Yes, the above does happen, at least in theory. Yes, The Atlasphere, a dating site for Ayn Rand followers, is real. New York has highlights
[I am] short, stark, and mansome.
You should contact me if you are a skinny woman. If your words are a meaningful progression of concepts rather than a series of vocalizations induced [...]
My piece on the brilliant movie Sita Sings the Blues, including an interview with animatrix/writer/director Nina Paley is up on Coilhouse:
Sita’s magnificence is a testament to the tireless hard work and innovative vision of Paley, a longtime alternative cartoonist, who made the whole film on her home computer over five years. The ideas for [...]
Buddhist monks build temple from beer bottles:
Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew [...]
We are so often told by opponents of marriage equality that they do not oppose our right to have basic legal protections. What they do not understand, because they have never had to understand, is that without legal marriage, gay couples are always subject to the veto of family members who have more say over [...]
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, [...]
Moe Hamzeh of The Kordz during the Cedar Revolution, photo by Lynsey Addario
My piece on the growing heavy metal culture in the Middle East is up on Coilhouse:
In 2007, the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad chronicled the trials of Acrassicauda, dubbed “Iraq’s only heavy metal band.” No doubt many did a double take at trying [...]
This has been playing in my head all week. Last night it just got louder.
I voted.
Which apparently got me so excited that one side of my collar turned up.
It’s going to be a long and exciting day. The Atlantic put Buncombe on its list of swing state counties to watch. Forty seven percent of all registered voters in the county have already voted. This means we could easily see [...]
Here’s where you can find your polling place. This is important information, as Asheville has a dizzying array of precincts, some of them quite small.
Furthermore, when people move, they often forget to update their address with the Board of Elections, and thus may have to vote in their old location.
Be prepared for long lines [...]
Yes, those are Christian fundamentalists praying at a statue of a frickin’ giant golden bull. From the department of “Shit I couldn’t make up if I tried.”
Prayer needed for global economy:
“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from [...]
