Flamewar Report from the Front Lines!

Hello, and welcome to the WordPress.com forums. Have you read sulz’s excellent guide to asking for help in the forums? And have you read Andy’s explanation of the differences between WordPress types and which forum to choose? And have you ensured that you are sober, of at least the intellectual level of a three-year-old beagle, and calm? No?

Alrighty then.

You must be this person:

NEED SOME HELP

CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH MY BLOGGING? I AM TRYING TO DO A BUISNESS ON HERE AND I DONT EVEN KNOW IF I HAVE DONE THIS RIGHT? SOUNDS SILLY LOL BUT I DO NEED SOME HELP…THANKS

Posted: Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

64 Responses to “NEED SOME HELP”

  1. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    1) There’s no need to shout. Please disable caps lock.
    2) What sort of business? WordPress.com blogs are non-commercial.
    3) If you need technical help, could you specify what’s giving you trouble?
    4) What’s your url, starting with http:/ ?

  2. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    IM SORRY IM NOT SHOUTING …MY CAPS BUTTON IS NOT WORKING RIGHT NOW MY HUSBAND IS GETTING ME A NEW KEYBOARD RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK LOL…
    WHAT DO YOU MEAN ABOUT NON COMERCIAL? I AM NEW TO ALL OF THIS SO I AM TRYING TO LEARN…I AM PROCESSING REBATES FROM HOME AND DOING A LIL ADVERTISING AS WELL
    satelitetvonpc-amy.blogspot
    IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT?

  3. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    Yes, that’s against the rules here at WordPress.com.

    If that’s your blog, you’re in the wrong forum anyway.

  4. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    OHHHHH IM SORRY….

  5. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    I HAVE JUST NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE….SO I AM HOPING THAT MAYBE SOMEONE CAN HELP ME FOR MAYBE DOING THIS ON OTHER SITES OR SOMETHING

  6. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Not here. We aren’t allowed to do what you’re doing, and we’re not using blogspot, so nobody here will be able to help you.

  7. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    WELL THANKS FOR THE RUDENESS…I WAS NOT AT ALL TRYING TO BE RUDE I AM A PERSON WHO IS LOST ON ALL OF THIS AND WAS ASKING FOR SOME SORT OF HELP…I AM NOT COMPUTER LITTERRATE….I KNOW HOW TO TYPE BUT I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BLOGGING OR PROGRAMS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AND I ONLY ASKED FOR A LITTLE HELP NOT RUDENESS FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU…*I* AM TRYING TO LEARN….

  8. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    YOU WILL HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR HELP. WE CANNOT HELP YOU. I AM NOT BEING RUDE, I AM SIMPLY INFORMING YOU THAT WE DO NOT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE YOU SEEK.

    If I wanted to be rude, I could say something else entirely. Don’t tempt me.

  9. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    DONT TEMPT ME GEESH WHAT IS THAT A THREAT? APPERENTLY YOU HAVE MORE KNOWLEGE THAN I DO ABOUT COMPUTERS…SO ALL I WAS ASKING IS FOR SOME HELP…SOMEONE TO TELL ME WHAT THE BLOGGING THING IS ABOUT OR SOME DAMN THING ABOUT THAT…I WAS NOT ASKING FOR SOMEONE TO GET INTO TROUBLE FOR DOING SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SO DONT BE A JERK TO ME I ASSIMPLY ASKING FOR HELP ON ANYTHING THAT I CAN BE GIVEN HELP FOR….SO LIKE I SAID DONT BE A JERK CAUSE I WOULD HATE TO CAUSE YOU MORE TROUBLE :) IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN….

  10. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Welcome to the internet. What, exactly, do you intend to do to me and why should I fear consequences from someone so utterly brain-dead as to be unable to operate a keyboard, an obvious scam business, or a brain, however broken-in?

  11. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    I know! You should go to this site called 4chan! They have all kinds of helpful threads:

    http://www.4chan.org/

  12. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    Why is someone linking to a blogspot blog even asking for unspecified help here? Oh, I know…

  13. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    4chan. 4chan will save her.

