the heavens.
Winter 's stars are setting and Summer's
are rising. Although once associated
with Scorpius, Libra was cut off from
Scorpius by the Romans. Consider
cutting yourself off from someone
to go out late tonight and look at the
stars. Or better yet, find someone to
drag along with you! There is nothing
better than looking at the stars with
some company.
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Scorpius (November 23 - November
28): The burning heart of the Scorpion .'
was used once to kill Orion , the Hunter.
Today the burning heart of the Scorpion,
Antaries, is easy to find as a late-night }
treat. Stay up late one night and watch
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Aries (April 18 - May 13): This
" thin constellation is completely veiled your burning heart COllle out above the ..
~ by the early twilight right now. Waiting . trees and be reborn anew for the new
~ patiently as the sun moves away from
year's chase of Orion.
him , waiting to again reclaim his place
, in the nighttime sky. Patience is a vil1ue
Ophiucus
(November
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that you should practice whenever you - December 17): The Serpent Bearer ,
~ are stargazing.
and the healer of the sick. Using the
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venom ofSerpins Caput (The Serpent's
Taurus (May 14 - ./une 20): As the Head), Ophiucus heals those who have :t
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sun transits across your sign, one of been struck ill by Nemesis, the goddess
\ the rarest events in human history will of retribution . Help someone out this
? take place. On June 8, Venus will transit week and show ttem the nighttime sky . .
across the face of the sun. This will be Ophiucus is a faint constellation, but j
, a time of great joy. Except for us on the by finding Scorpius first and traveling 1.
, West Coast, because the sun rises after east from there, you may be able to pick ",l, the event has ended.
out the faint stars that hold the mighty l
serpent.
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Gemini (June 21 - July 19): Both
; Mars and Saturn are in your sign, which
Sagittarius (December 18 - January >
? means that they~~ppen to appear close
18) : The Archer that patrols the center f:
together in our two-dimensional celes- of the Milky Way. The distinct teapot .;
, tial sphere. In reality, Mars is 215 mil- shape of Sagittarius hides the deadly
lion miles away, while Saturn is 915 center of our galaxy. Behind the "spout" ,
million miles! This is a time of even orthe teapot lies the monster center of
greater joy for you, since on the May 24, the Milky Way. The distinct shape of ~
~ Mars and Saturn will appear only one
our galaxy is awe-inspiring if you •
degree apart, a beautiful sight for those are an insomniac at this time of year.
lucky enough to have binoculars.
Sagittarius won't rise until 2 a.m ., so
rise with it or wait for a few more
Cancer (July 20 - August 9): A time months to pass.
of great change has been happening in
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your sign. Not because you've come
Capricorn us (January 19 - February
into some money or lost your girlfriend, 15): You are all but invisible this month. ·
. but because the best comet of 2004 to Hiding in the early morning twilight, ,
be seen from Olympia, Comet C/2001
waiting for your chance to rise. Perhaps
. Q4 (NEAT) has just finished passing among the most important constclla- ~
through your sign . It's still visible to tions, the farthest reach of the sun to
the naked eye, so keep looking out for the south and the entrance to Hades,
continued changes!
the underworld . The end of the year,
the end of life, the beginning ofa new
Leo (August 10 - September 15): adventure.
~ Jupiter resides in your house until
August. But right now is the best time
Aquarius (February 16 - March
C to take a look at this Zodiacal interloper. 10): Aquari us is an honored man whom
While beautiful to the naked eye, con- Zeus placed in the sky for his service
stant changes will continue to happen! as Water Bearer to the Gods on Mount
Jupiter four brightest moons, 10, Europa, Olympus. Zeus fell in love with the
Callisto. and Ganymede, will night by young prince Ganymede and swept him
night swing around Jupiter, making for away, disguised as a swan (Cygnus).
> a fascinating cosmic dance .
Aquarius resides low in the sky, close
to Capricorn us. While Aquarius is dim
Virgo (September 16 - October 30): in the morning twilight, Cygnus, the
The brightest star of your sign, Spica, is Swan or Northern Cross, can be seen
. high in our night time sky. Take some flying high in the late night sky through
time to relax and follow to old adage the Milky Way.
"Arc to Arcturus and speed on to Spica."
, Start with the Big Dipper high overhead
As always, Happy Viewing!
Rock is dead.
groups emerged from the 1960s al ive, we II
There, I said it.
and still performing?
Not that it was some big secret or gov8. Cool Edit Pro-Sound editing is
ernment conspiracy, but face it, the glory not the easiest thing in the world, nor is it
days of rock have ceased, and as Philip my favorite, but, man, this program absoSeymour Hoffman's Lester Bangs said lutely rocks. (Peak is the Mac equivalent
in Almost Famous (and I' m paraphrasing and works pretty much the same.) After
here): "What now passes for rock-n-roll , transferring old VHS movies to my PC, I
silence is more compelling .. " The war is can go in and warp the vocals, move them
over; they won." And that was 1973 rock around, overdub, etc. Talk about power!
criticism. Imagine if Lester Bangs were
7. D.A. Pennebaker 's rockumenaround today. (O h, Lordy!)
taries- Don i Look Back . Monterey Pop .
And rock is not necessari Iy to blame Ziggy Stardust and the Spidersfrom Mars.
for its own demise. Its remaining shredded Musical genius meets filmmaking genius.
remnants are channeled into sub-genres, Pure fun in every form of the word.
6. Bookends- I love this album. I'd
filtered through branches of commercialism (or completely ignored). and recycled always liked Simon & Garfunkel, but when
across ge nerations , covered countless I finally heard this from start to fini sh, it
times that original so ng versions soo n just blew my mind . My mom still swears
become as rare and antique as the equip- that Almost Famous provoked my liking
ment they were recorded on.
of the album , but it was just hanging out
But rock 's journey underground hasn ' t with Renata in the CPJ office and li stening
been entirely painful. Thanks to so me to Simon & Garfunkel a lot.
singers'/band s' longevity, it has managed
5. Concerts- Adrenaline. Just one long,
a healthy afterlife. David Bowie, Ozzy sustained wave- that's the only way I can
Osbourne, and Aerosmith- and othersdesc ribe how a rock concert feels, at least
often tour with younger groups and singers a good one. My dad says anyone is better
live (except Britney Spears, I always
and continue to reign in pop culture.
As the music industry (hopefully!) argue). And the loot you feel you can't live
continues its shift away from the likes of without: t-shirts, key chains, programs,
Britney Spears and fake boy bands, rock those funky glow thingies. Someone once
will find itsel fat another crossroa~ where mortified Renata by telling her that spendit will either spend eternity repenting in ing $75 on a concert t-shirt was worse than
purgatory or find renewed life with the what's going on in Iraq . Obviously, that
individual just does'n't get it!
younger scene.
Rock will only survive and fully live
4. Subwoofers- Man, those things
again upon the continued discovery of are (in a deep James Earl Jones voice)
singers and bands who again make it sweeeeet' And my poor little Pentium has
e xc iting, constantly push the envelope never sounded better.
