in commemoration of finishing my math project ("a graphical and algebraic functional analysis of cell phone service plans"), which was every bit as exciting as you'd guess, i decided to indulge some vicarious drunken revelry in the form of the pogues' "rum, sodomy, and the lash." why vicarious? because i have trig to do (solar greenhouse design and straight-up book trig as well) and my left brain is handicapped enough as it is. so the pogues got me thinking about pirates (actual pirates, not romanticized media constructs), which got me thinking about hakim bey's appendices to temporary autonomous zones, ontological anarchy, and poetic terrorism where he quotes captain bellamy. instead, while digging for that passage, I find this:

"as for the anarchist movement today: would we like just once to stand on ground where laws are abolished & the last priest is strung up with the guts of the last bureaucrat? yeah sure. but we're not holding our breath. there are certain causes (to quote the neech again) that one fails to quite abandon, if only because of the sheer insipidity of all their enemies. oscar wilde might have said that one cannot be a gentleman without being something of an anarchist--a necessary paradox, like n's "radical aristocratism."

...which totally ties a bunch of my favorite things together: nietzsche, wilde, anarchism, and the dandiacal iteration of the gentleman. somehow, though, even if i'd stumbled across this prior to my wilde essay, i don't think i could've quoted the intoxicated ramblings of a neo-sufi mystic as a credible source. a damn shame.

my current english project: using google search queries as source material. not as links, but as the actual cultural artifact itself. i can't decide if it's intellectual laziness, meta wankery, or something valid.

so for those interested in the pirate speech i mentioned up there, you can find it behind the cut. it's very much ( worth reading )