Archive for the ‘Protest’ Category
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
Yeah, that's four links to the same thing. Who cares? It's awesome.
The links are to BigBoxReuse.com, a project documenting what becomes of those megastore and big box companies that swore, swore, swore to municipal planning officials that the stores would be bringing in jobs and sales tax ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
They say that by the time a spirit is named, it's dead. And by "they," I mean that guy who wrote that in a comic book I remember reading once.
For some reason, that line sprung to mind when I read this article about the band Gruk. I've never heard of ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
I called him. He called me. I forgot to call him. He forgot to call me. It just never worked out.
But now, after all this silliness, I finally have my interview with Brandon McCormick, director of Consumerism! The Musical, the first anticonsumer satire I've seen in years that hasn't made ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Check this out.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGaOQKJik-s]
I'm working out the timing on an interview with the director, Brandon McCormick. I was struck by a comment he made next to the YouTube video.
"It's less about being preachy, more about projecting myself into a farcical world."
Isn't the best satire not preachy?
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Anticonsumerism is really as broad a topic as business is, but there are several topics I plan to focus on in particular in this blog.
1. Anticonsumer efforts themselves
Did you know that Slow Down Week starts Monday? It's an effort by the folks at anticonsumer magazine Adbusters to get people to ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
I know I'm not all that original and that's a good thing. There's a heck of a lot of people out there using the Internet to talk about consumerism.
Granted, there's a little irony there, as pointed out by this anonymous post on the Sustainable Enterprises Web site.
"If you are so anticonsumerism yourself, ...
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