If we do end up
If we do end up reading Palestine, we won’t be the first book club to discuss comics. So who’s down?
If we do end up reading Palestine, we won’t be the first book club to discuss comics. So who’s down?
I came across a couple of amusing pieces about getting back in the job way – grooming and etiquette tips for “fuck-ups like me” :
The projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project is a collection of independently-produced books and zines traveling and exhibiting across North America in a vintage Airstream trailer. The project is accepting submissions for the 2002 tour which will visit the west coast of Canada and the US.
He’s an underprivileged devious cat burglar who dotes on his loving old ma. She’s an orphaned wisecracking doctor with a song in her heart and a spring in her step. They fight crime!
"How does grilling work in the text of your life? Would charcoal have interfered with the process of social bonding?"It's difficult to believe this isn't satire, but The New York Times' Consuming Rituals of the Suburban Tribe is a frightening look at the future of market research.
I'm not waitin' for y'all, y'all gonna catch up.Mos Def at the Black Jack Johnson Project show on his rap-rock fusion experiment which I would have caught if I hadn't been in bed with a temperature of one hundred and one on Saturday night.
It’s Dr. Bronner vs. the DEA as the Hemp Industries Association challenges a DEA order banning the sale of food products containing hemp, effective February 6th. It may be your last chance to stock up on: “Healthy Hemp Sprouted Bread. Hemp Plus Granola. Hempzel Pretzels. Hempseed Energy Bars. Hemp Chips. Hempsi Hempmylk.” If you’re in the DC Metro area, the Washington Post helpfully offers, “hemp products can be found at Fresh Fields/Whole Foods, Yes Organic Market, My Organic Market and Takoma Park/Silver Spring Food Co-op.”
Word Balloons: Comics projects to aid victims of terrorism (The Oklahoman)
Today’s newspoem: cheap flags.
Impressions of Amsterdam after the 2001 Cannabis Cup by Spider Robinson.
TiVo deals, badass baby clothes, lefty war links, race book reviews, ancient beer.
Prescription: Euphoria by Carla Spartos (The Village Voice)
Taking one or two pills of pure MDMA over the course of a lifetime may be safe for some people, but it’s not so attractive to pharmaceutical companies. After all, drugs like Prozac turn a profit – and lots of it, since patients need to take them every day. Unlike struggling researchers, the wealthy manufacturers can afford an army of Capitol Hill lobbyists to turn politicians' heads the other way.
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing?' " McSally asks. "I don't think so. I would hope not."The Air Force Flier In the Ointment (washingtonpost.com) - Martha McSally is suing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claiming that the Pentagon's policy requiring female personnel to cover up from head to toe and ride in the back seat when traveling off base in Saudi Arabia is unconstitutional.
These alternate Apple MWSF home pages are hilarious.
To make sure that Caitlin grew up with the right priorities, I created huge padded rainbow apples, the early Apple logo, to go at each end of her cot.'Cutout' Macs a Real Passion (wired news)
If these rules make sense to you, we could quickly cross the line from words to action, both on the Web and in neighborhoods and villages around the world, by inviting people and organizations that support these goals to meet and work together, locally and face-to-face -- in schools, community centers and houses of worship -- or online and across any cultural or national border.I like the sound of this ambitious initiative of idealist.org.
Hamed Karzai worked as a consultant for the huge US oil group Unocal, which had supported the Taleban movement and sought to construct a pipeline to transport oil and gas from the Islamic republics of Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan.Saudi paper profiles new Afghan leader (Financial Times) - This is what is meant by "it's all about the oil." I wish I were bold enough to put that bumper sticker on my car.
Five Things We Will Do in 2002 (washingtonpost.com): “In the spirit of renewal, Home section staffers share our personal struggles against clutter and disorder, and our resolve to gain the upper hand against overcrowded closets, teetering stacks of books, messy nests of paperwork, photographs and batter-spattered recipes.”
originally posted by xowie
Seed.
Mark your calendars: May 4th, 2002 is Free Comic Book Day!
Aw shucks, randomWalks won an O.Dub award. Great work, team!
The Spiders, Part 2, holy shit.
originally posted by xowie
Our friends at The Nation have put together a nice package on globalized media, centered around a damning chart of conglomerated ownership put into perspective by NYU Prof. Mark Crispin Miller and supported by a bunch of great essays and a call for reform.
originally posted by xowie