You Know You’re in California When... |
(Part one in an occasional regular feature)...You can't get a gallon of soy milk at your local grocery coop (you would purchase regular milk, being a good friend to Wisconsin farmers and cows, but no,...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:59:00 GMT |
Sentimental bourgeois twaddle! |
I heard "This American Life" for the first time tonight. The program was suffocating in its smarmy, smug tone and the uncanny ability it has for reducing all experiences-however significant or otherwi...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:58:00 GMT |
Official Memoranda Regarding an Incipient Purge of Punk Rock, Inc. |
There was a meeting last night of the Committee of Public Safety for Punk Rock, Inc. Several issues were discussed, but there is one salient threat to all local branches of Punk Rock, Inc. which bears...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:34:00 GMT |
Why I Hate Yuppies |
As many of you know, I'm a great one for getting down on my fellow humans. Much of my denigration is unwarranted or at least hyperbolic, but the masses gave me several instances worthy of comment last...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:43:00 GMT |
Preference spaz out, or, I don’t care about what you like |
Those of you who have known me for awhile no doubt remember that usually I've been, shall we say, shrill in condemning what i dislike and praising what I do like. No more. Empirical evidence shows tha...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 19:50:00 GMT |
Punk as Fuck Experience 1(from July, 2006) |
First things first. Woke up with a raging headache in a foetal position, with a cat resting at my feet, on a filthy couch). Unsure of where I am. Musical equipment, scratched 7"s and empty beer bottle...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:36:00 GMT |
R.I.P. Punk Planet (and independent publishing?) |
Punk Planet's dead after twelve years of awesomely erudite publishing. Although I never subscribed to it and, admittedly, rarely even bought it (thus I'm a bit culpable in its post-mortem), I always c...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:33:00 GMT |
A few notes on violence and the mundane |
One of the great virtues of David Nirenberg's Communities of Violence is that it rejects any sort of linear progression leading from the religious anti-Semitism of the Middle Ages to the ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:30:00 GMT |
Superficial impressions of Olympia after two days |
Hey all. I'm staying in beautiful Olympia, Wa. and have been here for two days. This entry 's going to be more conversational than my usual style because I'm too tired for any sort of rigour, so bear ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 22:02:00 GMT |
"Not lehrt den Affen geigen." |
Not lehrt den Affen geigen* The mark of a true revolution is the irruption of the "silent masses" onto the illuminated stage of history. For a brief momentthe storming of the Bastille, the bread rio...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:07:00 GMT |
