<div>Well, since the topic has been (b)roached...</div><div><br></div><div>After a meeting where I said it wasn't excellent to sleep in the space, Cynthia came over and started telling me how if some people did so much for Noisebridge, then sleeping there was "their right." For a while afterwards, when I came in and started working on my laptop... Cynthia would sit down next to me. Every so often she'd look at me. And smile. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Cynthia creeps the hell out of me.</div><div><br></div><div>Will.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Anthony LeTigre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anthonyletigre@gmail.com">anthonyletigre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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You know, years ago in Portland, my Cousin worked at a nuthouse. It
was either a nuthouse or an Assisted Living Facility for Mentally
Disabled Adults, I can't remember which. Regardless, one of his
charges was a man who liked to kiss cockroaches because, as he
averred, "cockroaches have nice lips!" That man was, to borrow
Jake's charming sobriquet, a wingnut. Now, wingnuts are a class of
people I know a thing or two about. (Hush.) I like wingnuts,
generally speaking. They amuse me. They say the damnedest things.
Their imaginations are out of this world, and at the risk of
sounding a bit "loose in the Wingnuts" myself, I find that inspiring
-- providing the person in question doesn't cross a certain line
where they cease to be a Wingnut and become something more like a
genuine threat, or a problem that requires attention. Since we're
talking openly about these things, I can see why one might deem it
appropriate to include our very own Cynthia in the "Wingnut"
category. (Although this report of her availing herself of one of
the Noisebridge sofas for a "long winter's nap," if true and upheld
in Noisecourt, would seem to indicate dangerous proximity to the
"Muppet" category -- which is only one half-step above straight-up
Noisetroll.) <br>
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I was introduced to Cynthia by a Noisebridger of respectable
experience and reliable judgment as "The Queen of the Noisebridge
Kitchen" - partly for her expertise and omnipresence, and partly (as
I have come to learn over time) for her fearsomely territorial
attitude toward the Noisebridge "Recology" (garbage, recycling,
compost) bins, as well as a host of unusual and somewhat persnickety
habits, such as the unexplained tendency to seize and remove any
number of food products, condiments, dishwares, tupperware
containers, oversized rolls of plastic wrap, and assorted and sundry
other items at any given time, from the space to an undisclosed
other location, apparently when some threshold is reached in the
curious and unguessable system of inventory with which she appears
to regulate - did I hear "dominate?" - the Noisebridge kitchen. Her
conversation with me has often revolved around a certain Dr.
Dimsberg (I think I'm spelling that wrong) who, if I understand
correctly (and I rarely do) doesn't believe in AIDS, or doesn't
believe that AIDS is caused by HIV, and also doesn't particularly
care for gay people. Well, I could say that I don't particularly
care for barmy micromanaging busybodies, but what's the point? We
are what we are and we're all locked up in this same space, so we
might as well accept that and try to get along. In a word: Cynthia
is a jolly old wingnut all right, nutty as the day is long! She may
not be a cockroach-kissin' crackhead by a long measure, but she's
nothing to take home to mother.<br>
<br>
Now it would seem, judging by Pearl's letter as appended to Jake's
original post, that Cynthia's recent behavior has been such as to
cross the line from wingnut to Serious Problem Requiring Attention.
It's always uncomfortable when this line is crossed, because dealing
with problems requires energy and effort and will most likely
involve conflict and disruption and hurt feelings and anger and all
those sort of things that tend to make it difficult to kick back
with a cold brew and your fishing rod in the water and peacefully
catnap until you feel something tug at the line. And having followed
me so far through this mass of high-falutin jibberjabber (if anyone
has), you might expect me to finish with a genuinely helpful or
insightful suggestion for how to deal with this matter.
Well.......the juvenile, jokey side of me (currently ascendant)
wants to suggest that we inaugurate a new tradition called "Wingnut
Wednesdays!" The one night of the week when the wingnuts rule the
roost! (The other six days of the week, they have to bow to the will
of the non-wingnuts.) The serious, genuinely helpful and insightful
side of me, on the other hand.......well, shit, I really don't know
what to do about it, but I suppose a large group of people should
sit at a large table somewhere and talk it over or something. Maybe
we could get Charlie Rose in to mediate. In any case, the <i>sincere</i>
side of me (rarely ascendant, but so delightful) wants to thank Jake
for the Excellentest and most socially responsible and grownup-like
post I've seen on Noisebridge Discuss in a month of Mondays. <br>
<br>
And you know what they say about Mondays.<br>
<br>
Also, I think I'm starting to understand the importance of
discussing interpersonal relations - not to say "drama" - on the
Discuss List, and I hereby retract my previous objection to the
airing of social grievances on here. What a neophyte I was!<br>
<br>
Lastly, in case any wonders where I've disappeared to (and so far no
one has), I wanted to say that I have <i>not </i>been away from
Noisebridge, in fact I've been there every day for the past two
weeks, in fact I'm there <i>right now</i> - it's just that I'm
going through this invisible phase. So you can't see me. I guess I
should've disclosed that invisibility is my mutant superpower when I
first started hanging out at Noisebridge.<br>
<br>
That was unexcellent of me, and I apologize.<br>
<br>
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xo<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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PS for Jake: As for the other person you mentioned - Roger was it?
Robert? - I can't comment. I don't believe I know that person.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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