Part four of the Ishmael Gradsdovic papers continues, as Mr. Gradsdovic enters Cal Poly.
Well, long time no see. The 11th through the 17th was WOW week. Our group (#14) ran around and acted quite absurd all week, but we had fun, or at least I did. I've been selling friendship bracelets and making a couple of bucks that way, though I've been a less aggressive marketer lately, but I'm still very very broke.
I went to the Amnesty International concert in Oakland. I got to see Joan Baez, Youssou N'Dour, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel, and Bruce Springsteen all on the same stage! Cool but $30 (no wonder I'm in debt). While in Berkeley I bought this killer purse/duffel bag at an India import place. Got some bracelets and incense while there too. Fun.
I've given my politics a lot of thought and the more I thought, the more I drifted toward nihilism. I have become completely disenchanted with the prospect of being governed. I have lost all faith in the human race as being capable of governing itself. The whole idea of government, culture, the whole shitteroo, seems repulsive to me now. I want to smash the collective years of accumulated entropy that passes for culture here. I want to be the biggest nuisence I can be to government. I reject societal norms, social values, and cultural ethos. I want to piss on a republican. I want to burn something held in high esteem. I want to propigate dadaism. I want to swap infants of unknowing couples. I want to contribute to the collapse of civilization. I want to destroy every television in America. I want to parade down Higuera during farmers' market wearing a hat and an erection. I want to glue locks of major businesses. I want to contribute to urban anarchy. I want to have intercourse with underage persons. I want to take illegal pharmacological substances. I want to espouse bizarre beliefs. I want to demand that government condone murder. I want to proclaim the second coming of christ. I want to picket a toilet. I want to spray graffiti in esperanto. I want to cause a traffic jam. I want a computer virus to destroy all data.
In other news, I went to a gay & lesbian student rap group tonight after my parenting class. I went in feeling very frightened and apprehensive, since I'm ambi- rather than homo-, but we ended up using bisexuality as the topic of the evening and lots was learned by all. I expressed frustration because they seemed so sure of what box they fit in (some talked about knowing since they were 5 years old) and I didn't fit in a box. The whole thing went positively, and I plan to go to the GLSU meeting tomorrow night.
email Ishmael