Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

Our Occupy was forcibly closed this morning. The group wanted a permitted camping experience and the city extended it a few times. We met weekly with a small group from the city for status updates and to make sure we were keeping the place clean, etc. etc. Mostly it was to build good: that’s how [...]

lord, I am so relieved to tune into LBO at the end of the day and see that it is just like freakin’ monday morning at work. a lot of monday morning quarterbacking. it is also very sad to see that TINA has his hands so full with work an’ all that he no longer [...]

video of the backside of the street battle in front of the Traveler’s Aid Building. Apparently, there was some contention over whether the fire was a good idea. Seems like someone may have thought, “If we are good little protestors, the cops won’t take our building away?” Gives me a lot more context for some [...]

heh. this video is awesome. shows a “non-violent” protester going after an anarchist, tackling him. Later, interviewed by a reporter, the guy explains that that he had to do it in the name of his non-violent principles! hee hoooooooo. fuckin ayyy that’s hilarious. also, there’s an even better snippet of the attack of yellow helmet [...]

I’ll write more on this later, but for now a placeholder. i read Beggs’ concern that smashing a bank window isn’t a threat to capitalism or even the bank itself. I think this is a hoot in so far as, just as with the complaint that the Oakland Commune depended on capitalism so therefore couldn’t [...]

had to throw in the towel and unsub from lbo. this one thread bugged me, though. apparently, real artists are the ones who pursue their art no matter what. if they drop out and quit, apparently they aren’t real artists. what a load of horseshit! more on that later, i just want to post this [...]

i did my first critical mass ride tonight and I’m unbelievably stoked. I rode 22.5 miles today, between my five mile round trip to work, and the 17.5 mile critical mass ride. it was totally completely absolutely awesomely cool! also, if you think, as I did, that underarmour clothing is a gimmick, it’s not. I [...]

me: [...] the concern about the tax burden on the middle class – I don’t get it. At 01:34 PM 6/16/2010, Jordan Hayes wrote: I think this is tied up in the usual US’er concept of always looking up instead of down. You get a $10k raise in your wages, you think: $10k is a [...]

i’m just not a writer who works from a thesis. i don’t know what i want to say when i start out. i work in pastiche or some shit. when i’m done, i don’t have any driving idea that’s guiding me. between “beginning” and “ending” there’s a whole bunch of shit in between and it [...]

I had wanted to stay directly on Ocracoke. Alas, I couldn’t find a place as cheap at the place on Hatteras Island — 600$ for a week – and that included pool table, swimming pool, ginormous hot tub, game room, media center, and just off the ocean with an ocean view. On Ocracoke, prices are [...]

if you want to read the password protected posts, just spell dude the shagalicious way. if you can’t remember, ping me at shag AT cleandraws.com. it’s not a big dark secret, it’s just that this is for publication and i have no clue if i’d be violating copyright by publishing at a blog first.

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in person interview with … very large publication in NYC! Very excited!

I wonder what it is about David Graeber that seems to make some folks on the left go off the rail? Last night, M Pollak posted an article about black bloc on facebook. I had just finished up reading Graeber’s account of the movement from Ghandian non-violence to black bloc tactics among environmentalists (and other [...]

i am proud to say that I am number one for “what the fuck is obama thinking” and come in the top five for “fuck obama”. yay me.

i kind of agreed with daisy’s reaction to amber’s post. (www.amberrhea.com) i was going to comment, but thought better of it. yeah, i know amber, you might read it here, but i feel that it would be inappropriate to post at your blog given how you feel on the topic. here, however, it’s my blog. [...]

So, continuing, here’s more I wrote about the findings in Petersen’s book, which are pretty disturbing. 1. The science and research behind pharmaceuticals are extremely bad. In my view, it’s a joke to refer to it as science. 2. The marketing tactics used by pharmaceutical companies have gotten worse since when I observed them in [...]

yeah yeah. in the age of obama, we’re supposed to leave him and his fans alone, especially when they’re giving a smackdown to the “real” racists — the republicans at places like free republic. whatever. i read BA’s blog and noticed a link to a dailykos diary. Toward the end, I read: I hope all [...]

i need to win the lottery. i’d seen this wonderful furniture last time i went to the scandinavian furniture store, but i didn’t price it. It’s made by a French company, Seltz. This table costs four-fucking-thousand-dollars! Oh well! I love it, but not *that* much! and, the bedroom set I wanted is no longer in [...]

i would like to know something. i walk to and from work most everyday, logging 2.5 miles. even on days when i’m lazy or late and have to take the electric bus, it’s .5 mile. still, on average, it’s probably 1.5 miles. Then, I walk another .8 miles, twice a week, to go to the [...]

thinking about a thread at a discussion list to which I subscribe, brought me to reading Wendy Brown and Janet Halley again. And as I read, I thought a lot about the disagreements that broke out over Renee Martin’s insistence that people need to get over their wounds, put their big girl panties on, and [...]

well, i was sick of having to tend to spam, so i thought i’d make it so that only approved comments could get through. i ended up closing comments altogether and no amount of changing it back has seemed to fix it. and, since i’ve got other things to do, ican’t be arsed to find [...]

well, Anthony, I tried to comment on your site re: Gustav, your work schedule, financial woes, etc. but after battling all the popups and clicking the comment link a bojangazillion times, nothing’s happening. http://ajkenn-rgclub.com/SDChronBlog2dot5/2008/09/10/hello-stranger/#respond i should break out ie and post. hope i remember the password. if not, then, well, my thoughts are with you. [...]

this just makes me want to give glen ford a big old sunday morning hummer! i love the ‘donut movement’ metaphor — the progressive circle around the non-progressive center. you could market that one. But the most important reason that “Progressives for Obama” should have never existed is its utter lack of content. Leftists attempted [...]

video. watch. this isn’t a metaphor, which is what i thought initially. he really does get waterboarded.