McDoing the world...
World McDonaldization? Economy may favor conformity, but gastronomy is a sweet rebel child. More.
7:11 PM 2/15/03
Love is 4-letter-word...
All you need is love —Beatles.
3:33 AM 2/14/03
Memory nails...
New study finds nicotine memory enhancing.
1:02 AM 2/14/03
Anti-American studies...
'American studies still exists as an academic discipline. If anything, it can be found in far more colleges and universities now than during the 1960s, and it attracts significant numbers of graduate students, and its practitioners publish innumerable books and articles. Yet the third generation and the fourth generation of scholars in the field not only reject the writers who gave life to the discipline, they have also developed a hatred for America so visceral that it makes one wonder why they bother studying America at all.' More.
10:15 AM 2/13/03
Saving the universe...
At last NASA has some good news: the end of the cosmos is cancelled; life will not be wiped out in a "big crunch" when the universe collapses.
9:03 PM 2/12/03
Guerrilla parking tickets...
'Fake parking tickets are being left under the wipers of SUVs across the country, raising both drivers' blood pressure and consciousness.
In Brooklyn, the NYPD, a.k.a. the New York Pranks Division, is citing drivers for violations such as Increasing U.S. reliance on foreign oil, Contributing to childhood asthma, Holing self up in two-ton metal fortress, and Compensating for lack of manhood.' Full story.
10:10 PM 2/11/03
E-bomb 101...
'In the blink of an eye, electromagnetic bombs could throw civilization back 200 years. And terrorists can build them for $400.'
8:20 PM 2/11/03
Why both sides are wrong...
'This is what the anti-war activists should decry: We are going to war for American economic and political interests, not national security, and we are doing so by cutting a swath of political damage that might never be repaired. Hypocrisy, falsehoods, venality, lawlessness, bullying and violence? Is this what we've come to? That is the best case against the war, and irrefutable by the warriors.' Read The Inspections Flap...
4:19 PM 2/10/03
Mind quote #2...
'The more people who become fully human in the world, the fewer the hostages to fortune, and the less seductive the voices prophesying war...'
—Lewis Lapham, Editor, Harper's
1:32 AM 2/9/03
What is fear of poetry?
Poetic protests against war, censorship. 'First Lady Laura Bush's decision to cancel a White House symposium on the poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes because she feared antiwar sentiments might be expressed has provoked a pummeling of the Administration by poets who would have been part of the February 12 "Poetry and the American Voice" session.'
7:54 PM 2/8/03
Brain sprain...
An ankle sprain is a twisting injury to the ankle usually caused by rolling the foot inward, thereby stretching or tearing the ligaments that hold the ankle and foot bones together.
Now brain sprain. Is something else.
11:15 AM 2/7/03
Warworm...
Here are yet two stimulating essays we thought might interest war freaks and war junkies alike:
The road better not taken. 'What if Saddam, concluding that a U.S. attack was inevitable, gave quantities of chemical and biological weapons to terrorists to attack the United States? In that case George W. Bush will have killed who knows how many human beings for worse than nothing.'
Biological and chemical warfare are here now. 'We don't have to wait for chemical warfare to be waged on U.S. soil by terrorists. Such warfare has been underway for over a century'
6:24 PM 2/6/03
R.I.P.
Peace is all right. The thing is, can we really have peace if we're rotting in pieces (r.i.p.).
9:45 AM 2/5/03
Death dance of the indie?
'So, what do we mean when we talk about independent film these days? It depends on who's doing the talking... Gone are the days of Jim Jarmusch, when the term 'independent film' really meant something. Now it's a label waiting for a vision.' From the critic's notebook.
9:25 PM 2/4/03
While you're at it...
Visit our new and not-so-new partners:
hendeka.org is contemporary post September 11th avant garde by space-time benders, Laurent Mialon and Aurelia Djehan Derungs.
zenzibar.com is a portal and directory of alternatives to Western mainstream culture on the Web.
daypoems.net where poems live under trees.
reject.org is poetry for the down-to-earth.
Dong Makab's new and improved birdandegg with even better feathers.
