"World's Shortest Books by Republican Authors
February 20th, 2005 : Filed by Angry Girl
The Need for Open Government by Karl Rove;
My Beautiful Mind by Barbara Bush;
What I've Learned by George W. Bush." more via Watchingthewatchers
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
Eulogy for a Poor Bastard From Kentucky Who Should Have Shot Himself Years Ago...
Hunter Thompson was our Hero, with a capital fucking H. Where the weird and the strange met, our god of debauchery and drugs hailed us safe, or not so safe passage against the foul, the wicked, the stupid in all of us, in humanity, and most importantly those in power-- mad, gleefully mad, suffering us their foul stench while we ate shit cakes sprinkled with piss.
Hail to our fallen god, our shotguns silently speaking for us. We live…and the bastard is dead. "It can't be!?" we say. "Those pig-fuckers killed him!!? It was Bush and Cheney, they did it. Or maybe the man was tired of this world. Who wouldn't be at his age. What the fuck age was he? 67 fucking years old?! Good god man!! Why didn't he do it years ago? How could he wait this long?!
It wasn't like his writing was getting any better. Have you read Better than Sex? Thompson sounds like a poor joke of himself, wasted, wiped, needing to be flushed down the shit hole of life. But we loved him. Well, some of us did. Some of us were stupid, born that way…and by god, we'll die that way. The King of Gonzo is dead; and that bastard Trudeau stole his fucking effigy.
That's it! We'll march on Washington and demand the head of Gary Tredeau!! Madness seizes us and we demand nothing but madness. If our Hero is dead, we must become our own Heroes. Thompson wouldn't want it any other way.
But still…we are at a loss, a terrible loss. What will we do now!? Fuck all these questions; we know what we must do. Even in the face of the worst threat to the institutions of freedom and liberty since Nixon, since Attila the fucking Hun, we must shoulder on.
Ahh, whisky and wine and It's a Wonderful World blaring on the street, jazz man blowing trumpet- strange feelings on this day in the awful, rotten Beelzebub morning in the foul year of our Lord 2005. We have lost something and we don't even know what the fuck it is!
So, so, we shoulder on, and grin and bear it; a death's head grimace on our faces mocking the dominant paradigm of fear, loathing and patriotism that inundates our culture, is our culture.
Fuck the dogs! We eat pig tonight!!!
Hail to our fallen god, our shotguns silently speaking for us. We live…and the bastard is dead. "It can't be!?" we say. "Those pig-fuckers killed him!!? It was Bush and Cheney, they did it. Or maybe the man was tired of this world. Who wouldn't be at his age. What the fuck age was he? 67 fucking years old?! Good god man!! Why didn't he do it years ago? How could he wait this long?!
It wasn't like his writing was getting any better. Have you read Better than Sex? Thompson sounds like a poor joke of himself, wasted, wiped, needing to be flushed down the shit hole of life. But we loved him. Well, some of us did. Some of us were stupid, born that way…and by god, we'll die that way. The King of Gonzo is dead; and that bastard Trudeau stole his fucking effigy.
That's it! We'll march on Washington and demand the head of Gary Tredeau!! Madness seizes us and we demand nothing but madness. If our Hero is dead, we must become our own Heroes. Thompson wouldn't want it any other way.
But still…we are at a loss, a terrible loss. What will we do now!? Fuck all these questions; we know what we must do. Even in the face of the worst threat to the institutions of freedom and liberty since Nixon, since Attila the fucking Hun, we must shoulder on.
Ahh, whisky and wine and It's a Wonderful World blaring on the street, jazz man blowing trumpet- strange feelings on this day in the awful, rotten Beelzebub morning in the foul year of our Lord 2005. We have lost something and we don't even know what the fuck it is!
So, so, we shoulder on, and grin and bear it; a death's head grimace on our faces mocking the dominant paradigm of fear, loathing and patriotism that inundates our culture, is our culture.
Fuck the dogs! We eat pig tonight!!!
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?: "Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist?
To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical, especially in the context of the U.S. media's supine acceptance of administration claims relating to national security. Yet a brilliant new BBC film produced by one of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers systematically challenges this and many other accepted articles of faith in the so-called war on terror.
