muskegon life, chapter seven (with nazis & cops) this one's pretty good
- so this guy comes in the shop with a tribal-type swastika looking thing on his arm, so i put on some dead prez. the song "i'm a african" comes on right away and he says that he went to school with a girl that was born in africa & raised in the u.s., but she's white. like that's a physical abnormality. i told him that a large part of the population of south africa is white people and he looked at me like i was lying to him. he said that he didn't know anything about that. i think he got bummed when i said that ignorance really must be bliss a little too loudly. racism.
- why are we a port city with little, to no, dock space? why aren't there boats and ships of all shapes and sizes out in the lake? oh yeah, because muskegon lake is sick as hell and there's nothing along the lakeshore to inspire people to hang out in lake michigan. silly me. you'd think we're have a boardwalk, some docks, some fishing, some businesses down near the waterfront, but no. there's some carp fishing and a telemarketing business. muskegon is dumb. we've taken something that could have been, and once was, a thriving area and fucked it beyond repair. we're idiots.
- lots of one less car mail the last couple days. packages going out to the u.k., scotland, sweden, washington, oregon, california. i never would have thought...
- got a zine in the mail today from a kid in portland. he got the address from the website and sent his latest issue and some stickers, just for the hell of it. i read most of it this afternoon and it's awesome. i sent him a return package with a bunch of patches, stickers and a note saying that he's rad for doing what he did. thanks scott. check out his website at www.gobybicycle.com. i'm going to review it and give his contact info on the 1lesscar website. being that we've gotten over 150,000 hits so far this month i think some people will see it and hook him up. yeah, over 150,000 hits.
- ebay brought me burning witch's "crippled lucifer - seven psalms for our lord of light" and two dvd's (two hours each) of daffy duck, bugs bunny and elmer fudd cartoons. score.
- the ride to work this morning was amazing, being stuck in here all day isn't though. i've spent most of the day out on the sidewalk.
- cops stopped me last night on my way home. i go his card. that makes number six in the collection. he stopped me for a supposed stolen bike, but it turned into a graffiti conversation quickly. go figure. i guess it's been popping up more frequently and guess who's under the gun? ridiculous. what really gets me though is that amongst all the questions and what-not he managed to get my phone number from me. bastards. i realized it too late and was like, "fuck!!!" but now, due to that amazing act of patriotism they will be able to run my number and get the numbers of everyone i've called and everyone who has called me. i'll be changing my number soon. and hopefully my address. i'm getting restless being in that same apartment for six months anyway. six months is about my limit.
- why are we a port city with little, to no, dock space? why aren't there boats and ships of all shapes and sizes out in the lake? oh yeah, because muskegon lake is sick as hell and there's nothing along the lakeshore to inspire people to hang out in lake michigan. silly me. you'd think we're have a boardwalk, some docks, some fishing, some businesses down near the waterfront, but no. there's some carp fishing and a telemarketing business. muskegon is dumb. we've taken something that could have been, and once was, a thriving area and fucked it beyond repair. we're idiots.
- lots of one less car mail the last couple days. packages going out to the u.k., scotland, sweden, washington, oregon, california. i never would have thought...
- got a zine in the mail today from a kid in portland. he got the address from the website and sent his latest issue and some stickers, just for the hell of it. i read most of it this afternoon and it's awesome. i sent him a return package with a bunch of patches, stickers and a note saying that he's rad for doing what he did. thanks scott. check out his website at www.gobybicycle.com. i'm going to review it and give his contact info on the 1lesscar website. being that we've gotten over 150,000 hits so far this month i think some people will see it and hook him up. yeah, over 150,000 hits.
- ebay brought me burning witch's "crippled lucifer - seven psalms for our lord of light" and two dvd's (two hours each) of daffy duck, bugs bunny and elmer fudd cartoons. score.
- the ride to work this morning was amazing, being stuck in here all day isn't though. i've spent most of the day out on the sidewalk.
- cops stopped me last night on my way home. i go his card. that makes number six in the collection. he stopped me for a supposed stolen bike, but it turned into a graffiti conversation quickly. go figure. i guess it's been popping up more frequently and guess who's under the gun? ridiculous. what really gets me though is that amongst all the questions and what-not he managed to get my phone number from me. bastards. i realized it too late and was like, "fuck!!!" but now, due to that amazing act of patriotism they will be able to run my number and get the numbers of everyone i've called and everyone who has called me. i'll be changing my number soon. and hopefully my address. i'm getting restless being in that same apartment for six months anyway. six months is about my limit.