joenobody

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

I think about this all the time. It constantly pops into my head as it proves itself true over and over again.

Granted, clich bits of wisdom like this have a tendency to become incredibly annoying. Especially when someone who's really dumb uses them in some half assed attempt to sound like a know-it-all. But Ive always liked this one. Maybe it's something that has stuck with me since I read all those Daoist books back in the day; maybe it just makes sense to me because I fit the description of a Gemini really well. I don't know.

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It recently occurred to me that the female equivalent to the construction worker is the sex worker. Both fields are similar in a lot of ways. Theyre both extremely undesirable types of work that can offer a decent monetary living. Theres also a number of sleaze balls running each industry that aren't afraid to fuck you over a hundred different ways.

Theres probably as many female construction workers as there are male sex workers, and both are stereotyped as being gay.

Whats also weird is that when i was more active in the anarchist scene there were a number of young radicals who had lead a typical upper-middle class existence then all of a sudden thought it would be cool to take a step down and live like a person from a lower class. Theyd become painters or strippers, carpenters, or dominatrixes, or what have you. Usually for the first month or two this person would be talking about nothing but how empowering their new job was, up until the point when they couldn't take it anymore and would quit and hope to find something much easier and more comfortable. the ones that stayed, usually worked for a company that was run by hippies or progressives, and was a very far stretch from your normal dungeon or contracting company.

Neither field is a place for someone who's easily offended.
Ill be honest. Both fields tend to attract the same types of people to do the work. Psychos, drug addicts, alky's, ex-cons...... some people who do the work are just some of the most incredible people youll ever meet because they've just been through a lot of shit in their time. but at the end of the day, theyre all just normal schmoes with day jobs who are trying to earn an honest living.

There's this one dive around here that my friend's girlfriend Tilly works at. It's called Silk Stockings in this town called Groton. Theres a Navy base there, and Electric Boat a manufacturer of Nuclear submarines. So the whole town is mainly made up of Navy squids and the workers from EB. This was the place that Anarcha came to dance at a couple months ago before she left for Amsterdam.

I was there that night, hanging out and I was watching this one girl named Sunshine dance. She was dong all these crazy stripper moves like laying on her back and doing the worm backwards. Not to mention she had some incredible footwork for someone in 7 high-heeled boots. People knew this girl from around town, and later on Tilly and my friends Drew and Sal were telling me about what a psycho Sunshine was.

Apparently one girl was dancing and Sunshine was going around the stage asking the people watching the dancer if they wanted lap dances. The girl told Sunshine not to take her customers, and Sunshine yanked this girl off the stage by her hair.

There was another incident where she got mad at some other girl for some reason and chased her all the way up some hill wielding a butchers knife. Sal, who saw the whole thing was like She wasnt just doing it for shock value either. she was really trying to cut that girl up.

Sorry, I only have stories about psycho crack whores.. Ive met cool strippers. I just dont have any material handy. Ive written stuff about asshole construction workers before so I didnt include any more in this entry.
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I had an Epiphany last night. Ill write about it in my next entry..and, Ill even include a definition of the word epiphany because I hate sounding like a pretentious asshole.

I think Ive got enough material from my journal to do another zine but not until I get rid of the other 350 copies of this current one that I still have.

My friend Pat just put out a pretty good zine with a story about when he went to France, and he talks about some of the culture clashes. I love regional characteristics and slang. its true according to my horoscope too. God knows, I was bugging Millie about cockney rhyming slang for some time a little while ago. that and the whole East coast/West coast kick Ive been on.

By the way, my phone line was out for a while and since I have dial up still, I wasnt able to get back to SG as soon as I thought I would be able to.