we're all on a break from the third estate sunday review and i wanted to take a moment to write a quick note so i don't wake up tomorrow to 'are you alive' e-mails.
ava and c.i. have a very funny review of john stamos's new show jake in progress. i am mentioned in it and since i blogged on that show back at the first of march, i'll go ahead and tell you, mr. stamos is keeping the skin covered. which is sad because i think a lot of people would watch if he was flaunting the bod. the review isn't posted yet and i finished reading it right before we all went on break.
in addition, there's a feature we're working on where people will be weighing in on stories that did not get traction or enough traction last week. hopefully that will be of interest to a few people who read at this site. if you're not familiar with the third estate sunday review, you should really check them out. they publish once a week on sundays.
i'm not sure i highlighted the piece that we all worked on last week. in case i didn't, background, the five who make up the third estate (jim, jess, ava, ty and dona) along with c.i., common ills community member betty and myself all went to our various rallies and interviewed people asking them 1 question: why are you here?
from all those voices, we published 81 explaining why the rallies were important to them. we thought that would be a strong feature and it is. but i think we're all a little surprised by how the rallies were so ignored by the mainstream press.
here's one voice of the eighty-one:
Ira, 62: "I'm here to say no to the occupation. And I'm really impressed with the turnout and with all the young faces I'm seeing because I wasn't expecting them. You got the prison scandal, you got the torture, you got the rapes, you got a scandal every other week and nothing seems to lead to any outrage. Why do I think that is? Because Bushy got some Madison avenue wiz to come up with a market slogan: 'support the troops.' And everyone keeps repeating that bullshit slogan. And it just shuts down debate, discussion and awareness. When I was a kid, you'd have seen a group of us screaming back, 'Fuck no!' but you don't get that today. And we're all managed and manipulated. And the extreme becomes 'Oh that's awful . . . but I support the troops.' And that shuts down any thought a person might have. In the 60s, you had a range of opinion and a range of people speaking out and being heard. But the range now is basically two voices: 'I support the troops and the president is right!' and 'I'm shocked that whatever happened happened but I support the troops.' That's it. No one can talk about anything for more than three minutes without piping off, 'I support the troops.' It's disgusting to see how well this war has been marketed from the lead up to the occupation."
