Ask Crutchy McGee, Trotskyite relationship advice from Chris Funk, lap slide guitarist for The Decemberists.
Dear Crutchy,
You see, I got up the guts to ask a fellow student for her email after we sat through my testimony against trustee pay raises for my schools admins. Turns out, she friendsters me before I get to write. We then email each other for five days straight, and we have an intense study dinner over rice and beans and Das Capital. After a week, she mentions a boyfriend, yet her friendster testimonial makes passing mention of “an open relationship.” I don’t want to mess with the budding friendship, but, she emails me everyday, with like ‘where are you, I want to procrastinate.’ How do I proceed? She goes to Chiapas on Monday and the time is nigh, and she is so delectably revolutionary.
Reticent in Revolutionville
Bonus Chris Funk knowledge: Along with playing tasteful slide guitar in the neo-Victorian Decemberists, Chris manages underground hip-hop acts like Lyrics Born and the Coup. I’m having trouble imagining two less similar musical philosophies than those of the Decemberists and the Coup. (Although actually they both have a sort of Marxist bent.)