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yowzah!
links for 2010-11-15
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(I'm feeling that I'm part of a very small minority who think this way and are daily more appalled at what the unheeding herd is thundering toward)
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Emperor's Glorious Raiment. soon to be acronymized to EGR as in EGRegious. And I see no signs of hope, none, from any quarter of the political rainbow. Faugh.
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…all over again…
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Bruce Sterling keeps finding 'em. This one truly boggles whatever is [still] bogglable
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from WFMU's Beware of the Blog, always fascinating and in this case positively essential cultural background and commentary
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from Mark Rubin's Chasing the Fat Man, this one is a fascinating rumination and ethnographic reportage by one of my favorite musicians and commentators. A lot to think about in this one.
links for 2010-11-13
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(Boston Review) I'm reading this in the light of the just-arrived The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (James C. Scott), which encourages heretical thoughts that question received wisdom about civilization, progress, development, etc.'Technology' can be seen as the means and the inducement to subordination of previously [relatively] free people.
links for 2010-11-12
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I'm really not sure what I think about this, but it's worth watching if only to know a little more about what's just over the horizon
links for 2010-11-09
Worth every minute
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(via Savage Minds, which has a lot more to say)
links for 2010-11-03
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Yup, to just about every word. Grim times. Envoi: “Whether the country I once wanted to represent was ever there in the form I imagined is a question I’ll leave to the historians. What I can say is that it’s sure not there now. What remains, angry or depressed, has made for a toxic brew as well as the most dispiriting election of my life…”
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don't miss this one! The Cacophonous Quarter: erhu, tin whistle pests, even a Welsh harpist
The persuasive Kunstler
This certainly rings true to my jaundiced ear:
It’s really too late for both parties. They’re unreformable. They’ve squandered their legitimacy just as the US enters the fat heart of the long emergency. Neither of them have a plan, or even a single idea that isn’t a dodge or a grift. Both parties tout a “recovery” that is just a cover story for accounting chicanery and statistical lies aimed at concealing the criminally-engineered national bankruptcy that they presided over in split shifts. Both parties are overwhelmingly made up of bagmen for the companies that looted America.
Another video
I’m continuing my exploration of video as a medium of escape for my Nova Scotia Faces collections, this time with a short narrative linking together photos from a photo album rescued from a junk store in the 1970s. I’m not completely satisfied with this presentation, but it’s useful to try out different approaches. I don’t know what I think until I see what I say…
links for 2010-10-31
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from NYRB, and truly excellent coverage of material I consider essential
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inspired wordplay