Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

For the past few days I have been ripping CDs to mp3s. I’d already done most of my collection when I bought my iPod but I have decided to save some precious apartment space by ripping the rest and selling or tossing all the actual CDs. One of the good things is that I am [...]

Since I have American Splendor on the brain:

The New York Times ran an article in today’s issue about yesterday’s Grey Tuesday. GreyTuesday.org is calling the event an “incredible success”. “The Grey Tuesday protest was simply amazing. Yesterday, approximately 170 sites hosted a full copy of the Grey Album, in spite of the fact that many of those sites had received cease and [...]

When I walk through the Times Square subway station each morning I go past a poster for a musical called Golda’s Balcony. Every single time I walk by it I think that it is a poster of Joe Pesci in drag. You be the judge.

One of my friends, Arthur Kvarnstrom, is among 23 artists showcased at the Gallery of Graphic Arts from March 2nd, thru March 27th. It is “A show of paintings, photography, prints and watercolors of an intimate scale.” Arthur’s contribution will be several landscape oils. Gallery of Graphic Arts 1601 York Ave (Btwn 84th & 85th [...]

I completely forgot that today is Grey Tuesday. For those of us that can’t afford the bandwidth to mirror the Grey Album for download in an action of webby disobedience, it seems like the thing to do is make your page background grey. So this I have done. First we’re gonna legalize file sharing…..then we’re [...]

Since I seem to be rather politically minded today, I’d like to take the opportunity to pass on a few words from our nation’s conservative right about George Bush. I feel it is important to show the opinions from both sides of our culture. Over at the IntellectualConservative.com I came across an essay by Dr. [...]