No One
No one marched in the streets
When they killed the electric car
We did not want one
We wanted gasoline
We shoved that nozzle
In the tank
OH, it felt so good
Like a spike in the arm
That rush you could taste in your gums
That full tank feeling
Knowing
Now, I can go wherever I want
Don’t blame BP
Demand reduction
It never happened
15 years ago we had it
The EV1
We did not want it
We wanted to go to the moon
We went
We wanted faster phones
We have 4G
We wanted more friends
We have Facebook
We wanted gasoline
We have oil spills
BP did is guilty of nothing other
Than giving us what we wanted
We are to Blame
I drove
I ate, shat, fucked, pissed, puked and got high
In cars, trucks, and vans
I drove to the beach
To skate
To HER house
To work
To the beach
To Mexico
When I should have
Driven to school
To protests
To organize
To educate
To agitate
But I ran instead
To hide
Get high
Wait for the End
“Create My Own Reality”
And watch the shit
On CNN
I am to blame
It is my fault
The Gulf is dead
–Ezekiel Aleman
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Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
"Cities of the Golden Gate," Raymond Dabb Yelland, 1893. Most illustrations can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. “The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals.”[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
