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Earlier this evening I became severely depressed. I started drinking a Corona and sat mournfully on the kitchen floor, listening to REM. Even Alex remarked, `Tobin, that's the saddest face I've ever seen on you' or something like that.

But then DAMIEN suddenly appeared and we became quite drunk and then went co-op to co-op discussing particle physics!! Rochdale, Chateau, Wolf, Loth, Castro... there was nobody anywhere!! They're all in SF at the protests. Anyway we were very disppointed by this but eventually returned to Wilde.

I really desperately want to become friends with some people in this house. Sarah is pretty much the main person I'm thinking of, but this also applies to, e.g., Amanda and Allegra as well. They seem like such interesting and nice people, I'd really like to get to know them and to be friends, but they seem so hard to reach. The very first day I was at this house Sarah was saying something about Israel, and I quickly jumped in, trying to join the conversation, by saying "Oh, I just got back from Israel last week!" But then she said something like "And you were supporting Sharon and that fascist regime?!" Gee. I know that if I said directly to her, "Sarah, you seem like a really interesting person, but I realize I know next to nothing about you, and I'd really like to be friends," that she'd respond in a postive way. But it's weirdly hard to do that. I'll try. I'd really like to. It's moderately painful to feel like a segment of this house just looks right through me.

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Tobin:

I want to say how pissed off I am that after spending almost 30 hours in the custody of the police that Willie Brown so warmly commends below, I come home to find your criticisms, channeled through this asinine and petty politician's statement. I assume that since you've taken this so much to heart, your views are largely similar to Willie Brown's. You're entitled to your opinion, but I don't particularly want them in my inbox when I just got home from a scene that I don't think you're particularly well informed on; were you there? Were you arrested? Do you have first-hand knowledge of how the police were behaving towards disobedient citizens? Do you know anything about the imperial aspect of San Francisco, which we were attacking and which Willie Brown says doesn't exist? I'm not going to let this response lapse into one of those living room rhetoric discussions on whether or not the house mailing list should be a forum for free speech, or your right to dissent, etc. Since you've appreciated Brown's speech so much, I'll just say, like Willie, you don't have to remain silent, but have a little sensitivity in expressing your criticisms. We are your housemates and I am hurt and angered by your lack of support on a very basic, emotional level, if not an ideological one.

Sincerely,
Livi

P.S. Stevie and Jen agree with me.

That's in response to me posting these comments by mayor Willie Brown, prefaced with "I think this should be taken to heart."