OK, so the battle for Dolores Park ended on Friday. Saturday we had a nice day in the park and Caleb even delivered us some tacos. OK, they were yummy. Fuck it.

 

 

I even got a few donations to make the $750 a puke sting a little less. (I could use a few more, I'll glady give you as much novelty vomit as you'd like).

 

But this morning the SF Chronicle’s online newspaper printed the following fluff piece, which is basically a commercial for the General Manager Phil Ginsburg:

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F05%2F01%2FEDVM1J9PT9.DTL&plckItemsPerPage=10&plckSort=TimeStampDescending&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:2b588678-58cb-426f-9075-2da0e441deef

 

Holy shit. Someone had to pay for that article. Phil Ginsburg is running for Supervisor next year. It’s all rigged. It’s all fixed. They’ve got us fighting each other.

 

The comments section of SF Gate was an interesting place for seditious remarks. You would think that unless something was slanderous, libel or some Nazi rhetoric that it would be cool to just speak your mind in the SF Gate blog comment field…

 

You would be wrong.  It seems that some of my comments, some of Kristine Enea’s comments and who knows how many others were redacted or straight up deleted. That kinda puts a chill in the air, no?

 

The fix is in. Our media is a PR machine for well-moneyed interest here in SF. It’s all a land grab. It’s all gross. It’s all fucked.

 

But we shouldn’t forget it. Whenever you  find  yourself disagreeing with another person from your station, remember that whatever information you have you probably got it from someone from another station. As long as we fight, they can win.

 

And anyone celebrating the death of Bin Ladden today, please unsubscribe from my list. This isn’t a coliseum. We are not barbarians. Murder is not a sport, to be cheered on like idiots. There are repercussions for our arrogance. 9/11 was a consequence for our imperialism. Terrorism should not be combated with counter-terrorism. This is the actions of a culture of antiquated logic we should have outgrown the evening of the first sunset on Hiroshima. Once we dropped the atomic bomb, our technological adolescence should have ended. Here we are, in our preverbal 40’s still living in our parents basement taking classes at the junior college. Switch on the TV and you are watching Showmanship, not news. You are watching campaign commercials, not facts. You are being spoon-fed a brand, not a school of ethics.

 

We got here one corruption at a time. Remember that. It’s OK to draw a line in the sand, and say: “No further then this.” At any time. For any reason.

 

They commodifed Mayday. They took Mayday, the first of May, away from the proletariat. It will only be known as Bin Ladden day now. No longer can May first be International Workers Day: 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day

 

This is a sad day for the USA. It’s gonna take some really cute cat videos to heal these wounds…

 

Chicken John   May 2^nd, 2011