Many Boing Boing readers will be familiar with the anti-capitalist art-provocateur antics of Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping. He's today the subject of a New York Times profile, after a theater group in the Netherlands paid him $25,000 to adapt his persona and some of his songs for Dutch Broadway. — Read the rest

In the United States, the average American will spend $2000 this holiday season—traveling to see family, buying gifts, decorating, throwing parties, and more—and many will go (further) into debt doing so. To add insult to injury, many folks are already experiencing one of the most financially stressful years of their life. — Read the rest

It's almost Thanksgiving in the United States, which means lots of turkey and football and such, but also copious amounts of shopping. Many consumer economists call the day after Thanksgiving "Black Friday" and count it as one of the busiest shopping days of the year, as well as the official beginning of the holiday shopping season. — Read the rest

We've been writing about Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping for nearly 20 years, tracing his remarkable spectacles of anti-consumerism around the world.

Spanish anti-capitalist activists Flo6x8 staged this epic flamenco/rumba flashmob at a branch of Santander. Their excellent dance was too much for the bystanders, and soon 30 of the bank's customers were dancing along.

Rumba Rave "banquero" en el Santander

(via MeFi)

Bruce Damer is a technologist,
virtual world pioneer, and computer historian. He is the CEO and
founder of The Digital Space
Commons, director of the Contact
Consortium, and author of the book "Avatars".

I talked with him about Burning Man & Katrina, NASA &
near-earth-objects, artificial life & his EvoGrid project, and the
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At the end of August, 2005, you were at Burning Man in a
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Dan sez, "The swell blog 'Isn't Life Terrible' has a small yet perfectly formed collection of non-Disney Disney songs available for download, including an apparently non-ironic ditty about how nifty it is to be a Walt Disney World annual passholder (or, as the Disney cast members will call you, 'passhole'). — Read the rest

BoingBoing reader Dave says,

Reverend Billy [from the Church of Stop Shopping] leads the faithful in rousing choruses of the First Amendment. A Quicktime clip shows one chorus and the hallelujahs leaving St Marks church in the East Village, New York, a center for organizing this week's demonstrations.