Super Cool Public Access Station in Denver

Denver's New Public Access TV Station, Denver Open Media is a revolutionary new approach to TV. Employing a participatory user-driven model in every aspect of its operation, Denver Open Media is part of the next phase of user-generated media. Denver Open Media is a very cool organization. Their home page has a video about media that really tells about the possibilities of participatory media.

Ferlinghetti on Democracy Now!

Legendary Beat Generation Bookseller and Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books on the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road”, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and Poetry As Insurgent Art

Hillary Hostages

It's come down to this. The first poll to suggest she was losing her lead over the rabid pack snarling and biting at her heels, and The Hillary Campaign turns creative, desperate for coverage and a quick reminder that even crazy people believe Hillary to be Inevitable, if not in a "national" race against a Republican candidate, at least for the Democratic ticket.

Was it staged as a media-savy juxtaposition from the droll coverage leaking out of the sinking ship of news media? Or had some dimwit in New Hampshire finally snapped from the strain of life in America during war time, where the reminders of war are little more than magnetic, yellow ribbons adorning SUVs? Every cause célèbre has their own magnetic ribbon, and now Camp Hillary has their's too, perhaps a pink, white and red flag motief. The pink for femininity, the white for Truth and such clap-trap, and finally the red for the blood in the water everyone knows is there.

Can Hillary withstand the accusations of being the adroit robot of Democratic dread, or will she be held under the microscope for her past relations with Wal-Mart, that bastion of unionized, happy workers fished out of old folks' homes and the charity ward? Who can tell these things so far from the moment? However, the air is tinged with a certain electrical charge, Dick Cheney's pacemakered heart beating faster than a rabbit at the thought of staging some dramatic "terrorist" event to cancel the presidential elections of '08, perhaps, killing two birds with one stone, elimating Hillary and that bastard of a husband of hers, while hammering the final nail in the coffin the of real American Dream.

What more can you ask for? We are living in America during war time. This is a war people, every shot fired is meant for something or someone.

Time to Rethink Soy?

While traditionally fermented soy is an amazing protein source, soy as it proliferates in modern American Agri-business is not so healthy, on many levels.
Check out the title link for more details

Mass Media Taking Stephen Colbert Too Seriously

Whilst discussing how mass media spin doctors manage to warp time and space, this essay on how these news sources are reacting to Stephen Colbert's candidacy is a must read.



The obvious media reaction to the Colbert candidacy should have been to note it as the book-selling publicity stunt that it was, have a chuckle, and move on. Instead, the press lingered, giving the story way too much attention, and often at the expense of more pressing topics.

For instance, ABC's Nightline found time to cover the Colbert candidacy. Yet Nightline has not found time during the last six weeks to cover the war from Iraq. I'm just sayin'.

FIVE LIES YOU PROBABLY BELIEVE IF YOU GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

3) It is impossible for our government to provide universal healthcare without bankrupting the country

Just about every industrialized democracy has government run healthcare. What they don’t have is forty percent of their annual budget going to feed the defense industry, to make weapons to hold phantom monsters at bay. Half of what we spend on defense would get full medical coverage for everyone in the country. Any journalist that even hints at this will quickly find himself covering town council meetings in Adak, Alaska, however, because the defense industry has had a field day since Reagan (see 1) buying up media outlets. General Electric owns NBC, so don’t expect any hard-hitting defense industry exposes on Dateline.

But that’s where our health care money is going. And that’s why we don’t hear about it. Instead we hear about how unaffordable health care is. Meanwhile, cruise missiles go for about $575,000 apiece, and sometimes don’t even hit the country they’re aimed at. One of the missiles fired at bin Laden’s training camp in 2000 inexplicably veered off into Pakistan. That’s money well spent.


This is vitriolic, viscious, and hilarious... check it out...

Representin' at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair

Come check out the booth we're sharing with our parent store Earthlight Books at this year's Antiquarian Book Fair!

View our choice items featured for the Fair.

high on garrison keillor

i fucking hate taking price stickers off books, especially mass market paperbacks

why can't they just have a goddamn shelf for 25 cent books, and, considering I'm on the vein already, WHERE THE FUCK DID MY CENT KEY GO AND WHY DO I NOW HAVE TO ACCESS IT THROUGH SOME SORT OF INSERT ARCHAIC GODDAMN SYMBOL MENU? Rob's idea of changing the name of pennies to 'reagans' was brilliant even before i modified it to 'gippers', as in "that’ll be three dollars and twenty-five gippers, after the governor takes her sweet little slice"

thank you, thank you

guess what? i got f-ing tipped yesterday for selling books! one dollar! moments after i tipped the sweet girls at Evergreen who were capably womaning the food booth from the organic farm. no wonder they have so many food co-ops in Minnesota. I never thought of it that way before! Look at all those oooooooooooooooooooooooooos

karma is indeed a blessed thing, or, as Mark Helprin so aptly puts it in the book I’m currently reading too slowly, A Winter’s Tale, : (take that grammerticians)

“We learn that justice may not always follow a just act, that justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected, that a miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.”

Holy-sweet-good-goddamn! Rob, this one’s too hot for water. I can see why it’s yer favorite.

All I can add is this: When the timing boils down to nothing and a good selfless deed on your part is immediately returned in kind from an unpredictable source, that moment itself is pure redemption.

ACE Science Fiction Covers Archive

Here's a cool archive of Ace SF covers from the early fifties to the mid-seventies. Pretty cool.

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/ACE.html

What the Hell Happened to Loompanics.com?

a few days ago, on September 3rd, we got our customary thirty daily hits. september 4th, we got zero, september 5th, we again get zero. So I jaunt over to their mostly-defunct site and find it blocked by a password prompt! What gives? Recently I have totally lost touch with all of their previous employees and have been seeking out some working contact information for any and all of them.

Anyone know what's going on?

Shoot an e-mail to lastwordbooks(at)yahoo.com

or sky.cosby(at)gmail.com

Thanks! Stay tuned for the continuing saga of the world's most clandestine book publisher, whose forces seem to have disappeared completely, never to be found.

{WTF? Now it's prompting here, even though I removed the link!}
*Update: Got that shitty bug fixed, it was lingering from an invisible link to Loompanic's logo that disappeared when their site went down. Whew. Only took me two days to figure out. Sorry to whichever anonymous reader's comment got obliterated while I fixed that.