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gordonzola ([personal profile] gordonzola) wrote2005-02-24 11:06 pm
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10 things...

10 things you probably haven’t done meme. It’s not like I haven’t mentioned most of these on my LJ anyway. Longtime readers, feel free to yawn.

1. Was the youngest person in my hunter safety class and got the best score on the written test.
2. Got suspended from high school for "willful defiance of authority".
3. Won two gold medals at the Junior Nationals for my sport.
4. Played in a Grateful Dead cover band.
5. Chained shut the administration building at my college in an anti-apartheid demonstration. Even though there was a picture taken of me doing it printed in the student newspaper, they somehow couldn’t identify me.
6. Completed a Scared Straight program as part of a felony diversion.
7. Did "security" for Cesar Chavez then drank beer and ate fries with him.
8. Got arrested for protesting at the 1984 Democratic Convention while chanting "No War! No KKK! No fascist USA!"
9. Went on a date with the daughter of a member of Jefferson Starship.
10. Got recruited and paid to speak on a national panel discussion about cheese. More than once even!

Bonus:
11. Played organized pee-wee football for four years before high school. C’mon other football players, out yourself! (in most places in this country this would be expected of me. But here I think it’s unusual)

[identity profile] nuncstans.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
"willful defiance of authority"

I think you beat me...but I did get ISS for repeated "insubordination"

[identity profile] gynocide.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
I would like to hear more about #2 and #6 in detail.

I ran cross country

[identity profile] hammerhead.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
and the football players called us fags.

[identity profile] arasay.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I was a pee-wee football cheerleader.

[identity profile] seventimes.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
8. Got arrested for protesting at the 1984 Democratic Convention while chanting "No War! No KKK! No fascist USA!"

ah, an old MDC fan :-p

[identity profile] systemerror.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Just yesterday, I had MDC stuck in my head...

[identity profile] systemerror.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
and, I played football in school, 8th and 9th grade. I quit because I thought the faux-military machismo was silly.

[identity profile] easilyirritable.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
9. Went on a date with the daughter of a member of Jefferson Starship.

What, no Jefferson Airplane? That would have been much cooler.

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
this isn't about cool. This is about The Truth!

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
see, I didn't know that. I love this meme.

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you would, Copper. ;)

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
well, there's a time and place for everything. but that first record still rules.

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
which song?

[identity profile] bdot.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
wow.. you did some great stuff!!!! exciting life, it seems...

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
absolutely. I quit because I had to move up in weight class from a nice. mellow (for football) coach to a militaristic jerk. So I just didn't go out for his team.

[identity profile] dairryiere.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The Greatfull Dead cover band is almost unforgivable, but because I know how much you hate Journey I'll let it slide.

[identity profile] systemerror.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Business on Parade" and then "Dead Cops" followed by "John Wayne..." I would listen to that tape on repeat (it was only 20 minutes or so) over and over in 7th grade. No surprise that it still gets stuck in my head... A few years back I got it on CD, just for old times sake, but I don't think I ever listened to it...

[identity profile] dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
My fella played football too...with Matthew Barney of all people!

[identity profile] arasay.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
For the Shoshone Park Redskins. Yeah.

[identity profile] rootlesscosmo.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The written test? Somehow I'm having trouble with the image here... fearless hunter, elusive prey, dense woodland cover, multiple choice...

[identity profile] goodbadgirl.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a hot list.

I, too, was the youngest person in my hunter safety class.






[identity profile] princessmaam.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
what are your sun and rising signs?

[identity profile] seventimes.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally agree. I was never impressed with most stuff that they did after that anyway. Last year I actually went to see them again for the first time in what 15 years or so. It was funny to hear the old songs again....

[identity profile] walktheplank.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Grateful Dead cover band?!

[identity profile] whimsicalpops.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
#5... umm dude UCB california hall? UCB police wanted to know who put nails in the pretty door on the south side of the hall... they never found my hammer.

8. I can't believe we never met during the 80's. We must have been in some meeting together at some point damnit.
My Dad was so angry at me. I got in the Moscone center under his pass and his okay then disrupted a speech. Bad daughter.

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