  14. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    WELL FORONE I WILL WRITE THE COMPANY ABOUT YOUR RUDENESS AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO ABOUT HAVING YOU BANNED….WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM ANYWAYS? IS THIS HOW YOU TREAT EVERYONE THAT ASKS FOR SOME KIND OF FUCKING HELP? AND JUST BECAUSE I SAID YOU WERE MORE COMPUTER SMART THAN I AM YOU ARE GOING TO PUT ME DOWN FOR IT? IS THERE SOMEONE ELSE OUT THERE THAT CAN SEE HOW DISTURBED THIS IDIOT IS? WHAT DID I DO TO YOU THAT MADE YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO TREAT ME THIS WAY JUST BECAUSE I ASKED FOR SOME FUCKING HELP??

  15. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    First you asked for help. Unspecified. Now you’re talking about “fucking help.” Which is it?

  16. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    BECAUSE I THOUGHT I COULD BLOG HERE TO AND WANTED TO TRY IT BUT FIRST YOU CLEARED THAT FOR ME ELLA SO I ERASED WHAT I WAS TRYING BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW I COULD NOT DO THAT IN HERE…I THOUGHT BEING ABLE TO POST ANYWERE WAS OK…I DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT COMPUTERS AND THE PROGRAMS ON HERE THATS WHY I AM ONLY ASKING …. WHY IS THAT SO HARD FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND?

  17. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    I only treat really, really stupid, stubborn, abusive people this way. When volunteers in the technical forum answer questions politely and people find the answer is not what they want to hear, reasonable people don’t conclude that the messenger is rude. They simply get on with making their hot, steaming piles of money from their rebate-processing MLMs and get over it.

    You make threats, you call people names, you get treated badly. Did you not learn that in kindergarten?

  18. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    If you are going to write to the company, try and take the caps lock off before you do it. They totally hate that.

  19. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    WHO MADE THREATS? WHO WAS CALLOING NAMES? WHO WAS TREATING PEOPLE BAD? YOU DID NOT ANSWER POLITELY EITHER SO I DONT KNOW WHO YOUR TRYING TO KID AROUND…

  20. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    No, homeworkmom, it is you who is rude and condescending and abusive and demanding and even more abusive.

    Good luck. Ciao.

  21. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    WELL IF MY SON DID NOT SPILL MILK ON THE KEYBOARD THIS MORNING THEN I WOULD NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE CAPS STICKING…MY HUSBAND IS BRINGING ME A NEW ONE HOME…SO IM SORRY THAT YOU FOR SOME REASON HAVE TO THINK THAT MY ASKING FOR HELP WAS IN THE WRONG BECAUSE I THOUGHT THATS WHAT YOU DO HERE BUT WHAT HAVE I EVER DONE TO ANY OF YOU THAT WOULD MAKE YOU TREAT SOMEONE LIKE SHIT JUST FOR ASKING FOR SOME HELP…SO WHAT I WANTED TO POST A BLOGG ON HERE WHY CANT PEOPLE HELP WITH THAT…I HAVE A PERSONAL LIFE AS WELL RATHER THAN JUST WORKING ONLINE…I DO HAVE A BLOGG IN ANOTHER PLACE SO WHAT…WHATS WRONG WITH WANTING TO TRY SOMETHING NEW?

  22. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    CLEAN YOUR GLASSES ELLA AND READ UP HE IS THE ONE THAT STARTED THE NAMECALLING FIRST AND WAS RUDE…ALL I ASKED FOR WAS SOME HELP….

  23. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    Yes, why not go have that blog in the other place…or that personal life…because sooner or later it’s going to dawn on you that you’ve been YELLING AT US FOR SOME TIME AND WE TOLD YOU WE COULD NOT HELP AND YET YOU ARE STILL YELLING AT US.

    If you can’t stop yelling because your keyboard is stuck, what is that to us when you start swearing and threatening? I don’t think your keyboard is stuck on “fucking”.

  24. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    EXCUSE ME BUT YOU ARE THE ONE WHO STARTED THE RUDENESS…AND THE THREATS WITH (DONT TEMPT ME) I AM NOT AT ALL YELLING AT ANYONE…IF YOU WOULD READ UP I SAID I WAS SORRY THAT I WAS NOT YELLING….SO GROW UP

  25. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    We still don’t even know the real problem, except it apparently has something to do with fucking.

