So I had a funny exchange with this person (a woman possibly) on DC Craigslist's RnR section:
I am the McFly persona.
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/rnr/1006010409.html
McFly here... (...zipping up my McFly.)
Reply to: [...] Date: 2009-01-24, 2:36PM EST
Prove it, buddy.
Have you ever been to a huge soulless state university with an active “Greek Life” culture? Or a bum-scratch isolated liberal arts school with lots of people with nothing to do but drink, partner-swap[,] and explore funky sexual fetishes?
I have. I took a state scholarship slot that an Ivy League-bound kid opted out of. And let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. But then even the Ivy Leaguers have their "F--- Trucks" and whatnot.
The numbers might be exaggerated but orgies can and do happen.
The rest of American life is resembling the crumbling Roman Empire but there aren't ORGIES? Where's your sense of history?
--Marty McFly
OP said, rolling eyes sarcastically:
Uh, Hello! McFly!! The 24 y.o. sex survey poster is a dude! (MD)
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Date: 2009-01-24, 2:01PM EST
Wakey-wake time! It's just some dude having fun. Not really sure why that's fun for him but rest assured, it is NOT a 24year old woman giving an accurate accounting of her experiences. Sheesh!
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Epic blogger FAIL.
The person (me), not the utility.
I forgot to add tags to that entry:
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I remember reading a statistic about a college degree not being the only thing many college students graduated with. My freshman (male) roommate probably fit the profile of the type who slept around with many partners. He cut back the further he got into school though.
I dunno about the comparison to the Roman Empire. No, clearly there are some parallels but we have one thing that the Romans didn't have, which is to say, a history of their failures.
That being said, a good read is Peter Heather's excellent "Rome and the Barbarians". There should be a copy at your library, Aspen hill Branch has it.
He points out that possibly their biggest failure was blowing three generations' worth of imperial taxation on an unwinnable war in, of all places, what we now call "Iraq", and if that taxation had been used as previously, in infrastructure development in the provinces, the provincials might have put up a better fight against the invading barbarians, and had much more reason to do so.
Interestingly, the last President was on the path that led to the downfall of the Roman Empire in the West, and the new one seems determined to press forward with Professor Heather's "what if".
Hmmm, maybe I can force myself to blog on that note later today, but I'll have to figure out in which emperor's shadow to case Mr Leggett. ;)
Thanks for the book suggestion. I will add it to my stack. Stack is a good data structure to describe it, but maybe Bag is more appropriate. Although Bag is Java, whereas stack is more apt when dealing with old-skool techies, like yourself.
Heap is even better.
I do wish I had been a more assiduous student of world history during my “formal” schooling. I will have to start to rectify that now.
Maybe the Aspen Hill library will be a nice change of scene from the often hectic Wheaton Regional branch. So many screechy young hellions at that location. And the Wheaton stacks (there's that word again) are so picked over.
A punk song dedication for Hardman based on the whole Roman Empire theme.
The lyrics are kluged from various semi-reliable web sources.
If you haven’t heard it, I can try to ftp an MP3 to you if you want. The lyrical content may not be 100% historically responsible but it’s a great song nonetheless. (Sorry if I offend any pious Catholics reading this, btw.)
Mission of Burma
“New Nails”
Vs. LP, 1982
There was once a special book
It got changed by fascist crooks
(Save me please for I am weak)
There were once some great ideas
Now they’ve watered it down to fizz
(Save me please for I am weak)
(Save me please for I’m a sheep)
Well I suppose it’s human nature,
But when he said,
Don’t make an idol of me…
Don’t make an idol of me…
Don’t make an idol of me…
The Roman Empire never died
(Save me please I’m not a goat)
It just changed into the Catholic Church
ha ha ha ha
(Dionysus has cloven hooves)
The Roman Empire never died
(Devil horns are not on me, save me I am not a goat)
ha ha ha ha
But when he said,
Don’t make an idol of me…
Don’t make an idol of me…
Don’t make an idol of me…
Plastic idols of me
Plaster idols of me
Don’t make an idol of me…
He said,
Well when I walk the shores of Galilee
Where only the spirit can talk to me...
...Well I walk the shores of Galilee
...
...and the desert, sand, no one can touch me...
Don’t touch me!
No!
Oh no!
Oh no!
Oh no!
Oh no!
Oh no!
What’s this?
What’s this?
All these crimes...
Committed in my name?
Oh well...
Oh wow, Mission of Burma! That's Eld-Skewl Punk Cred you go goin' on there. Back in the Golden Age of WHFS, that band got a lot of play.
Another book for your pile/bag/stack/heap would be "VALIS" by Philip K. Dick, which is where Mission of Burma front-man Clint Conley claims he got the idea of "the empire never died". Dick goes on and on about that in that novel, which deeply influenced a lot of bands, and a lot of bands influenced the novel, notably "the Police" with "Synchronicity".
Of course, if you read that novel, there's a good change that you'll wind up just as mad as Dick was.
Oh, enjoy the Aspen Hill Public Library. It is fairly close to surreal at times.
I was trying to turn one of the librarians onto the whole new Wiki thing. I pointed her to my infamous Crime Problems in Aspen Hill page. She said something about how the whole idea of Gangs worried her, and did I know if there were any Gangs in Aspen Hill.
I had to tell her fairly gently that there definitely were. About ten of them were standing around her in the Juvenile section, sporting all of the indicators. But I didn't tell her that, since I figured that starting a riot in the library wouldn't much endear me to the staff.
By the way, the Aspen Hill Library doesn't have much of a section on neighborhood history; I think I have more and better at my History of Aspen Hill, Maryland.
Now maybe you could blog us some on the State of the Union in West Wheaton.
Will do, Hardman... I want to include pics more and more in my blog as these visuals are helpful in giving people a sense of authentic suburban decay. I like your Aspen Hill pics, by the way... Do you host your own images?
By the way, where is your Aspen Hill realtor advertising?
Hahah, j/k
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Aspen Hill Realtor advertising, from MOI? Surely you jest, sir!
Clearly I need to get out and take more pictures, the uglier the better.
My apologies to decent people getting caught up in stuff they don't understand, but there's a certain pack of assholes -- and incidentally it's not the pack of assholes who think that it is to them that I refer -- who I would very much like to be thinking "we better move out of here now before our real-estate value drops another 25-percent".
So many assholes, so little time, such rapidly dropping property values, and such certainty of looming foreclosure.
Pretty soon there won't be anyone living here except for people who are clearly keeping station for military purposes.
And the military returning from Iraq should be able to recognize that sort of crap when they see it, and also have clear routes of communication to chain-of-command. Hopefully they'll use encryption. ;)
Anyone who thinks I'm serious about this needs to utterly disregard it. It's all a joke and can't be believed by any reasonable person.
What, Hardman, BRAC transplants in Aspen Hill?
You Aspen Hillbillies get all the luck!
Isn’t that one of the pillars of Marty O’s plan for jobs and growth in Maryland? Along with the biotech corridor, of course.
(I guess a military germ warfare specialist would potentially have his/her fingers in both funding pots or something.)
Maryland’s new motto:
Guns, Germs, and Michael Steele!
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