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13th Day: Sexy Greek Insurgents Continue to Occupy and Riot
That's right, sexy! Daily English language reports from Greece can be found here. And photos here and here.
"People in Athens have been demonstrating and/or rioting for 13 consecutive days and nights."
And I think someone has been reading some Deleuze and Guattari:
There is no Space that Separates Bodies in the Flow of the Passion for the Real: They do not individualize. What a horrible violence, the bourgeois media says, to burn this or that, to put your precious streets, buses and cars and buildings on fire, what a chaos on your sidewalks. What a smoke, every-one is blind; your deafening screams tear apart the social fabric of the latest healthy fashion and the City is paralyzed! Some of them even seem to like and thus, by definition, worry for you: as long as 'you' the delinquents are away and the bastards can enjoy the suppression of reaction to massacre with silent massacre. Yet, they are concerned, what is your immediate aim: i.e. when will the crazy "youth" stop for the sake of mental sanity? Please express yourself to their journalists! What a glorious solidarity of the global bourgeoisie and their States of medical sterility! The pursuit by each of their own projects of massacre, leads to an endless exchange and circulation process of murderers' pitiful concerns –all the more so given their fear that they will not find anything else to exchange and circulate in the very near future.
So, the crazy youth expressed themselves to the journalists and media:
Meanwhile, occupation of media outlets is spreading across the country: Today, the municipal radio of Tripoli, "Nea Tileorasi" TV in Chania, Politeia FM in Sparta and "Star FM" and "Imagine 897 FM" in Thessaloniki were occupied.
And to labor:
The "Labour Centre" (trade union building) of Patras was also occupied today, in protest against the sold-out leadership of the trade unions, demanding an indefinite general strike now.
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The big student demo in Athens is being heavily tear gased. The cops are using a new type of stronger gas. Most of us have retreated in the law school. A money transfer van is on fire. People have entered a nearby church, ringing its bells at every tear gas shot, adding a slightly surreal touch to the scene.
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Simplicity is the Key to Successful Living
ReadyMade asks five artists to reimagine the populist poster art of the first Great Depression. This one is by Nick Dewar. You can download a free PDF version.
Here is what Nick Dewar says:"I hope that America is entering a post-'greed is good' period. I can't think of a single step that would change the nature of our society more than everyone abandoning their automobiles and cycling instead. There would be less dependence on oil, obesity levels would drop dramatically, and reflective bike clips would replace fancy ladies' purses as the current must-have fashion accessory." Ennui Man
The second illustration from his website was just too funny to pass up. "Inertia Overwhelms Me"
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Books About Books | The Morning News
I am going to risk casting a pall of pedantry on this breezy corner of literary terrain and mention that late last millennium the term "meta" floundered onto the periphery of pop culture, even appearing in a space-filling essay in the New York Times Book Review. Apparently English majors did not fear to tread where philosophy scholars demurred. I mention this as I weighed the consideration of John Mullan's Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Princeton University Press) and Fernando Báez's A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq (Atlas & Co.) in the light of whether they were meta-books—books about books—or something else. My call is "something else," as I see the purview of these (not too) scholarly gems as wonderful windows on human felonies and foibles associated with literary culture.
From The Morning News
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Drifter music: Amy Annelle - The Places
I used to like riding dirty freight trains and drifting about. I also like listening to music by The Places. They go together. And maybe you've noticed that I value DIY music.
Miners Lie! Mastered by The Places
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Carrie Pt. II - Run on Sentence
More reason to never listen to or watch big record company crap again...Run on Sentence.
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Podington Bear Season 2
If you haven't yet been keeping track of the well over 150 songs by this Hush Records guy, then it's time you do.
Jackie & Floyd by Podington Bear
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Modern Geography: Patagonia, Here Be Giants
And speaking of Patagonia, who knew that it was inhabited by various tribes of Indians, who are said to be of gigantic size? Well, this 43rd edition of the View of the Present State of the World which was Simplified and Adapted to the Capacity of Youth and published in 1844 seems to know. When my brother showed this book to me I almost blew my Cape Horn. So, how tall was Magellan anyway?
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