January 2009
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“I’m trying to think back to what I liked to do when I was 20, but I...”
– Help a Minor Out
December 2008
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“As good as I could possibly imagine my life getting, it did / After I met you /...”
– “You Swan, Go On” by Mount Eerie, off Lost Wisdom I love this album and obviously am feeling a little excessively romantic after having surprise time off to spend with Ryan this afternoon.
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“Is our suffering really that much greater? For decades now our city has...”
– Detroit vs. New Orleans I suppose I just like this whole piece.
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“One thing I’ve always harped on the greatness that is Detroit is its...”
– Detroit vs. New Orleans I think this is true about a lot of michigan, not just detroit.
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“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by...”
– Seymour Papert [via]
“My penis turns simple sexual pleasures into political acts. She turns biological...”
– Julia Serano, in Cocky. - Feministing [via]
“Mostly we talk to other paranoid grad students who are trying to reassure...”
– Phil Sandifer, in The Grad Students Who Want To Stay in the Tower
“The nuclear family, sustained by the middle-class myth of everlasting love and...”
– Penny Red [via]
“We fall into that small subset of vegetarians who will only eat animals that...”
– Murder Is Murder Except
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“Class power is, in itself, evasive because it is a social relation that eludes...”
– David Harvey, Limits to Capital, introduction to the 2006 Verso edition. [via]
“Protected by the free speech provision of the First Amendment, corporations...”
– Richard Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism [via]
The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care →
A recent report by the New America Foundation’s health-policy program estimates that the cost of doing nothing about health care, including poor health and shorter lifespan of the uninsured, is well above $200 billion a year and rising. That’s enough to cover the uninsured and still have some left over for other public-health needs. [via]
crushing cars and automobile aggresssion →
It’s funny our nation’s anxieties over its failing automobile industry have a way of manifesting themselves in the form of racism and xenophobia.
“Being cynical is FUN, and it gets you pussy, but that’s not an actionable world...”
– The end of the hipster [via]
The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep →
It happens, though, when you’re from Detroit. In the popular imagination, the Motor City has gone from being the Arsenal of Democracy, so named for their converting auto factories to make the weapons which helped us win World War II, and the incubator of the middle class (now leading the nation in foreclosure rates, Detroit once had the highest rate of home ownership in the country), to...
Beautiful homes in the big bad city →
Detroit is so hard, it had urban decay back in the 1800’s, back before lots of cities in the United States even existed.
“Class resentment is all the rage.”
– Critic’s Notebook - Scandals to Warm To [via]
The Venus Hottentot (1825)
1. Cuvier
Science, science, science!
Everything is beautiful
blown up beneath my glass.
Colors dazzle insect wings.
A drop of water swirls
like marble. Ordinary
crumbs become stalactites
set in perfect angles
of geometry I’d thought
impossible. Few will
ever see what I see
through this microscope..
Cranial measurements
crowd my notebook pages,
and I am moving close,
close...
a critical look at anarcho-punk →
'Greek Syndrome' is catching as youth take to... →
Then youths spray-painted two slogans on the building. One said, “Spark in Athens. Fire in Paris. Insurrection is coming”. The other read, “France, Greece, uprising everywhere”. [via]
