We provide an outlaw view of the underbelly of the beast during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
All images were created by either Tim Hussin or Noah Rabinowitz
Check it out at http://drunkatdnc.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the link Shaun
Pig buttons, pig bumper stickers, pig ads in the New York Times, pig campaign offices all over the country! Far out! Everybody kept asking us, “We know what you are against, but what are you for?” Finally we found something to be for: a pig for president! At last, a positive program!
Sitting here reading about everything that’s been going on down in Denver at this year’s DNC and as the big speech approaches tonight my first thoughts are to Chicago in 1968, the Yippies, and just how much things have changed, in terms of protest and the counter culture, in the years since.
Click the picture above to read, in full, an article that I scanned from the December 1969 issue of Ramparts magazine written by Jerry Rubin about the Yippies’ experience in Chicago at the DNC in 1968.
If the FBI wants to bust those who really created Chicago, they have to indict Holden Caulfield, Caryl Chessman, Elvis Presley, Charles Van Doren, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Jo Kopechne, Oswald Augustus Owsley, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the Rolling Stones, Sherman Adams, Ken Kesey, Walter Jenkins, Billy the Kid, Bobby Baker, Tim Leary, the Lone Ranger, Gary Powers, Antonin Artaud, Abe Fortas, Country Joe McDonald, Gus Grissom, Lloyd Bucher, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Piersal, John Dillinger, Sybil Leek, Humphrey Bogart, the Marquis de Sade, Charlie Chaplin, and Rin-tin-tin.
For more on Chicago 1968 and Pigasus see Judy Gumbo Albert’s recollections of that time, The Battle of Chicago, over at Counterpunch.org
Megan Wolfe from Fecal Face just put up some pictures that she took at David Ball’s show last Thursday.
You can see the rest of them along with her comments over at the Fecal Face website here
It was nice to meet you Megan…also, good looking on catching that crazy old Chinese lady snatching the Mao ad off the door.
One of those days sitting here daydreaming feeling like I’m on the verge of the big fuck off.
If you’re feeling a little like I am right now this interactive map might help calm you down.
When Spain commissioned Ferdinand Magellan to find a westward route to the Spice Islands in 1519, the explorer commanded five ships and 240 men. Six years later, nearly every member of the expedition, including its commander, was dead. When the American writer Jack Kerouac tried in 1951 to find the words to convey his wayward journey through the United States and Mexico, he commanded a typewriter and a massive stash of Benzedrine. After a few weeks, the first draft of On the Road was completed. These are just two of the journeys that have left indelible marks on our collective maps, and are endless sources of fascination. Here is compilation of some of the most famous jaunts of all time—both factual and fictional—that show us how far we’ve come, and where we might go next.
Check it out. Here
Thanks Shaun
Click the photo above to go the Events page where we have a slideshow of the photos that Shaun took from last night’s opening reception for David Ball’s artwork.
Not much to say except that it was another dope night of good vibes. Amazing art, good conversation, and no pretension.
Love to everyone who helped get everything together.
Another one!