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Today, The Evening Bulletin, an evening newspaper in Philadelphia which apparently stopped publishing about 22 years ago, resumed publication. My coworker showed me his copy a few hours ago, and I immediately got excited. I ran out on my first break and bought three copies. Twenty-five cents each. "Vol. I No. 1"

I'd never heard of the paper before in its previous incarnation, but I love this stuff. I'm not a history buff in the conventional sense, but I like things like pictures of cities in the 1920s, unused trolley tracks, and evening papers.

And what a paper this is. 28 pages, broadsheet-style, one section. Very high quality newsprint. A wonderful font, which ~~I'm in the process of identifying~~ the editor-in-chief just e-mailed me back and told me is MVB Verdigris. (Isn't it beautiful?) Very little color, not even on the weather map. The above-the-fold story entitled "Septic Steam Stinks Up Center City Sidewalks" refers to the smell variously throughout the article as "blinding stench", "septic stink", "funky fumes", "putridity", "nasal nuisance", "malodor", and "mephitic vapors".

I love it. I love that I'm reading an evening paper. In fact, I'm also considering taking up pipe smoking, and will from now on always wear a hat outdoors and slippers in my own home.

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anarcho-dandiest manifesto

Desh, you are the biggest dork I will ever know

And yet, you still put up with me, and even on occasion seem to enjoy my company, so it must not be a bad thing!

... most of the coolest people i know are dorks ...

[laughs]

but, mr. conana, all of the pictures are boy pictures. and they might say "Chaps and Chapettes" once, but every suggestion feels addressed to men at the suggestion of addressing men. hmm...except, the cashier at fast-food-place. so, perhaps i am wrong and it the male-gender-neutral, and not the male-man. (hehe...mailman.) but it seems to be an only nominally co-ed revolution. is the female end of this o-so-polite-and-i-have-quality-time-to-spend-with-you period so pleasant? [curious]

I am completely behind you on this sentiment and must go find a copy of this paper. Also, I have always been a fan of the hat thing...when I had a fedora a little while ago I tried to observe the rules...then I left it at an Applebee's. Dang it all.

i support

deled's comment, and add my own:
all this civility takes us back to a time when white people were the only people recognized as people by the people in power [white people], and the same can be said of men being the people in power and thus the only people recognized as people. and heterosexuals, western european-descendents, christians.. far more so than today.

and the class issues of creating a revolution based on acting posh and relaxed.. oy. [the anarcho-dandyists - note that they're not anarcha-dandyists - should fight it out with the anarcho-syndicalists - note that they are also not anarcha-anything.]

thank you for your time.

[meanwhile i'm excited about doffing my hat, if nothing else. i better go get a hat.]

i would like to marry you after all, desh, and wear aprons and waves in my hair and read the evening paper and smoke a pipe and always wear a hat outdoors and doff it at people. slippers sound nice too.

I think my dykey friends kind of get off on reclaiming this formerly male-dominated culture for their own uses. Which is hot in its own way on girls. And can't we all enjoy Humphrey Bogart tipping his hat as possibly the hottest gesture of all time?

Yeah, just so you all know, my next few posts will officially be a gender-(discussion-)free zone. I've enjoyed talking about it lately, but enough is enough.

*smiles* sorry. i almost didn't consider it worth responding about. mainly, i was, yet again, impressed that conana came up with some random link connected to the subject at hand. i enjoyed that and was giving him a hard time because of it...half mocking myself in the process because i felt it was a stretch. i didn't realize it would spawn discussion.

umm...I have a dry sense of humor. That is just the way it is. I felt as though Desh's post deserved a response, and I had nothing really constructive to contribute, so I offered up something amusingly random. The link title I copied from the person who showed it to me. I am happy to argue about the legitimacy of Eristic anarchism and the merits of a leisure society, but not in Desh's lj, and not in response to something that I posted purely as humor.

And, yes, I was amused. Thanks!

ps i'm not being sarcastic. i'm not being 100% serious, obviously, but i'm not trying to mock you. [i too have an occasional sense of humor..]

i'm not trying to call you out or anything, just offering a critique of the 'manifesto.' a nice healthy critique.. with, i might add, also a sense of humor. sometimes lj/internet/the written word drives me nuts because of the difficulties of conveying tone/humor.... i enjoyed the link you put up as well, but i didn't feel like enjoying it meant ignoring my internal critique.

dude.. i'm gonna temporarily remove you from my friends page. not because i like you less but because i don't want to see posts that i'm not allowed to voice my critique on...

[one more time, with feeling]
if all you want to do with your non-trans male privilege is decide that your lj is [albeit temporarily] a "gender-(discussion-)free zone," that's fucked up and i'm really mad at you. i'm not saying you're a bad person for being male, or non-trans, or anything like that - rather, that you have a bunch of privilege and you should a) acknowledge it and b) make it a point to learn more about the experiences of people unlike you.

if you had friends who were people of color [i don't know, maybe you do] and they were talking about racism and race issues in your comments, would you decide eventually that "enough is enough"?

that is buh-buh-busted.

[again, i don't like you less but i'm really mad at you right now. cumulatively, maybe. dunno. you can delete this post if you want, i really just want you to see it and get where i'm coming from and why this upsets me so.]

if you had friends who were people of color [i don't know, maybe you do] and they were talking about racism and race issues in your comments, would you decide eventually that "enough is enough"?

Yes. This is my journal, and I can control what gets discussed here if I want. I choose to allow almost anything, but not absolutely everything. For example, I choose not to allow anonymous comments which are not signed. I'm also choosing not to allow gender discussions for the next little while. (Though if one appeared, I probably wouldn't delete it. I just wouldn't like it.) I'm frankly just tired of them; I've been having them all the time, online and offline, for the past month or so. If you need to see me as an evil manifestation of male privilege to make sense of that, then so be it.

I do make a point to learn more about the experiences of people unlike me. This is very important to me, I've done it on here a lot, and I hope you agree I've been very fair and open-minded in how I've approached it. I just can't do it all the time. Sometimes I just need to write and not think about issues, or not think about certain issues in particular. Again, I'm sorry if that bothers you, and if you need to be mad at me because of this, then so be it. I wish you wouldn't remove me from your Friends page, but do what you need to do.