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Monday, May 12, 2003

Superman Considers Ditching The Tights.

Two reasons why I am considering putting the long black coat away for a few months:

1. I've been getting too many references to The Matrix for comfort.

2. It's hot under here, yo, and sweating is just not goth.

05:55 PM PST (link)

The Zone Is Not A Diet Plan.

With a number of people I know taking trips in and out of the city this week, it's timely that Mark Morford explains how San Francisco is a Bubble. Indeed, it is, though a somewhat beleaguered bubble after repeated skewerings.

As my ex-boyfriend Mark used to say, we live in what Hakim Bey calls a Temporary Autonomous Zone, where the norms and rules, or as others theorize, possibly the fundamental laws of science and the universe, can be altered at will and as needed for those within the zone. (Bear with my explaination; I admit I've never managed to make it all the way through Bey's document.)

I'm skeptical of the supernatural implications of those theories, but it's an interesting social idea nonetheless. A group of people create a space and time together in which they assume complete social control—by definition outside the norms of the culture around them. The particular TAZ I remember from those heady days as a young proto-goth-punk fag in the early-mid nineties is probably gone (or, at least, I've changed enough not to fit within it any longer,) but the idea of it is still there, even if the flavor's changed. New ones have and will continue to form to fill the void. San Francisco (and of course, by extension, I myself) can be saved from being boring; It might just take a little while.

12:43 AM PST (link)