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Smithers Jones

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About Me

Geezer punk, malcontent, miscreant, zealot.

My Interests

Punk, politics, history, Agit Prop, tacos, Zapatismo, linguistics, fetuses, Muay Thai, Stickin' it to the Man!, live music, recorded music, playing music, prison abolition, graphic design, sk8trs, merekats, people with elf ears, time theft.

I'd like to meet:

Malcontents, Kristy McNichol, a Sasquatch, Art Laboe.

Music:

The Jam, Clash, Rezillos, Op Ivy, Al Green, Sly and the Family Stone, The Kinks, Fugazi, New Model Army, Catch-22, The Strike, Replacements, Go Betty Go, Los Abandoned, The Briggs, Metric, Tegan and Sara, Lucinda Williams, Dance Hall Crashers Julieta Venegas, Tijuana No!, Rage Against the Machine, The Pogues, Buzzcocks, X, Wilson Picket, Samiam., ROY G BIV and the Rainbow Band.

Movies:

Land and Freedom, The Matrix, Muppets from Space, Serenity, Romantic Comedies.

Television:

Meerkat Manor, blood sports.

Books:

Captians of Consciousness, Capital Vol 1, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Black Reconstruction in America, Marxism for Our Time, The Philosphy of Punk, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, Elements of Typographical Style, Going Postal, Golden Gulag

Heroes:

Macolm X, Ella Baker, WEB Dubois, CLR James, John Brown, Joe Strummer.

My Blog

"I love shopping!"

It's never too early to socialize your children to become victims of predatory lending. The Fashion Fever Shopping Boutique, features a built-in credit card swiper anda life-size credit ca...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:49:00 PST

Bright, White, Smile

A new poll put out, oddly enough, by MTV and the Associated Press. has uncovered the obvious:white youth are happier than Black or Latino youth. "According to an extensive survey of 1,280 people ...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:48:00 PST

Sometimes I think this whole world is one big prison yard

"Sometimes I think this whole world is one big prison yard, some of us are prisoners, the rest of us are guards."-Bob DylanGeorge Jackson (1971) Nine years after Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics to Georg...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:38:00 PST

Prison Town, USA

LA Weekly has named Prison Town, USA one of the 6 "very best" of the LA Film Festival. PRISON TOWN, USA (USA) The issue of America's burgeoning prison-industrial complex is often presented as a proble...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:31:00 PST

Places with rude names

List of places with rude names.
Posted by Smithers Jones on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:55:00 PST

If you cant beat them arm them&.

The latest desperate attempt to salvage the disastrous occupation of Iraq is to arm Sunni insurgents so they can fight Al Qaeda cells. Though they remain a tiny portion of the overall resistance in Ir...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:33:00 PST

Teach in on Massive CA Prison Expansion Bill

Includes a presentation by me.  TEACH - IN on AB 900--A aassive 53,000 bed increase in the CA prison system June 16, 2007, 1-6pm PEACE BUILDING 8124 West Third Street Los Angeles. CA 90048 Ho...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:49:00 PST

Semen: Nature's Zoloft

Semen is a natural anti-depressant, apparently.
Posted by Smithers Jones on Thu, 31 May 2007 03:31:00 PST

God Needed Another Angel.

God took Jerry Falwell from us today. When my Mom took my dogs Lucky and Benji to the pound to be put to sleep because the anti-psychotic medication that prevents people from wanting to kill t...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Wed, 16 May 2007 04:01:00 PST

Capitalism Versus Vulva

A report released this week by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation shows that just one year out of college, women working full time  earn less than their male coll...
Posted by Smithers Jones on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:38:00 PST