From campervan-etc-owner@list.Stanford.EDU Wed Mar 29 00:42:20 1995 Return-Path: campervan-etc-owner@list.Stanford.EDU Received: from owlnet.rice.edu (owlnet.rice.edu [128.42.49.7]) by allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA12673 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 00:42:19 -0500 Received: from list.Stanford.EDU by owlnet.rice.edu (XAA15909); Tue, 28 Mar 1995 23:43:57 -0600 Received: from netcom17.netcom.com (netcom17.netcom.com [192.100.81.130]) by list.Stanford.EDU (8.6.7/8.6.4) with ESMTP id VAA24101 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:34:28 -0800 Errors-To: mail-errors@list.Stanford.EDU Received: from netcom by netcom17.netcom.com (8.6.11/Netcom) id VAA12811; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:30:24 -0800 Message-Id: <199503290530.VAA12811@netcom17.netcom.com> X-Sender: xian@netcom19.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:38:47 -0500 To: campervan-etc@list.Stanford.EDU From: xian@netcom.com (christian crumlish) Subject: our lives have no meaning X-Mailer: Status: OR >>i have only one question, and i feel like a political moron for not >>knowing about this, but who is/was patty hearst? and what did she do >>to make herself famous and get into a camper song? Here's where i establish my "too old for generation x" bona fides. Patty Hearst's kidnapping was the first media event i was completely conscious of (Vietnam and Watergate were a little hazy). oh, my beloved tania "Tania" was Hearst's codename in the SLA >in this fashion. Many people didn't believe it, until the SLA robbed a bank >on Irving St. in San Francisco and the surveillance cameras showed her taking >part with an AK-47. Subsequently, most of the SLA was wiped out in a raid on how i long to see your face photographed in 15-second intervals in a bank in San Leandro (Guess Camper got the location of the bank wrong.) the famous "film" was a serious of still shots by the aforementioned surveillance cameras, grainy, and shown repeatedly on the news, a la Rodney King. a polaroid of you, Cinque, with a seven-headed dragon in a house in Daly City Cinq-you was the leader of the SLA. The dragon was its logo. Daly City is an industrial town just south of SF, where I guess one of their hideouts were. Not knowing what Symbionese means, I was always a little unsure if the SLA was for real or some kind of parody of other militant groups. don't be sad my beloved tania they say your father never liked Stephen Weed anyway hired a detective to follow him around Weed was her boyfriend at Berkeley, from whose apartment she was kidnapped. oh my beloved revolutionary sweetheart i can see your newsprint face turned yellow in the gutter it makes me sad how i long for the days when you came to liberate us from boredom from driving around from the hours between five and seven in the evening The omnipresent media event, mockery of the pseudo-revolutionary.... my beloved tania we carry your gun deep within our hearts for no better reason than our lives have no meaning and we want to be on television >getting out, although she did take a part in John Waters' movie Hairspray (I >think that's the one). She also had a great role in Serial Mom, as the juror who commits the unforgivable faux pas of wearing white shoes after memorial day (or is it before?) --xian, of generation w -- Enterzone episode 2: http://enterzone.berkeley.edu/enterzone.html A Guided Tour of the Internet (ISBN: 0-7821-1619-1) "Best internet book on the market!" --bjpanaw@whin.net "a really great book" --dweller@cats.ucsc.edu "I was amazed at how much useful information I found packed into 276 pages" --mc@shore.net The Internet Dictionary coming in April