Archive for October, 2008
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
A Magpie’s Guide to Busking
[Busking is street performing] I first busked about seven years ago, in NYC subways with my friends. But I’ve only been busking with any real frequency for about the last four years. From time to time, it’s been my main or only source of income. Of course, since I was usually living in squats and [...]
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Ah, the elections.
It’s like a car wreck: anarchist or no, you can’t help but pay attention to some degree to the upcoming election. But what I like to hear is anarchist strategy in regards to the election, and the good old Center For Strategic Anarchy has offered up an analysis of the election from an anarchist point [...]
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Ah, insurgents. The PKK
Embedded video from CNN Video This video is really interesting. It’s about the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, an insurgent army in Turkey that’s been fighting since the 70s. In this video, a CNN reporter is hanging out at one of their camps that reminds me quite a bit of a forest defense camp. There’ve been a [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
New Zine at Strangers
The anarchist publishers I work with, Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness, just finished work on their latest theory zine. Written by a certain ms/mr Usul of the Blackfoot, this zine is wonderful. Post-Civ!, a deeper exploration. It’s a nearly 40 page exploration of why civilization is terrible and why primitive societies weren’t usually that much [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
I Hate Green Capitalism (first of a series)
I had never really looked at Treehugger.com, but today I did, finding a neat article there I just blogged below. Then I, just now, looked at the main site. Top post? Did you know that you can save money with an electric blanket? This is my problem with green capitalism. It says: gee, if people [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Container Living
I think the first time I ran across the idea of living in a shipping container was the film Mies vailla menneisyyttä [The Man Without A Past], a finnish movie about a man who gets mugged, loses his memory, and has to start over from scratch. It’s a pretty good movie, too. Poor guy has [...]
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Anarcho-Flarf Vandalism! (or, 3k+ pages of false poetry!)
Desolation He loses the fingers, sudden as arms Sarah Gridley That poem is on page 3076 of Issue 1, a wonderful jab at culture by forgodot.com (and possibly Steve McLaughlin), an experimental poetry group. Why is it interesting? Because Sarah Gridley, whoever she is, didn’t write that poem. In fact, none of the 3,000+ authors [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
1925 Steamroller
There are some fun pictures of a 1925 steamroller over on Shorpy [1, 2, and 3]. Today’s fun steamroller fact: steamrollers were still in use until the 1960s, making them one of the longest lasting steam machines I can think of. (Turns out the modern ones are called “road rollers” which is a much worse [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Abney Park To (possibly) Hijack A Zeppelin In Less Than A Month
I first heard that Abney Park (steampunk electronic rock band) was going to play on a zeppelin by way of their Official Page. I grew jealous. Then I discovered more details about it from Boing Boing and I was jealous of Boing Boing, for blogging about it first when I hadn’t gotten around to it [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Janis Zhaklis – The Real Peter The Painter
Thanks to a comment from Ben, I’ve come to learn the real identity of Peter the Painter. He was a latvian named Janis Zhaklis. Ian Bone has covered the story and has an audio interview with Philip Ruff, who traveled to Latvia numerous times to uncover the story. (You can also watch the interview on [...]