3. My dad's 45 collection-Growing up,
and especially aren't cookie-cutter copies
of everybody else. In the last 15 years, I used to think radio stations were screwed
several bands have reinvented the rock up because they never played familiar
spectrum and inspired others to do the music, stuff my dad always played. He 'd
same, including Nirvana, Counting Crows, had a stereo that recorded onto 8-track
Live, Hole, Sublime, Foo Fighters, Oasis, cassettes (once a hot-ticket item) and
Blind Melon, Queens of the Stone Age, recorded this oldies tape of favorite 45s,
The White Stripes, and Evanescence.
which was played constantly. Well, being
So, until a big push of musicians . the naive weirdo that I am, it took about 10
moves the industry out of its rut- and years before I realized how old those songs
gives the RIAA something to do besides actually were and, though once popular in
sue people- rock remains officially dead, the Northwest, many wer.en't Top 40 hits,
on life support and waiting to be revived. so not many oldies stations played them .
And despite the continual tours by aging Even now, some are still hard to find,
classic rock artists, the only cure is finding even in independent stores. But that one
more fresh talent, since most of what we're tape- with artists ranging from Phil Ochs
stuck with just ain't cutting it.
to Fever Tree to The Mermaids to Blue
The Sex Pistols said, "God Save the Cheer-is still a legend in our household;
in fact, Sis and I still bear our worn-out
Queen." I say, "God Save Rock-n-RolI."
copies with pride.
2. The Beatles-What can possibly say
PART 12.2: My Top TEN MUSIC BLAHabout
them that hasn't already been said?
BLAH-BLAH
They're here basically because of their
10. & 9. Big Brother and the Holding simplicity; their lyrics are typically simple
Company/Janis Joplin- OK, so by now and easy to sing along with : "Golden slumit's nooo secret that I like Janis and her bers fill your eyes/smiles awake you when
music. However, the fact that two biopics you rise/s leep pretty darling do not cry/and
are now on the film horizon is leaving me I will sing a lullaby-ee."
I. The Olivia Tape (circa 1983}-Likely
troubled . Sure, one's Hollywood and the
other's an indie, but we'll never know till the most played VHS tape in the history of
they come out just what the filmmakers our household and still works, thanks to a
focus on: the music, the drugs, her sexual- $700 RCA VCR, which lasted almost 17
ity, her familial woes. Am I curious? Yes. years before it choked while taping Dark
Anxious to see either one? Not really, Shadows. This tape- including an Olivia
when I can watch Janis, Nine Hundred Newton-John concert, Michael Jackson 's
Nights and Ball and Chain anytime and Thriller , MTV videos that included
see how she really was. Besides, stuffwill Lennon and McCartney, and The Mupp et
be skewed and/or left out, which brings me Show- was more thanjust a random , colto Big Brother, who will likely be known lective montage; it defined my childhood,
as the band that once backed Janis . Get and I' ll carry it with me till another RCA
a life, Hollywood! Aside from a hiatus eats it. (That'll be a sad day, man .)
(P S. This is the last installment 0/
after she and guitarist Sam Andrew left
Music!
Music! Music! Thanks'to everyone
(before he came back), they have been
helped
me out along the way, espewho
recording and touring for nearly 40 years.
cially
Chelsea
Baker, Kai Young, Renata
True, their popularity came with Janis,
but that shouldn't discredit their music or Rollins, James Stippich, HOlls e ofRecords
longevity. After all , how many psychedelic in Eugene, and my lovely copy editors.. Rob
and Mitch-U.)
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Emily Majer, lead songwriter for local
erno band Cumquat and the Eunuchs ,
announced recently, "Maybe I'm not so
depressed after all." The news came as. a
shock to fans who have listened to Majer
sing sadly and droningly about subjects
ranging from lost lesbian love to suicide
to her ongoing substance-abuse problems with Theraflu and shmenets (called
Shmeneflu on the street). And it seems to
have all changed overnight.
" Well , I just woke up one day and realized, maybe I'm not so depressed after all .
The black leg warmers, arm warmers, the
black hair, the pale face, I just couldn ' t
put it together ... something wasn 't right."
Unfortunately, this realization came far too
late. After building a fan base around the
Olympia area of ' 80s clothing-clad hipsters and ghost-white emo listeners lurking in the shadows of 4th St. , Emily, or
Cumquat, had managed over the years to
make an entire town fall in love with her
music, her words, her dark swirling black
hole of a life.
"I used to come down to the Eastside
Drive once a month to see what new
stuff Cumquat had written ," says selfproclaimed ex-fan Justin Mathews. "Her
lyrics were so .. . inspirational, they really
made you want to go out and pour kerosene
all over your body. But after this ... after
this, I don't think I could bring myself to
listen to her songs again .. . they were all
lies. All lies. That's life, though, one big
lie. I guess that turns me on ... "
But Emily insists her music and image
were not created out of lies ; they were
merely mistakes. ''It just turns out that I
was wrong, that's all. I thought that I felt
a certain way, and it turns out that] really
don't. In fact, I've never felt suicidal, or
wanted to strangle my transgendered lover
because he or she no longer loved me. I've
had a great life so far, I've never been in
a bad relationship, and life is more or less
akin to a 'delightful picnic right now."
The confession has broken hundreds of
hearts in the Olympia area, a population
of listeners who are already" I 00% ready
to do ourselves in," as one student of the
Evergreen State College remarked under
a dark grey sky. "Like, you know, this just
adds one more thing to the pressure gauge,
you know, now that Emily isn't a whimpering mass of uselessness like so many
of us, who are we supposed to tum to? I
play the guitar in a band, but it's not like I
can really play the guitar. .. "
Emily's sudden tum away from her emo
ego has provoked not only a massive loss of
her band's fan base, but an unprecedented
number of suicide attempts. "Oh yeah,"
Emily says, "I get calls all the time in the
middle of the night from people telling me
how angry they are ... that they' re cutting
their wrists as we speak. But then I ask
them if they 're cutting them vertically, the
'I want to die' way. And low and behoJd ,
ninety-nine percent of the time, they ' re just
showing off their apathy with horizontal
'cry for help' cuts . It's like a goddamn
contest between these people; who can be
sadder? .. I guess I never really wanted to
be part of that. So, no, I don't take them too
seriously when they call. I know they'd be
doing that anyway, whether I was still on
the emo circuit or not. That's the type of
people they are. And it 's not like it's my
fault . I am who I am, whoever] want to be .
I can feel how I want to feel. You know,
I was wrong and confused about how
depressed] really was, and I'll be wrong
about other things in the future, like what
color dog to buy, or what I want to eat for
lunch. People are allowed to change, and
that 's something the emo community just
has to understand."
Emily refuses all guilt placed upon
her by her disavowal and maintains
that Cumquat and the Eunuchs will stay
together and be even more successful in
the electro-pop scene. And if old fans don't
like the change, says Emily, "Go cry about
it. Because I know they will."
