Comments on: There’ll Always Be a Berkeley

By: baked

baked — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:04:24 +0000

@Jamie Sommers:
ah, yes, ridin’ that train……..
i hate cocaine. when i met the RB he was having 8 ball weekends—every weekend. see i have this little mental illness. when i’m not depressed, my brain is naturally on cocaine, so when i sniff a line, i fly around the room like a baloon you blew up and let go.
prommie, how in the world did you miss quaaludes? the greatest drug ever invented? we were swimming in them at UM, what? none made it north past ft. lauderdale to UF???

oh, and the obvious other mental illness i have is thinking a guy doing 8 balls every weekend was a good idea. hey! he had horses!

By: Jamie Sommers

Jamie Sommers — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:47:32 +0000

@chicago bureau: Wow. Some things never change. At my alma mater, back in the early 90s, some students took over the main administrative building during a protest about need-blind admissions (we didn't have it at the time), demanding to talk to the president. They scared the shit out of the staff that were in the building at the time. Several kids got arrested (including a friend of mine) when they refused to leave after the local police showed up. The irony of the situation was that, while those kids were ~~sitting on their asses~~ having a sit-in bitching about the absence of the president, he was in New York raising funds for the school.

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:25:19 +0000

@Jamie Sommers: Yep, I definitely think so given the twitchiness. Plus he's dealing with the crushing realization that he's reached his peak politically. Pelosi's seat isn't opening up until she's dead or decides to retire, and Mayor McDreamy would have to challenge the beloved gheyz representing SF in the Assembly and state Senate. Homeboy is at the end of the line.

By: Jamie Sommers

Jamie Sommers — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:12:29 +0000

@SanFranLefty: Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

By: nojo

nojo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:42:00 +0000

@Just Nabisco: I saved most of that for postgraduate studies. Except for getting stoned in the student-newspaper darkroom.

By: Just Nabisco

Just Nabisco — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:09:39 +0000

@Promnight: How'd you miss that? Ludes were easily two, maybe semesters of college for me. It was fun loading up and walking into shit, only to realize how much damage you had done the next day when you're body was no longer made of rubber. ADD: self reflection and overshare: seeing how another three semesters were given over to lysergic, one wonders exactly when I did that thing called "studying" necessary to graduate. There must have been some overlapping, ludes and cubes and all that stuff. Ah yes, youth.

By: RomeGirl

RomeGirl — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:41 +0000

UH. That was 1200. But they’d still riot even if it was 12 euro.

By: RomeGirl

RomeGirl — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:54:06 +0000

They wanted to raise the tuition here in fromage land to 12 euros a year, and there were RIOTS.

By: Dodgerblue

Dodgerblue — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:17:58 +0000

@chicago bureau: I was a student at UCLA when those shootings happened. The shooters were also black and not, so far as I know, associated with the cops. Not exactly Angela Davis material.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:19:47 +0000

@baked: Hilarious!