Whoah: Brawndo

If you haven't seen Mike Judge's latest brilliant, criminally under-rated and under-viewed film Idiocracy, then do yourself a favor. Get it, watch it, then return to this post.

It seems that The Extreme/Sports/Energy Drink Brawndo ("Makes you win at yelling!") actually exists!

Better yet, it's being produced and marketed by Fox, which refused to market the ACTUAL FILM the drink is based on. How meta is that?

I love things like this.

Have you tasted it? Is it delicious? Tell us what it tastes like.

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Ride the Whirlwind: Brawndo.com

Senate Blocks Far-Reaching Energy Bill

From the New York Times

Dudes,

Let get together on this one. We know there's big money to be made in prolonging the end of fossil fuels, we know that.

It's just that, every time I walk down the street and all I can smell is car exhaust, and I happen to think about how our cars mpg's have actually gone DOWN in the last hundred years, and then come home and read about The House or the Senate shooting down some bill to make cleaner cars, and ensure cleaner air, that's when I think: Thank heavens I live in New York and can enjoy this city's incredible public transportation!

You can fight against progress, or you can work for it.

Higher mpg's and cleaner air is progress.

Shooting down bills that would ensure those things is not progress.

It's Congress! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

So when you see things like this, down let it get you down, just go online and check out the specs on the Aptera, or read about Japan's Mag-Lev trains, or about Amsterdam's awesome public bicycle system.

Then think to yourself: "We should have all of those things here! We deserve the best and brightest. We deserve the cleanest, and fastest, and smartest!
We deserve these things because: We're America! Land of the free! Home of the brave! Defender of Liberty! Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses!
There's opportunity for all here in this great land of ours!"

Little by little, we scrape off the dead skin and emerge fresh, bright, and renewed.


Look out for one another. Keep each other safe.

Love to all,

Jackson

Things I love: Seed Gun

I found this over at threemiles.com

"THE SIMPLE ACT
Over time and with the appropriate amount of nurturing, the simple act of planting a seed can create life; sustenance and beauty. Applying a dedication to the act, or prayer, we can unite the audience and promote a discussion for change. With our literal sowing of these "swords into plowshares" we visually eliminate the violence from our community and pay respect to the lives lost and affected... And in nurturing the "piece" to flower or fruition we are then committed to change and at the same time giving something back to the community."

Mama, put my guns in the ground!

Be excellent to each other.

-J




p.s. when they grow, do they look like this?


from: mediamatic.net

SuperTrend: Guerrilla Gardening!

Destruction is sooooo '06.

Everyone knows that when it comes to venting ones angst against the madness all around us, the cool thing is not to get crazy and destroy, the cool thing is to get crazy and create! Yes, to create wonderful things and gift them to your fellow man! Public spectacle! Inspiration for the pedestrian masses!

That is the spirit behind guerrilla gardening.

Here's how it works:

1.) Find an abandoned, overgrown, empty, trash-filled, or otherwise uncared for bit of land.

2.) Clean it if it's dirty, or till it if it's not.

3.) Plant flowers and shrubs. Water.

4.) Watch as people passing by the new garden experience a new-found wonder at the green-space and an appreciation for your (anonymous) work.

Sounds fun!

Here in New York we have a Brooklyn organization called Trees Not Trash. Run by the incandescent Kate Gilliam, T.N.T. takes old and funky and makes new and spunky.

Check it. (via treesnottrash)

Take all the nasties out, plus hipsters get much needed sunshine.


"We trimmed the hedges!"


In come the happy trees.


nicey nice.

If you'd like to get involved, donate your time, $$$, whatevs, shoot an email over to: getinvolved@treesnottrash.org

Here's their site: treesnottrash.org

And here's a Gothamist interview with Kate Gilliam: gothamist.com/kategilliam

Here's a gardening group in Hell's Kitchen: clintoncommunitygarden.org

And here's a London organization called Guerrilla Gardening: guerrillagardening.org


And Kate Gilliam? You straight up get today's SuperForest Good Person Award.