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guitar and Dylan on bass, one can't help
but listen in awe. My favorite song of the
evening, "Right On," was the pinnacle
of musical perfection. In 'a simple song
with intricate harmonies, Tom and Dylan
created enchanting vocals that seemed to
caress the night air and leave the listener
wanting more. Most of the songs played
over the course of the evening were written by either Tom or Dylan, though there
were a few they attributed to other writers .
I enjoyed the fact that before each song,
Tom would give a brief description of
his inspiration for the song, something
the song reminded him of or the meaning behind it. It seems as though he finds
inspiration for his own songs in everything
that surrounds him. From reading a Jack
London book to "A Walk in the Irish Rain"
to "Blue Roads, Red Wine" to firefighters
dying in raging forest fires , I can guarantee
everyone will find at least one song of his
to relate to. 1fnot, they'll enjoy the tun es
none the less.
This being Dylan's senior year, Funk
Underworld will play at Super Saturday,
June 12, and all are welcome to com e
and listen . For more information on
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I have been fortunate enough to hear
Tom May perform many times in my life
but never before have I heard and felt his
music as deeply as I did last weekend when
he performed at Traditions Cafe here in
Olympia. For decades, Tom May has performed across the country and across the
world spreading folk music traditions to
anyone willing to listen. He even has his
own radio show entitled River City Folk,
which can be heard from coast to coast
from Portland to New York.
His recent performance at Traditions
Cafe differed greatly from all the other
times I have heard him play because
for the first time, I heard him play along
s ide his son , fellow Greener Dylan May.
] always thought of bass players as the
guys and gals who were always stuck in
the back playing one note of a chord at
a time and being as far from melody as
humanly possible . Dylan's unbelievably
lively and passionate playing proved me
wrong right from the start. He is to the bass
what the Beatles are to rock and roll. Dylan
showed a wide range of styles by playing
folk music with his father and as well as
playing some solo funk tunes written with
his band, Funk Underworld.
With Tom on a six- or twelve-string
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A couple weeks ago I went to see a little
talk by Elvis Mitchell, the now-ex-New
York Tim es film critic. Besides a wonderful
anecdote about trying to slip a reference to
"tossing the salad" into a review of a movie
that was set in prison and getting caught
by a junior copy editor (wOOt!); he told us
in the audience that the hardest part of his
job was writing about the mediocre fi Ims .
The really good ones are fun to write about,
and the really bad ones are easy and fun to
write about, but the ones in the middle are
just a bummer.
So it is with reviewing an album. If
there is nothing new to be heard, what is
there to be written? The PR packet that came
with Eleni Mandell's fifth album , Aftern oon,
has a lot of interesting quotes from music
revi ewers. He r stuff is described as "an
always intimate sound that projects honesty
fi rst and foremost," "smoky-voiced," " with
all th e searing vocal drama of Pl Harvey."
Tom Waits and Norah Jones are also used in
comparison. Unfortunately for Mandell, this
PR spiel spoke to me almost as strongly as
her album . Reading these names in a pres s
release just made me want to listen to them ,
and instead I got her.
It 's not that this album is terrible in
any way. It's a perfectly good album of the
kind I've heard before. If you can stick it out
through the first three or four songs, which
have scarcely enough soul to distinguish
them from pointless faux artists like Avril
Lavigne , you'll gct to some creamy goodness in the middle. It's obvious that Mandell knows how to "do" Norah Jones and Pl
Harvey and Tom Waits, but unfortunately I
could not discern much about her personal
style. Now I'm not the hugest fan of this
little niche of "smoky-voiced" love songs
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When I first picked up Eleni Mandell's perturbed me. Why this odd mix of styles?
and lullabies, but I had this expectation of
meeting her personality through the songs, CD Afternoon the first thing I noticed was They don't mesh very well, and frankly, I
and I was disappointed. During many songs the cover picture, the artist herself swim- feel Eleni Mandell should stick with sleepy
I wondered, "Why doesn 't she just belt it ming on her back in what looks like a white country western. She just doesn 't fit with the
sundress . This in itself made me curious to other styles AT ALL.
0111, jazz it up, do ~omething personal with
What further aggravated this confuher voice? She stays within the lines, and it hear the music on the CD, so I took the entire
drives me nuts! " Of course. she may have package home with me and popped it into sion was the fact that the second track on
been doing that, which tells you something my computer. While I was managing this, I the CD, titled "Afternoon," was one of the
opened up the CD booklet, which consisted '50s rock songs. It was there, smack dab in
about her sty le.
My high points of Ajiernoon include of what look to be black and white personal the middle of two slower, sleepy songs. It
the wistful, wishful "Just A Dream," the photos in the middle, along with the lyrics to breaks the mood and revs the listener up
song "Sun's Always Shining (In Rome)," every song on the CD. Pretty standard fare , tor- nothing. You get another sleepy song,
and get com fort able again. Personally, th is
which drips lazy, dreamy country-western as far as CD booklets go.
slide guitar, and "Let's Drive Away," a track
The music, on the other hand , is some· keeps me from enjoying the basic mood of
that steps along without a care. In contrast. thing that is fairly fam iliar. at least to my the C D, and forces me to change tracks
"American Boy," the first song of the album, ears . It brings up thoughts of smok y coun- inc essantly, trying to make the CD enjoyshould have been cut altogether. In it, Man- try-western bars in th e movies, where all able . I like Eleni Mandell 's voice, with its
dell says so little, in such a predictable the guys in cowboy hats are smoking and smokily deep crooning , but I can 't forc e
way, that I actually laughed the first time playing cards. Kinda like a modern version myself to like her rock songs. She need s
I listened. (Oh, so you " love an American of the saloon . While I will admit I'm not a tostick with th e sleepy country, and leave
boy, that 's for sure ." News flash: So does very big fan of such music, I found Eleni it there . For all who happen to like smoky
every other straight white American woman Mande ll tolerable. Granted , I on Iy felt crooners, I would stron gly suggest goin g
songwriter on the map. Give me more .)
thi s way becau se I had the C D on in the to go see Eleni Mandell at The Mark on
My lesson to you all about this album background . When I tried to listen to the June 9. While this CD isn't horrible. it isn 't
is actually to go out and buy a different one. mu sic outright, it just didn 't work for me. spectacular either. I say get it if you like
If you want to hear some goofy, mellow, The music is just good for the background to have som e background music on while
dreamy hipster ballads done well , go to track late at night at a party, or to have on entertaining your s~ loon buddies, or even
the internet and find a Briton named Scout while trying to read. The words melt into while reading a good Western. That is, if
Niblett and her album Sweet Hearl Fever. Go the music, which is pretty much all sleepy you don 't mind a sudden smack in the face
order it now. I had to put it on after A/ier- guitar work , and the occasional mix of from the '50s.
noon just to set my mind straight. Ironically, ' 50s rock and country music. There even
Eleni Mandell perfectly illustrates the gap seemed to be traces of lounge music, which
Rating: ** and a halfstars
between what I expected and what I got.
