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gordonzola ([personal profile] gordonzola) wrote2006-02-02 03:44 pm

Where's my Slingshot?

My LJ friend [livejournal.com profile] douglain was discussing Slingshot Organizers over in his journal and it made me realize mine was lost. I love my Slingshot because it fits in my back pocket, and carrying it around 24 hours day is the only way that I can keep track of my schedule and not fuck it up.

Today for example. I have a meeting at 9 AM with a new co-op, a cheese department meeting that I will be going late to at 11. A meeting with a different new co-op at 4. A short conference call with a 3rd new co-op at 5 and a meeting of the BOD of the local worker co-op organization from 7-9PM. Also in there, I’m supposed to work a 7 hour cheese shift (usually 8 but our meeting lops off an hour) which is not mathematically possible. Of course except for the cheese meeting which is partly my fault for not noticing, I didn’t really have options for the other things because they are either long overdue or crisis driven. I woke up at 6 dreading this long day ahead.

I find that’s the best thing about having a datebook actually. Trying to keep all my meetings in my head stresses me out enough to lose me sleep. I tend towards anxiousness anyway, but it’s like getting a pre-dawn wake up call when I haven’t been writing things down. My brain says time to get up in case you scheduled something else and forgot.

Lke I said above, I use the Slingshot because it fits in my back pocket, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find it embarrassing sometimes. This year’s cover is truly shameful, bringing up everything I dislike about my people, the anarchists. I maintain that the characters on the cover are not furries. They are re-feralized humans happy that the cities are burning so they can return to a truly free existence facing starvation and imminent death. Will they be able to give up the discovery of fire after it does it’s cleansing work of ridding the earth of excess people? Only time will tell.

At least this year there seemed to be fewer penises drawn on random dates like a 4th grader’s desk.

I do like the way almost every date has some important moment in radical history attached to it though I find it odd that Michel Foucault doesn’t merit a mention on our shared birthday. Are the furry anarchists anti-intellectual? Say it isn’t so.

I bet a lot of you have Slingshots too, don't you?

[identity profile] bklyndispatch.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
kinda of creepy that i have the same objections to the slingshot that you do, and the same moleskin planner...werid.

[identity profile] felicks.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean a Raiders Fan!

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
haha. I know you aren't a Commie Jette. There are a few of you out there who still read me.

And hey, didn't you like my response in the icon meme?

[identity profile] felicks.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
DON'T GET ME STARTED ABOUT THE FUCKING PIRATES!!! PIRATES WERE INVOLVED IN THE SLAVE TRADE! PIRATES WERE PURE FUCKING LIBERTARIAN CAPITALISTS! FUCK PIRATES!!!

[identity profile] trixie-bee.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Never. I'd be disowned.

[identity profile] jette.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I liked it a lot!

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It's true the art is much better even if the meaning I interpret is not to my liking. But then what were the last two years? Some woo-woo Mother Earth goddessy thing and a drunk punk riding a horse through the advent of industrialization (that's my best guess). Yet I buy them every year.

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
This journal supports the Forty Fuckin Niners!

[identity profile] nightgarden.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I am pinko commie scum, but I have a Palm Pilot.

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes i think you two are the same person.

[identity profile] trixie-bee.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
How did I get in the middle of this?? All I wanted say that I had a Slingshot like all the other cool kids!

[identity profile] commandercranky.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I love knowing I have a partner in crankiness about the fucking pirates. Shout it out!

I blame Hakim Bey for all this adoring horseshit about them being collectivists and so forth. Puke-a-rama.

[identity profile] commandercranky.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
He's on to us, 'spatch!. I mean, "us."
ext_7449: (rarr)

[identity profile] gismonda.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
KABOOM!

Optimism and tequila are what keep me warm during the winter.

[identity profile] prof-southbay.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Speaking of wallet, have you seen any replacement ones lately? I want to go back to our shared sparkly pink goodness, but can't find one.

Thanks for calling. I'm heading out for a weekend o'fun, but will try to reach you sometime next week.

[identity profile] sophistimicated.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
::Drive by comment::

Hey! Milk and Cheese!

[identity profile] jillbertini.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I was really confused for half the post, because I thought you were talking about a weapon. I use the calendar that hangs on my wall at home, and the calendar in Outlook at work to keep my dates in order :D.

[identity profile] cindymonkey.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
i hearted my slingshot big time
recently went back to a non-slingshot though because i didn't have enough room to write
and the bigger ones just made the type bigger too and didn't give a lot more scrawling space
but i miss it so much
i am thinking about going back anyway

whenever i have friends moving to new places they don't know i buy them a slingshot so they can find all of the places our people go right away instead of having to wait for word of mouth to lead them there

viva la slingshot

I gave my daughter one with a gold cover for Christmas

(Anonymous) 2006-02-02 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought the gold cover was very glam. I wrote her a little note that said I hope her social/artistic goals/and work Calender was full this year! I thought it would be a neat thing for a 17 year old to have and she loves it. Its very inspiring and artistic


I usually give her art supplies for christmas. It was the first time I gave her a day planner. I keep the pressents kinda minimal and the cool thing about my daughter is she is happy with that. I'm always on the look out for a new kind of sharpie or art media that just came ou in the market

Oops! That was me.

[identity profile] unemployia.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Who posted about the gold sparkly cover, replied to the last person instead of to the right place either. you know - its morning - and the coffee hasn't kicked in

(12:44 pm = baltimore morning)

[identity profile] bikenerd.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I just realized yesterday that the Zapatistas had a hand in it too. Today I can't find any evidence of this. But it was in the film "Sixth Sun." And yes, mine is day-glo orange.

[identity profile] kneidlach.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a Slingshot, which I just need to clarify I bought only because I got an employee discount where I was working and thus was able to buy it for $3. I find it really annoying to have so little room to write in for each day, and all the pictures just get in the way.

The cover people are TOTALLY furries. I stand by this assertion. Anthropomorphized animals and animalized humans disturb me.

PS

[identity profile] kneidlach.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
the "Femstrual calendar" really bothers me. I mean, what about a "butch-strual calendar"? I feel so invalidated, ignored and invisibilized

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