bundle of joy
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- kingjulien
my class ended at 8:00 but i couldn't pick up my paycheck until 10:00, so i went to the library to kill time. there was this young couple in the corner talking and laughing and making out. it was hard to concentrate, but i didn't want to be confrontational, so every so often i'd look over with disgust--hoping they'd get the point, but they ignored me, so i got up and left.
as i was leaving, the video in my briefcase caused the alarm to trigger. the sound was overwhelming-- everybody stared. for a second i thought about blaming the guy next to me, but realized it was shady, so i went to the circulation desk. the librarian questioned me before realizing I was a professor. after inspecting the video, she let me go.
on the way out i stumbled on one of the stairs, but caught myself before falling, and tried to play it off like nothing happened.
at the cashier's office, i was transferred to a 300 pound black woman, who replied from across the room, "it's not 10:00 yet!" i checked my cell phone, which said it was 9:57. the other staff members looked at their watches and shrugged--evidently she was the only one with the key to the lock box. I took a deep breath and waited, letting her maintain the illusion of power, and at 10:05 she walked over and had me sign for the check.
once this was over, i headed in the direction of my car. the president of the school was giving a 9-11 speech in the quad. he was dressed in a navy blue suit, and i felt bad for him because it was already 100 degrees, and becauase nobody seemed to be listening, he looked all red and puffy and i was a little concerned, like he had taken some viagara a week ago and had yet to come down.
i then walked past the booths on the side of the quad, past the sierra club -where everyone had on birkenstocks, past the credit card salesmen offering free t-shirts, past the black student union--where i heard a steady flow of "Yo Nigga whuz up? aw just chillin my nigga give me my fitty cent), past the asian student union (where ironically i heard the same thing), past the queers for palenstine booth and the ski club--where they were smoking hand rolled cigarettes and handing out fliers for a warren miller screening tomorrow night, past the watchtower bible study group, past the disillusioned indie rockers hanging out in the cafe with their it takes an hour to style and craft this I don't give a f*** but i really do bedhead look, past the cute girl from my class talking to two guys in trucker hats, past the facilities coordinator patrick cockburn--who hasn't spoken to me since i asked if he was drinking enough cranberry juice, and finally, past the english club, where they were selling end the occupation posters and killer veggie burritos..
later i went to the video store and rented a double feature of born in east LA and cloak and dagger...
- ********0
blog thread anybody?
- zedvox0
i give king julien 8 days before he blows his brains out.
or someone else does. ;)
- tough-actin0
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- ********0
yo nigga wuz up?
- BonSeff0
let us know how dinner turns out.
- sureshot0
okay now thats way to much fukin text.
- kingjulien0
okay hey, here's a surprise, if it's too much text, how about not reading it?
- ********0
wuz up nigga?
- zedvox0
lil 19 yr white boys should not be using the word nigga..........unless seangetti has yo back.
MOFO!
- protoculture0
i read it. don't know why. it was interesting, in a way...
- kld0
Do your students ever fall asleep in your classes? Oh and are you racist?
oh and Zedvox, I agree...
- kingjulien0
okay, certain people are disgusted and/or puzzled by my ramblings....which was precisely the point...
i'm just curious, how is it racist to document precisely a series of comments and exchanges during one morning? what specificaly is racist?
kid, i see you're from cca, which explains your need to articulate your silly and trite east bay limosine liberal play the race card politics whenever something is beyond your feeble minded conception of the world.
i'm humble and aware of the limitations and shortcomings of my work. with that said, kid, i looked at your site, and am familiar with your cca print material. which everybody on campus finds staleand third rate, so i think you have a lot of nerve calling anybody boring...
everybody else bored, annoyed, or perplexed, i apologize for wasting your time...
- zedvox0
doood..take a chill pill.
what do you teach anyways?
- kingjulien0
zedvox, i don't know you, and i have no animosity towards you, and i'm totally chill, i just don't like it when jackass groupies toss the racist label around haphazardly to impress their designer friends
- zedvox0
i am just curious what you teach..
- ********0
yo dude...get a hobby or something
fuggin jaggoff
- Gorbie0
you're funny as hell.
maybe a northern california thing but you seem to strike a chord with everything you say.
(and i knew you were the dude from "jews in porn")
- vespa0
i really enjoyed that kingjulien.
i like it when people document observations about the mundane aspects of their everyday life - it's the antithesis of the increasingly banal market driven habit of hyping up the spectacular, paying homage only to the ultimate "magical moments" in order to maximise penetration across a broadly banal consumer base. in this culture only the excessive and amplified are deemed worthy of commentary and language is reduced to a catch-phrase to pander to the dullest of minds. the previous hostile reactions to your observations only reveal a hysterical fear of being ordinary.
i'm interested in similar visual concepts - there was a japanese businessman a few years ago who showed a piece at onedotzero in london, he'd had a camera around his neck for a month and took a photo on the hour every hour for that period. at the end he played them all together and every day was the same. for me the observation of tedium is the opposite of the singular model of lifestyle improvement we are sold, it's the unremarkable immigrant cleaner just out of frame from the plastic mtv altar we are expected to worship at daily. more please.
but you're a moralistic cock for being disgusted at the couple making out in the library ;)
- normal0
Vespa: but you're a moralistic cock for being disgusted at the couple making out in the library ;)
Well put.
