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Party Crasher Returns - elsewhere
re#9: Reference to Camus, Joe? And hey--don't knock left-handers! Especially when you're expecting that 'right hook'! :)— March 9, 2010 3:49 p.m.
Party Crasher Returns - elsewhere
re#8: Yeah, well, I understand, Grant. I have felt alone, but in the past year I've had more time than anyone else to fight the good fight for a publication I like, and where I've chosen to put my blogs. The Reader neighborhood contest was my incentive for starting to blog, so I'm grateful to them for that, even though they never chose to grace me with $500 for it. ;) It does seem that the Reader is waking up and deciding to take itself back. I don't think Pete should have been banned for speaking his mind, as Gringo would put it, but for the racist and sexist stuff, and the violent wishes toward others? Certainly, and he should have been banned months ago. I too hope it gets funner around here now, too. I'll do my part as best I can--carpal tunnel is a fact, and so I must type slowly and take long breaks--but I have at least two blogs I've promised, and want to get those out there. One is about Mica's new girlfriend, so that's really his deal, and the other is about evil MILFs. Hold me to them, Grant! :)— March 9, 2010 3:47 p.m.
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"Once you've had a squirrel in the sack......you'll never go back!" I've heard this is a solid truth on the drag queen circuit, tho the nuts are often taped under...oh snap, that's right, 'squirrelfriend!' ;)— March 9, 2010 12:32 p.m.
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PS: Jayallen, I think this thread, and the questions you are asking, are pretty transparent. The main idea is that you are providing a link to Board's new gig, promoting it through the back door, no? Board's "spoken word-style" is perfect for the column? WTF? Do you really expect readers to flock to this blog and start reminiscing about how great all that was? I'm surprised that the Reader is allowing your thread to stay--I think it should, absolutely, but...it is surprising.— March 9, 2010 12:27 p.m.
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I stopped reading it here months ago, so why would I read Board's new column at another publication? Though yeah, it makes me go hmmmmm about their ideological stance...(not enough to check them out, however--my white charger and lance are getting rusty, and this crusader for the educated human is tired of fighting alone). Chad Deal seems like a good deal for the Reader. I think they realize that they'd better get rid of all the racist and sexist rhetoric if they want to appeal to readers like me, and most of the others who comment here. I say this because they also banned Pete, so we'll see how that works--my bet is he's already back, under another handle.— March 9, 2010 12:17 p.m.
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re: #19: And yet again, Pete tries to work through divisiveness, and conveniently, without following up on the logical consequences of what flies from his keyboard. Dumbass: I have worked with the FCC doing just what CF describes, and safe to say I know WAYYYY more about the doings and instinctual habits of cats and feral cat populations than you do. You can feel free to ask me about it if you like, because I seriously doubt you've been out there trying to help "spay and neuter" ('e' goes before 'u,' and do you even know what these terms mean, or which goes to which?) pets and ferals. re#26: People like Grant are doing things to make the world better, while as she said, you are just there to waste air and scoff pointlessly. And your so-called GF is an even bigger idiot than you are for allowing her cats to fight. It isn't something they "need" to do, and of course it isn't an issue of being completely powerless, if you give a crap about the cats' welfare. I'm not a breeder and have no particular knowledge of breeding, but know that you can separate the cats having an issue, for one. You check and see if you are perhaps stressing them, overcrowding them, and putting too many "up high" cats together, vs. "up high" and "ground" cats together. It is elementary, rudimentary knowledge. If you get to know the personalities of your cats, you know which ones are going to get the territorial rules settled with each other quickly, and which ones need to be separated. If you don't gain a second sense of this stuff, you probably shouldn't be breeding animals. As for your ridiculous theories about survival of the fittest, blah blah blah, they just go in the same category as your racist obsessions. You probably wet dream at night about creating some kind of master race of mini-yous, and good for you. Know what? AG is right--every thread becomes the "Pete Show" and goes to the same issues over and over, with you learning exactly zilch from others. It's getting mighty old, and I do believe I'm pretty well done with it. At this point, it is like trying to light a candle in a soggy bog of hopeless errors of logic and soulless, selfish, unconcern. Screw it. Ok, folks, rant over.— March 8, 2010 2:48 p.m.
Goodbye, Chelsea. Goodbye, Amber.
Hey quill, you should send this to the parents. I saw them on Larry King too, and they gave a Web site address. It was something like Chelseaslight.com--easy enough to find. Psychologically, I think the only comfort that comes of such situations as these is that the loved ones left to suffer are empathized with by the community at large--a unique benefit everyone deserves but most people don't get. When someone we love dies, we can't understand how the sun goes on shining, and everyone is out there walking and driving and coming out of Starbucks, and all of the daily things we would be doing if the world had not just ended. Parents of children whose deaths are so publicized have at least this--the letters and expressions of love and understanding, and the sentiments of total strangers feeling their pain, and the loss of their loved one--who was indeed the world to them. So..yeah, you should totally send this on to them...— March 8, 2010 2:28 p.m.
We Filipinos eat with our hands, drive crazy on the road, point with our lips
PS: Everyone, forgive my little errors of grammar. In a hurry today ;)— March 8, 2010 2:17 p.m.
We Filipinos eat with our hands, drive crazy on the road, point with our lips
Pete, maybe you'd like to explain to everyone here exactly why--beyond all of the issues you've already mentioned--this issue is SO important to you. It's interesting that you pop up whenever ethnicity and race are discussed, and have to try and get people to salute the flag, even while you continue to disrespect it by not paying any taxes like the rest of sheep who actually pay for the public works you enjoy, right?) So what if people consider themselves to be of multiple heritage, and practice culture other than what you think to be "American?" As Americans, that is their right--to claim or not claim any ethnic heritage. I'll clue you in: The reason you don't go around claiming you are Scots-Irish whatever is because you didn't grow up either in another country or with the presence of another culture in your household. Being Scots-Irish was not relevant to your life, or intimate to your consciousness the way it would have been when some of your ancestors took the boat. It is perfectly natural to claim Filipino-American or Mexican-American identity, as well as ancestry, when you have had that experience. Of course, you'll start harping on why people claim to be African-American, then. I can't believe you haven't yet attempted to understand issues around this practice, beyond your own shallow and bigoted views. People claim to be African-American out of pride because they have already been labeled as such, as "other" through a complex psychological reality we are all dealing with in some way, and from one side or another. Here's an elementary example of how people get "othered" through description, which is the beginning of definition, by the way: When you are telling a story of what happened the other day, you say "A black guy stopped me on the street and asked for money" or "A black guy works at the deli." You don't just say "A guy.." You say "A BLACK guy." If the guy is identifiable as "white" or Caucasian, you don't say "A white guy." Why is that? Because being Black means always being "other" than. There is a lot of significance to this practice--it is very telling about how race relations stand yet today, when we would hope that racial markers no longer define individuals, or impede the social progress of people as a group or as individuals. Fact is, these racial markers still do. Why you, PistolPete, would continue to deny that that is the case, and continue to insist on uninformed analogies to your own anglo background, is not clear, especially when you've had me and AG to give you the 411 many times over. There is a rich body of theory in anthro, lit theory, cultural studies, sociology, all about this psychological and cultural practice of othering people. Check it out sometime, and get smarter about this stuff if you are really interested. If you explore alternate points of view, you might just change your mind about some of your own.— March 8, 2010 2:14 p.m.
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I said STAGE, Jayallen. C'mon! Snort! :)— March 7, 2010 8:50 p.m.