More of the Same

i know...im still a nerd because i find these hilarious too...

Postmodern Humor

the fact that i find this funny speaks to how big of a nerd i am and how much i love 1) foucault, 2) postmodern theory, 3) critical theory

Randomness

I had found you once again--after years of not talking, years of letters started but thrown away, years of wondering if this was finally the end of knowing you.  I had found you...and realized that even standing before you, I had lost you.  There was something in your face, something that said you had stopped believing that life would change or get any better.  I could recall days when your face was the only thing that made me believe in the promise of some future where the wind tastes like salt and the stars stand stark in the sky.  Looking at you now, I couldn't find anything that was left of that past or that future. It was then that I had to give up on the idea that our lives would converge again in some cosmic way and all the regrets, the losses, the broken promises, and even the world would be righted once again.  And so, I left you that night...  

Black Paper

this is where the edges
burn and peel
a black ravine
of dead paper
this is where
i tread
like some
ezekiel prophet
talking in my head
the great beasts turn
their wheels
the air tastes like honey
it is when the edges
turn to flakes of dust
that i dance
some ancient dance
and dream
of dense jungles
where rocks speak
and the trees chatter
where my feet
tread whole on the earth
away from the edgework of the paper...EAC

Ah Memories...

Today, I stretched out on my carpet in the living room and played old mix CDs from "back in the day." I was looking for one song in particular that I had been thinking about for weeks but couldn't remember what CD I had burned it onto...after about three hours of flipping through songs, I heard the first opening chords and closed my eyes and smile....


I was wasted in the afternoon
Waiting on a train
I woke up in pieces
and Elisabeth had disappeared again
I wish you were inside of me
I hope that you're ok
I hope you're resting quietly
I just wanted to say
Good, Goodnight Elisabeth
Goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight
We couldn't all be cowboys
So some of us are clowns
Some of us are dancers on the midway
We roam from town to town
I hope that everybody can find a little flame
Me, I say my prayers,
then I just light myself on fire
And I walk out on the wire once again
And I say
Good, Goodnight Elisabeth
Goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight
I will wait for you in Baton Rouge
I'll miss you down in New Orleans
I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable
And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between
If you wrap yourself in daffodils
I will wrap myself in pain
And if you're the queen of california
Baby I am the king of the rain
And I say
Good,Goodnight Elisabeth
Goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight--Counting Crows

Hating the World Today

I have been working on a project for weeks on a study and possible recovery of Ancient Mayan spirituality as a response to global/environmental crisis in South/Southeast Mexico and Guatemala. In the midst of finding these amazing accounts of how the Modern Maya understand humans, nature, and animals in relationship to consciousness and time, I was sent an article, which saddened me to my core.

Last spring, I had also spent a great deal of time working on a project concerning the femicides in Juarez. Apparently, there is a new wave of "disappearances" of women along the Mexico/Guatemala border. Women coming from Central and South America to the United States in hope of a better life are kidnapped along the way. Unlike Juarez, the women are still missing, and it is unclear as to whether they have been murdered. How sad that we live in a world where certain bodies are deemed "disposable." See a link to the article below.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44706

Molotovs in Mickey Dees...

was sent this article from the North American Animal Liberation Press Office...interesting in light of heavy protests against globalization in the D.F. (Distrito Federal)....more interesting that animal rights has been thrown into the mix...

For Immediate ReleaseNovember 12, 2008
Earth, Animal Liberationists Wage War in Mexico City
received anonymously (translation):
In a first joint action: an informal coordination of groups and individuals for action and for animal and earth liberation, between 4 and 5 in the morning of Friday, November 7, 10 'Bonanno devices' (these are: false bombs, molotov's, incendiary devices... that in this case were 10 false bombs) were placed at the seats of capitalism and exploitation. Those that received this warning were: Burger King's, McDonald's and K.F.C.. In addition to being a sabotage against the exploitation of flora and fauna, the second purpose of this action was to create 'nervousness and paranoia in the institutions of the repressive state', and to break the imposed social order, since those who defend capitalism also defend animal exploitation.
In this decentralized action the 'Bonanno devices' were distributed in different areas of the State of Mexico and Mexico City. The informal coordination of groups and individuals for action and for animal and earth liberation is an informal organization of cells and anonymous individuals that actively struggle to abolish exploitation and capitalism. The Frente de Liberacion Animal, part of this action, is already being seen as a threat, because in all the newspapers of Mexico the news was about an 'animal extremist group;' we know that stronger battles will come and we are ready to fight them.
Those of us who shape this organization claim ourselves: young autonomous, subversive and rebellious, maintaining a permanent conflict against capitalism, exploitation and the state. Not one step back ... against exploitation ... direct action and confrontation!
This action is claimed by: The informal coordination of groups and individuals for action and for animal and earth liberation:
-Frente de liberacion animal [Animal Liberation Front] -brigada de combate vegano barry horne [Brigade of Vegan Fighter Barry Horne] -The Angry Vegan Brigade -Milicias por los derechos de los animales [Militias for Animal Rights] -F.L.A. celula 5 [ALF cell 5] -Comando verde negro [Green-Black Commando] -Celula eco-anarquista por el ataque directo [Eco-Anarchist Cell for Direct Attack] -Circulo autonomo de accion por la liberacion [Autonomous Circle of Action for Liberation] -Brigada subversiva 11 de septiembre. [September 11 Subversive Brigade]

A Promise...

I have not been posting...obviously, but I promise to be more diligent...starting now, for anyone who reads my random thoughts. Life has been rather hectic and awful most currently and I have had little time for breathing....or inspiration.

No Exit

All I can say today is...

"L'enfer, c'est les autres..." --Sartre

Protest

I had written in a post below that I would explain some of the pictures from my most recent trip to Mexico. One of the hot topics while I was there was President Felipe Calderon's proposal regarding Mexico's oil company PEMEX. The proposal has been labled as the privatization of PEMEX which is actually forbidden by the Mexican Constitution. NPR has an article regarding this issue and I am supplying the link below.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90402097