Subject To Change

Fight the power.

Mon, 28 May 2012 21:16:30 -0400

Fight the power.

How I want to answer when asked if I’m a Democrat or...

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:07:50 -0400

How I want to answer when asked if I’m a Democrat or Republican.

Your Anon News: What our team experienced over the weekend while at the Chicago #NoNATO protests

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:24:08 -0400

Your Anon News: What our team experienced over the weekend while at the Chicago #NoNATO protests:

We arrived late Saturday, into news that some of our allies had been already harassed by the police. We took it in stride and decided that it was best if we save our strength for the next day, Sunday, where the major protests of the weekend were to happen.

We arrived at Grant Park around…

Mr Downchild Savoy Brown Getting To The Point, 1968

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:17:11 -0400

Mr Downchild

Savoy Brown

Getting To The Point, 1968

"Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:23:57 -0400

“Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”

- Alan Watts

occupyallstreets: NYPD Loses OWS Trail After Video Evidence...

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:46:54 -0400

occupyallstreets:

NYPD Loses OWS Trail After Video Evidence Proved They Made False Arrests

Hundreds have been arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests, but photographer Alexander Arbuckle’s case was the first to go to trial – and after just two days, the Manhattan Criminal Court found him not guilty.

Arbuckle was arrested on New Year’s Day for allegedly blocking traffic during a protest march. He was charged with disorderly conduct, and his arresting officer testified under oath that he, along with the protesters, was standing in the street, despite frequent requests from the police to move to the sidewalk

But things got a little embarrassing for the NYPD officer when the defense presented a video recording of the entire event, made by well-known journalist Tim Pool.

Pool’s footage clearly shows Arbuckle, along with all the other protesters, standing on the sidewalk. In fact, the only people blocking traffic were the police officers themselves.

His lawyers said the video proving that testimony false is what swayed the judge, and the verdict a clear indication that the NYPD was over-policing the protests.

Chicago Police arrest citizens and hold them without charge to prevent them from protesting at NATO.

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:14:05 -0400

Chicago Police arrest citizens and hold them without charge to prevent them from protesting at NATO.:

A pre-emptive raid by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) on the home of two Occupy Chicago activists may have happened without a search warrant, said the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and led to the disappearance of nine activists into police custody without charge for almost 24 hours.

“I’d like to stress that we have done nothing wrong,” said Zoe Sigman, an Occupy Chicago activist whose home was raided. “We have been planning to protest NATO and there is nothing illegal about expressing our feelings about a war machine. Now we’re being treated as mere criminals. As if we’re part of an organized crime that they’re trying to take down. Who knows what they’re going to pin on us. We’re terrified.”

The raid of an apartment on Chicago’s Southside Bridgeport neighborhood occurred on Wednesday evening around 11:30 PM. So far, none of the activists have been charged and four were released Friday morning. According to witnesses, the raid was conducted by the Organized Crime Division of the CPD and a warrant produced at the site didn’t have the signature of a judge.

The use of pre-emptive arrests is troublesome, said lawyers following the proceedings

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Mon, 21 May 2012 18:04:19 -0400

Current Author of choice: excerpt from A Bad Trip A trip calls...

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:39:40 -0400

Current Author of choice:

excerpt from A Bad Trip

A trip calls for a man who has not yet been caged, who has not yet been fucked by the big Fear that makes all society go. Unfortunately, most men overestimate their worthiness as basic and free individuals, and it is the mistake of the hippie generation not to trust anybody over 30. 30 doesn’t mean a damn thing. Most beings are captured and trained, totally, by the age of 7 or 8. Many of the young LOOK free but this is only a chemical thing of body and energy and not a realistic thing of spirit. I have met free men in the strangest of places and at ALL ages- as janitors, car thieves, car washers, and some free women too- mostly as nurses or waitresses, and at ALL ages. The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it- basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