Still hungry? grab a beer and squeeze it all here.
11:17 PM 2/3/03
W...
To the wife, before whom poetry is parasite: b-day happy and much love!
1:23 AM 2/2/03
Talking head...
'My own view is that the human self achieves his or her perfection by making the best of whatever intellectual and other resources one commands,' so writes John Coons in A Grammar of the Self
8:23 PM 2/1/03
Mind quote...
'Today, we are all closed in concentration camps we call nations.'
—William Burroughs, Author, Naked Lunch.
8:56 AM 1/29/03
From U.S. with love...
Military sources have it that Bush and his 'band of brothers' have already decided to launch an attack in Iraq sometime mid-February.
And, judging by the way the politics of it all is shaping up pretty fast, it does seem like it, from where we lie six-feet under and smoking.
Are we really having launch for lunch? Crosses for roses? Bombs for valentines? Scout's honor: howeverwhich way the oil boils, this much is certain— when the curtain rises, no surprises, it is going be one bloody red letter day, any which way.
8:56 AM 1/29/03
Turn of the screw...
Why millions of Americans are anti-war.
Why millions of Americans are pro-war.
7:23 AM 1/29/03
Poems grow under this tree...
Poet Timothy Bovee runs a grand online poetry slam aptly named daypoems. It's a perfectly sunny random walk in the park with plenty trees for a long day of good roaming and good reading.
2:13 AM 1/28/03
Peace plug...
Here is CNN's map of American cities marred by the growing anti-war protests. No more words. This map says it all.
To learn more about forthcoming anti-war initiatives in America, this is the online resource to book.
You can also check out protest.net's ongoing peace calendar for related happenings elsewhere.
Go see where you fit, bro. Think global. Act local!
5:36 PM 1/27/03
We told you so...
The evidence is starting to come in.
Soon it is going to be pretty indisputable.
Like we said:
Jesus was a pothead.
Amen? Hey men!
3:10 AM 1/26/03
Studs stab...
Here's an excerpt we dug up from an old MotherJones interview of Studs Terkel, the 89-year-old Pulitzer prize-winning author of such classic oral histories as 'Working' and the 'Good War:'
"...Christ Almighty, who the fuck do we think we are in the United States of America? Everything we do, it's never our fault. We bomb the shit out of Iraq, even though we know it's not going to get rid of Saddam Hussein. Jesus Christ, we haven't learned from Vietnam at all. That's what worries me... We're behaving like the Roman Empire did. The big difference is, they didn't pretend toward innocence..."
7:11 PM 1/23/03
Summit of shit...
If the earth summit sucks, it is only because all summits must suck.
Summits suck because summits are no more than big get-together parties thrown by big people to make big people like themselves feel good about being big and useless and uselessly big.
It's the ultimate guilt-cutter for the big powers-that-be.
Take those big stupid speeches about stuff everybody knows but nobody seems to be doing anything about, for instance, starting with those who can really do something big if only they'd stop being big themselves which of course they won't because that is the source of their bigness in the first place.
One woman interviewed on t.v. sums it best: 'Earth summit? Who needs earth summit to get clean water?'
Bottom line: summits don't solve shit. Any summit. Any sort of summit.
Clean water you say? Now imagine how many deep wells we could make with all the taxpayers' money they go around burning on big useless summits like these.
6:35 PM 9/12/02
Not even the Great Wall...
This is why internet is revolution.
1:35 AM 9/3/02
From where we lie six feet under and smoking...
August is a sore thumb up in God's ass, swelling, billowing, leaving us all in a kind of daze, haze, maze, misplaced yet never quite adrift. Out here, everything else is on the brink— on the brink of breaking, of being, of becoming, always on the verge but never quite there: the world in a state of constipation.
Welcome to the age of approximation, the age of 'Almost' where so much is happening yet nothing quite happens: Suicide bombs. Airplane crashes. Death and wildfire.
Something explodes yet we never quite blow up.
We wake and the dream follows us to the kitchen.
New shit feels like old shit feels like same shit.
Man, it feels like we'll never really get out of it.
1:37 PM 10/15/02
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