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suck my secular

drive by message

I just walked in the door from a very long day.

So – there I was working all day at a clients enduring the ENDLESS, (seemingly all G.O.P.), radio spots that kept interrupting the stream of innocu-rock.

So sure I was a little annoyed….

I stopped by the bar and had a few beers and on the way home…. I was trapped on 44 behind… her.

A middle aged woman in a Ford Focus – littered with Bush stickers, support-our troops ribbons, “God bless America” ribbons… and get this.. the breaker:

“Children are a Gift from God” – set in Times Roman in Red, White and Blue.

Maybe it was the day of neo-con commercials.

Maybe it’s the karmic bummer because the Sox are kicking our ass in the World Series.

Maybe it was the three Miller Lites.

I snapped.

Risking an accident – I yanked my briefcase out of the back seat – pulled out a piece of paper and a Sharpie and scaled a message…

Then licked it and stuck it to my driver-side window, raced up beside her, honked and waved.

Is this harassment?

She didn’t do anything to me personally…

Is this a bad sign if Mr. Happy Go Lucky Stonner bear gets to fed up that he pulls a stunt like this?

What’s the rest of the country feeling?

What is this – a blog or something?

*If it was – I’d apologize for the manic, stream of continuousness, un polished entry.

PS – in the interest of vehicular safety, I truncated the message – I “wanted” it to say:

“CHILDREN ARE THE PRODUCT OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION…. you GIT”

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fries

We’ve laid off the fast food bigtime this year…. More-so for financial and lifestyle reasons rather than big-picture social reasons.

After watching Super Size Me last night – my occasional pining for a Big Macâ„¢ or Filet-o-Fishâ„¢ will be less painful.

The documentary is more like an ethnography about American Eating Habits and our food industry. The director eats nothing but McDonnald’s. three times day, for thirty days…. Duh- his health goes to hell. The side tangents and interviews were more enlightening than the 30-day binge – but as far as presenting a case – it helped tie the whole thing together.

It’s the new old story of personal vs. corporate responsibility.

I catch myself pondering this stuff and my eyes go squinty and I wind up somewhere in the middle on the issue…

One one had I want to say to the people suing the burger-chain: “Hey lardass, put the fries…. DOWN”.

But on the other hand – there’s something to be said for the sheer financial force behind these corporations, who – want to increase profit like ANY business, will use billions of dollars to market to children, lobby the government and mold public perception.

If anyone should “sue” anybody – it should be the the American people suing some faceless unnamed force that’s turned the most of us into lemmings, incapable of making informed decisions either through sheer laziness or outright misinformation.

As in F 9/11, we ran to the internet to see what rebuttals where out there… As expected, we found a an entire site dedicated to discrediting Super Size Me.

Here’s where it gets scarry kids.

We dug deeper…. Thanks to a blogger named Brian Flemming for doing the footwork which reveals the source for the Super-Size-Me-Con website: A company called DCI GROUP – a republican lobby and PR Firm closely connected to the Bush White House.

Anyone creeped out yet?

Anyone starting to connect the dots?

Anyone think I’m blogging?

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poli-sigh

Yesterday was the national Boycott for Equality. In a nutshell: All homos and friends were to drop out of the economy for the day.

The premise of this protest struck me oddly… We’ve been “dropped out of the economy” since it went to hell in 2002.

Nonetheless one of my primary clients decided to throw a picnic / rally in Tower Grove Park for the day. Considering that they burned up a considerable amount of their retainer last month on generating ads and and materials for the picnic – we could hardly blow it off. Plus we genuinely thought it would be important to show up and show support for the community.

It rained for most of the event, but it didn’t seem to dampen the spirits of the people that made it out. The turn out was ho-hum – but I guess considering the foul weather it was good? I tried to reassure my client’s CEO that the rain made it feel more like a good ole’ fashion protest.

A tour buss filled with a group from California arrived who are traveling across the country and doing stunts / speeches / demonstrations for marriage equality.

We hung out for a couple of hours and listened to the speakers, ate salty hot dogs and visited with folks we hadn’t seen in a while.

En-route home we stopped by the bank and had our absentee ballots notarized and then headed home to chill out for the rest of the day.

Fahrenheit 9/11 arrived from NetFlix… considering the day’s activities I figured.. “OH well hell – we’re already in the head-space,… let’s pop it in.” I was pleasantly surprised to see Moore release some of the melodramatic over-the-top crap which I felt undermined his previous films.

The two hours went by pretty fast – and left me feeling queasy.

For all fairness, we spent the rest of the night pulling up contrary commentary about the film online. Most of the criticisms we found accused the film of agenda-lead distortion.

Duh.. it’s a movie… as soon as you make an edit – you’re molding information. As soon as you creative any kind of narrative – you’re steering content. Honestly – I found the greatest insight in the long, unedited, sans-commentary spots where the the subject, (W, Rice, etc), do a pretty good job of self-vilification without the editorial help of the tubby conspiracist from Flint.

Many of the cited errors we found about the film were nit picky details which, when pulled out of context, could be argued endlessly. Let’s just let the whacko-rights and the automaton lefty robots fight all that out.

As in with Bowling for Columbine – the strength is in the “big picture / message”. Which was deeply disturbing – but not shocking…

so… it was a real political type day…and ya know what? That was enough… thanks… No mom – I don’t want any more mashed potatoes…. I’m full…

I’m also not blogging.

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homedemocracy

“insert Chad joke here”

Our travel plans have solidified for next month, meaning we won’t be here to vote. Kevin ordered absentee ballots for us and last night we voted.

I’d never done one of those home-votting kits before. No big surprise. The instructions were hard to follow and the process counter-intuitive. The voting board could learn a thing or two from television; I’m quite certain it’d be easier to earn my degree in:

VCR Repair
Interior Decorating
G.E.D.
…..
(insert Sally Struthers crack here)

I do have to admit voting from home has an advantage – Kevin looked up every candidate and issue online.

I’d venture to say that most people when they go to the polls are only familiar with the “big ticket” candidates and issues… Meanwhile there’s PAGES of county executives, judges, etc… I too am guilty in the past for simply voting for “whoever had the cooler sounding name” out of ignorance.. I’m sure this is how whackos like Ashcroft were able to ascend through the lower offices and got him to where he is now…. never again.

What’s disappointing was Kevin had to really DIG to find information on the more obscure candidates / offices. There should be a one-stop resource online for each election which summarizes each ballot item, the candidates, their background and stance on different issues.

The power of the internet, if harnessed correctly – would make “campaigning” an outdated concept…. Here’s the candidate / judge / whatever… Here’s the public record of how they voted on previous issues…. You READ and decide for yourself… WET IT … WIPE IT… GOOD NIGHT.

I want to learn more about the green party.

I want to remind everyone I’m not blogging.