let’s get awesome

In the midst of:

• tempered optimism about the Democrats winning the House and Senate
• the good news of stem cell research initiative passing and South Dakota’s abortion ban losing
• Rumsfeld’s resignation
• the disturbing victory of the Michigan “Civil Rights” initiative, banning affirmative action
• ongoing resistance (and increased Government-sponsored violence) in Oaxaca
• Daniel McGowan and 3 other people implicated in the Green Scare pleading guilty to some charges and refusing to implicate other suspects.

this Times story may have slipped through the cracks:

Domino’s is now marketing a “Brooklyn-style” pizza. Whatever the hell that means. Anyway, they’ve created this awful (and ugly) website which features a stereotpye-laden, advertising-plastered rendering of a “Brooklyn Neighborhood” (link and pic below). The Times also reports that in addition to the crime of creating the big box store of fast-food pizza, Domino’s founder Thomas S. Monaghan has also been a supporter of anti-abortion orgs like Operation Rescue and “earlier this year announced his intention to build a town called Ave Maria in Florida based on strict Roman Catholic principles.” Whoa.

The part about this story that I like the most is Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s response to Domino’s misappropriating Brooklyn culture.

It’s a multinational right-wing company, mass marketing the Brooklyn attitude with obsolete ethnic stereotypes, not to mention flimsy crusts.

Hell yes Marty.