Insult Converter, Rejection Letter to Colleges, Outcast Coupon Magazine & more works by Ori Alon

Dear friend, 

  Two years ago I offered high school seniors at Poughkeepsie Day School the opportunity to write and mail rejection letters to colleges of their choice. The offer was so popular that the Empowering Clerks Network (ECN) ended up developing a format letter in order to make the experience more accessible and allow teenagers and adults to smoothly reject any academic institution they wish and you can print it for free at www.joypermit.org. Recently I offered Playful Paperwork services at the Beacon High School career fair and one of the students rejected Harvard, you can read her (very emotional) letter in my new book Outcast Coupon Magazine in the pdf below or I'll be happy to send you a printed version (gift economy based). 

2019Outcast Coupon Magazine by Ori Alon
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   A few weeks ago at around 11pm Lenny Bruce texted me. To be honest, I was quite offended by his insult yet I decided to not let my ego control me and in the coming weeks I was texting regularly with Andy Kaufman, Adolf Hitler, Mr. Rogers, Oprah Winfrey, Pete Seeger and others. I found it necessary to document the conversations in order to bring world peace. You can read many of them in Outcast Coupon Magazine and more are coming. 

Following Mr Bruce's sharp punchline I decided to start converting insults to blessings and developed the Insult Converter (Beta version 2.0). If you'd like to send me insults you've received and have them magically turn into blessings, please do! 
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​Last year the Center for Supportive Bureaucracy invited recipients of services to adopt people who live in hostile countries as family members in honor of the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This year I decided to memorize the tragic event with writing an official letter to the Japanese Prime Minister asking to change the anniversary to the 7th or 5th of August instead of the 6th so my daughter won't share her birthday with the victims, however, I feel that this is a very stupid, mediocre satire so I decided to censor it (however you can still read it here). I suspect I have some grammar mistakes in it in addition to the stupidity. 

​  Coming soon - this mid September I'm going to Taos New Mexico to instruct youth who live in shelter how to issue Joy Permits, Forgiver's Licenses, Refurbished Report Cards and other Playful Paperwork documents. We'll offer ECN Office Hours at the PASEO festival and I hope that these teenagers will learn how to use humor and satire to overcome some difficulties or at least ease some of the pain and injustice they experience. I am so excited for this incredible opportunity and I'd keep you posted about it on social media or in the next book. I'm also going to lead a Silly Teshuva workshops for the Jewish High Holidays in Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia and in Peekskill NY, give a PeachaKucha about my Facebook comedy act (you can see a draft here  lmk what you think). 

Last but not least, I recently gave a TEDx and it's available here. If you enjoy my work and want to spread the word perhaps that's a good video to share, however I don't think it's my best work and the only reason people are more likely to share this is because it has a 'Ted' label on it. It is what it is I guess.