Holiday greetings to all! Enjoy the perfect description of this year at Unsane’s! 😀 Coming up from a southern beach as the sky turned rosy-dark I blinked and merged left beneath an arrow saying Golden Gate Bridge. I moved with the automatic gestures of a commuter but then started and thought: “People wait their entire … More Saturnalia
I Today’s featured post, on the caste system in India, is by Ridwan. I recommend it and its fascinating videos. I have also seen, out of professional “deformation” as we say, the film of Love in the Time of Cholera. I do not recommend it. It is weak and I feel somewhat polluted by it. … More Leni Reifenstahl
It is sunny here and cool enough for me to sleep with the windows open, and ride my bicycle. On the weekend we rode everywhere, I ate shrimp on a stick. I am still grading and not able to go to the CAC tomorrow night, but I hope you can. Here is key information from … More To the CAC
James Baldwin died November 30, 1987, twenty years ago today. I was having a traumatic semester and I did not take note of his passing, but he has always been one of my favorite writers, so I will take note of it today. This post is intended as a James Baldwin Video Aggregator. CSPAN Baldwin … More James Baldwin
There are famous living writers who blog, including but hardly limited to Carmen Boullosa, Laila Lalami, and Cristina Rivera Garza. James Baldwin, who is not living, maintains a page on MySpace. But did you know that pre-20th century figures such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Samuel Pepys were also blogging? Do you know … More Blogging from the Other Side
“If y’all are losing, who’s winning? ‘Cause it ain’t us.” Meet Chris Rock, commenting on the situation of white people who, as we know, are suffering renewed oppression. We like to argue and speculate about race, but class – long a taboo topic in “A-merry-ca” (h/t Field Negro) where everyone can “pursue happiness” – has … More On Neoliberalism and the White Man’s Lament
Check him out. Wouldn’t you like to have him come to speak at your school? I know I would. I would need to get several departments on board with me to organize this, though. Perhaps for next year. Meanwhile, following the advice of Unsane and inspired by Morphological Confetti and Wandering Caravan, I have been … More Geoffrey Philp
Now we are dancing to protect ourselves against any possible ill effects of a Jindal governorship. I had really hoped we would at least get a runoff. Jindal, it appears, believes in Intelligent Design “Theory.” And as we know, he has backed Bush on the Iraq war 100% of the time. And my friend says, … More Palo Drumming and Dancing – Dominican Republic
Columbus Day, 2007 1. A pastor has come forward to blow the whistle on a nationwide FEMA program which is training pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to “obey the government” in preparation for a declaration of martial law, property and firearm seizures, and forced relocation. 2. … More The Coming Storm
A short and excellent film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein. Do not miss it. Via Hattie. Axé.
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