February 25, 2000
I'd like to discuss a new chronic affliction:
I'm usually hit hardest in book and music stores.
It starts like this:
I waltz into a book/record store,
Convinced that I am only browsing...
Three hours later, I shift a heavy armload of merchandise
to the one arm not Completely Drained of Blood,
and when I open up the previously victimized arm from
the awkward, merchandise-carrying angle it had been in,
an acute blast of pain courses throughout my forearm.
Nearly all of my money later,
I limp out of the book/record store with a bag
full of goodies and a sore arm.
Tough break.
Consumerism ain't the easy thang it's cracked up to be.
I went up North this past weekend via Train... got a real
good look at California's belly -- all the massive amounts of
farms and fields and whatnot...
I realized that cows resemble fleas,
the way they spread across green pastures,
feeding off the earth's scalp.. but y'know..
they've got really cute little noses that move around
the ground, snuffling for food, and they lift their
muzzles into the air, licking their chops and gazing at you
with warm, wet mammal eyes...
Also, from the train you can see into the backyards
and alleyways
and Little Forbidden Niches
and I noticed that some warehouses keep illegal tigers
as guard dogs. The jungle cats have these sad, dirty faces.
In other news of things that disgust me,
there's this little sick Proposition
floating around California voter ballots about now.
It's the Knight Proposition -- Prop. 22,
which essentially states that Marriage shall be
between a man and a woman in California... nothing new.
However, it's blossomed into this big, stinkin' ordeal.
Right Wingers have these commercials out where schoolkids
chant robotically "We want to protect marriage!" And
all over Los Angeles, I see banners going up in support of
the damn thing.
The opposition has not organized well. The "No on Knight"
committee has tried to put out scare tactics, claiming
that this prop. will interfere with the lives of gay couples
and deny them certain rights, and all kinds of outrageous
things that .. that just aren't true.
The reason we should all
is that it's stupid to vote in favor of something
that doesn't change anything.
See, Peter Knight is this dullard politician who can't
come to grips with the fact that his son is gay.
Instead of talking to his kid or going into therapy
or... fucking dealing with it....
he's drafted this little number and too many people
are taking it seriously.
In an era where we should be getting over old and silly
prejudices against other races and sexual orientations,
we should be voting towards things which enable
gay marriages, not those which discriminate.
Nobody wants their right to marry the person they love
Controlled by their goddamn state,
why continue to inflict that on homosexuals?
Besides, it's counter-constitiutional.
We're moving ever closer to state control,
ladies and gentlemen.
..that terrifies me.
Historically, nothing but grand old travesties like
Jim Crow Laws
come of that form of government.
In any case, a good friend aptly pointed out that in a society
that produces Television shows like "How to Marry a Millionaire",
it's pretty fucking hypocritical to suddenly pretend that marriage
is this Sacred Institution we must protect against those
Sinful Homosexuals.
Another friend suggested a good commercial about the
whole prop.22 ordeal would be this:
A gay couple is shown kissing/fondling intimately.
A regular joe kinda guy steps in front of the camera, scowling.
He gestures to the couple and says, "Them there's faggots!"
He shoots them.
A banner comes up: Yes on Prop 22.
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