grace jones tells it like it is:

ULTIMATELY, IT REQUIRED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLEAR THINKING, A LOT OF HARD WORK AND GOOD MAKE-UP TO BE ACCEPTED AS A FREAK.

MOST OF THE REAL ROOTSY SCENE IN NEW YORK STARTED IN GAY PRIVATE CLUBS WITH GREAT MUSIC AND THE BEST, MOST FANATICAL DJS. THOUGH WHAT'S HAPPENED TO IT NOW IS JUST TYPICAL OF THE WAY OF LIFE IN ( Read more... )

in which a pair of sparts* discover pop music. and it makes them a little bit gay.

"workingmen of all countries, unite! um, no homo."

thanks to emmala for the link.

and if you want the truly fantastic thing this doesn't even know it wishes it were, go here* i'm judging by style here. yes, it's sterotyping, but really, with those goatees and ( Read more... )

so i just wrote something very long, because of something not necessarily all that interesting. i think it goes somewhere interesting, though, so here it is ( Read more... )

i may never have to write another word on electoral politics ( Read more... )

just ran across a fantastic article by smadar lavie & reuven avarjel, two radical mizrakhi intellectuals.

it's here. and is an elegant and angry look at the mizrakhi (non-eastern-european jewish) majority of israel's jewish citizens, and their place in the state, in palestine, in the wars of the past five years, in the resistance to zionism, and ( Read more... )

it's nice to see someone on tv(-on-the-internets) say something sensible about religion. even if he is a more than slightly sketchy FBI agent (or local equivalent).

It doesn’t concern you… that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all-powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned ( Read more... )

at risk once more of becoming one of those people on the internets ( Read more... )

flo mcgarrell
one of 500,000.
creator of agrisculptures, inflatables, and art director of maggots & men.

here and here.

but this is actually what you should read.

keep coming up.

or maybe it's just that someone at the NYTimes has a bee in their (calico?) bonnet about it.

in any case, here is the latest article. about a 4-year-old who's been suspended from pre-K in a Dallas suburb for having long hair. by 4-year-old-standards. which means a 4" topknot. looks damn cute, too ( Read more... )

just a quick link-drop, of becky thompson & dianne harriford's diary of their participation in the Gaza Freedom March ( Read more... )