July 4th. To me it conjures up a few distinct memories: 1) lighting a fire cracker on a windowsill in our loft in NYC when I was a kid, and having it explode almost in my face. My dad rushed over and grabbed me hard and said "don't you ever, ever do that again!" 2) seeing the works from a window @ Windows on the World in the old World Trade Ctr. with my dad and bro for some NY Magazine party was I was a kid-pretty swank 3) buying them on Canal street as a kid, cuz you couldn't go a foot with out hearing "fiah-woix! fiah-woix!", much like you couldn't go a foot 10 years ago on Ludlow Street w/out hearing "steel-werks! steel-werks" (woix morphed into werks, as the genuine NY accent was long ago in our city youth by then) 4) seeing the works from a lil' sailboat on the Hudson in the early 90's w/ a bunch of people-you've never seen that kinda fender-bender boat traffic 5) walking back to the LES in the early 90's and having them exploding all around me like it was fucking Beirut (or Bagdad)... Don't get me wrong though, I'm not the patridiotic type, not in the least. When I think of Patrick Henry's quote "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty of give me death", I'm thinking of something kinda different than what the jingoistic crowd construes that to mean. I take "give me liberty..." personally, esp. as there really is no ideal liberty to be had in the U.S. like the hype would have you believe. It seems like extreme hypocrisy that we even celebrate the 4th now, esp. in the wake of the realization that something sleazy may have gone down by our government before and after 911, which led to the farce that was/is the war in Iraq. I think the holiday is getting a somewhat lower profile than usual because of this shit, thank God. Seriously, there has not been the kind of commercial uncle sam flag shit being beaten down our throats like in the past years since 911. This holiday our celebration and spending on majestic decorative explosives to launch and gloat over with a pledge of obedience seems... well, wrong. To commemorate the holiday on this here blog, I'm going to go back in time, to our last election year, when Georgey Gorgey shoved a butt-plug up our collective American ass and stole the presidency outright w/ a coup d'etat straight out of the history books. I'm going to let you read some emails I received back in December 2000, after a graphic I made appeared on an anti-Bush website called GWBush.com. These emails have never before been viewed by anyones's eyes but mine own. I got like 200 of 'em, some flattering, some, well, not, and I sold like 50 t-shirts of the image. The graphic I made also appeared on the cover of some magazine in LA. If you'd like to obtain a t-shirt, or a complete transcript of the emails, just let me know. I plan to post some more of these emails here as this Derelection heats up over the next bunch of months. So, without further ado, here's the first installment of The Floridubya Emails, enjoy:
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From: "Connie"
Subject: Dumbass
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000
"Man are you pretty f*cking stupid. First of all comparing George W. Bush to the third Reich of Hitler illustrates your complete ignorance in polotics. Hitler was part of the NAZI party! That is the National Socialist Party. Socialism is to the left (where the Democrats are) and Bush is to the right! And for your disagreement with the Supreme Court thats pretty much a joke too. Just because Al Gore received more votes doesn't mean he wins the election. Here in America we have an Electoral College and the popular vote means crap. So shut the hell up and just accept the fact that he is the president and you are a f*cking idiot!"
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From: MJ
Subject: Floridubya photo
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000
"Wow! What an EXCELLENT presentation of shrub! Given his family's past ties to the Nazi party it is so appropriate!"
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From: Stu
Subject: you mut be Black, Queer or Jewish. Or maybe just a liberal dummy
"you mut be Black, Queer or Jewish. Or maybe just a liberal dummy"
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From: Nick
Subject: nice page!
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000
"Hello! I am a 16 year old high school student from Philadelphia and in reading your page it definitely gave me a laugh! It is now becoming obvious though, that our next president is a person who thinks morals are important and that the good of the country outweighs the good of themselves. That you page had no effect in the outcome of the election and that you probably have wasted many hours of your life making is is also very evident. For this you should probably kill yourself because your life has no bearing on anything in these United States. So here's to a job NOT WELL DONE by every single Democrat espessily yourself!"
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From: Cherie
Subject: loved it!
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000
"Thanks for the great Dubyah pic as hitler... well, hwat more can I say other than I love what a dog is compelled to do to a bush. Yep!Good for you.... Re: the t-shirts though, well truthfully, my breasts are too pretty to ever have "him" on my chest..."
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From:
Subject:
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000
"I voted republican to get rid of the worst. Now i just realized that i voted for the biggest idiot imaginable. to tell people that their votes don't count unless they voted for me is stupid! Then to tell us that no matter who gets in that we will all pull together is a statement of a complete group of morons. The republicans make me ashamed of my vote. Just count the damn votes unless they're afraid of the results. FAIR IS FAIR!"
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From: "Steve"
Subject: Fuck you
Date: sat, 9 Dec 2000
"Fuck you! Revolt now. If I knew who you were I would kick your ass up and own the street. It is time, the law abiding gun owners of America take back this country."
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From: Deb and Pat
Subject" put me on your mailing list!
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000
"please add me to your list. this is the only place i can feel better tonight!!!"
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From: Jim
Subject: No Class!
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000
"That's what you are. That website looks like the bathroom wall of a men's bathroom. That's all you'll ever be... the worst part is you don't know it...AND YOU DON'T CARE! It is a sad testimony of the quality of people you are. Look at the website... YOU'RE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR. Get a life and a real job."
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From: RealMadrd
Subject: nice page!
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000
"i garentee i get more pussy than YOU"
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From: "Fair Election"
Subject: Laughin at you!!! YOU SUCK WE WON
date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000
"What a loser you must feel like!!!!! GO GET A GIRLFRIEND...NOT. I love this country and we will make it great agin. YOUR SAD."
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From: Ralph
Subject:
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000
"Now is the time for all men to come to the aid of the country.
Now is the time for all men to come to the aid otf the country.
Now is the time for for all men to come to the aid of the country.
Now is the time for all men to come to the aid of the country.
Now is the time for all good men to com to the aid of the country.
Now is the time for all god men to come to the aid of their country.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the cuntry.
Now is the time for all gopod men to come to the aid of the country."
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"America was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal-to discover and maintain liberty among men"-Woodrow Wilson, spoken on a July 4th a zillion years ago...
Happy July 4th yo, I'm heading to a big roof party in S. Williamsburg.
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