4 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 THURSDAY: Explained FRIDAY: Before You Were Here Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli holds a free autograph-sining ses- sion in the Motivation Boutique clothing store on S. University Avenue yesterday. Kweli performed at the Power Center for the Performing Arts yesterday. 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