I admit it. I like the Hari Krishnas. At least, I like hanging out at the temple now and again for some chanting and some pretty damn, good vegetarian food. And I’ve seen so many interesting cross sections of people at the temple I slip into now and again, some of the [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Krishna Unconscious Contradictions
Posted in religious history on February 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Shout Out: The Cleaver
Posted in shout outs on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Neil Kramer writes lucidly and with forcefulness. I can’t recommend this piece at his site The Cleaver enough:
Crossing the Rubicon: Breaking the Fake News Trance
All The Hottest, Hippest Young People versus The Whitest, Dorkiest “Average” People
Posted in celebrity idolatry, media, politics, pop culture, propaganda on February 25, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Submitted for your analysis: the hottest, hippest, young people and a moving, cinematic montage fit for an Oscar-winning film’s promotional package or a Gap ad; versus the Whitest and Dorkiest of white and non-white people with lower producution values, less sex appeal, and inspirational power of the 1985 New England Patriot’s answer to the Super [...]
Two Stories from Mock-Elections’ Past
Posted in everyday life, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, politics on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The first time we went to kindergarten, a year young, was a presidential election year. It wasn’t just an election year for the grown-ups, no. See, they just can’t help but find it adorable to provide little children with a tiny-person version of their own, hollow, big-person rituals. So it was that [...]
Shout Outs: Tox on the W. Presidency
Posted in shout outs on February 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve just discovered the site of one of our resident readers/commentators over here, Tox Manana. (Sorry, Tox! I haven’t figured out how to put the tilde in properly on wordpress yet.)
Th following passage, from a piece he wrote back in December entitled “i already miss Bush,” made me laugh out loud in spite of [...]
Remembering Malcolm X
Posted in civil liberties, history, requiem on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A day late (due to Internet troubles), I present a speech and the ending of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, in remembrance of the life of the profound man who was assassinated 43 years ago yesterday.
One More Reason To Get Off Facebook
Posted in CIA, Consciousness & Alternate Perception, conspiracy poetics, everyday life on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was a late adopter to the graveyard called Friendster. I came late, and suspiciously, and nearly never visit it, unless I get a notice about a new post by a few folks I enjoy who blog over there. Now, Facebook…I’ve sort of been a sucker for it, it’s flash and everything else. [...]
Richard Metzger on Conspiracy Theories: Does the Shoe Fit?
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, conspiracy poetics on February 22, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’ve found an interview with Richard Metzger, the founder of Disnformation, that sheds some light and shoots some provocative darts in the direction of the rabbit hole. I’ve half-heartedly bopped around the echo chamber of the world wide web recently to see where Metzger is these days, since it seems he’s no longer [...]
Notes from Under the Spectacle: Keeping up with the Blackwaters
Posted in conspiracy poetics on February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A little something about compliance. The use of Blackwater over in Iraq is a testing ground for quelling us stateside.
Not less than a month ago I saw a couple people dressed like cops standing out on the street, one near west 38th street, the other a block earlier on west 39th in NYC, like cops [...]
There’s Actually Nothing Secret: Miscellaneous Notes
Posted in conspiracy poetics on February 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In the Spectacular Panopticon of the modern urban landscape, nothing is really secret anymore. Everything is seen, everything is recorded. Bubble cameras in the subways, covert cameras inside light fixtures on street corners, the more obvious surveillance devices in front of private buildings and staring at you within your banks, the Hollow [...]
