Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Therefore Repent! And Pre-Order From Jim Munroe!
One of my favorite stories I’ve read so far as part of my research into anarchist fiction has been Jim Munroe‘s Therefore Repent!, which he has just made available for free download on his site. It’s a graphic novel about the rapture happening, and what happens to people who stay behind. I don’t want to [...]
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Love The Machine, Hate The Factory
Cory Doctorow has written an excellent essay on steampunk for the next issue of MAKE Magazine, which is also always awesome. This next issue is particularly exciting to me, because it is being edited by Gareth Branwyn, who was responsible for getting all us steampunks together last year at the Maker’s Faire in the bay. [...]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Nothing Nice To Say
I spent today reading Nothing Nice To Say, a punkrock webcomic. This one is one of my favorites.
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb is at it again
[click on picture! then it's big enough to read! it's funny, I promise!] Every anarcho-punk’s favorite folk-punk band, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, is getting bike punks into trouble again. (actually, I don’t like TBIAPB very much, though they are fun live. I don’t actually like folk punk much, honestly.) Anyhow, lots of people [...]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Show in Asheville, Tomorrow, Thursday Feb 19th
I’ll be playing a show at Dundee House (4 Dundee Street), upstairs, in Asheville, NC tomorrow. Show starts at 8. I’ll be playing with Manson Family Picnic, who are from Brooklyn, and then my good friends Bob Villain and If Not I Then Who Then. It will be good. I will hopefully be playing new [...]
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
More Eastern European Anarchism – Croatian Anarchist Bookfair
If I had more money than I do, I sure as hell would be at the Fifth Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair this April 3rd-5th. One of the things I love so much about being an anarchist is the connections we have with people all over the world, and I love coming to understand how different cultures [...]
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Mythmakers & Lawbreakers – Alan Moore on Anarchism
Okay, so some of you know that I have a book coming out from AK Press this fall. It’s titled Mythmakers & Lawbreakers, and it’s a series of interviews with anarchist fiction writers about the intersection of their politics and their fiction. Trying to explore how fiction writing can be useful, but also why we [...]
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Anarcha-Feminism!
My first political issue was probably gender liberation and feminism. It helped that so many of my friends in high school were women. And one of the things that immediately drew me to anarchism was that the anarchist culture had a very healthy respect for feminism, and I believe offered some critical solutions to the [...]
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
2-9-08 – Next Monday, Opening For Old Horsey At Bobo Gallery, Asheville
I’m excited as hell to play with Old Horsey. Everyone in the band is grand, but my dear friend Sparrow (pictured) who plays in Old Horsey is the person who gave me my first accordion and taught me how to play. This is therefore up there in importance with the first time I played drums [...]
