Freedom Guerrilla

The Resistance

Tommy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:42:36 +0000

Get up.

The Resistance is forcing you under. It’s making you double over and drop down.

The Resistance is a dirty motherfucker. It’s telling you what to do and making you its bitch. Right now. It wants you to suck — just like everybody sucks. It’s easier just to suck at everything than to choke on the acid and emerge human.

The Resistance wants you to say “it’s okay.” It’s not okay. It wants you to be comfortable, go on vacation, spend too much, eat too much, think too much, worry too much, fluff another pillow. But — the Resistance NEVER wants you to act up, wake up, stand up, or fuck up. The Resistance hates reality even more than you do.

The Resistance will never go away. The best you can do is dig in. Fight when you’re tired. Mend when you’re angry.

Get up.

Do this now.

Within

Tommy — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:12:33 +0000

Within every man is a boy who knows nothing about history but everything about how he’s supposed to live.

Within every woman is a girl who is inherently creative and more powerful than she can imagine or be allowed to fully realize.

Within every society there are givers and takers, destroyers and creators, sympathizers and tyrants, enforcers and slaves.

That’s us.

No More Hiding

Tommy — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:55:47 +0000

I believe we’ve arrived at that point where there’s nothing left to say. Only choosing and doing (or not doing) exist anymore. The 800 pound gorilla has been fully identified, acknowledged, and weighed. The pill has been swallowed.

Reverse gear has been long since stripped.

BTW, the illustration is the first page of a graphic novel I’ve been working on for longer than I care to admit. This is the first public look. No more hiding.

[Thanks, Jonathan, for the vid link.]

The Occupation Continues

Tommy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:01:55 +0000

This whole thing reminds me of a song written by Soundgarden for the Lost Generation….

When new damage comes
It’s a faceless poison
A new world order
It’s new damage done
The wreck is going down
Get out before you drown
The wreck is going down
Get out before you drown
Get out, yeah

When new damage comes
It’s a new word for plague
A new world order
A new word for hate
The wreck is going down
Get out before you drown
The wreck is going down
Get out before you drown
Get out, yeah, before you drown
Get out, get out, oh yeah

The Occupation of Wall Street

Tommy — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:07:23 +0000

Several hundred humans have congregated in downtown Manhattan near Wall Street to protest the failed state of the United States’ beloved Corptocracy. In an effort to occupy Wall Street, these people are making audacious statements like:

We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.

Now, almost ironically, our President is championing a movement to increase taxes on some of the richest people ever to don pants while legally committed to lowering a deficit. Increase taxes? Lower the deficit? In an election year? Please join me in a rousing chant of “WTF?”.

Can anyone else feel the grip loosening at the top? Maybe a bit of unraveling by people with twitter accounts, calculators, and some unemployed time on their hands? Can anyone else feel the sound of the 24 hour news cycle morphing into an angry version of Charlie Brown’s teacher? Perhaps we’ve attained the spin speed where we’re all actually standing still.

Perhaps we have finally put down our last boilermaker. It’s 5 am. The sun is rising, and we can already feel the acid stomach of the week-long hangover that will threaten to kill us. We partied too hard and too long — we’re broke, and we know we did some bad shit. But we’ll have to wait for the film to get developed and our docket number to be called in court to truly understand how bad it is.