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Grey Area by JJason Recognition
August 4th, 2008 5:36 PM
Most of the time, my praxis are planned pretty far ahead. This is because I am lazy, and therefore it takes me a long time to get up the gumption required to actually do the work of transforming my ideas into reality. But this time was different. Sometimes you just have a strong desire to task, right now. So I looked for task that I could do right now, and picked this one. For some reason BARTPA tasks seem to be the easiest to pick up, for me at least.
So I set out to discriminate against sidewalks. I had an errand to go on, so I vowed to never let my feet touch a sidewalk the whole way. I walked on streets, lawns, curbs, medians, alleys, parks, gardens, hallways, stairs, bridges, parkings lots, and grass, but besides a few accidental incidents, I stayed entirely clear of the hated sidewalk.
Most of the time walking off the sidewalk isn't too hard. The hard bit comes with getting across sidewalks without touching them. I did a lot of jumping over sidewalks. The aforementioned accidents took place when sidewalks proved to be too wide for me to jump across. The other major difference was that I ended taking a longer route than I would've normally, as using the main thoroughfares would've probably led to me getting hit by a car. More info about my journey can be found in the pictures.
Other Discriminatory Actions that I took include
-Refering to the sidewalks by a derogatory slur ("sides")
-Spitting on a sidewalk
-Kicking a sidewalk for no reason other than I could get away with it
-Writing anti-sidewalk slogans on walls
-Turning sidewalks down for jobs based only on the fact that they were sidewalks
-Refusing to give sidewalks a loan
-Passing laws preventing sidewalks from voting
Ok, so I didn't really do those last three things. But I did do the rest. Just to show those sides who's boss. Dirty sides, all twisting through our neighborhoods. Makes my blood boil just thinking about it.
So I set out to discriminate against sidewalks. I had an errand to go on, so I vowed to never let my feet touch a sidewalk the whole way. I walked on streets, lawns, curbs, medians, alleys, parks, gardens, hallways, stairs, bridges, parkings lots, and grass, but besides a few accidental incidents, I stayed entirely clear of the hated sidewalk.
Most of the time walking off the sidewalk isn't too hard. The hard bit comes with getting across sidewalks without touching them. I did a lot of jumping over sidewalks. The aforementioned accidents took place when sidewalks proved to be too wide for me to jump across. The other major difference was that I ended taking a longer route than I would've normally, as using the main thoroughfares would've probably led to me getting hit by a car. More info about my journey can be found in the pictures.
Other Discriminatory Actions that I took include
-Refering to the sidewalks by a derogatory slur ("sides")
-Spitting on a sidewalk
-Kicking a sidewalk for no reason other than I could get away with it
-Writing anti-sidewalk slogans on walls
-Turning sidewalks down for jobs based only on the fact that they were sidewalks
-Refusing to give sidewalks a loan
-Passing laws preventing sidewalks from voting
Ok, so I didn't really do those last three things. But I did do the rest. Just to show those sides who's boss. Dirty sides, all twisting through our neighborhoods. Makes my blood boil just thinking about it.
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posted by Tøm on August 4th, 2008 6:37 PM
Damn straight.
posted by rongo rongo on August 5th, 2008 6:59 AM
Gardeners sometimes call those little strips of grass between the street and the sidewalk "hellstrips" because they usually get a lot of sun and are hard to grow things on.
posted by teh Lolbrarian on August 5th, 2008 11:29 AM
They are called "parkways" where I come from.
posted by bunny dragon on August 5th, 2008 12:16 PM
Heehee I rather enjoyed the written commentary. :)
By the way, the fact that Smedly also did this today is a complete coincidence.