A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
London, Underground
...survived. Londoners knuckle down. We don’t grumble. We get on with things. We keep calm - as that resurrected bit of defunct military propaganda now plastering tote bags, tourist tat...
Writing a bodaboda to Rideavism
...in desperate need of multi-lane roads—that is, if it is to operate efficiently—and at the present time, it lacks them. (Though China is coming!) As a result, you can spend...
Speaking in Memes
...any bit of authenticity, any deviation from the script and scream it to the crowd, hashtag and all. Romney’s Big Bird statement was surely prepared with one meaning in mind,...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...wash my hair about once a week and it doesn't get nearly as greasy as it did before I did the extended no-shampoo bit. So even though I'm happily washing...
Santorum's Gifts
...us to their standards). As such, it's actually kind of a liberal complaint, if only in the classical sense: a rigid hierarchy is stifling the individual will and a political...
An Interview with George Scialabba
...usually provided by strong families and local communities. For many reasons – economic development, geographical mobility, religious tolerance, the rise of nation-states, the emancipation of women – those bonds have...
Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
Dragged Down by the Stone
...may prove difficult to accept, it represents the only way for the sheep to effect change. Messianic deliverance in the world of "Sheep" comes not from above or without but...
Astral Projections
...contested on earth—gloriously stuck into the moon’s surface. It’s probably the closest I’ve ever come to what Americans were possibly feeling on that day 1969! Talk a bit about this...
No Contest
...version of those sports. That is a horribly boring possible future and a one that violates the sports fan’s bargain. The fans bankroll the enterprise, every bit of it, and...
Diner Forty Niner
...he himself struggled with a "lame back." S and fleas c ompounded the discomfort. These noxious insects, which "filled the air like dust," bit prospectors as they toiled, leaving uncomfortable...
Collector's Item
...Walter Benjamin's "Unpacking My Library" is sort of the canonical account of collector-hood, but I am put off a bit by his talk of "real libraries" and being a "genuine...
"life that could fit in a spreadsheet"
...or less explicitly. For example, "double think,” which in 1984 seems a bit far-fetched, but when he used specific political examples it didn't seem far-fetched at all. What do you...
National Disgrace
...even know that huge numbers of young people are arrested daily for possessing a bit of marijuana. There are substantial numbers of wealthy individuals who fund efforts to change gay...
Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley