and after another long pause (for the record, i'm in haut savoie now, after an interlude in serbia - more about that later), back to some journal ( Read more... )

well, long workdays and attempts to socialize afterwards sure do add up to not a lot of time on the journal. but it's the mid-show-week pause, so it's time to catch up a little ( Read more... )

and now it's been almost a week ( Read more... )

i have only two things to say about this ( Read more... )

well, that was certainly 29 hours of transit. yes it was ( Read more... )

well, it's been a few years. um, five ( Read more... )

joanna russ.

hazel dickens.

poly styrene.

listen to these:
hazel dickens' "Black Lung";
her version of Joe Hill's "Rebel Girl";
a mountain stage appearance;
her take on "Aragon Mill";
and so many more.

and read these:
joanna russ' "When It Changed" (and an afterword);
parts of her "How To Suppress Women's Writing";
a film review of hers ( Read more... )

i was telling someone the other day about one of my favorite bits of gay liberationist writing, larry mitchell's the faggots and their friends between revolutions, which is exactly as old as i am, and assumed that mitchell was no longer around. it's an easy assumption to make about a radical queer of his generation. but it seems it's not true. ( Read more... )

tuli kupferberg.

the first punk rocker i ever heard.
and one of the first yiddish singers i ever heard.

this.

and newly in my mind this year because of this, which we used in the 5770/2010 purimshpil ( Read more... )

so, a week after reading samuel delany's fascinating critique of The Dispossessed (which you should read, or re-read if you already have, and then track down a copy of delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, i just read a short story that falls somewhere in the same category as le guin's classic.

The Dispossessed, like few other novels, is a great ( Read more... )