Peter Moody - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'd like to think I don't really fit into one specific social stereotype, but there are a few to which I tend to come close to, or sometimes people put me in. As far as look goes, I probably fall in a grey area between the Goth, Heavy Metal, vaguely Beatnik, and Geek/Hacker subtypes. I generally wear black, with geeky, radical/Marxist, or vaguely Pagan shirts. As for my personality, I'm a bit weird, very sarcastic, a bit geeky, occasionally tactless (unintentional, but it happens), intelligent (or at least I think so), a bit quiet/shy (though I'm working on that), and ready to talk about things: politics (especially socialism), religion, controversial topics, and music are my favourites. I'm the current national vice-chair of the Young People's Socialist League and a member of the Socialist Party USA . I also have "official sympathiser status in Solidarity . I'm always willing to give people information about any of those organisations, or if I can't answer the questions, direct them to people who can.I do have a LiveJournal, name being Agent_Moody. I don't update that often, but you can still check it out if you want. Also, if anyone wants to talk to me in realtime, my AIM screen-name is DeusExSylvanus42. I'm usually online.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Local socialists and other cool left-wing radical types. Other geeks would be great too, and people who share musical tastes. It's sometimes difficult to find people who even know about some of the bands I listen to...

My Blog

Youth and Students, and the New Jersey Senate Race

As the New Jersey Senate race gears up, the two major parties will receive endorsements from their various support groups, labor unions, some religious organizations, environmental and consumer groups...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:21:00 GMT

An Open Letter to the Organisers of the Madison High School Student Council Elections

In a short time, we in Madison High School will be embarking on the next round of student council elections. While I personally believe that periodic elections alone are a poor way to effect m...
Posted by on Fri, 05 May 2006 21:17:00 GMT

Summit and Kent Place GSA Meeting

This was sent out to me and a few other current and former MHS students (though possibly on currently-unused e-mails) a little while ago, and perhaps people are interested. Anyway, the Summit Hi...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:56:00 GMT

SPUSA National Convention

Well, I think it can be said that I'm now both physically and mentally back from the Socialist Party's national convention. It was a fun time, probably one of the best times spend outside of Mad...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:40:00 GMT

Why I Hate the "Shoot the Paparazzi" Pop-Ups

They assume, for some strange reason, that we'd not rather shoot the celebrities that the paparazzis are chasing. If it come between taking out a pixelised image of Paris Hilton or Brad Pitt, or...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:49:00 GMT

Fleeing the Country

Well, I'm going to be away for a little while, going up to Canada. Nova Scotia/New Brunswick to be more precise. I'll be gone for about 10 days, and mostly out of contact, since I have no ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:16:00 GMT

The World Needs More Vikings

It does. That's really all I have to say.
Posted by on Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:38:00 GMT

Comparing US Policies to Fascist Ideologies

It's a popular thing for those of us on the Left today to use the word "fascist" when describing the Bush administration and its policies. The idea of lumping the administration with the likes o...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:11:00 GMT

Minirant on the State

In Anarchism and many forms of Socialism/Communism, the elimination of the state is proposed as either an immediate objective or eventual goal. This can cause confusion and tension between various ci...
Posted by on Mon, 02 May 2005 15:05:00 GMT

Green Meeting!

Well, I found this group of Greens that meet at the Morris County Library on a monthly basis recently, and I just went to one of their meetings. Granted, there were only two other peole there, but I ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:35:00 GMT