BEFORE YOU VACCINATE…

EDUCATE!

latte art

is fun.

holding broken glass

‘I remember

holding broken glass

in the sun

as a boy

just for fun’

I didn’t write that— I wish I know who did— It haunts me sometimes.

Fruedian slip?

The media keeps calling it a recession. Clearly, we’re in a depression.

We don’t make anything in this country anymore. We provide services and consume, consume, consume.

How?

Well, we used to make things. In fact, we used to make nearly everything. Now China does that. China and other nations full of desperate people who (willingly or not) work for unjust wages as cogs in a consumption machine.

Some of the last tangible things still made in this conutry were cars.

Congress is hostile toward the carmakers, but has opened their our wallets to the international banks.

I keep hearing that the solution presented to us will be a new currency – to replace the current United States Dollar (USD).

My rich uncle said that would never happen. He said that paper currency could be entirely replaced by intangible digital currency. He said ‘they’ would ‘illuminate’ currency. He meant to say ‘eliminate’. Maybe this was a Freudian slip?

All in Lakeview is not gold…

…at the start of 2009

Join us for a ‘Night of Sight & Sound’

Come out to see art, dance and support a good cause.

Lethal Poetry is throwing its ongoing visual and musical art exhibition.

January 9 at Debonair Social Club (1575 N Milwaukee AVE, Chicago) 6:30 p.m. – 3 a.m.

A night of visual, sonic, live art, music, and film awaits. Stay for dancing and DJs including Adam Jake.

Artists include: Laura Pawson, Danielle Colbeck, Danielle Martin, Lidoska Guietti.

Curators include: Danielle Martin, S. M. Stoakley , Lauren Herrman.

Bands include: The Mojdeh Project, Agents of Change

Door cover is $8 OR email lethalpoetryco A T gmail.com with your first and last name and say you’re coming to see Adam Jake and you will be on a list to get in for $5

Proceeds support GR!C Chicago.

Armitage Avenue

Bucktown Chicago, Summer 2008

‘Out and Proud in Chicago’ premieres tonight

This is a documentary I’ve been working on for the past four months as an intern (production assistant). The film chronicles the history of gay life/rights in Chicago from the Civil War to the modern era. Hosted by actress Jane Lynch.

For those in the Chicago market, please tune in to WTTW-Channel 11 tonight @ 7:30 p.m. for the premiere.

For those not in Chicago, click here to buy the DVD from the official site. At the official site you can pledge and see real coming out stories told by Chicagoans themselves.

Click through to read the official synopsis and rebroadcast schedule.

During times of universal deceit,

telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

-George Orwell

Cool is…

a poem:

It’s not a skinny jean
or a Techno beat

Nor a symmetrical face
or a North Face Fleece

It’s not a pocket full-of-cash
or a Wicker Park address

Nor is it a college kegger
or celebrity status

It’s not about who you know;
it’s about knowing you

It’s about:
‘to thine self, be true’

It’s not about following the herd;
rather, nurturing your inner-nerd.

It’s about empathy and kindness,
not thick-facade-cosmopolitan-coldness.

It’s not about the west vs. the east
-nor rural roads or city streets.

It’s about tearing down the walls all around town

-and-

turning the world upside-down.