Sad thing is I know she’s a really good photographer and I guess this new work of hers just seems really unfocused and out there.
Sorry that was horrible. Yet, I couldn’t resist.
Very cool to see her quoted in the article about her research. Here’s to hoping we get to read more and more about her research in the coming years.
I’ve changed the password and that should fix it, we’ll see. Let me know if you see more of it.
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Cool. My own banner.
I would like to add one thing that sort of didn’t have room in the article. I love the work of Michael Chabon and David Foster Wallace. Just remember that. I do feel lucky to be doing this. Will be an interesting year.
There’s two more books on the list I’ve read before, but I’m not telling.
This Village Voice report, on a policy whereby the NYPD is given a quota for random stops and searches of passersby, is disturbing on so many different levels. The article rightly describes the term “preemptive policing” as Orwellian; that this policy is clearly a wanton (and racially weighted) infringement of civil liberties is so obvious from the preponderance of evidence as to go without saying.
Let’s not forget the NYPD’s post-9/11 counter intelligence mission which is troubling to me as well.
The bureau, along with the NYPD’s totally revamped intelligence division, and the high-level hires from Washington—a lieutenant general from the Pentagon and a spymaster from the CIA—is part of Kelly’s vision to remake the NYPD into a force that can effectively respond to the world’s dangerous new realities.
There are now New York City police officers stationed in London working with New Scotland Yard; in Lyons at the headquarters of Interpol; and in Hamburg, Tel Aviv, and Toronto. There are also two cops on assignment at FBI headquarters in Washington, and New York detectives have traveled to Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen, Pakistan, and the military’s prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to conduct interrogations. Members of the department’s command staff have also attended sessions at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
The idea that a municipal police department should in anyway be a part of foreign policy for the United States, I don’t care what freaking city it is (nor what happened to it), is disturbing to me.
The NYPD is not some last line of defense for our nation. Sorry, it just isn’t.
Add that to the policies of Police Commissioner Kelly as outlined in the VV piece and you have an idea of PD that is behaving much more like some combination of the almost fascist post-WWII LAPD and the Honolulu PD from Hawaii 5-0, where in the state PD is in some sort of continuing battle with vacationing Soviet spies.
Doesn’t matter what city you protect, how bad it is, how bad it once was. No PD should be able to do this. The 4th amendment is supposed to guarantee that no citizen (and even non-citizens) should be subjected to this.
Of course, we haven’t even touched on the number of high profile incidents of civil rights abuse, grievous bodily harm, and murder that have happened in the name of protecting NYC.
Fuck this shit.
From Skullduggery Publishing:
The launch party
We are most definitely still doing that launch party on February 15th at Honey (205 East Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis MN 55414). Show up at 7:00 to get a drink in hand and socialize and then the author readings will be soon to follow. Mid-evening there will be a raffle of glorious prizes and then Villa is going to take the stage with their fantastic music. Their current EP is for sale and they will be releasing another album soon.
Buy your books and music now to pick up then
We are offering a sale on the books and music on the website right now for pick up at the event. You can even swoop up the debut bundle, which includes the first three titles and Villa’s EP. The books are still bound by hand so this helps us plan ahead supply-wise. Here’s where books and music can be bought.
Links to our things
Be good
I have three stories in one of the books at the launch, The Bitter Enemies Decadent Selections, and I most definitely will be reading that evening.
Come on out if you can. And buy the books. Nick makes them by hand. Seriously. Binding glue. Press. Yeah. By fricking hand.
Our Lady, a Parable for Moderns (1938). Mary, the mother of Jesus, travels to the modern world with the help of a demon and a sorceress. Priests find her and imprison her in a convent so that the real facts of her life and her first born son will never become known. Satire to that point, but then the the priests exorcise her, and the whole thing becomes Catholic horror.
The author?
Upton Sinclair.
Yes. Yes, I do want to read that.
That WASP person everyone has already been making fun of.
I wish I could cross stitch because this is beyond hilarious and I would hang it on a frame above my computer. If anything, as a reminder of what we are up against.
(via redlightpolitics)
I couldn’t believe this was real. I couldn’t.
When I read the bit below, I was sure it was a joke:
It’s very, very tricky, to feel that people are Other, when you come from the original dominant class. Even when falling like Lucifer in Milton’s Paradise Lost, we High WASPs clutch tatters of Very Good-Looking Toile de Juoy in our tended hands. Those we now see as Other, we once called Not Our Kind, Dear. With no respect, only disdain. And that disdain was used for the longest time as part of a sophisticated arsenal to keep Others out.
