“Holy Banned Art, Batman!”

http://www.2spare.com/item_92381.aspx

How could this possibly not be considered art just because of its medium?!

http://www.legendarypharma.com/chartbg.html

How does this photo support what we talked about in
class today regarding presupposed gender-roles?

How is that argument challenged by the fact that the “bride’s” hand
looks more masculine than the “bride-groom’s” hand?

http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/512

• Which hand is higher in the composition?

• Which hand is controlling the movements of both?

• When was this photo taken (by the context clues in the background)?

• What does the effect of the decade have on your judgement of the situation?

• Why do you think this couple chose to show off their rings in this odd way?

• Do you think this was the couple purposefully showing off their new symbols of devotion, or a mis-captured moment in the reception?

http://explosm.net/comics/1064/

How DARE he!

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How to Go Broke

Now, I know that it is useless to waste your money on buying objects that you will have to care for and worry about for the rest of your life (almost as bad as having children to suck up the coinage, but that is some quicksand that you do not want to step into). You are getting rid of this money to loosen yourself out from under a great burden; you are preserving your own life.  In whatever mode it has come to plague you: a lottery ticket as a birthday gift from a lead-brained co-worker; the only uncle that liked you is finally playing green-thumb by pushing up daisies; or even if you have stumbled into a lifetime of ambitions, goals, and incredible ideas, only to accidentally fall out the other side with your fists full of green. I can help you get through this. We just have to move logically, swiftly, and ignore the power of that acidic dough.

Why buy cars and houses, clothing and jewelry with this filthy tender? You will only have to tune up and wax that car; paint and mow that house; work out for countless hours to fit into those clothes, until they finally go out of style; and ensure and polish those jewels to a high sheen to fully portray your past success or dumb luck.  From now on, your only true success will be measured by how thoroughly you devote your life to the endeavor before you.

Primarily, the ultimate goal is to rid you of every penny of those dollars.  Secondarily, the underlying goal is to do so while maintaining civility, and class, and also while attempting to preserve your current lifestyle.

Before you do anything else, and this may seem like a step that doesn’t need to be typed out so very black and white, but it is imperative to your mission: gather every bit of the substance, every single molecule, and count it.  Shut down accounts, sell off bonds, call in favors from friendly bankers that like to use small bills on Wednesdays, but just get it all in one place. In cash (simpler to distribute, no follow-up actions like balancing a checkbook).

Once it is gathered and counted: count it again and once more just for practice. Keep a running tally on your Goal Poster (to be later explained). To ensure the utter victory of this task, be sure to count the clams at least once a day, and do not rush in this act.  Be cheerful to aide in your own freedom.  Count slowly and rhythmically, using tally-marks, piles, or the beat of a favorite song,  whatever makes this little chore easier for you to do every day.  Be sure to make this paranoia-saving-motion part of your daily routine, after breakfast, before you go to sleep, or exactly at midnight are all good times to schedule The Counting.

Your next, ironic, charge is to form a budget.  You will have to absorb minor expenses for the greater good of this mission.  The prices and availability of the following supplies may vary from area to area (as will the amount you will require of each item, as it depends on your particular mound of cabbage), but they are all necessary: white, business envelopes (with safety print on inside), printer paper (thick white, or matching to envelopes), address book (personal preference, but it must be hefty), pens (blue ink), calculator or adding machine (useful in checking your math), stamps, poster board, poster markers or paints,  and a safe to hold the demon-leaves (electronically or key locked).  A few optional items are: batteries for the calculator (again, depending on the amount of time you will have to use it for), adding machine tape, Wite-Out, and coffee.  The value all of these items can be pulled out of your Pre-Asset-Till or from the blob itself, the former will only make the result all the nobler.

  Now to piece together your literal budget: once the sum is less the cost of your new hobby, and you have adequately set up your Register Room (money flowing in and out, being counted all the while), you may begin.  Charity is obviously the easiest way out of this thicket, and should therefore be rejected as a sanitizing plant for your golden dirt because of its tendency to become a “habit” (and inflict itself on your life post-green-wave-life through mailboxes full of guilting, “personalized” postcards and TV commercials full of sad, starving, skinny, godless children wearing mismatched, dirty outfits from Osh Kosh B’gosh and Macy’s, wandering around aimlessly in trash and dirty water, right above <this toll-free number that you can call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week!> while you clutch your credit card and wail at the screen, tissues to tears, “I’ll save you Brigita! Wait! I’m typing in the expiration date on my touch-tone phone! Please don’t cry little Brigita!“). Charity is out. A more personal, and life-affirming ritual to undertake is to hunt down each person or association that has been a thread in the tapestry of your life, and present a small envelope of appreciation, along with a brief explanation. These “Absorbers” can be anyone you have ever met: a teacher, a serviceperson, a company/manufacturer of a favorite product (yes, even though they already have so much of your loot), an academic institution (only in small amounts to prevent the “charity complex” above), an animal shelter, or even random helpful citizens in your day-to-day life.  The important ideal to focus on is to remain totally business-like in every step of The Purging.  Addresses and stamps, envelopes and templated business letters, legal names and appropriate destinations for the coinage are each a must.  Your budget will outline your intentions, directions of action, and costs of maintenance (the hiring of an accountant may be necessary in some situations). 

Lastly and most importantly before you dive into the shark-infested ocean that is rendering yourself broke, you must form an afore-mentioned Goal Poster. I suggest a thermometer-shape, to be colored in using poster markers or paint, up to charted amounts as you dispense them. This will help you focus in hopeless and weak moments. Visual aides can be used to reinforce any idea to be taught, or good behavior to be learned, so why not apply it here?

Once you are free of the razor-like weight known as money, you will truly know the meaning of free.  You have made the noble decision to not let your life be ruled and ruined by this money any longer. Congratulations and Good Luck in your journey.

Modified Version: When You Are on a Budget

Perform the above, only much, much smaller in scale and spread.  Coffee and calculator batteries are obsolete. Congrats.

Art imitating life, imitating art, imitating life. Awesome.

How Time is Spent At College

Brushing teeth: 2 mins.
Checking E-mail: 5 mins.
Showering: 15 mins.
Reading for FSEM: 2.5 Hours!!
Learning how to kill cockroaches with Strawberry Air Freshener: timeless

it’s over. finished. completed. boo-yah.
Aristotle should so he high-fiving me right now.

oh, and this rocks:
http://www.threadbanger.com/
and this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/14_american_apparel_models_freed
(i KNEW American Apparel was evil.)

outline of opposing argument and beckground info - done

position for my argument- found

status - not dark enough outside to actually write yet.

i’ve found my piece.  (less abtract, some nudity)
i’ve found my argument…

now i must start the process of percolation.
*bubblebubble –wtf^^?*

there is no way in hot, sweet hell that this paper is going to be done in time for prof mikhalevsky to look it over….oops.
i guess lightening took a while to strike me.
i’m waiting for my famous urge to write to grip me firmly: all in-between my ribs and up the back of my neck, spiraling down my arms and throwing my fingers at the computer to get rid of the words that are always piling up in my head…

so, i’ll just do that this weekend, yea?