  26. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    ELLA NOW WHY ARE YOU BEING RUDE? I WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BLOGGING IS ALL….

  27. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    You have a filthy mouth, a nasty temper and horrid manners…none of which is caused my a wonky keyboard.

  28. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    You ARE still yelling, an hour later. Why don’t you just stop?

  29. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    And just for the record, I was not rude. Sarcastic, maybe. Rude, no.

  30. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    YOU KNOW I WISH I COULD RAIN….JUST CAUSE I AM HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY KEYBOARD…I AM SORRY I WAS NOT TRYING TO BE RUDE IN ANYWAYS TO ANYONE…. I HAVE A FILTHY MOUTH? YOU ARE THE ONE THAT KEEPS TALKING ABOUT ….OH WE DONT KNOW THE PROBLEMS EXCEPT IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH FUCKING…. I HAVE A BAD TEMPER? YOU DONT EVEN KNOW ME ATLEAST I AM POLITE ENOUGH TO SAY IM SORRY FOR THE CAPS AND I WAS SORRY I TRIED TO GET SOME HELP…SO HOW DO YOU THINK THAT IS RUDE?

  31. katm Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    God I love this place :-)

  32. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    Sweetheart, I’m sure you DO have problems with fucking, but unfortunately we won’t be able to help you with those in this forum.

  33. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    GEESH KAT ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE ME BULL TOO JUST FOR ASKING TO HAVE SOMEONE HELP ME OR TELL ME BOUT BLOGGING.

  34. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    @katm – would you like some popcorn? :D

  35. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    LOL NOW IT IS GETTING PERSONAL YOU FUCKING REATRDS…I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE…ESPECIALLY AFTER THEY TRY TO APPOLOGISE….YOU ARE THE ONE THAT IS A WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT….YOU WANT ME TO BE RUDE I SURE WILL NOW….YOUR SO FUCKING TIED UP INTO YOURSELF YOU DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT WHO YOU HURT OR WHATEVER ON THIS FUCKING RETARDED SITE….ESPECIALLY WHEN SOMEONE ASKS FOR SOME HELP…DONT YOU WORRY BECAUSE IN A FEW MINUTES I HAVE SOME FRIENDS THAT ARE MAKING UP NICS JUST TO GTE ON HERE AND FUCK WITH YOU NOW THAT YOU ARE BEING CHILDISH AND SELFISH1

  36. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Now you’re swearing at katm? You’re a natural for the internet, I’m telling you.

  37. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    OH AND DONT LET THAT SCARE YOU…I WILL MAKE SURE YOU LOSE YOUR FUCKING BLOGGS ON HERE1

  38. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    If you don’t like 4chan, try this site:
    http://www.rotten.com/

  39. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    WHO WAS SWEARING AT KAT? I SURE WASNT SO DONT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH RETARD

  40. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    OH I C UR ON THAT SITE…ROTTEN.COM LOL POOR GUY DICK ROTTED RIGHT OFF…..

  41. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    It’s
    “don’t put words in my mouth, retard.”

    Punctuation is so important!

  42. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    If those links aren’t helpful, try:

    http://clubpenguin.com

  43. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    LOL….WELL THERE YOU GO RETARD….

    I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE

  44. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    WELL I HAVE A PERSONAL FUN LIFE TO GO ENJOY WITH MY CHILDREN WHILE YOU FUCKING RETARDS ARE SITTING HERE TREATING PEOPLE LIKE SHIT WHEN UR SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING PEOPLE WHO ASK FOR SOME….

  45. diamondfistwerny Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    HOMEWORKERMOM, LET IT GO AND MOVE ON!!!!! THAT’S WHAT MY MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD ME WHEN I WAS ACTING CHILDISH!

  46. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    Ella, I was just about to recommend them! GMTA!

    BTW: 4chan will tell you what GMTA MEANS!

  47. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    FUCK YOURSELF AND MAYBE SOMEDAY WHEN YOU GROW UP THEN THERE WILL BE MORE PEOPLE TO COME HERE… OH I FORGOT U ALREADY FUCKED YOURSELF WHEN YOU FUCKED WITH ME U SCUMBAG LICKING QUEEER!

