Huevos Rancheros:


http://www.batista.org/huevos.html
do you want that fritos y revueltos?

talk about punk.
*things to consider when changing the name of the band.

How do you end up with the name John Patrick Ennis? (Is it more obvious if I write "John P. Ennis"?)

Also, apparently, he feels that Wikipedia sucks, because they wanted balanced articles (a situation that sparked a bit of a tiff between him and the Wikieditors.)

sorry i forgot to mention, my point was, Real activism is like most anything else, completely (brutishly) unglamorous. and if the kids who read Adbusters are lead to believe otherwise they are not likely to continue on the path towards actual subversion

yeah. i agree. Adbusters is mostly irrelevent now. as a gateway drug to real activism, i dunno, hard to say. it definately sexed up the stodgy notioned activism, but at the same time as the article pointed out, it was the commercial gloss that helped it become so sucessful.

i remember a time when the magazine was very much on the fringe, and prior to the internet the only way to really find out about it was through word of mouth- or that crazy newsworld show that Daniel Richler used to host.
i don't think much of the magazine now, but i think the article failed to recognize that the magazine did capture the political attitudes at the time and capture/document the emergence of "culture jamming"

hey Paras, going back to your "counter-culture capitalism" link, here's something more from that website:

"Did Adbusters sell out?

Absolutely not. It is essential that we all see and understand this. Adbusters did not sell out, because there was nothing to sell out in the first place. Adbusters never had a revolutionary doctrine. What they had was simply a warmed-over version of the countercultural thinking that has dominated leftist politics since the '60s. And this type of countercultural politics, far from being a revolutionary doctrine, has been one of the primary forces driving consumer capitalism for the past forty years.

In other words, what we see on display in Adbusters magazine is, and always has been, the true spirit of capitalism. The episode with the running shoes just serves to prove the point."



Meagan and I actually came to the conclusion that Adbusters is pretty much the gateway drug to real activism. They like to say they're outside of the box, but I don't think they actually are. They serve a purpose, but it's still fully entrenched within the system.

Actually, what really pisses me off about them is that Adbusters is supposedly a Canadian magazine, but it never talks about the ills of Canada, in fact it quite regularly ignores Canada all together. And though we may like to think of ourselves as so much better than the United States, we really aren't super hot, and someone needs to start pointing that out to people.

Adbusters is to activism like people keep trying to tell us marijuana is to drug addiction. (though I'm not qualifying that... it's based off of the preconceived notion that marijuana use leads to the use of heavier drugs... hence "gateway drug" not that I'm actually saying it is... we just like calling Adbusters a gateway drug.)

well according to Pitchfork the Vinyl is supposed to be out sometime in January, so the CD shouldn't be too much longer than that. but yeah, i'm pretty sure the wax hits first.

too bad. that'd be a great stocking stuffer.

Hey, when is frances the mute supposed to be released in stores?

I know you guys are going to hate me but here is the full version of that eurodance song.

euro dance song

Eric, don't say that shit about the Mars Volta album. I know you're joking, but that's so over the line it's like murdering my family all in the name of a few laughs.

I just had to post this link to show the insane hilarity.

Nerd singing eurodance song

Supposedly this one video ruined this song for the whole of Portugal.