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Deric

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.--Don Marquis

About Me

Nice, working class Indiana boy ISO other nice working class folks for long walks in the Nature Preserve, potlucks, movie watching, light sparring and grappling, and dismantling all institutionalized forms of domination, coercion, and control.

My Interests

POKIN' YOU IN THE MOTHERFUCKING EYE!!!!! Pomosexuality.

I'd like to meet:

Radicals, anarchists, post-modernists, anti-racists, feminists, Situationists, drinkers, smokers, utopians, anti-capitalists, egoists, high-asses, ashamed elitists, critics, socialists, communists, communards, world-travellers, adventurers, geeks, rockers, shit-talkers, squatters, queers, peaceniks, lovers, fighters, troubadours, wild-eyed crazies, prophets who aren't religious, risk-takers, love-makers, love-takers, ne'er-do-wells, noise-heads, cultural pluralists, you know the deal....

Music:

Sebadoh

Television:

Anything with a ninja or a dragon

Heroes:

Jacquelyn Arsenuk
Andy Jackson
Nicole Stewart
William Armaline
Josh Young
Maria Yates
Abraham Deleon
Delicia Garcia
Amney Harper
John Wyatt
Daniel Cecil
Lisa Fett
Erick Sherman
David Rozza
Laura Rozza
Abbey Willis
Sennea Raslan
Mary Burke
Food Not Bombs and IndyMedia activists
single moms
wage slaves

My Blog

I Wont be Voting. Again.

I won't be Voting. Again.Deric ShannonI have to admit, I'm a little tired of the subject altogether. In the U.S., it seems there's a new hysteria whenever election time comes 'round again and as the f...
Posted by Deric on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:09:00 PST

Critical Animal Studies: A Reply to the Mainstream

These are letters from Steve Best and Richard Kahn to an animal studies listserv discussing the implications of current, mainstream academic "animal studies".Enjoy!!-----------------------------------...
Posted by Deric on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:44:00 PST

Happy Mother's Day

Wrote this on Mother's Day, 2007.On Mother's Day, I remember my mom. My father left us when I was thirteen years old and my mother was left with three children--me being the worst. When I was younger,...
Posted by Deric on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:48:00 PST

Seeing you cry

I guess seeing you cry upset me the most because I know what it's like.That is, you look around and see what's in front of your face. You come up with a better idea of how those things might look if w...
Posted by Deric on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:36:00 PST

The Farce

First, as we all entered the building we were forced to empty our pockets and put the contents in tiny, plastic trays. Then we were herded under the eye of the needle, like camels carrying passenge...
Posted by Deric on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:34:00 PST