Eh?

Mars Volta "Frances the Mute" listening party
Wednesday Feb. 23rd @ Seedy's after 9pm
Chances to win Mars Volta shit

BINGO! Here's the ones I was looking for:

Lavigne, Avril
1-613-532-4092


Simpson, Ashlee
1-310-254-7114


Speaking of BINGO... anyone going tonight? Gimme a ringalingading on the old cellomaphone.

Shit, that was fast.

So, apparently the constantines and weakerthans didn't get cancelled after all. Although the constantines aren't listed on ticketmaster as playing this show with the weakerthans, they ARE. Here's the info, douchebags:

The Students Union of The University of Alberta Present

The Weakerthans and The Constantines at The Powerplant [located on the U of A Campus]
Thurs April 21st and Fri April 22nd
Doors:8:00pm
ALL AGES and Licensed w/ID
Tickets are $17 and are available at Blackbyrd Myoozik, Listen Records, Ticketmaster, Powerplant, and Hub, Sub, Cab and ETLC Info Desks

word, nigs.

that just sounds like White People taking control over what can be said by whom- same old story of authority- they been telling others where they should sit on the bus, and where they should build those railroads for ages.








shit, chill out, that was just a joke.




my point is that we've been over all this shit long before, and there's really no point going over the same arguments again and again.

all these discussions of so-called representational politics really don't mean all that much considering they only happen within very particular contexts. Alison i doubt you would raise the same issues of word-use if you were in a Ghetto Project in the States (regardless of what skin tone that person was) just as i would not try to explain the usage of cunt or douchebag to 3rdwave Feminists. so what does that all mean? it means we're always more likely to stage political battles where it's safe, instead of where politics actually occurs- where regular people are "just doing their thing". academics and political minded people have this false notion that they're making these radical political observations and instigating changes when really have little control over the actions everyday people.


if anything, our usage of the nigga is entirely self-reflexive, and understanding of its politic/satirical consequences-regardless of taste (which i think is what you actually disagree with most), it's used as a matter of effect, not of Hate.

There's been a distinct lack of "What _______ are you?" quizzes lately...
or I've just been ignoring them all together.

I'm going to bring up the issue of racial slurs again... I find it disconcerting to read words like "niggas" coming from much of anyone... as I would to read just about any other slur out there... like douchebag (which I still stand by, and am happily making the rest of you uncomfortable enough to stop saying it around me... huzzah!) it's one thing to claim that a word has been "reclaimed" if you are the one who formerly had the word used against you, but outside of that context, I still have a lot of problems with it, and bristle at the use. e.g. any guy using the word 'cunt' as a pejorative versus the way a woman uses it. and, either you're going to get what I'm saying or not, but I'm not going into it any further. I just think we ought to know better than this, given the average education level of people on here being at least highschool.

Alison, I heard this on Kids in the Hall this weekend, and thought of you.

Kevin on the topic of peeing at night:
"I usually flush; but, I'm getting more conscious environmentally. So, last night I peed in the blue box."