Wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

[cyrano]

Glenn Greenwald is back to his blog, and he talks about the administration's brave concession to perhaps start obeying the law maybe unless that's not what it means at all.
Wookie Kim, displaying all the wisdom of his or her twenty years and over a year of quality ivy league education, weighs in on the a capella San Francisco gay-bashing by saying I couldn't believe that anyone could do that to a Yale student. It is not clear whether Wookie believes that Yalies are (a) so socially advanced that we mere mortals should be psychologically unable to lay hands upon such glorious beings or (b) possessed of superpowers which render them invulnerable to physical attacks unless performed in the presence of Purple Kryptonite.
As an aside, I think that Wookie Kim would be a great name for a college rock band.
I have realized, in retrospect, why it is so easy to take the statement Senator Boxer made to Secretary Rice as a statement of fecundity and child-bearing wisdom rather than a statement of class and power. Because we, of course, live in a classless society and of course the rich and powerful are just as likely to have to take a job in the military which involves getting shot at as would, say, an eighteen year old from Detroit who dropped out of school to bag groceries to help his moms pay the rent.
Also, the stress-induced eczema is starting up on my eyelid again.
But at least my joints hurt less today. See? There's always a silver lining. Wait. This isn't silver, it's just tin foil. Um. But it's shiny!

EDIT:
I've received a comment from a person who says he is the abovequoted Wookie Kim, and I have no reason to disbelieve it. He says that the reporter misquoted and misinterpreted him in order to provide more punch to the article, which I must confess I also find to be imminently believable. And it worked--I read the rest of the article. I would like to apologize for at least some of my snideness. If I apologized for all of it, then likely a friend would stage an intervention. Plus, my writing style is entirely based on snideness. I blame my general cranky state for the excess. I hope the Whiffenpoofs will still consider my apartment as a stop on any West Coast tours they might be planning.

Comments

[yukonsally]

In some cultures, tin foil is more valuable than silver.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I obviously need to move. (:

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

If you make that tinfoil into a hat it protects you from aliens/the CIA/(your paranoia here)

Seriously, that line about the Yale student had me chuckling a bit. Not that I support violence of any sort, but the statement itself struck me in a way I cannot quite find the right words to describe it.

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[(Anonymous)]

I am the "Wookie Kim" who was quoted in the SF Chronicle yesterday. I just wanted to say that the Chronicle reporter who asked me (and my friend) questions took great liberty to paraphrase what I said (and, presumably, what the other quoted people said). The point of what I stated in the lead quote of the story was not that I thought it audacious that one would attack a YALE student; instead I found it shocking that people would have the guts to attack a group of students traveling and singing for the benefit of others, regardless of what college they were from. This is not evident from the quote, because the author seems to have excluded the explanatory part of what I said, which came immediately after, as a part of the same sentence.

I don't know how reputable the SF Chronicle is as a news source, but I am very disappointed in the way the author misrepresented my statements in order to add "shock value" to her story. I also regret that this article has added to the Yale-student-as-a-pompous-asshole stereotype.

Perhaps I shouldn't ever volunteer to answer questions with the media again.

Sincerely,
Wookie

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you'll see this or not, since there's no account to this comment, but I'm terribly pleased to hear this.
I still think 'Wookie Kim' would be a great name for a rock band, however.

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[(Anonymous)]

No problem. Your reaction to the article is totally legit. I now understand why people always choose to avoid talking to the press, because it seems that some misrepresentation always occurs in the end.

And yes, I do agree that Wookie Kim would be a great name for a rock band. There is a European techno DJ named "Wookie". But I guess he's not in rock.

Sincerely,
Wookie
wookiekim@gmail.com