Sunday, April 12, 2009

Identity Politics

White males have it super easy. When the ephemeral, utterly transient nature of the lives and happiness of the people I love gets me down, I find solace in what’s truly important: the skin colour of the group of clueless, struggling, suffering, slowly dying assholes I happened to have been born into, and the particularity of my reproductive plumbing. This one time the good ole’ boys in the government sent me a white cake in the mail. It was fucking awesome.

RATING: The privileged 50% of the privileged 74%

(Image from eeyore.astro.uiuc.edu.)

18 comments:

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

sweet a grad school post

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

i hat id politics 2 b/c mexicans play thier music 2 loud and gays always complaining bout how no one accepts thier lifestile decisions

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

also, b4 jon from daejon says it:

white people have to deal w/ oppression every day!!!!

John said...

And nBNL, just because you can lift a keg above your head with the greatest of ease is no reason to go picking fights.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

sorry, i just dont know if theres anything funnier than libertarianism

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

wait, jon from daejons the libertarian right?

John said...

We're not supposed to argue about economic politics on the blog anymore because Glenn and Viking Andrew don't think it's fair that they haven't done any reading to support their opinions.

They were talking about it on the phone.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

lol

Viking Andrew said...

That's not exactly how the convo went. I think it was more like:

-You know all those times on R3 when Hayek comes up?

-Yeah.

-That's fucking boring.

-I know.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

tats p. lol too

laurie said...

I think this shit is boring, too. And by that I mean, I have no idea what John is talking about so I usually make tangentially or unrelated comments and/or tell sad stories about my dating life.

Honestly, I don't really care if there is intellectual stuff, boring or otherwise, so long as it's interspersed with funny stuff and/or lowbrow jokes and reviews of candy and beer. So what I'm sayin here people, is that if you don't like the talkie talkie reviews, you should post more of what you want to see. So then there's something for everyone.

In conclusion, are you guys having conference calls without me? Because I do love conference calls.

John said...

@ VA
Forget it. We'll talk about it in person, after I'm done slamming your head in the door of your redneck truck.

John said...

Jesus Christ, I want a cigarette.

Viking Andrew said...

Then get on your bicycle and go buy a pack of cigarettes.

Speaking of the GOBN, I have been given only one speeding ticket (in nine stops) since I bought that truck. Cops love me.

Anonymous said...

WTF, are you guys still smokin and drinkin? What next?

John said...

Bicycle? Ha! Just 'coz I'm white doesn't mean I'm fucking rich.

Anonymous said...

Maybe some good old fashioned fightin!

Justine said...

John: you said binary. LOL

I would pay BIG money to see John on a bike. Just think about it: A corpulent, red-headed, extraordinarily hairy, and freckled man profusely sweating as he huff and puffed across Coit Road.

gotta love it :P