by B.J. on 6/30/2003 07:41:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Melos Anyone ?

Gofuckindamnit, how the hell am I supposed to eat Lucky Charms without the marshmellows ? All I have eaten this very morning (no mention of that evil word below) are those stale grains or whatever with my sister's morning fingerprints on them. Especially in the morning, she has all these different pathogens, and I don't want her touching my damn food. Maybe the milk has components that can combat those pathogens. Ehh, maybe not. So basically what I have before this computer screen as I type this is an infested stale amount of soggy lucky charms grains.



Just imagine this bowl of soggy lucky charms without the marshmellows, a black plastic bowl, a silver spoon, and you will sympathize.

 

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by B.J. on 6/28/2003 07:09:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Golf

It was really fun golfing with Wibs especially in this place Heartwell Golf, where Tiger Woods apparently developed his game as kid.

Let me recount all the reasons why it was fun:

Good weather in Long Beach, the city by the sea (but not much else in there, cause it's like a Mr. Belvedere's place spread like butter all over town).

The courses were extremely short (about 83 - 150 yards). It really is a beginner's course, for people who have never even picked up a golf club.

Wibs can be very random and make funny comments about anything.

We didn't keep score.

There were no hardcore a-holes taking anything seriously.

The only holes there were to be filled with golf balls.

Got a lot of exercise hauling those clubs.

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by B.J. on 6/27/2003 02:46:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


Life

It's all about how well you deal with failures and disappointments. . .
Nothing's written in cement
You may repent what you attempt
When you're fueled by contempt

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by B.J. on 6/27/2003 07:44:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


This Better Be Good

I am officially confused about what the hell the Chicago Bulls are doing.

Yesterday, they picked another point guard named Kirk Hinrich when they already have a perfectly fine, and even sometimes dominating point guard in Jamal Crawford when the team had a pressing need at the small forward position. Jamal had just gotten over a point guard controversy albeit in a tragic manner with Jay Williams sustaining potential career-ending injuries to his pelvis in addition to his broken leg. Jamal and Jay were fighting and scratching for playing time throughout all of last year, with Jamal eventually winning the battle. However, with an injury-plagued team, Jamal and Jay eventually started playing substantial minutes on the court together, engineering some hard fought wins against the Eastern Conference Sacrificial lamb, I mean Nets, the Bucks, and the 76ers.

Those hard fought-wins thru Jamal and Jay are probably what got our general manager excited about drafting yet another point guard to replace Jay. Hinrich apparently can shoot the "rock", and play some 'd', which could hopefully take pressure off the towers that are Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler. And unlike Jay, he could probably accept his role. Maybe this team's primed to become like the Dallas Mavericks, who use Nick the Quick Van Exel and Steve Nash or the Sacramento Kings, who use Bobby Jackson and Mike Bibby. So maybe all in all the team would benefit from this pick. And maybe, just maybe one of the incumbent small forwards (Jalen Rose, the on/off defender and Eddie Robinson, the athletic freak) has made strides to his game. Ha. Maybe. . .

Maybe they picked Kirk "Harry Potter" Hinrich to trade him for that pressing need of a small forward : ). Or trade Jamal : (

I officially don't know, and like the notoriously secretive full of surprise Jerry Krause days, I'm intrigued and mad.

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by B.J. on 6/25/2003 01:10:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Singular Words I Feel Uncomfortable Saying

4. "Love"

What I Think of: A pumping heart and the song, "Two of Hearts" by Stacey Q. There are many emotions attached to this word and so its difficult to express with just words. This lack of a straight meaning makes it hard to say this word.

How to avoid this word: This is a real tough word to avoid, because there's no real substitute. To avoid it as much as possible I say it backwards "Evol"

3. "Breakfast"

What I think of: I always think of some greasy obese bastard in a chef's suit with a beard salivating with tiny bubbles over some bacon and spitting out the bacon on some table. Or that smelly ass egg mcmuffin from McDonalds. Either way, the word just throws off my appetite. What the hell is it with this word ? The "break" syllable pronounced "breck" is a half-ass version of "break", and the "fast" syllable pronounced "fest" is a half-assed version of fast. I'd rather hear the A's pronounced rather than the E's. We already overuse the E's.

How to avoid this word: From now on, I will refer to as "Bray-K", "Big K", "Brizzayk", "Breaks", "Fast Break", or "Break Fast"

2. People's Real Names

What I think of: How awkward and uncomfortable it feels. It's a standard set by people's parents, and it doesn't have much application to me. So I make people more approachable by giving them nicknames.

