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Monday morning filler
Dec. 8th, 2003 10:27 am--So how about the Chron? They’re really hitting the Matt Gonzalez as an Ivy-League-child-of-privilege while Gavin Newsom had a-single-mother-who-worked-two-jobs and he only-went-to-Santa-Clara-on-a-baseball-scholarship angle this weekend.
Gonzalez middle class? Well duh, he’s a Green isn’t he? As for Newsom, his background is best looked on as fallen aristocracy. His dad was a judge in San Francisco (which, for cultural capital, trumps the Gonzalez uncle they dug up who was mayor of an industrial town in Mexico in the ‘80s) and he grew up with the richest of the rich Specific Whites crowd that has ruled San Francisco since 1849. Even if mom was a little cash poor, the Getty family isn’t.
Seems like they’re really worried about Gonzalez’s campaign now.
(Edited to add:) The Democrats even got Bill Clinton to make an appearence to shore up Newsom's campaign this weekend. I love watching Democrats squirm. Especially for a candidate who actually gave the Republicans money a few years ago!
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nadinelet cracked me up with this post because I had just come home from the annual "MaximumRocknRoll" meeting. This year’s meeting was pretty short, but two years ago there was a half hour long argument about alphabetization of the MRR record collection. After it was settled that, say The Afflicted, should be filed under A not T, someone brought up the question about what to do if the band has an article in another language. "Does this mean we have to file Die Kreuzen under K?" "What about Les Thugs?" "What about Le Tigre?" "Wait, Le Tigre isn’t punk!" "Should we file them differently if they are an American band rather than a foreign one?"
--Speaking of MRR, I finally got my first angry letter from a review. Unfortunately it was from someone who bought a zine I’d recommended instead of a bad zine writer. Here it is:
"The other day we received this ‘Skin Deep’ crap in the mail which Gordon Zola reviewed in MRR #244. What the fuck are you guys doin’ over there?! What’s the matter with you!? Don’t ever review shit like this again! GZ stated in his review ‘I laughed out loud’, laughed out loud at what?! The kid had the nerve to send us three copies. .so we sent one back to him, one to you, and tossed the third one over the tier.
It was a fuckin insult to "BOREDOM", and being that you encouraged and raved about this crap, you’re into it too.
Look, DON’T REVIEW CRAP. .you got it?? It makes no sense.
( This was my review )
Gonzalez middle class? Well duh, he’s a Green isn’t he? As for Newsom, his background is best looked on as fallen aristocracy. His dad was a judge in San Francisco (which, for cultural capital, trumps the Gonzalez uncle they dug up who was mayor of an industrial town in Mexico in the ‘80s) and he grew up with the richest of the rich Specific Whites crowd that has ruled San Francisco since 1849. Even if mom was a little cash poor, the Getty family isn’t.
Seems like they’re really worried about Gonzalez’s campaign now.
(Edited to add:) The Democrats even got Bill Clinton to make an appearence to shore up Newsom's campaign this weekend. I love watching Democrats squirm. Especially for a candidate who actually gave the Republicans money a few years ago!
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nadinelet cracked me up with this post because I had just come home from the annual "MaximumRocknRoll" meeting. This year’s meeting was pretty short, but two years ago there was a half hour long argument about alphabetization of the MRR record collection. After it was settled that, say The Afflicted, should be filed under A not T, someone brought up the question about what to do if the band has an article in another language. "Does this mean we have to file Die Kreuzen under K?" "What about Les Thugs?" "What about Le Tigre?" "Wait, Le Tigre isn’t punk!" "Should we file them differently if they are an American band rather than a foreign one?"--Speaking of MRR, I finally got my first angry letter from a review. Unfortunately it was from someone who bought a zine I’d recommended instead of a bad zine writer. Here it is:
"The other day we received this ‘Skin Deep’ crap in the mail which Gordon Zola reviewed in MRR #244. What the fuck are you guys doin’ over there?! What’s the matter with you!? Don’t ever review shit like this again! GZ stated in his review ‘I laughed out loud’, laughed out loud at what?! The kid had the nerve to send us three copies. .so we sent one back to him, one to you, and tossed the third one over the tier.
It was a fuckin insult to "BOREDOM", and being that you encouraged and raved about this crap, you’re into it too.
Look, DON’T REVIEW CRAP. .you got it?? It makes no sense.
( This was my review )
