XtecatoX: hey dave

XtecatoX: I'm going to make a bold proposition

XtecatoX: do you have enough interesting shit to say that you'd consider contributing to a blog?

Gweedman5: What kinda blog?

XtecatoX: well, here's the dig

XtecatoX: member that site that Rick, Steve, and I started?

XtecatoX: well, we got it for a year, and it's just sitting there

Gweedman5: gotcha

XtecatoX: and I've been reading these articles about how ad companies (google especially) are giving money for people to allow ads on their blogs

XtecatoX: and when people go on the site you get paid, you get more if they click some ads

Gweedman5: ok, I follow ya

Gweedman5: But what is gonna be done with the site?

XtecatoX: it will become a blog

Gweedman5: right, but for what?

Gweedman5: Is it gonna be themed.

XtecatoX: ummmm

XtecatoX: I don't know

Gweedman5: Are there a group of writers? Who's gonna design the webpage?

XtecatoX: well, we've got all the ammo, don't we?

Gweedman5: Ok. Im in if it'll be fun, and I can help in some way

XtecatoX: We got Greek and Snack

XtecatoX: the tech guys

Gweedman5: But I'd be interested to know what you'd be looking for from me

Gweedman5: ok

XtecatoX: we got Dave: whose knowledge of music and politics beats out the rest of us

XtecatoX: Richard, who can tear a movie to shreds or build a pedestal for it like no one else

XtecatoX: Steve, whose general misanthropic hyperbole is unparalleled

Gweedman5: hahaha

XtecatoX: and there's Paul (his mom cheers, cricket chirps)

XtecatoX: well, comics, I guess

XtecatoX: right?

Gweedman5: hahaha

Gweedman5: yeah, definitely

Gweedman5: So you're thinking like a smorgasborg of the whole group

XtecatoX: yeah

Gweedman5: on anything we have to say

XtecatoX: right

Gweedman5: I gotcha

XtecatoX: we'll basically keep whoever visits in touch with what disgruntled almost-graduated college students feel

XtecatoX: about pretty much everything

Gweedman5: that sounds like it could be pretty cool

XtecatoX: yeah

XtecatoX: I agree

Gweedman5: Got a name?

XtecatoX: hmmmm

XtecatoX: I'm at a loss...

Gweedman5: It'll come in time. I was just wondering

XtecatoX: Notes from the armchair?

XtecatoX: with the subheading (we would be activists if these taquitos weren't so damn tasty)

Gweedman5: hahaha

Gweedman5: That may be a keeper

XtecatoX: I think so

XtecatoX: It should be semi-professional

XtecatoX: with faily coherent an logical writings where applicable

XtecatoX: unless it's just some general bitching

XtecatoX: I mean, I'd like to think that each of us are at least smart enought to inform the mass of loafing high school kids about what's going on and what they should be doing to overthrow the government

XtecatoX: you know?

Gweedman5: haha

Gweedman5: I agree completely

XtecatoX: I'm just tired watching my idealistic peers mindlessly chanting old slogans on the street

XtecatoX: if anything, that keeps people from becoming revolutionaries

XtecatoX: But think of how many people Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn have enlightened

Gweedman5: uh huh

XtecatoX: I should know, I'm one of them

Gweedman5: right. We could prolly lampoon protests or something. Like top ten do's and don't's

XtecatoX: my first idea was "How to be a revolutionary in 10 easy steps"

Gweedman5: yeah, something like that

XtecatoX: or, catch phrases and names that every activist should know

XtecatoX: 10. Well fuck what Rusmsfel said....

XtecatoX: 9. Marx theorized that....

XtecatoX: 8. I believe that Chomsky alluded to something like that in Manufacturing Consent

XtecatoX: 7. The Guardian

XtecatoX: 6. Well that's because your professor is a bourgeois cronie with tenure....

Gweedman5: this isnt too bad, man

XtecatoX: and I made it up on the fly

XtecatoX: imagine applying ourselves

Gweedman5: yup

Gweedman5: I was thinking about the title again

Gweedman5: errr, name

Gweedman5: There's this Weakerthans song called "Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist"

Gweedman5: I think I like yours better, but I thought to throw that out there

XtecatoX: nice

XtecatoX: yeah, we definitely have a theme that's concrete

XtecatoX: I think this might be a step towards something very meaningful

XtecatoX: like really reaching people in a way that gets them passionate

XtecatoX: without making them feel like they have to pick up some pipebombs or march down Lakeshore Drive, you know?

Gweedman5: Run it by the rest of the guys out there

Gweedman5: I'll mention it to Bromley

XtecatoX: aright

Gweedman5: we'll see how it goes