Bumper Stickers I Saw in Berkeley (Part IV)
I bet you didn’t know this was a call-in show.
My wife called today to offer an addition to our Berkeley bumper sticker series.
It seems that she passed a young woman driving a teal Volvo with the following bumper sticker:
“I’D RATHER BE SMASHING IMPERIALISM”
She wisely steered clear so as not to anger the woman in the Volvo, as she’d already rather be smashing imperialism and any additional aggravation…
She also pointed out that, as far as she could tell, the woman did not appear to have any special imperialism-smashing equipment — unless a lacrosse stick counts.
So, if you come across a young woman smashing the hell out of some imperialism with a lacrosse stick…
...we saw her first.
2 Ripples from “Bumper Stickers I Saw in Berkeley (Part IV)”
bestman says:
April 14, 2005 at 8:04 pm
Ah, lacrosse. The last refuge of oppressed Volvo drivers all over the world. It’s a shame that an authentic indigenous invention like lacrosse has been relegated by Big Oil, under pressure by all three Bush administrations and the post-colonial military industrial complex, to a few pockets of the northeastern U.S.--and even there it’s no longer a viable profession. Few people realize that it’s really only played as a diversion from the pressures of education, usually outside mainstream public institutions, such as in one league comprising some of the oldest traditional schools of their kind anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Many who do manage, despite their station in life, to uphold the sporting legacy of their forebears have no choice upon reaching adulthood but to take highly stressful jobs in law and medicine, leading to almost certain Volvo ownership.
In contrast, sadly, the white Englishman’s invention known as “football” has of couse made widespread and irreversible inroads into most of the world’s poorest countries, backed by the marketing efforts of round-object and line-in-the-dirt manufacturers throughout the G-8 nations.
(I think the last time lacrosse and imperialism were on opposite sides of anything, the Padres--or was it the Cavaliers?--penetrated early and often, decimating the Redskins, who were generally poorly prepared on defense and gave up a lot of territory near the end.)
bestman says:
May 10, 2005 at 11:05 am
Yeesh. Did I really say all that out loud?
So...I’m relatively new to all this, and obviously I’m still learning about etiquette and self-control when it comes to leaving “ripples”. That bit up there from a few weeks ago is highly silly and dissolute and more than a little embarrassing, not to mention being longer than zalm’s original post, which I now understand is bad form. Rather than trying to explain myself, which could easily turn into something like the answering machine scene in Swingers, let me say this:
Someday my daughters will learn to read, point, click, etc., and surely this will be confirmation that their dad is the big dork the suspected him to be all along. So to them and to anyone else who may have read it, in the spirit of Kicking and Screaming, I owe you a quarter.
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