As many of you may know, there were some "riots" or what I call "just a bunch of little pussy fires" around downtown Los Angeles after the Lakers beat the Magic in Orlando last week. This was depressing to me as I had just finished watching "Idiocracy" (a Mike Judge film about the potential idiocy of future America), and my friends turned on the local news to see this:
Lakers win!!! Let's...light shit on fire! And break streetlights! And destroy some cars! And jump on metro tracks!
Between video footage of Laker fans smashing/burning shit, there was this:
Mike Judge was right, we're really...really not that far away from Idiocracy land.
Dodo Bird is living in Los Angeles, working, and attending graduate school for poetry. Like her moniker, she was over-harvested by explorers to the point of extinction in the 17th century.
Pointer moved to New York City, and is trying not to write about work. Frequently pointing at things, she is anxious, shaky, and short-haired [on hiatus].
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