Links
Below is a wealth of related resources provided by the People's Commissar of Hero Awareness to promote the enrichment of all the hard working proletariats.
COMRADES
- The Smurfs and Communism - Blue has long been the standard nemesis of red, but our little "blue" friends have more RED on their minds and souls than what the Saturday morning cartoon hours are allowed to show you.
- A Case in Communism: The Super Mario Story - What does Kristen Henderson and Mario have in common? They're both plumbers! No, wait. That's not the answer. Let me get back to you...
- SIBERIA - Our department had the year-end holiday party at this bar once. Not soon afterwards, Village Voice announced its Best of NYC for the year 2004 and this precious dive won the distinction of Best Bar at which to contract possible STDs from Furniture. According to the random flyers on the wall, it's also a good hangout for the casual socialist.
- The Liz Brooks Project - Liz Brooks is definitely a comrade, a friend of the proletariat, and comrades work on projects together, though this one isn't a kolkhoz.
- Manbunnies at Play - They support wiretapping and spying on individuals. The Manbunnies are also a very close-knit communal bunch, not unlike the communists.
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HEROES
- Shawn Colvin - I don't know anything about her besides that if you don't like her, you're wrong. A hero of my hero is suppose to be a hero to me.
- Antigone Rising - Heroness by association. I just made up the word heroness.
- Chris Trapper - He didn't claim his Homecoming King crown perhaps because of his qualms regarding weaknesses in the monarchy. Chris Trapper is all about debunking the rock star myth and power to the people.
- Jane Goodall - Her Institute was about to file a defamation of character lawsuit after a strip in The Far Side referenced Jane as a tramp when she stepped in to call it off because she actually found the strip funny. She then went on to write the forward in one of his later books. A primatologist with a sense of humor and her own The Far Side strip is the classic definition of a hero.
- Stephen Chow - The man was crazy enough to think action-comedies about soccer or cooking requiring martial arts would make for great, entertaining feature films. He was actually right. If I were a zombie, his brain would be one of the first ones I'd pick to gnaw on, out of love of course, for brains that is.
- Bill Watterson - A master of the craft who managed to keep his integrity through a decade of licensing temptations, he not only introduced to the world two of the best characters to ever grace the daily funnies in the form of Calvin and Hobbes, but retired prematurely at the height of the strip's popularity to tell the newspapers and syndicates to go eff themselves. If that wasn't hero worthy enough, the man left his fame and fortunes to retire in OHIO of all places.
- I.F.O.C.E. - Martin Luther King once had a dream that one day kids will say "I want to be a competitive eater" when asked what they want to be when they grow up.
- Kikkoman - Show me, show you. Kikkoman, Kikkoman...alright!
- Blimpie - Some "heroes" come in hot and tasty forms depending on what part of the country you're from. Bonus hero points for opening the first one in Hoboken, NJ. Would you like a small pop with that?
- Michael Huff - Anyone who thought to use his first paycheck as a professional athlete to buy not just any big house, but one with the trademark blue roof they call "IHOP" automatically deserves hero status.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Believe it or not, there was some semblence of research that went into building the home of the KHendolshevik Revolution. The People's Commissar of Hero Awareness dedicates this section to Vintavius Caesar, Emperor of the Critical Eye, whose turning of the thumb determined the fate of so many prospective designs. Many gladiators died in his Circus Maximus.
- Revolution by Design
- Red Files: Soviet Propaganda Machine
- International Institute of Social History
- Constructivist Art
- Alexandr Rodchenko @ NYC MoMA
- Constructivism and Suprematism
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