{"id":185883,"date":"2014-07-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/25\/this-is-fing-brilliant\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T23:00:00","slug":"this-is-fing-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/25\/this-is-fing-brilliant\/","title":{"rendered":"This is F%$#ing Brilliant!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heh! <\/i><\/div>\n

A couple in North Carolina has come up with a unique counter protest to the Talibaptist abortion criminalization crowd<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 One Raleigh, N.C., couple\u2014Grayson Haver Currin, a writer for Pitchfork and music editor at Indy Week, and his wife Tina, a copywriter and creative strategist\u2014has been protesting alongside pro-lifers at a clinic in Cary, N.C., every Saturday morning since March. But their signs take a different approach.<\/span>

<\/span> Two days ago, Tina started the Tumblr Saturday Chores<\/a> to document their glorious counter-protest technique. Grayson explains how this movement came about:<\/span>

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\u201cThere’s no big-box hardware store very close to where we live, so we were driving toward a suburb of Raleigh called Cary, which runs over with strip malls. We were getting supplies for a garden box. We both grew up not too far away, and we’ve seen the clinic in question hundreds of times. But for some reason, on this morning in particular, the protesters got under our skin a little more than normal. I’m full of crazy ideas and jokes, and Tina tells me which rare ones are good. I suggested that we make a sign that said \u2018Weird Hobby\u2019 and point at one of the protestors. She loved the idea and vowed that, if they were there when we passed back by, we’d do it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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<\/span> He states that though this is satire, there’s an important message behind the signs.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cWhile it’s true that we’re mocking people, we consider the chief value of what we’re doing the solidarity that we demonstrate for the individuals or families that need to use the clinic’s services for whatever reasons they may have,\u201d Grayson says. \u201cGenerally, upon arrival, they only encounter hate. We want to offer a rejoinder, however slight. And we also hope to show passersby on the busy thoroughfare that the far religious right need not be the only ones with a voice; those with progressive views have one, too, and we should use it.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is so F%$#ing brilliant.<\/p>\n

No shouting, no screaming, nothing to make them feel like they are fighting “the man,” you just make them look, and feel, stupid.<\/p>\n

I love it!<\/p>\n

H\/t Crooks and Liars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click for Slideshow)Heh! A couple in North Carolina has come up with a unique counter protest to the Talibaptist abortion criminalization crowd: \u2026\u2026\u2026 One Raleigh, N.C., couple\u2014Grayson Haver Currin, a writer for Pitchfork and music editor at Indy Week, and his wife Tina, a copywriter and creative strategist\u2014has been protesting alongside pro-lifers at a clinic …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,1100,1002,978,1019,995,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-theater","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}