In "Can't You See I'm SoulfuL" she sings,
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I'm heavy." Sorry, Eleni. I thini< it you said it
better in "Easy On Your Way Out": "You're
easy on your way out the door/Not so easy
when I want more."
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The Curmudgeon:
Lost the Will to Live?
Enjoy Spoken Word!
The Antigreen Solution
by JT Lachappelle
As always, no one came up with anything close to a viable solution to the problem I presented in The Antigreen Challenge.
So, although I'm sure no one gives a shit, I'm
going to go ahead and put this little piece
forward, if only for kicks.
As I said recently, all living organisms
on this planet compete for finite resources,
with the most competitive enjoying greater
access to resources than the less competitive. Extraordinarily, while we humans
possess the intelligence and consciousness
that could allow us to escape from the competitive scenario, we have done little in the
way of applying this intelligence to such an
end. Quite the contrary, instead of using
our intelligence to escape the competitive
problem- that is, to cooperate- we use
it to more vigorously compete with one
another! How often do you see the best and
the brightest donning loincloths and fasting
in protest of world hunger and suffering?
Not often. You see them going to Harvard,
to Wall Street, and to the Mercedes dealership to pick up the latest SLK, which they
drive past the bum lying in the gutter. It is
truly mind-boggling that with all of our
accomplishments, we have yet to overcome
this most basic of problems.
How could our intelligence allow us
to overcome this problem? Well, the first
key to the whole thing lies in realizing and
accepting that our lives, along with those
of all other creatures, essentially boil down
to a competition for the resources we need
for our survival. Next, we must realize and
accept the fact that the reason this competition results in resource distribution inequity
is that some individuals possess more competitive ability than others, and that these
competitive individuals are driven to apply
their competitive talents to the task of competing with and exploiting others.
With this, it is clear that the solution to
the problem at hand lies in the manipulation of the above elements. Since we are
not going to be lessening resource scarcity
or equalizing human ability any time soon,
the most easily manipulable of the above
elements is the human competitive drive. By
this, I mean to have you imagine what would
happen if human beings were suddenly to
lose, or at least greatly diminish, their drive
to compete with their fellows. What if the
human drive to personal accumulation was
el iminated and self-interested behavior was
replaced by altruistic behavior? Obviously,
the world would be a very different place,
but how so, exactly? How would such a
shift overcome the first two elements of the
competitive scenario? What would the noncompetitive scenario look like?
What we would essentially see would
be people (I) becoming aware of the consequences of their personal competition
and accumulation, and (2) taking drastic
steps to minimize this action, in the interest of minimizing said consequences. This
would include efforts on the part of the
may 20, 2004
If you've ever had a double root canal
while passing a kidney stone and giving
birth to a gorilla in a hailstorm, you'd come
close to knowing the pain of having to sit
through the unadulterated nightmare that
is a performative public reading, namely,
spoken word.
Imagine, if you will, listening to a fiveyear-old whine about what's bothering him
for an hour. Imagine this five-year-old has
a vocabulary that is somewhat extensive
and the entire time he's whining to you,
he's disguising his plain, simple message
in cookie cutter irony and metaphors that
are irrelevant or don't mean anything, never
once during this hour-long whine session
arriving even close to anything that could
be considered a tangible, logical thought.
Oh, and the entire time he's doing this, he's
trying sound "cool" in the process by sort of
affecting an accent that enables him to use
a tone of voice to cal\ attention to himself
without making it look like he is trying to
do so.
The generation that created spoken
word, that is, the generation popularized
them and brought them into public light,
should be punished severely. With grapefruit
spoons. If we are as serious about deflating
pomposity in America as we claim, why are
we not starting with these "forums," which
dish out buckets of it on a regular basis? I've
known people that attend and enjoy spoken
word readings, and frankly, it makes me
want to hit them.
.
Spoken word, unless I'm mistaken,
involves poetry written and recited in a
stream-of-consciousness style, meaning
when you hearthis stuff, you're being made
to think the "performer" is making it up on
the spot. But he isn't. The rhymes just sort
of came to him during his philosophy class .
Stream-of-consciousness should be left at
that. Inside your consciousness. Otherwise,
it .comes out like the drum solo of poetry.
most competitive, or the "elite," as well as lies in their failure to see life as a competithe least competitive, the masses. First, the tive situation, and in their vehement denial
most competitive would no longer use their of the existence of differences in competitive
competitive endowments to dominate the ability among individuals. In short, they fail
less competitive, but instead to aid the less to see or acknowledge that competition is the
competitive in attaining a greater state of problem . In pursuing this line of inquiry,
well-being. They would put their consider- in addressing this huge problem, we must
able energies and talents not to the task of ask ourselves why these people deny the
personal ascent and gain, but to helping the notions of competition and, especially, of
less competitive reach their highest potential competitive ability as being factors in their
of personal growth.
suffering. The answer is simple and obviHowever, if the holders of power were to ous. Would a person who is on the shitty
suddenly embark on a huge wealth redistri- end of the stick do anything to lend credit
bution campaign, which is what this solution to the mechanism that put him in such a
essentialIy amounts to, what do you think position, especially if doing so would be to
the masses would do? That's right: They acknowledge his inferiority? No. He would
would hoard, accumulate, and compete run in the opposite direction and go to every
at levels of vigor proportionate to their length possible to deny and discredit such
previous condition of want and suffering. a mechanism.
This would of course never work, so some
This is the glaring flaw of Marx, Kroeffort on the masses' part would certainly potkin, Chomsky, or just about any antibe in order. BasicalIy, the key would be for capitalist, anti-elite thinker. Unfortunately,
these individuals, the less competitive, to in doing this, in denying the mechanisms
actively pursue a path of self-betterment. that cause their pain, they of course fail to
Instead of pursuing the path of excessive address these phenomena, and the phenompersonal accumulation, and instead ofmind- ena of course persist and continue to wreak
lessly having bunches of kids and increas- dysfuAction. In this way, such individuals
ing resource scarcity, they would work on and such thought actually do a great disgenuinely improving their lives and the lives serviee tolhe task at hand. Once again, as
of others.
with any problem, only when you accept and
In other words, they would not abuse . address its true nature can you take steps
and squander their newfound enrichment to solve it.
as bestowed upon them by the most comAlthough this solution is vastly superior
petitive, but use it to better their own lives to so many others, it is still a total crock.
to a reasonable degree, and then send the Why? Because it assumes away or denies
rest down the line to others so they could one simple fact: There is no way people will
better themselves in turn. Indeed, the key is ever stop competing, because the forces that
to adopt a policy in which each individual compel them to compete and accumulate are
would aid those less competitive, going insurmountable. What this means is that the
from the most comp'e titive-Bill Gates- competitive will never allow their competion down to the least competitive. In other . tive talents to "lie fallow," or to be used for
words, only the least competitive person in anything other than greedy, self-interested
the world would not have someone under pursuits. By the same token, the non-competitive will never cease to lust after the
him to look out for.
