Birthday

[mack_the_knife]

Its really odd, and I mean no offence to those of you this includes, but sometimes I really hate reading your journals. Yet I feel this nameless pressure to do so. I believe some of this hatred has to do with an almost uncanny correctness of assumption as to how the journals will read. Just to be fair, Ill start with a general despising of my

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[flagg49]

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[reedie]

Leland, buddy, I gotta go with Sam on this one. I can't see why you would want to analyze our respective writing styles in this way, but right on, its your journal. Random quote that applies to your hostile posting in the most appropriately Anthropological way (read "bullshit roundabout way through clusterfucktopia, the capital of Postcolonial Land"):

It is possible to give many instances of how the rule of colonial difference-of representing the “other” as inferior and radically different, and hence incorrigibly inferior-can be employed in situations that are not, in the strict terms of political history, colonial. These instances come up not only in relations between countries or nations, but even within populations that the modern institutions of power presume to have normalized into a body of citizens endowed with equal and nonarbitrary rights. --From Partha Chatterjee, *The Nation and its Fragments* 1993.

[ankah]

PS if your pissed at this post you really oughtn't to be.

ooooooo. apparently this is what i do, so i guess i have an excuse.

PS i'm not.

[rotifer]

i don't read your journal, you don't have to read mine...

[mack_the_knife]

I dont.