How to avoid this word: I either directly address people or call 'em out by a nickname. Speaking of which, a very funny blog by Joel.

1. "Cute"

What I think of: A bunny. Big eyes. Nemo lips. The Happy Heart in the Sunshine.

How to avoid this word: Being real specific about what I'm talking about. If it's towards a little 1-year old girl carrying barbecue chips with all this baby fat, I substitute "cute" for "funny", "heelario", "babyish", and "cut-with an 'e'." Towards some Finding Nemo-loving, curvaceous other 19-year old, I say it's "hot", "sexy", "attractive."

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by B.J. on 6/24/2003 10:18:00 PM 1 comments Print this post


[Edited on 11/07/03: Don't take this post to be an establishment of facts, but rather as a springboard to new ways of thinking. Stuff in this post seems to be only half true, but I wanted to sound smart as this young college first-year and give a general viewpoint on something that was arching my mind. I still agree with the premise of this post: Always always always question facts and how they facts were formed]

What Is a Fact ?

(Inspired by my History of Randomness (Science As Cultural Practice) class and Writing 001)

What counts as a scientific fact and why and how ?

I define scientific facts as "things known to a large amount of people in the same way." They should be about what happened and the context of what happened. Knowing [exactly] what happened and its context is what the law profession has been based upon. And that's where it should stay.

Facts as a concept has been legitimized by the law profession and now everyone in the science field tries to act like they know what happens. But they are omitting the part of facts about what actually happens and its context. They are merely taking the results of what happened and its context. People are not looking at the process of how a fact is formed, and therefore not getting the whole story. And not getting the whole story is what will keep us running in circles for cures to society's ailments physical and social forever.

For example, people in science thought DDT was the answer to prevent crops from being eaten by insects. DDT did kill insects as hoped, except that people didn't look at what DDT actually did. It was a neurotoxin; it fucked up the nervous system. Worst of all, it was hard to remove from the human body. As a result, DDT is now a banned pesticide. This is all an example of how looking at "scientific facts" as answers rather than as concoctions by humans can kick us in the ass. They need to look at the whole picture, not just results. By looking at the whole picture, they'd be more open and receptive to a more diverse amount of opinions. With more opinions, they'd be more likely to bump into a discovery than the wasteful crap they do now.

What scientists often fail to do is know things in context. A physics major named Josh revealed the mystery that they didn't need to understand the history of physics to actually do it. It was kind of funny how we then observed with God's lightning aura-ful awe his physics book as a strange alien artifact rather than as more bullshit work, the way he probably saw it. It seems like he's on pace to understand the science's standards well, but probably accomplish nothing earth-shattering. [And this is where anthropologists come in]

Scientists seem to get lost in their "practice" as they succumb to the laws and standards of their field. For example, they probably won't try some chemicals on AIDS or SARS based on history that it could cause other diseases. This kind of specialization to the standards could possibly prevent them from discovering new things. What if it a possible cure in exploration would cause disease in those of Mexican descent, but not Columbian descent ?
It's specialization with only a certain population in mind (most likely white America) that bars them from doing anything.

When you really look at it, discoveries in science have been made through chance, and then gradually improved and tinkered with. The first car engine in the world was 7 feet tall. So was the computer. Experiments are only as useful depending on how realistic their conditions are. People didn't make them because they needed something like it; stuff was developed because the inventors were trying to find a use for it. The scientists in question from the medical field on the other hand are basically making things to do something in trying to find answers to these specific questions. And when scientists formulate things to specifically combat other things, they eliminate other avenues by which to combat other things.

It's a trip that we can't find answers when we need them most, but when they're unneeded, they're all over the place, and we develop a dependence on them. In other words, do we really need to know how big J.Lo's ass is ? How ironic that the least innovation is developed in medicine, arguably the most important field of science. Those humble scientists will tell you we don't know shiet. And often when we don't know anything, we'll stick to what we interpret as facts.

And science and its facts has this dominating domino effect on the social world. We're taking comfort in these "facts." "Facts" that could hold us back because we don't know it's whole effect. Facts like DDT once being an effective pesticide. We've got to get the whole picture, and so when I graduate from either UCSC or UCLA, call me up, and I'll ring you in on histories and science and stuff like that.

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by B.J. on 6/19/2003 05:39:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


Beach Trip

Like Jonn J says on my tag, all my homies and friends, we need to go on a spontaneous beach trip with the whole crew. Preferably everyone on my sidebar link, but them Nor Cal folks couldn't take the blinding of the So Cal ass. And they don't have a ride down here. I don't know my routine for the summer yet, so hit me up on AIM (Darkbluesmoke, in case you forgot) and we'll make "the plan". . .

