Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[DaveCinzano]

I'm mildly perturbed there isn't a gurt big heffalump frolicking with a donkey in the background.

 

[butchersapron]

Just needs bob marley in the background.

 

[JimW]

It's the Austin Allegro of allegory.

 

[discokermit]

the cat is snipping at the flames though?

 

[butchersapron]

She could have done a saint-sebastian and had penny with all these golden scissors in her body.

 

[Random]

the cat is snipping at the flames though?

No, the flames are melting the scissors

 

[discokermit]

No, the flames are melting the scissors

why is the cat holding them in the flames then?

also, gold is a very good conductor of heat. why is the cat not getting its paws burnt?

i hate to say it, but this picture makes no sense.

 

[DaveCinzano]

i hate to say it, but this picture makes no sense.

Sometimes being a one-woman whirlwind of made-up first-person purple prose won't make any sense. Them's the apples.

 

[discokermit]

crabapples?

 

[butchersapron]

shit apples.

 

[Orang Utan]

That painting is almost as good as that one of the hippy cutting the rope bridge in the gatefold sleeve of the prodigy's music for the jilted generation

 

[belboid]

That painting is almost as good as that one of the hippy cutting the rope bridge in the gatefold sleeve of the prodigy's music for the jilted generation

probably the only record sleeve that made Yes's look good

 

[butchersapron]

That painting is almost as good as that one of the hippy cutting the rope bridge in the gatefold sleeve of the prodigy's music for the jilted generation

Put it up then!

 

[Blagsta]

I thought that was ace at the time

I was taking lots of E.

 

[Idris2002]

Not as good as this, though:

THE JAILBREAK The Warrior locked himself into his video scanner and gazed throughout the Universe... until he came upon Dimension 5,
DIMENSION 5 was now in the hands of the Overmaster, whose lust for ultimate power had become an obsession. Religion and the media were all under his control and computer files were kept on all known living persons within the city zones.
Many were arrested and jailed.
It was therefore significant that The Jailbreak represented a freedom for so many yet to those involved at the time it was a series of events, the outcome of which no-one could have foreseen. The plan was simple. By knocking out the alarm systems in a riot, they then would cause an explosion which would blow half the cell blocks away. Outside help came from an organization known as Phono-Graphics, who if the plan was successful would eventually capitalize on the whole project.
The night of The Jailbreak all hell broke loose. A Red Alert was issued by the Overmaster himself. Robot trackers, military police. dogs and all available vehicles were on the hunt. All were caught, except four. who made it to the Rampic Buildings on the south side of the city. It was in these buildings that they broadcast and recorded selected material, some of which still survives today. Through these recordings they built up a follow ing who eventually took to the streets in what was to become the Final War.
The Warrior had become weary and disillusioned with war, but seeing how the people struggled to be free he knew once again he must raise up his sword...
The music sailed out into the night then upward towards the skies. travel ling on that thin border between reality and imagination

 

[Orang Utan]

I still think it's a great statement even though it makes Banksy look deep
ETA: the Prodigy pic

 

[frogwoman]

why is the cat holding them in the flames then?

also, gold is a very good conductor of heat. why is the cat not getting its paws burnt?

i hate to say it, but this picture makes no sense.

 

[butchersapron]

I still think it's a great statement even though it makes Banksy look deep
ETA: the Prodigy pic

Should've had the coppers cutting the bridge.

 

[killer b]

D'you reckon?

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that looks nothing like penny either.

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[butchersapron]

that looks nothing like penny either.

Looks like lyndsey and her no shibboleths shibboleth.

 

[DotCommunist]

that bloke siphoning power from gaia looks like captain planets feckless edgy brother

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's Lord V!

 

[butchersapron]

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Look like the old ones down the farm sunday mornings.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Poor Greece, as if things couldn't get any worse.

We’ve been waiting to announce this for a while. On the 4th of July, the splendid Ms Molly Crabapple and I are going to Greece to do some reporting, meeting up with activists and community organisers on the ground in Athens and elsewhere. Molly is an artist who lives in a loft full of birdcages opposite Zucotti Park; I’m a journalist who lives out of a large red backpack on Molly’s floor. We met during Occupy Wall Street and have spent the past several months experimenting with making things happen together - when I went to cover the protests in Chicago and Montreal this summer, I took pictures on my phone and sent them to Molly, who created art from them. Discordia, however, is the first trip where both of us will be there on the ground. She will make pictures, I will make words, we will try very hard not to get arrested or deported, and all shall be marvellous. Discordia is an experimental art-and-journalism project, taking the Hunter Thompson-Ralph Steadman macho model and twisting it to our own ends, and it’ll be published as an ebook in the Autumn.

 

[killer b]

'macho'?

 

[butchersapron]

It never ends. This self-love. I think it's not the macho bit that needs questioning there in the Hunter Thompson-Ralph Steadman comparison. Oddly though dear old ralphy was a very privved person like penny.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Some sage advice for her, from someone on twatter:

If you become too diverse then your content could become shallow and facile.

 

[Idris2002]

As your diversity trainer, I advise against this.

 

[Idris2002]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 2: Electric Boogaloo