!Christina's 5 questions
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agk's diary
8 December 2022 @ 05:58 UTC
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written on GPD Win 1 via PowerShell OpenSSH
while Evy and first daughter visit Evy's mama
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I love to answer Christina's questions and read
others' answers; thrilled she wrote 5 new ones!
gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/christyotwisty
1. What's the best thing about where you live?
I love where I live; hard to pick best thing!
- Home's where Evy, first daughter, roommate
are; they're here.
- This's the most beautiful place in the world.
- Rent's 650 USD/month for 3 bedrooms, garage,
fenced yard.
- We walk to the creek, grocery store, post
office, photocopy shop, hospital, bank.
- Good friends, good library. Our state expand-
ed Medicaid. Down to earth people. Kids play
outside, in streets, with each other.
- McDonalds PlayPlace and good truck stop.
2. What real-life person has a phenomenal underdog
story?
Lots of people born in the 1890s and 1900s.
Tito for instance:
"Young Croat metalworker, Josip Brozovitch....
Born 1892, 7th of 15 children in impoverished
home in a small village, Josip completed elem-
entary school before leaving home to work as
locksmith & mechanic. Enlisting in a Croat
regiment to fight for Austria in WWI, he rose
to warrant-officer rank, was badly wounded &
captured by the Russians, learned the language
& in 1917 joined the Bolsheviks.
"He married a Russian, fought with the Kirgiz
nomads, who were Mongol horsemen, and in 1920
returned to what'd become Yugoslavia, a state
of some 12M persons. Josip Broz, as he had be-
come, worked as a party organizer and agitator
slowly rising in the party while fathering a
family and spending a good many years in jail.
"In 1935 he worked for the Comintern, then re-
turned to Yugoslavia to set up a "rat-line"
which fed some 1500 volunteers to the fighting
in Spain; many of his future generals fought
with international brigades. In 1937 the
Kremlin liquidated his boss and made him secr-
etary-general of the Yugoslav party. Tito, as
he was now known, reorganized the party,
raising its membership to 12k, a small but
disciplined group dedicated to the Communist
ideal."[^1]
Then he led the most effective anti-Nazi/anti-
local-fascist partisan troops, headed a multi-
ethnic, multi-religious socialist Yugoslavia
for 30 years, and founded the non-aligned move-
ment with Egypt's Nasser, India's Nehru, Indo-
nesia's Sukarno, and Ghana's Nkrumah.[^2]
Born in the 1950s, Zapatista officer Comand-
anta Ramona was also one hell of an underdog.
3. What's the best Wikipedia page you've stumbled
across?
I use the subset in the WikiEM project as my
vade mecum in a pinch.
4. You opened your own restaurant/bar. What's your
specialty?
Low-cost poor people's food in hot countries.
Served in a squatted solarpunk social center.
Maybe my brother'd be the head chef, or my old
friend Suncere Shakur. I'd hang out telling
jokes, talking politics, listening to joys &
sorrows, sticking acupuncture needles in ears.
There'd be an open mic, good ventilation, and
a little one-bed clinic in a backroom.
5. With what author would you like to hang around
for a day?
Gillian Rose, Agnes Heller, Hannah Arendt, or
Doris Lessing. Or Paulo Friere, Charles Sanders
Peirce, Soren Kierkegaard, young GWF Hegel.
Note
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[1]:RB Asprey (1975), War in the shadows, the
guerrilla in history. Doubleday.
[2] Some other underdogs born about the same time:
- shtetl-born tubercular Jewish circus strong-
man Joe "The Mighty Atom" Greenstein,
- author, anthropologist, filmmaker Zora Neale
Hurston, who went up against Jim Crow and
the Harlem Renaissance at the same time,
- New Orleans Colored Waifs Home alumni, blues
& boogie-woogie pianist-singer, boxing champ
& 2-year POW of Imperial Japan Champion Jack
Dupree,
- union organizer Clara Lemlich.
