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Keith

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About Me

A white suburban slacker with a knack for understanding belt-way intrigue and synthesizing global macrophenomena into a coherent world systems theory. Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My Interests

Pie, beer, economics and the occasional fart joke.

I'd like to meet:

The Ghost of Bill Hicks

Music:

Tool, Django Reinhart, Niccolò Paganini, Fela Kuti, Aesop Rock, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Talking Heads, Spearhead, Dose One, Parliament, Stevie Wonder, DJ Shadow, Shapeshifters, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Tosh, Gotan Project, Sizzla Kolangi, Miles Davis, John Coletrane, Bob Dylan, Tchkung, Mano Chao, Charles Mingus, Primus

Movies:

Dead Alive, Orgasmo, Meet the Feebles, Titus, Buffalo 66, Cannibal the Musical, Pi, Heavy Traffic, 200 Motels, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Pink Flamingoes, Twin Peaks, Network, the Devils, Happiness, etc.

Television:

No thank you.

Books:

The Conquest of Happiness, Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes, the Human Stain, Statism and Anarchy, the Politics of Heroin, Cocaine Politics, Dark Alliance, Crossing the Rubicon, It Can't Happen Here, 1984, Homage to Catalonia, the Origin of Capitalism, American Fascists, the Assassination of Julius Caeser, Armed Madhouse, Secrets of the Temple, A Brief History of Time, Blowback (Chirstopher Simpson), Huey Long (T. Harry Williams), Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, The Overworked American, The Party's Over, Purchasing Power

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Alfred McCoy, Peter Dale Scott, Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ruppert, Cynthia McKinney, Stan Goff, Richard Heinberg, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Nestor Kirchner, Subcomandante Marcos, David Cross, Jon Stewart, Frank Zappa, Steven Colbert, Mike Molloy, Greg Palast, Tom Tomorrow, Huey Long, Ruben Bolling, Keith Knight, Ward Sutton, Celerino Castillo, Wayne Madsen, Eugene Debbs, Michael Moore, Frank Zappa, Huey Newton, Martin Luther King, Oscar Romero, Ralph Nader, Frank Serpico, Emma Goldman, Tom Paine, Bill Haywood, Arundhati Roy, Robert Fisk, Seymour Hersh, Mikhail Bakunin, Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Tariq Ali, Rosa Luxemburg, Margaret Cho, Peter Kropotkin, Cindy Sheehan, Jane Jacobs, Mario Savio, Sibel Edmonds, Coleen Rowley, Chris Hedges, Gore Vidal, Pavel Filonov, Ben Heine, Mark Steel, Harvey Manning, Bella Abzug, Vito Marcantonio, Eqbal Ahmad, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Indira Singh, Eva Golinger, Sim Sang-jeong, Kwon Young-ghil, John Taylor Gatto, Henry C. K. Lui, Mike Whitney, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Michael Hudson, C. H. Douglas, Ivan Illich, Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet

My Blog

The Year of the Monkey Wrench

A cautious winter sun rose slowly over a cold, damp corner of earth in desperate need of a pot of coffee.  In a fit of impatience I left this darkest of seasons behind, rocketing away from the dr...
Posted by Keith on Thu, 01 May 2008 12:12:00 PST

Escape from Hermit Kingdom

As I left Korea for presumably the last time, I reflected on the last 24 hours with great relief that everything had gone to plan. For the past week my time had been committed to obligatory goodbyes a...
Posted by Keith on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:49:00 PST

My Bowels and Me

Some time ago I was invited to a house party. The host was a perennially drunk Canadian lad just out of college who was determined to sow his seed far and wide without the encumbrance of the social h...
Posted by Keith on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:32:00 PST

Between a Sleaze, a Demon, and a Substanceless Pretty-boy

The South Korean presidential election is shaping up to be a tumultuous three-way square-off between the center-left, center-right, and far-right standard-bearers of the national political establishme...
Posted by Keith on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:03:00 PST

Reunion with a Former Lover

I had forgotten the magnitude of pollution here until I left the airport for my home-to-be in Anyang, noticing the dim evening sky was tinted brownish-yellow.  The haze hung over the highway, hun...
Posted by Keith on Sun, 27 May 2007 03:53:00 PST

Pay Attention to Pakistan

Not to alarm anybody, but nuclear-armed Pakistan is on the verge of falling apart.  As I write this, thousands of foreign militants associated with al-Qaeda are engaged in heavy fighting in north...
Posted by Keith on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:33:00 PST

Smile

I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, ...
Posted by Keith on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:34:00 PST

They Will Come For Your Children

There is a tendency among the domestic population of the United States to regard all American wars as similar, fundamentally noble, and something that we have no control over or responsibility for.&nb...
Posted by Keith on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:05:00 PST

Nature Rears Her Lovely Head

A few weeks ago we had the biggest damn rain storm in recorded history.  I have a habit of disregarding pretty much all news of the weather that finds its way into my tender pink brain,...
Posted by Keith on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:12:00 PST

Lame Excuse for a Blog Entry

For lack of a better alternative I'm going to post the outline of my grand  adventure throughout Asia.  Perhaps if I'm repeatedly reminded of my tour-de-force-yet-to-come, I'll actually get ...
Posted by Keith on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:55:00 PST