I hope to participate in
I hope to participate in the expansion of WhitePrivilege.com, which has already become a great resource on the eponymous subject, so keep your eye on it. I’ll stick a link in flux where you can be sure to find it.
I hope to participate in the expansion of WhitePrivilege.com, which has already become a great resource on the eponymous subject, so keep your eye on it. I’ll stick a link in flux where you can be sure to find it.
Did you hear about the Trash Bloc? Some anti-authoritarians are planning a bloc for the weekend of the protests that would go around Washington neighborhoods and pick up trash. I think we can all get down with that.
Key Anti-Capitalist Convergence (Sep 29 and 30, Washington, DC) links:Great Buildings Online “documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.”
Variety editor Peter Bart is out of work. Here’s why.
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Lesbian fans invisible to WNBA, except in Girl Bar.
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The epic at Milk Hill, and other great circles of 2001.
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I knew that Bob Crane of "Hogan's Heroes" was murdered in 1978, and I knew that it had later come out that he was very involved with pornography, and liked to film himself and friends. (It's likely the murder weapon was the tripod from his video camera.) But now Crane's son has set up a Web site where people can pay to see Crane's nude photos and sex videos. Dude, this is just wrong. He was your dad. Have some respect.Visit Alt-log for the link (scroll to July 21). Disclaimer: I haven't followed it myself.
Swimmingholes.org details over 400 natural swimming spots in twenty states in the Eastern U.S. and a few in the West.
It's a great film but bloody, a body is shredded and suchlike, and not quite what he wanted to see, poor fellow.Guardian - Vidal praises Oklahoma bomber for heroic aims. Apparently the last thing McVeigh did before he was martyred/murdered was watch Fargo. In any case, Vidal has a brave and provocative perspective on McVeigh's story.
Lesbian Girl Scouts. Cookies. Uniforms.
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I thought I was the quickest the quickest the quickest mind alive and the quickest with words but words cannot catch up with these changes, these changes are beyond words, beyond words, beyond words. While I repeated these words I felt the waves of pleasure like those of the most acute pleasure of lovemaking . . . I felt the impossibility to tell the secret of life because the secret of life was metamorphosis, transmutation, and it happened too quickly, too subtly.Anaïs Nin, on the acid she got from local hero Oscar Janiger, who just died at age 83.
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One acre of cannabis hemp produces as much paper as 4.1 acres of cut-down trees.
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"I thought to myself: What am I going to do that's going to make a difference?" That night, O'Keefe dreamed he was surrounded by singing birds. They were hidden by leaves, but their songs swirled through his head, a glorious dawn chorus. Then, in his dream, he awoke to eerie quiet.The sustainable-coffee movement is born. Make mine shade and fair-trade.
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Pop-Quiz Question: If it were a military spy plane being held hostage in Genoa, instead of four young pacifists, would the US government then feel the need get involved? The question, of course, is rhetorical; we all know the answer. Home of the brave, indeed.19 members of the PublixTheatreCaravan, plus American Susanna Thomas, have finally been released.
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The ACME Mapper puts a snappy interface onto Microsoft’s Terraserver database of satellite images of the surface of the Earth.
The purpose of the terror, economic strangulation and daily humiliation is not obscure. It was articulated in the early years of the occupation by Moshe Dayan, one of the Israeli leaders most sympathetic to the Palestinian plight, who advised his Labor Party associates to tell the Palestinians that "you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave."commondreams.org - Neocolonial Invitation to a Tribal War by Noam Chomsky.
Ecstasy, science and politics.
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Has it been 30 days already? I would buy their cheap-ass camera if it would make the ads go away. This seems to be helping a bit.
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Q: "Mr. Allen, you met wife Soon-Yi when she was so young. After all these years, what keeps you two going?"Someone nasty's at City of Angles. (Spotted by LAX.)
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P&G is targeting people who have already tried some sort of makeshift wet toilet paper, mostly women from families with young children. Data shows that 60 percent of U.S. consumers have at some point made their own form of the product, moistening a sheet of regular toilet paper or putting together some combination of toilet paper and wet wipe. Twenty-five percent are regular users.Reuters - P&G Rolls Out New Ad for Wet Toilet Paper. Makeshift wet toilet paper can be tricky business I would imagine.
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If Metafilter wasn’t on vacation, there would be a huge thread about this voicemail for the homeless story. (c/o guess who).
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Toker Aaron Sorkin punks out, Bartlett-style. Perhaps he can begin to redeem himself by writing activist Woody Harrelson into an episode or two of “The West Wing” this season.