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Jimi 45

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Arkansan by birth and ancestry; North Carolinian by choice (raise up, yo!); Floridian by virtue of my academic specialty.Saiva Hindu. Old, mellow non-racist skinhead. U.S. Army Sergeant in a "former life," now an academic. I am a graduate assistant teaching and learning at the Department of Religion, University of Florida.If I've sent you a friend request out of the blue, it's probably because I'd like to hear your views as part of my thesis research (see "I'd Like to Meet" below) and, well, just because.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I'm looking for contacts with people from various underground music scenes of the punk and post-punk era--punx, skins, ravers, and other indies--who have incorporated Hindu traditions into their subcultural identities. You needn't consider yourself a member of a scene, so much as partake of one or more scenes.Exchange with those interested in/studying philosophy, religion, sociology, anthropology, and/or Indology is also appreciated.

My Blog

Wendy O, Ten Years Gone....

For DAB, one of Wendy’s biggest fans)Wendy O Williams is often called "Queen of Shock Rock," but to me she will forever remain the embodiment of the punk ethos. Many know she was a singer/songwr...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:12:00 GMT

Bloodclot Comes to Florida

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Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:47:00 GMT

Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR

A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that afte...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:40:00 GMT

Sara and Ted Teach Knitting... Sort Of.

Lookie! It's Trailer Talk: episode 4 live and in person! Add to My Profile | More VideosOh, and Sara, on behalf of the state of Florida, your apology is accepted.
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:59:00 GMT

One Great Big (Dysfunctional) Family

Recently the author and cartoonist James Grant posted a series of LiveJournal entries satirizing Wicca, sarcastically dispensing Rede-based wisdom and wishing his journal friend commentators, "Blessed...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:07:00 GMT

More on PFC LaVana Johnson

Was this U.S. Soldier Raped and Murdered in Iraq? Previously I reposted an article about the case of PFC LaVena Johnson, an Army weapons supply specialist with the 129th Corps Support Battalion at For...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:39:00 GMT

The Army Says It Was Suicide, Her Father Thinks She Might Have Been Raped and Murdered

From Tom Shine's ABC News Blog "Politics As Usual":May 01, 2007 12:03 PMarmy private lavena l. johnson was just 19 years old. she had been in iraq for only a few weeks before she was found dead at b...
Posted by on Wed, 02 May 2007 21:03:00 GMT

The Rape of MahaDevi?

You came with no hesitation, O brother,as the form was pleasing to your eyes.You came deluded by a pleasure you heard of,You came lusting after the female formnot seeing that it is a tube from which p...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:25:00 GMT

WHY I'M HERE (That is, why I'm on MySpace)

If you've somehow stumbled into my little blog and wish to read it, you are quite welcome. Mind you, I'm unlikely to update frequently, as my LiveJournal account can attest.I'm an academic, so I consi...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:28:00 GMT