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Apr. 19th, 2001
April 22nd-28th is Turn TV Off Week.
Apr. 19th, 2001 02:23 amTurn TV Off Week
April 22nd-28th
"By the time this child graduates from high school, her brain will have absorbed 350,000 television commercials, 100,000 alcohol ads and a daily barrage of sex and violence. If that doesn't turn you off then nothing will."
Watch the video here.
Action Ideas
TV Turnoff Week is all about the mental environment – the idea that, like our oceans and air, our shared mindscape is littered with distractions, irritants, and pollutants. The goal is simply to get people thinking about the clutter in their mental space. No one is "in charge" of TV Turnoff Week. No one, that is, except you. Be creative, and tap into your own style. But just to get the brainstorm started, a few ideas:
• Download Adbusters' ready-made poster and plaster your town, office or school.
• Get together a group of TV-addicted friends, classmates or workmates and go bowling, check out live music or a play, attend a town hall meeting, or host a block party.
• Find a few used televisions and hold a TV smash-in. A longtime favorite!
• Dream up a street theater performance, like last year's campus "television zombie" march in Athens, Ohio.
• If you're in the mood from some real culture jamming, get your hands on a universal remote control, and head out on a pub crawl illicitly zapping TVs everywhere you go.
April 22nd-28th
"By the time this child graduates from high school, her brain will have absorbed 350,000 television commercials, 100,000 alcohol ads and a daily barrage of sex and violence. If that doesn't turn you off then nothing will."
Watch the video here.
Action Ideas
TV Turnoff Week is all about the mental environment – the idea that, like our oceans and air, our shared mindscape is littered with distractions, irritants, and pollutants. The goal is simply to get people thinking about the clutter in their mental space. No one is "in charge" of TV Turnoff Week. No one, that is, except you. Be creative, and tap into your own style. But just to get the brainstorm started, a few ideas:
• Download Adbusters' ready-made poster and plaster your town, office or school.
• Get together a group of TV-addicted friends, classmates or workmates and go bowling, check out live music or a play, attend a town hall meeting, or host a block party.
• Find a few used televisions and hold a TV smash-in. A longtime favorite!
• Dream up a street theater performance, like last year's campus "television zombie" march in Athens, Ohio.
• If you're in the mood from some real culture jamming, get your hands on a universal remote control, and head out on a pub crawl illicitly zapping TVs everywhere you go.
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Apr. 19th, 2001 06:06 pmHmm.. I'm thinking i'm going to for-go the bear night this weekend and just mosey down to TO for Dave's recital on Sunday. That way I won't get the pleasure of bar rejection and a Saturday morning hang-over.
Additionally, if I don't get a certain bear website working a certain forrest will have a certain cub's head on a platter. So it'll give me time for that.
Yeah, that sounds Koshure.
Additionally, if I don't get a certain bear website working a certain forrest will have a certain cub's head on a platter. So it'll give me time for that.
Yeah, that sounds Koshure.
I have a cousin, Sherry, who's always been special to me. She was like a big sister when I was growin' up. She used to bring her NES to our house when she babysat my brother and I.
She's had a hard life, her Dad has never had anything to do with her. She was a problem child apparently. She lived on the streets for a long time, our family had no idea where she was. Shes had a failed marriage.. but she keeps getting back on her feet.
She's a blonde-hair, blue-eyed cherub, but her face tells another story. Drugs, booze, abuse. It's the unspoken truth that her present boy friend is an abusive fucker.
So she's comming to live with us for a while. She'll be renting my brother's room in exchange for yard and house work until she gets a new job.
She doesn't know I'm queer, my mom and I decided she was one of those family members in the "better off not knowing" group. It's not like I walk down stairs in a purple silk house coat in the morning, twirling a dildo in my left hand. Still, it'll be interesting.
Anyhow, she might know where I can score good cheeba. Ha!
She's had a hard life, her Dad has never had anything to do with her. She was a problem child apparently. She lived on the streets for a long time, our family had no idea where she was. Shes had a failed marriage.. but she keeps getting back on her feet.
She's a blonde-hair, blue-eyed cherub, but her face tells another story. Drugs, booze, abuse. It's the unspoken truth that her present boy friend is an abusive fucker.
So she's comming to live with us for a while. She'll be renting my brother's room in exchange for yard and house work until she gets a new job.
She doesn't know I'm queer, my mom and I decided she was one of those family members in the "better off not knowing" group. It's not like I walk down stairs in a purple silk house coat in the morning, twirling a dildo in my left hand. Still, it'll be interesting.
Anyhow, she might know where I can score good cheeba. Ha!
I gots a new haircut! My hair-cutting lady called me "Drew Carey".. she even called her co-worker from the backroom to see "how much he looks like Drew Carey!". Gah, all the while I'm thinking "Wow, you talk and look exactly like Roseanne Bar".. only with blonde hair.
I like my flat-top. Others be damned! DAMNED I SAY!