To all you mothers out there… Thank you for raising the next generation to not be spoiled little degenerate shitheads with no common sense or vision or sense of duty to their fellow human beings or planet.

Thank you for teaching them the value of community and not raising them to be anti-social illiterate and un-deservingly arrogant.

Thank you for teaching them skills to help improve our situation on this planet, rather than having them be burdens on us all.

Thank you for teaching them to share instead of having them believe some bullshit notion of entitlement and that their mommy and daddy did everything themselves and the cooperation and coming together of the community they live in had nothing to do with it.

Thank you for teaching them about the world and all of its peoples and the good and the bad of every country including this one so they will be raised to have connection with all peoples of the world instead of some moronic nationalist pride for a nation that claims to be the best in the world but can’t seem to find a way to keep everyone employed, or not keep our jails filled.

Thank you for teaching them the value of peace so they won’t grow up believing the bullshit that war is some necessary thing and that all human beings HAVE to be violent because that is our natural state.

Thank you for teaching them about the plight of poor people across the world, and about how cheap it would be to educate them to become self sustaining and productive citizens instead of wasting our money on blowing people up and bailouts for the incompetent rich that scream and call everyone else a socialist when we the actual people who make this world work and anything WORTH living in want more services and benefits for the middle class and poor (or at least NOT to cut our benefits) but those same corporatist fucktards claim some special exemption when they ask us, the tax-payers to bail them out and then still claim that socialism is evil and immoral even though they themselves benefited so greatly from it.

Thank you for not raising them to be too proud, stupid, and hypocritical to even realize just how ignorant and and totally lacking in self awareness they come off. Thank you for instilling in them an ability to be self aware and aware of their surroundings so they will be good decision makers instead of short sided nitwits.

And thank you for not raising them to be suckers and not read the contracts they sign and the bills that they may someday pass into law. Thank you for ensuring that they will protect themselves through knowledge where the businesses and our regulators will either fail to or will work actively against them for the sake of maximizing profits while shifting the cost onto we the tax paying citizens of this world.

And thank you for giving them a moral backbone that cannot be corrupted by the flash of a few hundred dollar bills in their face and a ride on a corporate jet.

Thank you for not raising the next generation who will continue us down this path of global destruction, chaos, and moral decay.

Thank you.

Our Children are our future. Let’s just hope we haven’t fucked them with how stupid we were and how short sighted ours and previous generations have been, never quite looking past our own instant gratification and selfish wants… let alone glimpsing into the needs of the rest of our world or what would be good for us in the long run.

Thank you for breaking the cycle. Our species would have died out had you not said enough was enough and stopped the insanity there.

Happy Mothers Day.
I Love You Mom.
I Miss You Grammy.

Your Dearest Son and Grandson,

Ryan

conventional wisdom is often just popular stupidity

Quiet Desperation. An Improv reality sitcom based out of Boston that you’ve probably never heard of, but for sourbrains.org, it is in fact… a very small world. This show has been filmed in a variety of different locations across Boston, but now takes place mostly in a home in the neighborhood of Alston/Brighton MA.

Having heard of Rob from a mutual friend for about 6 Months before seeing the show, I had heard of his crazy antics and his song writing. I had already planned on meeting him at some point, but it wasn’t until I saw him hanging out with none other than Vermin Supreme, that I started to check out his work. After watching and laughing my ass off at his performance of “Hot Dogs and Applesauce,” to a group of 40 cops, and a video of him serenading a (very attractive) police officer. This prompted me to begin watching episodes of the show. In one of the episodes (one about Rob escaping the Brighton Wellness Center ) I noticed our mutual friend, Nataly, who played rob’s “Special” friend in the hospital. I hope someday, she get’s all her kitties. I couldn’t help but laugh at her character, because I could see so much of her humor come out in it.  This series really allows Boston a chance to highlight some of it’s own humorous odds and ends through the lens of Rob’s perspective.

One other great thing I’m seeing in episodes, is the incorporation of other great up and coming figures in the Boston area. I hear some Streight Angular in the latest episode. And have seen him film an episodes with future [international] rock superstar, Casey Desmond, and Metal Goddess, Lilith Astaroth. It is like Rob is highlighting all the best parts of his world without even knowing it. And I can’t help but tune in and check out the latest episode every time he blasts out to all his fans that the newest episode is up.

The show often makes me scratch my head and wonder if ANYONE on this show is actually sane. Having finally met Rob in person, I can definitely say he’s just like he is on the show. Pleasant, talkative, wild and dreamy eyed. He’s got high hopes for his show someday getting big outside of Boston, and I think, eventually he will have found a big enough audience and have filmed so many really great episodes that he might actually do it.

I’d have to say that the cast and film style kind of reminds me of an unemployed version of the Office. With most of the characters having their own loveable moments, but in a lot of episodes, they kind of come off as assholes, loveable assholes, but assholes nonetheless. I’d love to see all of the cast of the show branch out a little more, and see them tackle some more issues that connect with a wider audience. (::Cough:: Holiday Special ::Cough::) It almost seems like most of the characters have their comfort zone stations, and that tends to stifle growth and character development, but maybe that is the point. And maybe I’m just too damn impatient. Maybe I just need to keep tuning in, and watching the story and the characters unfold.

Oh, and the man makes blowing into cat buts into an artform. (slow clap)

It has come to my attention, that a number of items were left behind during the New England Power Convergence, which took place in the Hamilton Smith hall over the weekend of April 26th to 28th. Among those items were:

• 4 24×36 prints of class schedules which were taped up with blue painters tape and duct tape.
• 5 goldenrod 8.5×11 sheets with classroom letters on them, also taped up with blue painters tape
• And blue painters tape, in the shape of arrows left on the stairway leading down to the first floor of the hall.
• Flyers and stickers for attending organizations were left behind in the main foyer.

I am also being made aware of items that were either moved, or molested in some form.

I want to first and foremost apologize for leaving the hall in that state. There is absolutely no excuse for leaving the hall the way it was left. All other areas that Occupy New England used that weekend, including the Waysmeet center, our Solarfest booth and the City of Porstmouth, were left in better shape than when we had arrived.

You are absolutely justified in your outrage over this incident, and I have no excuses. I personally should have made sure that the hall was restored to its original state or better, as I had in all the other spaces. I apologize on behalf of myself, Occupy New England, and the participants of the New England Power Convergence, as well as its affiliated groups. The event consisted of a series of workshops to teach students and community members how to get involved with politics, community projects, and environmental issues.

I apologize to the Student Environmental Action Coalition, who put their trust in us to take care of the space they had reserved for the New England Power Convergence, and apologize to the English department for having to take a half hour of their time to remove what we could have easily taken down at the end of the day.

I take full responsibility of the mess that was made, and would like to offer my services to make up for it. If you have any need for volunteers to help clean the building, please do not hesitate to ask. This was my mistake, and I own all of the responsibility for it. This should not come down on the Student Environmental Action Coalition, or any other student organization.

My deepest apologies,

Ryan Glen Hirsch
ryan.hirsch@sourbrains.org