Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Gaza Offensive Was Planned Months In Advance
As soon as the mainstream media picked up on the recent bombings of Gaza, they announced that the attacks were retaliation against small rocket attacks by Hamas militants. But no, the attacks were planned months in advance. What a surprise.
Also in the “lol, I told you so” category, Obama gave a wonderful little speech about [...]
No Comments » - Posted in War by Magpie
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
The World’s Largest Prison, Gaza, Bombed Again
The Gaza Strip, home to more than a million Palestinians, has been under lockdown (siege) for the past 18 months. During that time, the necessities of life have been smuggled in from Egypt by way of tunnels. The Israeli army took care of that just now, by bombing the hell out of the area to [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in War by Magpie
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Anarchist Craft Stores?
So this is vaguely random, but today as I sat at Red Emma’s, the worker-owned coffeeshop/bookstore in Baltimore, I was thinking about anarchist projects. We’re used to the idea of the “infoshop”, which is more or less to say anarchist bookstore (although it has implications of meeting space as well). In some cities we’re spoiled [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Anarchism by Magpie
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Big Dog Is Going Down
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Earlier on Birds Before The Storm, I posted about Big Dog, a military-friendly quadruped robot that is kind of frightening. But fortunately, our attention has been brought to Lrry-1, the video of which appears above, by the boulevardier: (from our comments)
we have our own [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Art, Post-Civ, Tech by Magpie
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Douchetour Will Be Headlined By Man O’ War - Power Forge Radio
Thanks to the magic of Google Alerts (yes, yes, I’m one of those people), I heard about Power Forge Radio: a podcast of folk metal and industrial, for the most part, which is pretty sweet. I wonder if they know those are two of my favorite genres of music? Anyhow, they were kind enough to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Music by Magpie
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Radical Activism Visual Archive
When I lived in Amsterdam, I got a glimpse of some the european activist design aesthetic, which was beautiful. A little hip for my tastes, to be sure (not everything can look like it came from the 19th century, I suppose), but my friends there sure knew that aesthetics can be important. I’m gonna be [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Art by Magpie
Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Greece. Interesting Place. Especially Right Now.
As I’m certain much of the world is aware, Greece has been alive with riots these past two weeks since the police killed a teenage anarchist. It’s hard to keep up with it all, being over here in the USA, of course, but Crimethinc has come out with an excellent analysis of the uprising. One [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Anarchism by Magpie
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Video of a Chinese Cop Blocked by a Truck
I know, I know, not the most promising title to a blogpost, but man, this is funny. It’s 7 minutes of a cop trying to pass a truck. The truck driver cuts him off, every time. When I watched it, I accidentally put on Loreena McKennit at the same time, for a particularly hyponotizing experience. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in LOL by Magpie
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Opening For Dark Dark Dark Tomorrow, Dec 15, Baltimore
Finally, I give you more than 24 hours notice before I play a show. Here’s 27 hours notice. Tomorrow night, Monday Dec 15th 2008, at 3043 Frisby Street, Baltimore MD. Doors at 6pm. I’m playing a show! I’m playing with Dark Dark Dark, who are an accomplished acoustic act from Minneapolis, and Armida, a ukulele [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Events by Magpie
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
The Red & Black Ball!
Last night I attended the Red & Black Ball, a neo-victorian/surrealist/steampunk/anarchist bit of wonderfulness organized by the good folks of 2640. Almost everyone came in proper colors and in a wide array of finery, mostly DIY. It was hard for me, of course… black I’ve got plenty of, but red? My accordion is red, but [...]
