From The Weekly Standard, this about Obama’s appointment to lead the NEA. Which, as you’d expect, has everything to do with political hackery, and nothing to do with the arts. Not a brainiac, Landesman first broke into public consciousness with … Continue reading
The Obama administration provides us a rare moment of honesty. Of course, Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Given our government’s past behavior it would be unreasonable to expect any adherence to the Bill of Rights at all. In … Continue reading
I’ ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that comes close is some of Obama’s rhetoric; I don’t see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies. As far as disappointments, I wasn’t terribly disappointed … Continue reading
Via the American Indian Movement of Colorado. With all due respect to Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in a recently settled lawsuit over American Indian trust funds (“U.S. to pay Indians $3.4B,” Dec. 9), I think the United States is continuing … Continue reading
I finally read Herta Müller’s Nobel lecture lecture about writing in a dictatorship and it’s fucking incredible. In stark contrast to that other Nobel winner’s speech. Twenty years later I had been on my own in the city a long time … Continue reading
I just started following Twitter, but I glance over tonight and Ed Champion is doing a bangup job of tweeting his way through Obama’s speech, my favorite line being: “Obama doing more of Dubya’s cowboy chin strut. His idealism is gone. … Continue reading
Guns, Books, Etc. Need image: gehard-demetz_at_yatzer_6.jpg “His official cause of death was recorded as ‘acute alcohol poisoning’ and the enviable ‘death by misadventure.’” http://equilibrium.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gunkata&action=display&thread=3355 “Why might Iran WANT the bomb? Well, some damn foreigner invaded Afghanistan and Iraq on either … Continue reading
Thomas Pynchon and Grand Theft Auto. (Via Bookninja.) http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/2009/10/09/gta-iv-inherent-vice-city/?xid=rss-topstories http://www.bookninja.com/?p=6196 “In a feature about Under The Volcano author Malcolm Lowry, included in Criterion’s fine Under The Volcano DVD, the narrator casually mentions that Lowry’s ‘incredibly tiny penis made him a … Continue reading
How the police state under Obama looks just like the police state under Bush?
“This process deals with the idea of elemental transmigration: the decomposition and composition of matter into other forms. The images of war are part of the leaves, and live inside and outside of them. The leaves express the continuum of … Continue reading
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