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December, 2004

  1. Holiday Jedi

    December 22, 2004 by elenamary

    So, I might be a bit of a nerd (which I think is a compliment). There are the sterotypical things that make me a nerd, but prehaps there is one thing that keeps me from becoming a master nerd. What is this thing? Well, I’ve never seen star wars, never ever. To top it off I have no desire. Even though The Pythi Master says that I have “become a powerful Jedi“. I am not even really sure what a Jedi is but I know that it and Darth Vader have attacked Christmas.

    Being the good Catholic that I am I believe every home needs a nativity scene. How could you have Christmas in your home and not have a nativity scene? So, for Alexi’s birthday in November, I gave him a nativity scene made of sweet Ohio Honey beeswax. It includes los reyes magos, Angel Gabriel, farm animals and all the other regulars. We set up the natvity scene above the fireplace on the mantel.

    After returning home later that day, we found, what I think are Darth Vader and Darth Vader with a cape (is that possible?) figurines. They were standing betwen the wisemen and the shepheard. These Vaders were removed to the side and were guarding the end of the mantel and a dead bonsi tree. But the Vaders are back!
    A miniature cactus has now been added to the natvity sceen and Darth Vader en Cape is crouched kneeling in front of the cactus. Is it a scene of Moses and the burning bush? Darth Vader and the cactus? And now one of the figurines looks like he is ready to knight one of the wise men? And a blue rabbitt four times the size of erything else, with graffiti style writing on its butt “evil bunny” has been added. A pastic gummy orange fish is creeping closer to the wise men.
    What the begezers is going on? Take away my title of nerd, take away my title of Jedi just let me have my seet honey nativity scene, no burning bush, no darth vaders, no evil bunny, no plastic fish, no bonsi tree, no cacti. Just sweet honey nativity.

    Merry Christmas.


  2. Mexican gets jail for illegal re-entry

    December 22, 2004 by elenamary

    Mexican gets jail for illegal re-entry & Border agents arrest 50 immigrants on labor buses (Spanish language tv in DC is saying it was 150 not 50)

    Mexican gets jail for illegal re-entry

    Published: Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004

    CONCORD (AP) – A federal judge sentenced a 36-year-old Mexican national to two years in prison Tuesday for illegally re-entering the country after being deported.
    U.S. Attorney Tom Colantuono said Eduardo Garcia-Cecenas was arrested in March when he tried to register a car in Mexican Voter Identification Card.
    Garcia-Cecenas had received a 25-year suspended sentence and was deported to Mexico after he was convicted of a drug-related offense in Iowa in 1996.
    Federal authorities said he would be deported again once he serves his prison term.

    Border agents arrest 50 immigrants on labor buses

    Associated Press
    Dec. 21, 2004 12:15 PM

    YUMA – The U.S. Border Patrol arrested about 50 illegal immigrants who were riding labor buses into Arizona.
    The immigrants were traveling Monday in four buses as they tried to avoid checkpoints along U.S. Highway 95 and Interstate 8, said Michael Nicely, chief agent of the Border Patrol’s Yuma sector.
    More than 50 people on the labor buses, which bring workers to local agriculture fields, had no immigration documentation, he said.
    “We’re going to follow up to determine what labor companies they worked for and what growers they worked for,” said Nicely.
    None of the workers had counterfeit or altered identification.
    Nicely said the arrests are proof that illegal immigrants are being hired to work in fields, a claim that the California-based Western Growers Association denied in late November when it protested Border Patrol enforcement during harvest season.


  3. funny dork/jedi

    December 21, 2004 by elenamary

    I am not sure why but I find this photo completly funny and no I can’t read Korean thus I have no idea what Woojay is saying. What do you think he is saying? Make up your own quote.

    dork8.jpg


  4. Prostitution II

    December 20, 2004 by elenamary

    When I was sixteen-years-old, I moved to Toledo to unionize migrant farm workers with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. The people I lived with were just as formative as the work I did. I lived in a tiny apartment with Maggie who had just recently graduated from Oberlin, Kayla who had one more year left at Oberlin. My friend and co-worker whom I practically lived with, Juan who was attending the University of Toledo and my summer boyfriend Daniel a young-German doing his social work instead of obligatory military service.

    We worked together, lived together and didn’t know anyone else in the city our ages. We were all very close. Maggie had a great impact on me. I was young, naïve, and “waiting-until-marriage”. Maggie had come from running a sex clinic informing college students about safe sex practices. She was unionizing migrant farm workers with the hope of some day unionizing the sex industry. Maggie taught me about correctly putting on a condom, dental dams, and finger cots. She asked me to call her “Cunt” and told me that it was a beautiful powerful word, and you know it really is to me to this day. I love the word.

    In terms of the sex industry, I had some ideas but not many. I wrote my first paper about the legalization of prostitution when I was in the 7th grade. I did have help from my dad and he taught me the phrase “victimless crime“. Now, I don’t believe that prostitution is necessarily a victimless crime, which is why I would like to see it unionized. Maggie taught me about other jobs within the sex industry. She introduced me to the lesbian punk band Tribe 8 and their song about the sex industry “Dead Clothed Boys”. I went back to High Schools after my summer with Maggie and became fascinated with the sex industry I wrote as many papers as I could about it. I was banned from a friends house after telling him about the site World Sex Guide (which isn’t that good anymore). I Read as much as I could and I still get excited when I see articles about the unionizing of the sex industry. For example this past week the NY Times had an article “Long Silent, Oldest Profession Gets Vocal and Organized“. The article addressed the grassroots effort around the country to unionize. It is amazing. You can also check out my previous post regarding the sex industry.


  5. Cow On The Run

    December 20, 2004 by elenamary

    Ohio is a great place. It is The Heart of it All. Of course a great story today from our local news
    Cow On The Run Continues To Elude Deputies
    Bovine Mooves Across Central Ohio

    “…The cow is described as a black-and-white dairy cow, commonly seen chewing on grass. Deputies said they have seen the cow, but weren’t able to catch it, NBC 4 reported…”


  6. the one

    December 20, 2004 by elenamary

    Last night, my friend Neal, called me and asked me to come over for dinner before Capoeira. He had made a wonderful dinner and it had been so long since Neal and I just chilled. We were discussing how our generation is screwing itself over waiting for the soul mate. That it used to be you found someone who was compatiable, someone you could rely on and whom could rely on you and it worked out in the long run. Truth is that is all I want from Alexi that and of course my requirements. Neal on the other hand is looking for that soul mate that one special love…”bullshit” I say and poor Neal looked so sad. Neal refered to my list of requirements as “pragmatic” I’d rather think of them as the bare minimum. I don’t know I guess, my other friend Kevin says that I am too young and that is why I have such a list that at some point I will settle for a sane person.
    I feel that in a way my requirments are so small. I am not looking for someone that I am constantly physically attracted to, I am not looking for someone that makes me giddy with every sight, I am not expecting some kind of tingel every time I hear their voice. So, why is it, like my generation, I am still waiting for that ring? Come one Alexi hurry the f-up.

    Anyway, if any of you are culturally jewish ladies interested in an awesome man check out Neal. He is cute, sweet, dependable, stable, secure, std free, politically active, a great cook, an awesome friend, wants a family, a total catch.

    In regards to Capoeira my body is failing me or rather I am failing my body. I’ve gained weight and haven’t been working out as much. I used to be able from a standing position to fall into a back bend and the flip myself over to escape from attack. I can’t anymore. I can still fall into the back bend but I can’t seem to get my body out of it, there is no escape which makes the move pointless. I also used to be able to do a macaco which I can’t anymore. I need to work out more, yeah.