Where's my Slingshot?
Feb. 2nd, 2006 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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?
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?
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Date: 2006-02-02 03:56 pm (UTC)But the small size is perfect for the jeans pocket. So, I got this yuppie/intellectual/snob pocket-sized planner instead. It's great! Perfect size, durable cover, built-in elastic strap to keep it closed, and more space for each date. Plus, while looking like a snob is a little embarrasing, there's no furries on the cover.
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Date: 2006-02-02 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-02 04:07 pm (UTC)But still.
And it's only $13, which is a totally reasonable $1/month.
In the category of "nicest gifts anyone ever gave me," I once received a gorgeous hand made journal from my then-partner: hand silk-screened pages bound (sewn) into a printed tyvek cover (durable!), with beautiful art, poems, and inside jokes. It was stunning, and almost made me blush every time I used it.
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Date: 2006-02-02 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-02 04:55 pm (UTC)I blame Hakim Bey for all this adoring horseshit about them being collectivists and so forth. Puke-a-rama.
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Date: 2006-02-02 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-03 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-02 07:12 pm (UTC)I can't shake the feeling that it's a little like people two hundered years from now wearing Nazi uniforms.
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Date: 2006-02-03 09:15 pm (UTC)But I kind of like the pirate myth. Obviously. It beats, say, patriotic myths for both accuracy and inspiration. I guess the question is, are anarchists allowed to have historical myths like that? Is it just an aesthetic complaint with the particular myth chosen that you have, or do you have a political complaint with any kind of historical mythmaking like this at all, since it's always doomed to oversimplify and romantisize history--which is the point of such myths after all. (Myths about the IWW, or the Spanish Civil War, or the Paris Commune, or whatever, just the same). Must anarchists be cold rational clear eyed and mythless? Is it possible to have a myth while recognizing that it includes fictional aspects, but still keeping it as an inspirational myth or model? I dunno.
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Date: 2006-02-03 09:32 pm (UTC)The slave trade was complicated. There were freed slaves who were also slave traders. There were maroon societies that kept slaves. I know pirates weren't the primary actors in the slave trade, but let's choose heroes who resisted slavery instead of accepting or embracing it. That seems basic.