#gritstuck.

Any stories from your end of the movement?

Not unless you want more he-said-she-said from the GA.

There's a man, doing a autofellatioriffic cocksucking book tour up the EST Megalopolises.

Y'know, for his POD and E-book.

The usual "Think and Grow Rich" bullshit, I take it? Or another one of those fake autobiographies?

Lil' bit. More about how to sell your creative data, with a heavy fauxtivist slant. Likes to hit up the encampments and clinics. Good mutual publicity.

And, hell, he's got at least /one/ /chapter/ where he almost checks his privilege and gets it right.

So we had a big strife about whether it was worth letting him get anywhere near our public faces, the pro-con.

What if he's tagged, proper representation, 'diversity of tactics,' all that drek.

If that was a valid way out of poverty half the LA Village would probably be in studio apartments doing the artist thing, instead of down here scrabbling at the dirt.

I'd say ask him to provide references from those of /us/ who've made it, if I were there.

Heh. Case studies and anecdotes do not statistically significant numbers make!

It is virtually certain that he'll not have produced so much as one greater suit in the past twenty years, and thus should be run out of town faster than a Nigerian prince, yes?

Those goddamn "artist deals" where they take a documentary crew down here and hold American Idol with us disadvantaged poorfaces and then whisk the most malleable idiot up to sign a deal don't count, by the way.

A Lordship generally requires family connections, does it not? But, let's be honest. Would you guys sell your dignity for a ticket out of the slums?

Hell no.

Think there was ever a time you would have?

That first year we were out there, if anything.

Freedom, Wealth, Dignity. Pick two.

Two scared kids, twelve and thirteen, with no street or business sense to think of.

Lucky you shitheads didn't get kidnapped, raped, and shipped off to make child pornography in Dubai.

Yeah, it's a damn good thing we were picked up by the ladies here.

Must be your good looks.

Sure, sure. Let me just rearrange my hair for you and have surgery to replace my eyebrows with exotic animal fur. I'll be a damn great model for a swimsuit company, that I will.

Panda is in, I hear.

Did you know how inbred they are?

Population bottleneck, right?

That's how it always works.

They started having to use computer programs to prevent the species from collapsing back in the nineties.

Heh.

I say let those "soi-disant" "collectors" go get shot, and we'll go collect their pearly whites and dump them in a basement somewhere to collect dust, just like those animals.

I love the way they grow up with brain damage from being obligate vegans with carnivorous dietary needs.

And that they're frequently less adept at fucking than 40 year-old virgins.

There's a metaphor here.

Best argument against intelligent design I've ever had. Along with the eyes being inside-out and the brain being the way it is.

Nope, sorry. Panda thumbs are clearly science-legit.