Ugh

So we survived the Idiot-fest around here known as Homecoming Weekend.
What a bunch of beered up no-necked football freak asses. What the hell are
these people thinking? Do they not realize that there are people who live in
this town? Sometimes I almost feel like they treat the locals like the people
the meet on cruise ships. You know, the staff, there to wait on them hand and
foot and their only reason for existence is to serve them. Kegs and eggs, yea,
6am beer and breakfast. Someone should shoot half of these bar owners who
are helping to foster this crap yet do not have to pick up any more of the tab
than those of us who do not condone it. If you want to drink at 6am, fine, get
pissed. But do not do it on the streets of town, stay home you pathetic hunk of
crap. And next time, wear a condom. Your sweet little child is a complete
asshole when your not here. It is yet another University Sponsored fiasco that
the citizens have to clean up after. I am sick of the two-faced policies of the
University here in Athens. First the say we do not sponsor anything outside of
the university, yet they facilitate the reason for it happening. It is like that area
on Richland Avenue where the kid got run over. The section that looks like a
crosswalk; is built like a crosswalk and even seems like a crosswalk, but OU says
it was a decoration. Um, this is like when the government started dropping
anti-personnel bombs that looked like food relief packages. Not a bright idea.
Next we have to face the problem of Halloween. If you have never been to
Halloween in Athens, let me save you some time. Start on a Friday. Get 50 people
to come park in front of your house badly for 3 days. Throw trash all over your
yard, get drunk and puke on your car. Grease the bottom of your shoes and bash
yourself in the head with an Athens Brick. It is the same effect and you get to do it
without ever leaving home! So, when you recover from the hangover, broken bones,
and concussion, you too can feel the joy of being an Athens Resident when you get
to clean up the mess the next day. Have half of the cars now drive in circles
around your block with the exhaust pipes re-routed back into the passenger
compartment. Join in at some point to make a 20-minute store run, make it last 2
hours. Get your mailbox stuffed with University propaganda about how not to get
busted for underage drinking, yet do it anyway. Begin a screaming match at 3am
until you puke on yourself again. Repeat on Saturday. Get everyone you know to
try to circle your block for 3 hours on Sunday, all with hangovers.

Now the city kicks over 40 thousand dollars towards this idiocy. They cry about
the fact that taxes need to be raised to help pay for city services, yet they do this.
I say let us put a stop to this wholesale uncontrolled bull once and for all. Let the
police clear the streets at 2am in a new way. Use riot squads at both ends and fire
hoses, arrest them as they leave for failure to comply with law enforcement. Bet
that will generate more than 40k for the city general fund. I would also lay odds
that the party would start to drop after a year or two of this.Come to Athens for
the Block Party, act like an idiot, go to jail.

Maybe I should tell you all how I realy feel.

Till next time,

Be mindful and awake

Okay, what do you want for free?

So September slipped by with little to no updates. I have been way busy and October does not seem to be getting much better, so there it is.

Urban.

So I was thinking about Urban Myths. To have a mythology one must have a culture. With culture there is some accepted baggage so lets go down that road for a bit and see where it leads us.

So, if you have urban myths, there must be some sort of urban culture. Now, there are those who would argue that there is urban culture, but I say it is, like Canadian culture, an invention of social scientists to explain something they have no words for. Consider if you will, the idea that each distinct cultural group has traditional foods that are identified with their culture. When was the last time you heard someone say "Hey! Lets go out for Urban food tonight!" No one does, just like Canadian food. We accept the idea of urban myths and urban music, but moving on with the urban cultural theme, are there people who identify themselves as a cultural group, like say Italian-Americans, Celtic-Americans, or Chinese-Americans? Ever hear someone say, "I am half Urban-American." I would guess not. Now, with cultural groups one can usually identify language as a common trait. I say this again disqualifies the urban culture idea. While I do agree there are urban terms, like bum, pimp, gangsta, and such, they are not distinctly unique to any given area. For example, take a West Coast rapper and put him in a room with an East Coast rapper. There are words that while they are both "Urban" they will not understand. Their base language is English. What they speak is not even a pinyin, it is more of an obscurity/popularity driven language. For example, consider how silly someone now sounds to us if they use the 1970’s version of urban language. To put it bluntly, "Mo-fo gonna done get his ass shot." To translate this into the more modern urban lingo "Bitch gonna get capped." The words while different are conveying the same messages and insults in general, "The poor unfortunate person who does not know the modern "hip" version of the language will surely be a victim of high velocity lead poisoning. "

I guess there is a beauty in simplicity.

Word,
Till next time
Be mindful and awake, my bitches.
Over and out!