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			Our Beloved Revolutionary SweeTART - De File Does Collecting Make You Feel Dirty?

cbertsch


	Our Beloved Revolutionary SweeTART
	This is what I looked like when I was chillin' in Frisco with my homeboy M.C. Kosher P and his posse on February 4th: Somehow my greatly-missed mentor Julian Boyd's term "Cocktail Marxist" -- applied with fervor to certain UC Berkeley professors who were sure to be on the barricades, provided there was sufficient wine and cheese laid out -- comes to mind. The sad irony is that I do keep it real, like the tip of a knife. Tags: autobiography, humor, photography

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From: e4q	Date: February 16th, 2006 09:00 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

the tip of a knife with some cheese on it? ;-D

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	From: _luaineach	Date: February 16th, 2006 11:43 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

or pâté!

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From: e4q	Date: February 16th, 2006 12:05 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

...de fois gras, naturellement!

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	From: flw	Date: February 16th, 2006 12:46 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)
	el protesto!

Reminds me of the short-lived but raucous protests in Los Angeles prior to and during the first few months of our current war in Iraq. I recall seeing more than a few dirty hippy types throwing their giant "NO BLOOD FOR OIL!" banners in Humvees and heading off Beverly-Hills-wise at the end... :)

Carry a sign one day, then carry on...

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From: pants007	Date: February 16th, 2006 01:21 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

YY and I both think you're looking good enough to eat.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: February 16th, 2006 01:50 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

But with white or red? I'm thinking something in between. Blush, I think they call it. . .

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	From: hollsterhambone	Date: February 16th, 2006 04:56 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Speaking of "keeping it real" I just realized what the definition of "reversed" means. I owe you four dollars, fool!

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	From: hollsterhambone	Date: February 16th, 2006 09:57 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

That "fool" part was funny to me for about five seconds. It's not funny anymore.

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From: thewhitaker	Date: February 17th, 2006 02:30 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Are you down for some Saturday festivities? If so, where and when and all that? I am embarking on a project (not school-related) about which you may be able to provide important advice.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: February 17th, 2006 05:41 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I don't think that will work after all. I will be at Plush later that night, but it's hard to talk there. Maybe we could meet for lunch nexty week?

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PROFILE


User: cbertsch Name: Charlie Bertsch

CALENDAR

LINKS (INCLUDES NON-LJ BLOGS)

FEATURED LINK

Elliott Berry

PHOTOGRAPHS

Picture of the Moment

PUBLICATIONS

Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life

Printculture

io9 (a sci-fi blog)

Other magazine

Morphizm

McSweeney's

Left Business Observer

The Believer

DEGREES OF SEPARATION

Steven Rubio's Online Life

Joel Schalit

Super Bon! (Jonathan Sterne)

Annalee Newitz's column

Mark Sussman

Justin St. Germain

I Cite (Jodi Dean)

Michael Bérubé

Eensy Weensy (Ann Powers)

Jill from h2so4

Jessica Suarez

Mike Kolakoski

Fredoluv

K-Punk

Ted Friedman

Scott McLemee

Catfish Vegas

MUSIC

Zoilus

Simon Reynolds

Boblog

Flaskaland

RockCritics.com

LITERARY

Ron Silliman

ACADEMIC

Intellectual Affairs (Scott McLemee's Column)

The Valve

Crooked Timber

POLITICAL

CNN Political Ticker

Blog Left

Nathan Newman

GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT

Tim Goodman (SF Gate)

Culture Blog (SF Gate)

ABOUT DE FILE

You're looking at content from my Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2003. I consider it a personal blog, though it lacks stream-of-consciousness revelations that typify that genre.

That said, if you manage to discern the confessional mode within entries that are superficially tight-lipped, I will reward you handsomely. Or at least pretend to do so.

In addition to reflections, however mediated, on my daily activities, De File features periodic excavations of material from my "files," a revelation sure to disturb anyone who has seen my garage. It's an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way.

Politics is always on my mind, but rarely explicit here. I’m working on a theory about what personal writing like this does to literary identification and why some people resist its pull so powerfully. But my goal is to make that theory dissolve in my practice, a density in liquid.

You'll note that I have links to blogs not on LiveJournal directly above, as well as assorted websites of note. The blogs I read regularly on LiveJournal itself fall under "FRIENDS" at the top, for those of you unfamiliar with LJ’s workings.

You can write me. I'm "cbertsch" before the circle-a and "comcast.net" after it.