February 2012
2 posts
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Despite the bitter cold.
A halflit howling, creaking apartment forces me out into snowstorms just about every time.
October 2011
2 posts
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"Hey, what do you think about Occupy Wall Street?"
A good friend of mine asked me this earlier this week. She has had major health and family challenges present themselves recently, and has been away from the news.
I responded:
Glad you’re following recent events! There’s so much going on, it can be difficult to keep up with. We’re trying to maintain the most comprehensive record of the anti-Wall Street protests...
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August 2011
3 posts
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An open letter to Professor Juan Cole: A reply to...
August 10, 2011
Professor Juan Cole:
In an August 5 posting on your blog Informed Comment, you claim that the World Socialist Web Site supports the Gaddafi regime’s efforts to retake the east of Libya and would welcome the massacre of Libyans.
In a comment dealing with the potential outcome of the five-month-old US-NATO war on Libya, you write the following:
“The UN allies won’t allow...
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July 2011
3 posts
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“Capitalism will once again be identified with poverty, misery and mass...”
Redgrave. →
Check out the pre-release tracks here.
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June 2011
2 posts
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Brothers who when the sirens roar...
Brothers, who when the sirens roar
From office, shop and factory pour ’Neath evening sky; By cops directed to the fug Of talkie-houses for a drug, Or down canals to find a hug Until you die:
We know, remember, what it is That keeps you celebrating this Sad ceremonial; We know the terrifying brink From which in dreams you nightly shrink. ‘I shall be sacked without’, you think, ‘A testimonial.’
...
May 2011
4 posts
Listen
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April 2011
9 posts
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Claude Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Violin, Harp -...
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If America Should Go Communist (August 1934)
Should America go communist as a result of the difficulties and problems that your capitalist social order is unable to solve, it will discover that communism, far from being an intolerable bureaucratic tyranny and individual regimentation, will be the means of greater individual liberty and shared abundance. At present most Americans regard communism solely in the light of the experience of the...
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Erik Satie’s Danse de travers II captures...
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Watchmandaflewaway:
CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC
Irresistible.
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“Also in relation to mind and the justification of its claims one must carefully...”
– Hegel, Encyclopedia Logic Sec 145 Zusatz, ThW 8:286-87
"Something is born here?"
I couldn’t stand to sit in my cubicle any longer and moved to the sunlit lobby on the third floor to work as intently as possible for the last hour before leaving for work. Around 4:15, AP’s wide-wale black corduroys swished towards the opposite end of the long table.
Quickly, in his singular Dutch-accented lilt, he asked, “Something is born here?” and flashed a bright...
March 2011
3 posts
Even if they end up hanging up on you.
I went looking for an old acquaintance, someone who I would have unhesitatingly called a friend at the time before I moved. But I hadn’t seen or talked with him in a long time.
We’d swapped recordings, played music, considered collaborating, but otherwise spent rather little time together that, at that time, didn’t register to me as anything at all. We were acquaintances in...
WatchSwamp beast.
February 2011
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November 2010
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WatchBUSTED. Some great amateur camera work too, huh?
Act 1. Black acts like nothing is going on and resigns herself to becoming scarce since I’m policing the kitchen.
Act 2. I look for Grey, who is likely close by. Black gets curious about what I’m holding and then receives encouragement from Grey who’s coaching from a hidden location near the cache of kibble.
Act 3. Black tries...
October 2010
2 posts
Watch
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June 2010
1 post
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The Fitting-Room Out of Time (or, Yog-Soshorts...
All of my friends and family, and I am a little sorry to admit, probably many strangers, know that I dislike shopping for clothes. What I can afford is ill-fitting and usually poorly constructed and, this late in the unseasonably warm late spring, pickings at a local outlet store were pretty slim. For work, I need well-made shorts of a modest cut. The color does not really matter, since they will...
May 2010
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Looks, feels, sounds, looks, feels good, too.
Listening to the first Fischerspooner record, I remember back when my dad had a house on Bayaud and called me when he got the record in the mail and we went over to his place and we danced to it in the kitchen for hours and he kept saying “Dirty, dirty Fischerspooner!” and I really hope the swamp that house was on survives.
April 2010
8 posts
Straight up criminals
After the worst coal mining disaster in at least 25 years, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is facing long-overdue scrutiny for his record of putting coal profits over fundamental safety and health concerns. Blankenship, a right-wing activist millionaire who sits on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Mining Association, used his company’s ties to the industry-dominated...
March 2010
3 posts
February 2010
4 posts
Burnkane - You Know
Her gaze is a hieroglyph for which there is no...
Even her blankest expression is irresistible, a perfectly proportioned puzzle! And if your eyes catch her gaze, there is immediately a question posed (though she will never utter one), since she too has needs, her particular preferences and a sense of humor.
“But if he is internally hampered by subjective hindrances to action, if he is...”
– Leon Trotsky, Tasks of communist education (speech), June 18, 1923, published in Problems of Everyday Life.
December 2009
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“A hundred-eyed blaze
Stared at the peace
Of apartments, where people...”
– Mayakovksy, A Cloud In Trousers: Part I (Kneller)