Saturday, July 31st, 2010
A collection of Spanish anarchist fiction from revolutionary Spain
When I was in Amsterdam I spent several days at the International Institute of Social History, which actually has a fascinating history of its own (such as smuggling documents out of Spain as fascist forces sweep through). Anyhow, the place is the world’s largest repository of anarchist history. Of particular note to me, it houses [...]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Knights of The Road
My good friend Charles from Eberhardt Press has a short little audio segment (8minutes) or so, on tramp printers. These are the stories of traveling union men and women who would travel around the country and find skilled work wherever they were. Pretty sweet. (Charles has two articles about this in SteamPunk Magazine: one in [...]
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
2008
I didn’t realize that it’s obligatory to do a year-in-review post when you have a blog. My apologies. As you might have noticed, I don’t really talk about my personal life online, so that will more or less be left out of it. I did a mini-tour as a drummer for Ego Likeness. I published [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
1925 Steamroller
There are some fun pictures of a 1925 steamroller over on Shorpy [1, 2, and 3]. Today’s fun steamroller fact: steamrollers were still in use until the 1960s, making them one of the longest lasting steam machines I can think of. (Turns out the modern ones are called “road rollers” which is a much worse [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Folk Hero, Cop-Killer Anarchist Gets Plaques In London
Update: This is not a picture of Peter afterall! See the new post! Peter the Painter, a notorious latvian revolutionary who holed up in London for a bit, has been honored with two commerative plaques on housing projects that have been named after him, much to the ire of the police. Peter the Painter was [...]
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Strange Maps & the NWO
My friend Willow just told me about one of the best time-sinks in the known internet, Strange Maps. The picture above is from a a post about how the New World Order was going to divide the world after beating back the axis powers. [Remember kids, WWII was about beating nazis, and the civil war [...]
