By the way

this week's stranger, is really good. It is focused around the single idea of the Urban Archipelago, the chain of city islands across the country.


It's time to state something that we've felt for a long time but have been too polite to say out loud: Liberals, progressives, and Democrats do not live in a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. We live on a chain of islands. We are citizens of the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America. We live on islands of sanity, liberalism, and compassion--New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and on and on. And we live on islands in red states too--a fact obscured by that state-by-state map. Denver and Boulder are our islands in Colorado; Austin is our island in Texas; Las Vegas is our island in Nevada; Miami and Fort Lauderdale are our islands in Florida. Citizens of the Urban Archipelago reject heartland "values" like xenophobia, sexism, racism, and homophobia, as well as the more intolerant strains of Christianity that have taken root in this country. And we are the real Americans. They--rural, red-state voters, the denizens of the exurbs--are not real Americans. They are rubes, fools, and hate-mongers.

I think that I have given up on the novel for this year

Maybe next year. I would like to go out tonight and smoke ciggarettes and drink whisky. I think that i would be better served with sleep though.
By the way, the fancy new address?

notatyrant@fuckshitpussyfuck.com

maybe now that it is posted, I will start getting some nice spam.

I don't check it that often, but when I do, boy howdy.

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Dawson's Creek

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There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Dawson
From: "vatasha27"
2. Re: Dawson
From: Jenny Harrison
3. Re: Dawson
From: Joseph Warren
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:17:47 -0000
From: "vatasha27"
Subject: Dawson

How has the show influenced you?
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:01:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Jenny Harrison
Subject: Re: Dawson

i would say the show has influenced me to think that there will always
be a sole mate in our lives in one way or another and that the friend
we however how far we may be apart we will always be close

Jenny
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:00:55 -0800
From: Joseph Warren
Subject: Re: Dawson


I think that DC helped me develop a context for understanding American
popular youth culture in the late 1990s. The clever, even smart ass,
ironic diologue was only a slight exageration of the way we actually
talked back in those days. Young people spoke with an ironic
disconnection and overanalysis of their own lives and actions that
teetered on the brink of narcicism. While, as a generation, we
thought we were doing this as a defense mechanism, on some deep level,
protecting us from emotions that we didn't understand, it left us cold
when real emotion hit. So after practicing overanalyzing our every
heartbeat, and remaining essentially cold to everything, when we felt
something as young adults TOTALLY real, it was an overwhelming shock.
Better than any show, Dawson's creek was able to capture this mood,
capture this code of youth language and interaction, with each other
and with a clearly stupider adult world.

It represented a time in our history that is already gone, for better
or for worse.


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Ben folds recorded a song

in tribute to elliott smith. I can't wait to hear that record. I have been listening almost exclusively to "From a Basement on a Hill" and the brilliantly realized "Smile" for the last couple of days because they are the only C.D.s I own not locked away in the garage waiting for me to move.

I have always thought that Ben Folds was a great complement to Elliott Smith. The sadness and the humor in their songs, the brilliant understanding of pop melody, the ability to be punk as fuck and be playing a piano always made sense. Anyway, I can't wait to hear it.

In other, slightly more bizarre news, Linsay Lohan is working to catch up with Hillary Duff and apparently has a single out. I haven't heard it yet.

The Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator

Okay, the Home Defibrillator is funny on its own, but more funny is this review of the product:

14 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

***** I USE THIS THING EVERY DAY!, November 6, 2004

Reviewer: Bruce Allen "Bruce" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews

So your morning coffee just doesn't quite do the job? Then try this little baby for an electrifying start to your day! After waking up and having my shower, I attach the pads to my chest and give myself a couple of good jolts of juice and I'm wide awake! Yessirre, this little device is the best thing on the market and it's now available for home use! I'm even gonna send a petition to city hall to have these things installed on the street corners too! Wait! Don't stop there! What about phone booths, subway stations, shopping centers and public washrooms too? There are no limits to where this thing can go. The AED is simple to use and the instructions guide you through the entire process, so there's no guesswork! Best invention since sliced bread in my opinion! Thank-you Philips for such a practical invention. You've put the spark back in my morning!