2003-02-11 - 2:54 p.m.
Getting Ready to Rumble
This poster's by Mike Flugennock, a D.C. artist and former Yippie whose brightly-colored web site features several years' worth of posters, videos, and other forms of protest culture. 
Anyone who has visited our nation's bustling capital with their eyes open has probably spotted Mike's posters wheat-pasted on telephone poles and utility boxes. For some reason, the carnage on this poster does not show clearly on my screen. If you are having similiar problems, then I apologize.
Today's Best Spam Offerings
By subject header:
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* coxmander usale
* Get Paid for sitting in your couch, watching TV that is!
* Women will do anything for money... absolutely anything you want (Wow, that's so true)
* Cesspool Cure
* No Surgery and No Padding
* misqake grop
24-Hour Creative People
My new friend, Ben Brown, is making Frampton come alive once again. Rather, he's helping me see that my old creative interests, such as making a zine and taking over the universe with my magical brand of wunderprose, can actually happen. Like me, he's an energetic person who's interested in collaboration � and unlike many creative types our age (mid/late 20s), he doesn't seem to have a pretentious or super-duper screwy bone in him. This evening, we talked about making readable paper objects, and I think it's really going to happen � in the near future, in fact. It doesn't matter if the universe we conquer with our texty paper products eventually amounts to just a few muddled teenage heads looking for something to read while smoking clove cigarettes in scrappy cafes � we can pretend we're cultural shape-shifters, right?
Admittedly, a small part of me would like to take the world by storm and make it into a different place with no Republicans, jails, or Justin Timberlake, but that sentiment should be gone by my birthday next month. Getting older has its advantages ��greater perspective being one of them. Losing extra idealism is another plus. So much do-gooderism and unrealistic expectation-having can really lead some of us to do-nothingness and defeatism, I'm afraid. Now, let's find us some advertisers ...
Three Possible Band Names
Nipple ThreatThe Porn Loser
Burmese Nerds
Steak Party
Janet Cox & the Take Me Please
Commitment 101
Currently I'm reading "He's Scared, She's Scared," a self-help kind of book about commitment that is mainly focused on romantic relationships, but also includes lessons that apply to life in general. My ex-boyfriend loaned me his copy upon request, commenting that while he typically has little faith in paperback psychology, this book was different. It is: It addresses a topic that many people approach with difficulty, because it is so complex. When you aren't committed, you develop the tendency to live in the past, the future, or both, while totally avoiding the present reality... oh, I'd really like to write more about this book, but it's 3:30am now. Later.�
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. � Lily Tomlin |
