Posted in Anarchy, Folk, L.A. Record, Los Angeles, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Politics, Religion on June 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
L.A. Record just posted this, and I’m horrified and sickened that one of the best magazines of this decade is on the brink of temporary financial collapse.
SAVE ARTHUR MAGAZINE NOW!
From various emails and the Arthur site:
Arthur Magazine needs $20,000 by July 1 or it will die.
No donation is too small.
Our preferred method of payment is [...]
Posted in Anarchy, Books, Comedy, Movies, Other Stuff, Television on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Pynchon loves him some Porky Pig. And this is why I have yet another reason to love YouTube.
If you’re like me, you have a giant mental backlog of things you want to remember to look up on YouTube. Now, most people, at least according to Patton Oswalt on Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil the other night, use [...]
Posted in Anarchy, Movies on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw the documentary Sacco and Vanzetti last night. It’s the story of two Italian-American anarchists wrongly accused in 1920 of a robbery and murder they clearly did not commit, prosecuted by racist lawyers and cops who lied deliberately and forged evidence, and condemned to the electric chair by a right wing judge and white, Anglo-Saxon jury [...]
Posted in Anarchy, Books, Celebrities on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I finally finished reading Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman, Candace Falk’s biography of the great anarchist and pioneering feminist. Based not so much on Goldman’s works (which speak for themselves, in my opinion, including the photographs you always see of her where she looks so strong and lucid) but on her personal life, it tells [...]
