A senior British diplomat faces prison term for anti-Semitic remarks: A senior diplomat in the British Foreign Office has been arrested for inciting religious hatred after he launched into an anti-Semitic tirade at a London gym, the Daily Mail reported on Monday. Witnesses told the British newspaper they heard diplomat Rowan Laxton shouting “f**king Israelis,Continue reading “Criminal Boordom”
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The peep show divider comes down, the house lights come on; everything seems to be boiling beneath the surface in the acidic, garish light. The patrons, marginal characters and outright perverts, seedy sorts and vulgar youths, slumming yuppies and middle-aged men whose faces unintentionally plead for lifting the weight of years of disillusion and regret;Continue reading “…”
Boards of Canada, Satellite Anthem Icarus (Nic Brown, David James) PJ Harvey, This is LoveA thousand Alanis Morrisettes don’t amount to a blemish on Ms. Harvey’s scrawny bum. Aphex Twin, IZ US
Commutation
People are afraid to merge…—Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis There is not room enough. Not for everyone. The passage is insufficient for the mass of humanity bearing down upon it. Audacity and nerve will determine who passes ahead and who languishes behind; an instant hierarchy of the quick and the rude. Deference risks humiliation.Continue reading “Commutation”
Heckling the Coronation
During his first year in office, President Obama can be expected to unquestioningly acquiesce to the consensus demanding he oversee an increase in public debt twice as large, as a percentage of GDP, as any year in the Roosevelt administration. He will do this because, as any successful politician, he is congenitally incapable of recognizing,Continue reading “Heckling the Coronation”
Make Believe and Reality
Last summer, as Barack Obama directed the subtle intimidation of fawning European crowds (millions of charisma-intoxicated Germans can’t be wrong!) at those Americans still retaining the quaint notion presidential elections are domestic affairs not subject to global opinion, at least one of his acolytes in the media here in the formal remnant of the UnitedContinue reading “Make Believe and Reality”
MoveOn.matrix
How they acquired my email in the first place isn’t hard to imagine; sign an online petition against the war in Iraq, or any of the Bush administration’s associated constitutional transgressions, and voila,you’re one more iota in a vast database of email addresses that is the centerpiece of Barack Obama’s vaunted Internet armada. You thinkContinue reading “MoveOn.matrix”
Deconstructing Barry
(And the Myth of White Racism)She had seen May Day parades when people were still enthusiastic or did their best to feign enthusiasm…As a group approached the reviewing stand, even the most blasé faces would beam with dazzling smiles, as if trying to prove they were properly joyful, or, more precisely, in proper agreement.(…)Kitsch causesContinue reading “Deconstructing Barry”
Sunday Sermon
Post formerly in this space (of 11/22, “Deconstructing Barry”) removed by author (update 12/1: reprinted above). Thanks to the commenters here and the few over at AmCon (where it has also been deleted, by me) who got it and were intelligent and fair in either criticism or praise. To the style-critics, I’ll let you knowContinue reading “Sunday Sermon”
Cinematic for the People
That Home, The Cinematic Orchestra The Man With the Movie Camera, The Cinematic Orchestra
untethered 