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Via sabotabby: "Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along."

being called sir by strangers: back when English was a Foreign Language to me, Britain was a very Exotic country for me. When I moved to Vancouver, my first job was a night shift at Subway. For some reason, Brits love their dreadful weather so much that they actually visit Vancouver in droves in January, just to get more gloomy-weather punishment. They would go to bars, and after that, end up at my Subway to pick up something to eat. Some would call me sir, and that made me giddy as hell.

against bourgeois-feminism: I acquired a lot of my LJ-interests by browsing other people's and copying theirs, especially when people added me. It's quite interesting that LJ actually has a feature that allows you to copy other people's interests by just checkmarking them. Now it's been a while since I've had so much time on my hands :] Bourgeois feminism, I guess, would be oblivious to the intersection of feminism with class and race. Actually, I'm starting to dislike the term bourgeois a lot, I find it a very crude way to describe things, and feminism has to start somewhere anyway. I'm going to remove this interest.

ultrabrutalist modern architecture: That's the descriptor that Ninjalicious gave to Robarts Library, which lead me to discover that Brutalist architecture is indeed a specific style of architecture. His love for the library has made me appreciate this type of architecture a lot more. I am anxiously awaiting its $75 million expansion, although I hear they'll take down some of the existing concrete panels. Hopefully the expansion meshes well with the existing building.

failed subcultures: So many subcultures seem exciting at the beginning, and then peter out, or become so successful as to become coöpted, go mainstream and lose the essence of what made them relevant in the first place. Dominant subcultures in my life have been ANSI art, punk rock and the anti-globalization movement. Of these, only punk rock has survived (but has it?), whereas ANSI art (art archive), the digital character art of BBSes, died of its medium's irrelevance with the advent of the internet. The anti-globalization movement died on September 11, scared shitless. I guess the bourgeois activists went back "home" to a different kind of "patriotism"...

red star nutritional yeast: The best kind of nutritional yeast, it is yellower than its competitors and "gels" a lot more. hsifyppah gave me the book pictured to the right when she tired out of veganism, which I have enjoyed thoroughly. I have consumed RSNY in part because it provides vegans with the much-needed B12 vitamin, which is usually really hard to get without consuming dairy and meat. The lack of B12 can lead to permanent neurological damage, so it's not a minor thing to ignore. I have been told recently not to rely on RSNY alone for my B12 needs, and have thus started taking B12 supplements, until I talk to a nutritionist about this, which could be never. When I got for my next annual health check-up, I'll ask my doctor to send me for a B12 blood test.

responsible anarchists: a very rare animal. Its cousin species, the irresponsible anarchist, is a lot more common. Over time, I have come to assume that people become anarchists first and foremost because they have an unacknowledged desire not to take any responsibility for anything. The turn to anarchism usually happens during adolescence, when people first meet this necessity of taking responsibility. Eventually, as irresponsible anarchists mature, they stop being anarchists. They can then take three paths: go back to the mainstream or go bat-shit insane right-wing. What happens most often is that they become some sort of socialists with an anarchist sensibility, with a stronger resistance to state encroachment on individual rights. Not to be confused with a liberal.

jack layton's moustache: What's not to love? Some people believe that Jack and Olivia aren't a "real couple". I'm still on the fence, and maybe they are too.

Comments

[konami.livejournal.com]

Okay, go for it. I hope you pick good ones for me because I didn't wanna use this meme after being asked last time.

[unemployia.livejournal.com]

i liked this post very much. I don't have any interests listed to talk about. (so I'm not posting for that reason) Just I liked to hear you talk about these interests. I could read more!

I love nutritional yeast, I like it on toast with margerine or butter or something, then pile it on top. thats all I remember eating when I went to an anarchists gathering in vancouver (I think)in 1988 with my friends in a van when my dd was a few months old. I lost 5 or 10 pounds that week, I think because of breastfeeding, it takes alot of energy. but its good memmories, those were nice friends i traveled up with and while I couldn't get it together to really do much while I was there, I did meet some interesting folks in the childcare room where i remember hanging out.

I am not sure if I am a responsible anarchist. I dont' like responsibility too much but then I think if we shared the dreary tasks then it would be much better so we should work to share them. I don't like to tell people or animals what to do too much. I think things have their own way of working out and it is anarchy and that authoritarianism is a kind of malady. I think there is stuff beyond words.

i think...punk rock still exists. Like the kids that stayed at my house last year, how happy they were with the hospitality I provided, how they smiled and said "punk rock" when I kicked over my broken back gate to take them for a tour of the alley. my broken back gate is a source of embarassment to me, what others veiw as broken, dirty, pathetic, or poverty - punk rock can make look much happier. I think its a changing spirit, a spirit of resistance, it still pops up sometimes, where you might least expect it.

I feel kind of immature. often disastisfied, other times content, sometimes pushed I just will not go.

I love how there are these topics that many discuss, and that is why I will like them, these categories, because somewhere sometime there is always some fabulous people who might be able to speak or live better than I can, on these subjects, and i like them!

my daughter loves nutritional yeast too and brocoli and tofu is comfort food to her, sprinkle some on top, yum.

in some ways we are really simple.

[youwhowereborn.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I like "failed subcultures" as an interest 'cos I don't like to see them fail but then once they do I don't like to see them forgotten either... anti-glob, you're so right that it died, but is that why? I haven't given it so much thought, though it's nagged at me through the years.

[compasspoints.livejournal.com]

i'm trying to think of a better term for anti-bourgeois feminism. i always end up using the word 'intersectional' in relation to feminism, to pick up or give a nod to reading race, class or other things alongside/intertwined with it.... but that feels too earnest, maybe? or pretentious?

i dunno. i've sat in a car listening to bad rock for multiple hours. i'm braindead.