I am a river

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Here’s an excellent example of pwnage: when the white supremacist group VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK tried to host a hate rally in Knoxville, Tennessee, they were foiled by … clowns!

Unfortunately for [VNN] the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were. Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns. http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/7704982.html

“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.

“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.

“White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message, “ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled “Tight Shower!” and held a solar shower in the air and all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.

At this point several of the Nazi’s and Klan members began clutching their hearts as if they were about to have a heart attack. Their beady eyes bulged, and the veins in their tiny narrow foreheads beat in rage. One last time they screamed “White Power!”

The clown women thought they finally understood what the Klan was trying to say. “Ohhhhh…” the women clowns said. “Now we understand…”, “WIFE POWER!” they lifted the letters up in the air, grabbed the nearest male clowns and lifted them in their arms and ran about merrily chanting “WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER!”

(via Clowns Kicked KKK Asses)

cliché

People are full of clichés. When something bad happens they always say “I’m broken” as if they were a cracker or a leaf. But people aren’t two diemnsional, they’re rigid and hard but always so round. They’re full of layers like they ground, different dirt in different colors, and if you had a scientist they could say, “This is when you lost your favorite toy” “This is when you met the love of your life” “He lived next door and never said hello” just the way that a scientist could say, “This is from when the dinasaurs died” “This is an early female human” and by looking at the pelvis they can say “She never had any children. She died old.”

People don’t break, they don’t just snap in half and then fall down like puzzle pieces. They walk uphill through the things that life throws at them, sometimes really big, sharp things. And they get cuts and scratches and sometimes they get nicked so hard a piece comes off and they feel ashamed and say, “I’m sorry, I’m just so broken.” But really they just can’t hide that part of them that a scientist would speculate happened around the time their grandma died.

Sometimes nothing happens though, sometimes you don’t get nicks or cuts, you get new layers. They add on overtime, and they harden. And people are silly and say “I can never love again, I’m so broken” as they add a new coat of black coal to themselves. It’s hard, really. If life doesn’t throw enough people at you, the kind that wipe the coal away, you just have to wait until it hardens and life throws something very large at you and it hits you and you find youself saying, “I’m sorry you had to see that time in the summer when the flowers were in bloom” but they won’t mind.

“I do not always do what I am told. And this is because when people tell you what to do it is usually confusing and does not make sense.
For example, people often say ‘Be quiet’ but they don’t tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on.” —

Mark Haddon ‘the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’ (via myhearteatsbeats) (via lazybones)

This is a great book.