November 26, 2011 by mike.

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November 26, 2011 by mike.

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September 28, 2011 by mike.

Can’t remember.  Take it away, Steve.  Bring it, Emmylou.

It’s hump day.

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September 3, 2011 by mike.

Thanks for the tunes and the soul, Joe Zawinul!

I know there have been a lot of covers of this tune, but I like the Cannonball Adderly version with Joe at the keyboard.

Knocks me off my feet.

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May 29, 2011 by mike.

Gil Scott-Herron died a few days ago.  If you are not familiar with his work, he is the grandfather, the god father of rap, hiphop, spoken word.

Here is a video of Gil talking about his work.

Gil is best known for the revolution will not be televised piece.

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May 10, 2011 by mike.

“It is as useless to argue with those
who have renounced the use and authority of reason
as to administer medication to the dead.”
– Thomas Jefferson

M and I are pretty busy preparing for the Friday the 13th Zombie Monster Mash Event in Olympia. Hope you can join us at Sylvester Park or at other locations where we will living it up, undead style on Friday.  To follow the planning come to the  site.   The question is whether the legislators have renounced the use and authority of reason.  The Undead Want to Know.

I. F. Stone- “The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing—for the sheer fun and joy of it—to go right ahead and fight, knowing you’re going to lose. You mustn’t feel like a martyr. You’ve got to enjoy it.”

There are folks who think it is not a great idea to mix zombies in this serious legislative lobbying battle.  I get that.  The struggle over the budget is dead serious.  But we have to spread the word and mobilize young folks.  So here we go, Facebook, Zombies, Twitter etc.  This is serious to students, college, high school, middle school and below because the push is on to gut the education budget, to dump teacher unions, to privatize education with profit as the first priority.  Plus, as Izzy notes above, we mustn’t feel like martyrs even if we lose, we have to keep rising like the undead.  We will not go away.

Hope to have some zombie lobbying footage up on Saturday, May 14th or maybe Sunday.  The video editing takes a long time.  See you there?

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May 3, 2011 by mike.

It is widely reported in Puget Sound region that the undead are unhappy about the Washington State slash and cut budget.

MONSTERMASHBUDGET$LA$H!
Friday the 13th! BEWARE! ZOMBIES AT THE CAPITAL!
ZOMBIE WALKOUT! Noon! Thinking minds will soon be turned to mash thanks
to the privatization of higher education in Washington! The government is leaving the youth little hope or opportunities as the blood thirsty Vampire Gregoire and her corporate monsters drain every drop of money
from services and higher education.

ALL STUDENTS! WALK OUT AT NOON! HIGHSCHOOL to DOCTORATE!

Sylvester Park @ 1:30 for a slow ZOMBIE MARCH on the Capital!  Not a student? FEW WILL BE! But this Zombie march is for everyone! March if you to believe an all cuts budget is UNACCEPTABLE & INEXCUSABLE! The banks, corporations and filthy rich aren’t hurting, only the good
working people are made to suffer! We all have family and friends, if not ourselves, who will be affected by this bad budget! Come sing and
dance to the Monster Mash Budget Slash!

Wear your best Zombie attire! Our zombie demands? What else?
BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAINS!

For more info call 360-545-3267 <tel:360-545-3267>
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117433595004682

Inspired by UNDEAD OLYMPIA, http://www.undeadolympia.com/
<http://www.undeadolympia.com/>

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April 23, 2011 by mike.

Quote for the day from Wendell Berry:

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do”

I often play some George Harrison when I feel a little low. I usually start with this tune.

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April 1, 2011 by mike.

Still thinking about Joe Bageant.  Save a piece of that pie for us, buddy.

The creative, intellectual thread that Joe was tugging on goes back to Will Rogers, to Woody Guthrie, to Mark Twain.

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March 31, 2011 by mike.

I think for the next ten days, my thoughts, time, money are on the Washington Uprising.

A bunch of groups are coordinating activities around the State and carrying the message to the Governor and the Legislators in Olympia. Washington State is jumping on the austerity bandwagon. We have a Democratic Governor, Christine Gregoire, who is a reasonable person. Governor Gregoire is no Scott Walker, but she is not fighting for us. She is not fighting for her own values. The War on the Poor has to stop. The Class War is in full gear. The top 2% of wealth and income scale have to be forced to start paying their fair share. Once that happens, we have no need for the cuts. You cannot balance the budget on the backs of the poor and disabled, you have to balance the budget by fixing the revenue streams that fund critical public endeavors like education, health care, parks, transportation, housing, services to the disabled, and so much more.

If trickle down economics worked for the benefit of all of us, if deregulation of private industry created responsible wealth and employment, if the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few created stable communities, we would all be eating rainbow pie by now.

Government serves functions that private, for-profit industries will never address. If there is no money, no profit in it, the globalization capitalists have declared war on it. Prisons are fine because they can be operated at a profit by corporations. We can keep schools are if we can get rid of qualified teachers and privatize education and put control in the hands of private entrepreneurs to create cash flow and train a work force to flip burgers and fry potatoes. Health care is great if we can manage cost and ration care to create stock dividends and CEO bonuses and not get too concerned about the actual health of the population sitting in the waiting room or standing in line at a free clinic.

Have to stop and work on a media project in support of the activities being planned for next week. Hope you can take a day off next week. I am taking the week off to be involved in the activities. If you want to know more about the Washington Uprising, try

We are Washington. It’s one website that organizers are using to get the word out.   Olympia Coalition for a Fair Budget is another website that is getting the word out and organizing activities.

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