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Tramps like us, baby we were born to run barefoot.HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BAREFOOT RUNNING DAY |
-ReInventing Mojo--- Art. Music. Running. Humor.
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Quatro de Mayo
Breaking News:
Scott Hamilton just came out as the first openly straight Male Figure Skater in the United States.
Guns & The NRA
Dear NRA,
Thank you but no thanks.
I am not a scared, paranoid, insecure, unstable lunatic.
So I just don't need or want your guns.
Save them for your little friends.
Up yours yourself.
Sincerely,
Me
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Shame Shame Shame
Shame on You!
These 45 U.S. Senators.
These 45 U.S. Senators.
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| "Nice gun. Sorry about your penis." Someone said on Huffington Post I understand the scared white guy mentality, but what's with the 4 women and the lone black dude. C'mon Man! |
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Saint Patty's Day
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Water Drop Dash 5KChattahoochee Nature Center, Roswell, GAMy 70th overall race over the past 4 years. (39th 5K) |
Monday, March 11, 2013
Anti-preneur Manifesto
I don’t want to be a designer, a marketer, an illustrator, a brander, a social media consultant, a multi-platform guru, an interface wizard, a writer of copy, a technological assistant, an applicator, an aesthetic king, a notable user, a profit-maximizer, a bottom-line analyzer, a meme generator, a hit tracker, a re-poster, a sponsored blogger, a starred commentator, an online retailer, a viral relayer, a handle, a font or a page. I don’t want to be linked in, tuned in, ‘liked’, incorporated, listed or programmed. I don’t want to be a brand, a representative, an ambassador, a bestseller or a chart-topper. I don’t want to be a human resource or part of your human capital.
I don’t want to be an entrepreneur of myself.
Don’t listen to the founders, the employers, the newspapers, the pundits, the editors, the forecasters, the researchers, the branders, the career counselors, the prime minister, the job market, Michel Foucault or your haughty brother in finance – there’s something else!
I want to be a lover, a teacher, a wanderer, an assembler of words, a sculptor of immaterial, a maker of instruments, a Socratic philosopherπ and an erratic muse. I want to be a community center, a piece of art, a wonky cursive script and an old-growth tree! I want to be a disrupter, a creator, an apocalyptic visionary, a master of reconfiguration, a hypocritical parent, an illegal download and a choose-your-own-adventure! I want to be a renegade agitator! A licker of ice cream! An organizer of mischief! A released charge! A double jump on the trampoline! A wayward youth! A volunteer! A partner.
I want to be a curator of myself, an anti-preneur, a person.
Unlimited availabilities. No followers required. Only friends.
-- Danielle Leduc
http://www.adbusters.org/
I don’t want to be an entrepreneur of myself.
Don’t listen to the founders, the employers, the newspapers, the pundits, the editors, the forecasters, the researchers, the branders, the career counselors, the prime minister, the job market, Michel Foucault or your haughty brother in finance – there’s something else!
I want to be a lover, a teacher, a wanderer, an assembler of words, a sculptor of immaterial, a maker of instruments, a Socratic philosopherπ and an erratic muse. I want to be a community center, a piece of art, a wonky cursive script and an old-growth tree! I want to be a disrupter, a creator, an apocalyptic visionary, a master of reconfiguration, a hypocritical parent, an illegal download and a choose-your-own-adventure! I want to be a renegade agitator! A licker of ice cream! An organizer of mischief! A released charge! A double jump on the trampoline! A wayward youth! A volunteer! A partner.
I want to be a curator of myself, an anti-preneur, a person.
Unlimited availabilities. No followers required. Only friends.
-- Danielle Leduc
http://www.adbusters.org/
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Mad World
Thirty years ago today this song came out. "The Hurting" was the album. Pale Shelter was another favorite. I was a junior at Hoover High in San Diego, California. Wow, 30 years...
Hello Teacher tell me what's my lesson...Look right through me...Look right through me.
Hello Teacher tell me what's my lesson...Look right through me...Look right through me.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Discarded gun Art
This is the kind of art that I'm interested in doing whenever I can.
Mexican artist transforms confiscated, surrendered guns into musical instruments - DailyFreeman.com
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.-Chuck Palahniuk
Mexican artist transforms confiscated, surrendered guns into musical instruments - DailyFreeman.com
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.-Chuck Palahniuk
Monday, February 04, 2013
Free Thinking Country
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| Billboard seen on Hwy 94 Eastbound in Lemon Grove/ San Diego I was there visiting Mom and Dad last weekend. ATHEISM. A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH REALITY. |
Sunday, January 27, 2013
My list of 100 books
“The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction” by Larry McCaffery
Titles are below; you can read the list, complete with McCaffery’s brief thoughts on each, at LitLine
(excerpting from American Book Review, Volume 20, Issue 6, September/October 1999).
1. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962.
2. Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922.
3. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, 1973.
4. The Public Burning, Robert Coover, 1977.
5. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929.
6. Trilogy (Molloy [1953], Malone Dies [1956], The Unnamable [1957]), Samuel Beckett.
7. The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein, 1925.
8. Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine [1962], Nova Express [1964], The Ticket that Exploded, [1967]), William S. Burroughs.
9. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955.
10. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, 1941.
11. Take It or Leave It, Raymond Federman, 1975.
12. Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1986.
13. Going Native, Stephen Wright, 1994.
14. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1949.
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927.
16. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, William H. Gass, 1968.
17. JR, William Gaddis, 1975.
18. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952.
19. Underworld, Don DeLillo, 1997.
20. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926.
21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916.
22. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
23. The Ambassadors, Henry James, 1903.
24. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence, 1921.
25. 60 Stories, Donald Barthelme, 1981.
26. The Rifles, William T. Vollmann, 1993.
27. The Recognitions, William Gaddis, 1955.
28. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902.
29. Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1961.
30. 1984, George Orwell, 1949.
31. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston, 1937.
32. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner, 1936.
33. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany, 1975.
34. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939.
35. The Four Elements Tetrology (earth: The Stain [1984], fire: Entering Fire [1986], water: The Fountains of Neptune[1992], and air: The Jade Cabinet [1993]), Rikki Ducornet.
36. Cyberspace Trilogy (Neuromancer [1984], Count Zero [1986], Mona Lisa Overdrive [1988]), William Gibson.
37. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, 1934.
38. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957.
39. Lookout Cartridge, Joseph McElroy, 1974.
40. Crash, J.G. Ballard, 1973.
41. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981.
42. The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth, 1960.
43. Genoa, Paul Metcalf, 1965.
44. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932.
45. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster, 1924.
46. Double or Nothing, Raymond Federman, 1972.
47. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien, 1951.
48. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985.
49. The Cannibal, John Hawkes, 1949.
50. Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940.
51. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939.
52. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, 1936.
53. Housekeeping, Marilynn Robinson, 1981.
54. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1969.
55. Libra, Don DeLillo, 1986.
56. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Conner, 1952.
57. Always Coming Home, Ursula K. LeGuin, 1985.
58. USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel [1930], 1919 [1932], and The Big Money [1936]), John Dos Passos.
59. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, 1962.
60. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951.
61. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett, 1929.
62. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver, 1981.
63. Dubliners, James Joyce, 1915.
64. Cane, Jean Toomer, 1925.
65. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905.
66. Ridley Walker, Russell Hoban, 1982.
67. Checkerboard Trilogy (Go in Beauty [1955], The Bronc People [1958], Portrait of the Artist with 26 Horses [1962]), William Eastlake.
68. The Franchiser, Stanley Elkin, 1976.
69. New York Trilogy (City of Glass [1985], Ghosts [1986], The Locked Room [1986]), Paul Auster.
70. Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins, 1986.
71. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 1995.
72. The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus, 1996.
73. Tlooth, Harry Mathews, 1966.
74. Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover, 1969.
75. The Man in the High Castle, Phillip K. Dick, 1962.
76. American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis, 1988.
77. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles, 1969.
78. The Book of the New Sun Tetrology (The Shadow of the Torturer [1980], The Claw of the Conciliator [1981], The Sword of Lictor [1982], The Citadel of the Autarch [1982]), Gene Wolfe.
79. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962.
80. Albany Trilogy (Legs [1976], Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game [1978], Ironweed [1983]), William Kennedy.
81. The Tunnel, William H. Gass, 1995.
82. Omensetter’s Luck, William H. Gass, 1966.
83. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles, 1948.
84. Darconville’s Cat, Alexander Theroux, 1981.
85. Up, Ronald Sukenick, 1968.
86. Yellow Back Radio Broke Down, Ishamel Reed, 1969.
87. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson, 1919.
88. You Bright and Risen Angels, William T. Vollmann, 1987.
89. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer, 1948.
90. The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., Robert Coover, 1968.
91. Creamy and Delicious, Steve Katz, 1971.
92. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee, 1980.
93. More than Human, Theodore Sturgeon, 1951.
94. Mulligan Stew, Gilbert Sorrentino, 1979.
95. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe, 1929.
96. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925.
97. Easy Travels to Other Planets, Ted Mooney, 1981.
98. Tours of the Black Clock, Steve Erickson, 1989.
99. In Memoriam to Identity, Kathy Acker, 1990.
100. Hogg, Samuel R. Delany, 1996.
Titles are below; you can read the list, complete with McCaffery’s brief thoughts on each, at LitLine
(excerpting from American Book Review, Volume 20, Issue 6, September/October 1999).
1. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962.
2. Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922.
3. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, 1973.
4. The Public Burning, Robert Coover, 1977.
5. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929.
6. Trilogy (Molloy [1953], Malone Dies [1956], The Unnamable [1957]), Samuel Beckett.
7. The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein, 1925.
8. Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine [1962], Nova Express [1964], The Ticket that Exploded, [1967]), William S. Burroughs.
9. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955.
10. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, 1941.
11. Take It or Leave It, Raymond Federman, 1975.
12. Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1986.
13. Going Native, Stephen Wright, 1994.
14. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1949.
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927.
16. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, William H. Gass, 1968.
17. JR, William Gaddis, 1975.
18. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952.
19. Underworld, Don DeLillo, 1997.
20. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926.
21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916.
22. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
23. The Ambassadors, Henry James, 1903.
24. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence, 1921.
25. 60 Stories, Donald Barthelme, 1981.
26. The Rifles, William T. Vollmann, 1993.
27. The Recognitions, William Gaddis, 1955.
28. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902.
29. Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1961.
30. 1984, George Orwell, 1949.
31. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston, 1937.
32. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner, 1936.
33. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany, 1975.
34. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939.
35. The Four Elements Tetrology (earth: The Stain [1984], fire: Entering Fire [1986], water: The Fountains of Neptune[1992], and air: The Jade Cabinet [1993]), Rikki Ducornet.
36. Cyberspace Trilogy (Neuromancer [1984], Count Zero [1986], Mona Lisa Overdrive [1988]), William Gibson.
37. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, 1934.
38. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957.
39. Lookout Cartridge, Joseph McElroy, 1974.
40. Crash, J.G. Ballard, 1973.
41. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981.
42. The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth, 1960.
43. Genoa, Paul Metcalf, 1965.
44. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932.
45. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster, 1924.
46. Double or Nothing, Raymond Federman, 1972.
47. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien, 1951.
48. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985.
49. The Cannibal, John Hawkes, 1949.
50. Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940.
51. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939.
52. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, 1936.
53. Housekeeping, Marilynn Robinson, 1981.
54. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1969.
55. Libra, Don DeLillo, 1986.
56. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Conner, 1952.
57. Always Coming Home, Ursula K. LeGuin, 1985.
58. USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel [1930], 1919 [1932], and The Big Money [1936]), John Dos Passos.
59. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, 1962.
60. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951.
61. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett, 1929.
62. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver, 1981.
63. Dubliners, James Joyce, 1915.
64. Cane, Jean Toomer, 1925.
65. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905.
66. Ridley Walker, Russell Hoban, 1982.
67. Checkerboard Trilogy (Go in Beauty [1955], The Bronc People [1958], Portrait of the Artist with 26 Horses [1962]), William Eastlake.
68. The Franchiser, Stanley Elkin, 1976.
69. New York Trilogy (City of Glass [1985], Ghosts [1986], The Locked Room [1986]), Paul Auster.
70. Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins, 1986.
71. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 1995.
72. The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus, 1996.
73. Tlooth, Harry Mathews, 1966.
74. Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover, 1969.
75. The Man in the High Castle, Phillip K. Dick, 1962.
76. American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis, 1988.
77. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles, 1969.
78. The Book of the New Sun Tetrology (The Shadow of the Torturer [1980], The Claw of the Conciliator [1981], The Sword of Lictor [1982], The Citadel of the Autarch [1982]), Gene Wolfe.
79. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962.
80. Albany Trilogy (Legs [1976], Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game [1978], Ironweed [1983]), William Kennedy.
81. The Tunnel, William H. Gass, 1995.
82. Omensetter’s Luck, William H. Gass, 1966.
83. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles, 1948.
84. Darconville’s Cat, Alexander Theroux, 1981.
85. Up, Ronald Sukenick, 1968.
86. Yellow Back Radio Broke Down, Ishamel Reed, 1969.
87. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson, 1919.
88. You Bright and Risen Angels, William T. Vollmann, 1987.
89. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer, 1948.
90. The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., Robert Coover, 1968.
91. Creamy and Delicious, Steve Katz, 1971.
92. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee, 1980.
93. More than Human, Theodore Sturgeon, 1951.
94. Mulligan Stew, Gilbert Sorrentino, 1979.
95. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe, 1929.
96. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925.
97. Easy Travels to Other Planets, Ted Mooney, 1981.
98. Tours of the Black Clock, Steve Erickson, 1989.
99. In Memoriam to Identity, Kathy Acker, 1990.
100. Hogg, Samuel R. Delany, 1996.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Saturday, January 05, 2013
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
2013 Year of the Snake
- Read every day
- Make Art/ draw in my sketchbook daily
- Create/ play music
- Smile more, especially at the end of races while being chicked by the wife.
