tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80343332012-01-28T15:06:47.129-08:00Books are a gateway drug. It starts out innocent enough, reading C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. Soon you're reading harder stuff like Kerouac and Burroughs, and next thing you know you're strung out on Bukowski and DeSade, worrying about the Patriot Act and Free Speech. If books are your drug of choice, Last Word has your fix!Last Word Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001761689718762968noreply@blogger.comBlogger9811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-51823128606292798662012-01-28T15:06:00.001-08:002012-01-28T15:06:47.167-08:00

1939 -- William Butler Yeats dies. His gravestone inIreland bears the epitaph he composed: "Cast a cold eye / On life, on death. / Horseman, Pass by."  Author & used bookseller Larry McMurtry took the  title of his first novel from these lines (filmed as Hud). ________________________________ William Butler Yeats ( /ˈjeɪts/ yayts; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and

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Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married

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1853 -- Cuban revolutionist José Martí (1853-1895) lives.Poet, essayist & journalist, who became a symbol ofCuba's struggle for independence. The popularsong "Guantanamera" is based on a poem by Marti.   Worked on underground papers & sent to jail & forced   into exile (three columns & you're out?)         "No man has any special right because he          belongs to any specific race; just by

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the earlymodernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse

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There is a kind of unwritten rule among writers that you don’t criticize colleagues’ work too harshly, because they understand just how hard it is to produce great pieces. And yet, over the years handfuls of famous writers have taken huge exceptions to this rule, often with harsh but hilarious results. Some of them expressed their opinions in letters that have been included in their biographies,

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Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist in the 1960s, when she was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance", an organization working to

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by Jonathan Turley Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to task for undermining due process. Other countries have been condemned for the use of secret

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1. People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs. 2. While you're drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves. 3. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they're not looking for classics, they want the romance

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Library Lobby at Evergreen, Noon to 3 pm. Last Word and Don't Stop Printing are upstairs.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Dearest Bibliophiles, In Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho, Patrick Bateman is a savant of evil, a sort of artist of the perverse and horrific. Violence--particularly sexual violence--is juxtaposed with the most insipid aspects of 1980s yuppie culture. At one point, several pages are given to a four-way go-nowhere conversation over which restaurant to eat at, while other sections chronicle the

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Let the Lorax speak for the trees: Join 4th graders to ask Universal Studios to include environmental education with the Lorax Movie Dear Reader,The students in Mr. Wells’ fourth grade class in Brookline, Massachusetts love The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. They love the story, and they especially love the book’s message that if we don’t start prioritizing the environment, the consequences will be

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- Posted using BlogPress on my mobile book laboratory!

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After the catastrophic trifecta of the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan last March—what the Japanese are referring to as their 3/11—you would think the Japanese government would be doing everything in its power to contain the disaster. You would be wrong—dead wrong... Read More...

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14 Jan 2012 After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive iodine (an isotope released by the nuclear accident) in rainwater, the data show. The level easily exceeded the

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John Ronald Reuel never knew that!

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 --Much of Britain was exposed to bacteria sprayed in secret trials 21 Apr 2002 The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public. A government report just released provides for the first time a comprehensive official history of Britain's biological weapons trials between 1940 and 1979. Many of these

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From Sheppard's Confidential: The decision by Wikipedia to black out their websites for 24 hours has had the desired effect. According to a press statement issued by the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind the site, over 162 million people had 'experienced the Wikipedia blackout landing page' in the space of 24 hours. The BBC carried a post-event report which suggests that US

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That’s the law of the hundredth meridian. East of that don’t matter none. Back there it’s all lost anyhow. But west, cut fence’ (Plang!)           —Seldom Seen Smith (The Monkeywrench Gang)

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Pretty interesting when this area gets this much snow. Tons of old trees coming down. I like it when everything slows or shuts down. No one knows how to drive in the snow here, except the people from somewhere else.

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Kudos to all the sites 'going dark' tomorrow to protest the SOPA and PIPA fascist internet legislation. While we agree with and support this movement, our sites will be available tomorrow. Viva la revolucion!

