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talking sh*t

an occasional note from pierre bennu, author of bullsh*t or fertilizer.

where's Brooklyn at ? 

june 28 2004

Over the past 2 weeks I’ve been out more frequently that I have been in the past 2 years and I can say without flinching that Brooklyn has changed more in the past 3 years than in the past 10. Bodegas have turned into sushi restaurants. Book stores, barber shops, vacant lots, and other land marks that I grew up with are all pretty much gone. And with it the people. Even WLIB has been gentrified.

I heard the Nets were moving to Brooklyn and the African street fair is not going to be at Boys and Girls High school this year after having been there for over 30 years…why?

Don’t get me wrong. I want to see a clean Brooklyn just like everybody else but… Target, and Starbucks? To me that’s not Brooklyn. There are books and classes about this process but no one can ever tell you how it feels until it happens to your neighborhood. I welcome change and understand it is inevitable, but at the same time I am really going to miss the Brooklyn I grew up in.

*shrug*

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I’m george bush, bitch! 

june 15 2004
All the little tiny spiders I left here 7 months ago are now the size of my fist! I was raised not to kill spiders but this is out of control. Now they pose an imminent threat to the security of my workspace. Sure before I left they served a purpose: keeping the other insects to a minimum. But now they have grown too large and have become more effective killers. I have already been bit twice while trying to clean and destroy their webs and I have seen at least one black widow and know that there must be more, possibly poisonous ones, hidden in places I cannot yet find.

I tried to convince my wife that we need to buy weapons of insect destruction, at least a box of 6 cans, enough to destroy the monstrous insects and also keep extra in stock in case the threat ever reoccurs. But she said so much pesticide costs too much money, and she’s not into chemical warfare. My argument is what about our safety and the safety of the workspace? How can we work in a place where there might be spiders lurking? Sure where we work will smell of chemical poisons and we will have to tighten our belt buckles a bit to get the stuff in mass quantity… but its worth it for the future of our office.

So I just took the money out of our account without her knowing and went shopping. Did you know that there is a spray out to kill insects called REVENGE! What the F*$#! YEEEE-HAAAAH. I got some of the chemical genocide I’m used to, also: good old-fashioned RAID! Boxes of the stuff. This is gonna be more fun than I thought.

I’m currently still at war with these evil-doers. What I thought would take a day has taken a week and I’m still not done. We ran out of weapons and had to start using money that had been set aside for the light bill, the phone bill, future projects, our future kids’ future college funds, etc. So what if we have to go into intergenerational debt to finance this righteous war?

Mwaaa ha ha ha ha ha!

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enter the apple 

june 12. 04.

As I write this I am fighting to keep my eyes open reminding myself that rest is part of work. I just felt the need to touch base and say we are back in NY (for a little while at least) and I wanted to thank all of our new peeps out west for the love and support you showed at the events and screenings.

I’d also like to say farewell to my Gladys and Baby -- the first pair of turntables that I ever bought & that I had to sell to get all my new records back. Letting go is never easy but sometimes it’s necessary… plus it leaves room in your life for the new.

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