June 2010
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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
” —Banksy, from Cut It Out (via handonyourheart) (via sensingsynesthesia, zaschell) (via catchstars) (via dustyfucks)(512): I have teeth marks. Like distinct upper and lower jaw.
(1-512): Yeah me too. My shoulder looks rabid.
got some daaankkk
DC tonight
Leesburg tomorrow
A New Look at the Left Wing: The Impatient Revolutionaries →
newleft.tumblr.com
These are a few of what I recognize as problems in contemporary radicalism, be it left or “post-left.”
- The refusal of objectivity - some strains of contemporary identity politics, by tying truth to who people are instead of what they say, put themselves in a position that stands in the way of…
Meeting Molly
the clench of your jaw
the tingle in your fingers and toes
the inexplicable bob and weave
the feeling in the back of your head
the knee jerk
the need to rise and move
the urge to touch
It is all so good
Fueling War: Pentagon Still Buying Most of Its Oil and Gas from BP →
thenation.com
So, keep in mind… that $75 million bill the gov’t is asking BP to pay will be recouped about 30 times over (THIRTHY!) by what the gov’t will pay BP back to keep the war moving. How much is your boycott effective in the face of the Pentagon’s patronage?
