(it’s almost) 420 brah!!!!!!!

A fun contest over San Diego Serenade:

To win a copy of the DVD, as well as a nice “Got Reefer?” shirt, just post a comment detailing your ideal 4/20 song, or your best related experience. I’ll pick one at random and send the winner the DVD and the shirt, hopefully in time for Thursday’s festivities. The Contest will end at 3 PM California time on Tuesday the 18th.

I already submitted mine, which was that the first time I got stoned, I ended up spending the night masturbating and listening to the Cure (at the same time).

Blue & Blewed Up

Probably one of the better websites I’ve seen in a long time: Rachel Papo: serial no. 3817131. At age 18, all Israelis (including females), unless Arab or Pacifists, are required to join the military for one year of service. So she undertook this project with pretty interesting results (my favorite is the semi-intoxicated girl with a machine gun).

Other great news from your GOVERNMENT OF SENSABILITY. If you are a college student applying for federal loans, you will be denied if you have ANY drug related convictions. Even misdeamanor possessions. The United states of never letting you live down your past mistakes.

Ever wondered what the most corrupt countries are? Here are your answers. One of the cofounders of Green Peace Roger Waters supports coexistence in Israel and moved a concert in Tel Aviv to a smaller Arab & Israeli town. Blogs can do anything, like turn a big red paper clip into a house. Or at least free rent for a month.

Have a nice Doomsday!

Aw, I missed it

Welp, I missed it.

Seventeen sit-in participants arrested for trespassing. I was in Boston (which was amazing, but more on that later), but would have loved to have participated if I was in the Charlottesville area.

In my opinion, the living wage campaign is very good natured and was one of the main points that convinced me that Ralph Nader was the man in 2000. Even with benefits and what other ‘fringe’ benefits allow others to disregard current wages, under ten dollars an hour for a public employee at a top 20 university is NOT right, even if it is unskilled labor.

For main stream media coverage of the demonstrations, check out the Washington Post’s article.

He ain’t stupid, you is

From Consortium News:

Many Americans believe George W. Bush is uninformed, simpleminded and, in a single word, stupid. But there is a different way to look at the evidence and conclude that while Bush may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, it is he who thinks the American people are the real dullards.

I’ve always felt like Mr. W was the perfect personification of American stupidity, not some illusion of it. You are what you eat.

Goodbye & Good Luck

NYC trips have been a resounding success and I have managed to avoid being a soulless member of the Yuppie Zombie Parade. Check out this evidence as proof:

I’m gentrifying the world over with my sauve and sophistication.

NEW NOTES! Chairman Mao is alive and well, in bronze form, in Chinatown NYC:

He’s totally going to chill in my zen garden if we can accomodate his ego!

Anyway, I’m going up to Boston this weekend, have some interesting things in store for the coming weeks, including a poetry reading, and will hopefully head over to Europe later this summer. I refuse to be apart of the 5 days a week, 2 bar nights a weekend crowd that is senseless and thoughtless. So, some escapes are ALWAYS necessary, in both the physical and mental sense.