On our way home from seeing Sabhat Tuncel -- Kurdish parliamentarian, former PKK member, elected to Turkey's parliament by a landslide vote while in prison -- speak about the Democratic Society's tripartite position (re: 'the Kurdish question,' 'the ecological question,' and 'the woman question') at CUNY Graduate Center, after braving the hipster crush at Red Bamboo, endless jokes about fake askesis, toast, and the unbearable whiteness of being, and getting near-lost in the outer boroughs, we encountered a serious and severe whiteout in northern Jersey and were forced to pull off the road and get a room at the Holiday Inn in Suffern, NY. The lot was full, as the hotel was hosting the requisite annual Gun Show.
I fell asleep to sounds of mis companeras laughing hysterically at a camel-toed yoga-informercial, and woke up to the sounds of the men in the next room vociferously debating nationalist tragedy and the health merits of PB+J on wheat bread.
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