A Story in six sentences. See if you can figure out the inspiration for this story.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I- just give me a chance…I’ll make it up to him, I promise!” He trembled, the waves crashing against the dam below where he stood 200 feet above the choppy waters, the full moon illuminating his plight, two mafia henchmen standing before him.
“You had your chance, it wasn’t an idle threat, you should know that: you mess with the boss, try and pull one over on him, sooner or later, your …

Interesting PSA using Spoken Word
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A Brief preview of a performance called Jesus at Guantanamo

Police provocateurs (That’s short for cops posing as protesters and inciting violence which allows the cops in riot gear to ‘attack’ protesters)

It’s not the two-bit petty criminal whose causing the real danger in our lives and neighborhoods, it’s the Corporate criminals. The guys in suits, two steps removed from the people they are inflicting life threatening damage to that are wrecking havoc on our lives and our nation.
Corporate crime is often violent crime with very real victims. Mokhiber points out that while the FBI estimates that 16,000 Americans are murdered every year “56,000 Americans die every year on the job or from occupational diseases such as black lung and asbestosis …

I read this book, Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds, by Susan Gregory Thomas, and I would highly highly recommend it, regardless of if your a parent or not.
Not only does the book give you a behind the scenes look at the multi-billion dollar business of marketing to children, but it gives you statistics and awareness that will infuriate you. Here are some examples.
Program Length Commercials. The industry calls them PLCs and they are pretty much all the shows you and I grew up …

Next Tuesday the wife and I and a friend or two (oh, and the kiddo) will be heading south to PAPA Festival. We attended two years ago as well, it’s where we met our good friend and awesome house mate Chris (from last year). We are excited about going simply because it is a good chance to be rejuvenated and encouraged, and it’s camping, which we love.
I’m helping organize a little, and we’ll be helping set-up when we get there. Guess now I’m just wondering if anyone else who reads …

Here’s another six sentence story, trying to get creative with them. If you haven’t read my previous ones they are The Triumphal Entry and Acceptance and Murder.

“Gimme that!”
“Stop it!”
“No, You stop it!’
“You better stop doing that or I’m gonna tell on you and Momma’s gonna catch you and then she’s gonna be mad and if she whoops you and someone tells on her and she gets in trouble then they’ll take her away just like they did to Rosie’s mom and then they’ll make us go live with aunty or …

For you parents out there (ht. MAU):

A cool video in itself. too bad I think they are just promoting their new CD/DVD (ht. Nate)

I’m showing you this commercial because it should disgust you. Time to rise up and say something parents. (ht. PEM)

Creative video project, but I got bored after about 1 minute (ht. Nate again)

I took a hiatus from the blog last month, featuring old writings from my college years. It seems to have worked well and so I plan on continuing occasionally. I also stopped posting on Saturday and Sunday, allowing for a nice weekend break (though I tend to write those post during the week anyways) and less posting each week. Hopefully it allows you, my faithful readers, to keep up and not get to overwhelmed. Thanks for reading.
I’ve also been working on some other writing projects at the same time. …