NO NINE TO FIVE CREATE LIVING.Tumblr (3.0; @notsopopular)http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/<blockquote><p>Fuck off. I’m not your granddad. These young people, they’re only young. Not my fault. Fuck this. Time away. Excuse me, you poisoned my dog. You put poisoned meat out. But the British police won’t do anything about it. Fucking shitbags. I’ve not seen my…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/05/09/monologue-by-a-man-at-a-bus-stop-2-30am/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/50005292153http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/50005292153Thu, 09 May 2013 22:59:25 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3cf999f6e682013e852f318efc741a77/tumblr_mmj2e61AYT1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Daydream <a href="http://wp.me/s2E4CZ-daydream">http://wp.me/s2E4CZ-daydream</a></p><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/05/09/daydream/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/50005196432http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/50005196432Thu, 09 May 2013 22:56:29 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/10b68a7a7cc6b50fc1453d66795914b1/tumblr_mks45nxDTs1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>One Justified Nepalese Education</big></p><blockquote> <p>Across the ‘developing’ world, one tactic all agree on is the importance of universal education…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/04/05/one-justified-nepalese-education/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/47184179997http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/47184179997Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:05:46 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9a280b42adb728959c722ba72302abed/tumblr_mkrz9zIhG41qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>The Arts Cuts are Censorship, Welfare Cuts are Class War</big></p><blockquote><p><br/> Image: <a href="http://bobandrobertasmith.zxq.net/">Bob and Roberta Smith</a></p> <p>The rhetoric this government are using to convince people the arts…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/04/05/the-arts-cuts-are-censorship-welfare-cuts-are-class-war/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/47181244462http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/47181244462Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:20:23 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/61c8a175199fd64c5692d57b57889fa5/tumblr_mk856wKRh81qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Three Facts About Peace</big></p><blockquote><p>18% of British soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan had PTSD and more die from suicide than…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/03/25/three-facts-about-peace/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/46257104088http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/46257104088Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:16:08 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d5fcb4974cc42027f95edb0933e759a1/tumblr_mjzi4hslet1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>As(s)piration Nation, a response</big></p><blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/budget2.jpg"><br/></a>Photograph: Nastasia Alberti</p> <p>I aspire to see a world where there is a true choice for all. Not a…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/03/21/asspiration-nation-a-response/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/45874477355http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/45874477355Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:17:05 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1671851fb1a9ea548c1920e991eec2bf/tumblr_mjtyg3eLAX1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Happy Place</big></p><blockquote><p>Sunlight spreads like honey<br/> On the sweeping dunes.<br/> And I a child in summer’s clothing,<br/>Know not of…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/03/18/happy-place/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/45632713007http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/45632713007Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:24:02 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b5aa03c2607f505c7f9ca3f30f0b39f/tumblr_mjalebsomI1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Arts Cuts are Nuts</big></p><blockquote><p>In the middle of ‘austerity’ what do people want to stand in front of?</p> <p>A government who slashes…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/03/07/arts-cuts-are-nuts/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/44781862228http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/44781862228Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:27:47 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/068835d771296233efd5c66252dfaaf5/tumblr_mivrd1jrcF1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Enlarged to Show Detail</big></p><blockquote><p>What do you know of oats, America?</p> <p>Yesterday, you were just a coin</p> <p>in the hands of some seafarer.</p> <p>G…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/02/27/enlarged-to-show-detail/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/44137748681http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/44137748681Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:12:36 +1200<blockquote>[vimeo <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/57233785">http://www.vimeo.com/57233785</a> w=450&amp;h=253] <p>Short film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s story.<br/> Directed by Keifer Taylor, written by Darya Yaitskaya, cinematography by Leila Sohawon. </p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/02/19/tell-tale-heart/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/43499595556http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/43499595556Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:58:45 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1793872f5c8658083093269a0039752c/tumblr_mi7tax2Btl1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>See a Jay</big></p><blockquote><p>Did you see a jay?