Road Trip!

That's right, Last Word Books, Earthlight Books, and Last Earth Distro are piling in to a book mobile and hitting the streets. If you're hitting any of the events we are, be sure to hit us up!

• Portland Anarchist Bookfair, June 7th
• Rose City Book Fair, June 12th & 13th
  
• Lady of the Lake Art Fair, July 11 & 12
• Allyn Days, July 18 & 19
• Portland Zine Symposium, July 24th-26th
• Northwest World Reggae Festival, August 8th-10th
• Bumbershoot, September 5th-7th
  
• Okanogan Family Barter Faire, 3rd weekend in October

We hope to see you around!

Some Peer Reviews of Last Word Books

just dug these up on yelp

7/9/2008 Their resident cat is pure evil, but in a way I find endearing.

He bit me when we first met. But it was because I was aggressively cuddling him without first establishing an acceptable level of trust.

We're cool now.

I hope.

In any case, while there may be larger used bookstores south of Seattle, this one has the most interesting selection of quality picks and the most comfortable seating.

-Monkey X - North Pole, AK
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If you're looking for it, chances are they've got it somehwere. Shit they've probably got five of 'em. Whether or not they're gonna get up and look for it, well, we're all free to make our decisions aren't we? This bookstore has the widest selection of all genres from Aquatic Wildlife of the 1960s to Lorca to CrimethINC. They've got plays, Organic Gardening, Autographed First Edition Kerouacs, Deep SciFi, Anarchotexts, EVERYTHING. They also are home to Rec Tha Place Records in the Back (Big Ups Alex & Erin!!), are almost always blasting Free Radio Olympia, and have the most comprehensive Zine Library I've ever seen. And they'll always have a chair out front to smoke in, a smartass comment from Rob, and the "WTF? Asshole book of the Week" display prominently in the window. And there's always three good books in questionable condition on the 3 for $1 book carts out front. If you are a bibliophile of any type and are near Olympia, you owe it to yourself to check this place out. Intense to say the least.

-Owen T. - Oakland, CA

Anarchy Info-Boxes in Olympia

"All materials are free. Feel free to take, borrow and leave print information. Enjoy."

The story of the anarchy infobox

The idea for an anarchy infobox came when people wanted to learn about
anarchy 24 hours a day in Olympia.
Keeping the local zine library open all night seemed impractical. People also
don't have access to the internet at all times and can't access websites like
zinelibrary.net. Having an old newspaper box in the backyard helped put this
idea into action.

People painted the old newspaper box and installed a new plexiglass
window. A new shelf was made for the zines to sit on inside the infobox. People
also put zine subject dividers and book holders to make the info in the infobox
more accessible.

The zine infobox made its debut at 4th and Washington
streets in downtown Olympia in
front of a coffee shop, across the corner from the Industrial Worker (the paper
of the IWW) newspaper box...

Then things, of course, went sour. Read More at Zinelibrary.net...

This was just down the street from our bookstore for a spell last spring and summer, I hope it returns, as it seems to be a relatively cool idea. Oh, and keeping the Olympia Zine Library open 24 hours a day would require armed guards and/or a sizeable tax-free donation to Last Word Books, L.L.C. Neither of which are particularly out of the question. Please speak to our C.E.O., One Basil C.

Yet Another Update From Your Friends At Last Word Books

Just a shout out to let our online fan-club know that we're gearing up for our heavy-hitting online presence release later this year!

Check out these sites for some of our listings and forthcoming information:

www.lastwordbooks.orgEarthlight Books

Last Earth Distro - Our Fringe Ebay Outlet (don't Hold It Against Us)
If any of you surfers out there would like a little extra-curricular activity we could use some online assistance in the coming months. Please contact us through the regular channels. earthlightbooks(at)gmail.com

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...