The time will come when cities will reward homeowners for planting vegetables in their front yard.

what's wrong with guerrilla gardening and tearing up lawns and planting food? this book is for apartment renters and people who live in a house as well.

you hate middle class people? You don't have long to wait until the entire class is devastated....

Now on to Iraq!

(not.)

Thanks, FooFooDooDoo!

My intent was not to "make fun" of the Mennonites, but take a photo of a visual incongruity. Why can't you get it?

BTW, I don't know of a more democratic-spirited, DIY, and non-bigoted individual than Mark Frauenfelder.

Another BTW, my father was a character actor and actually appeared on an episode of Mayberry RFD as "Goober's Brother." So, my friend, I remove from you the claim that you're in Mayberry. I was there first.

See here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0644692/

I never said that I never mocked anybody in my life, I merely claimed not to be a bigot. A bigot has ill-will, I guess that a satiric mock has ill-will, too, but only against what the mocker might feel is an inflexible and often hypocritical sense of self-righteousness.

Most of my work was not based on the satiric mock; most of it was investigative journalism. I guess the stuff I wrote for Goad's Answer ME! mag, one piece called "Pederastic Park" and the other a meditation on Andrea Dworkin, who claimed that every single act of sex between a man and woman constituted rape, had, I suppose, something of a mocking tone. I confess! But then these subjects were fully appropriate for the kind of tone applied to them.

The sense of self-righteousness that obscures true behavior I see with some Hillary supporters. No, I couldn't oppose this woman's Presidential bid because of her poor choices and bad behavior, it's because I'm a sexist.

So I can't take photographs of pale, washed, rural Mennonites among the dirty downtown LA streets without expressing "get the fuck out of my city"? BTW, I think a bunch of photos of weird and sometimes beautiful Hasidic headgear would be an interesting subject of photographs, as would Asians at the airport wearing masks and Muslim women covering every inch of their bodies with black cloth, as would often-ridiculous rich white people's gear in Orange County malls, or stylish black churchgoers' elaborate dress in a Baldwin Hills mall....

Open your eyes, my friend. Life's really quite interesting. Diane Arbus might agree.

didn't mean to say that Swift did not consider those kids very tasty

FOO FOO:

Once again, I did not produce "Hatesville," which was inspired by and meant as a satirical take on Rod McKuen's "Beatsville" . If you read the credits correctly, you'd see that I co-produced my own four or five tracks recorded by me and Slayer Hippie at Mike Lastra's Smegma Studio in Portland. The other contributors produced their own tracks as well: Goad, Boyd Rice, Sean Partridge.

Personally, I felt that Jim Goad's contribution was aesthetically incorrect for this particular recording...and did not think that it was his best effort. But saying this, satire, and particularly effective satire, is by definition hard-minded and not a soft prop. Throughout history, good satire treads over that unspoken line that inflames sensitive readers/listeners. Did you ever hear Lenny Bruce or Richard Pryor or Rudy Ray Moore explain their "insensitive" and "bigoted" remarks? Did Jonathan Swift ever bend over backwards to explain why he did not mean exactly that the Irish should parboil and consume their children?

Again, I was not mocking Mennonites, and enjoyed their singing, and found it interesting to see them in an environment that seemed so out of place for them, thus the photos. I never said or intimated that they don't belong in "my" city. It's very strange to keep reading your explanations of my evil intent.

I now feel that perhaps I've explained too much, and that if people can't "get it," then perhaps they never will...

What I meant to say was: "If my opinion that the Mennonite CD contains 'dull anti-evolution speeches' qualifies as bigotry, then would every individual who DOES NOT express a non-qualified rave be a bigot?"

If you're a sensitive soul who objects to Mennonites from being characterized as "pale" and "rural," then why are you so quick to judge someone as being a "bigot" without any substantiation whatsoever?

I've spent most of my life presenting readers to alternative lifestyles and belief systems without judgement. I might be the opposite of a bigot, which is why I'm sensitive to this uncalled-for accusation.

I'm sure you mean well, but please don't be so quick on the draw with such a harmful pejorative.

Thanks, FOOFOODOODOO, for the answer.

You get a sense of my "bigotry," but only hold up this Boing Boing posting as evidence.

As a pale and rural person myself (I live near Port Townsend, WA), I don't see how these objective statements can qualify as bigotry.

If my opinion that the Mennonite CD contains "dull anti-evolution speeches" qualifies as bigotry, then would every single individual who expresses a non-qualified rave be a "bigot"?

I took the Mennonites' photo because I loved the incongruity of it. Is that bigotry?

Adam

Parfrey here...