 

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by B.J. on 6/18/2003 11:35:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


[Edited 12/16/03: Damn I was so PC back in the day. This was me just getting mad at something I wasn't really mad at. But A & F is still something that I see as something that signifies surfer, which happens to predominantly white, culture, so I don't go there at all]

Fuck Abercrombie and Fitch

First time I heard about this corporation was in typing class with a friendly mellow fellow named Ryan Crosner. He had on a little vest, and I was like "who the fuck are they ?" Then about a few weeks later LFO was all the rage with Abercrombie and Fitch. By then I knew who the hell they were, but I still didn't care about them.

Then came last Spring's racist ass shirts.



And I was like aww hell naw. Haha. Funny in a surfer kind of way. I reddened up and they fell off my radar screen in a matter of 2 minutes.

Yesterday I went searching for jobs with me Hane. She told me about how when she was requesting an application, this tall white worker who I suddenly want to snap, crackle, and pop like Rice Krispies took one look at her, seized her up, and said, "We're only looking for people to fill the night shifts." She didn't even say anything about the time of day she was going to work.

And this appeared at about the same time we were job searching : )

Here are some snippets from the article:

"Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing chain that promotes a "casual classic American" look, has been hit with a discrimination lawsuit accusing it of cultivating an overwhelmingly white sales force.

When it does hire minorities, it channels them to stock room and overnight jobs, says the lawsuit, which seeks certification as a class action.

The lawsuit, filed Monday by nine Hispanic and Asian plaintiffs, alleges that Abercrombie discriminates against blacks, Hispanics and Asians. It says company policy requires all sales people to exhibit an all-white "A&F look.

Catalogs and store promotional materials display models who are mostly white, according to the lawsuit.

The company, based in New Albany, Ohio, targets college students with its upscale casual clothing. Its Web site says it features clothing "that compliments the casual classic American lifestyle." It has about 600 stores and some 22,000 employees nationwide."

Why are we backtracking into this 1950s mode of suburban living with these punkass surfers ? The all-white models are disgustingly powdery. I learned to avoid them altogether. However, I realize that's not the only case against A&F. Actually outright discriminating is what will trash these fuckheads. Discrimination goes on just about everywhere, but it'll be super sweet to trash these people that are making minorities think that A&F is the way to subconsciously "be an American." Overall, I hate how this company and how any other "skater" and "surfer" company subjects "Americanism" to white surfer culture. It's just insulting and degrading, but subtly done so.

Please anyone who reads this blog, do NOT make these fuckers rich by buying ANY of their materials. It's about kicking them where it hurts. . .the wallet. . .

 

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by B.J. on 6/18/2003 08:27:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Tumultuous waters right now. . .

Like a perfect storm busting a boat
Trying to keep from drowning and afloat
We cannot fight this storm anymore
Its imperative that we get to shore
I can only hope that its manifest
In our dest iny that we can pass this test
Do we possess the zest to get of thess
Its a mess, and it looks kinda bad
A mad struggle I confess but
I profess that this storm is just a pest
Its all about how we get thru this mess
I suggest we don't give it a rest
We're just a few shy
I don't wanna die. . .

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by B.J. on 6/16/2003 07:58:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


Filipino vs. American Dogs

When I last went visited "the homeland", I noticed that I didn't have to worry about a dog chase or even any barking. I walked unharmed. I even walked the unpaved, and cracked narrow streets within 5 feet of them. The damn dogs just kept staring straight ahead, uninterested, wandering off like that melting clock painting by Salvador Dali.



It's not that the dogs were nice, just that they were asleep. . .with their eyes open, watching time tread like a banana slug. The dogs presented no problems and only moved when they had to; the way they're supposed to be.

However, over here in working/middle class, fast-paced Los Angeles, I have to know when to get off the sidewalk to avoid an annoying hassling by some stupid dog. It really messes up any runner's momentum, and the flight-fight response goes on overdrive. The dogs here seem really hellbent on protecting their massa's property be it a wonderfully trimmed Cutco type of house in West Hollywood or a 10 tenant apartment in Silver Lake. I only know of my Godad's and Godsis' as being human-friendly out of like 500 people I've ever had at least a 2 minute conversation with.

