"Those of us who thirst for justice need to throw the best parties, is what I’m saying."
THIS IS IT!!!!! I 1000000% feel this in my bones. I'm also always feeling the tension of the *importance* of justice with the relative *frivolity* of parties (or anything that looks to be primarily social on its face) but the two need each other!
AND one of my favorite videos on the internet at the end? Come on!! We've been chatting about throwing a Bingo Night + pancake breakfast situation at the co-op; I really just want to copy programming from any VFW sign I pass by these days.
Elise I am a busy man with a family in Milwaukee, WI and neither the money nor the time to come to New Haven JUST for a Bingo night plus pancake breakfast put on by you at the co-op and yet… the organizer urge to do exactly that…
ELISE! A. I’ve been slacking on adding songs of the week lately but I’m going to go ahead and just say that this is canonically the song of the week (will add it to the web version). B. I don’t think you’ll be surprised to find out that my answer to the question “what kind of punk are you?” Is “I’m a Mike Watt and d. Boon’s friendship kind of punk.”
I'm on the board of our local social justice public art project, Ithaca Murals. We were just talking at our meeting last week about what each of us is hoping to do more of in the coming year. I was a professional finance manager for a lot of years and so I tend to volunteer to do more of that, alone in my house. Instead, I said, "Be together in community! Because I'm kind of a hermit and a crank and I can always manufacture a reason to stay home. But this year I want to show up for all the community painting parties. I want to get covered with random paint and talk to people I don't know, and spot people on ladders, and get used to just being with people again, creating something beautiful." I think I'm also going to now always bring soup or chili or pie because you're right, there's nothing better than that.
"I want to get covered with random paint and talk to people I don't know and spot people on ladders, and get used to just being with people again, creating something beautiful."
"Those of us who thirst for justice need to throw the best parties, is what I’m saying."
THIS IS IT!!!!! I 1000000% feel this in my bones. I'm also always feeling the tension of the *importance* of justice with the relative *frivolity* of parties (or anything that looks to be primarily social on its face) but the two need each other!
AND one of my favorite videos on the internet at the end? Come on!! We've been chatting about throwing a Bingo Night + pancake breakfast situation at the co-op; I really just want to copy programming from any VFW sign I pass by these days.
Elise I am a busy man with a family in Milwaukee, WI and neither the money nor the time to come to New Haven JUST for a Bingo night plus pancake breakfast put on by you at the co-op and yet… the organizer urge to do exactly that…
also....am I allowed to choose my own White Pages companion song of the week?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7C9RQiUdXc
ELISE! A. I’ve been slacking on adding songs of the week lately but I’m going to go ahead and just say that this is canonically the song of the week (will add it to the web version). B. I don’t think you’ll be surprised to find out that my answer to the question “what kind of punk are you?” Is “I’m a Mike Watt and d. Boon’s friendship kind of punk.”
😭😭😭
I'm guessing you have both seen We Jam Econo, then? It might be the most charming music documentary ever made.
Also, my friend is trying to get D. Boon awarded the Woody Guthrie prize if that is a cause anyone here wants to support: https://www.instagram.com/dboon4woodyguthrieprize/
I'm on the board of our local social justice public art project, Ithaca Murals. We were just talking at our meeting last week about what each of us is hoping to do more of in the coming year. I was a professional finance manager for a lot of years and so I tend to volunteer to do more of that, alone in my house. Instead, I said, "Be together in community! Because I'm kind of a hermit and a crank and I can always manufacture a reason to stay home. But this year I want to show up for all the community painting parties. I want to get covered with random paint and talk to people I don't know, and spot people on ladders, and get used to just being with people again, creating something beautiful." I think I'm also going to now always bring soup or chili or pie because you're right, there's nothing better than that.
"I want to get covered with random paint and talk to people I don't know and spot people on ladders, and get used to just being with people again, creating something beautiful."
I love this for you and I love this for Ithaca!
Excellent piece, Garrett. Thank you. I could quote so many lines. Soup and pie. Soup and pie.