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August 6, 2016December 15, 2023

ART OF THE PRANK Movie News

For information about Andrea Marini’s award winning
ART OF THE PRANK movie, visit
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**Film News**

ART OF THE PRANK Movie is now available on

DVD and BLU-RAY (with 38 minutes of Extras)

Educational DVDs are available here

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May 13, 2016December 15, 2023

Dan Savage Is Back and He’s Pissed

Seattle author Dan Savage is once again taking the piss out of America’s social conservative right.

Savage is best known a sex columnist, podcaster, and political activist. But perhaps more fundamentally he is a masterful media manipulator. Stunts such as his notorious SEO-based public humiliation of then-Senator Rick Santorum rank with the classic pranks of Abbie Hoffman or The Magic Christian.

In response to North Carolina’s wildly controversial “transgender bathroom bill,” Savage, the prankster, has reappeared with another disgusting, gut-busting idea. And this one is not confined to the internet.

“Dan Savage Has A Brilliantly Gross Idea To Protest NC”™s Anti-LGBT Law”
by Noah Michelson
Huffington Post
May 9, 2016

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If Dan Savage gets his way, Pat McCrory”™s office will soon be filled with urine.

On Monday, the writer and activist tweeted his suggestion for how the North Carolina governor and his staff could ensure the “safe disposal” of transgender people”™s bodily waste:

Trans people should start dropping off jars filled with their urine at @PatMcCroryNC's office so his staff can oversee its safe disposal.

— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 9, 2016

Savage”™s tweet came just hours after Governor McCrory announced the state of North Carolina would sue the U.S. Justice Department over House Bill 2, which was signed into law in March and forces transgender people to use public restrooms that don”™t correspond with their gender identity. The Justice Department had given the state until Monday to stop enforcing HB2 or risk a federal lawsuit.

Rather than agree to follow the Justice Department”™s order, McCrory and the state”™s secretary of public safety instead filed the lawsuit today against the Justice Department for its “radical reinterpretation” of federal civil rights law. Continue reading “Dan Savage Is Back and He’s Pissed”

August 27, 2012December 15, 2023

Middle Class Melt Down: Unconventional Ice Sculptures

Submitted by Deborah: Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano did this melting ice sculpture called “Middle Class” for the Republic Convention. On to Democratic Convention next.

Middle Class Ice Sculptures

Melt down at the Republican and Democratic Conventions

Tampa: Lykes Gaslight Park, Sun., Aug. 26, 2012 / Unveiling 11:30 AM

Tampa Event from 11:30 AM-9 PM / Optimum time 11:30 AM-2:30 PM

Charlotte: Marshall Park, Tues., Sept. 4, 2012 / Unveiling 1 PM

Charlotte Event from 1-6 PM / Optimum time 1-3 PM

Large ice sculptures of the words Middle Class will melt away on the first day of the Republican and Democratic Conventions, in nearby public parks in Tampa and Charlotte. The work is by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. The sculptures they will install weigh over 2,000 pounds and measure 15 feet wide. Individual letters are 4 feet tall.

The artists call these sculptures “temporary monuments.” After unveiling them, Ligorano and Reese let them melt away and film their disappearance, which can take anywhere from 6 to 24 hours. The dates for the conventions, “do not bode well,” Reese says, “for the sculptures”™ survival.” “They may disappear,” Ligorano adds, “even faster than usual. It”™s a tossup whether, that”™s due to economic or climatic conditions.” Continue reading “Middle Class Melt Down: Unconventional Ice Sculptures”

October 18, 2011December 15, 2023

Chris Hedges on the Dissent Imperative

A Movement Too Big to Fail
by Chris Hedges
TruthDig.com
October 17, 2011

There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights of the poor and the working class, have signed on to this movement because they fear becoming irrelevant. Union leaders, who pull down salaries five times that of the rank and file as they bargain away rights and benefits, know the foundations are shaking. So do Democratic politicians from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi. So do the array of “liberal” groups and institutions, including the press, that have worked to funnel discontented voters back into the swamp of electoral politics and mocked those who called for profound structural reform.

Resistance, real resistance, to the corporate state was displayed when a couple of thousand protesters, clutching mops and brooms, early Friday morning forced the owners of Zuccotti Park and the New York City police to back down from a proposed attempt to expel them in order to “clean” the premises. These protesters in that one glorious moment did what the traditional “liberal” establishment has steadily refused to do””fight back. And it was deeply moving to watch the corporate rats scamper back to their holes on Wall Street. It lent a whole new meaning to the phrase “too big to fail.”

Watch a video of Chris Hedges in Times Square, October 15, 2011:

Continue reading “Chris Hedges on the Dissent Imperative”

January 14, 2009January 15, 2019

Join the Plot

Greenpeace Buys Land To Block New Heathrow Runway
by Dave Demerjian
Wired.com
January 13, 2009

heathrow-200 Greenpeace announced today that it has bought a parcel of land that sits directly in the path of a proposed third runway for London’s Heathrow Airport. It’s the latest move in a long-running battle between environmentalists who say expanding Heathrow would be an environmental catastrophe, and expansion advocates who say without a new runway Europe’s top airport will become an antiquated also-ran.

Greenpeace’s plan for the 0.4-hectare parcel, which it purchased from an undisclosed owner, is sure to have expansion advocates reaching for the Rolaids. The group will sell off the land in tiny pieces to environmentalists, celebrities, and anyone else who feels like buying in. This means that if the UK government were to exercise eminent domain laws to acquire the land, it would have to deal with thousands of different landowners and the lawsuits they would be sure to bring. Regardless of where you stand on the expansion issue, you can’t deny that Greenpeace’s move is a brilliant one. Continue reading “Join the Plot”