A Commencement Address from Jonathan Edwards
...If the Economy should only withdraw his hand from the flood-gate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of Wall Street would rush...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...approximately 1800 Portland, Ore.: Rally at South Park (SW Park and Salmon streets) at 1530, march at 1630 San Francisco, Calif.: Occupation of Golden Gate Bridge at 0630 Boston, Mass.:...
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
...libidinal floodgates. I, for one, cannot disavow the particular corner of the spectacle that involves apes outflanking the San Francisco Police Department on the Golden Gate bridge and getting away...
News From Nowhere
...flyer and almost closed the book in an act of self-mercy. But the sign at the gate was already posting a one-hour delay, and waiting with a terrifying distraction was...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...“guest” worker visa confers a status in exchange for extractable labor. From the beggar at the gate, the parasite became a stock character in Greek comedy, and through this it...
The literary
...literary book is just an occasion for asserting social power, restating one's claim to membership in the literary community, and reasserting that community's gate-keeping significance. In other words, there is...
and pour the coal on the street
...organized what became known as cruising pickets. We could picket a gate, and let trucks that were still operating out of the coal yards so police would think the trucks...
Demolition Party
...over 2,000 years often only provide brief glimpses of their age with an estranged pagoda or a temple gate that, for whatever reason, wasn’t smashed to bits and carted away...
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
The Alcatraz Proclamation
...ships from all over the world, entering the Golden Gate, would first see Indian land, and thus be reminded of the true history of this nation. This tiny island would...
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
...the world, entering the Golden Gate, would first see Indian land, and thus be reminded of the true history of this nation. This tiny island would be a symbol of...
Sunday Reading
...all. Ideas have consequences: an interview with Adam Curtis. Bunuel's gateless gate (via Interfluidity). Academic freedom in the US and Singapore. "Federal court filings show some LSU officials were determined...
The Noonday Shadow
...is simple: it opens onto Keaton, framed by the bars as if in jail, is in fact on the other side of a mansion’s front gate, courting a woman who...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 18
...on fire off the shoulder of Orion, watched eggs glitter near the Tannhauser Gate … whoa, it seems that this concentration thing is a little more complicated than I thought....
This Week in Art Crime
...four men were allegedly carrying red paint. The words “KILL FRATS” and “Kill ASUC” were spray-painted onto the pillars of Sather Gate, and the message “KILL REGENT$,” along with a...
What It Takes to Build Your Credit: "Urban Zoning," by Billy Kahora, Week Two of Blogging the Caine
...language in a restaurant called Cheesus Christ and at Gate C34 of Newark International Airport, respectively—and ten more stories besides, five of them strange and beautiful pieces from Kenya that...