'The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear,' a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp., argues coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism 'is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media.'" link via Reopen 9-11
To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical, especially in the context of the U.S. media's supine acceptance of administration claims relating to national security. Yet a brilliant new BBC film produced by one of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers systematically challenges this and many other accepted articles of faith in the so-called war on terror.
'The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear,' a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp., argues coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism 'is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media.'" link via Reopen 9-11
Thursday, February 17, 2005
U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings
I don't really find this all that unbelievable. I've found recently that life is just a simple series of confirming my worst nightmares. No big deal. I'll just pop another Zanex and hope my dreams don't fade too far back on the burner. "More than 200 scientists employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they have been directed to alter official findings to lessen protections for plants and animals, a survey released Wednesday says."
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Yahoo! News - 'On the Road' Unscrolled for First Time
For the first time, fans of Kerouac and beatniks old and new have a chance to see every word, edit and smudge of his original manuscript, unrolled end to end and under glass at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. It is the first time during its international tour that the yellowed and brittle manuscript has been shown unspooled.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Monday, February 14, 2005
More brainjuice from warren ellis
Since he let die punny humans fade to the background he has been posting some of the funniest short blips. Hopfully we will see some of these in some published work soon. Thanks Warren
Sunday, February 13, 2005
The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich: How Dirty Harry Turned Commie
Aside from being an interesting take on how the thought-police slowly chip away at our minds, turning everything into a culture/class/sanity war of insepid dimensions, you can start to see Baudrillard's discussion of simularca vs. reality: the image of "Morning in America pt. II" vs. cold-hard-reality without the rosey fucking glasses.
Eat shit, Rush Limbaugh. Everyone should e.mail the hypocritic, drug-addicted, hatemonger and tell him to shut the fuck up. Perhaps, we can wage war against the Purveyors of Misinformation through psycho-electronic warfare (i.e. e-mail)
To the Moors! We'll eat dogs brains before the sun rises again!!
Eat shit, Rush Limbaugh. Everyone should e.mail the hypocritic, drug-addicted, hatemonger and tell him to shut the fuck up. Perhaps, we can wage war against the Purveyors of Misinformation through psycho-electronic warfare (i.e. e-mail)
To the Moors! We'll eat dogs brains before the sun rises again!!
Friday, February 11, 2005
VegPorn.com :: Vegan & Vegetarian Indie Porn : Alterna Porn for Herbivores
And now... Some Titillating Tofu Eaters - Sex-positive indie porn mae by vegans and vegetarians. What will Generation Why-the-Fuck-Not? come up with next? The possibilities are mind-blowing.
Fuck for forest
Brilliant! Hippie Porn to save the trees. These people need all the help they can get!
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Historians in Trouble: Why Some Get Nailed
Filthy liars. Great new book that's just out. We'll have a few copies shortly. In the meantime, read this review!
"Historians have been in the news a lot recently, and the news has not been good—accusations of plagiarism, investigations of research fraud, and punishments for classroom misconduct have made headlines and in some cases even ended up in court. Media spectacles around scholarly scandals have become, as Ron Robin writes, “a veritable cottage industry”; investigations of misconduct that in the past were confined to the profession, to academic senate committees and academic journals, now are reported on page one and on TV news. What’s new, he argues, is not the uncovering of wrongdoing, but rather the visibility of the charges, and their dissemination as media events—“performances, staged and choreographed for mass-mediated consumption.”
But not all cases of wrongdoing by historians follow this scenario. While some charges of misconduct end up on page one and bring careers to an end, other equally serious charges stay out of the media spotlight and bring little or no public sanction or punishment. Why do some cases become media events while others remain within the confines of scholarly settings?"
"Historians have been in the news a lot recently, and the news has not been good—accusations of plagiarism, investigations of research fraud, and punishments for classroom misconduct have made headlines and in some cases even ended up in court. Media spectacles around scholarly scandals have become, as Ron Robin writes, “a veritable cottage industry”; investigations of misconduct that in the past were confined to the profession, to academic senate committees and academic journals, now are reported on page one and on TV news. What’s new, he argues, is not the uncovering of wrongdoing, but rather the visibility of the charges, and their dissemination as media events—“performances, staged and choreographed for mass-mediated consumption.”
