Tag Archives: Abbie Hoffman

Dear Mr. President….

It seemed like a slam dunk for Obama to get elected. At least a hold your nose and vote for the least stinky of two sets of soiled diapers. But the polls, surprisingly seem to indicate a toss-up with perhaps … Continue reading

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what the meek shall inherit….

To be determined at a later date. Yelp has gone public, and good for them that they have made so much money on the offering. However, this company won’t even be around in ten years. The tech highway is littered … Continue reading

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not pie in the sky

It is essential to have voices like Aron Kay on the political spectrum. Agree or not with him, one is not left indifferent. Although sometimes labeled an eccentric activist, its a coherent belief, a throwback to the socialism of nineteenth … Continue reading

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like necking with siamese twins

Why should violence be disavowed? After all, its just part of a tragic narrative seen within the context of the world’s greater failure and shortcomings. Perhaps, if we can remove the varnish of its mythology, we can, as Jean Genet … Continue reading

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seaweed in seattle

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): DIGGING through my crap, thinking about what to post today, i ran across this peculiar item. it’s a piece of seaweed (like the kind you purchase in small sheets in the asian food aisle in your … Continue reading

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frank: we’re only in it for the art

Frank Zappa. A game changer. And much of the aesthetic projection can be credited to Cal Schenkel… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) Where would we all be if there had never been a Frank Zappa? I  mean, the guy … Continue reading

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when dicky was tricky: campaign swag and swagger

Back in the old days when elections were brass-knuckled affairs. Art looks back on the advertising ”swag” of the 1968 presidential election and Richard Nixon. Art Chantry:Back in 1968, during the election fiasco that produced the presidency of Richard Nixon, … Continue reading

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the theatre and the plague: everybody knows this is nowhere

Antonin Artaud based his Theater of Cruelty on the basis of reality being the double of theater. Two virtual realities representing individual duality that exist on parallel planes which never intersect. In this sense actors on the stage are not … Continue reading

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CELEBRITY & THE LOUD HAILERS: The Biggest Roar in the Jungle

What have you got in your pocket, or in your purse? It is an apparently trivial, mundane object called cellphone – banal, except a growing body of scholarly literature and market research is interested in it- mobile search; mobile advertising; billions are … Continue reading

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A RICH MAN’S JOKES ARE ALWAYS FUNNY

It is about  creating moments of recognition. Almost a delicious and delightful sense of reverse-traumatism. Anti-traumatism. Flying so far gone, its actually earth bound illusion. Barbara Kruger as a detonator of some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience; … Continue reading

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