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From Wikipedia: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel."Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later

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Hey gang of followers, can you do us a big favor and leave Last Word Books some positive reviews on Google? To leave Google ratings & reviews, you just need to: search for "bookstore olympia" and locate the Last Word Books location listing near the top then, click where it says "3 (or however many) google reviews" once you're at google's location page for LWB, you'll see "your rating: *****" (*

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1906 -- Albert Hofmann, chemist, lives, Switzerland. He truly inspires the slogan "Better Living Through Chemistry". 

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     Last Word Books is now a Google eBooks Affiliate! Not that we are really encouraging people to buy that many eBooks, since many can be obtained for free (ask us how!). But, if you just got some nifty new gizmo for Christmas and you're aching to test it out, why not support your local independent bookstore while you help run the whole field of bookselling into the ground? Any time you buy

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When: Friday, January 13th @ 8:00 PM Where: Don't Stop Printing & Last Word Books and Press 207 4th Avenue East Who: Free Whiskey; DJ Turtledove; Fresh Heads; Wings & Wounds; The Fooligan Crew. Hosted by Heretic the Heathen. $5.00 Cover charge gets you a free CD!

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image test for twitterfeed

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For the time being, the site just redirects to Last Word Books & Press, but stay tuned...

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Nothing like a little Situationist Thought to get the blood pumping in the morning!

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1932 -- Umberto Eco — literary critic, novelist, semiotician —lives, Alessandria, Italy. From Wikipedia:  Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis,

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Get 'em while we got 'em: $15 a pop.

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1898 -- Federico García Lorca lives. Spanish poet/dramatist.The turning point in Lorca's literary career was the folk musicfestival Fiesta de Cante Jondo in 1922, where he found inspirationfor his works in the traditions of folk & gypsy music.   Murdered by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Franco's   fascists in 1936. Accused of subversive activity, evidence today   suggests that it was a hate

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     Last Word Books & Press is finally launching our long-awaited still-only-semi-official internship program! If you are a local student at The Evergreen State College or South Puget Sound Community College, drop on by the Evergreen State College Community Opportunities & Internship FairWednesday, January 25, 201212-3 pm in the Library 2nd Floor Lobby and visit our table there! We will have a

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Powerful Belgian graphic artist, radical social critic.  Frans Masereel was the greatest woodcut artist of our time. A pacifist in World War I, he tried to make his art accessible to the ordinary man. His works were banned by the Nazis and widely distributed in Communist countries. But he rejected "political" art and party affiliation, condemning all enslavements, oppression, war and violence,

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It doesn't matter if books are delivered in print or by smartphone, the main thing is to get lost in reading them Gail Rebuck guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 December 2011 13.00 EST Article history Reading books is vital for human development. Photograph: Martin Lee / Rex FeaturesWhy should we bother reading a book? All children say this occasionally. Many of the 12 million adults in Britain

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1931 . . .                   Guy Debord lives, Paris, France.   Maitre penseur of the Situationist International,  writer, filmmaker, critic of Spectacular,  Too-Late Capitalism.      "The world at once present & absent which the      spectacle makes visible is the world of the       commodity dominating all that is lived. The world      of the commodity is thus shown for what it is,      because

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     We started Last Word Books & Press in order to affect, augment and stimulate the pitch and agility of counterculture writers, artists and thinkers. Our Friends program provides us with a regular, dependable base of funding from which to launch our assault against mainstream media and publishing, and attempt to turn the tides in favor of bookstores, libraries and other forms of access to

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Thousands of rare books burned in EgyptVolunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks stood on the back of a pickup truck Monday along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal debris.The volunteers, ranging from academic experts to appalled citizens, have spent the past two days trying to salvage

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A Country Without LibrariesAn excellent article byCharles SimicRobert DawsonHartland Four Corners, Vermont, 1994. Robert Dawson’s photos of libraries are currently on view in the exhibition Public Library: An American Commons at the San Francisco Public Library.Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. —Groucho MarxAll across the United States, large