Then I read this:
So, first of all, yes, it’s very not done of me to talk about all this. I shouldn’t, according to the culture, be talking about either the money or the attitudes. But I decided to do it any way, almost three years ago when I began writing this. Back then nobody read it, so nobody got offended. I’ve reduced the High WASP stuff a lot lately, and probably will go back now to just style. I think my sparser posts make it a lot harder communicate my complicated feelings in such a way that I don’t sound like a jerk.
But secondly, what I was trying to do here was communicate both the learned reaction and class behavior, as well as the developed understanding that one really has to move on and embrace a wider view. I wanted to say that it’s OK to develop a strong sense of Us, but that doesn’t have to entail disdain of the Other, unless they are acting in a way that’s truly difficult.
I just didn’t know.
Class behavior.
Wow.
Just. Wow.
Someone later on says “While I don’t have your pedigree…” in reference to the author. All I can think of is the fact that I’ve never personally lived in circles (social, work, or otherwise) in which being a WASP was considered something of pride or bragging rights.
Unrelatedly, I did want to remind people that “Because pure-breeding creates a limited gene pool, purebred animal breeds are also susceptible to a wide range of congenital health problems.”
Completely unrelated, I assure you.
The last few years have been disgusting watching Republicans speak about Obama and frankly, in general, just about every racial minority. Santorum and Gingrich’s recent comments being over the top unbelievable things that people running for office should not be allowed to say and stay in the race.
Lying about infidelity? Frankly couldn’t give two shits about it. However, if you have the balls to carry on affairs while you are pillorying someone for carrying on an affair or running for president, then you possibly lack some basic moral decency and possess a certain megalomania that I’d rather not see in the President of the US.
I digress. Santorum and Gingrich have pushed, prodded and stepped over the line. Both clearly want to represent only one kind of voter: white, hetero, Christian men (and possibly sometimes Jews and women).
(Source: motherjones)
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Go read this if you want to see Dr. Manhattan’s anus.
You know you do.
So, Warren Ellis asked me to write something for his blog. I am a VERY busy man, but luckily I had an excerpt from my in-progress autobiography “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Supergod (I Am Here To Destroy You).” This particular chapter deals with the time I was approached to write WATCHMEN 2.
Thanks, Warren!
jorge luis borges in minneapolis
Borges! Really in Minneapolis? What statue is that?
the mystery remains. solve, please.
It is indeed the statue commemorating The Song of Hiawatha at Minnehaha Falls.
Check out March 8-14—that is one epic week. For those of you not in Minneapolis: the capacity of the 7th Street Entry is 250.
Wow.
Look at the two nights devoted to Winnepegian band Personailty Crisis. It does look like Prince was in the Main Room that night. And apparently Husker Du opened for DNA. Which means the Huskers played three shows in March at the venue.
About that 7th Street Entry capacity, my Google-fu is weak, so I have been unable to find this, but I remember reading in either the Strib or PiPress at the time that Ben Folds Five’s first show their in 1995 filled the Entry to a possibly fire-code busting 501. That’s the number I remember. Could’ve been 251 though.
Their 97 all ages show in the Main Room of First Ave remains one of the most suffocatingly packed shows I’ve ever been at. Most likely due to how all ages shows used to be handled. Alcohol was only served upstairs, so other than the bathrooms, under 21s were not allowed upstairs. And though First Ave capacity is probably around 1000-1500, the majority of people at all ages shows were under-21, when I say a majority I mean you were sometimes looking at 95% of the crowd being all ages since the shows generally started early (sometimes doors were 5pm on a week night), and the band was actually playing two shows in one night: one all ages, one “drunk.” So most people over 21 and up went to the “drunk” shows.
My first “drunk” show was Elliot Smith in 98. My car was used to shuttle people from Carleton College in Northfield up to the show, though I was not a student there. My one condition was that I go, and that I not drive. I took advantage of the waiters that waded through the crowd with a case of beer atop their head. Frequently.
Smith played Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” and it was amazing. Will never forget it. Even through that strange 21 year old “Hey, I can drink in public. Awesome!” haze.
(Source: partywok)
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Florida Republicans’ Plan to Block Out the Sunshine
In their longstanding fight to privatize the state’s prison system—and a lot of other public services—Republican lawmakers in Florida are trying a new angle: doing it in secret.
A new bill sailing through the Legislature would change the law so that taxpayers wouldn’t get to know about government work turned over to a contractor until after the contract has been signed.
Who wrote the bill? That, too, is a secret…
(Source: Mother Jones)
I’m glad I was able to see this today. Absolutely thrilled.
(Source: digitaltorture, via mmmayhemspeaks)