This is the solution. Human intelligence things they don't have the ability to compete
must be applied to the problem of competi- for. In spite of all my hopeful talk, it is a
tion-to the paramount problem-in the certai nty that we will keep competing, accuinterest of turning a competitive scenario mulating, and wreaking the consequences
into a cooperative scenario. First, we have until we destroy ourselves.
I suppose I'll end with another little
to see that competition and differences in
competitive ability, coupled with greed, challenge, then : Can any of you give an
are responsible for social stratification and indication of what the forces are that compel
hierarchy, and, thus want and suffering. us, and of how they could be countered if we
Then, all parties within said hierarchy must could ever face and address them? I doubt
modify their behavior. The most competitive that you can. After all, once again, how
must stop using their endowments to step many in human history have?
upon the less competitive in their climb to
This article explores one of many
the "top" and instead put their talent to work
in offering the less competitive a hand. At points along the same general theme to
the same time, the less competitive must be discussed in the upcoming senior thesis
actively and appreciatively extend their essay. The Antigreen Manifesto. As always.
hands upward to the most competitive, out the author invites any and all comments and
of a genuine interest of bettering themselves arguments. to be sent to either the CPJ or
and of bettering the human scenario in gen- to his email address; fygor@hotmail.com.
eral, while simultaneously extending their which he will do his best to respond to in
email or in print. Or, you can go straight
hands downward in turn.
This is what socialist/egalitarian/left- to the author s website. http://fygor.com/,
leaning thinkers consistently fail to hit upon. which will be up and running in a couple of
The essence of their monumental mistake weeks. for similar discussions.
1'1\ be honest with you: I don't even like
poetry. No reason. I just find it lame. And
I know that means that I have no depth as
a person. But you know what? I'm not one
of these dewy-eyed, self-proclaimed young
wordsmiths who are about two steps away
from becoming the guys who stand on street
corners and babble about Jesus through a
bullhorn. Vou know the type. Philosophy
students and physics nuts. This phylum
of human beings came to fruition in the
Bukowski era. People that would like nothing more than to take a valuable chunk of
your time away from the rest of the party
and talk about why the universe somehow
exists only inside his head. There's got to
be a collective term for anyone who uses
the words, "perception," "reality," "subjective," and "consciousness" more than twenty
times in the course of a single conversation.
Let's come up with a name. If anyone can
think of a clever name for these people and
deliver it to the CPJ office, I'll see that it
gets printed.
Simply put, spoken word is just whining,
that's all. Eloquent whining. And whining is
big at Evergreen. So why is it so big? Why in
coffee shops and bars around the world do
people voluntarily waste their ti me listen ing
to other people whining? Because there's an
agenda behind it. Self-interest. You can use
the mic to talk about the war, about poverty,
disease, famine, capitalism, globalization,
racism, the environment, feminism, homosexuality: all subjects where battles can be
won with action instead of whining. Those
who can't do, whine. Or they host Inside the
Actor's Studio.
If it's tied up with a cause, somehow it
becomes exempt from criticism. How many
different ways can there be to say it? Okay,
I get it already: You're pissed at the Bush
Administration . Somehow, I was able to
figure that out for myself judging by your
hemp underwear and Birkenstocks that look
like the Christ was the last one wearing them
before Mel Gibson crucified him.
I'm not listening and I don't care. I don't
care that the "bells chime of a di.fferent time"
and that you "step outside and hear the ticktock of a Dali clock." I wrote a column near
the beginning of the year about my disdain
for hip-hop and how I believed it was solely
about calling attention to itself(or a hot ass),
and spoken word, I believe, runs along a
similar vein: valid thoughts on life, death,
culture and existence immolated on the pyre
of narcissism, conceit and ambition .
There are people who will disagree with
me on this, and well .. . they're wrong. Really.
Believe me, I understand that there's more
than one way to look at something and that
there are many sides to every argument. I
know that all arguments are valid as long as
the possessors of those arguments are honest
with themselves about what they believe.
And I usually try to see where other people
are coming from by looking at both sides of
the issue, but no, not on this. Sorry. If you
disagree with me on this, you're wrong.
As I have probably run afoul of nearly
every committed spoken word apologist
in the Olympia area, let me ask this fi rial
question: Shouldn't reading be done in privacy, where the reader, unbothered by the
surrounding atmosphere and freed from the
constraints of social gatherings in public,
can be free to take in the writing and experience it in his or her own unique way?
Lee's New Rule of the Week: Enough
with the "shizzle!" Yeah, we all know it's
hilarious when white people say it, especially old white people, but it's getting out of
hand. The language is already under enough
attack as it is from Washington, techn610gy,
political correctness and MTY. Do we need
"shizzle my nizzle" as well ? I never knew
why som e rappers feel they need to carry
guns. Now I fucking get it!
Checking Resource Depletion
At Its Source
by John Madziarczyk
So you want to cut down on the amount
of natural resources used by citizens of the
U.S. Vou want to stop strip mining and to
check the overproduction of wasteful products by corporations. Well, there's a way to
do it, which isn't talked about al\ that much
but would accomplish the goal in no time.
I'm talking about economic planning. If
regulations were put in place that limited the
amount of things that could be manufactured
and the way they were manufactured, and if
these regulations were made with to strike
a balance between consumers' needs and
resource needs, resource depletion wO\,lld
be checked without hurting people in the
process. What about taking away the globalization of mines and putting production of
raw materials under international authority?
the cooper point journal
the cooper point journal
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Same thing.
This is easy to talk about, but what about
the consequences? Every country except
the U.S . has an "Industrial Policy" which
fulfills the first objective. Western Europe
isn't suffering.
What would be needed to put such a
thing in place is a consensus among the
people of the U.S. that such a thing would
have positive effects and not mostly negative ones. Such a consensus was reached in
Europe, where there is much more ofa sense
of communal values, but with our atomized society such a thing is at present just
a dream. That's what consciousness raising
is for. (f'You wanted to check resource use,
you could do a lot worse than giving people
a sense of social responsibility.
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Contedy Museum,
Kerry is a Dove? Ha! Yeah, Right!
deal," thought the Democratic base. "He
served in Vietnam. If the public wants a
leader and a man experienced in foreign
policy, then John Kerry is better then the
other contenders for president!" thought a
very confused political base. So Kerry won 't
get out, but he'll bring the U.N. in and they ' ll
save the day, right? Hmmm ... maybe it is
just me, but this doesn 't sound like much
of a difference on foreign policy. "He'd
manage the war better" is a pretty pathetic
reason to change the current manager orthe
White House.
