I Am An American Man

Note: This is a repost from my private blog, 2006.

I drank 2 20 oz Dr. Peppers, and 1 cup of coffee.
I ate 1 microwave pasta dish, one frozen toaster oven entree, and a double fried lunch of chicken and potatoes.

I watched South Park and a rerun of Saturday Night Live.
I turned off SNL before the news because I have no love for Norm MacDonald.

I burned about 1/10 of a gallon of gas...
...and farted enough to fill up the gallon.

I have a beer belly decorated with tattoos.
I live with a white girl so healthy and pretty that her type doesn't exist in 90% of the world.

I watched lonelygirl15, the most popular girl on youtube.

I have no love for war, but I'm confused as to which ways I support it, which ways I can help stop it, and how to make that decision.

I bought name brand products.
I complained about corporations.

I did something illegal, but not immoral.
Most of what I did today was "immoral" by the "standards" of popular "religion."
I profess to be religious, but not "one of those."

I am a child of advertising.
Although I sincerely believe in and practice equality, I receive the benefits of gender privilege, class privilege, race privilege, and citizenship privilege, none of which I have earned.

I believe in something better, and believe I have the means to achieve it.
I worry that my belief in something better has already been commodified and branded, and that I won't be able to afford it.

I am a revolutionary and a peaceful citizen.
I participate and subvert.
I am publicly generous and privately greedy.
I am very friendly and very obnoxious.

I am an American Man.