- Write in this dang blog once in a while.
- Stretch/ Abs/ Core/ Upper body exercise
- Run a minimum mile a day @ ChiRunning
- Relax, Breathe, Slow down.
- Be in the moment.
- Embrace whatever life throws at me.
- Learn cross-stitch, not Cross-Training or XT or CrossFit or Criss Cross AppleSauce?
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Guns aren't cool, fools!
The NRA loon, gun nut buffoon blamed the violent video games (which I'm sure none of his 4 million members played), Hollywood movies, absence of armed policemen in schools, pure evil, Glee, the media, mental illness and even Hurricane Sandy.
A few years back this same yahoo called federal agents "jackbooted government thugs." Apparently now he wants these same "thugs" to guard every school in America. I thought the whole point of owning guns was to protect yourself from the evil big bad government.
I agree with him about keeping a national database of mentally ill people, just as long as Wayne LaPierre is the first one on that list, followed by the names of all those who own semiautomatic assault weapons.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Lack of Common Sense = NRA
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"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," NRA's Executive VP Wayne LaPierre said. So according to his own words, Adam Lanza became a good guy the moment he shot himself. And all of a sudden now the "government" workers AKA the cops just became the "good" guys overnight?
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Violence Against School Children
http://www.enigmaterial.com/dateline/vn_1974/AR19740415.html
The above link is an article about a mortar shell bombing at my elementary school in Viet Nam. The date was March 9, 1974. I was 8 years old and in the third grade at the time. Thirty two students were killed, 50 others were wounded and 1 teacher died. Strangely I did not know any of the victims and I can barely remember the event. There were lots of media coverages in the weeks to follow, now that I did recall.
The Newtown, Connecticut school shooting yesterday brought back memories from almost 40 years ago for me. The shock, disbelief, outrage, sadness, anger, and confusion are still there. Read the last sentence of the article. Nothing has changed much in five decades.
I have some observations and thoughts about all this. First, guns and ammunition are too easily and cheaply available in America. Second, young people nowadays have a hard time dealing with anger management issues. Third, self-control, and personal responsibility are concepts most kids and parents do not teach or learn. The combination of these things in addition to the glamorization/ glorification of the violence by weapons in the entertainment industry (music, video games, movies and TV) were the reason for a tragedy like Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The above link is an article about a mortar shell bombing at my elementary school in Viet Nam. The date was March 9, 1974. I was 8 years old and in the third grade at the time. Thirty two students were killed, 50 others were wounded and 1 teacher died. Strangely I did not know any of the victims and I can barely remember the event. There were lots of media coverages in the weeks to follow, now that I did recall.
The Newtown, Connecticut school shooting yesterday brought back memories from almost 40 years ago for me. The shock, disbelief, outrage, sadness, anger, and confusion are still there. Read the last sentence of the article. Nothing has changed much in five decades.
I have some observations and thoughts about all this. First, guns and ammunition are too easily and cheaply available in America. Second, young people nowadays have a hard time dealing with anger management issues. Third, self-control, and personal responsibility are concepts most kids and parents do not teach or learn. The combination of these things in addition to the glamorization/ glorification of the violence by weapons in the entertainment industry (music, video games, movies and TV) were the reason for a tragedy like Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Atlanta Track Club Grand Finale
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| Got this shirt for running all 14 Grand Prix series races of the Atlanta Track Club 2012 season. It starts all over again on New Year's Day (1/1/13) |
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Shoes. All Minimalist. All the Time.
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| So here's the current rotation: Top Left: Brooks Mach 11, Mizuno Wave Ronin2, Green Silence, Brooks T6, K-Swiss Kruuz, Stems, Altra Instinct, Altra Adam, New Balance 730, Green Silence (purple) and RunBranca Huaraches. |
Monday, November 19, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Super Saturday
* A new blog from my favorite person, check it out @ Runin' My Life
*A quote for the school Administration:
"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone"-Bill Cosby
*A quote for the school Administration:
"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone"-Bill Cosby
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| The Silver Comet Trail in Smyrna, Georgia |
Sunday, November 04, 2012
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Friday, November 02, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Speak English or Get Out!
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| "Teecher, I got an A in spilling." Here are more nuggets from the Huffington Post Comedy Page: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/22/13-ironic-speak-english-signs_n_1906008.html#slide=1553023 |
Monday, September 17, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Project ChairWatch 2012, Day 10
According to Republicans: America should be run like a business, corporations are people, and the President is a chair.
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| Hello Mister Obama! |
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