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[gordonzola]

Welcome bikenerd ! I met Bikey on the BART train during the 1989 Anarchist Unconvention in San Francisco. We were going to Gilman St. to see the Yeastie Girls and a bunch of other political bands. This was back in the day when you could tell anarchists by the subcultural signifiers and we could tell right away we’d be friends. Check her out, she asks a lot of questions.

Seen those bus ads for "The Day After Tomorrow" with the huge wave crashing over the Statue of Liberty? I keep thinking it’s an ad for "Planet of the Apes 6: Revenge of the Water Apes".

I love my Mac. The only hateful thing is the stupid help screen that I sometimes turn on by accident. It’s juevenile, but I totally flip it off when it waves goodbye. I should get outside more often.

I saw a new bumpersticker today. It’s 3 panels with a red, white and blue background. On the left are jets. On the right are oil wells. And in the middle: the words "Kill & Drill"

USA! USA! USA!

Comments

[jwz.livejournal.com]

You got it all wet! You damp dirty apes!

[spoonfeeding.livejournal.com]

oh man, i was about to post how much i loved the water apes, but your comment made me laugh ten times harder. it's a one two punch of humor!

(Speaking of damp apes, you may be interested to learn about the Aquatic Ape theory, which posits that we basically evolved from dolphins, not chimps.)

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

but dolphins are actually a more evolved species than humans and are able to communicate telepatically with hippies and wingnuts.

[jwz.livejournal.com]

Are we not men? We are De-Vo!

(Incidentally, Cecil on them swimmin' monkeys.)

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

sometimes I wish Cecil was my father.

[tarynhipp.livejournal.com]

revenge of the water apes made my day.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

you say that now. But what will you say when they come after you?

[tarynhipp.livejournal.com]

good point.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

we're the yeastie girls and we got yeast power!/ we don't shave our armpits and we don't shower ...

[dcart.livejournal.com]

I can't even tell when I see stickers like that whether they're cricizing the US or supporting our actions. I mean, if I didn't have context (that she's stark raving mad) I'd think that half of what Ann Coulter writes is sarcastic parodying of the right.


God, I miss the good ol' days when if I met some freak with multi-colored hair, I could be relatively sure they weren't a young republican.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I agree that sticker could go either way. But the other stickers were fairly right wing so I have to think it was pro killing arabs to take "our" oil.

as for the subcultural signifiers, it was a limited rebellion, but those little things were conforting.

[de-gustibus.livejournal.com]

unless of course the person who designed the sticker thought it was ironic, in which case is it a case of an anti-imperialist message being co-opted for imperialist ends, or is it a subversive time bomb waiting to explode the preconceptions of the uninformed masses..
or am I just overthinking this.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well, I think the intentionality ceases to matter after a slogan is mass produced. It could fit equally as well on a car covered in nader stickers as on covered in Rush stickers. Maybe it's brilliant marketing and the designer is working both sides of the street.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

limited, but comforting indeed.

The world is complicated enough without having to wonder if the cute goth chick on the bus is also in a sorority. :)

ta

[bikenerd.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the welcome kiddo. Years and years later, a credible source informs me that the yeastie girlz do in fact shower. And are still awesome activists.

Re: ta

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well, it's the least I can do since I didn't comment sustantially on your journal yet. and yeastie girlz with a "z", of course. Do you remember who else played that night? I sure don't.

[windup.livejournal.com]

I regularly give the finger to the stupid help screen on my Mac, too. And I thought I was the only one.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

It might be only the two of us, but I feel so much better to know I'm not alone.

Yeastie Girlz

[unemployia.livejournal.com]

Hay - I remember them! I was at that gathering too, I think, wasn't it the "without borders" Anarchist gathering in the school building.

best daycare ever, was like heaven. and that everything was so central and I could hang out with everyone. DD was a baby then.

Re: Yeastie Girlz

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah, that was the one. at Horace Mann Middle school in the Mission. Did you live in the city or did you travel for it? The funnest part of the internet is meeting people this way.

Re: Yeastie Girlz

[unemployia.livejournal.com]

I lived in Santa Cruz at the time. Later I moved to SF for a few months. Lived in the Mission, dd would take art classes at the Precida Eyes Murral Center, I would climb a hill and see the whole city, camomile grew between the cracks of the sidewalk ...what a beautiful place.

I have fond memmories of CA: first in 1985 for a half a year, and then in 1989 for a year, I think.

Both times were pivotal on my development.

I've moved around alot but I am basically East Coast with a few stop overs in Colorado,Texas, Minnesota and Germany.