VLVL2: Pisks Privileged?
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 17 11:32:44 CST 2004
>
> In Vineland they seem completely OPPORTUNIST if one judges by their
> relations with the white student radicals. Shaming poor (totally
> confused, if not downright stupid) Rex into giving them his flashy
> wheels. But who says art must imitate life?
The Bruthas BAAD are, like so many P characters, a parodic
multiplex-allusive-collage.
They got them Uniforms, Panther Style) and ChiCom style too (Vietnamese
Bitch has a ChiCom pistol and pretty cool jump suit and red beret and
she too is a parodic multiplex-allusive-collage, when she comes over the
radio to talk to the boys we recognize her voice ... etc.) and they got
a Chief of Staff who gots an X who talks like Malcolm. The UHURU
allusion is multiple too, but in the context of the scent it means just
what it says. Rex isn't quite radical chic, but his aberrant religious
devotion to the cause is more dangerous in the short run. At least for
Weed it is.
>
> I knew a 60s radical with a Porsche 911. he bought it used for about
> $6000.
Was it red, like cherry in a cocktail glass?
I hhad a GTO when I was a Freshman at Harvard. It was a babe magnet even
for a divinity student like me.
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