The Hogs of Entropy 0698

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    888     888 888      888 888                "If It's Bikini Kill, 
    888ooooo888 888      888 888oooo8            It Must Be Friday" 
    888     888 888      888 888    "                 by Shana 
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        I'm sitting at the desk I picked up at Kmart.  Had to assemble it; 
 it's essentially pressboard held together with scotch tape.  Maybe it wasn't 
 a good resting place for my fax machine after all.  No one fucking faxes me 
 anyway, though.  I just turned 22.  Why do I need a fax machine? 

        I am becoming the Internet Male (tm).  An unhealthy obsession with 
 techno-toys is certain to shorten my lifespan.  Or maybe I'm just projecting 
 my desire to not quit smoking.  Remind me to buy a cell phone and palm pilot. 

        Friday night and I'm getting intimate with Wordpad.  Rich NYU 
 neighbors downstairs are playing the best of K Records.  Right.  Like they 
 know about being oppressed females.  One of the girls is actually thinking 
 about buying rights to a film she saw in Cannes.  Meanwhile, the latest 
 count of junkies on my doorstep is six.  How many of those six are alive is 
 an entirely different question. 

        Shit, I just noticed the sticker on my desk lamp (sitting on my third 
 world country-manufactured desk) says to use a 60 watt or lower lightbulb. 
 The one screwed in is 75 watts.  I guess you could say I like to live 
 dangerously. 

        What else is there to do in the East Village on a Friday night?  Go 
 to a $4 Amstel Light bar and pick up a graphic designer named Alan?  Just 
 think, I'll be missing out on fascinating discussion in our post-coital 
 bliss.  "Yeah, Shana, I really like desktop publishing.  I just wish it 
 weren't so, you know, mainstream.  I've got these great pictures I drew of 
 anime characters..." 

        "Wow, Alan, it must be tough for you.  Coming from the subculture of 
 statistics majors and the rugby team at U Penn, and now to bed of this 
 little maroon-haired girl half your age, listening to Belle and Sebastian 
 and discussing Wittgenstein for two hours, I hurt for you.  Really I do." 

        Funny place, the East Village.  The kids with spikes and blue hair 
 can no longer afford apartments here.  They squat, wondering where their 
 next tattoo will come from, while I'm cozy and content with my 85 channel 
 cable box.  Some New Yorkers say Avenue A stands for adventurous.  I say 
 Avenue A stands for Asshole crackhead, get outta my stairwell.  I need to 
 get to work. 

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 [ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS!     HOE #698 - WRITTEN BY: SHANA - 6/18/99 ]