"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

Outlandish Josh

Published on Mon, 2003-11-24 01:02

Summit

Just back from the Dean Grassroots Summit here in SF. Good times and good vibes. It's a big tent. I got a few nods for being involved with Deanspace (though I think the real credit belongs to on Neil Drumm, who I'm going to send a fruitcake to for the holidays, and then some) and met with some new allies. I also got to meet in person some people I've only seen online (Steve, Christian, good to meet ya). It was too bad there weren't (girls) more people my age there, but I suppose that's a matter of marketing more than anything else. At least, I hope it is. Don't know what I'll do if it turns out all my peers are apathetic layabouts.

Also, check out DeanPix, which is being run by Christopher Dye, the guy who set up the housecall flash ad on such short notice when I was in Burlington those months ago. He's created a flash information kiosk, which is a pretty innovative use of the tool.

And Deanspace is going 1.0! I have to fix up some database things to go in there so that 1.0.1 is nicer.

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Published on Sun, 2003-11-23 17:07

Multimedia Brainwash

A while back in Brooklyn I audio-recorded some of my performance text on a layabout morning. Recently I was talking with some of the heads at MfA, a little bull session about the Movement and my predilictions for poetry. It reminded me of some of the stuff I've done on stage, so I tried to modify things on the fly to specify the trip for them.

It got me thinking, and I had this song stuck in my head, so Friday night on my way home from work I stuck the song and the audio together and found the match to be tight. It needs some work, but maybe you'll dig it. Here's an Mp3 version of ...and I'm not Fucking Around with musical backup from Radar (which I picked up off a random comp CD from 2001).

This is the text that got me labelled "the Tony Robbins of Burning Man." I want to stick it into a subversive flash animation; kind of a blueprint for a revolution. Let me know if it hits.

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Published on Thu, 2003-11-20 18:09

Statue Antics

Just in case you didn't make the connection; try contrasting the statue that went down in London today with another statue that went down a while ago.

The point isn't that Bush is worse than Saddam. He's not. More dangerous to world peace, probably, but Saddam was a very very very very very very very bad man. That being said, the point is that the Bush modus opperandi is falshood, deciet and deception. They made that statue going down in Iraq look like some kind of popular mass rally. They're also pretending an actual popular mass rally didn't happen. From the NYT:

Asked about the protests during the visit, Mrs. Bush said she hadn't really seen any. "We've seen plenty of American flags, we've seen plenty of people who were waving to us," she said. "Many, many more people in fact than we've seen protestors."

And this, of course, has been pretty much ignored or buried by the national press in the US because they've already bought their tickets and now seem unable to jump off the ride. So it goes.

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Published on Thu, 2003-11-20 04:53

Dean on Gay Marriage

To the commentor who asked what Dean's position on the recent ruling in MA to allow homosexual partners to marry, here's the word from the horse's mouth.

"There will be those who try to use the decision today to divide Americans. Instead, this decision should be viewed as an opportunity to affirm what binds us together -- a fundamental belief in the equality of human beings, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation."

Right now it looks like a done deal. Full civil rights in Mass! Unless someone comes up with something that might derail this process, it's unlikely that many politicians will sing its prases too loudly, as Gay Marriage (as opposed to Civil Unions) is statistically unpopular in the US.

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