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I haven’t written about my travels on 13th Street recently. I guess nothing that interesting has happened. It still smells bad. The junkies, homeless vets, and I still say hello when we pass each other. The cars still seem to stop randomly in the middle of intersections when they’re not trying to kill me.

But Fall is approaching so 101 now serves as my umbrella as I walk underneath it. The rain waterfalls out from the drainage holes so powerfully that it would be reminiscent of Hawai’i if Hawai’i was covered in concrete, noisy from car horns and the rain couldn’t quite manage to drown out the smell of human shit and urine.

It was strange slogan day on 13th yesterday. First I walked by the new ACT UP SF wheatpastings shouting HIV doesn’t equal* AIDS to the passerby. That’s just so. . . late ‘80s? I mean I know that their message is that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, but HIV doesn’t equal AIDS was the slogan of treatment-oriented health groups attempting to tell HIV+ people that their deaths weren’t necessarily imminent, that they could live years before coming down with full-blown AIDS if they got the right drugs. It seems a rather funny slogan for the HIV-denial joke of an organization that ACT UP SF has become. Surely they would have disappeared by now if they hadn’t had the foresight to start a pot co-op to fund their "work".

Immediately after rolling that slogan around in my brain, I saw a bumper sticker on a car that was honking and trying to merge into the highway on-ramp. It said, "Animals are people in little fur coats". Nothing else. No "PETA". No "SPCA". No "NRA". No "Webfurs.com".

Puzzling.



*It was actual a equal sign with a slash through it. I don’t know how to make that symbol on a computer.

Date: 2002-11-16 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cherrifying.livejournal.com
I just wanna smack those ACT-UP bitches up! I mean, I can understand harboring a wariness of the chemical coctails being unquestioningly served up for HIV sufferers by the medical community. But that's not what those ACT-UP people are about. In the pride parade last year, me & G marched with Ammiano & Hansen, and there were a couple people we just could not shake from our group who were holding signs saying "Selenium cures AIDS" and other such insane jabber. G was just sure they were plants from the political opposition sent to make us left-of-left-wingers look bad. The actual truth may be even sadder. They may have just been actual supporters using that moment to get their ridiculous message across. *shudder*

Date: 2002-11-16 10:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com
THE SELENIUM GUY!!! ugh. I wish he was a provacateur. His name is Paul Kangas. Here's a link to his insane ramblings (this takes forever to load, fyi). He comes to my work to hand out flyers. He actually conned a new person into setting up a public event for him which was quite embarrassing to us.

I feel like we should know each other. It's not that big a city.

Date: 2002-11-16 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cherrifying.livejournal.com
We may have met at Tenant Union gatherings or something. I sometimes go to stuff envelopes and/or protest OMI evictions with them. But I work on the Peninsula and am a major agorophobe, so it's entirely possible that we have not met. What is more likely is that you know my spouseboy, Greg Shaw [-the white one, I have to make this distinction because the black one is better known than him,] who is far more involved in the local political scene than I.

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