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By Edward NawotkaAmazon, Huh? is a new extension for Google’s Chrome browser that “warns” you when you’re about to shop at Amazon. The pop-up challenges you each time you open Amazon.com:When’s the last time Amazon brought one of your favorite writers in to read from her work — for free?When’s the last time Amazon recommended a book based on your actual interests, not a bunch of data they’ve

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1891 -- Sex novelist Henry Miller lives.        "Everything that happened to me happened         too late.... It was even so with my birth.          Slated for Christmas, I was a half hour too late."  Fifty percent of the people in this country don't vote.  They simply don't want to be implicated in organized  society. With, in most cases, a kind of animal instinct,   they know that they cannot

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One-liner for the day. and a classic from Frank and Ernest:

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Merry Christmas Everyone!A Book is a Present You Can Open Again and Again

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19 Dec 2011 An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services. This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima. Authors

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1928 -- Science-fiction great Philip K. Dick lives. American science fiction writer par excellence. Author of Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Crack in Space, Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Time Out of Joint, etc. http://www.ubik.dk/pkd/pkdindex.htm http://www.uchronia.net/ http://www.rudysbooks.com/dick.htmlhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pkdick.htm  Interesting...

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Last words of Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He

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Covers the Influence, Literature, Experimentation and Unrest of the radical psychedelic 1960s. An interesting smattering of stuff. The Psychedelic SixtiesLiterary Tradition and Social ChangeSpecial Collections Department, Univeristy of Virginia Influence

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1852 -- Daniel DeLeon lives. One of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), socialist scholar & labor organizer.http://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/http://www.iww.org/  1908 -- US: After being booted from the city of Seattle yesterday, Emma Goldman protests actions of the policeauthorities in Everett, Washington, who prevent her fromspeaking on the claim that vigilantes

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Rather than going out on yet another shopping adventure with the kids, sit down by the fire and read to them for an hour instead. Happy Holidays!

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His response as to whether he had any last words. The epitaph on his memorial stone reads "No Comment". Alternate: "I Did What I Could" - An alternative as noted in the reference work Last Words of Notable People citing Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey by James Bishop.

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Lifted from http://technoccult.net/ - thanks Klintron!Wired reports:Nearly 30 years after publishing V for Vendetta, writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd are throwing their support behind the global Occupy movement that’s drawn inspiration from their comic’s anti-totalitarian philosophy and iconography.Moore will contribute a long-form prose piece, possibly with illustrations, to the Occupy

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1859 -- Lifelong opium-eater, romantic writer Thomas De Quincey dies, Lasswade, near Edinburgh, 74. Author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1919 -- Jailed at Ellis Island on the 5th, "Made Anarchists" Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman appear in federal court before Judge Julius M. Mayer, who declares that as aliens, they have no constitutional rights. They remain in detention at Ellis

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Yup... saw that one coming too. Welcome to the machine. Let's arm the radical left and see what happens.

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Israel stole uranium from U.S., report will show 05 Dec 2011 A U.S.-based research institute will soon publish what it says is "indisputable" evidence that Israel stole weapons-grade uranium for its still-undeclared atomic weapons program from a nuclear reprocessing plant in western Pennsylvania. The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) will release this month a 300-page report

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I want one...

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Occupy Police How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street Franken demands ‘Carrier IQ’ explain smartphone tracking E-book sharing groups: http://www.booklending.com/ & http://lendle.me/ A TED Talk on Beauty What children’s drawings would look like if it were painted realistically

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by Natalie Hanman of the Guardian "Things are looking up for radical books ... The problems of the past few years – shops closing, publishers folding – seem to be lifting." So runs the opening of Making the Connections: Radical Books Today, published in 1988, at the height of Margaret Thatcher's reign – but these rousing words of resistance could have been written today. For while the independent

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BY CIROCCO DUNLAP- - - -Original Text“I ate a sandwich and looked out the window.”- - -Sci-Fi“I placed the allotted nutrition capsules on my tongue bed and looked to the Nahin VI-8373 space podhole.” Fantasy“My dragon, Ralfarus, and I, Genflowfla’ii, choked down the hardened cheese curd and two-part-moons-old bread as we peered out of the meeting cavern.” 19th-Century British Romance“Being but a