Here in the American media, dogs are portrayed as either:

1) Bulldog mean and ready to rip you like a. . .a. . .a Ripper slammer (See Sandlot)

2) Stupid, nice, obedient, and loyal (Homeward Bound)

And the media is correct about these generalizations (but it's only because we can't get into the minds of dogs). I have yet to really see any dogs in any type of Philippine media, unless someone cracks a joke about us eating them.

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by B.J. on 6/16/2003 08:59:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Generalizing: Apologizing for the stupid blogs of the past

If you ever read them, keep in mind that my thinking rapidly evolved during the Spring Quarter (April 2003-June 2003) thanks to my Human Predicament writing class, Science as Cultural Practice, and Intro to Community Activism class. I learned a lot of shit that quarter, and I'm looking forward to more. . .

I get slightly annoyed whenever I hear people try to sum something up or tell or generalize what that something is about in a sentence (Use one more sentence and its all good). And I've been guilty of generalizing without purpose in this blog. Generalizing is what is done primarily to make connections with other ideas, which I didn't really do. Anyways if you haven't noticed, I have been trying to look at specific things and how exactly they were formed and formed bigger things. . .

 

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by B.J. on 6/16/2003 08:03:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Sizzongs fizzo' the wizzeek !

This is an NBA Street Volume 2 week in remembrance of the NBA Street ritual which occurred in Prescott 419, Cowell College, UC-Santa Cruz from 2002-2003 to mollify and calm the infamous and NBA-street addicted Wibs and Yell, occasionally 'Well on a daily basis. Hane looks down upon my habit.

1) Dilated Peoples and Talib Kweli - Live on Stage (Remix) - This song reminds me of the NYC Rec center in the game, and its working-classiness cracked, and ripped courts symbolizes the struggle and tediousness of a street balla balla.

2) NBA Street Volume 2 Intro - I love the "Bounce ! Bounce ! Nowwhogotgame Whenitcomestothisbayasketbawl. . ." cause this game is just tight.

3) DJ Krush - Dark Lady - The gamebreaker music from NBA Street 1 or NBA 1 as 'Well said he liked. And this song is awesome because its a racy and fiery fast, not just fast or furious, beat.

4) Mindless Self Indulgence - I'm Your Problem Now - In some ways I don't like this music, but I just like that it sounds tight with its use of trance, rap, and grunge rock and uncensored expression.

5) Black Eyed Peas - Where's the Love ? - My sister loves the song, and reminded me how much I loved the song.

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by B.J. on 6/14/2003 10:32:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


Beware of Charities !

Way back on the last Friday during Spring Break, I took Hane and got Keith and Bel to come to this soupline thinking that we'd be all doing good work and end the Break on a fiery note. But then we actually got there and I had to take Hane home before we actually did anything. When I came back, all the adults hogged the work. I suddenly came to the realization, "What the fuck am I doing here ? I'm not doing shit. I'm just helping a few motherfuckers get one meal, and that'll be it." The gist of it was souplines solve hungriness very temporarily, but they don't do much for day-to-day living. This soupline shit is not changing the world, it just makes the helpers look and feel good about themselves in front of the general public.

As images of caring, charities blind people to the fact that they accomplish nothing. We see all this shit on TV, radio, etc. about how this celebrity, this corporation, etc. donates a million bucks to fighting a disease. Citizens with well-meaning intentions donate time and money up the ass. I'm very sure that they're great people. Their efforts are misdirected. . .en masse. Despite all the "noble" deeds they do, I still see homeless and "crazy" people along the artistic streets of Silver Lake. Whilst people are "chroming" it up and spending millions on stupid things like Rolex watches as seen on MTV's Cribs, there are still these people who aimlessly wander the streets begging for a buck. Then, the American media and society loves to consciously and subconsciously beat up on the materially bereft people by telling us stupid folk stories about how these people would use it just to get drunk or high, which may or may not be true. But rarely does the media and society like to talk about how they resorted to just getting drunk and high.

In comes charities to give them short-term help. And help that is mostly about giving them advice. Most are religion-based. And religion tells them to accept being poor and abused because the afterlife will be kinder to them. Secondly, these charities exacerbate the problem by prescribing them all this bullshit mental care or food as short-term fixes when a long-term solution like a house or some unfulfilled material need would have stopped them from "going crazy" in the first place. Thirdly, large-scale charities are run by corporations. They use their proceeds to promote themselves. They don't work with anyone. And because of the exclusiveness of charities, they cannot accomplish anything big, and that's how corporations want to keep it --- divided and conquered.

