Sunday, February 22, 2009

No, Man

This has absolutely nothing to do with OTB except that I saw it on my way to work, but I have no idea where else I could mention what I saw and express how it makes me feel. It's actually a little dated, because I forgot about it until just now:

So going to work Manhattan-bound on the R train I saw a movie poster on the wall of the Bay Ridge Ave terminal through the train car windows. It was for Jim Carrey's latest comedy, Yes Man, and had a picture of Jim smiling and the title and such. Fortunately, the train stopped long enough for me to catch all the great graffiti on the torn poster, written in black sharpie.

Under the title, it read: "No, Man!" And then: "Fuck your happy face!"
Then, under that, possibly by a different artist, it said: "Go fuck yourself you piece of shit!"
and "Die!"
and finally, "FEEL Pain!"

Does that sum up the lingering dread and misery and anger and hopelessness we as a people are feeling as the economy and country fall apart around us? I don't know, but it was still pretty fucking funny.

1 comment:

Patrick J Patten said...

We just switched people in charge of allowing in new members, so I thought it would be a good idea to refresh memories w/ those that have thought about it in the past.

To be a TBA member, you will need to do the following:

* Carry the links of other members on your blog. We make this easy with a widget that will be sent to you when you are admitted.
* Carry the TBA standings. Again, the code for this will be provided.
* Donate $50 in the name of our TBA Horse of the Year to Old Friends. Checks made out to Old Friends are collected in December.
* Have posted regularly for 2 months.

Our entire group votes on the admission of new blogs, so if you are still interested, let us know about a week or 2 prior to our next vote which will be the last week of May. So email me around May 15th if you'd like in.

The TBA is the best way to be part of a community of like minded individuals, get your blogs heard, and hopefully we'll all make a change in the sport for the better.


Thanks,
Patrick