I've been listening to webcasts of KPFA and KPFK at work. There's a lot of variance in the quality of the material; some of it is pretty standard leftist current-affairs trench warfare, other shows are more abstract knee-jerk dogma, a few are this wacky nutball mystical stuff, and then occasionally there's a really solid bit of big-picture ( Read more... )

Just saw the new Tim Burton / Johnny Depp movie ( Read more... )

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Commercials are TV spamming you.

I just read the story of the battle in which the Zulus defeated the BritishI thought of this on my way home today, with some hope of watching a re-enactment or playing a computer simulation of it. I initially conceived it a great triumph of anti-imperialism, but from some of the other background reading, it sounds like this particular Zulu group ( Read more... )

My significant other and I saw Kingdom of Heaven last night, largely because of comments about it on LJ that became lodged in my brain. It was no worse than I expected. I wanted a scene or two in Damascus, and Legolas is a really unsatisfying lead, but there was enough other cool stuff to keep me interested. The worst part of the evening was the ( Read more... )

Not quite sure what the point of this is, but...


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Another Kunstlerpost.

In Geography of Nowhere, Kunstler discusses how certain features of houses, streets, and neighborhoods have positive or negative effects on our comfortability and peace of mind while in their presence. Just to pick an example at random, houses on a street ought to be "united in variety," meaning that they employ similar ( Read more... )

Alright, there's no excuse for the fact that I let more than a week pass with no posts despite accumulating seven topics to talk about. Here comes the flood; brace for impact!

For my first trick, I believe I've discovered a connection between and among my appreciation of James Howard Kunstler, Salvador Dali, and role-playing games:

"The Self as ( Read more... )