January 2010
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if you want to celebrate with me,
measart:
i am in walnut, iowa. oh, you don’t know about walnut. well, walnut is a city in pottawattomie county, iowa, USA. the population is 700. walnut is located on interstate 80 and is famous for its many antique stores. in recent years walnut has become a regional center of wind turbine electrical generation. woot. it’s gonna be a blast.
Can’t make it to Walnut. I am out west in...
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20 best: FACT mixes of 2009 →
All available for free download — hours of great music.
December 2009
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Saving Mexico →
From Wall Street Journal
December 26, 2009
By DAVID LUHNOWbr
Mexico CityTo weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade Growing numbers of Mexican and U.S. officials say—at least privately—that the biggest step in hurting the business operations of Mexican cartels would be simply to...
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“Song of Childhood” by Peter Handke
When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,...
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“Senate Democrats are requiring middle class families to give the proceeds of...”
– http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/12/15/health-care-on-the-road-to-neo-feudalism/ (via mollycrabapple)
this is why you cannot separate the health care bill from corporate giveaways.
(via champagnecandy) (via jhnbrssndn) (via unburyingthelead)
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Getting Away with Torture →
Excellent review of the Maher Arar torture case written by one of his lawyers.
From The New York review of Books
Volume 57, Number 1 · January 14, 2010
By David Cole
Insane view from Columbia Tower 73rd floor
davecurry:
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dirtyskydub:
Aphex Twin - Gwely Mernans
Drukqs...
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Also, We Loved 'Cache', But It Kinda Made Us...
newsweek:
Marc Bain talks to Michael Haneke:
Your movies, as you say, deal with many uncomfortable topics. But they never give the viewer a sense of justice being served. Is there an emotional reaction you want from your viewers? I try to take the spectator seriously … Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home...
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Introduction to The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series →
NPR Audio Documentary:
The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series was created using a remarkable archive of thousands of hours of tape recorded by a great photographer, W. Eugene Smith, in his loft building on Sixth Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets in New York. From that tape, certain sounds and stories emerged that became the focus of the series.
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http://ajourneyroundmyskull.tumblr.com/
A Journey Round My Skull has a Tumblr now.
I’ll be following!
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WatchJamie Lidell, Fiest, , Nels Cline
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Song: Alles Sehen
Album: Berlinette
Artist:...
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Slide Show: Dominique Nabokov on Robert Frank's...
nybooks:
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Frank’s The Americans, the exhibition “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through January 3, 2010. Dominique Nabokov—whose own photographs appear regularly in The New York Review—saw the exhibition both in New York and in Washington, where it originated at the...
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“I’m always afraid to write about David Brooks, because I worry that my attitude...”
– MATT TAIBBI
The opening salvo in his blog post: Onward Christian Warriors!
Thnx jhnbrssndn
Robin Kelley’s Transcendental Thelonious Monk →
Robin Kelly talks with Chris Lydon.
Beautiful interview with the author of a new definitive biography of one of the treasures of American Music.
“Forget the damned motorcar and build the cities for lovers and friends.”
– Lewis Mumford
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“Conventional economics is inevitably destructive and unsustainable because it...”
– David Suzuki
Portland Tribune
Oregon City taxes parking spaces at big box stores to help pay for street maintenance
Grocers to petition street maintenance fee
Voters could decide the fate of Tigard’s tripled maintenance rate in May election
BY GEOFF PURSINGER
The Times, Dec 17, 2009
The next time you run to the store for a carton of milk, you might find yourself in the middle of a political struggle.
The Northwest...