Convergences

[tagonist]

This will be of especial interest to eatthosediapers and katuah, I think.

Wired magazine just published an analysis of AA, how it works (or doesn't work), where it came from, and what we know about the neuroscience involved. Surprise! Once again, surrendering individualism to larger social norms seems to be healthy, work against addictive tendencies, and actually

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Grace

[anonymous]

Hey, it's not volunteers raking up those tarballs, it's prisoners who stay in "Jails to Go" brand (really!) shipping containers, and some folks from the lower 9th ward and Mexico. I've got pictures.

I mean, "Jails to Go"? Really? That's about as weird as the blowout happening in the Macondo prospect. Macondo, of course, is from Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude: "the town grows from a tiny settlement with almost no contact with the outside world, to eventually become a large and thriving place, before a banana plantation is set up. The establishment of the banana plantation lead to Macondo's downfall, followed by a gigantic windstorm that wipes it from the map" (Wikipedia).

By the way, Anne, call me. I want to see if you can write a piece about our Cheveux booms. We just had a bunch of reporters show up yesterday when we released the design but they don't have the info you will have. We should be doing some longer-range tests in the field with them starting today.

[mat_defiler]

wow, really like this take on AA. It's been something i've tried to wrap my brain around for a while, what with my history as an addiction nurse and all.

[rozele]

this is really just to say thanks for all the brilliance. and also hi! we've met a few times through killer (maybe most recently a few years back during a nyc purimshpil visit to puppet uprising?)...

but i've been lurkingly appreciating your sharp sharp eyes on science, community, ritual, trans & gender politics and many other things for a while now...

and this post seems for some reason to be what made me want to say so.

maybe because i've been thinking a lot about the ways that the protestant right and the anti-authoritarian/autonomist/anarchist/call-it-what-you-will left in the u.s. are in many ways twins separated at birth (historically speaking), and what those of us who've been part of the latter can learn from the former... which starts, i think, with how to build community - ritual, shared physical presence, storytelling, &c.

anyway. thanks.