Down is the new Up

Roses and Devo and the Recession

Agent Pugsly — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:46:09 -0400

Ahhh mission accomplished. I was feeling a little down earlier so I went out and entertained myself. I spent 30 dollars and hired a few local homeless guys for a few hours. One threw paper flower pedals in front of me while I marched downtown from the big new library and through downtown and back to the indian resturant. He carried a sign I hade that said "Duty now: for the future!" I had 2 of the others follow behind me and yell "I'm shouting!" whenever I gave them a hand signal and "SHOUT" when I did another (they got it well on their own later). I then yelled a song repeatedly during all 45 minutes of this operation. Here are the lyrics for Devo - Shout. I made sure my body language was as threatening as I could be, but making sure to sing only in a monotone robot voice. Some fled me, some kinda hid on the other side of a tree. The guys really appreciated such an easy 10 dollars.

Shout shout

i'm shoutin' about the world outside
i'm shoutin' because you just can't hide
i'm shoutin' from the plain honest truth
i'm shoutin' there's so much we could do

Shout i'm shoutin' shoutin' shoutin'

I'm shoutin' because it's hard to believe
i'm shoutin' it's so easy to see
i'm shoutin' we're waitin' for a reply
i'm shoutin' for the very last time

shout well baby this one's for you
shout for everything that you do
shout until the battle is won
shout we'll live to fight on and on

and when you add it all together
and when you roll it in a ball
and when you watch another pyramid
as it's about to fall
remember you were there
remember if you care
all those who held their ground
when it all came down
said shout shout

shout it out

Though I'm having trouble raising rent this month, I still think it was a fine investment. Next time we will use kazoos.

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Activist SuperMaraTriathathon

Agent Pugsly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:08:55 -0500

We need an activist olympics!

We could identify the many different forms of common activism that exist. Flyering and talking and recruiting and fundraising and so on. We could create metrics for identifying how successful someone is at each such task and give away awards for the acheivements of each activist.

The entire process should be grueling and should be a chance for overacheivers to grow their reputations for the tasks that they excel at. The entire ordeal should also create tangible positive change in the world at large. Everything should be legal.

It would be REALLY fun to randomize the campaigns and cities that each participant is active in. It would also be nice to make sure participants are in foreign territory without their natural contact network.

Then end of events festival would be the SHIT. Could even be burning man....

I don't need to prove myself to YOU.

Agent Pugsly — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:57:25 -0500

I don't care what you or your friends think is cool. I can pretend to if I need to, but I just can't honestly care about current flavors and fads. I will not accept being tested for my knowledge of such trends unless it is required by operations.

I certainly will not silently slink off if I feel I have been met, judged, and blown off for not conforming to some vauge social cage.

Down is the new Up