My vid will be at the end, as usual.

But first we have this happy story about a Canadian employee of Whole Foods who decided to go out in a blaze of verbal glory by penning a simply glorious “fuck you” resignation letter.

In it, he lists 23 reasons why Whole Food’s clean cut organic hippie-friendly image is complete and total bullshit and rips into the company like a vegan into hummus.

Now I love me a good “fuck you” letter. The poison pen is one of my favorite weapons and it is truly satisfying to see someone absolutely nail a soulless international megacorp to the wall by calling them out on all of their bullshit.

To have it done by a Canadian (well, a Torontonian, close enough) makes it especially sweet.

And to know that the target is a corporation headed by that Ayn Rand loving libertarian cunt John Mackey, well, that’s just the sprinkles on the cake.

But to me, the really succulent schadenfreude comes for the fact that our wonderful ex-employee emailed his resignation letter of awesomeness to every single Whole Foods employee in the world.

That is so awesome that I can barely contain my glee. Not only did he speak truth to power, something that is always worth big points in my books, but he also armed all the other serfs with that exact same truth, fulfilling the role of articulator to the hilt.

Individually, the other Whole Foods slaves have probably seen some of what the letter writer saw and felt many of the same things about their oh so green employer, but until that letter went out there, they had no idea that they were not the only one, and they may well have lacked the words to articulate how they felt as well.

But now they are armed with powerful language, and I am tickled pink.

And because the email went out to I am assuming thousands of people at the same time, there is absolutely no way on this Whole Earth to contain it now.

He described Whole Foods as a “faux=hippie Wal-mart”. Magnificent.

Next up, we have this video about a totally different kind of social issue, one very important to the sort of people I consider to be of my particular tribe.

It’s about geek girls being accused of being “fake geeks”.

I suggest you do what I did : watch the video twice, one time to read, the other to listen.

Now I want to be careful here, because this issue makes me extremely angry and I don’t want to lose it and have this blog entry turn into a harangue.

But let me put it this way : today’s vid was almost a big time rant on the subject, and the next one still might be. One of the surest ways to incite my rage is to present me with a situation where a group, like us nerds, who have known intense exclusion themselves, nevertheless turning into excluding bullying bastards themselves at the drop of a hat.

So when I first read about assholes on the Internet accusing some geek girls of being “fake geeks” who were only pretending to be geeks to get close to geek boys, I thought it was a joke. I didn’t want to believe this actually happened. It seemed so insane that a group of people (straight male geeks) would respond to there FINALLY being more female geeks around by asking them to prove it.

Even if they were faking it (they aren’t), they are doing it to make themselves available to people like you. Take the fucking compliment, wipe the drool off your anorak, and go out there and meet some women, god damn you!

I mean, I know that as a group, male geeks tend to be socially underdeveloped, but you would think they would at least be past the “girls are icky” stage.

Is it just that it seems too good to be true?

Count your blessings and hook the hell up already!

And finally, we have today’s vid, which is of a broader nature.

Yeah, it’s damn near fifteen minutes long. Yes, I need to work on being more succinct. Yes, I still have trouble staying on topic. And yeah, I still wish I was better at picking one thing and saying it.

And I really did try this time. I recorded around 20 minutes of video, then opened the editor and said “Right, I’m going to pare this down to a lean and agile five minutes!”.

A ha ha hah. Nope. It’s all connected to me and I, for the life of me, cannot imagine how to untangle one thread from all the others. It’s all too interwoven.

Oh well, I will keep attempting to acquire the necessary discipline and focus. So far, I am a very prolific writer. I can write lots and lots at the drop of a hat.

But editing it after still eludes me. In all honesty, I am better at editing the video me than I am at editing the writing me, but that is not saying much. At least when I edit the video me, I sometimes realize that whole sections are not necessary to the point I am trying to make.

Like I said. Sometimes.

But I still lack the will to “murder my darlings”, as the writer’s saying goes. It all seems good to me.

Well, or none of it seems good, but I have learned to get over that. Giving yourself no choice but to publish has a lot to do with that.

As for the actual subject matter, those are all thoughts I have had about the problem at the center of consumer culture for a long time.

But I only recently articulated it into “settle for less” and “say no to more”. People spend decades of their lives pursuing acquisition and success, only to find themselves with storage areas full and souls empty and forlorn.

There has to be a better way to live.