My tireless effort to raise dental awareness at the Rainbow Gathering has really paid off. Bless you sister .
May 26, 2009
HOT OFF THE PRESSES
Flux on the scene of the ongoing
mountaintop removal protests
in West Virginia.
May 25, 2009
PONY TROUBLE
Film auteur Warren dropped over the other day to shoot some whimsical,
magical dancing fairy fetish footage. The boy’s a voice of his freaky deaky generation of freaks .
For your edification , I am embedding the trailer to Pony Trouble, Warren’s first cinematic masterpiece .
Enjoy.
May 21, 2009
NATALIE COLE WINS A KIDNEY
It was announcement-as-theater, as Supreme mocked the presidential election process (mimicking Howard Dean’s infamous scream from the last Democratic primary campaign), attempted to place a boot on Gardner’s head (Gardner begged off, describing the boot as “pretty wet”), and – in an effort to display the surgical scar that resulted from his kidney donation to his mother – showed more skin than would be fit for a child’s eyes.
“I believe I am the only living human organ donor in this race at this time, and I am challenging each and every candidate, Republican and Democrat, to give one up,” he said, with his shirt pulled up his chest. “There is no reason to have two kidneys. That is sheer selfishness. Give it up; give it up. You show how much you care for the people, then we’ll talk about how much you care for the people. . . . Any other questions?”
To which Gardner, who was standing in the corner, muttered an exclamation of disbelief.
12/29/2007
A candidate’s treasures
Concord Monitor
Campaign 2008
Vermin Supreme donates skewed history to political library
By SARAH LIEBOWITZ
Monitor staff
In the words of Republican presidential candidate Vermin Supreme, the New Hampshire Political Library yesterday inherited “a whole bunch of crap.”
There are the seemingly contradictory Supreme campaign slogans (”It being a marginally reality-based campaign, I can pretty much say whatever I want and deny it”): Bumper stickers promoting mandatory dental hygiene (”Brush your teeth. It’s the law”) and others asserting personal liberty (”U.S. out of my mouth”). A photograph of Supreme (yes, that’s his legal name) attached to a Suzanne Somers exercise ad will also go in the collection, as will one of Supreme’s signature accessories: A rubber boot, which he wears atop his head.
But whatever your assessment of Supreme’s donation – the fruits of his years on the campaign trail – one fact is indisputable: Never before has the library received such a gift.
“The future of democracy and my legacy are assured,” Supreme intoned in a press conference yesterday with Secretary of State Bill Gardner and library president and CEO Michael Chaney. “It’s definitely worth the $1 million that I’ll be writing off on my taxes.”
And unable to resist an off-color joke, Supreme pointed to the silver underwear he wore outside his clothes as he described his “endowment” to the library.
It was announcement-as-theater, as Supreme mocked the presidential election process (mimicking Howard Dean’s infamous scream from the last Democratic primary campaign), attempted to place a boot on Gardner’s head (Gardner begged off, describing the boot as “pretty wet”), and – in an effort to display the surgical scar that resulted from his kidney donation to his mother – showed more skin than would be fit for a child’s eyes.
“I believe I am the only living human organ donor in this race at this time, and I am challenging each and every candidate, Republican and Democrat, to give one up,” he said, with his shirt pulled up his chest. “There is no reason to have two kidneys. That is sheer selfishness. Give it up; give it up. You show how much you care for the people, then we’ll talk about how much you care for the people. . . . Any other questions?”
To which Gardner, who was standing in the corner, muttered an exclamation of disbelief.
Supreme has been a New Hampshire primary regular for more than a decade (Like everything about Supreme, there’s a question about this fact, too – Chaney thought Supreme first ran in 1992, to which the candidate responded, “I’m claiming ‘88″). This is the first time that Supreme has paid the $1,000 filing fee to be listed on the ballot. His filing address is listed as Rockport, Mass., although Supreme – a self-described “not-so-handy man” in his non-campaigning life – said that he was from Baltimore.
Over the years, he has campaigned for free ponies for all Americans and has taken on “oral decay” and gum-line erosion. While dental hygiene still figures prominently in Supreme’s message – “what this mandatory toothbrushing law is really about is: Strong teeth for a strong America,” a Supreme handout states – the threat of terrorism has permeated his worldview.
In 2008, his issue is “fear-mongering,” Supreme said. “The more fear we can monger, the more we can clamp down,” Supreme explained. “It’s all, ‘Vote for Vermin Supreme or terrible things will happen to your family while you sleep.’ “
Supreme, whose wife was in attendance yesterday, held his press conference clad in a flight suit and silver underwear, with a green zebra-print blazer that he said came from a thrift store in Lithuania. Around his neck were 10 ties, many of them with dental themes. Atop his head: A black boot (they tend to come, he said, from the dump). As for the name: “all politicians are vermin. I’m the vermin supreme,” he said.
