Dear white activists...

[sabotabby]

Yes, we do find it incredibly funny when you confuse D. with Jaggi Singh. (You might have been observant enough to notice that they are both people of colour and as of late, they've been sporting the same hairdo, but I can assure you that besides that, they look nothing alike.)

No, we will not find it very funny if the police make the same mistake.

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Quote of the evening:

R., performing a very odd version of Hava Nagila and cursing Ariel Sharon: May he one day play in a talented klezmer band and know hundreds of songs but the only song ever requested by the audience will be "Hava Nagila."

You really don't want to be cursed in Yiddish. Ever. I'm fairly certain had he been present in the room, the fat pigeon bastard would have keeled over dead even though he probably doesn't even speak Yiddish. The cadence of the words is enough to make you never want to show your face in public again once you've been properly dissed in that language.

Comments

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Is that the D. that I know of? So is Jaggi growing his hair?

Anyway. bleargh.

[sabotabby]

Yep! He cut his hair into a Jaggi-esque style about two months ago. I almost fainted.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

fainted from desire or were you chagrined at the loss of hair?

It's at least always the last one for me.

[sabotabby]

Fainted from shock. This is Mr. "I won't cut my hair no matter what my girlfriends say."

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

What kind of nasty girlfriend would that be? Jesus.

[sabotabby]

Apparently not the sort of girlfriend who appreciates a guy with Deadhead tendencies.

For the record, I tend not to weigh in on the long hair vs short hair debate in general, because it very much depends on the person attached to the hair.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Ah, the skill of a good curse still lives :)

Now that's something people should learn in school. And flirting. Yeah, I think kids need both academic and practical skills.

[sabotabby]

I got good flirting practice in school. All of my friends were queer, so no risk there whatsoever.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I dunno, all y'all negroes look alike.

[sabotabby]

Y'all look alike to us, too.

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

Zol vel zayn vi a shandelir: hengen durkh tog un brenen durkh nekht.

[sabotabby]

Okay, I give up. What means it?

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

"May you be like a chandelier: hang by day and burn by night."

[sabotabby]

I love it.

I forget if I've asked you before...are you fluent in Yiddish? I toyed with the idea of taking lessons (a guy from my old high school is teaching Yiddish at the community centre where I go to the gym) but it's more pragmatic for me to learn Arabic. Still, Yiddish is such an expressive language that I wish I knew it.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Oh you rock!

How extensive is your Yiddish knowledge.

I love our language :).

Suicide Bomber Barbie Doll....

[himy.livejournal.com]

Simon Tyszko's Suicide Bomber Barbie conflates Western commodification with Palestinian desperation.

Re: Suicide Bomber Barbie Doll....

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

OMG. I want this on a t-shirt.

Re: Suicide Bomber Barbie Doll....

[sabotabby]

Oh man. So do I, kind of, but I think I may have maxed out my limit of ridiculously offensive t-shirts with the one I bought last night.

Re: Suicide Bomber Barbie Doll....

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

You'll have to take a picture when you get home.

I have far too many t-shirts as well. I'm thinking donating a bunch to goodwill so that I can abuse the good-looking ones more often, and eventually justify discarding them.

Ahhh, consumption society.

Re: Suicide Bomber Barbie Doll....

[himy.livejournal.com]

SUICIDE BOMBER BARBIE



London institute of contemporary arts august 2002

Simon Tyszko’s Suicide Bomber Barbie conflates Western commodification with Palestinian desperation. Religious and capitalist dogmas struggle within Barbie’s idealised form, in an artwork of potent incongruity. It is a work whose political stridency is tempered by a well placed humour.


Tyszko’s work might be described as being in the tradition of the long lost art of agitprop. ‘Capitalism defeats dissent and revolution’ Tyszko says, ‘not through direct confrontation, but through commodification.It sells back at a profit the signs, styles and symbols of revolution.’

By his appropriation of a consumerist icon, the artist creates an emphatic subversion of this process, the artist seeking to help create the conditions of political change.

A recent interview with a nine year old Palestinian girl had her saying she had wanted to be a doctor, but could now no longer study or sleep at night, and now only wanted to be a martyr. Tyszko says of her that ‘she has effectively bought the notion of suicide bombing as a lifestyle choice – it has become aspirational, an off the shelf peer led option.’

Suicide Bomber Barbie draws attention to certain kinds of moral, emotional, and political equivalence, which uncomfortably exist within the nationalistic and political systems that contain them. That these systems are dysfunctional, goes without saying.

Re: Suicide Bomber Barbie Doll....

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh dear, see what happens when I neglect Missnegativity's LJ. My sincerest apologies.

Hmm Barbie Suicide bomber. I think that we have to make a distinction between the girl "buying" the suicide bomber lifestyle choice, and it being forced down her throat from birth. If all your media experiences, friends, education, and family encourage being a suicide bomber, then it's highly likely you'd want to be one. That's kind of different from the artist's implication that becoming a suicide bomber is a choice made out of desperation.

That's all for now. You should know I'm working on a discussion between the sides of this conflict within the community. I'm not a crazy unpersuadable radical like a lot of them pro-Israelis (well...not thaaat crazy).

Anonymous :)

[mr-flabulous.livejournal.com]

i needed that laugh!
(the funniest part, to me, is the hair similarity)

[sabotabby]

Not that similar, actually, since I just looked at some more recent pictures of Jaggi. D. has not-so-lame bangs, though. (Don't tell Jaggi I said that.)

[mr-flabulous.livejournal.com]

hehe. i won't.
i would love to give jaggi a haircut. although i suppose maybe he cares about things other than good hair...like fighting against oppression and stuff.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

He can't look too clean cut or two fancy. Breaks those "fighting for the people" credentials.

[mr-flabulous.livejournal.com]

oh, i'd never make him look clean-cut or fancy. just edgy. although his math geek haircut is really endearing.