Archive for April, 2009
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
79 year old anarchist wins nebula award
Ursula K Le Guin is of course one of the most respected speculative fiction authors around. And today (yesterday?) she won the 2008 Best Novel Nebula Award, which is pretty much sci-fi’s highest honor. She won it for a book Powers, the third in the Annals of the Western Shore series that I haven’t started [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Anarchism, Books by Magpie
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Why I Love Finland
I always romanticized Finland when I was a teenager, and Helsinki was the first foreign city I ever visited by myself, and is one of only two that I’ve bothered to go to twice. In Finland, there are no gendered pronouns. And during midsummer, the sun doesn’t really go down so much and you can [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Tech, Travel by Magpie
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Ego Likeness on Tour (without me)
My good friends in Ego Likeness are about to head out on an east coast tour for a few weeks, and if you have the chance you should definitely go see them. They’re not a “political” band, but all of their songs have meaning. This is what I love about the goth scene, at its [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music by Magpie
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Rightwing Teabaggers
Okay, this is really, really funny.
Here’s some highlights:
…teabagging day for the right wind and they are going nuts for it. thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give president obama a strong tongue-lashing and [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in LOL by Magpie
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Our Enemies In Blue
This article is amazing. It cuts right through to the underlying racism of our society and media reporting, liberal reaction, all of that:
The Ambivalent Silences of the Left: Lovelle Mixon, Police, and the Politics of Race/Rape
Even the Columbine shooters, who engaged in a premeditated massacre of fellow students, garnered more sympathy than has Lovelle Mixon, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Activism by Magpie
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Infernokrusher!
i know, I know, I’m 3 or 4 years too late, but I just found out about infernokrusher, which is basically the best literary movement in the world. For example, the first Infernokrusher poem:
I blew up the plums
that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
forgive me
I like fire
Now, the thing is [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Art by Magpie
Monday, April 13th, 2009
SteamPunk Magazine #5!
So about six months ago, I stepped down as editor of SteamPunk Magazine, and my friend Allegra Hawksmoor stepped up. I’d left her with a big jumbled mess of contributions and such, but she got everything organized and has put out a fabulous issue of SteamPunk Magazine, Issue #5. It’s got all kinds of fun [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Steampunk by Magpie
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Intellectual Property Is Theft! (and the NYC anarchist bookfair)
I’ll be tabling at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair next Saturday (April 11th), with Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness, and possibly also with some stuff from Eberhardt Press. As per usual, almost everything Strangers tables is free, like beer and like liberty.
I’ll be running a workshop, too, at 4:30, called “Intellectual Property Is Theft”, based a [...]