The point I want to put forward is this:
(I)-If the Democrats wanted someone who
could stand up to Bush and be competitive in
the South, then they should have picked John
Edwards. (2) Kerry won't get out of Iraq in
an attempi to sway " neo-cons," but he will
try to become more of a "hawk" on foreign
policy- prepare for World War Three l
The constant message from Kerry is
that Bush is doing " too little" in the war
on terror. So why the hell would someone
think that Kerry is going to get in and stop
the foreign pol icy measures? He wants to
do more in that field of politics, and in a
despe rate attempt to si lence h is critics, he
may push for more intervention to show that
he is tough on terrorism - whether the U.N.
decides to join Kerry for more intervention
is irrelevant to the point.
What this whole situation reminds
me of is the hysteria that surrounded the
1964 Barry Goldwater campaign. Bi II
Moyers helped create that now famous
commercial with the girl picking the daisy
and the nuclear warhead detonating in the
background. What happened in '64? More
war. .. but we were told that this war was a
" different kind of war" or a "more humane
war." It's the war against wars and there is a
huge disconnect between rhetoric and reality. If a slick Democrat bombs the hell out
of a country, who cares , right? TheKosovo
foreign policy adventure was to promote
" human rights."
Bush and Kerry don ' t reall y differ that
much on any issue. With the "outsourcing"
scare, Kerry prom ises to get jobs back to
America. Bush . .. well , Bush has got other
plans, like outspending any other president
in history and making sure that the renegade Austrian Alan Greenspan debuses
the money sometime in late ' 04 or earl y
' 05 . (As far as reg ulatory expansion goes,
Bush is at LBJ levels.)
Luckily I'm not the only one who has
seen through Kerry 's mouthing it to the
peace audience . John Laughland at The
Spectalor saw through all this as well :
"Kerry voted for the war on Iraq and continues to support it wholeheartedly. He said
last December that those who continue to
oppose the war 'don't have the judgment to
be president-or the credibility to be elected
president.' Kerry does not even say that Bush
has jeopardized U.S. security by attack ing
by Rick Anderson
The construction site .. .
by Zach Nesmith
A cast of 23 Evergreen student
actors wiJI play some 40 characters in the
coJIege's major spring production, in Tina
Howe's artful comedy Museum . It runs
Thursday, May 20 through Sunday, May
23 and Thursday, May 27 through Sunday,
May 30 for students with an J.D. and $\0
general admission. The extremely limited
seating is available on a first-come , firstserved basis.
This hilarious satire lampoons artists' pretension, mixing dazzling social
comedy and pure zaniness . Museum
makes its characters themselves into an
exhibition. Set on the last day of an absurd,
but not too far-fetched exhibit, a parade
of art lovers travels through the gallery
displ ay ing a range of ridiculous behavior
from sucking on statues to harassing the
museum guard to stealing artwork itself.
A site-specific piece taking place
at the Evergreen Museum of Modern
Art (EMMA), "The performance space
lends itself to an intimate portrait of a
large cast," said director Walter Eugene
Grodzik, Evergreen professor and director
of last year's production of Metamorphoses. "With this passionate cast, the audience is in for a delightful experience."
Grodzi k, two-time Fulbright Scholar and a
by Mike Treadwell
"So it is that history attracts and
seduces individuals . Thus when we look
closely at things, we find culprits nowhere
but accomplices everywhere." - Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-Sense
I thought about voting for John Kerry
in November, but now I should probably
just stay home and drink beer and barbeque
fine foods . (The only reason I thought about
voting for him was because things are just
better when the government is divided along
party lines.) What prompted me to write this
was that I saw a note when I was going to
work in the HCC last week. The general conse nsus on the note was that Kerry would get
out of the ~' quagmire " in Iraq. Oh really, I
pondered to myself. What world does this
person live in?
John Kerry doesn ' t give a damn about
principles or anything else that stands for
more than a day. The "anyone but Bush"
mental ity ha s given the Democrat ic Party
an interesting candidate. The reason they
wanted Kerr y to be the nom inee was
because of h is war record. " I served in
Vietnam , blah ... blah ... blah ... " was all
that was heard from him in the beginning.
I suppose th is appealed to the Democrat ic
voter base because they frequently chastise
Bush, as well as h is cabinet members, as
bei ng "draft dodgers ." What the Democrats forget to do was look at Kerry's other
·'ac complishments."
"So he voted for the war in Iraq. big
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Iraq instead of facing down the al-Qa'eda
threat; he is not Richard Clarke. Instead ,
Kerry says, ' No one can doubt that we are
safer- and Iraq is better- because Saddam
is now behind bars .' On 17 December last
year, Kerry lent credence to the loony theory
that Iraq was the author of the 911 1 attacks,
something George Bush has done at least
twice. Yet in February, Kerry attacked Bush
for planning to hand power back to the Iraqis
too quickly- what he called 'a cut and run
strategy'-e ven though Bu sh intends the US
Embassy in Iraq to be the biggest embassy in
the world, and even though some 110.000 US
troops are to remain stationed there indefinitely." I can see the bumper stickers now,
"Neo -cons for Kerry."
It'll be funny when th e Democratic
"Anti-War" base gets a kick in the ass from
Kerry. I guess it does n' t matte r that much.
since they never had an y tirm principles
anyway. The onl y thing they believed was
Ihat they hated Bu sh, which is funny because
Bush is a lot more like them than they think.
All of this exemplifies my golden rul e in
politics: Prepare for an outcome you don't
like, becau se through politics yo u' ll never
get what you want. Hannah Arendt could be
right: A political action isn' t a tixed point: it
could just travel on forever. As tar as likeable
Democrats go, I miss one: Howard Dean . I
miss him and his wonderful scream .
past Shubert Presidential feJIow in directing at Columbia University, has worked
with such theatre icons as Anne Bogart,
Julie Taymor and Michael Feingold .
Juniors Sabrina Caldwell and Jen
Richter, under the tutelage of Lucy Gentry,
are the costume designers, adopting a
"slice of life" style, the team has been
working closely with the actors to provide
immediate identification with the play 's
vast number of characters.
The students actors play such roles
as a trio of fashionable, giggling young
women, a loud-talking French couple, a
married couple entangled in the audio
tour's maze of wires, predatory housewives from Forest Hills, photographers,
a vandal with a crayon, and others.
Always present on stage is a harried,
but philosophical museum guard, played
by freshman Richard Older from Santa
Cruz, CA.
The sound designers, senior 10zef
Urban and freshman Michael Boyce use
state of the art multimedia equipment
to conjure up lush environments. These
savory designs , coupled with freshman
Clark Young's meticulous technical
direction, offer an audio-visual treat to
aJI who attend.
moist layer of reflected light
emotional prism and angry slice
rain blows through pole vented
breath
breathing
beaded and balled up love
high energy words
and rain glows on phosphorus silver
face
smitten by the
rainbows' luck
i'd say like summer pond without
ducks
how then would the water paddle?
or beal feet to the shore lin e"
how can the wind ride a cross thi s
static sea?
see
or carry with it it s breath of thought?
way out the concentri c circles ,
lead ended lines cast out by lone fisherman
they chime in the day, ponder the
moist layer
and sea
see the rainbow
reced ing
and dea l with th e moi st layer of
reflected light
and now
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letting
it hurts deep of hurts inside my
stricken walls of pursed lips
swollen eyes and runny nose
of trying to cross the rainbow 's back
of slippery color
where fish got a way, mucus hands,
failing strength
go
all
is dying
and tangled love is all that's left to
clea n
by Rick Anderson
The Accursed Stamp Machine:
It's Everyone's Problem
hI" Connor I\loran
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Everybody need s a neme sis. It 's part
of the deal. You can ' t embark on a quest,
say. to point out all the a nnoya nces on a
col lege campus without com ing across
some enemy whose very ex istence is so
antithetical to your cause that yo u cannot
hope but become mortal enem ies. For me,
il 's the stamp machine.