An LSD trip will show you things which no rules cover. It will show you things not in textbooks and things which you cannot protest to your city councilman about. Grass only makes the present society more bearable; LSD is another society within itself. If you are socially orientated; you can probably mark LSD off as an “hallucinogenic drug,” which is an easy way of getting off and forgetting the whole thing. But hallucination, the definition of it, depends upon which pole you are operating from. Whatever is happening to you at the time it is happening does become the reality- it can be a movie, a dream, sexual intercourse, murder, being murdered or eating ice cream. Only lies are imposed later; what happens, happens. Hallucination is only a dictionary word and a social stilt. When a man is dying to him it is very real; to others it is only bad luck or something to be disposed of. Forest Lawn takes care of everything. When the world begins to admit that ALL the parts fit the whole, then we may begin to have a chance. Whatever a man sees is real. It was not brought there by an outside force, it was there before he was born. Don’t blame him because he sees it now, and don’t blame him for getting mad because the educational and spiritual forces of society were not wise enough to tell him that the exploration never ends, and that we all must be little shits boxed in with our a, b, c’s and nothing else. It is not LSD that causes the bad trip- it was your mother, your President, the little girl next door, the icecream man with dirty hands, a course in algebra or Spanish superimposed, it was the stench of a crapper in 1926, it was a man with a nose too long when you were told long noses were ugly; it was laxative, it was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, it was tootsie rolls and Toots and Casper, it was the face of FDR, it was lemon drops, it was working in a factory for ten years and getting fired because you were five minutes late, it was that old bag who taught you American history in the 6^th grade, it was your dog run over and nobody to properly draw you the map afterwards, it was a list 30 pages long and 3 miles tall.

A bad trip? This whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend. But they’ll arrest you for swallowing a tablet.

Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

"He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:27:40 -0400

“He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.”

- Ahab

Moby Dick

Chicago police have spent over $1 million on riot equipment, including purchasing a controversial LRAD (long-range acoustic device) — a sound cannon designed to cause extreme pain to those in its path.

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:15:32 -0400

Chicago police have spent over $1 million on riot equipment, including purchasing a controversial LRAD (long-range acoustic device) — a sound cannon designed to cause extreme pain to those in its path.:

“LRADs, emit painful and potentially harmful tones over long distances. The device was created for military use, but it was deployed against protesters for the first time at the 2009 G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. The American Civil Liberties Union later filed a lawsuit on behalf of a bystander, Karen Piper, who said she suffered permanent hearing loss, while the American Tinnitus Association said Pittsburgh protesters had been “acoustically assaulted.” They compared the sound pressure to what armed forces might face from an improvised explosive device. Massive numbers of protesters are expected in Chicago when the summit begins next month.” -Source

Donald “Duck” Dunn. TOKYO (AP) — Bass player and songwriter...

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:03:00 -0400

Donald “Duck” Dunn.

TOKYO (AP) — Bass player and songwriter Donald “Duck” Dunn, a member of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.

Dunn was in Tokyo for a series of shows. News of his death was posted on the Facebook site of his friend and fellow musician Steve Cropper, who was on the same tour. Cropper said Dunn died in his sleep.

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:14:30 -0400

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”

- Howard Zinn

Jack Nicholson

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:55:02 -0400

Jack Nicholson

This is the exact car used in the filming of Better Off Dead. I...

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:03:00 -0400

This is the exact car used in the filming of Better Off Dead. I have been a fan of this movie since I first saw it back in the 80’s. It is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen and it has the hottest car I have ever seen. The 1967 Camaro.

Check out Better Off Dead Camaro for the story of another fan, like me, who had the drive to track down the car used in filming and buy it. I always wanted to own the same car with the same red interior, but I never thought of owning the exact car. This guy did an amazing job of restoring it to it’s pristine condition.

The Wolverine Saga Touch not lest ye be touched. I’ve had...

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:32:21 -0400

The Wolverine Saga

Touch not lest ye be touched. I’ve had these in cardboard backed plastic since high school. When my Dad came down to visit me he delivered them to me with my series one Breed comics.

Chanson d'automne

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:50:00 -0400

Les sanglots longs

Des violons

De l’automne

Blessent mon coeur

D’une langueur

Monotone.

Tout suffocant

Et blême, quand

Sonne l’heure,

Je me souviens

Des jours anciens

Et je pleure

Et je m’en vais

Au vent mauvais

Qui m’emporte

Deçà, delà,

Pareil à la

Feuille morte.

-Paul Verlaine

Sugar Death

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:37:00 -0400

Sugar Death

Hot down here! (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:43:39 -0400

Hot down here! (Taken with instagram)

Makisupa Policeman - Phish 2009-06-06 - Great Woods (Comcast...

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:11:52 -0400

Makisupa Policeman - Phish

2009-06-06 - Great Woods (Comcast Center) - Mansfield, MA

-Went to this show with my Brother In Law and met up with my old College Roommate and a good friend Jeff who had introduced me to Phish back in school.