So I’m still not entirely clear on this “meme” thing. It’s a blogger thing, and I’m just not all that hip. Anyway, there’s this kind of meta-blog, ThursdayThirteen.com, that invites participants to compile lists each Thursday so that everybody can get to know each other a little better. I gather rule #1 about blogging is to make it all about “me, me, me.” Maybe that’s why it’s called a “meme.” Anyway, here is my first crack. All about me. I’m calling it Thirteen Things People Might Not Know About Me.

1. I like hockey.
2. I believe war is obsolete.
3. I believe poverty is obsolete.
4. I believe gender inequality (i.e. the oppression of women) is the number one wedge issue facing the world, transcending race, class, religion and all other things that divide us as a civilization. The phallocracy is the root of all evil. We will only achieve world peace and equitable distribution of resources if and when women take over. I mean it.
5. I used to play alto sax in a tex-mex (cumbia, ranchera, norte�o) band.
6. I get freaked out in crowded places, like shopping malls. I do okay at hockey games, anti-war rallies, and on stage, though.
7. I play pretty good, tenacious defense, but I suck with the puck. Can’t get a handle on it when I need to, and I’ve got a weak, inaccurate shot. Sometimes I make good passes. But no matter what, I always get a good workout.
8. I believe organized religion serves mainly to subjugate women, maintain imbalances in resource allocation, ensure perpetual armed conflict, and keep the masses from achieving any true sense of spirituality.
9. I believe libertarians are looney toons, nothing more than anarcho-capitalists. I believe they are a greater threat to reasonable socio-economic policy than right-wing christo-fascists.
10. I’ve never cheated on a lover. I’m a life-long serial monogamist.
11. I work in a foreign-owned, US-based software factory. Call it “on-shoring”.
12. I may have the only pro-hockey, anti-war blog in the world.
13. My day jobs have included: seed corn detassler, lawn mower, dish washer, busboy, typesetter/pre-press, live sound/lighting technician, scene shop carpenter, waiter, produce clerk, band instrument repair technician, sheet music sales clerk, guitar teacher, produce manager and software engineer.

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