#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] The Merchants of Cool http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/#rest They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the “next big thing” that will snare the attention of their prey–a market segment worth an estimated 0 billion a year. They are the merchants of cool: creators and sellers of popular culture who have made teenagers the hottest consumer demographic in America. But are they simply reflecting teen desires or have they begun to manufacture those desires in a bid to secure this lucrative market? And have they gone too far in their attempts to reach the …http://www.twitpic.com/cmqld2
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Molly Crabapple, Occupy's Greatest Artist, Opens Show This Weekend http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/molly-crabapple-occupys-greatest-artist-opens-show-this-weekend-20130411 I first heard of Molly Crabapple during the Occupy Wall Street protests. A co-worker of mine who knew her mentioned that there was a very talented artist doing incredible paintings and drawings about the Occupy movement and the financial crisis, and that I should look her up. I meant to, but somehow it never happened. Soon thereafter – I may have the chronology mixed up, but this is how it is in my mind's eye – I saw that this Molly person had done a series of posters for Occupy that were based thematically on some of my articles. Both had “vampire squid” themes, and both were extremely cool. I firs…http://www.twitpic.com/cjfbvy
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [AUDIO] Young, with a juvenile record, and looking for work http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/young-juvenile-record-and-looking-work Seventeen-year-old Andrew is filling out a job application for a Jamba Juice in Oakland, Calif. He’s making his way through the basics, filling out his name and contact information. However, question five posed a challenge. It was a yes or no checkbox which read, “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?” “I will check yes,” said Andrew, who requested anonymity for this story. When he was 14, a high school freshman, he took a gun to school. It is a shocking act for many, especially in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, but Andrew says he did it to be cool. Three years later, he is haunted by that d…http://www.twitpic.com/cipce6
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot HEY! HO! LET'S GO! http://www.philropost.com/2013/01/hey-ho-lets-go.html The letter began and ended by saying, “Hey! There's a lot of movies from the 1970s you haven't said anything about.” That is true, I replied, even if you did conclude your sentence with a preposition. Many of the movies I have seen from the period I most enjoy–1967 through 1975–are fairly obvious choices. I have to assume a few things and one of the things I take for granted is that anyone nice or even twisted enough to read this website with regularity has probably seen most of the easy great movies, such as The Godfather, Godfather II, The French Connection, The Sting, Badlands, Sleeper, Klute, 2001, Midnight Cowboy, Cool Hand Luke, …http://www.twitpic.com/bvk9ok
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot [VIDEO] Taibbi, Spitzer Fume Over HSBC Settlement http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/taibbi-spitzer-fume-over-hsbc-settlement-20121214 Had the pleasure of appearing on Eliot Spitzer's Viewpoint last night to talk about the hideous Eric Holder/Lanny Breuer HSBC settlement, in which the government elected not to push criminal prosecutions against bank officers who admitted to laundering billions of dollars in drug money. Spitzer was the first guy I thought of when I saw the softball settlement, so it was cool to hear the prosecutorial take on the deal. When I came home after the show, my wife laughed. “It's like you guys were fighting over who was more pissed off,” she said. Anyway, here's the clip…http://www.twitpic.com/bmmvj6
Super cool Spanish-language poster for #S17 at #OccupyTownSq. #owshttp://www.twitpic.com/auyf27
@OccupyWallStNYC that's awesome. Meanwhile my stay in NY I got done cool pix of #OWS back in #zuccottihttp://www.twitpic.com/a8rmsc
Occupy Wall Street cool boat: #occupywallstreet #ows Got cool video too! Will post later. #nychttp://www.twitpic.com/9uofwf
A very cool waiter among the 1% at the super secret hipster #OccupyWallStreet meeting.http://www.twitpic.com/8zkafj