Last week, a non-Christian friend who lives in NYC was complaining of the impossibility of going about one’s daily life without being assaulted by Christmas carols. Even if you’re freegan like him and don’t actually go into stores, White Christmas still comes wafting out at you from their opened doors.
It’s quieter here in the country [...]
South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba is dead. In her memory, let me refer you to this past post inspired by her song “Soweto Blues.” In that post, I discuss the 1976 massacre of South African schoolchildren as well as present-day student activism in Baltimore. So you can understand why the post is entitled [...]
Whenever I’m in an independent bookstore, I always make sure to buy something. So, while I was at Arise! bookstore in Minneapolis, I picked up a copy of Evasion (CrimetInc), which I’d been wanting to read anyway and because I always like reading travelogues while traveling.
In the course of that travelogue of train hopping, dumpster [...]
Just now, slouched half-turned toward the window with one leg angled on the sill, listening to Thao Nguyen(*) while working on a project concerning linkages between queer and animal liberation, I started to stare off into space out the window and instead found myself looking right into the eyes of the very young preying mantis [...]
My lengthy silence has had some people saying the title of one of my favorite mp3 blogs: Honey, Where You Been So Long?
I’ve been stuck at the intersection of Deadline and Nothing to Say on the writer’s block of a particularly bad neighborhood. I managed to slog through one overdue anthology chapter but then became [...]
Isa at Post Punk Kitchen sent me a lot of traffic last week so the least I can do is share some punk music that has something to do with food. So, here’s Communist Radio by — str-e-e-e-e-e-etching for the connection — The Eat.
I love this song for so many reasons. The Eat was… I [...]
That’s the refrain that’s been in my head ever since I had the misfortune to hear GWB’s smarmy voice mouthing insincerities about New Orleans over the radio yesterday. (Just like him to be right on time for high-profile ceremonies commemorating the unnatural disaster to which he was so lethally belated in responding back in in [...]
