Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

Yesterday afternoon, I was in a very boring marketing meeting. I guess you could say that use of the word boring is redundant, but whatever. It was intensely boring. The portion of the meeting that I had to pay attention to (mainly the discussion about the design collateral I’m working on) was wrapped up within [...]

Dear Flip Flop Guy, Haven’t I written to you before? If not, I’ve sure thought about it. What is the dealio with those fucking flip flops man? You live in New York City, not the beach. Did you notice that it was only fifty degrees this morning and yet here you are, wearing these things [...]

You know it’s a bad day when you up in the morning, slog through the rain on a few precious hours of sleep, roll into your office and only to be told that you’re unappreciated. It’s even worse when your company tells your underappreciated with a $25 internet mall gift certificate and a box of [...]

I don’t know why I find this so amusing: In Arizona, a surrogate mother just gave birth to quintuplets. How does that work? Do the parents choose one or two and the rest get put in a basket outside the pound? Or does Cruella Deville show up with a couple of thugs to make that [...]

Kaba Kick is russian roulette for kids. The player points the gun at his or her own head and pulls the trigger. Instead of bullets, a pair of feet kick out from the barrel (which is shaped like a pink hippo). If the gun doesn’t fire, the player earns points.” (Via)

A reporter and and a photographer from the Kalamzoo Gazette were baaaaad. They, like totally, did a story on beer pong? And then, like, totally drank beers while doing research at some college kid’s apartment? Which they aren’t supposed to, like, I dunno, do? Huh huh, Kalamazooooooo….. I suppose missing out on the dorm experience [...]

On Saturday night I went to a party way the hell out on 42nd street near the West Side highway. Unlike most of the parties I go to, this one was in a new high rise building (34th floor) whose lobby featured a Dale Chihuly sculpture and the oh-so-intriguing key activated P1 and P2 buttons [...]

These days it’s not always easy to see the lines between private and public interests in the relm our our nation’s government. But thank goodness we have Rick Santorum, bigot-in-chief of Pennsylvania to throw it right out into the open by saying outright that he’d rather support big business over the public good. Santorum has [...]