Charities also cater to the needs of the rich and upper-middle class. The affluent people are glorified to the Ave Maria as "selfless givers" whereas the people receiving are stigmatized as "takers." Receiving charity is just trading in dignity, but people go because they have no other way else to sustain. Supporting charities is like supporting corporations. Knowing that charities only bolster the image, corporation people use charities to legitimize exploitation of workers. For example, McDonalds has that charity, the Ronald McDonald house for diseased kids. Lost in McDonalds' charitable causes is the fact that the people that deal with annoying people all day asking would you like fries with that make 500 times less than their corporate bosses. While I don't wholeheartedly think the guy at the counter should make exactly the same amount of money as the corporate suit because there needs to be incentive to work hard, I think the guy at the counter should make enough to at least survive because he/she probably works hard enough as it is. The government has a paltry minimum wage that works to "help the people", but where's the maximum wage to counter the dominance and influence of rich people in this place we call a democracy, a system predicated on people power ? That's a government job.

However, conservative people want to switch all dependence to charities.

So what's the answer ?

These assistance programs from the government or some wide-scale organization ala LBJ's War on Poverty, which provided job training and education.

How do we get there ? My solutions !

1) Voting and changing the representative people from primarily rich, white middle class to a more diverse background. That equals programs like affirmative action.

2) Some liberal people fuel up their own oil, fabric, and food corporations and make it work for the worker so that our dependence on the mainstream corporations lessens.

3) Unite all charities

4) Kick every heartless rich bastard in the mouth until they say 'yes' to one of the above solutions.

I realize I'd be categorized as a radical by most Americans who read this. I'm sorry that I think that people have the right to sustain. Just because I'm not the posterchild of the church, doesn't mean I can't have righteous intentions. : ) The funny thing is that this view that I hold today can be very well the conservative viewpoint in 100 years for the typical US citizen. . .err. . .the way it is in Europe. . .check the history books folks !

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by B.J. on 6/11/2003 08:46:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


[Edited, mulled over, and clarified on 11/07/03]

What Constitutes 'Interesting' ?

Here I am on the last night at SC listening to my home-dogs Wibs,, 'Well, and Stehvenson Chris or "Chris" as he likes to be called talk about how they were such Civil War nuts from 5th grade. Personally, I could never get interested in that. I also could not get interested in politics news like my Oakland friend 'Yell unless I was posting it up somewhere. I also did not mesh well with most of the music of choice here. I'm still sort of indifferent to Led Zeppelin and A Perfect Circle (hey at least I know about them now) and sad and bitter music ala Chelle and Hane. Reason I'm thinking about all these interests is because I felt looked down upon by the random acquaintences just for not liking the same things 'Well, Yell, and Wibs liked, that I was just some unsophisticated basketball playing asshole. Of course, I don't feel too good about that.

Those acquaintences were just being humans liking certain things over others because it has more meaning to them. Coming from an immigrant-turned US Citizen family, I'm pretty sure I grew up much more differently and exposed to other things from which I gained an interest in. So we all have different interests, but what I'm wondering about is: What makes an 'interesting' person ?

My AP US History and European teacher kept talking about becoming an 'interesting man' by knowing a lot of shit. I also interpreted 'interesting' as 'sophisticated.' My contemporary religion teacher said that 'sophistication' consisted of knowing a little of a variety of things. So, I've established that 'interesting' is about knowing a lot of things. Knowing things makes people unique. And everyone has a story to tell. Why wouldn't they ? But then people tend to hierarchize (or determine which interest is better or worse) whatever and whoever is 'interesting' unconsciously thinking that it is a universal shared interest. There are some things that are considered more important and more useful by the upper crust of Western society, and it's where knowing one thing becomes better than knowing another thing. So the most interesting people know about things that are much more relative to society. The question becomes: Are some things people know truly better than others ?

I think a resounding Ali-like "Hayl naw." Whatever people know and become interested goes in accordance with their society and genes. [Note: There are universalities, but the ways in which those universalities are expressed are very different. For example, some societies will actually enjoy painful rituals like clitorodectomy.] Knowledge spaces (or what people know as fact in different societies and circles) all have their strengths. A tribal person from Sudan can pick out the poisonous berries better than a field scientist in America because that tribal person is around the berries more, but the more credible person is considered to be the scientist. The scientist has just taken a lot of factual information constructed by a variety of other people. He doesn't have the intrinsic info the tribal person has. Closer to home, a dude interested in racing would probably know more about mechanics than any other random college student. People become good at different things, and the interests differ a helluva lot.

