April 2012
4 posts
“War Is the Health of the State”
– Randolph Bourne
Constance
It is this budding of something mysterious. Every day I ride home from 8 hours that felt like this really stale representation of reality. Hierarchy oozes from those walls in ways that disempower every hope I had for something better. The most debilitating element of it all is the confusion. Confused on “what to do” or “how to make it happen”. I wonder how much of what...
February 2011
2 posts
“I’m not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.” David Foster Wallace
January 2011
1 post
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Central to radical sustainability is the concept of autonomous development. This form of developmet designs systems that give control over basic resources to the people using them. This increases community self-reliance and aids in resistance to resource monopolies. Design criteria include: 1) affordability 2) use of salvaged and/or locally abundant materials 3) simplicity 4) user servicibility 5)...
December 2010
2 posts
RT @democracynow: RT @freepress: The vote is official: 2 to 3 - this weak #netneutrality rule has passed. See DN coverage http://bit.ly …
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October 2010
3 posts
March 2010
5 posts
Soukora by Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Touré
Banksy Interview + Video →
brain-food:
Banksy has done an interview with the Sunday Times, which is an interesting read:
“I have a large collection of famous art at home, but they’re all fakes. I make them myself. If I like a picture I grab a photo, project it up and paint it. Sometimes I change the colours to fit with the curtains. I do it partly because I’m tight and partly because if the Basquiats and Picassos in the...
February 2010
11 posts
These are the artifacts that try men's souls
3:05
this is our legacy
dead time ensues
12/23/1776
2/18/10
“Sous les pavés, la plage!” (“Beneath the paving stones - the...”
– Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968
January 2010
15 posts
Thank you for everything Howard!
HOWARD ZINN: No matter what we’re told, no matter what tyrant exists, what border has been crossed, what aggression has taken place, it’s not that we’re going to be passive in the face of tyranny or aggression, no, but we’ll find ways other than war to deal with whatever problems we have, because war is inevitably—inevitably—the indiscriminant massive killing of huge numbers of people. And...
A Celebration of David Foster Wallace →
daleweisinger:
peterwknox:
Nine peers pay tribute with a talk or essay. Strong suggestion.
Amy Wallace-Havens is David’s sister. She is a deputy public defender in southern Arizona. Bonnie Nadell is vice president of Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Agency in Los Angeles. Gerry Howard is an executive editor at large for Doubleday. Colin Harrison is a novelist, and a vice president and senior...
“This Versace man is a tough, anti-establishment male who inhabits a...”
– Actual quote from an actual press release we got describing the new Versace collection. (via putthison)
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lulz
school begins today. one more time
Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch
by don...
December 2009
13 posts
Finally over
My last final is today and so I conclude w/ this last entry
O V E R T U R E Each instance breeds mutant culture. The herd enter with painted faces and aerodynamic costumes, trendy nonetheless [ is that a raccoon tail on your head? ]. These new faces coalesce into an amalgam of shallow talk and live action rote memorization of dead heroes with guns. Stale air is whisked over me by the vents...
Finals Journal 3
This marks the return of a threat that we should have never taken back: To live our lives with unwavering intent and in the spirit of a new romance. Growing up in an age where monotony reigns…it’s so easy to keep your heart and mind locked away. And it’s up to you to rise up…to break away. We’ve got no more time to spend spitting ugly words at our vicious...
Finals Journal 2
12/14/09 - Try and b cool
Finals Journal 1
12/13/09 - I start with <— cliqhop —> [ blips and beeps designed for gods ]. DNTEL b e g i n s and the Belgium graphic map of an online RISK-like-game-rip-off brings more truth to my immediate situation than the snow melting from my cap, the partially digested burrito in my stomach, and the bacteriology test tomorrow. Hordes of mongrels pack outside the library...
