June 2011
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CTA: Five Years of the Pink Line →
Five years since Chicago saw an increase in Pink or Brown? jokes.
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Paul Mattick on Wisconsin →
What would you say, then, to the workers who occupied the capitol building in Wisconsin? Are they acting in vain, or even against their own interests, if they want to retain their jobs?
I would say that they are acting in their own interests insofar as what they are really fighting for is not the economy, but their pensions, their food, their living standards, their rent, etc. They are under an...
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Wilco Wishes →
Tweedy’s most productive work has always come when he has to something to prove (A.M., to prove Wilco was better than Son Volt; Summerteeth, to prove Wilco could do Brian Wilson-like pop tunes as well as they could alt country); Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, to prove to Reprise Records that the album is, well, the best of the decade) or when he’s in pain (the migraines of A Ghost Is Born), and right now,...
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Snowgirl
You yourself, virgin girl, are made of snow,
and you play with snow.
Carry on playing.
But before your dazzling whiteness perishes,
make sure your hard frigidity perishes.
Angelo Poliziano
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“Islands — I don’t get them. Surrounded by nothing but water, poor things.”
– Lady Patrizia, L’Avventura
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How to manage success in Haiti
WikiLeaks will release approximately 1,900 cables from the US embassy in Port-au-Prince.
The most damning section titled “The Gold Rush is On!” includes a sales presentation given to Haitian President Rene Preval by retired general and former US presidential candidate Wesley Clark on a model of cheap housing that would supposedly shelter the poor from future earthquakes and hurricanes.
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“They locked up the man who wanted to rule the world. The fools. They locked up...”
– Leonard Cohen
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Back then, said Sabatino's office manager, Vickie... →
If you grew up in Chicago, Sabatino’s was probably your first exposure to fine dining at the $30-an-entree level, and your grandparents likely brought you here. You’re greeted at the door by neoclassical Grecian statues, because in the ’70s they were the embodiment of interior decorating chic. Then you notice the fake bunched grapes, wine barrels and Christmas lights hanging on...
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U.S. Jews not able to fly on Delta flights to...
youngmanhattanite:
FUCK DELTA.
Delta finds a bankruptcy all its own.
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Obama bringing NATO, G-8 meetings to Chicago →
Possible outcomes:
Reunification and the Goat
The Boystown-Ahmadinejad repreieve
The Hot Doug’s Pact
The Fro-Yo Zone
The South of North, West of Western Partnership Council (SoNWoWPC)
The Mustache Convention
The Commonwealth of Independent 100% Free Range Chicken Meatmarketing
The Bucktown Accords
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What am I Doing?
One of my favorite stories Feldman liked to tell was of Marcel Duchamp visiting an art class in San Francisco, where he saw a young man wildly painting away. Duchamp went over and asked, “What are you doing?” The young man said, “I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing!” And Duchamp patted him on the back and said, “Keep up the good work.” In music, it...
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Tissue Economies
Tissue Economies, a study on the recent transformations in the global circulation of human tissues, shows how the donation of bodily substances such as blood traditionally functioned to unite communities according to the logic of generalized gift exchange. However, with the contamination of the blood supply by HIV and hep C during the 1980s, the ambivalance of the gift made itself felt to such an...
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“My biggest fear in the world is to die of lack of oxygen.”
– TV. Seen in CC on the treadmill. The show was on the Oxygen Network or the Discovery Network. The speaker was from Kentucky and previously CC’d that there are not too many oceans in Kentucky.
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Goal of the pacifist
The pacifist’s aim is always to slow the spread of retributive rage. Ethnic cleansing and other horrors emerge from the chaos of prolonged conflict; the moment firebombs stop falling and making people crazy, the moment armies stand down, new possibilities are revealed. Dictators lose power in peacetime, not in wartime.
Nicholson Baker
[earlier]
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Pork-Coated Bullets: America’s Islam Problem →
Is this real? Or just some spoof from the West Wing or Law & Order? Could the US military really be using bullets covered with oil containing 13% pig fat to evoke fear in Islamic terrorists and allegedly send them into eternal damnation? For the moment, the answer seems like a skeptical maybe, but the supplier of Silver Bullet Gun Oil, pseudonymed “Midnite Rider,” or “Warrior of YAHWEH,”...
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sparklingpants:
The Start of Something —Voxtrot
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Blue Balls
Pornographer Dick Wadd has this take on performing conversions:
“There were three young HIV- men in my past who assumed that, because of my work, I am HIV+ and who wanted to take my charged load. I invited them [separately] to my playroom, lit the candles, put on my best music, set the scene, tossed them in the sling, bored into their eyes with mine right before penetration, then grabbed...
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Email not sent - Vegetarian Times is starting to...
Yo. I miss you. Alert: It’s been 90 days since you & Elise had sweet precious Cratylus. It is time to get out there again & start dancing. Lemme know when yr free. & we can babysit for Cratylus anytime.
In the meantime, I know you’ll appreciate this. I was subscribing to Vegetarian Times for awhile, but it got so that I could access all the VT content online, so I let my...
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Health Status
Although defined as the body’s normal state, health also has been idealized as something for which one must strive; it is no longer something one simply possesses. When framed in terms of “lifestyle,” everyday living is transformed into an interminable exercise in risk management—-a situation exacerbated by the weaving of contemporary ideas about health with aesthetic...
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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Senator
Prof....
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Most Avuncular
“After giving my lecture on Mortion Feldman at yesterday’s Feldman festival being presented in Philly by Bowerbird, I spent a half-hour talking to – Feldman’s niece! Feldman’s personality was so universally described as “avuncular” that I told her she must be one of the most effectively uncle-d people in history.”
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“You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which you once were happy....”
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Franz Schubert
(via leadingtone)
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Lesson from the classics
In the mid 19th century the lives and deaths of animals would pass mostly unobserved by the majority of the European population, and the new meatpacking industry would embrace a lesson that classical art had long imparted to its audience: represent your victims as if they were taking pleasure, or at least accepting the rationality of their own annihilation. Laughing cows and dancing pigs have ever...
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I really don't believe in money. Right now I... →
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