Those who've been payi ng attention
know that th is has come up before. Once
previou sly I tackl ed the pain s of try ing to
mail so mething at th e CAB's little excuse
fo r a post office. In addition to the proble ms of the sta mp machine, I discu ssed
';ome poor sign age and other issues. But
that stamp machine is suc h an annoyance
that it dese rves its own column . Eve ry time
I come into contact with it, it seems to get
Ihe best of me.
I end up either with a pathe tic handful of obnoxious change or, worse, with no
change at all because the machine stiffed
me . I never find a stamp that is both what I
need and in a quantity that allows me to buy
it with money I have on hand. Just looking al
tl' at machine makes me shudder. I can barely
walk down the hall in the bottom floor of the
CAB without flyin g into a postage-inspired
rage. (By the by, that 's as close as I'm go ing
to ge t to a "going postal" joke. Turns out I
do have standards .)
My rage only increased when I noticed
a little placard by the package- mailing
drum . It says th at because of security concern s, the postal se rvice will not pick up
any stamped package weighing more than
one pound from that drop box. It then tell s
the reader that he or she mu st go to " the '
counter." Apparently thi s poor, deluded
placard is under th e impress ion that it is in
a real post office and that the suckers who
are using it have some kind of choice in the
matter. Speak ing as one of those suckers:
We don' t. We live in the middleofa fore st.
Man y of us , myse lf included . are without a
car. T hi s mea ns that getting to a post office
takes a se rious amount of time that could
be better spent making macaroni diagrams
or discussin g ge nder relation s or something
eq ua ll y enrichin g.
I think this approaches the root of why
the stamp machine bugs me so much . It indicates a wider problem. Much of the time, the
people in charge of setting up services don't
seem to take into account the way people
live on campus here. This isn't a downtown
campus. We ' re sluck here. And moreover,
we've paid good money to be stuck here.
We have certain needs, like communication
with the outside world, that can't afford to be
dealt with in a half-assed manner. Alii ask
for is a little more consideration .
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Introducing lhe R ead in g Nook and the Publishing Board ,
Two Very Diffe rent Ways to C ircul a te Your Writing
up
by Ellen Pelers on
~ ~Y)) e m ember the obscure
U ~.l\.research paper y ou
very easy to self-publish one 's writing. One
s imply found so me velum and wrote on it.
we"ft so proud of? Have you kept it? Or do The velum was then bound or scro lled , and
you have a story that you wrote tor class? A otT it went from hand to hand into the public :
secret memoir? A spotless lab write-up? If thu s it was published.
so, bring it (or them) to the new. as-or-yet
At thi s point in lime it is very easy to
tiny reading nook by the couch in the Writ- make multiple copies of things, but I would
ing Center. It is a place where you can come urge you to expand- or simplify- your idea
and read fellow students ' writing. When in of publishing as a piece of wriling Ihat is
the future the Writin g Center moves to a read by the public. The s haring of writing
grander location , the nook may expand into just begun at the nook is a humble form of
a Grand Nook.
publishin g, with single copies of writin g
Ri ght now I know ora research paper on going from hand to hand and eye to eye. In
vampire bats and another one on the Finn- the future , maybe some papers from the nook
ish national epic that have been donated. could be compi led in a more formal yearly or
The brave souls who donated these papers quarterl y publication of the sa me name.
simply putthem in the nook ' s " RESEARCH
If on-campus publishing is all very well
PAPER~" three-rin g binder. Crowds of
but you 're allning tor larger vi stas, check
eager students then thron ged to the nook out the PU BLISH ING bulletin board as yo u
and packed themse lves like peas in a pod enter the hallway that leads to the Writing
onto the Writing Ce nter sofa. where they Center. TUtor Chalen Kelly has combed '
then eagerly read the latest nook publica- the web and other re sources for large- and
tions. They brought in their ·own compara- :small-scale publ ishing opportunities and has
bly obscure papers. They then went and told posted her numerous findings on the publishtheir friends all about vampire bats and the ing board. This board will continue to be
fi nn ish oral tradition. Evergreen rose like updated. Come by and peruse.
bread dough on the yeast of its own ideas
Brought tu y ou hy the Evergreen Writand thoughts.
A word on medieval publishing : back ing Center.
before the printing press came into use, it was
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Thursday, May 20
3 p.m. The Jewish Identity Workshops: Sam Schrager will host an
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7 p.m. Book Group: Lesbian Literature at Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
and Women:
Will Bush Destroy Opportunities for Women in Sports?
by Kyra Berkovich
It is my strong belief that sport and
athl etics hold a very important role in the
forward progression of feminism. From
lhe mument women started de manding
opportunities to play games alongside the ir
compan ions, there has been a steady wave of
suppression to dissuade women from doing
wha t their heart tells them.
As a wom.an in sports, I cannot think
of anything more important than the knowledge of how far you or \ can go because
of the women who went before us. Just as
Martin Luther King, Jr., is a sy mbol , a hero
and an idol for the Civi \ Rights movement,
the women in Nike 1s a Goddess: The History 0/ Wom en In Sports have pushed limits
of their own, often with race complicating
things even further.
Sure, I thought feminism important ,
but I never ac tively did anything about it.
I always felt g uilt y about that, especially
while attending Evergreen . "By reserving
time each day for basketball dribbling, or
for runs ur rides ur rows, a woman liberates herselfand society. Women 's presence
in weight rooms and gyms, like womcn's
presence in board rooms and bars. is wbtly
and insistently changing how society views
how women view themselves. Sport alters
the balance of power between the sexes. It
changes lives. It empowers women, thereby
inexorably changing everyth ing" (xii, Introduction of Nike).
So by me simply playing and seek ing
a career in sport s, I find that it is a direct
display of my contribution to this cause.
But I have things pretty good. Just as
long as women have been struggling to be
recognized as equals in the home and the
office, there have also been women who have
been struggling to achieve a posit ion on the
court, on the Held, in the locker room and
the press box.
Things began a slow, steady change that
did not begin to take full e ffect until 1972 and
the passage of Title IX, a part of an education
act that "forbids educational institutions thai
receive federal funding- inCluding denying
participation or funding- on the basis of
sex" (pg 20). Only now are female students
reaping the rcwards that Title IX brought to
the table over thirty years ago. It continually shocks me that many of the records and
accomplishments of women in sports have
occurred in my lifetime.
