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James

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About Me


Irish-American. History Nerd. Anarchist. Library worker. I'm into Labor and workers rights, and taking care of books. I like hanging out in bars drinking yuengling, maybe playing dice. I read obsessively, with a death wish to my social life. I like seeing people, but on my own terms.
I live with a cat named Ham Sandwich.
You can see me often on saturday nights at wooden shoe books at 508 s. 5th street. Check us out at http://www.woodenshoebooks.com
I dig unions and workers rights. Regular volunteer and supporter of Philly Jobs with Justice, a coalition of labor unions, churches, student groups, and other groups here in Philly fighting for a better city. go here: http://www.phillyjwj.org/
if you're interested in my daily life (ha ha) go to here. My livejournal blog.
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My Interests

accents, organizing, anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, anti-consumerism, anti-war, beans, beer, bikes, bill hicks, books, butts, cats, cheap thrills, comics, conversation, cooking, cute ladies, dancing, dennis leary, diy, drunken conversations, eating, film, folk, tales, food, gardening, geeks, george carlin, good rockin' times, graphic novels, ham sandwich (the cat), history, ireland, labor, unions, kissing, libraries, bike rides, museums, northern ireland, pennsylvania, people watching, philadelphia, philly, rasputin russian imperial stout, reading, revolutionary history, satire, sex, sleeping, studs terkel, tank girl, tattoos, the written word, littering in center city, writing reviews underground comics, unions, urban legends, vegetarianism, video games, fishtown, wooden shoe books and records, writing, yuengling, zines, weeklies, philadelphia daily news, coffee, dive bars, irish pride, coffee, late nights, the shore, north philadelphia, fishtown and the river wards, libraries, and you.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a sense of humor.
Also:

Oh, and also a bunch of people I know in real life but don't want to post their pictures here.

Music:

bad brains, bikini kill, bratmobile, clash, tiger army dead boys, elvis, flogging molly, free kitten, hazel dickens, joe hill, julie ruin, le tigre, leadbelly, manu chao, mary prankster, mdc, minor threat, mississipi john hurt, nikblic henbane, pogues, poison girls, the coup, utah phillips, woody guthrie, the roots, mountain goats, flogging molly, pogues, johnny cash, even a little 50 Cent. and more. These days, I'm not real up-to-date with music since I can't listen to music at work.

Movies:

Happiness, apocalypse now, clockwork orange, Roger and Me, Dr. Strangelove, Happiness, Bad Santa, Super Troopers, the Big Lebowski, Land and Freedom, star wars, star trek, reds, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Evil Dead I & II, Army of Darkness, the Mantuan, bad santa, salt of the earth, office space, American Splendor

Television:

star trek, simpsons, family guy, philadelphia eagles, king of the hill, judge judy, sopranos

Books:

Living My Life by Emma Goldman, Star Trek novels, How the Irish Became White, Guide to Urban Biking, ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman, Strike! By Jeremy Brecher, Redneck Manifesto, Illuminatus! Trilogy, Indubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, Indubious Battle, 1984, Animal Farm, Mutual Aid by Kroptkin, Guide to Getting It On, Revolutionary Suicide by Huey Newton, Maus, Working by Studs Turkel, People's History of the Vietnam War, What's My Name, Fool? by Dave Zirin, 5 Years in the Warsaw Ghetto, Horizontalism by Marina Sitrin and just about everything that AK Press sends me in the mail.

Heroes:

Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Abbie Hoffman, Durrutti, Alexander Berkman, Muhammed Ali, Robin Hood, De Clyre, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, John Brown, Ethan Allen, Nate Green, Jim Brown, Caesar Chavez, James Connolly, every last person who's lost their lives while fighting explotation, slavery, and tyranny throughout history.Oh, and George Carlin and Bill Hicks.and Librarians. And organizers.Especially organizers.

My Blog

Powr Campaign: Security and Insecurity in N. Philly

Security and Insecurity in N. PhillyRonnie Polanczky from the Daily News writes...http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/ronnie_p olaneczky/20071106_Ronnie_Polaneczky___For_guards__workplace _insecu...
Posted by James on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:31:00 PST

livejournaling it

Seriously, myspace is for pictures and messages, not journals. Go to http://www.livejournal.com/users/satanscientist/ if you actually want to read about what's going on with me and aren't just in...
Posted by James on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:21:00 PST

heart beats

heart beats I can hear it, thumping, thumping, thumping jabs and stabs, fencing lances bring pain, low and sinking I can feel it,and it don't go away Used to be the cold dark I regreted and dread ...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hunger

Hunger Gnaws at my bones hunger Want hunger I, as in me, as in my body and my mind, yearns, for you hunger For what? hunger I loved, got beat, lost, rose, and loved again. ...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Tit pics

Why do so many people on Myspace post nudie/semi-nudi pictures of themselves? I'm on friendster, livejournal, and thefacebook as well, and no body overloads their profiles with sexy sexy hot pictures ...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What the hell do you want for xmas???????? Fuckin free-loaders.

I remember my friends, and who's been good to me, and who's been not. I kill them, if not. If they've been good, I get them covered in chocolate and EAT them. Yum-yum. So don't be bad to ...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My Experiment

For full text with pictures: http://www.livejournal.com/users/satanscientist/80136.html The shaggy look I made a New Year's resolution in 2004, to conduct a year long experiment. I shaved my en...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

rattling

I never believed in a soul only flesh and mind bones break, wounds heal, infections, and blood pumping stay together, boy, ain't much more bullets zipping, and mortars exploding dis...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

hellas

Analogies come play whither publish the words of a thousand years ago burnt, trashed, pillaged It survives, mocking those who tried to shut it. In a thousand years, when my bones have turn...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

late night musing

I'm in love with danger, Longing for stability and infatuated with loss and death. As the casualties roll in and the faces cross the screen I long for familiarity. My flesh eaten ...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST