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Ben

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About Me

you know it all, but to sum-up: most likely to get called up at 3am when your whole life falls apart (and I like it that way), semi-retired punk rocker, hip-hop fan, friend to fuck-ups, collector of little plastic men (and women) from a specific sci-fi franchise, kinda grumpy, always ready to hate on: hipsters, hippies and hypocrites (pretty much in that order).

I'd like to have an eighth day, 25th hour and 53rd week.

If I was trapped on a desert island it'd be cool to have Dez, Xander and a copy of It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back around. I suppose a fridge with a lifetime supply of insulin and fresh points would be needed, and some means to play the copy of Nation.

Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
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oh yeah and I am obsessively nerdy:Star Wars - A New Hope (in 3 minutes)

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My Interests

pissing off whitey and subverting the man

oh boy this would take a lot of time.

reading, writing, music, thought, action, good conversation, deep connection, family, dismantling the whole fucking bullshit set up, martial arts, gardening, ice cream

I'd like to meet:

you for lunch? As long as yer buying.

Music:

is mostly crappy and boring, I've been known to rock generic 80's thrash, most forms of hip-hop and the classics (Cash, Chicago and Delta blues, proto-p-rock, etc.)

Movies:

overblown mythic blockbuster crap, it's the closest I'll get to religion or a spiritual practice.

Akira fucking Kurosawa

Sam goddamn Peckinpah

and this joke is already played out

Television:

is bad, but I've been known to watch Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and some other comic book stuff too embarrassing to admit.

Books:

are good, the list would be thousands long.

Heroes:

kids that do stuff
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Sojourner Truth, Bill Haywood, Fred Hampton, whoever it was that hit the first cop at Stonewall, Batman, moms, Dan Jaffe, Tom Gaffey, Elizabeth Stinson

My Blog

Saint Urho

I'm not one of those "ethnic" white people. Not of the elastic waist banded golf pants and mayo sandwich variety, or the kilt wearing log tossing variety, or the turgid guilty "my ancestors were inden...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:33:00 PST

Your privilege is showing

from my "real world" blog: http://chairmanbs.blogspot.comthis is a draft I'll be punching it up over the weekend so check back, if you want to torture yourself you can watch the video hereJust got hom...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:34:00 PST

more reasons to stay home and do nothing

oh the irony, it withers all opposition...anyhow here's a list of other stuff that Free Mind has brought to the table:it's given participants practical organizing experience and training;how to facili...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:45:00 PST

I dont matter

Ha! made you look... (pleaase read this like an editor, let me know what isn’t clear, what reaads poorly, what’s just stupid)So building on yesterdays post about my frustration with the ma...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:21:00 PST

my other blog

is here:http://chairmanbs.blogspot.com/I think I’ll be using the myspace blog to prepare stuff for that one. So start thinking like editors, please.and in that vein here is the begining of somet...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:36:00 PST

I’m a sissy?

I watched I Am Legend last night. I’ve never read the novel it’s based on, but I’m a big fan of the "everyone is dead or a blood thristy monster post-acopalyptic" genre. And both Las...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:44:00 PST

New Year, New Killing

In 2007 we were told the "spate" of killings was an anomaly. In the first week of 2008 the Santa Rosa Police have demonstrated what a difference a year full of glad handing and secret meetings make. f...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

Lakota declare secession from US

listen here:http://www.fsrn.org/content/lakotas-withdraw-all-treati es-u.s.-governmentor download from here:http://www.fsrn.org/audio/download/635/20071220_KARENon LAkota.mp3Descendants of Sitting Bull,...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:23:00 PST

the baby jesus wants me to have these

just to be clear: I know that capitalism functions on the same rules as cancer...  and the Christian co-optation of pagan ritual is kind of gross and kind of funny...and the capitalist co-optatio...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:00:00 PST

like KPFA? then read this

What follows is from Gregory Wonderwheel, I agree with much of what he has to say. There are a few things which he leaves unsaid that I will try to address concisely before I repost his comments.Nothi...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:49:00 PST