A commandment that should be inscribed over the door of every library. It’s Banned Books Week. Read one.
King of Spain
In light of today’s news:
Rundown, evil cackle edition
* I found out today that someone recently called me power-hungry. I’ll take that as a compliment, especially in this city.
* I have a craving for steak.
* Kathleen Sebelius is coming to Asheville
* While I’m on the topic of this fair town, what it really needs is a fetish/latex fashion place with some decently affordable [...]
Thought for the Day
The painting is an allegory of the evils of power, how they pass down the chain from the greater to the lesser. Human beings were clutched at, and clutched at others in their turn. If power was a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cry of others. The echo of [...]
How to survive an assassination
Courtesy of Albert Finney and the Coen Bros. Happy Saturday.
Wanted to sleep in this morning, but for some reason the fire alarm for the entire building went off. Urgh.
It’s not there
I wrote a rough draft of the following in 2005 after a visit to Ground Zero — looking at it over three years later, I find that it sums up my thoughts on this day.
My first visit to New York was years ago. I went as a gangly kid, smack dab in the middle of [...]
The Satanic Record Mogul Cometh
My article on these bastards (and their real-life equivalents), is up on Coilhouse.
They’re powerful, immensely so, and rich beyond a mere prole’s wildest dreams. They tread the earth as megalomania-driven gods. If you’re a musician (or anyone, really) they want your talent, your creativity, your voice — above all, they want your name on the [...]
Gaza. Is. Metal!
Johann Hari finds out what the kids in the Middle East are listening to:
I first realised that my never-quite-abandoned adolescent taste for heavy metal had a political edge in – of all places – the Jaballya refugee camp in Gaza. I was interviewing teenagers about their strangled lives and expected to hear the usual Hamasnik [...]
Oh September
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
-T.S. Eliot
Studies in Villainy
Happy Saturday
