Went out flyering today, six of us downtown, about 3 hours. Went to retail stores, mainly chains, up in malls and that. Intimidating: security guards, cops, managers, big stores (feels surrounded). Why is this so intimidating? Small kiosks, much less so. One person alone in a small nick-nack or candy kind of store, less so. One gets used to it, but … damn. Also not a head thing - one can think it through, reason it out, but that’s not the level intimidation operates on. It’s a gut thing. The branch did some pre-May Day flyering in another area, on two separate days. Generated two calls in response. A friend speculated that the response rate is probably around 2%, I don’t know where he got the number from but that makes sense. I wonder what how those calls break down in terms of outcome as well. Hard work, but good for us to do and hopefully more than that eventually. Vamos poco a poco.
… is this so intimidating for?
… is autoriduzione?
Self-reduction of prices. Five finger discount. Proletarian shopping. Here’s a stylish illustration thereof from the Scotsman (via). (more…)
… makes it so easy to fuck up electronically?
The conductivity of the ether is not to be understimated, particularly its capacity to conduct (really, to produce or increase the velocity of) rancor, and feet into mouths. (more…)
… do you give a dead communist for a birthday present?
And worse, when you’re late in sending it. A translation, clearly. Or cake and beer. I don’t know how to upload cake or beer, so a translation it is. Belated birthday wishes for dear departed KM. Angela had suggested a celebratory blogweave but I found myself all wrote out - much more inclined to reading at the now - re: Marx in particular, that is. (Sorry Karl, it’s not you. It’s me. I’m just not as good at parties. I’m better w/ small dinners. And unions.) I’d be keen for some group reading and discussification, if anyone’s interested. In particular, the so-called “unpublished sixth chapter” to capital (the name escapes me offhand, the Immediate Results of the Process of Production, maybe?) and the Fragment on Machines. Any takers? I’ve started the former but not the latter. (more…)
… ends with ‘oogly’?
Not been blogging, though I’ve got much I want to say and shall soons I’m able. I’ve been busy catching up w/ stuff after being away from home and doing other work. And hanging out too. Tonight my special someone beat me at Boggle, in our final round of a heated deathmatch. She doesn’t usually beat me, it was kind of cool. (She’s about a billion times more competitive than I am, kept saying “one more then I should go to bed” until she won.) She got hung up during one round, instead of looking for other words she kept trying to find some way to make a word that ends in ‘oogly’. (That’s a Boggle pitfall which potentially impedes winning play.) Are there any English words that end in ‘oogly’? (”Great googly moogly!” doesn’t count.) Any non-English words?
Also, can anyone think of a context in which the phrase “ergo ogres” might be used? Those were both words I saw after the timer ran out. Ergo, ogres. I’m stymied. I think the best boggle word of the evening was “gussy,” which I think I’ve only encountered in past tense (”all gussied up”) and conditional (”if you gussy it up…”), not in everyday present tense use.
… is the propaganda potential of video games?
Molle Industria may give you some ideas.