relatedly: “say, I think Rick Santorum’s senior photo looks similar to that of someone I know! I’m going to search my brain and figure out who it is, and then I’ll put his senior photo next to Rick Santorum’s, in a Tumblr post! Boy, will that yet-unidentified person feel foolish upon receiving a top-notch joshing from me! Me who is Channing!”
Channing Kennedy
After a 25-year glasses career, I’m getting lasik today. We had a good run.
a note on the bottom set: the photographer was getting some glare from my glasses, but instead of asking me to turn my head, he just moved my glasses on my face. I don’t trust people for whom eighth grade wasn’t hell.
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I am for the record, I hold a BA in anthropology and an MA in cultural studies, so I’m pretty well read on multiple aspects of identity politics. I’m pro-diversity pro-gay rights, have always thought of myself as a feminist (so much so that I’m almost exclusively attracted to strong outspoken women). I support affirmative action, despite the fact I’ve been the victim of reverse discrimination more than once. I support the current discussion of diversity in the steampunk movement whole-heartedly.
A thing Emily is yelling at me right now while we make the bed
“… And also, I have come up with a very good invention I don’t know why you haven’t made it yet! With your 3-D printer! What! What is so funny about my invention! I’ll have you know I am a very good inventor! For instance! I invented… the calendar! My new invention is BLANCHORS™! I bet you don’t even know how to spell BLANCHORS™! Hmmm!” Emily makes me laugh more than anyone else I’ve known, which is probably why I married her. Sorry for mushiness.
WOMANZINE 2.0: Submission deadline extended to Jan. 31
Ok, CULT submission deadline is hereby extended to Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Thanks to those of you who have contributed already!I’d like to emphasize that we would love to see your multimedia submissions — audio, video, animated gifs, powerpoint presentations, etc. We’ll be experimenting with…
Ladies I know: submit to this! It’s run by great ladies!
I haven’t really drawn more than a few doodles a year since I was a kid, but lately I’ve been wanting to get back into it, so I bought myself a nice sketchpad and pen for xmas (and then wrapped it and labeled it TO CHANNING FROM SANTA and put it with the other gifts) (and then felt weird when I opened it in front of my two-member family). Anyway! I like how this olde-timey hobo dog turned out. I can’t really draw anything specific, I can only mess something up and then salvage it, but that’s basically my creative process in general.
Everyone else’s software company logo can go home. We’re all set.
Here’s a video that I produced back in 2010 with Mou Khan, for SAALT’s An America For All Of Us campaign. SAALT’s been using it for trainings for a while, and just posted it to Youtube. It’s about how South Asian, Muslim, Arab and Sikh communities have been affected by post-9/11 laws and attitudes; we hit four different cities and interviewed something like 17 people from as many organizations. I talked to DRUM’s Monami Maulik again in April for a Colorlines piece about the end of NSEERS, a jaw-droppingly racist program that led to mass deportations and the economic collapse of a lot of Arab and South Asian neighborhoods.
My big takeaway from working on this project (which shouldn’t have been that surprising, but you know) is how similarly the system works in any community of color, in Queens and in Bushwick and in Chinatown and in Arizona and in Navajo Nation. I know, intellectually, that the government’s racially biased immigration/anti-terror/stop-and-frisk laws laws are keeping communities of color poor, and it’s that poverty keeps them vulnerable to such laws. But realizing how this is happening with literally every non-white group in America, without exception, was an oh-shit-duh moment that I value.
Fight of the Money Bags and the Strong Boxes
Joan Galle after Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (I think)
Colours I mixed way too much of, 1: burnt coral
Youtube genius in service of universe.
Youtube genius in service of Youtube.
Youtube genius in service of self.
When I testified before Congress against the AETA in 2006, one of the primary concerns I raised is that the law could be used to wrap up a wide range of activity that threatens corporate profits. Supporters of the AETA have repeatedly denied this, and said the law will only be used against people who do things like burn buildings.
So how do we explain that such a sweeping prosecution was being considered in 2003, under the law’s somewhat-narrower precursor?
One possibility is that FBI agents lack training, education, and oversight. They are spying on political activists without understanding or respecting the law.
Another explanation is that this document is no mistake, nor is it an isolated case. It is a reflection of a coordinated campaign to target animal rights activists who, as the FBI agent notes, cause “economic loss” to corporations.
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factor Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists, Will Potter.
First they came for the vegans…
(via susie-c)
Susie, you should post your old comic of how to spot the undercover agent in your environmental activist organization. (Spoiler: his potluck contribution is a block of tofu on a plate)
