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Boots

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About Me


Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||| 26%
Stability |||||||||||||||| 66%
Orderliness |||||||||| 33%
Accommodation |||||||||||| 50%
Interdependence |||||| 30%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Mystical |||||||||||||||| 63%
Artistic |||||||||||||||| 63%
Religious |||||| 30%
Hedonism |||||||||||||||| 70%
Materialism |||||| 30%
Narcissism |||||||||||||| 56%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Work ethic |||||||||||||||| 63%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||| 56%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||||| 56%
Need to dominate |||| 16%
Romantic |||||||||||| 50%
Avoidant |||||||||||| 46%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Wealth |||||||||||| 43%
Dependency |||||||||| 36%
Change averse |||||| 23%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Individuality |||||||||||| 43%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||| 70%
Peter pan complex |||||| 26%
Physical security |||||||||||| 50%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||||||| 70%
Histrionic |||||||||||| 43%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Vanity |||||||||||| 50%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||| 36%
Female cliche |||| 16% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Interests

football riots, romantic origins of mythic insurrections, your name and social security number, my facial hair and beer belly

I'd like to meet:

these marvelous specimens of righteous working-class anti-government anger:

(in case you can't read the signs, one said "Believeing in Fairies Leads to SODOMY and HELL". The one on the left just has the word "FAIRIES" crossed out.)
After seeing what sharp analysis the Right has to offer, I'm looking for a right wing activist to become drinking buddies with, and learn and grow with. I'd prefer someone a bit younger than these two - 25-35 ideally. I'd also prefer to do with out the overkill of facial hair the gentleman on the left is displaying. IM me!

Music:

Cock Sparrer, Dylan, Immortal Technique, Sepultura, Wu Tang, Godspeed You Black Emperor, 2Pac, Nation of Ulysses, Los Crudos, Fela Kuti, Coltrane, Nina Simone, Nas, Burning Spear

Movies:

State of Siege, Fight Club, Sho-gun Assasin, who knows what else...

Television:

haven't had one for several months now. I miss the sports but thats about it.

Books:

I think the best writers in the English language were Hemingway and Burroughs, in terms of prose so thick you could cut it with a butter knife. I like the storytelling styles from contemporary African writers (Achebe, Ngugi, Farah) and old Russian novels. My biggest theoretical influences are probably Reich, DuBois, C.L.R. James, Butch Lee, J. Sakai, Alfredo Bonnano, Fredy Perlman, and Bommi Baumann. The last great book I've read was Adam Mansbach's Angry Black White Boy.

Heroes:

I admire the organizational skills of Nestor Makhno and Mother Jones. I like the dedication to terror of John Brown or Leila Khaled. I'm working on being able to be at ease in world of moral ambiguity like Easy Rawlins. I wish I could make these things as understandable as Mick Jagger or Joe Strummer.

Also, this blathering fool:

My Blog

Asking Microsoft Word to Clarify Chavez, Chomsky's mesage to Americans

Like I'm sure many other Americans, I listened to Chavez's address to the United Nations, and was a little excited by all the sermonizing about the devil, but at the same time a little puzzled as to ...
Posted by Boots on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:05:00 PST

Ralph Ginzburg, or, wisdom from the elders

One of the odder books that the company I work for publishes is a book called "100 Years of Lynchings" by Ralph Ginzburg. All it is, is a collection of hundreds of newspaper articles about lynchings t...
Posted by Boots on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:28:00 PST

Trust, Fear, and Israel

The past few weeks, I've kept coming back to check this website:http://fromisraeltolebanon.info/ (WARNING:  some extremely disturbing images)The atrocity pictures are shocking enough, but nothing...
Posted by Boots on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:11:00 PST

Does class trump gender?

I just saw this book review of a new book called Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again.  Basically the woman who wrote it, a fairly bourgie intellectual lesbian, tried he...
Posted by Boots on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:08:00 PST

Graffiti from an earlier age

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls. I was reading through some guy's translations of writings found on the walls of the city of Pompeii.  A lot of the...
Posted by Boots on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:00:00 PST

O'Malley's march to the sea passed by me!

One of my co-workers is being honored by the mayor's office as a 'model employee' for the ex-offenders' program, and today a guy from the mayor's office came to my job to photograph him at work. ...
Posted by Boots on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:15:00 PST

on the persistance of family/tribal memory

I've been thinking a bit lately on the persistance of family/tribal memory, the continuity and growth from one generation to the next, and the ways in which family upbringing shapes an individual.&nbs...
Posted by Boots on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:17:00 PST

I like ravens

The birds, that is.  Not the football team. I was reading T.H.White's The Book of Merlin, which was written as the final chapter to The Once and Future King but published separately.  There'...
Posted by Boots on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:47:00 PST

Islamic football rules

This fatwa concerning the proper way to play the game of soccer was printed in the Saudi newspaper al-Watan. Translated by The Guardian.  I believe it was intended as satire in the original, but...
Posted by Boots on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:25:00 PST

if I look pissed off...

its probably cause I am. people still just don't stop sucking. Anyone who wants to get me started talking about how much they suck should feel free to leave a comment.
Posted by Boots on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:34:00 PST