anthropophagous

Heidelberg Project. Detroit, MI.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:08:55 -0500

Heidelberg Project. Detroit, MI.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:08:52 -0500

Heidelberg Project. Detroit, MI.

Um Tigre IMG_2064.JPG

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:06:52 -0500

Um Tigre IMG_2064.JPG

When I Started Sinking Down. Cleveland, OH.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:03:52 -0500

When I Started Sinking Down. Cleveland, OH.

I'm a big fan of insurrectionary anarchism and all

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:15:10 -0500

but all this situationism or creative writing or whatev is really starting to confuse me

my hair has gotten really long while i have been putting off...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:58:28 -0500

my hair has gotten really long while i have been putting off doing anything with it and now i can’t decide if i should cut it all off, or grow it off so it is long enough to wear in pigtails.

dilemmas!

"Adjuncts are overworked and underpaid with little job security. The circumstances under which many..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:23:08 -0500

“Adjuncts are overworked and underpaid with little job security. The circumstances under which many work are appalling and I know that I’m fortunate to be on the tenure track. But I can pretty much guarantee that being an adjunct is markedly different from being “a nigger on a plantation.” For some reason, I’m certain of that.”

- Things of which I Am Tired [via]

"one of the things I marvel at daily when I’m teaching courses on/talking about race in my..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:22:17 -0500

“one of the things I marvel at daily when I’m teaching courses on/talking about race in my classes is that, when my students are being honest with me, many of them honestly believe we live in a culture that disadvantages white men in particular, that being white and male is the hardest thing to be in this country because of the complaints of women and PoC and unfair laws and every scholarship and job being earmarked for women and PoC and on and on.”

- elle commenting on Things of which I Am Tired

Sophie D: All my friends are doing drugs and dying… New...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Sophie D: All my friends are doing drugs and dying… New Orleans, LA

from the comments:

stapling is the new wheatpaste

In Michigan it seemed like Oberon got bought up really fast...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:32:00 -0500

In Michigan it seemed like Oberon got bought up really fast pretty much every summer (in a manner similar to how GLBC Christmas Ale disappears in Cleveland) so I thought it was pretty funny to see that a store in Lakewood (Ryan & I were exploring beer selection on our new side of town this weekend) is having to discount it in November to get it sold and still having it in March.

But, you know, Oberon (and Bells, whatev this prob makes me a bad Michigander. Arcadia is where my favorite Michigan beer comes from) is pretty overrated so I cannot really fault the good people of NEO for not drinking it.

Kind of sad that the season for my favorite kind of beers is...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:07:00 -0500

Kind of sad that the season for my favorite kind of beers is almost over (although it is supremely stupid of me to assume that the Cleveland winter does not have the potential to drag on much, much longer). That is the only thing that I will miss about winter. Cannot wait for 80^o+ days.

The Milk Company. Cleveland, OH.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:54:20 -0500

The Milk Company. Cleveland, OH.

“Don’t Take it Back” by Pink Houses Back when...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:31:19 -0500

“Don’t Take it Back” by Pink Houses

Back when I was 17 there were some things that I believed. Some of those things I still believe.

"small room must love kids and dogs. we will not take anymore dogs. we have no cats but we will not..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:50:50 -0500

“small room must love kids and dogs. we will not take anymore dogs. we have no cats but we will not take any cats.”

- Room For rent-Small

Seriously I love cleveland roommate ads. ‘No Pets’ was clearly not emotive enough.

"I am a 24 year old male that is a business professional"

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:47:13 -0500

“I am a 24 year old male that is a business professional”

- Downtown Cleveland Apartment - - Need Roomate - - Top Floor!!

It seems like everyone on craigslist looking for roommates (btw this is my latest favorite section to read for entertainment) identifies as some sort of ‘professional’. I am not really sure what professional means and/or if it means anything at all. I’m wavering between thinking it means “i have a full time job” or if it is some sort of symbolic class reference.

"I take anarchism seriously and Occupations historically have been an important and useful tool in..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:49:56 -0500

“I take anarchism seriously and Occupations historically have been an important and useful tool in the struggle against state power. When these folks appropriate that term and attach it to whatever the hell they find themselves doing right now, which apparently is having weird parties in boring venues for no reason, i find it irritating.”

- bun bun commenting on Updates from The Evergreen State College, Occupied Coast Salish Territories

"My co workers and i stopped working at 12 noon today to sit and eat food, smoke cigarettes, drink..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:48:53 -0500

“My co workers and i stopped working at 12 noon today to sit and eat food, smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and bullshit with one another in a temporarily liberated loading dock. liberals, reactionaries, and non-autonomous individuals might call this a lunch break, we prefer to call it a General Strike. Look for our communique shortly!”

- bun bun commenting on Updates from The Evergreen State College, Occupied Coast Salish Territories

Be an anarchist, please! Steel Wheels always has such polite...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:48:47 -0500

Be an anarchist, please! Steel Wheels always has such polite grafitti. [via]

"In college I had this super dorky, nerdy by nerd standards, anthropology teacher. I was taking his..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:45:00 -0500

“In college I had this super dorky, nerdy by nerd standards, anthropology teacher. I was taking his class as a free elective, so I spent most of the time not paying attention and silently fabricating elaborate storylines about my unknown classmates.
One day my ears perked up when the professor was talking about a few years in the 70’s he’d spent touring with and studying punk rockers. The image of this starkly lame dude, surrounded by black-clad, pierced misfits astounded me. How could he have possibly been accepted into such an image based, anti-establishment culture? He explained that, at first sight, most of the people were indeed, very wary of him. But, once the punks realized he was there without bias, and that he was simply trying to learn their story, he was graciously accepted, in spite of his appearance.
Looking back now, I sort of realize how completely punk rock it was for this textbook looking anthropologist, whose colleagues were out observing indigenous tribes in Africa, to roadtrip with an obscure musical subculture that was deemed, simply, “problematic” by almost all other aspects of society.
Basically, I wish I was an anthropologist and/or could grow facial hair.”

- Patrick Moberg

Doing punk ethnography is on my list of fantasy-projects-i-will-probably-never-do. these also include:

textual analysis of pop-punk with specific attention to gender themes, especially the construction of women as being one-dimensional characters who are also the primary cause of problem for men

fieldwork with Appalachian Pentecostals. Actually I read a couple papers abotu this in my anthropology of religion class in undergrad and I just really liked them. Only upside of that class besides the totally epic paper I wrote on Left Behind as an expression of millenarianist nativism/fear of the browning of America.

megachurch ethnography, especially focused on the christian idea of financial success as reward for devotion. also interested in the evangelical construct of healing.

anthropology of anarchist organizations, including cultural models of anarchism

cultural ideas of dystopia as represented in sci-fi movies

Yeah so I spend a lot of time thinking about this.

1975, Livernois Ave, Detroit . from the comments: I believe...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:00:52 -0500

1975, Livernois Ave, Detroit .

from the comments:

I believe this car was intentionally set on fire.
Judging from the license plate number, this car was from out of town. Lansing (LC), I would guess.