So many people on Facebook and Twitter are commenting on just how stupid Congress, the Senate, and the Military officers looked, applauding for only what they liked and staying seated and sneering at what they didn’t. These are the people we’ve elected to run our country? This is what yours and my tax dollar goes to? People who are immobile and unresponsive to the problems and challenges this country is facing? People who cheer only for what they want and could care less about the other side?

We’ve got to act and act now and act decisively. It’s upon every American to write their Congressman or Senator. Like the character Howard Beale in the movie Network, we citizens of the United States need to say, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

For inspiration, here is the original quote from the IMDB web site:

Howard Beale: I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad.
Howard Beale: [shouting] You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,
[shouting]
Howard Beale: ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
Howard Beale: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

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Cargo Trade Show

The Cargo Trade Show is back at St. Patrick’s Center, 268 Mulberry Street [between Spring & Houston] in New York’s NoLita. The area, now considered a yuppie enclave, is filled with turn-of-the-century walk-ups and smartly designed street facing fashion boutiques that’s become an off-the-beaten-path destination for urban chic.

Given my background in all things DJ culture, many of the featured brand’s use music as a driver in the marketing. Sponsors included Karmaloop.com, the online urban fashion retailer.

On Tuesday, I’ll be heading down there with camera in tow to shoot some pics for Netmix.

A few of the brand on hand include:

• amivectio
• bolt cutter
• e.5.Charlie
• entree
• frank 151
• gabriel ruiz
• gifted threads
• greedy genious
• lingo 12
• milkcrate athletics
• rebel aire
• sabit
• stall & dean
• the loots
• triko
• wild child nation
• yours truly

Of course, being a web veteran, I should have had that site backed up, but I hadn’t done it in a while. Alas, I have to rebuild, which is fine because there wasn’t much here yet anyway. However, I do plan on really developing this blog/site over time as a hub for everything that I’m working on. I’ve been re-inspired, so to speak, to use this online venue as a platform for my ideas as well as a place to post things I pick up every day.

Now that I’m publishing TonyZeoli.com, I’m going to do my best to use the Wordpress publishing app for the iPhone, which somehow remains dormant despite the fact that it’s on the first screen of my phone.

I’m not sure yet the direction I’m going to take, but I want to be as open as I can about what it is that I’m working on in my daily life. It may go from the mundane to things that I think are quite exciting. I will try and post tutorials about things I’ve learned with links and images, as well as video musings, maybe a few podcasts, pictures are always fun, and stuff for my portfolio. Hope you can come along for the ride.