The Agrinautica

   So Kristy and are walking along on campus the other day and Kristy says to me "hey you know who that was on that bench we just walked past?" and I look back and see this emo kid with shiny shoes talking on his cell phone. I quickly run through all our most emo friends in my mind and don't come up with a match, so I'm like "um, no?" "That's Conor Oberst" says she.
   As soon as he got off the phone a bunch of emo kids rushed him to take their picture with him and get his autograph. Later he walked by and I said "hey Conor," cause you know, me and him are like this. I think Conor actually looks like a totally emo version of former ASUCD comptroller Jon Avidor -- with shiney shoes.

   This evening was the Bright Eyes show in Freeborn. As usual I got in for free in exchange for my soul after the show. But I got Kristy in as well so my soul apparently has doubled in value. The show was awesme, I missed the first opening band, but the second one, Sons & Daughters was actually rather good, and Bright Eyes sounded excellent live. Especially the giant harp -- those things just don't translate to recording. They hepped up the song The Calender Hung Itself and it sounded awesome and caused Kristy to shake-rump.
   After the show was over I helped pack out until around 1:30. It was funny the roadies were talkin shit on Bright Eyes (usually most of the roadies don't actually travel with the band as popularly believed, but are contracted out from somewhere nearby. Also most roadies have pony-tails). When I finally got out of there, the tour busses were still parked out there, there was still a securit perimeter around them manned by campus security, and there were still groupies hoping to get a glimpse of Conor Oberst!!! I haven't seen that kind of thing at any of the other shows we've put on here, making Bright Eyes groupies more hard core than even Rancid groupies or the groupilicious (and terrible) Sum41. Incidently Conor was at the time eating pizza, and I don't imagine he had any reason to leave the bus later that night.

Illegal Aliens Destroy the Economy - space aliens I mean
   I was thinking about stuff from my Politics of Global Inequality class (POL124) the other day and it occured to me: lets say we finally made contact with an alien civilization, and lets say they were friendly, in fact we got along awesomely, and began to trade with them -- they would destroy our economy. Aliens capable of intersteller travel would doubtlessly be able to manufacture anything and everything more cheaply than us, and have all kinds of awesome things we'd all want to have. We'd be reduced to a third world world. We'd spend all our money on their awesome shiznaz and eventually be relegated to manufacturing amusing human trinkets for export throughout the galaxy.

   I told this to my roommate Jason, to which he immediately responded "at least we'll have porn."


Quote of the Day
   So I was talking to Kristy about a certain person who knows they're annoying and knows why they're annoying but refuses to do anything about it. "..it is well within human capacity to better oneself, and is there really a better accomplishment?" says I. She responds "uh yeah there is a better accomplishment -- successfully becoming a cat."


This Week in Campus Politics: Senate votes to secede from the University of California Student Association (USCA). Our representative to UCSA Ali "Chemical Ali" Ramidzaneh apparently argued in favour of this move. Rumour has it that President Assagai has vowed to preserve the union by vetoing the legislation. This may all be an effort to expunge the ghost of our previous UCSA representative Brian "I represent 230,000 students" McInnis, whose powers over the dark side were so strong he created a whole new office under which all our advocacy units were placed and was barely defeated in creating a position of 2nd Vice President for himself. Since then jedi knights have banished him to the role of campus tour guide (where he is no doubt raising an army of prospective students).

   Also Chief Justice Khan of the judicial horde of Mt San Antonio College asked me the other day if student governments are allowed to endorse ballot propositions and candidates. I was informed him of course that no, student governments as educational non-profits are forbidden by IRS from endorsing or disendorsing propositions. Fortunately his senate did the intelligent thing and failed the bill which would have put them in breach of IRS codes.


Picture of the Day

Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst acts emo
Conor rolls with two tour busses and a collective 12 AC units, as seen in front of Freeborn Hall here