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Ron English's Popaganda
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 Ron English puts up illegal billboards, so he has only one way of knowing if it has been a good day.
"I consider it a success if I don't go to jail," he explained. He should know. He has had two very unsuccessful days in the past.
You may have seen Mr. English, a 43-year-old father of two, wandering around the streets of Manhattan or New Jersey with a bucket of glue, a set of rollers and a crew of accomplices. He plasters his original paintings in broad daylight on billboards he does not own. This is a conscious decision, because billboarding in the dark would only look more suspicious. "If you're out at night," he said, "it's obvious that you're not supposed to be there."
It is worth being careful. Though he has posted more than 1,000 illicit signs, Mr. English says he has been chased while half-drunk by the police in Texas, has been the object of death threats and barely escaped an angry mob in Jersey City.
Mr. English is not a run-of-the-mill graffiti maker. He is widely recognized in the art world as one of the earliest and most celebrated in a line of "culture jammers"-- |
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Stop The Madness, Stop The Irony
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| Someone dug up a circa 1985 anti-drug video sponsored by the White House featuring New Edition, LaToya Jackson, (a very young) Whitney Houston, Nancy Reagan, David Hasselhoff, Kim Fields, Herb Alpert, Casey Kasem, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others. Whitney Houston? Oh yea, this is classic 80s. |
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Isaac Hayes Quits Southpark Citing "Religious Intolerance"
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 After seeing this season's premier Southpark episode, where the Chef character, previously played by Isaac Hayes appears to be composed of edited disembodied versions of his previous voiceovers, the show's creators have made a powerful statement over Hayes' departure.
It appears, it's ok to make fun of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Abortion, Hippies, Barbara Striesand, Gays, Handicapped People, Politicians, Mormons and Minorities, but if you start talking bad about Tom Cruise and Scientology, that's crunk. So Isaac Hayes quit Southpark citing "religious intolerance", presumably over the parodying of his cult, Scientology. The result? Chef turns into a pedophile and is eaten by wild animals.
To add more fuel to the fire, the Washington Post said fans have started a campaign urging people to write, phone or e-mail Viacom threatening to boycott "Mission Impossible 3" -- unless Comedy Central reruns the episode spoofing Scientology that caused Isaac Hayes to quit. Does anyone need a reason to not see Mission Impossible 3 in the first place?
At the end of the show, Kyle said they shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving, they should be "mad at that fruity little club [Scientology] for scrambling his brains."
Our take is only fruity little people are members of fruity little clubs.
"This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology," South Park co-creator Matt Stone said. "He has no problem -- and he's cashed plenty of checks -- with our show making fun of Christians." |
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Seven people shuffled forward Wednesday to serve the city of Minneapolis and Hennepin County with a lawsuit for violating their rights, abusing them, and discriminating against them.
A woman who was ticketed for having an obscene anti-Bush bumper sticker filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against a county in the state of Georgia and its officials.
Graffiti artist Banksy has struck again, this time erecting a life-size sculpture of a Guantanamo Bay inmate at Disneyland.
Wal-Mart is a pretty powerful institution. Entire industries have been created to pander to Wal-Mart. The corporation has almost single-handedly forced countless artists and authors to alter their works to be more "family friendly" or else risk exclusion from the store's inventory.
Someone apparantely managed to scan a copy of the "Conservative Handbook" (although it's more like a pamphlet). Now copies of it are floating around on the net. If you ever wondered what was motivating your nutty brother-in-law, check this out.
This one is too funny to not post. What happens when gangsta culture crosses with televangelism on public access TV? You're about to find out.
US rocker and writer Henry Rollins was reported to the National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because of a book he was reading on flight to Brisbane.
The folks over at World Net Daily, a popular Christian site are all up in arms over AOL's newest ad campaign. The slogan, "I AM", they claim translates to YaHWeH, the self-proclaimed name of God, and thus AOL is violating the third commandment and committing horrible sins.
A family's display featuring a bloody Santa Claus wielding a knife, beheaded Barbie dolls and a severed head with blood gushing from its eyes has scared children and angered some homeowners in a New York neighborhood.
Everyone knows what went down in New Orleans with hurricane Katrina, so when the largest mall in the area, Lakeside Shopping Center, did their annual Christmas Village display, the architect created a unique town, complete with tarp-covered roofs, debris, patrolling guardsmen in Humvees and helicopters rescuing people. The majority of those that saw the little display loved it. But that didn't stop the mall management from caving in to a small group of whiners who apparently complained that the display was in poor taste. So down it went, and patrons continued to flock to see the display only to find out the politically-correct Lakeside Mall pulled the local character from the display.