TEC

Fuck Taco Bell

Total misappropriation of my name and reputation. Mr. Bell, you'll be hearing from my fake-lawyers!

Communist Mariofesto

Ah, so Bowser's repression of the Mushroom Kingdom was, in fact, about the growth of markets, which caused the economic sphere and the moral-legal sphere to become separated in society. Shocking.

Power to the plumbers.

Shredded purple pants are too loose a fit

Here's a funny exchange between my roommates a few days ago. They were arguing about girls and the things they would say to them to impress them.

[names have been satirized to protect the irrelevant]

STEVEN SEAGAL: You only hang out with girls who believe everything you say. Like the dumbest stuff ever.

MARSELLUS WALLACE: Like what? I forget. Remind me.

SS: Like when you told that girl that the weight gain powder or protein powder you were drinking was Lou Ferrigno's RNA.

MW: Ah! HA HAHAHA!!! [convulses violently]

SS: And you told her it was RNA because DNA was too commercial.



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On a more serious note, this pisses me the fuck off:

The New York Police Department released new information yesterday showing that police officers stopped 508,540 individuals on New York City streets last year — an average of 1,393 stops per day — often searching them for illegal weapons. The number was up from 97,296 in 2002, the last time the department divulged 12 months’ worth of data.

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At a City Council hearing on Jan. 24, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly assured council members that his officers were not practicing racial profiling in street stops.

“Officers are stopping those they reasonably suspect of committing a crime, based on descriptions and circumstances,” Mr. Kelly said, “and not on personal bias.

The remains of industry

Following up on a train of thought begun last post . . .

During the course of my daily interweb-probings, came across two talented street fartists, John Fekner (above) and Alexandre Orion (south).

Orion uses a method known as "reverse graffiti." Sort of like reverse racism or Reverse Flash or reverse engineering or *gulp* reverse cowgirl. Apparently, it involves scrapping images into the layers of soot and filth on the walls of Sao Paulo transport tunnels. Best use of surface dirt since "Wash me" stormed the airwaves.

Between 1975 and 1986, Fekner roamed the muttering retreats of New York City, throwing up a variety of socially conscious stencils as he went.


I like it cuz its big and to the point.

We're over this town

Just got back from Buenos Aires. That's in Argentina, chief. Um, South America? The Global South? It's south of Miami. That's where "Miami Vice" was filmed. Still not ringing a bell? You're an idiot.

How was it? Awesome. Second best city in the world. The first? Guess.

So, anyway, one of the best parts of BA was the stencil art and graffiti. No surface or wall went untouched, and a lot of the stencils were really creative and kickasstastic.


Simple, elegent. Um, blue.

I think I may have read about these guys in college.

"The fault lies with the Vatican." Made all the more poignant because it was on the gate of a church. Tough words, sure. But considering abortion is still illegal in the fervantly Catholic Argentina, the message still rings true. A couple portenos told me that they were fairly confident that abortion would be legalized in a few years. Until then, women have limited access to birth control, and it seemed everywhere I turned in the city, women were preggers or towing along a litter of ninos y ninas. Crazzzy.
This is one of my favs. It was everywhere. I think it's supposed to be Evo Morales, but I could be wrong.

Lastly, a simple message that I kind of felt after two and half weeks in a country where I couldn't understand what anyone was saying.
I didn't really want to leave, but I admit, I kinda ran out of things to do. Plus, it's 14 degrees in New York! How could I possibly miss that?

Priceless