It’s not that I’ve been living in some kind of cocoon. I’ve been reading and listening to lots of good stuff! Just haven’t felt like sharing, for whatever reason…
To wit: I’ve been reading Dave Hickey’s Air Guitar (great cultural criticism – a gift from Art Greg), the second volume of the collected letters of Hunter S. Thompson (not as purely written as the first, but still good) and The American War by Jonathan Neale, sort of a counter cultural history of the conflict in Vietnam. I’ve been listening to (in no particular order: The Tornadoes, Cesar Rosas, Asylum Street Spankers, Passengers, Richard Thompson, Miles Davis, and all sorts of other stuff. I got the Asylum Street Spankers record (the humorously titled Spanks For The Memories) from Ed during his all-too-brief layover here. They’re everything Steve says they are, plus this CD has a song about being the boyhood friend of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Currently being repeated on the internal boombox, for no reason that I can see: “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division.
All the other kids were doing it…
I AM 31% GEEK.
I probably work in computers, or a history
department at a college. I never really
fit in with the “normal” crowd. But I have
friends, and this is a good thing.
I might have scored more, but broadband for the house is on order, so no routers, etc…
(Too many sources to link to ‘em all, but Miriam, Russ and Dan all linked to it…)
Detentions After Attacks Pass 1,000, U.S. Says
Justice Department officials said today that the number of people who had been detained in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks had surpassed 1,000, and civil liberties advocates said the government’s refusal to disclose the identities of those held and the charges against them raised the possibility of secret detentions.
Again, who should I fear more: terrorists or anti-terrorists?
(It’s at the NY Times, so you’ll need to be registered…)
Guardian Unlimited Observer | Observer site | Anthrax attacks’ ‘work of neo-Nazis’
The American neo-Nazi Right is motivated above all by its loathing of the federal government, which it believes is selling out the homeland to a ‘New World Order’ run by masons and Jews.
Its insane politics have propelled numerous attacks and armed stand-offs over the past eight years, culminating in the carnage at Oklahoma. Now the anthrax investigation is zooming in on possible connections between these neo-Nazis and Arab extremists, united by their mutual anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel.
And, yet, as Lynn pointed out to me yesterday, the odds are pretty good that boneheaded mobs will continue to only strike at peoples with darker skin who seem like they might be Muslim terrorists, and not, say, rednecks who appear to be neo-nazis – not that doing either one makes any sense whatsoever…
Sigh. People are stupid.
Followup:Chicago Tribune | The old man and the she
The third son of the 20th Century’s most resolutely macho literary figure had died, at age 69, in a women’s jail.
Speaking of government conspiracies…
The true identity of Ultraman, revealed!
My old college-and-beyond pal Ed surprisingly stopped by last night, fleeing (momentarily) from his job and everything in DC and able to take (brief) refuge here. It was grand to see him. Coincidentally, he’s the guy who first hipped me to The Old 97s, who were recently mentioned over there on the left….
Speaking of that last entry, here. (Yeah, I’m just posting so you don’t think the gov’t got me for that last one…)