  48. raincoaster Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    homeworkermom, shouldn’t you be homeschooling or something?

  49. katm Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    Too early for popcorn, Ella.

    But I’ll take a bowl of fruit :-)

  50. diamondfistwerny Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    TRY BREAST-FEEDING NEXT TIME AND YOU WON’T MESS UP YOUR KEYBOARD. THAT’S WHAT THIS QUEER RECOMMENDS!

  51. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    RETARDS!

  52. diamondfistwerny Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    OH AND MY KEYBOARD IS STUCK ON CAPS CUZ I WAS WATCHING SOME UM VIDEOS :p

    1. homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

      HAHAHA MAYBE SOMEONE WILL SEE WHAT A BUNCH OF ASSHOLE YOU ARE FOR POSTING THAT ON YOUR BLOG LOL THEN FOR SURE YOU WILL GET BANNED…LIKE I CARE IF I DO….HAHAHAH

    2. ellaella Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

      @rain -Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

      @katm – sure, fruit too. Popcorn’s just so perfect with drama.

      @diamond – LOL.

    3. sulz Member May 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

      homeworkermom: if you’re still reading this, i think you totally misunderstood everybody here. when raincoaster said

      Not here. We aren't allowed to do what you're doing, and we're not using blogspot, so nobody here will be able to help you.

      she was not being rude at all. first off, this is the wp.com forums, where most of us volunteers (we are not staff but volunteers who take time to help other bloggers out but only on wp.com blogs because we are using it and therefore most familiar with it) only have knowledge in wp.com blogs. you provided a blogspot blog, and we don’t use that, so rain’s point is that since we don’t use blogspot, we can’t help you.

      i understand that you are trying to learn blogging, but when someone says they can’t help, it doesn’t mean they’re rude. it just means that they don’t have the right knowledge in the product you’re using.

      also, i think that nobody is obligated to help you. if they refuse just go elsewhere and seek help. there are plenty of resources on the internet to help you start with blogging.

homeworkermom Member May 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

YOU MISSED OUT ON THE ACTION DIAMOND….SO FUCK YOURSELF AND THE BOAT YOU CAME IN ON….FOR SOMEONE THAT ASKED FOR SOME HELP YOU GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF FUCKED UP SCUMBAGS!

  1. snash Member May 14th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    can anybody pass the popcorn, please! this is interesting conversation…
  2. gamehq Member May 14th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    Here you go I popped up a extra bag for you snash,
    this is one the most funniest threads i’ve seen in
    awhile LOL
  3. vivianpaige Member May 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am

    I’d rather have ice cream ;)
  4. gamehq Member May 15th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    Granted what flavor would you like? vivianpaige,
  5. diamondfistwerny Member May 15th, 2008 at 12:35 am

    mmmmmmmmmm Peach Ice Cream! I’m off to the store…..
  6. snash Member May 15th, 2008 at 12:40 am

    hei…I smell corny dog…
  7. snash Member May 15th, 2008 at 12:42 am

    you don’t mind if I have bite…hehehe
  8. kstafford Member May 15th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    I think we should digg + stumble this thread….you know, for education purposes. :)

    Rain and the rest of you have me pissing my pants. :)

  9. raincoaster Member May 15th, 2008 at 4:28 am

    kstaff, I agree.

    At least about the digg and stumble…but plz do it on the blog post. Matt doesn’t need more hits. Operation Global Media Domination does! Kthxbai.

    Oh, god. I’ve got to stop this lolspeak.

  10. deltafoxtrot Member
    May 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    I’m glad I didn’t have a glass of milk while reading this.

  11. sanjidabd Member
    May 16th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    i
    wonder when staff will close this thread. we have had enough drama and
    follow-up here and it has too much inappropriate content to be a
    support thread any longer and should be moved into off-topic.

    just my two cents……

  12. sonic30132 Member
    May 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    What kind of cake? Carrot cake would be nice.

  13. raincoaster Member
    May 17th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    Fruitcake would be appropriate!

  14. katm Member
    May 17th, 2008 at 1:41 am

    Good thing I just finished my glass of tea…

    You crack me up rain.