I'm glad that a couple detractors have read my work and "enjoyed" it, and listened to an album I contributed to, but I'm curious to know what exactly what makes me a "bigot"--being the publisher of "50 Reasons Not to Re-elect Bush," "Why Bother?" by Sam Smith, "War Is a Racket" by Smedley Butler, and currently a big Barack Obama supporter? Please state your evidence, and not an opinion expressed by some third party
... thanks, Adam...

Here's the true industrial music. Great!

This device also reminds me of Wilhelm Reich's "cloudbuster." Wikipedia says that many claim this device is "pseudoscientific," though a number of weather modification businesses use this device, and they've been hired by large corporations and even nations. Cloudbusters have been used by some to combat "chemtrails." Reich's "Contact With Space" book has amazing tales of Reich shooting the cloudbuster at EA's (ufos) and DOR (or deadly orgone) in the Arizona desert. See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

We have been watching Mr. Kozik's work with interest for years. Ridiculing the Great Effort with pink colorization, and in addition lying that the General Secretary of the Central Committee was involved with the worst effects of smug and cancerous capitalism: Marlboro cigarettes and "baseball jerseys." Does this so-called artist have no shame? We have passed on this information to the NKVD.

I wonder what is going on here, with these violent, fallacious, misinformed postings of mr. om....

Funny how worked up people get about Hoagland without even looking at his book. The simple idea of Richard Hoagland pisses people off, like he's on a terrorist mission to destroy science, reason and credibility (while sprinkling poop on your evening pinkberry).

Confession: I thought the same about Hoagland before looking more carefully at the material. All the material. People generally don't know this, but Hoagland had and has disgruntled insider friends at NASA hdqts passing him images and information, info no one is supposed to know, images that were ordered destroyed. A NASA employee who ran the photo archives, a good Christian named Ken Johnston, even came out of the closet with his support of Hoagland to the abuse of many. Ken Johnston's story can be seen here: http://darkmission.blogspot.com/

Anyone with even minimal awareness could come to the conclusion that there's a hell of a lot more to the NASA story than the official version you may have read, as I did, with awe and respect, as a child.

The heretofore-obscured history of NASA that's brought out in "Dark Mission" is hard to deny, even by the hardest (honest) skeptic.

"The Secret Source" came about as an investigation into "prosperity consciousness" rackets and what they came from. Your critique, CRUNCHBIRD, is a little quick on the draw.

Funny how worked up people get about Hoagland without even looking at his book. The simple idea of Richard Hoagland pisses people off, like he's on a terrorist mission to destroy science, reason and credibility (while sprinkling poop on your evening pinkberry).

Confession: I thought the same about Hoagland before looking more carefully at the material. All the material. People generally don't know this, but Hoagland had and has disgruntled insider friends at NASA hdqts passing him images and information, info no one is supposed to know, images that were ordered destroyed. A NASA employee who ran the photo archives, a good Christian named Ken Johnston, even came out of the closet with his support of Hoagland to the abuse of many. Ken Johnston's story can be seen here: http://darkmission.blogspot.com/

Anyone with even minimal awareness could come to the conclusion that there's a hell of a lot more to the NASA story than the official version you may have read, as I did, with awe and respect, as a child.

The heretofore-obscured history of NASA that's brought out in "Dark Mission" is hard to deny, even by the hardest (honest) skeptic.

This is to ACB:

Process Media is a publishing company begun by Jodi Wille and me in 2005. We like the word "process" since it appeals to us to suggest that we enjoy the "now" as well as the end result.

Though we have no affiliation with the Process Church, I published an article about them nearly two decades ago in "Apocalypse Culture" and am working on a definitive book about the group/cult/phenom in 2009. Also one about the Lyman Family and another about the history of fraternal groups in America.

Regarding the Manson connection, the Process Church published a short interview with the man in their notorious "Death Issue," but the Process Church was about promoting apocalyptic ideas and stirring up the "greys" (the banal nowhere men of the mid'60s) and not about worshipping Manson.... they actually worshipped Mary Anne DeGrimston, the wife of Jesus-looking guy on their literature.

In regards to the cover of "Dark Mission": this photoshop job was entirely the publisher's idea. The American flag seen in the famous photo of Alan Shepard was replaced by the actual Masonic flag brought to the moon and back by Buzz Aldrin. This Masonic flag can now be seen in person at the Southern Rite Freemasonic Headquarters in Washington DC and in various official Freemasonic publications. Buzz also wears a Masonic ring seen in most official publicity photos at the time. Glad the image grabbed someone's attention!

Hope that Mark F. can withstand everyone's hatred for enjoying Feral House and Process books!

All my beast wishes,

Adam Parfrey
Feral House / Process