cowardice vs. paranoia ... who knew?!?!

amazing somehow that one would choose extensive fear of retaliation over short and sweet explanation ...

Happy D-Day

Jesus, mary and joseph
in my best dubliner drawl

the thesis is so rapidly due

and how is it that we negotiate between self and mutual interest to make decisions on how to invest our social capital?

you tell me.

Synchronized Road Tripping for Democracy

So as Christoph and I will be wandering around the US in October, I had an idea.

Why not put out a call for people to plan their own 'campaign trail' for the presidential election? Not for their own candidacy, but for the candidate that they're supporting.

In the 'old days', participative democracy meant turning up to argue with abe in arkansas, and people used their pubs and corner shops to communicate what they wanted politically

it's too late at this point to campaign for a good platform. but god help us if shrub makes his way back in again.

the idea is fairly simple. Anyone who's interested should leave their houses in some mode of transportation on October the 1st, and make a trip somewhere, with the goal being to talk to as many people as possible about their candidate of choice and why. With some luck, everybody would document their experience, and send tyhe edited material somewhere at the end. I could organize some sort of exhibit of the edited material at the end.

As Christoph and I will eventually land in New York, I would suggest that anyone who made their trip terminate in New York should me, say, in Times Square on October 15th dor a pow wow.

I'm hoping that Adbusters might pick up on the idea, as we'll be there anyway in september.

send email if you have ideas or suggestions or comments (ie. you're retarded. this will never work, or, preferably, political genius!! go for it!!)

bubblegum blues

so sitting in the beautiful sun outside gothenburg central station has proved disastrous for my favourite blue jeans and the red sushi sweater.

i am now the proud owner of several centimeters of stringy multi coloured bubblegum.

people are retarded.