  15. vivianpaige Member
    May 17th, 2008 at 2:38 am

    Fruitcake would be appropriate!

    ROFLMAO!

  16. diamondfistwerny Member
    May 17th, 2008 at 2:43 am

    No Caps Vivianpaige, even in acronyms! LOL

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Drupal Camp Vancouver, Fearless City Media, The Revolution Will Be Fabulous, and Homeless James Bond

The revolution will be fabulousHow’s that for a title?

First, we will explain each element in isolation.

No, first we will tell you what we’re going to tell you. Then we will tell you. Then we will tell you we’ve told you. I’ve been told that’s what to do.

Then, we will invoice you.

No, wait, that’s how it works in the corporatesphere, and the great part is, you get to bill for ALL of the above, plus the time you spend making shit up to talk about in the first place. But this is the Blogosphere, as differentiated from the Twittosphere. So, nobody is getting paid here.

Is this the point at which to mention that my canned Introduction to Social Media talk includes the song “Starfuckers, Incorporated?” Sure it is.

By the way, if I may be allowed to digress (and, since it is my own blog and raincoaster.com to boot it may truly be said that I am not only allowed to digress, but actually encouraged, nay, mandated to do so) and to name-drop as well (ditto, double) I would simply like to take this opportunity to mention that there is every indication and some considerable circumstantial evidence (moreso even than for the existence of fairies, of which we have written elsewhere at length) that this very website was visited by Trent Fucking Reznor. For realz.

Mai archaic telecommunication device. let me show you it

< / squealingfangirl >

Thank you. And now, back to our irregularly-scheduled blog post.

Drupal Camp Vancouver is nothing like Girl Guide Camp; for one thing the gender ratio is all wrong, and for another there are no s’mores. So, like, damn.

But once you get over that, it’s not so bad. First of all, it begins, as do all good things which don’t involve pubic lice, with a free drink ticket. In my case, because I am impecunious in the extreme and gifted with a sense of entitlement larger than the Grand Banks, it began with two, actually, because Dave is a self-declared old hippie and susceptible to the charms of a self-declared old goth such as myself, particularly if she’s heavy on the “just got through teaching blogging to the marginalized population of the Downtown Eastside” speil, which I am wont to do just about whenever I wont to, which is definitely when it will give me free drinks, which is something I always wont except possibly at breakfast and even then I might just wont to pour it into a handy Wellington boot and save it for later.

It IS the Downtown EastSide, yo.

Tomorrow it continues (remember Drupal Camp? It’s a blog post about Drupal Camp) with me volunteering. I have been assured/assurances have been made unto me that there is no reason to turn my world upside-down by presenting myself in, like, the morning. Thank god; I’d thought for a second they were going to be unreasonable or something. So for tomorrow the plan is that I will show up at some point and try to be more useful than annoying, although those of you who know me are aware that it tends to be a wash, whatever the amplitude or volume in question.

Burberry AK 47?

And after Drupal Camp packs up its Pug tents and its GPS-ess and stainless steel travel mugs for the day, I am to assist at Code Sprint, an event which I have neither witnessed nor participated in, but I am prepared to wear a festive hat and consume mint juleps and shoot the second-place finisher if that is what it takes.

Too soon?

Come and “jam” with fellow creatives, both technical and non-technical, from 6pm to 9pm. There’s activities for right and left brainers, er, themers and coders, alike! The plan is for coders to focus on methods for adding mobile content and themers to focus on the creation of a mobile-friendly black-on-white theme. Don’t worry about your skill level, everyone can participate.

The Fearless Media Project facilitates community participation in the creation of media and community dialogue on issues relevant to people in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver.

Which brings us to Fearless City Media. Which I told Scott I would link to once that bloody SEO-slaughtering splash page was ripped pixel by pixel out of the cyberverse and thrown into the deepest pit of Hell, but what the hell, I lied: sue me. Fearless City is what I do with my Thursday nights, manifesting the promise of equality and emancipation implicit in the Digital Revolution and bridging the Digital Divide by leading a blogging workshop for some of the most marginalized people in North America. I do this in the back room of an art gallery which works with artists suffering from mental illness or the aftereffects of abuse, in a neighborhood where, according to Statistics Canada, the average life expectancy is 33 years, lower than any nation on Earth.