The boot gains Supreme notice at political events, and he’s stopped many candidates with questions. At a Hillary Clinton event earlier this year, Supreme attempted to ask the Democratic candidate whether she supported waterboarding in the public schools. He asked Republican Mike Huckabee if, were he elected president, he “would be able to stop evolution.” For Republican Ron Paul, he had a series of questions about Satan (”when I asked him if he had a message for Satan, he begged off”). Over the years, Supreme, and his boot, have won mentions in numerous publications, including The Washington Post.
The library’s other new treasures? Supreme’s emperor suit, what he describes as “an artist rendition of what Vermin Supreme might look like when he’s running for emperor in the year 3000.” It comes complete with flippers, which Supreme describes as epaulets.
“Every primary or every other primary, there will be a candidate like him that will come in dressed in a unique style, and it at least gets some people to ask you some questions,” Gardner said. But Supreme differs from other lesser-known candidates, many of whom run with a serious agenda, Gardner said.
Supreme, in a reflective moment, could only agree.
“There is a certain amount of self-awareness to my campaign,” he said. “It means that I’m aware of how off-the-wall I am.”
May 18, 2009
KIDNEY NOW
Thanks 30 Rock ,
for promoting kidney disease .
I’m Vermin Supreme , a living kidney donor .
Donating blood at the office blood drive , is good.
Donating organs , once your dead and not using them , is nice .
BUT , if you want to really go for the gusto ,
try donating one of your organs , while your still using it !
Now , that’s extreme !
Go ahead , I dare you .
Are you chicken ?
It’s only a kidney . You have two .
Anyone ?
I’m looking at you Baldwin .
KIDNEY FLASHBACK ! ELECTION ‘008
Life of the party
For five days, New Hampshire is the center of the political universe
By Brian Early bearly@hippopress.com
Q&A with Vermin Supreme Vermin Supreme has run for the New Hampshire primary since 1988, although this is the first year he’s actually paid money to be on the ballot. This year he is a Republican. He’s a street performer who lives in Massachusetts. Often he has a combat boot strapped to a helmet he wears.
He’s a firm believer that everyone should brush their teeth and that the government should enforce that mandate. He called the Hippo looking for an endorsement. “If the Hippo won’t endorse Vermin Supreme, who will?” he said.
Hippo : What makes you think that you should be president?
Vermin :
I should be president because I am the most awesome candidate in the race.
Hippo : What makes you awesome?
Vermin :
To the best of my knowledge I’m the only living organ donor in this particular presidential race and of course
I’m making the kidney challenge to all the other candidates,I say give it up, you’ve got two, I had two, now I just have one and the world’s a better place for it.
Seventy thousand people are presently in a state of serious medical need because of failing kidneys.
All of these other candidates have two, and they should only have one.
Hippo : Why did you give up yours ?
Vermin : My mother was needing a kidney and so I gave mine up.
Hippo : On your awesome platform, what would you do?
Vermin : I would dismantle the federal government, just for fun.
Hippo : Just for fun? How long? A day?
Vermin : We’ll see how it goes. A little shock therapy.
Hippo : How many times have you run for president?
Vermin : I’ve been running since 1988.
Hippo : But this is the first time that your name is actually on the ballot?
Vermin : It just seemed like the natural next step?
Hippo : What’s your goal?
Vermin : Social change through shameless self-promotion?
Hippo : What are you promoting?
Vermin : More fun, more fun in America.
Hippo : How do you differ yourself from other candidates?
Vermin : Free everything for everybody.
Hippo : And that’s it?
Vermin : Increase the minimum wage to $50 an hour would make everybody happy. Water boarding in public schools. A robot in every garage. If elected president, I will stop evolution.
Hippo : When you come up with your platforms, do you put a lot of thought into it, or is it just by a whim?
Vermin : A lot of thought. Focus groups, study groups, advisors, all sorts of good stuff like that.
Hippo : Who would you say your political heroes are?
Vermin : I have to give a nod to Dan Ruberti — he was a mayoral candidate in Glouster, Mass., for many years and still is.
Ronald Reagan, the great communicator,
George Bush, the great decider.
All the other fringe candidates in the world.
All the people with the strength of their convictions or their delusions are going forward with the process.Hippo : What’s yours?
Vermin : A little bit of both. It’s my strength through my delusional convictions.
Hippo : How do you campaign?
Vermin : Usually with a bullhorn. I randomly call people on the phone, and I hope to get up to Dixville Notch and shovel people’s driveways.
End
April 23, 2009
DENTAL CRIME OF THE WEEK 4/20
MAN WANTED FOR DENTAL CRIME : LINK CLICK HERE
This is an unrelated dental crime video produced by Crime Stoppers.
It includes exciting dental crime recreation footage .
It is from the country of Canada . Enjoy, Eh?
