Archive for March, 2010
Monday, March 29th, 2010
NC Rising
This weekend I attended what might have been the best anarchist conference I’ve been to. If nothing, else, NC Rising was more encouraging and inspiring than anything I’ve attended in a good long time. The workshops were good, but by far the best thing about it was to see anarchists and anti-authoritarians of all stripes [...]
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Goffs!
I’m almost done with yet another cross-country roadtrip, but last week I was in Goffs.
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Science Fiction Author Found Guilty Of Being Slightly, Peacefully Upset After Being Beaten By Border Guards
Sci-Fi author Peter Watts was found guilty and is facing two years in jail. The media relays that one border guard claims Peter tried to choke him, but Peter points out that this accusation was disproved in court. In short: Peter was driving across the border, the guards beat the everloving shit out of him, [...]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
I’ll Be Speaking Saturday at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
At 3:30 on Saturday, March 13th I’ll be speaking about anarchism and fiction at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco. I hope that folks can make it out! I’ll be doing a slightly different talk than I did on my tour, too, for folks who’ve already seen me talk about the subject.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Elevator!
Thanks, Elevator!
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Riot Joke
Q: What’s the difference between boogers and tofurkey? A: No one eats tofurkey. thanks, Riot Joke!
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Patterns In The Void
My good friend Isis started a blog recently, Patterns In The Void. Isis is one of the stranger and more interesting folks that I know, and their blog covers things like the 13 tiers of lying and the esoteric sexual symbology of feral children. They’re currently writing a book about anarcho-mysticist sexuality and are obsessed [...]
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Steampunk Reloaded
I’m excited to say that an interview with myself (as well as my co-conspirator Libby Bulloff) will be appearing in Steampunk Reloaded, the second SteamPunk Anthology edited by the marvelous Ann & Jeff VanderMeer. It’ll be out in October, and it looks to be as good as the first one (which was completely awesome).
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Teeth
A bit of my molar came out just now while I was eating a waffle. Doesn’t hurt, not yet. I feel like, somehow, this makes me a little closer to Poltics Is Not A Banana with its constant references to “our rotting teeth.”
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Protesting Sea Lion Slaughter at Bonneville Dam
In what is essentially a textbook case of scapegoating, Fish & Wildlife have begun this years round of sea lion killing. For background about the whole thing, there’s an ORC article from two years ago that sums up the problem (the short version is: there’s a dam in the river that kills salmon, and the [...]
