[ Wednesday, April 02, 2003 ]
Day 34 to Day 38
We are pleased to announce that Homeland Drifter©®, through its subsidiary, the Bad F*cker Highway©®, have entered into a production, co-branding and co-marketing agreement with a major "energy bar" manufacturer, and will be shipping the new "Bad F*cker Highway Energy Bar" in the coming weeks.
Fortunately, the war on Iraq has created a unique niche market-positioning opportunity for this product (see above). What Red Bull is to the club scene, this product will certainly be to activists and protesters.
The BFH Energy Bar is a healthy and delicious combination of 3 parts fermented soybeans, 2.5 parts meth amphetamine, 2 parts salvia divinorum extract, 1.5 parts formaldehyde, artificial lima bean flavor, and may contain trace amounts of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, roadkill, playa dust, fruit loops, and/or DNA from the child alien brain we keep in the back storeroom. Look for it soon in your local health food store! Show an arrest warrant or citation from a recent street action and get 10% off at Safeway!
Sitting in cafes reading about the war. Reading alternet, znet, Russian military intelligence reports, and monitoring the civilian deaths at Iraq Body Count. Go there, download a link, and put their banner up on your website. Let's see if anyone among the decent and respectable mainstream press notices when the Iraqi civilian dead outnumber those killed on 9/11.
The U.S. military has murdered more than 3,000 civilians in Afghanistan in the past year or so. Most decent and respectable white middle class Americans don’t know that, and most decent and respectable white middle class Americans would probably not give a shit, anyway. Civilization.
Spent the day writing a letter to the editor about the war, and then e-mailing it to just about every daily newspaper in California. Maybe one of them will print an edited version of it. Sent a similar letter to all of my federal congressional representatives. It went as follows (e.g.):
Dear Senator Feinstein,
I write to you today as a concerned and patriotic American citizen, and respectfully request that you consider, and then implement forthwith, my modest proposals herein:
First, stop this illegal fucking war right now.
Second, eat the rich.
Third, impeach the entire crazy fucking Christo-fascist junta that is running this country.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
… your humble and loyal constituent
Well, not really. The letter I actually sent them was recognizable as a product of the decent, educated, and respectable middle class white person that I am.
Called Feinstein, Boxer, and Pelosi, and was assured by whomever answered the phone at Pelosi's office that "she is against the war." Funny, it sure doesn't look that way when you're at her website reading her press relaeses last week concerning the war. The most that these cowardly "opposition party" elected officials have done is to issue bland statements and resolutions about how they "support our troops and stand behind the president." Oh, well. After all, they're Democrats.
E-mailed a link to a collection of really graphic war casualty photos on Al-Jazeera to the people I know who are probably still on the fence about the war. Saw the above painted on a wall in Mission the other day by the White Rose Society.
And in other news, I have been trying to stay sane, and trying to have some fun and not think about the war 24/7. Visiting friends in homeland drifter homeland, interzone, bagdad by the bay, and contemplating my next move.
Soundtrack:Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop
Reading List: Power Politics, by Arundhati Roy [4/2/2003]
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