Monday, July 20, 2009

Punkers Misbehaving? That last post was not an example of web-logging at its finest. Being some three weeks between conception and execution. It got a little stale while I worked on it, and I got bored with it. Then I caught a nasty summer cold/infection of some sort, and stopped working on it altogether. My thoughts turned to other things: Manny Acta, Wendell Wilkie. The usual I suppose. I did very little last week and accomplished even less. For the sake of this next week I went ahead and finished that post anyway.  Here I want only to point to a story I saw in the middle of the week that gave me some pause. A leader of Boston based street gang was charged with using threats and violence to control the punk rock music scene Gang leader charged in scheme to control punk rock - Yahoo! News - in an effort to drive "Nazi skinheads" out, the article notes (yeah, standards rule, Nazi skinheads can F'off).  Punk Music Scene? What, like TSOL, Channel 3? The Bad Brains, The Teen Idles, Void, SS Decontrol? "Gotta stick together, Like glue like crew." The story vaguely refers to a "popular recording artist from the Chicago area". Oh the Effigies maybe? My initial and strongest reaction when I read this piece was to muse: "Wow this person sounds even more difficult to deal with than Lefty." 1:14:28 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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