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roachboy · 11-08-2006, 05:48 PM

first off: pigglet---you are probably thinking of the gauloises filterless pre-rolled guys that taste like newspaper wrapped up in other newspaper that i was once told i had to smoke if i wanted to be down with the prolos.
this during a period when i thought it might be fun to become a new person. i decided to become "french leftist circa late april early may 1968".
you know, as a human being.
i was about 19.
i thought it justified growing a moustache and running away from home.

gradually i realized (a) my sort of stepmother, who told me the above, was obviously insane (b) that the cigarettes tasted like newspaper rolled up inside other newspaper and then rubbed on a street and (c) no matter how hard i tried, no matter how long i worked, i would still remain an infinite distance from being "french leftist circa late april-early may 1968."

so i became a situationist.
this was easier because mostly what i had to do to advance ther revolution was drink alot, and i figured now THERE is a mode of praxis i can get behind.

so i engaged in praxis of the type i could get behind for a while.
i threw myself out of my own group a few times because that was the other thing that situationists did alot and it didnt seem to ever matter that there were no people in the group.
this too seemed like a viable form of praxis to me.

then one day, after i had thrown myself out of my own group again, i realized that i had been drinking for a very long time and that the revolution still had not arrived.

what's keeping it? i wondered.

so i found stokkebye and made up roachboy.

so ends "the life of roachboy" brought to you by all the tobacco companies on earth

and now a message from our sponsors: smoking---it's what revolutionaries do when they're thinking about something else.
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11-08-2006, 05:48 PM	#143 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	first off: pigglet---you are probably thinking of the gauloises filterless pre-rolled guys that taste like newspaper wrapped up in other newspaper that i was once told i had to smoke if i wanted to be down with the prolos. this during a period when i thought it might be fun to become a new person. i decided to become "french leftist circa late april early may 1968". you know, as a human being. i was about 19. i thought it justified growing a moustache and running away from home. gradually i realized (a) my sort of stepmother, who told me the above, was obviously insane (b) that the cigarettes tasted like newspaper rolled up inside other newspaper and then rubbed on a street and (c) no matter how hard i tried, no matter how long i worked, i would still remain an infinite distance from being "french leftist circa late april-early may 1968." so i became a situationist. this was easier because mostly what i had to do to advance ther revolution was drink alot, and i figured now THERE is a mode of praxis i can get behind. so i engaged in praxis of the type i could get behind for a while. i threw myself out of my own group a few times because that was the other thing that situationists did alot and it didnt seem to ever matter that there were no people in the group. this too seemed like a viable form of praxis to me. then one day, after i had thrown myself out of my own group again, i realized that i had been drinking for a very long time and that the revolution still had not arrived. what's keeping it? i wondered. so i found stokkebye and made up roachboy. so ends "the life of roachboy" brought to you by all the tobacco companies on earth and now a message from our sponsors: smoking---it's what revolutionaries do when they're thinking about something else. smoking. no radical threat to the common weal should be without it. buy yours now and make capitalism tremble. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 11-08-2006 at 05:52 PM..