January 2011
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My Year in Lists - Los...
December 2010
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)
i posted this a year ago (and, possibly the year before that?). it still strikes me as maybe the best new year’s wish possible.
(via isabelthespy)
Me too—and you know what? I think I did all those things in 2010. So it must’ve been an all right year after...
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L.M. Montgomery > Laura Ingalls Wilder.
OH NO SHE DID NOT.
Okay. “Emily of New Moon” AND “Anne of Green Gables.” Powerful, convincing arguments!
But. But. But. THE LITTLE HOUSE! Vanity cakes! Snow candy! (My family makes snow candy. Because I read this and I DEMANDED TO EAT SOME OF THIS DELICIOUS SNOW CANDY.) Calico! Carved buttons with castles on them!...
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2010: My Year In...
My year in work was pretty good. The work itself was often heartbreaking—it started with an earthquake in Haiti and went through oil in the Gulf and the Freedom Flotilla and an utterly miserable election and now has wound up with protests in London and Bradley Manning’s detention. I wrote about South Carolina politicians, women in the tea party, Lady Gaga, oysters, Phonogram, labor,...
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danielleh asked: Hi, Sarah. I just watched Kanye West's video for "Monster", and then wrote this: http://danielleh.tumblr.com/post/2528958832/representations-of-women-in-kanye-wests-video-for. As a feminist who has really good, varied taste in music, I'm curious about what you think of the video.
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2010: My Year In...
My year in work was pretty good. The work itself was often heartbreaking—it started with an earthquake in Haiti and went through oil in the Gulf and the Freedom Flotilla and an utterly miserable election and now has wound up with protests in London and Bradley Manning’s detention. I wrote about South Carolina politicians, women in the tea party, Lady Gaga, oysters, Phonogram, labor,...
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“But a nation of wusses? Sorry, governor. Talk to the clerk in Queens who walked...”
– The Can’t-Do Nation - NYTimes.com
Watching my neighborhood dig itself out (the plows finally came around 10:30 last night, and even then the people had to come out into the street to help the plow get through) I was reminded of Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell. Watching the way...
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“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...”
– Toni Morrison, “Jazz” (via ancestryinprogress)
ohhhh, I love this line. I love this entire book. So beautiful.
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“Jane Austen has thus not only illustrated the all too common trade-off between...”
– What Pride and Prejudice Can Teach Us About Inequality - Branko Milanovic - Business - The Atlantic
Interesting piece, Austen nerds.
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The Matrix
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was not tremendously interesting 11 years later.
important facts:
* It was shot in Sydney. This made me quite improbably homesick at one point.
* At one point you can see a bit of a Commonwealth Bank logo. I laughed.
* Cyber-gnosticism was and is a confused way to think politics. Like the unconvincing ending of Battlestar Galactica, the mythic mode of The Matrix is a...
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““This could easily be the beginning of the end of Mayor Bloomberg’s...”
– Knives Comes Out for Bloomberg on Snow Removal Efforts | The New York Observer
WOW. Bloomberg said to go see a Broadway show? WE CAN’T, you asshole, because in MY neighborhood? WE ARE STILL UNDER SEVERAL FEET OF SNOW. Cars are abandoned in the street. The N and Q trains are not running. The...
blackamazon:
Healing Sakina: radicallyhottoff: champagnecandy: “In my mailbag I received an…
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champagnecandy:
“In my mailbag I received an excellent example of the sort of reporting I’m talking about—a link to a “This American Life” show from May, the lead segment of which asked the excellent question: How can you have ten thousand N.G.O.s working in Haiti,…
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[snipped out my own blather, it’s here.]
I hear what you’re saying. ANd I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, I have been paid for my own essays—and will hopefully continue to get paid for them. i need them to survive, just like you do. but what does it mean that the writers become “leaders” even as the corporations that back them, the editors that edit them, etc all...
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“I have no idea what size organization is optimal for preventing leaks, but,...”
– Why Wikileaks Will Kill Big Business And Big Government | The New Republic
Interesting to stumble upon this (via Jay Rosen on Twitter) right after the below conversation about deregulating resistance. The central argument here is that WikiLeaks is a “tax” on large organizations,...
“In my mailbag I received an excellent example of the sort of reporting I’m...”
