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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The US. woo.
Well, I’m back in the States. Usually I’m so excited about leaving wherever it is I am to go somewhere else, but I didn’t really want to leave this time. Two days ago I woke up in a sailboat docked in a small town in Finland where the sky looked fake it was so pretty. [...]
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Squat The Planet!
I started as columnist or guest-blogger or whatever over at Squat The Planet. The first piece is a slightly longer version of something I wrote about here, entitled Anarchy in Finland: Musta Pispala. I think I’ll be writing there approximately weekly. I might crosspost for awhile, as well. Expect to find me writing more about [...]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
The Anvil
I’ve begun writing review essays for the site The Anvil. The first piece I’ve put up is entitled Outsider Anarchism and is about the book METAtropolis and, as you might imagine, outsider anarchism in general.
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
The Silakka – a sailboat built of scavenged parts
I’m going to cross-post from postcivilized.net for a little while, I hope you forgive me. This version will be more image heavy though. Last week I had the privilege to witness (and photograph) the first sailing of The Silakka (silakka is Finnish for “baltic herring”), a boat built almost entirely from scavenged materials. Only the [...]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Some Girls Wander By Mistake Into The Mess That Scalpels Make
The Sisters of Mercy are pretty obviously influenced by Leonard Cohen. Their name is a reference to the song Sisters of Mercy, pretty simple. The name of their album Some Girls Wander by Mistake comes from the Cohen song “teachers”, which I just found the audio of them covering (above).
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Video by the IMF Resistance Network
A well-done, simple video advertising the upcoming protests against the International Monetary Fund, put together by the IMF Resistance Network, who I don’t really know anything about. They are calling for protests on October 9th to 11th, 2010, in Washington, DC (where the IMF is headquartered). The IMF is, in short, an institution pushing global [...]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Once the road laid open
Contrast! Above: the sky this evening over the lake. Below: “She Fell Away” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (not a video, just a song)
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Photos from Musta Pispala
I spent this past weekend at the Musta Pispala festival in Pispala, a suburb of Tampere, Finland. I don’t know… this might have been the best anarchist gathering I’ve ever been to. A few hundred people came over the course of the weekend, mostly anarchists from all over Finland. I was immediately struck by how [...]
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Naples, Italy
I spent an enjoyable few days in Naples, one of the more lawless places I’ve been. Unfortunately, the city is run by the Mafia instead of the cops, which doesn’t really make it much better, but it’s still fascinating. Once while we were walking, two cops told a man on a scooter that he couldn’t [...]
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Postcivilized.net (and roadkill fashion)
I’m crossposting this from Postcivilized.net, a site which is now up and running. Mostly, it features various articles related to post-civilization theory, but it will also include bits related to a sort of post-civilized culture, like the following: I ran across this today: Route Couture. (site is in Finnish, but there are two galleries of [...]
