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Kariudo Chasseur
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Alternative cartography by Kariudo Chasseur

December 17th, 2007 1:04 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create a map of your neighborhood showing the location of something other than streets, buildings, or businesses.

This is a map of every yeti, sasquatch, bigfoot, abominable snowman, Jabberwocky, Tyranasaurus Rex (only living T-Rexes shown), faerie dragon, 50-foot-tall woman, undead-robo-space-nazi, goomba, character from Metalocalypse, hover-train (not mag-lev), nuclear warhead, mountain, ocean, messiah, ancient Greek philosopher, world-record-setting pizza, Godzilla, Mothra, tauren, super-saiyan between levels 4 and 7, Phil Hartman (R.I.P.), black hole, one of these, private island, glacier, polar ice cap, Equator, Prime meridian, Daibutsu, mind-flayer, Australia, Mecha-Godzilla, adamantium-waste dump, white hole, giant robot (min size: 200 ft. tall), world's largest ball of twine, two-by-two hands-of-blue, can of Power Thirst (imitations not included), Japanese Living National Treasure, Vancouver, living giant squid, mole-man (map accurate to a depth of 0.01"), calcinator ray, Saskatchewanese pirate (currently pirating, retired pirates not included), hill giant, world-tree, orcish horde, operational battlecruiser, robocop, Russian dictator (in the political sense), football-field-sized lake of pig shit, whale capable of taking a party of intrepid heroes to the moon, half-esper, comedically-oversized carport, somnambulant home-owning wallaby, dingo who ate my baby, hurricane, lightswitch of ultimate destrction, Vietnamese hamburger financed at a rate of 6.50%, billboard containing only the text "Malachi 2:3", full-scale replica of the Titanic, street sign with a spoiler warning, cane of Bill's (only includes those once stolen by Dave), 22nd-century garbage man/badass video game character, death valley, Mt. Kilimanjaro, undisguised transformer (Autobot or Decepticon), rice paddy, Gobi desert, dictatorship of the proletariat, talking lizard who sells car insurance, and Sutro Tower in my neighborhood.

In making this map, I was repeatedly shocked at how homogeneous my neighborhood really is! Just see how many groups are discriminated against! This isn't even a complete list of groups of people/places/things which are under-represented in my neighborhood. Furthermore, not only is this a map of the current locations of the above-mentioned people/things/place within my neighborhood, this map is accurate as far back as I can remember! This, my friends, is the root of the titular Humanitarian Crisis of the group to which I belong!

I must ask you, too: is your neighborhood as discriminatory as mine? If the answer is yes, then you know what you have to do: rise up and let people know! Let everyone know just who, what, and where is being unfairly kept out of your neighborhood!

- smaller


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posted by Charlie Fish on December 17th, 2007 4:11 AM

:)

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posted by Flitworth on December 17th, 2007 4:27 AM

I hope you are contacting the appropriate activist organizations. I'd certainly participate in a letter writing campaigns to ensure that the housing authority local to you is doing its utmost to ensure that Tauren-Americans are fairly considered for housing.

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posted by Kariudo Chasseur on December 17th, 2007 9:23 AM

Honestly, I'm thinking I might just take it to the Steps of City Hall. If I do, I'll make sure to let everyone know in advance.

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posted by JJason Recognition on December 17th, 2007 12:27 PM

I thought I saw a fifty foot woman the other day, making your map incorrect, but it turned out it was only a forty foot woman.

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posted by help im a bear on December 17th, 2007 1:04 PM

i'm pretty sure craig's roommate had a pizza in his room that set the record for "longest time sitting around unrefrigerated"

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posted by Kariudo Chasseur on December 17th, 2007 1:47 PM

This is a map of where I live, not where I go to school!

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posted by Quincy Potts on December 18th, 2007 11:13 AM

The lack of transformers in your neighborhood disturbs me.

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posted by Tricia Tanaka on March 8th, 2008 3:10 PM

Finally I know where those baby-eating dingos went!