Transmissions

HAPPY HALLOWEEN… This Place Really is Getting Spooky.

Everything I do, I do it for you - Bryan Adams

Look at me Damien, it’s all for you - From the horror classic “The Omen”, where the nanny and disciple of the son of Satan hangs herself in his honor.

Isn’t that us hanging from that rope? The above scene illustrates perfectly the relationship between the ruling elite and everyone else. If you are, say, a miner or a poor third-world union organizer, this death is often literal. For the rest of us, whether we end up pushing paper or pushing a plow, we experience a slow spiritual death from our relationship with this Beast. It’s all for you Damien.

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“It IS possible to get out of a trap. However, in order to break out of a prison, one first must confess to being in a prison. The trap is man’s emotional structure, his character structure. There is little use in devising systems of thought about the nature of the trap if the only thing to do in order to get out of the trap is to know the trap and to find the exit. Everything else is utterly useless: Singing hymns about the suffering in the trap, as the enslaved Negro does; or making poems about the beauty of freedom outside of the trap, dreamed of within the trap; or promising a life outside the trap after death, as Catholicism promises its congregations; or confessing a semper ignorabimus as do the resigned philosophers; or building a philosophic system around the despair of life within the trap, as did Schopenhauer; or dreaming up a superman who would be so much different from the man in the trap, as Nietzsche did, until, trapped in a lunatic asylum, he wrote, finally, the full truth about himself—too late. . ..

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Fuck! I’ve been busy. Before I get into it, say hello to my little friend(s): VASTech and Kommlabs. They are, like, my biggest mother fucking fans! And since you guys are reading this: I do hate dams, vivisection labs, cops, capitalism, “our” entire government, I don’t support the troops, I’m not a pacifist, I think Tre Arrow is sexy and I think ELF is just dandy!

And you know what, every word I just typed is legal, so kiss my tree hugging ass.

Ahem, in other news my condo recently (and surprisingly) sold at a profit, putting my wife and I solidly in the middle class just in time for the middle class to be wiped out. Yippee! So we’ve spent the last week hauling all of our shit across state lines into Maryland to move into my in-laws basement due to the fact that we are freaking homeless. This was also one of the busiest weeks of the year at my soul sucking job because of “parents weekend” at Georgetown University. For me and my restaurant, this is when the coordinator class brings their polo draped brat sons and puffy boots wearing, dick beater daughters (I know!) in for meatloaf and cobbler. There is just something about being a self described class warrior and being in the middle of totally insane, unexpected move that makes me want to kick an “entitled” families table over the second they complain that their burger doesn’t have enough cow blood (juiciness.)

Anyhoo, for the last week I haven’t been yearning for revolution as much as I’ve been yearning for my socks, shoes and underoos to all be found in the same spot. Oh, and I’ve really been yearning for sleep. I slept to 2:30 yesterday, worked out for an hour today and, like the borderline yuppie that I am, got a professional massage (no happy ending!) I’m feeling better, thanks for asking.

So now that we are settled in and I’m playing a little game called “avoid the in-laws” I’ve got a lot of time to scribble down my little thoughts. Here is whats on the roster:

My observations on living in suburbia for the first time in over a decade. Where your home and the mall are just places to rest when you’re not in your car!

I’ll respond to Mickey Z’s article Hope is for Suckers.

I will argue that the ruling class have mutated into a separate species from us and we should consider thinning the herd. Seriously!

A Moving Train birthday Extravaganza Part Deax! Just a few months late, here’s Part 1.

I’ll talk about how the financial crisis is moving us towards old school fascism not socialism.

Lastly check out frequent Dissident Voice commenter Brian Koontz in his first appearance on A.M.T. here. And check out James Keye’s latest essay here. It’s the best thing I’ve read in quite a while.

More soon…

Exactly one month before the election we finally got our counter campaign  stuff finished! I suck! I can’t post the new designs here yet because of the format they are in but you can see (and buy!) them at my new Café Press account.

I’ll have some new words up soon. Be sure to check out today’s Rejection08. It will only exist for one more month. I’m working on putting that page to better use. Stay tuned!

Come by Monday. Lot’s of life changes underway, new t-shirts and new perspectives. I apologize for letting this site suck so often. Our time does not seem to belong to us does it?

We should, like, revolt or something.

Maxwell Black