What did you do Thursday night?

Yes, even I find me insufferable sometimes. Still. What did you?

Fearless City Media

The Mission

The purpose of the Fearless Media Project is to facilitate community participation in the creation of media and community dialogue on issues relevant to people in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver. This cultural initiative connects documented visions and practises with community priorities and goals. With oversight from the DTES Community Arts Network coordinating body (CANCore), Fearless functions as a portal to arts and culture in “the heart of the city.”

Fearless functions as a community arts initiative that prioritizes an inclusive process and involvement of people in media making. Context is central; this media is situated in more public, accessible and resonant places, geared to a specific audience and a specific time. Fearless is reflective of and responsive to the DTES community.

Fearless fosters engagement with the community by giving voice to the experiences of local people and amplifying their stories. The community-building dynamic happens in many ways: by providing access to resources and training people in media production; by bringing people together to address community issues and explore the rich culture of the Downtown Eastside; and by cultivating understanding through listening and dialogue.

And this video right here is what I tried (and failed…maybe Code Sprint will fix this?) to post on my Fearless City blog: The Adventures of Homeless James Bond, which I stole from The Homeless Guy, an American blogger who’s been blogging since before raincoaster was a twinkle in Cthulhu‘s third eye, posting from libraries and public computers all over his hometown.

The revolution is coming. And it will be Fabulous.

Class War in Blood Alley? And what happens to the losers?

Louis Vuitton Electric Chair

Louis Vuitton Dumpster

The Cans Festival

I love the Brits; not only do they apparently think I should rule their blogosphere (I humbly accept), but they’re also in many ways quite simply batshit insane. One of the manifestations of this unfortunate, though amusing-to-watch, characteristic is their irrational fondness for so-called “Festivals.”

They appear to define the word “Festival” as “any occasion during which city dwellers come in contact with both actual dirt and other people wearing same, particularly on their faces,” and most particularly if it cost a month’s salary and someone is screaming at them through an expensive sound system during a downpour.

Trust Banksy to be more clever than your run of the mill Festivationator: he’s organized a Festival in a tunnel.

Behold The Cans Festival (via Walking Turcot Yards):

The Cans Festival, under Waterloo Station

Some people are calling it the greatest stencil art show that has ever taken place in a tunnel underneath Waterloo station. It was visited by 28,544 people and 623 of them painted on the walls.

mind control

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the slip: trent reznor puts out for his fans

sir prize buttsecks from NIN!

source

Trent Reznor knows what I like in a man, and he is ready and willing to give it to me: free stuff! Yes, the (apparently fearless) head of Nine Inch Nails has decided to stop pussyfooting around and put out for me; that is, to put out one whole album, free.

Like, “This ain’t no Radiohead sort of “free” either.” Free.

And he’s making it available for YOU YES YOU to download now. Okay, yeah, so maybe he spreads it around a little; he’s a rock god, what do you expect? Just remember to surf safe, boiz and grrrlz.

Download it now!

Go on, push his button. You know you want to.

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London Calling

Boris is bonked out by the looks of things

Hello to my funnily-accented friends from various quaint backwaters across the Pond.

I understand that congratulations are in order for the multi-ethnic immigrant underdog Al Kemal, new Grand High Vizier of Londonistan.

Yes, the long shot has triumphed over the Career Bureaucrat, despite a few false starts and a campaign website optimized for and displaying correctly on no browser known to science or religion. We at the ol’ raincoaster blog are vastly relieved to be on the other side of the planet, well away from the anticipated violently uncontrollable celebrations of the cricket louts, the derby-topped swarms of bankers lumbering down sidewalks high on Earl Grey and looking for trouble, and of course the looming presence of his old homies in the Bullingdon Crips, who will now become quite impossible to deal with on a reasonable level. One of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world will be under the ruthless control of a small, formerly marginalized group of cronies whose life experiences fall so far outside the norm as to constitute positive aberration.

The hordes have already destroyed Boris’ website (which has crashed) and so the mob furls their umbrellas and moves on to Boriswatch.

Smashing.

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