As I drove down to Mankato, MN this afternoon to enjoy my 4 day weekend and spend some time with Jess, my girlfriend and Guitar Hero cohort a strange stirring arose from deep within my soul. It was as if the core of being was shaken by the music of the legendary ska-punk band "Operation Ivy," who existed from 1987-89 and even in those short years put out what I feel to be the most influential albums in the genre ever to be made-- "Hectic" (which is actually a compilation of most of their songs).
Anyway, I realized the following: I have been sucking at the tit of "White Middle Class America" for far too long. What have I ever done to make the world a better place? Who have a I helped? I donate relatively small and meaningless amounts of money to various organizations over the course of a typical year, but the most volunteer work I've ever done was required for me to be allowed to stay enrolled at Saint John's University (www.csbsju.edu) after a ridiculously huge and pretty damn sweet/ fun party was broken up my senior year in the oncampus apartment I shared with 5 other brave souls (I say brave because our kitchen was probably the true sourse o the avian flu bug that the media wonderfully made sound like a looming apocalypse... which is probably will be, but I'll save that for another time).
Moving on, I have decided to try raising as much money as possible and then sending it to a deserving elementar school in Louisiana that was destroyed or amaged by Hurricane Katrina. Yes, I'm a little late to the game BUT do some research and look at how horribly messed up our governmental spending is when they have basically shirked all responsibility of helping to rebuild the areas affected and instead pump $1 billion every month into a pseudo-peace keeping mission in the Middle East for people that don't even want us there.
Does that come across as f*cked up to anyone else besides me?!
Anyway, I have some ideas floating around but what I'd really and truly like to do would be to assemble a crew of somewhere between 4-8 people to get in canoes, get sponsored and paddle from Lake Itasca (the north side) all the way down the Mighty Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Ideally, we'd get some publicity and draw some nice donations from companies that could cover our expenses and give us advertisements to wear (not sandwich boards but more like t-shirts and hats, etc.)
Anyone interested?
I might sell reusable coffee mugs at my school, too, which would serve a dual purpose in cutting down on the amount of styrofoam we run through as well as raising some money.
My girlfriend rocks and will be coming with and I think a Swedish guy I met in Budapest wants in on the sweet, sweet action as well.
On a super huge aside, I need help in figuring out how to do my own screen printing. I can read all the articles I want, but it won't really stick unless someone physically shows me.
Lastly, do yourself a favor and check out chiropractic-- preventative, non-invasive health care is the new white this year.
Cheers! Ahoy! Prost! Slainte! Atta boy, Skip!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
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