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Diary of a man who is only trying to make a difference in Obama's fundamentally transformed America

I can’t make it to the Occupy Wall Street protests — my mom backs the Man and so won’t buy me a plane ticket, the bitch — so I’ve decided to occupy our den. Demand 1: Hot Pockets!

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update: Demand 2: Move the microwave into the den to make better use of Demand 1: Hot Pockets!

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update 2: What do I want? Hot Pockets! When do I want them? Now! And then again at, say, 6-ish!

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update 3: Demand 3: several napkins. And maybe some soda water. Turns out fighting the Man in a white t-shirt has its drawbacks.

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update 4: Hey hey, ho ho, these stupid plastic slipcovers my capitalist pig of a bourgeois mother put on the divan have got to go!

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update 5: Demand 4: to affect social change, one must master the pop culture ethos. Which one can’t be expected to do on a stupid 21″ TV. Or with basic cable.

Get with the times, Mom. I mean, for fuck’s sake.

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update 6: Dear Comrades also engaged in Fighting the Powers: Sorry I missed the last 2 hours or so of our struggle, but in my defense, whenever Mom runs the vacuum cleaner I get really really sleepy.

29 Replies to “Diary of a man who is only trying to make a difference in Obama's fundamentally transformed America”

  1. motionview says:

    How do they tell the agent provocateurs from their real “leadership”? I could swear sometimes that the folks from Protest Warriors are leading the parade over there (Should we knit our own sleeping bags or buy them from The Man?).

    It’s hilarious that this “grassroots” campaign has immediately attracted prog politician and unions support in just two weeks. Do you remember the Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, and Establishment Republican Party participating in the Tax Day TEA Party rallies of 2009?

  2. Abe Froman says:

    I’m gonna work my way down there sometime tomorrow or Friday. I just have to.

  3. geoffb says:

    I put up some quotes and links on the “Occupy Wall Street” thread.

  4. geoffb says:

    Watch yourself Jeff. Next move is your mom The Man will cut off the cable and WiFi and then lock the door. Call for drum circle help before that happens.

  5. McGehee says:

    I am singlehandedly staging an occupation of the West Georgia Farmers’ Auction in LaGrange, Georgia!

    By singlehandedly I mean with my butt, since I’m using my hands to do things like type, and move the mouse. And by occupation I mean I’m in solidarity with any brethren who might also think the WGFA needs to be occupied but can’t actually physically occupy it, because it’s actually just a mail drop in a strip mall.

    But we are taking it to The Man, bitchaz!

  6. geoffb says:

    Help/hope is on the way.

    Elizabeth Warren pretty much killed it in last night’s Massachusetts Democratic Senator primary debates. (The Boston Herald rather gushingly agrees!) What’s fascinating about Warren is that mostly she speaks from that odd place of 100% overlap between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

    Unity – Solidarity – Progress – Forever.

    All Hail the General Assemblies of the People.

  7. mojo says:

    Welcome to the Douchebag Revolution.

    FREE THE PATCHOULI!!

  8. mojo says:

    PS: This morning, tired of my second-class status, I occupied the master bath for a good 20 minutes!

    BOO-YAH!

  9. Jim in KC says:

    …speaks from that odd place of 100% overlap between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

    Not sure where that place would be, other than maybe “The Fed sucks.”

    Me, I gotta go buy some Hank Williams Jr. albums and a Slushee.

  10. geoffb says:

    BIG supporter weighs in with some 100% pure projection-vomiting. Watch your Hot Pockets well.

  11. TaiChiWawa says:

    “They may take our game-controllers, but they’ll never take our COMIC BOOKS!”

  12. If you hadn’t lost your cellphone in the mud at the Phish show you might call her and ask her to hit up Costco on her way home from the bank.

  13. Blake says:

    “Diary of a man who is only trying to make a difference in Obama’s fundamentally transformed America” is this you?

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ur0hpKMofu0/ToxAn4-jgII/AAAAAAAAJZY/7NrZ4kcYq8g/s400/owsmomsbasement.jpg

  14. Blake says:

    Note to self: Next time you think the URL might be marginally on the long side, use tinyurl.

  15. dicentra says:

    Inevitable:

    #OccupyWallStreetMovies

    Dude, Where’s My Czar?
    THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SOCIALISTS
    Afterbirth of a Nation
    The Crying Game
    Dude, Where’s My Handout?
    How Green Were My Dreadlocks
    From Here to Insolvency
    The Non-Producers
    How To Not Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
    Harry Squatter and The Philosophy Degree
    Children of a Lesser IQ

  16. dicentra says:

    Check it out: #OccupyWallStreetMovies is trending, but #OccupyWallStreet is not.

    Maybe there’s help for the Republic after all.

  17. sdferr says:

    Kernel of the wobblies
    The Owwwies, they be fraught
    They gots an awful boo-boo
    Let’s fix ’em: give them naught

  18. Gary says:

    MooooooMMMM — where’s the MEATLOAF!

  19. LBascom says:

    Raiders of the Lost Cause.

  20. dicentra says:

    Ann Coulter clarifies the differences between the original Tea Party, the current TEA Party, and the Occupy Wall Street horde:

    The modern tea partiers never went around narcissistically comparing themselves to Gen. George Washington. And yet they are the ones who have engaged in the kind of political activity Washington fought for.

    The Tea Party name is meant in fun, inspired by an amusing rant from CNBC’s Rick Santelli in February 2009, when he called for another Tea Party in response to Obama’s plan to bail-out irresponsible mortgagers.

    The tea partiers didn’t arrogantly claim to be drafting a new Declaration of Independence. They’re perfectly happy with the original.

    Tea partiers didn’t block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public. They read the Constitution, made serious policy arguments, and petitioned the government against Obama’s unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare.

    Then they picked up their own trash and quietly went home. Apparently, a lot of them had to be at work in the morning.

    In the two years following the movement’s inception, the Tea Party played a major role in turning Teddy Kennedy’s seat over to a Republican, making the sainted Chris Christie governor of New Jersey, and winning a gargantuan, historic Republican landslide in the 2010 elections. They are probably going to succeed in throwing out a president in next year’s election.

    That’s what democracy looks like.

    Of course, Coulter has an established reputation as being extraordinarly Unhelpful, so best ignore her.

  21. Carin says:

    ba haa haaa …

    I had to read this to my teenage son, Jeff.

  22. Carin says:

    Although …. I think the revolution is spreading. My kids are demanding Hawaiian Punch.

  23. SDN says:

    Except, of course, Ann Coulter is WRONG.

    This is exactly what democracy looks like. This is why the Founders usually referred to it as “mobocracy” and tried their damndest to set up a republican form of government.

  24. Pablo says:

    It’s hilarious that this “grassroots” campaign has immediately attracted prog politician and unions support in just two weeks.

    Not hilarious. That’s the plan. This is what democracy astroturf looks like.

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  27. Diana says:

    Your first mistake? You should have demanded a pop tart.

  28. Pablo says:

    Did I say Astroturf? Why, yes. I believe I did.

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