Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Decadence – Dubai
I’m fascinated by Dubai, the boom-town of the globalized era. Now, it’s the bust-town of globalization. Here’s a beautiful slideshow called off the deep end that goes over some of the city’s rapid decline. Dubai is crazy, though: they have the world’s tallest building, but public displays of affection are illegal. Thousands of ex-pat businesspeople [...]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Anti-Police Blogger Arrested For Her Website
From The Washington Post: A 34-YEAR-OLD woman, the mother of a 12-year-old girl, has been locked up in a Virginia jail for three weeks and could remain there for at least another month. Her crime? Blogging about the police. Essentially, Elisha Strom ran a blog, Iheartjade, and in it she identifies several members of the [...]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
And… Pre-Order!
Pre-order Mythmakers & Lawbreakers over at AK Press!. It’s a little over a month till the release of my book Mythmakers & Lawbreakers, and it’s now available for pre-order. Ideally, get it directly from AK Press, my collectively-run publisher. This way, they (and I) get a larger chunk of your money. Or, if you must, [...]
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
MMLB to be out October 1st!
We now have a release date for Mythmakers & Lawbreakers. It will be available October 1st!
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Mythmakers & Lawbreakers – Anarchist Writers On Fiction
I’m finishing up the final proofs for Mythmakers & Lawbreakers, my book coming out this September from AK Press. I’ll be posting a lot about it, and about other anarchist-fiction related projects I’ve got up my sleeve, a lot over the coming little bit. To say that I’m excited about this book is to criminally [...]