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JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER DAY 1667 -- Jonathan Swift, critic, lives, Dublin, Ireland. Reads the Book of Job aloud on his birthday, perhaps because hisGulliver's Travels is the only work for which he ever receives payment: 200 pounds. See Kenneth Rexroth, More Classics Revisited. http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/index.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/

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1907 -- US: Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle, Washington. Current home of Left Bank Books, a collectively owned & operated anarchist bookstore still going after 25 years. Next to the flower shop at the beginning of the market, you can just see the bookstore sign. Auntie Dave worked in this collective from 1978-1995, helping found their Books-to-Prisoners project, Left Bank Distribution &

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Dear MoveOn member,The new iPhone is promoting anti-choice extremism. News broke yesterday that Siri, the new iPhone voice assistant, is directing women to anti-abortion pregnancy "crisis" centers in Washington, D.C., when they ask where to get an abortion. When users in New York City ask, Siri says she can't find any abortion clinics. When a user asked her why she is anti-abortion, she replied,

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 --25-year contract is one of biggest signed by Iraq in past two years 27 Nov 2011 Iraq Sunday signed the final $17.2 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Mitsubishi Corp. to capture and process flared gas from southern Iraqi oil fields, Iraqi and company officials said. The joint venture, which includes Iraqi state South Gas Co., is expected to help Iraq make use of more than 700 million

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Posted by majestic on November 28, 2011Adbuster's Occupy Wall Street poster incorporating the 3D work of Arturo Di Modica titled "Charging Bull".Adbusters’ leader Kalle Lasn receives a lengthy profile in the New York Times:Kalle Lasn, the longtime editor of the anticonsumerist magazineAdbusters, did not invent the anger that has been feeding the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the United

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“Damaged, cyberpunk heroine”, “bisexual cyberpunk avenger”, “horny, cyberpunk hacker”… these are your Google results for Lisbeth + Salander + Cyberpunk, as featured in film reviews courtesy of Movieline, Telegraph, and the increasingly horny and irrelevantRolling Stone (not a fan of the latter, sue me.)But I am a fan of la protagonista cyberpunk, that bad ass mutha hacktivist/erotic dynamo,

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Oh technology, you cruel mistress. Oh brave new world. Oh books. Oh cell phones. Lend me your powers so that we may grow a better world.

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As if I didn't have enough to be pissed off about already... By Gianna Palmer | McClatchy Newspapers NEW YORK — What started in September as a few piles of books on a tarp in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the de facto headquarters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, had grown into a full-fledged outdoor library with 5,000 volumes and an online catalogue by November. On Wednesday, a group of

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Our Daily Bleed... "Delia"— Kenneth RexrothCalifornia rolls into Sleepy summer, & the air Is full of the bitter sweet Smoke of the grass fires burning On the San Francisco hills. NOVEMBER 26 HERMANN GORTER Pioneering Dutch Council Communist, poetFESTIVAL OF BIG TALK. FESTIVAL OF SHADOW ECONOMIES. US: NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING FOR AMERICAN INDIANS. IT HAS BEEN SAID DAY: "All bleeding

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Interesting use of technology in conjunction with the world's oldest form of entertainment: storytelling. iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad. (Recorded at the TED Full Spectrum

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The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

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This map is part of an ongoing partnership between Civil Eats and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism News21 course on food reporting.

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by ALAN NASSERThe performance of the US economy from the mid-1970s to the present was no match for its relatively robust performance during what  economists call the Golden Age – 1949 to 1973. This was in fact the longest period of sustained growth in US history, when most (white) working people had achieved a degree of material security unknown earlier and unattainable since. But from the late

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This is frickin' awesome! Improve Reading Speed and ComprehensionSpreeder.com is free online speed reading software designed to improve your reading speed and comprehension.Spreeder is a free service provided by 7-Speed-ReadingTM. If you like this site, please have a look at our powerful 7 Speed Reading Software.

