Project: VOTE MOTHERFUCKER VOTE
So it is officially past Christmas and the muzak at work has finally turned away from carols (and I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to hear The Same Fifteen Songs We Always Play in my life) but anyway that means it is time to start thinking about the New Year and such, and I have been thinking, and the thought is this:
I don’t think Project: VOTE MOTHERFUCKER VOTE should be a chapbook.
I don’t think it’s enough. I think it’s a single, concentrated shout, and that’s something, but what we really need is a chorus of fucking fire alarms going off at random intervals. I think we need to be perpetually flicking our followers’ ears going “Hey. Hey. Hey.” I think we need to be fucking Navi from Legend of Zelda, and here is how we do this:
Just fucking post about voting. Once a week, if you’d like, or once a month if that’s more your speed. Once a fortnight, if that’s how you feel. Pick your interval – daily, hourly if you’ve got the will and the chutzpah – and post about voting that often. Post/reblog a link to a good article. Make some art that expresses how you feel about voting. Put the words VOTE MOTHERFUCKER VOTE into whatever meme generator happens to be trendy in that five-second span of time and post it.
Post information about voting. Post information about voting-related charities. Gleefully trash the politicians you hate the most while talking up their opponents. Whatever you think will get people not only registered to vote but also out there on the day, in their polling locations, ready to kick some ass and earn that fucking sticker. Just do it, do it, do it, do it from New Year’s to Election Day.
So that’s your New Year’s Resolution suggestion from me to you. That’s the challenge I want you to give yourself. Say “Once a day/week/fortnight/month 45-day-cycle/whatever, I am going to tell my followers to go out and vote” and then follow through on that.
Just yell, really. Just yell a lot. I know people say that doesn’t help, but where the fuck does silence get you it isn’t real far I speak from experience. So let’s make a consistent racket.
Also I’m going to try to come up with some swag, maybe not by New Year’s but within the month of January. I just need to actually map out my pattern and start embroidering that shit. It’ll be flowery. It’ll be cool.
Anyway, that’s what we’re doing. If you want in, then jump in.
Oh, and don’t fucking forget to vote. We did good shit this November. We can do a lot more. But it’s up to all of us. So vote, motherfucker, vote.