me: do you come up with story ideas for that affiliate? Caleb: Story ideas? Caleb: No. Caleb: Not yet, at leat. Caleb: least. Caleb: I'm kind of dreading the day that I'll have to. me: why? me: you could turn it into a better station and get awards and whatnot me: do you have the chance to do so now? me: anyway, I'm definitely coming down me: will fly into Dallas in about two weeks me: will come to Tyler from there me: stay with you for about two or three weeks me: then go back to Dallas to go hunting and see the rents and Kim and whatnot Caleb: It's gonna be one crazy summer. me: !!! me: also, in the evenings, I can be your military advisor me: and you can be my real life conspiracy/power grab advisor Caleb: Hurrah. me: cause seriously, we got some shit cooking me: we're going after grant money now me: got niggas on that shit me: I'll buy groceries and beer me: AND I WILL CLEAN FOR YOU me: AND YOU'LL GIVE UP ARCHITECTURE me: ... me: NO, DOMINIQUE me: HOWARD THEY WILL DESTROY YOU me: Why don't you tell me right here, with no one around... why don't you tell me what you think of me? me: BUT I DON'T THINK OF YOU Caleb: Did you download that or was it streaming somewhere? me: what? Caleb: _Fountainhead_. me: nope me: just crossed my mind Caleb: Yeah, I know. Caleb: Dummy. Caleb: But when you last possessed it. Caleb: On Park Street. Caleb: On your desktop. Caleb: Was that a bittorrent? me: downloaded me: pirate bay, yep Caleb: Sounds pretty faggy. me: give that mediafire thing a shot if you haven't already Caleb: Right, right. me: almost always faster Caleb: Tell me the two-step again. Caleb: Oh. Caleb: Never mind. me: yeah, archive, dummy Caleb: I can't google anything. Caleb: Virus. me: right me: I've been talking to the guy who made Dwarf Fortress me: which will not interest you at all me: speaking of which, did you see my article about pretend-raping an Asian chick? me: for ol' New York Press me: ? Caleb: I sure did! me: got another piece green-lighted Caleb: It was like history written in lightning! me: going to do it about Tracy O'Neil me: what's that quote from? Caleb: Woodrow Wilson's reaction to _Birth of a Nation_. me: ah, yes me: lol me: fucking Wilson me: wasting a good quote on his own faggotry and anti-negro sentiment me: I like how his degree of racism isn't even excusable in the context of the times Caleb: Or his professional background. Caleb: Dean of Princeton. me: god I hate that faggot me: remember when the statue at UT was vandalized? me: perhaps accidentally by people going for Jefferson Davis Caleb: So there's a UT dorm that's apparently named after the guy who founded the Florida branch of the KKK. Caleb: They gave it the name just weeks after Brown v. Board of Education. me: I see me: are they ever going to do anything about any of that? me: seems there are plenty of liberals around who enjoy activating me: which is the verb, I have decided, of activist Caleb: Seems they've assembled an panel to investigate the possibility of renaming it. Caleb: *a panel. Caleb: "Simkins, who was a Confederate colonel during the war, said in a Thanksgiving Day speech on campus in 1914 and in an article two years later in the Alcalde, the alumni magazine, that he never drew blood as a Klansman. He admitted assaulting a black man, participating in a train robbery and sowing fear in Florida's "black belt" as a masked night rider.
'The immediate effect upon the Negro was wonderful, the flitting to and fro of masked horses and faces struck terror to the race,' Simkins wrote" Caleb: "When a white woman in Florida complained of being insulted by a black man, Simkins wrote, 'I seized a barrel stave lying near the hotel door and whipped that darkey down the street.'" Caleb: "Simkins was 'not ashamed to confess my share' in the train robbery, which involved a consignment of arms and ammunition escorted by federal troops and intended for a black militia in Florida." Caleb: He was a UT Law professor for 30 years. me: lo fucking l