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By Xeni Jardin at 8:35 pm Friday, Nov 18 [Video Link, by terrydatiger].At the University of California at Davis this afternoon, police tore down down the tents of students inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, and arrested those who stood in their way. Others peacefully demanded that police release the arrested.In the video above, you see a police officer [Update: UC Davis Police Lt. John

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Our Daily Bleed... What did the mouse ask of the trap? What did the wound say to the knife? What does bread sing to wine & soap to water?       — Philip Levine, "Don't Ask" http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/levine.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/levine.php NOVEMBER 18MAN RAY Surrealist photographer, radical social critic.     Alternate Patron Saints: FLORES MAGON

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Our Daily Bleed... Soy hombre: duro poco y es enorme la noche. Pero miro hacia arriba: las estrellas escriben. Sin entender comprendo: tambien soy escritura y en este mismo instante alguien me deletrea.       — Octavio Paz (b. 1914), "Hermandad" (Homenaje a Claudio Ptolomeo)    I am a man: little do I last & the night is enormous. But I look up: the stars write. Unknowing I understand: I too

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Presented by the Mexico Solidarity Network www.mexicosolidarity.org As co-founder and lead organizer of CNUC, Luz has worked tirelessly over 20 years to protect peasant's rights and build inspiring, community-based autonomous projects. Luz and CNUC also accompany organized sex workers, a bus-drivers' cooperative, and the National Assembly of Braceros in their struggles against corrupt governance

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Our Daily Bleed...--If you have taken this rubble for my pastraking through for fragments you could sellknow that I long ago moved ondeeper into the heart of the matterIf you think you can grasp me, think again;my story flows in more than one directiona delta springing from the river bedwith its five fingers spread.— Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)http://www.maxalbums.com/search/?find=Adrienne+Rich&

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Olympia reading will feature James Tracy only. www.organizingupgrade.com Amy Sonnie and James Tracy The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as

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Our Daily Bleed... In a dark time, the eye begins to see,I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;I hear my echo in the echoing wood –A lord of nature weeping to a tree.I live between the heron & the wren,Beasts of the hill & serpents of the den. What's madness but nobility of soulAt odds with circumstance? The day's on fire!I know the purity of pure despair,My shadow pinned

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Our Daily Bleed... Was it all true once? Just like It says? I cannot find the past. It is only anecdotes For the company & the parching Of a few more hidden nerves Each Year. — Kenneth Rexroth, exerpt from The Dragon & the Unicorn For friendship make a chain that holds, to be bound to others, two by two, a walk, a garland handed by hands that cannot move unless they hold. — Robert Creeley (b

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Our Daily Bleed...This bent metal serpent/holy horn with lids like beermug/ with phallic tail why did they invent youbefore Coleman Hawkins was born ?This curved shiney tune gut/ hanging lynched like/ Jshaped initial of jazz/ wordless without a reed whenColeman Hawkins first fondled it/kissed it with Blacksound did COngo blood sucking Belges frown ?This tenor/alto/bass/baritone/soprano/moan/cry &

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Friends of Last Word Books & Press Memberships(Scroll down to see our different monthly membership options, or read all about them here)The tumult of our day is plain: multinational systems of power and money crumble, fractures gnaw at the base of the status quo. We print for the citizens of tomorrow.Since our conception in 2002, Last Word Press has ascended from a garage operation to become one

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I suffer the dreams of a world gone mad.I like it like that & I know it.I know it well, ugly & sweet,That temper madness with an even extreme. — REM, "Leave"NOVEMBER 4JUDI BARIEcological activist, fiddler, labor radical (Wobbly organizer), Earth-First warrior.Arcata & Oakland, California declare days in her honor.http://www.judibari.org/Oklahoma: WILL ROGER'S DAY.England, Australia, &

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Was it all true once? Just likeIt says? I cannot find the past.It is only anecdotesFor the company & the parchingOf a few more hidden nervesEach Year.— excerpt from The Dragon & the Unicornby Kenneth Rexrothhttp://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htmNOVEMBER 2LEOPOLD PERUTZSuperb Austrian fabulist novelist, mathematician.ALL SOULS DAY.Cheshire, England: SOULCAKER'S PLAY,

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