There is no 'better' thing to like and there are a lot of things to like. 'Interesting' is whatever piques at you.

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by B.J. on 6/09/2003 06:48:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Plizzaylist for the last week at Santa Cruz till September 2003

A pumping up week as if going home weren't enough to. And I decided to link everything that I could mention thanks to Wibs.

1. Zion I - Silly Puddy - It's got a space odyssey 2001 feel which gives a sense that I'm complete, but that I gotta keep fighting.

2. Aaliyah - Journey to the Past - The best R&B fight song ever.

3. Velfarre Cyber Trance 4 - High energy trance mix that pumps everyone up. Makes for good background music when Wibs and 'Yell play NBA Street Vol 2.

4. Black Sabbath - Iron Man - The little guitar strum at the beginning reminds me of all the people who've ever gotten faded at 4:20 AM/PM (as if I'll forget) and all the cheap 80s effects in Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video. This song sums up Santa Cruz and the times here with 'Well

5. Zion I - Critical - I like the bumpy, casual but distinctly urban beat. Don't know what to make of it but it sounds. . .nice.

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by B.J. on 6/07/2003 02:35:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


This is the Last weekend before Summer

Let me kick it off with a ranp (rant/rap) about my Community Activism 010 class

All I have is this bullshit Comm Ac
So stupid I don't know how to react
In fact its why I'm writing this rap
Cause all I want to do is smack
The stupid hacks with an axe
For making the class lax and cool
Then attack ing us with a big pool
Of whacky q's without warning
Cutting the fuse from my mornings
Really annoyed cause its boring
What else can you really learn
About the firm that is activism
All I discern is the burn with a yearn
With fact and fact but no tact in 'em
Wactivism man fuck those chumps
I was cool earlier in the slumps of
This year with this commac
But now I think it's hella wack.

Top 10 things I learned and pondered on through most of this year:

1) The only thing I learned from Commac is that charity is bullshit. You basically rob people's dignity with it because it implies a kind of condescension from MATERIAL "giver" to "receiver." It legitimizes CEOs being rich because it presents a good image. But notice that charities don't have much to do with social change. They prefer that people remain homeless, in jail, or in mental institution.

2) Who are people to make standards ? Usually rich, white, males. Affirmative action enables the non-rich, non-white, non-males to get a shot at influencing the standards.

3) It's fun to talk about random and asshole people to beat up and "teach them lessons" especially with 'Yell. We're targeting Ryan, "Bitch" Chris on the 3rd floor, and that chem major Alex who snores at the Cowell library. Ryan's some kickboxing dude with a big tire truck. 'Yell and I would have to tag team his ass --- him tackling and fighting him up front and me, taking out his legs from behind. Bitch Chris is some normal-sized condescending punk. 'Yell and I could take him seperately. Alex is a small smearfaced dude who ruined the Zion I concert for me by standing in front of me during the Zion I concert. 'Yell and I were laughing at how this guy wouldn't know what him him. All those punks represent the San Francisco Giants according to A's fan 'Yell.

4) Intellectually, we are in a post-colonial era of thinking. We focus on specific knowledge systems rather than judging everything by our standards.

5) I love my own ethnicity. Filipinos rock.

6) The cooler air is, the denser it is. Therefore, when you run in the cold, you'll get asthma in a hurry. And also, the denser something is, the older it is.

7) I am not a roommate person. 'Well was as flawless a roommate I could ask for, but I got pissed off at the littlest things and it made for a lot of awkward situtations.

8) I could play basketball at a slow pace and still be effective.

9) You don't need to show anyone anything when you are pulled over. Just make sure not to waive that right.

10) There are cool people here at Santa Cruz. 'Well, Wibs, 'Yell, Kenny, Erwin for holding me down. Good times ya'll. Thanks Chris for inviting us to dinners. Yes, it is because you're black. Allison for the rides to and from anywhere. Lauren for making me re-realize that Blackalicious and the underground genre in general is cool. Denise for making legal studies and core "fun". John Price played basketball like a 7-year old ballerina. Alex Mac made me reminisce about old grade school times. Leslie for all the help the homeless stuff. McKenna for the dose of Bob Dylanness and Wally. Will for introducing me to French Rap. Pat and Julian for scaring my parents and friends. Stevenson Chris always had some sarcastic funny shit to say. Erin kicked it. Nils kicked it. Stephanie and Briana were fun to ride the greyhound down with. Mike for holding down that Oceans class. Joy for being hilarious in Community Activism. Raj and Jenny took part in the best project of college yet.

 

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