This is Wal-Mart The Movie documentary premiere week. Don Hazen (Alternet) organized an impressive editorial collaboration around our film release: Harold Meyerson profiles whistleblower Jim Bill Lynn for the American Prospect, Christopher Hayes tackles Wal-Mart's union busting for In These Times, Joshua Holland investigates Wal-Mart's China Price for Alternet, Liza Featherstone sniffs out the Wal-Mart Money Trail in The Nation, and Greg LeRoy reveals the Wal-Mart Tax for Alternet.

To support Wal-Mart or to NOT support Wal-Mart? Has Wal-Mart affected your community directly? I've lived in small towns with sky rocketing unemployment that embraced Wal-Mart royally for the jobs it brought. But it later leads to the closing of many home grown stores. Then there's the ties between the Democrats and Wal-Mart. Therein lies the dichotomy.

[via Wal-Mart The Movie Blog]

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saturday morning me//
tie-dyed pjs/lapquilt/black fleece hat/
oatmeal/hot white tangerine tea/
daughter away with drummer friends/
hubby flipping tv channel changer
faster than the speed of light/
so how about you?/

Web Trail

Best quote of the day--
"From the desert to the White House, there are so many asses being covered, it looks like a Christo art project." --Paul Krassner
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18th Cannabis Cup - November 20-24, 2005 in Amsterdam.
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November 10th - On November 10th, 2005, stand with the Ogoni people in remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Bhagavan Das will do a live interview with Virato on Asheville's The Revolution radio this Saturday morning. Link

Ben Frost Gallery - Art as freeform popculture assault. I like it.
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Take revenge. Shit on a pigeon.

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"Ecstasy: In and About Altered States," Oct. 9, 2005-Feb. 20, 2006, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA,in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes 30 international artists and their magnificent works.

"Ecstasy" is the closest thing to an LSD flashback that you’re likely to see, a "sensation" in the truest meaning of the term. The strobe lights alone are enough to jump-start long-dormant memories, many of them quite pleasant.

Berlin-based artist Klaus Weber (b. 1967) has installed a cut-glass fountain bubbling with a clear liquid purported to be LSD, formulated in a homeopathic lab. Unsurprisingly, the work is secured behind glass walls and is all but impossible to reach. The implicit tease is whether or not it would be worth it to find out if the liquid is what the artist says it is.

There's also a voyage to the stars exhibit, a floating chamber exhibit, a suspended and architectural matrix of tiny green lights exhibit, giant mushrooms exhibit, an alien abduction exhibit, the cut-glass fountain bubbling with a clear liquid purported to be LSD exhibit and many more.Would love to speak to someone who's been to this exhibit. Gotta be a lot of fun.

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Glue Suit Day 2: Scorned Lover, Glue, Naked Man and Elvis?

Mad ex-fiance drugged the guy, waited until he fell asleep, then glued his penis to his stomach, his testicles to his leg and his buttocks together.

The guy takes this woman to court and talks about how degrading the whole episode was. If it's so degrading, wouldn't ya wanna unglue your penis, sack and butt cheeks privately, chalk it up to a terrible relationship experience and just keep it to yourself??

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The Mars Volta - Scab Dates (Live Album). On November 8 the band's live full-length disc, Scabdates, hits the shelves.

These red-hot prog rockers are back with an impressive live album packed with over 70 minutes of exhilarating live prog-metal madness. "Daltrey and Townsend, Page and Plant - it was impossible to watch Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in action and not think such grandiose thoughts." - Time Out New York

Whoa, did Page and Plant slip in the back door, indeed. Consistent. Visit link to stream samples.

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