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• Commented on Trotsky: the graphic biography
  I hope I don't come off as too sarcastic when I say I love internet political comments. Or perhaps it's a bit inhuman of me to regard them as data. It's monstrous to defend either the soviet union's or capitalism's...
• Commented on Downward Facing Dollar
  Ah! how's this, I'll just leave the address: http://www.metamute.org/en/content/the-buck-stops-here...
• Commented on Downward Facing Dollar
  If anyone is interested, the art/politics magazine mute did a piece about the rise and fall of the dollar in ordinary language not long ago. The problem of the falling dollar is not so much for the U.s., but for...
• Favorited Untitled 1 on Boing Boing
• Commented on Caption this. No, seriously.
  'Read between the lines, America!'...
• Commented on Speaking of Zizek
  Discussing Lacan is probably the one thing that could break my self-imposed internet exile. And it saddens me I have no access to sound, so cannot listen to the interview in full. Now first of all, festivemanb, as you may...
• Commented on Senate approves warrantless wiretapping and telco immunity, throws out the Fourth Amendment
  It is third-party fantasy porn to say that the 50 million people who voted for Bush would have voted for Nader if we had a better voting system. They wanted Bush. Next time you're walking around out in public, take...
• Commented on Monochrom: Kiki and Bubu and The Self
  oh, i'd be deeply honoured to be mentioned, even in a disparaging way. As Marcuse wrote in one dimensional man - my copy of which was lost when i drunkenly thought i needed something to read on the five minute...
• Commented on Monochrom: Kiki and Bubu and The Self
  author! author! excellent work, as usual. only criticism is I think the first one worked so well because it was tied to practice and the effect of sock puppets talking about such real world sort of problems was to grab...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  haven't commented on much of anything for a while, mostly because of a faulty keyboard, but i wanted to say, in hopes of adding another reasonable voice to the discussion, that when i first heard about this, my only real...
• Commented on Shangri-las: "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" (1965)
  New York Dolls covered this. Now that was a good song....
• Commented on Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license)
  We could always use pig Latin when quoting from the AP. That could work....
• Commented on Boing Boing's got policies
  'Happy Mutants makes... . 'Happy Mutants respects... . 'Happy Mutants is committed... .' that's make, respect, and are committed, shurely....
• Commented on What did I plant in my vegetable garden, part 2
  #21 you mean the deadly nightshade family?...at least I think that's what someone once told me it was called. Contents may have become awesome in being remembered....
• Commented on Bananas are atheist nightmares!
  Probably, and I'm cutting comments short today because heat is causing my already knackered keyboard to misbehave, this isn't intended to convert, but to reinforce the beliefs of those already in that scene. As someone with minority political ideology, meaning...
• Commented on Comic Epitaphs from the Very Best Old Graveyards
  lol, very nice, and the illustration is similar to Seth, which in turn takes a lot from the very much still living form of cartooning, both of which i love. I've got to get a credit card so i can...
• Commented on Monks video from 1966
  wow wow wow wow wow. I read a blurb on them on the guardian website when they did their 1000 albums to listen to thing, and as much as i hate guardian music, they sounded interesting enough to find out...
• Commented on What is on Keith's tongue?
  I've heard of stalagmites, and i've heard of stalactites, but I've never heard of stalagbites. /thinking himself rather amusing indeed....
• Commented on Bananas are atheist nightmares!
  But bananas are really the opposite of what nature intended. In nature, green means go, and yellow means careful. In bananas, yellow means go for it and green means stop, you gotta wait. Red means whoa, you got one freaky...
• Commented on J.K. Rowling on the power of failure
  I've found one good graduation commencement so far: http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/go_look_three_from_richard_thompson/ Anyway, I love JK Rowling, but I like to think people who are impressed by commencement speeches one day realise four hours of listening to superficial advice and clichés are four...
• Commented on My new graphic novel for sale and as a free, remixable, shareable download
  Cheers, Cory! Saw this on the 'new this week' list, but only had time to run into my local for the new Buffy and run out. Will spread the word. Comics are definitely the most impressive format...to me....
• Commented on Emotionally charged photo of woman being evicted from private property in Brazilian Amazon
  What's sadder then the picture? Some of the comments here. Yeah shamelessly doctored propaganda photos exist, but from time to time, read up on what's going on in the world. When have you ever known a line of riot cops...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Curses! Although if I were one of the Boingers I think I would delete comment 666, write my own in, then lock the thread to stand as an internet artefact for all time. Cure win at life. Best song ever...
• Commented on Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets: monochrom.
  just to conclude: if globalisation reached the level of 1984, then surveillance would need to as well, since there would be no untapped people lying around to take the job the guys you had weren't doing....
• Commented on Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets: monochrom.
  I guess in Orwell labour is considered as a totality: workers and managers function toward the same end, the health of the state, an abstract, and this health manifests in the affluence of top party members who despite their affluence...
• Commented on Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets: monochrom.
  I knew you were using the Lacanian/Kojevian dialectic in your arguments on religious threads, Noen. I don't agree with the dismissal of the aufheban, by the way. Anyway, Zizek, internet sexuality, half decent interview in which he says what he...
• Commented on Trailer for new Hunter Thompson documentary
  Pshaaw. Tom Cruise is still alive innit. Rossi, the way you say what is and isn't supposed to happen--were you one of the ones got that limited edition rule book to life when you were born? Diff'rent strokes, my friend....
• Commented on Lovely curved bookcases
  Lol, I think my intarsurfing skills are improving--I saw this the other day, and wondered when it would get put up here. I'm one step ahead of you, BB mwahaha!...
• Commented on Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets: monochrom.
  ps--the bouba/kiki effect sounds cool, Grenz, I've heard something like that before. As a Lacanian I'm obliged to say: It's just social conditioning I tell you!, but still....
• Commented on Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets: monochrom.
  I guess that makes sense, zikzak, but the BB post about the woman who got fired for shaving her head put me in mind of another story, of the Tim Horton's woman who got fired because cctv caught her giving...