A collection of thoughts

One week into school and life is never dull.

When I see new fashions that get debuted these days [ http://www.lifestyle.ru/pics/2003.11.15.17_1.jpg ] I think to myself, man that is weird, who wears that shit. But we live in a profit based society so clearly it is profitable to dress people in curtains and bushes. This made me think of my own amazing fashion idea with the help of Jenna Bicknell and more importantly, her dog Arnie. You see, Arnie once chewed up one of Jenna's socks and then shit it out pretty much whole, in the shape of your typical poop [ http://www.annastesia.com/Pics/AnnaStesia%20Poop.jpg ] but in reality, just a sock that had been formed through the digestive tract. So my idea is to have people wear clothing that their pet or another animal has passed through their entire digestive system and then re-born. "Coming down the runway, Drew, orginally from Meridian, Idaho, wearing a fraternity toga completely ingested and shit out by a Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goat." I guarantee I could make like $220.

In my politics senior seminar the other day we sat around and debated the topic of power in relation to things we found in and around maxey hall, like grass, paintings, and other RANDOM ASS FUCKING SHIT. It was an exercise in learning nothing but learning to talk intelligent about useless shit. Sorta reminded me of this column [ http://www.whitman.edu/pioneer/downloads/archive/Spring%202005%20Issue%2001.pdf ] that I wrote for the Pio when I got back from DC. I worry more and more as the years go on here that I am not actually learning anything useful, just learning to talk and write pretty. I know that actual skills are not the goal of a liberal arts education, but seriously, a little depth and background and real world grounding and examples couldn't kill us.

Speaking of the real world, hurricane katrina really makes me nervous. In the last week I have become more and more sure that at some point in my life, maybe sooner rather than later the world will end. I think that we the people are less free than ever before, and a lot of it is our own fault. We buy lies at any price to opiate ourselves from legitimate fears and concerns. After 9/11 the government created the department of homeland security which we all pay into annually from our taxes. We also pay into FEMA and countless local and state funds that go to training and preparation for emergencies and disasters, man and nature-made. Suddenly, we have a dude telling us to fight off terrorists by going shopping and stock up on duct tape and we are not worried about a tactical nuclear strike directly in our own assholes. Hurricanes though, are completely different. We have satellite imagery that is used in the shittiest local weather forecasts every single day to predict weather that is days ahead. Everyone knew that Hurricane Katrina was going to hit days before it really did and I agree that if people don't heed the warning to evacuate it's their own fault, but it should not take 4 days and so much confusion and fog of war to get aid to the idiots that didn't bounce. Not to mention the fact that the magnitude of this was unexpected. Even the tiny magazine I interned for in Washington DC, THE AMERICAN PROSPECT, ran an article just this past MAY [ http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10180 ] about the exact thing that happened. The fact is that our government cannot protect us, but that has always been the case, if some crazy sets off a nuke or a bio-weapon, that is hard to stop, but the response should be planned for, and we should stop believing the fucking lies and drinking the kool-aid.

I went to the county fair last night in walla walla and in the livestock barn I nearly purchased a Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goat for the monstro but at the last minute decided against it and won a fish at the ball toss that I have named Floyd and is clinging to life on my desk right now. The fair was cool, it reminded me of going to fairs near my house as a young kid. I wonder how similar county fair's are all over the country. I think Bruce Springsteen pretty much sums it up in his appropriately titled song, "County Fair" [ http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/bruce_springsteen/county_fair.html ] Sounds about right to me.