There was a time when it was believed
that a woman would lose her ability to conceive children if she went swimming, and
that a woman cannot run long distances like
a man; that she would either die, or worse
As I opened the box that I had just
received in the mail , my curiosity was
piqued. It was a birthday gift, and one that
was not that heav y. I prayed silently that the
box was packed full of money. Pulling the
brown paper packing tape aside and jamming my hand into the Styrofoam kernels ,
I pulled out a brand spank in' new Boston
Red Sox hat. I quickly averted my gaze to
show respect to the new hat. What was going
on here? I could see the hat glowing in my
peri pheral vision and could likewise feel its
pulse in my hand. How could anyone scnd
me a new Red Sox Hat? I had had myoid
Sox hat since before high school graduation
in '97, purchased from within the confines of
Friendly Fenway. It was supposed 10 adorn
my head until the Red Sox won the World
Series. At the time of purchase, it was blue
like a robin 's egg, with the red B quintuple
stitched, protruding proudly from the front of
my cap. Since that time it had been bleached
to almost white from mortar and stone dust
as well as excessive exposure it the sun and
sweat. People close to me had been dropping
subtle hints for years that it may be time
to reinvest in a new hat. So what that it is
fraying around the edges and drips yellow
when it gets wet in the rain? Who cares about
yet, be unable to carry a child to term . Na tu rally, these myths were disproved by women
who pushed past the restriction s set upon
them by a society that didn' t understand that
some people, including women, have a need
to achieve athletic feats , as men do.
There have always been women interested in proving their worth on a playing
field , but ironica lly, it took a transportation
invention to set the Title IX ball in motion.
Before women th ough t to challenge their
right to pa rt icipate in sporting events ,
men some how forgot to fOl bid the use of a
bicycle. By th e IR90s , in both th e US a nd
Eng land, it was a common sig ht to see a
woman on a bicycle. Being cheaper than
carriages , bicyc les became the obvious
mode of transportation th at women could
turn to, without the need of a male chaperone. With the bicycle came freedom to
explore the countryside and the surrounding area- alone. The opportunity women
had been waiting for finally presented itself,
and one after another, from all walks orthe
socia l strata, woman pulled on bloomer
trouse rs, threw their sk irts a nd dresses on
the floor and headed for the open air.
Naturally, it would be c1o'se to a century
later that leg islation would be passed making So, I guess I thank them .
it possible for thousands of women to have
Women have just as much, ifnot more,
the opportunities, to play games and the to offer sports than is recognized . Given the
equipment to carry out their desires to run, chance to go further, I know that women will
to swim, to throw, all the while slill being keep astonishing even the most conservative
a woman.
people. Given the chance to excel at someBecause 87 percent of parents now thing you're good at should be the right of
agree that sports are just as important for everyo ne . Donna Lopiano, the women's
girls as boys , ami 80 percent of top women athletic director at the University of Texas,
executives in Fortune 500 companies have understands this right. "By playing sports, I
sports backgrounds, it is clear that there are .. got to grow up with an appreciation of what
many who benefit from legislative acts like it's like to feel really good at something,
Title IX.
and that's a million-dollar feeling. That's
Thank god. Thank whomever or what- something every human being should get
ever you like. Personally, I thank my parents to have."
for being part of that 87 percent. They don ' t
Of course it is, but will Title IX still be
just accept it either; they believe it. They there to protect against the discrimination
understand that this is not a passing phase of women in sports in the next few years?
for me, and they also understand that I could The Bush Administration is "currently
not be me without sports. The same is true considering dramatic revisions to Title IX
for thousands of others. I thank anyone and policies, changes which could result in the
everyone beca use I am alive dur ing such loss of hundreds of thousands ofopportuniefforts of change, and all because a bunch ties for girls and women in high school and
of girls wanted to playa game. But it has college sports," reports SaveTitleIX.com,
progressed so much further than the game, a website devoted to informing the public
and it will keep moving forward thanks to about the importance of keeping Title IX
outrageously talented (and sometimes stub- athletic policies unchanged. To understand
born) athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaha- fully what is as stake, please visit http :
rias , Billie Jean King, Mia Hamm, Annika Ilwww.savetitleix .com/. and be aware that
Sorenstam, Flo-Jo, Sheryl Swoops, Venus the time we live in is ripe for opportunities.
and Serena Williams and the kids who are All we are required to do is demand access
playing stick ball out in the street right now. to them .
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com ments like, "Graham needs to wash his
hat" or "What's that smell?" This hat was a
symbol, a symbol to the other members of
Red Sox Nat ion , a sy mbol of solidarity and
pride, a symbol of hope, faith and a greater
understanding. Would you ask a samurai to
cut off his top knot?
Since members of Red Sox Nation make
up a diasporic community, transcending
state and international borders, spreading
outwardly from the Northe ast, it is importan t
to distingui sh true fan from freshly minted
poseur. It is significant to determine the difference between th e two, not because the
new fan is any less ofa person, but beca use
I am a New Eng land el it ist asshole. Now al l
of my judgmental, speculat ive. bandwagonjumping comments about the new Red Sox
hats that have sprouted have come full
circle to thi s birthday box and the new hat
shining like the North Star in my left hand .
For being a Red Sox fan carried a special
and dignified burden. The Red Sox bring
many New Englanders together who have
nothing in common , silently erasing racial
and socioeconomic boundaries. This unity
comes through the shared burden and burning desire that members of Red Sox Nation
carry. People may think it is a childish.
foolish, waste of time to devote a chunk of
oneselfto a game. But some people also ma v
think that those who devote themselves t~
some religions are foolishly wasting their
time as well. Foolish or not , thi s new hat
confounded me.
So, in the past , had other Red Sox hats.
My father purchased my first haltor me when
I was three at Fenway Park . While I did fall
asleep after the fifth inning at that game, I
distinctly remember hearing thi s exch,mge,
"Caahlton Fisk is wicked sweet." Followed
by the concise response, "Ahhhh guy." The
point being, since this game I have only had
a few other red Sox hats, always wearing the
previous into exhaustion. Reading the card
that came with the hat, I learned that it had
been purchased at a souvenir stand outside
the bleacher entrance on Lansdowne Street.
At least it isn't from the mall, I thought. I
placed the hat on my head and looked in the
mirror. I wondered how many head-spins
it would take to break this thing in? How
much sweat would have to be shed in order
to mold this hat to my skull? I didn't want to
be strutting around like a Yankee fan with a
fresh and clean hat, straight off the shelf of
the local Foot Locker. By the way. if you're
not from New York or from within New
York 's sphere of influence, why the hell are
you wearing a Yankees hat? Anyway, for all
of you Sox fans out there who are the only
ones still reading this article at this point,
I'm putting that new hat in the shelf. I will
fulfill my pledge to not wear a new hat until
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