Life In The DPC!

Congratulations to my brother, founder of IseeRobots.com, and now a writer for Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer. Big ups to Ben Lid.

To my amazement there are others out there that believe Pacman Jones is getting the shaft from the NFL. BringPacmanBack.com shares this sentiment and they are using their site to get the word out that Pacman and his one year are too much. With regards to diplomacy the site also shows the both sides of the issue.

There is one sentiment throughout the forum; NFL Czar has cast Pacman as guilty until proven otherwise and the media has nailed Pacman before the justice can run its course. No one ever said Pacman was a saint but he has the right to a trial and the NFL the public at large needs to remember this. Once again there is no justice on stolen land.

Unfortunately Life In The DPC! has been focused on the shortcomings of Nevada head coach Chris Ault and has disregarded any social commentary, Vatican and Limbo criticism aside.

Lindsey Rhodes and I attended the University of Nevada together for one year, 2002-2003, but since that time we have remained friends despite her emulation of Jack Kerouac and his lack of a definable mailing address and my inability to figure where I want to live. Since our one year of living in the same town I have proven to be a petty, bitter and misguided fella that is hell bent on some form of self gratification while she put her energy into positive agendas that have yielded beautiful results.

Lindsey is finally back home at Boise State University and a volunteer mentor at the campus’ Women Center. As an undergrad volunteer she is doing her part to dispel the myths of feminism and to educate local teenage girls on how to prevent sexual assault.

Her struggle to generate a source of awareness for the community is thrice as difficult due to the inherent conservative nature of Idaho, the social stigma of feminism and a culture’s inability to acknowledge that gender roles evolve. It is the opinion of this fair writer that race relations and gender roles face similar hardships, misgivings and strife but this is not always conveyed to the populace.

If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
 - Che

Even if I didn’t know Lindsey from the college years she would be a friend of Life In The DPC. It takes an intrepid spirit to face these challenges and I admire her for it. One by one she is making a positive difference and hopefully it can motivate me to work on something meaningful.

Courage & Commitment: Survivors of sexual assault not to blame

I have come to a simple conclusion these days that Lindsay Lohan is despised by all woman and is only loved by men. This simple notion has been made abundantly clear whenever  I mention that I think she is attractive and my coworkers and or female friends maintain that she is a skank, trick, whore, floozy, annoying and/or stupid. Harsh criticisms abound whenever the twenty-year old diva is mentioned to the fairer sex.“In Lindsay’s case, she’s a chain-smoking, club-hopping tramp,” The Sports Gal, ESPN’S Bill Simmons spouse, said. ”Who spends her spare time getting tanning sessions, shopping and forgetting to eat. She’s going to look like a leather purse in 25 years no matter how much Proactiv she takes.”

To this casual observer it would seem that any negative energy thrown towards Lohan is derived through some form of jealousy or the simple fact that she is relevant in the world of entertainment news. There is always a natural tendency to be fed up with the latest media darling and it seems that Lohna is no different. And yet a part of me is confused on why there needs to be a backlash against a twenty-year old who parties a lot and has a propensity towards dressing scantily. As a former booze hound and self proclaimed modern Dionysus I have always known that there is a tendency towards living with reckless abandon at a young age. Compliment inherent decadent behavior with both fame and loot and you have a combination suitable for the tabloids.

“She’s in the magazines, so you always know what she’s doing because you can just read about it in the tabloids,” Jane Fonda recently said. “She parties all the time … And you know, she’s young and she can get away with it. But, you know, it’s hard after a while to party very hard and work very hard.”

Fonda’s notions that Lohan’s night life is a detriment is inherent revisionist history. As the years drift by one seems to forget what they once were. I can assume they were instances in Fonda’s pasy, Hanoi Jane aside, that are likely similar to Lohan. Unfortunately we have a culture predicated on developing idols and then bringing them down after we have discovered another passing fancy.

As strange as it may sound I like, mainly this is physical, but she is no different than anyother adolescent who screws around stays up late. I honestly believe that her behavior is no different than most younger folks and yet she is cast as a vixen from the world that created her.

“There’s this misconception that if you’re out one night,” Lohan said. ”Then you’re said to be out every night. You have to be careful, but I think the main thing is to make sure the people around you are looking out for your best interests. You have to let it roll off your back. I’ve learned to just ignore it. “But I think you can also take advantage of the fact that you’re in the limelight and put things out into the world that are good messages.I’m not some Tara Reid-style party girl.”