Completely irrelevant news

[sabotabby]

I've been told that today is Buy Nothing Day. I'm not normally a consumer whore or anything, but I think I will celebrate it by being one. You know, just to be contrary. Also, I've already bought a coffee -- at the Second Cup, no less! It annoys me that a lot of people think that Adbusters' notions of switching one sort of consumer capitalism to a "better" consumer capitalism is actual activism.

The magazine has very pretty pictures, though.

In other news, career criminal and whiny baby Lord Black is asking for his Canadian citizenship back. I guess maybe he shouldn't have said those nasty things about us when he renounced it in the first place. Excuse me for a sec...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh man, I hope they give his citizenship to the poorest Haïtian refugee they can possibly find -- preferably a poor Haïtian communist refugee. Who has converted to Islam. And is gay. And drives a cab. That'd be the best thing ever.

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[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I can't remember where I gacked it, though I'm fairly confident the person I gacked it from wasn't the original author, just one of the ones going around. I hope this doesn't make me a bad icon thief. :( I'd seen a couple of Mal icons with that quote, and badly wanted one, but took ages to hunt one down.

Marinettis and Sabotabbys should definitely not be allowed to starve in the cause of BND.

Might well go to Critical Mass; some people have been linking it to BND, as in "do it on a day when it will block the shoppers and not the workers." But the 'official' info isn't making that link, so I can go without feeling like a complete fraud.

[sabotabby]

Can you really steal a Mal icon? You know he'd be LiveJournal's biggest icon thief if he were a real person. "The people on the Rim planets need this icon more!"

Marinetti will not starve. Nor will sabotabby restrict her alcohol consumption on a Friday night when she's been dry for a few weeks.

When I finally get a bike, I'll probably do Critical Mass.