</p> <p>He was flying</p> <p>in the wind</p> <p>binned</p> <p>skinned</p> <p>alive from the words</p> <p>that left a boy’s…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/02/14/see-a-jay/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/43077713509http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/43077713509Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:52:08 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ad0a59f013fbd622447164773b5802fb/tumblr_mi2a7eafil1qb4wiro1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Concessions</big></p><blockquote><p>CONCESSIONS</p> <p>It’s hard to hear,</p> <p>when the disinterest is deafening.</p> <p>Ears wide shut you coast the…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/02/11/concessions/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/42843958461http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/42843958461Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:11:38 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3ded5e709bad1e08d19c38e815621f16/tumblr_mhro41iDv31qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Bathtime</big></p><blockquote><p>A Bathtub where water
 covers toes where<br/>Skin holds back – weaves
 and presses on wondering
 whims,…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/02/05/bathtime/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/42376871492http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/42376871492Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:38:23 +1200<blockquote>[vimeo <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/58118650">http://www.vimeo.com/58118650</a> w=450&amp;h=338] <p>Californya 96 is a collaborative effort between two brothers: one contributing music and the other his hi8 (camcorder VHS to you and I) film footage of their family holiday to California in 1996.</p> <p>Cameos by…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/01/29/l-a-times/">View Post</a></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/41781209929http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/41781209929Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:06:02 +1200<blockquote> <p>When I look back on my choice of fiction I have always been turned off from literature that did not leave me a little hot under the collar. However, the sex involved in the books I read tends to be a slow burn of surmounting tension that climaxes just…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/01/14/i-read-books-for-sex/">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/40539121485http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/40539121485Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:39:18 +1200<blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg"><img alt="Hunter_S_Thompson_Pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450" src="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg?w=300"/></a><a href="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg"><img alt="Hunter_S_Thompson_Pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450" src="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg?w=300"/></a><a href="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg"><img alt="Hunter_S_Thompson_Pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450" src="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg?w=300"/></a><a href="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg"><img alt="Hunter_S_Thompson_Pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450" src="http://notsopoetry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hunter_s_thompson_pic1_1297867615_crop_550x450.jpg?w=300"/></a></p> <p>Judging only from the current state of journalism, it would seem that blogs and the Internet have introduced a new challenge to the longstanding, steadfast tradition of objective journalism – where the writer is not an individual, but merely a catalyst…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2013/01/09/a-historical-argument-for-subjectivity-in-journalism/">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/40086195604http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/40086195604Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:15:15 +1200<blockquote><p>Eventually.<br/> When sweat drips<br/> It drips a milky salt<br/> Down your back, flickering<br/> Down your back, condensing<br/> On skin. Waiting for a tongue<br/> To flick out, lick it up, mould<br/> You into shade. Light flickers<br/> Through the window. A face looks<br/>Through the window, eyes…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2012/12/20/eventually/">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/38381327085http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/38381327085Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:45:11 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/495bc96096d3e8e9c44ebbe62bb734be/tumblr_mf4xudVqBQ1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I am a metaphor</p><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2012/12/16/i-am-a-metaphor/">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/38075267944http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/38075267944Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:56:35 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/495bc96096d3e8e9c44ebbe62bb734be/tumblr_mf4xq5bKCe1qb4wiro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>I am a metaphor</big></p><blockquote><p>I am a metaphor</p> <p>I am a metaphor<br/> for swirling swollen seas<br/> in darkness then I come<br/>bold triumphant…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2012/12/16/i-am-a-metaphor/">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/38075080835http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/38075080835Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:54:04 +1200<blockquote><p>Brain pulsing, blood pumping,<br/> the world humming through a pane of glass,<br/> single glazing (fucking freezing)<br/> thinking:<br/> how many others are lying like a foetus<br/> trapped in a darkness<br/> hearts beating, lungs excreting,<br/> engulfed in irrational thought?</p> <p>By Rosie…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://notsopopular.com/2012/12/13/untitled/">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/37827437246http://notsopopular.tumblr.com/post/37827437246Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:12:49 +1200