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2 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Taken ft
One of my friends and I were
enjoying a late night feast at the
Fleetwood Diner when a scrag-
gly-looking kid approached our
table. He said that he had just
gotten off the train from Denver
and needed to get to class in East
Lansing tomorrow.
The Michigan State Univer-
sity student asked us if we could
spare a few bucks. One-upping
him, we figured we might as
well give him a ride and make an
adventure out of the night.
Before long, it was past 3 a.m.
and we were cruising down 1-96
in my friend's pickup truck, the
three of us squeezed a bit too inti-
mately into the front seat. After
some of the awkward getting-to-
know-each-other questions, it
took us only a few minutes to get
into the good stuff.
How should one live life?
How has Facebook turned per-
sonal identity into a constructed
mythology? Will technology be
the end of comm
the meaning of l
to end up in a ba
the highway?
As I walked i
lecture half-aslee
that although I
more out of clas:
I learned more f
ture.
This is m
Bouncers have
I understand tha
fake IDs and kee
blance of peace a
something thatr
can't do. And yet
my casual bar-go
but contempt fo
egregiously-musc
Exhibit A: Saturc
Street.
At the bidding
she, my roomm.
WEDNESDAY:
-otes The Extremist
wr a ride
lunity? What is stumbled our way to a rather
ife? Am I going packed and miniscule dance
g on the side of floor where you're just as likely
to bump into the DJ as other
n to my 9 a.m. dancers. We hadn't been danc-
p, I was certain ing for more than 30 seconds
'd have gotten when a brawny, 5'8" overcom-
s if I had slept, pensating, anger management-
rom our adven- bound bouncer came stampeding
towards us.
CLIFREEDER He started screaming about
standing in front of the women's
bathroom, barking at us about
iy house coming into "his house" and
a difficult job. causing a ruckus, and rambling
t. Dealing with something about fucking us up.
ping some sem- I tried to reason with the man
nd normalcy is but it was for naught. He only
my 6'" 160 lbs seemed to be enraged more: him
t, even in all of aragingbull, myself a crafty mat-
ring, I feel little ador. He scowled at us for some
r most of the time longer before attacking
led meat heads. another unsuspecting dancer.
day night, Rush A word to bouncers: Some
people are idiots. I'm not. Get off
of my girlfriend, my back.
A RAP STAR ON SOUTH L
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Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli holds a free autograph-sining ses-
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Avenue yesterday. Kweli performed at the Power Center for
the Performing Arts yesterday.
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