But not all cases of wrongdoing by historians follow this scenario. While some charges of misconduct end up on page one and bring careers to an end, other equally serious charges stay out of the media spotlight and bring little or no public sanction or punishment. Why do some cases become media events while others remain within the confines of scholarly settings?"
"NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE" | Patridiot Watch
It appears our independence has been revoked; how sad. And it would also appear that there really is a world outside of this former sovereign nation. Oh well, God Save the Queen.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Klintron's Brain : The Good Die Young
So Klintron may have been a little late in his observation, but he beat everybody else to the web memorial.
We miss you Jon Corey.
We miss you Jon Corey.
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Friday, February 04, 2005
belated funny thought
just got this hilarious quote from my Mater. A little tardy but funny nonetheless.
"Today is Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address. As Air
America Radio pointed out, it is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a
meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence
for prognostication -- and the other involves a groundhog."
"Today is Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address. As Air
America Radio pointed out, it is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a
meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence
for prognostication -- and the other involves a groundhog."
James Ellroy quote
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless versimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
not bad for a mass-market crime writer, eh?
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless versimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
not bad for a mass-market crime writer, eh?
Missing John Lennon by Brian Fawcett
Missing John Lennon | Dooney's Cafe | a news service: "I was never much of a Beatles fan. From about 1964 I was more comfortable with the in-your-face middle class pissed-offness of the Rolling Stones. Skittle bands are as English as fish and chips, and the Beatles played skittle music, or would have had the global machinery not picked them up. And who really expected Mick Jagger would turn into an octogenarian aerobics instructor, a kind of parched Richard Simmons with rhythm?
I didn't like the Beatles in the 1960s because they were soft and parent-friendly, and I never saw much reason to change my mind about them, not even during their late 1960s dalliance with Eastern religions and LSD. Since the band broke up in 1970 Sir Paul has played rock-n-roll-for-parents, and the other two, Ringo Starr and the pie-faced George Harrison, weren�t much more than media-approved teddy bears for suburban girls, safe love-objects for the one out-of-control passion they'd be allowed before they hit the donut shops, 200 lbs and three pudgy brats doomed to spend their lives watching cartoons with their parents.
But John Lennon was different from the other Beatles..." read more courtesy of Dooney's Cafe
I didn't like the Beatles in the 1960s because they were soft and parent-friendly, and I never saw much reason to change my mind about them, not even during their late 1960s dalliance with Eastern religions and LSD. Since the band broke up in 1970 Sir Paul has played rock-n-roll-for-parents, and the other two, Ringo Starr and the pie-faced George Harrison, weren�t much more than media-approved teddy bears for suburban girls, safe love-objects for the one out-of-control passion they'd be allowed before they hit the donut shops, 200 lbs and three pudgy brats doomed to spend their lives watching cartoons with their parents.
But John Lennon was different from the other Beatles..." read more courtesy of Dooney's Cafe
Thursday, February 03, 2005
The Blind Spot
Another Strange-But-True Blog ~ my favorite kind.
