roachboy

msmedia:

yeah--see how it goes?

it took a bit of work to find Important Criteria To Demonstrate the Existentially Important-ish Claim that I Am Not A Hippie and the central meta-criterion was Find Criteria That You Do Not Have Nor Are Likely To Get.

whence phish.
the most important select criterion: i dont think them funny and i dont find them interesting to listen to.
therefore i am not amongst the set of those who find phish funny or interesting to listen to.
those that do are neohippies.
therefore i am not one.

syllogisms are fun. i also have a couple that demonstrate that i am not president of the united states. i feel these are important elements to have available for conversational purposes. they help get past those interminable seeming deadspots. you know, those zones which emerge when you realize that you have nothing to say. these do not have to originate in hostility or anything else--they blow in like weather. so having syllogisms at the ready is good. demonstrating that you are not the president of the united states can be functional.
the only problem comes with parties, because they present a whole series of situations in which there is nothing to say----but because they are parties, you sometimes forget things and so can find later that you have demonstrated 4 or more times to the same person that you are not president of the united states over the course of the same evening. this renders the customary "who the fuck was that guy and what's with the enormous hat with feather?" more open-ended a question than one might prefer.

or so i have heard.

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