Blog Post #19

It's a cool, rainy day here in Southern California. It's more fresh and gray than cold and gloomy, but that could change. We're supposedly in for an entire weekend of rain. I was hoping to do some running and biking, but that looks improbable right now.

I mentioned in a previous post a local L.A. public radio station called KPFK. They call themselves "progressive and independent", but "radically leftist" is more accurate a description. I listen to it once in awhile, just to get some socialist perspective on things. It's often amusing, sometimes disturbing, always biased, ocasionally informative and generally dogmatic. It's definitely required listening for those who think of themselves as victims in our society.

Anyway, the station recently had a contest to come up with a new slogan. Their slogan had been "Fiercely Independent", and they asked listeners to submit ideas for a new one. I submitted the following list of new slogan ideas:

• Fiercely Anti-American

• Hasta la Victoria Siempre!

• Inventing Victims Since 1959

• The Voice of the Opressed American

• Bush is a Big Meanie

• Chomsky is God

• Just Slightly To the Left of Marxism

• Like Jane Fonda, Before She Sold Out

• Forty-seven Years of Whining

• KPFK- Mao and Forever

• Your Morning Cup of Misery

• We're Victims, Too!

• Fiercely Independent. No, Wait- Dependent on the Government for Everything.

• Still Fighting Whitey!

Strangely, they didn't respond. I guess they just didn't see the humor there.

I mentioned in my last post that I went to Santa Ana last weekend, and I posted some photos from that afternoon. I'd like to add a few more here, which may or may not be interesting to anyone but myself. I sometimes like to take photos with an emphasis on the graphics in photographics. I like the shapes, composition and textures I see in the everyday things around us. I have moments where I really see the graphic elements in the most innocuous things, and I really enjoy composing an image. So, thanks for indulging me...