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About Me

This be Magilla Guerilla: I'm a 36 year old assistant professor at a state university.More specifically I guess I could be considered political rhetorical scholar. However, my future scholarship includes economic rhetoric, terrorist rhetoric and some smattering of intercultural communication.In my spare time I design corncob pipes, write fake letters to televangelists, tap dance Morse code to our troops in world war 2, and am building a nekkid robot Abe Lincoln to crush my foes and soda cans. I am starting a campaign to change the US Constitution to include more lithographs of powdered-wig spankings.

My Interests

Politics (lefty), music, communication, humor, and getting trashed on Listerine...

I'd like to meet:

I am open to discuss all sorts of things, which is a very vague statement and will be subject to defining as time goes on.

Music:

Ween, The Pixies, Modest Mouse, The Delgados, Broken Social Scene, ...Trail of Dead, Islands, The Coup, The Dead Kennedys, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, Mercury Rev (pre-all is dream), Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction (not that Strays crap). Bishop Allen, Les Savy Fav, The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, Frank Black, Butthole Surfers, The Thermals, Serena Maneesh, The Sex Pistols...Oh there are so many but you get the idea.

Movies:

The Godfather I, Apocalypse Now, The Life of Brian, In the Name of the Father, Ghetto Booty 1 & 6 (2-5 were worthless and sell outs. The booty got started at 1 took a break and then really turned out in 6!). And the Scariest movie of all time BLACULA! (thanks Inspectah aka Mistah Killah)

Television:

The Simpsons (seasons 2-6), BSG, Curb your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Futurama, Family Guy, The Office (both), MASH...

Books:

Catch 22, A Confederacy of Dunces, Breakfast of Champions, East of Eden, The Metaphors we Live by, Hells Angels, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Illuminatus! Trilogy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Licking Goat Balls for Fun and Profit: The Magilla Guerrilla Biography.

My Blog

Dirt doesnt need luck!

Pre-rambleNo rest for me. I just got done with my first year at a university as an assistant professor and I'm still working. I am going over to Russia to teach for the summer and I have to prep two c...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:44:00 PST

My next clue came at 4:15, when the clock stopped. And another came 2 hours later at 4:15.

Pre-RambleThis seems to be the section of the blog post where I remark about how I should be doing something else. For today I should be grading papers, but I've read and graded five of them. You have...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:33:00 PST

Yes, that sequence of words I just said made perfect sense.

Pre-RambleDamn. I started to write this section "gloating" about being able to gripe about another writing project other than my dissertation. However, I checked and found that I already did that in t...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:31:00 PST

Man hes really good a strangling Robots.

Pre-RambleUsually in this section I comment on how I should be working on my dissertation. My dissertation is essentially done. However, I have been burdened with another writing process. So of course...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:05:00 PST

This concludes the part of the tour where you stay alive.

Pre-RambleSuccess! I successfully defended my dissertation. I actually enjoyed the whole process. I went in scared shitless but as soon as I began to assess the situation it went smoothly. My chair sa...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:52:00 PST

Ugh, it’s like there’s a party in my mouth and everyone’s throwing up.

Pre-RambleAccording to the "blog" stats there has been 542 views of my "blog" (I hate the term blog". I refuse to believe that. I refuse to believe a lot of things. Again, I'm the perfect nihilist bec...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:50:00 PST

You buy one pound of underwear and youre on their list forever.

Pre-RambleHello non-entities. I defend this week. Yep, it all comes down to this Friday when I walk into a room of firve accomplished PhDs and defend three years of my life. A colleague put it in a wa...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:54:00 PST

Comedys a dead art form. Now tragedy, thats funny.

Pre-RambleI in a week or so defend. That's right it all rides on that day. I either walk out of there as Dr. Wham Doozle or not. If it's any indication of how I feel about it; the night I found out I ...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:03:00 PST

I just want to drink a nice glass of syrup like I do every morning.

Pre-RambleGive my regards to James Joyce's Ulysses. Here I am again writing for the sake of...hmmmm....I can't call it writing. This isn't writing. Well this IS writing but it's not writing that pays ...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:30:00 PST

Do I preach to you while youre lying stoned in the gutter?

Pre-RambleMy life is one big party. It's Saturday night and I'm posting this crap. I guess when you hit my age this is what you do. Well not this...this is just pathetic but you don't go out and get ...
Posted by Magilla Guerrilla on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:33:00 PST