– News Desk: The Moral Hazards of Humanitarian Aid: What Is to Be Done? : The New Yorker (via guerrillamamamedicine)
so, a previous post asked “what does the deregulation of resistance look like?” to me—this would be number one step towards deregulated resistance. the zapatistas have...
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“The structures of labour and power and information distribution have changed...”
– New Statesman - A response to Alex Callinicos
Bolding mine, because that’s it, really. Laurie goes on to make lovely points about fetishizing newspapers and leafleting and old-school techniques and the ridiculousness of trying to sell socialist papers to kids who are already at the protest, and who...
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“The structures of labour and power and information distribution have changed...”
– New Statesman - A response to Alex Callinicos
Bolding mine, because that’s it, really. Laurie goes on to make lovely points about fetishizing newspapers and leafleting and old-school techniques and the ridiculousness of trying to sell socialist papers to kids who are already at the protest,...
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“But a bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity raises a troubling...”
– Banks and WikiLeaks - NYTimes.com
The Times makes a good point about banks—also inadvertently making the case for making them a public utility.
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radicallyhottoff:
“We might agree we cannot imagine a system beyond capitalism, but the left has struggled, even when it has imagined a system to articulate it? What do you imagine a post-capitalist world to look like? What resources would articulate it? I think we have to start with organisation – or thinking about organisation. Retreating into pure thought would be a failure to grasp the...
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radicallyhottoff:
while sitting in the ice storm on the four and half hour ride home that should’ve only been an hour—W* and I were talking about yes means yes and no means no. and we both sorta came to the same conclusion—that both answers, while beneficial to a certain extent, are incomplete answers.
in my family/community history, people were *taught* how to have sex. you also see this in...
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christmas
So it’s not that I don’t get along with my family, exactly. It’s much more complicated than that, far too complicated for me to explain here and frankly none of anyone’s business. But this is the first time in my life I’ve woken up on Christmas morning somewhere other than in my parents’ house.
Even the year that The Ex and I went to NY to see his family, we...
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“And when I heard the news it left me shrunken and shivering, but also amazed,...”
– Magnificent Octopus: A brief discussion on why I love them
I just found this passage scrawled on the back of a piece of paper while cleaning, and I hadn’t noted where it came from. But of course it’s Bolaño, could it have been anyone else?
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ATTENTION
I am swearing off politics until Monday.
This means I am probably not reading much on Tumblr. Have a wonderful holiday if you celebrate (and I suppose, even if you don’t) and ping me on Monday with your dispatches from the class war.
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playlist
Tempted to make a playlist for this year. I’d have to do some reading of my Tumblr archives, but it would have a lot of the Kills and the Dead Weather, Bowie’s “Five Years” in about three different versions (and it would probably begin with “China Girl”), there would be “Bad Romance” and of course lots and lots of Robyn (the theme song for my year if...
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this week
we all fight for what we can fight for, what we have the energy and the time and the ability and the skill to fight for. I won a few minor battles this week—skirmishes, I suppose—and I feel good about them. And I just toasted with cheap champagne with my coworkers that we have continued to do what matters to us for another year on a tiny budget, with a tiny staff.
so here’s to...
I can't do politics today
onetinycorner:
having struggled to keep it together all week, and taking care of my partner through a lupus flare and her homophobic/transphobic family, and I think…
today just the two weeks of hormones I got in the mail feels like a victory. It’s a victory that we even manage to scrape the money together for food and bills and hormones for me (you could do much worse than give a trans person...
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WatchSenator Sherrod Brown: gets it effing right.
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“Well, Twitter is, quite possibly, the best available medium for this particular...”
– How #MooreandMe Worked « Millicent and Carla Fran
Interesting—why Twitter protest works well for women who are otherwise dismissed
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“In 2007, now Mississippi governor, Barbour’s friends and family were the...”
– What Haley Barbour’s amnesia tells us - War Room - Salon.com
Rick Perlstein, possibly my favorite historian, on Haley Barbour’s selective memories of the ’60s South—and his shady dealings now.
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WatchSpeaking of Bradley Manning: yesterday we checked in with Michael Whitney, who aside from being one of my favorite drinking/conspiring buddies has been involved with work to bring attention to and improve Manning’s conditions.
Watch, please, and reblog.