As an aside, this entire site is pretty hip but scroll down about half-way and check out the Is Shakespeare Dead by Mark Twain section. Further down the CIA Sculpture article is highly entertaining, it's link, if you want to skip ahead is also:
CIA Sculpture Kryptos
As an aside, this entire site is pretty hip but scroll down about half-way and check out the Is Shakespeare Dead by Mark Twain section. Further down the CIA Sculpture article is highly entertaining, it's link, if you want to skip ahead is also:
CIA Sculpture Kryptos
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Bankruptcy of 1933 & National Emergency
Heard this one before?: "The United States went 'bankrupt' in 1933. [President Roosevelt Executive Order 6073, 6102,
6111, 6260; Senate Report 93-549, pgs. 187 & 594, 1973]
In 1950, declared 'bankruptcy and reorganization'. Secretary of Treasury appointer receiver in
the bankruptcy [Reorganization Plan, No. 26, 5 U.S.C.A. 903; Public Law 94-564; Legislative
History, Pg. 5967]
The Secretary of the Treasury is the 'Governor' of the International Monetary Fund, Inc. of the
U.N. [Public Law 94-564, supra, pg. 5942; U.S. Government Manual 1990/91, pgs. 480-81;
26 U.S.C.A. 7701(a)(11); Treasury Delegation Order No 150-10] "
6111, 6260; Senate Report 93-549, pgs. 187 & 594, 1973]
In 1950, declared 'bankruptcy and reorganization'. Secretary of Treasury appointer receiver in
the bankruptcy [Reorganization Plan, No. 26, 5 U.S.C.A. 903; Public Law 94-564; Legislative
History, Pg. 5967]
The Secretary of the Treasury is the 'Governor' of the International Monetary Fund, Inc. of the
U.N. [Public Law 94-564, supra, pg. 5942; U.S. Government Manual 1990/91, pgs. 480-81;
26 U.S.C.A. 7701(a)(11); Treasury Delegation Order No 150-10] "
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
rene daumal essay - poetry black, poetry white
Off of deaddrunkdublin.com - if you don't know who daumal is, read mount analogue after kicking yourself in the head: "As with magic, poetry is black or white, depending on whether it serves the sub-human or the superhuman.
The same innate tendencies govern the machinery of the white poet and the black poet. Some call these tendencies a mysterious gift, a mark of superior powers; others an infirmity or a curse. No matter. Or rather, yes! - it matters highly, but we have not yet reached the point of being able to understand the origin of our essential structures. He who could understand them would deliver himself from them. The white poet seems to understand his poetic nature, to free himself from it and make it serve. The black poet uses it and becomes its slave."
The same innate tendencies govern the machinery of the white poet and the black poet. Some call these tendencies a mysterious gift, a mark of superior powers; others an infirmity or a curse. No matter. Or rather, yes! - it matters highly, but we have not yet reached the point of being able to understand the origin of our essential structures. He who could understand them would deliver himself from them. The white poet seems to understand his poetic nature, to free himself from it and make it serve. The black poet uses it and becomes its slave."
News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop, Liverpool
A sweet site for bibliophiles everywhere.
This Liverpool bookstore knows its stuff. Makes one glad to be in such a noble business.
This Liverpool bookstore knows its stuff. Makes one glad to be in such a noble business.
Love and Resistance in Wartime
An Interview with Chris Hedges
Author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Book Critic's Prize for Non-Fiction in 2003, I believe) & most recently What Every Person Should Know About War. Two of the best books on the philosophies behind war I've ever encountered. Both should be available at Last Word.
Author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Book Critic's Prize for Non-Fiction in 2003, I believe) & most recently What Every Person Should Know About War. Two of the best books on the philosophies behind war I've ever encountered. Both should be available at Last Word.
On Czeslaw Milosz
On Czeslaw Milosz | Dooney's Cafe | a news service
One of my favorite short story writers next to Raymond Carver. Alas, cruel world... my words grow shorter still. A moving eulogy and bit of literary criticism. A moment of silence and a few short poems, please, to move me into that realm of waking dreams conducive to such fiery tears as these.
One of my favorite short story writers next to Raymond Carver. Alas, cruel world... my words grow shorter still. A moving eulogy and bit of literary criticism. A moment of silence and a few short poems, please, to move me into that realm of waking dreams conducive to such fiery tears as these.
Local Matters - Dooney's Cafe
Reading an amazing book right now called Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Cafe and other Non-Globalized People, Places and Ideas by Brian Fawcett, a Toronto writer of excellent caliber. Best mix of systems analysis, local politics and global awareness I've encountered in awhile. Check out their site! Canadian Poltics rule!
movementbuilding.org
movementbuilding.org
this is a pretty incredible site linking together a wide variety of political and sociological issues. Their links pages are especially good. I think they're from P-Town but I could be mistaken. Somewhere down there. We should get ahold of them... yeah?
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this is a pretty incredible site linking together a wide variety of political and sociological issues. Their links pages are especially good. I think they're from P-Town but I could be mistaken. Somewhere down there. We should get ahold of them... yeah?
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