CHARACTERS
Hillbilly Revolutionaries (#1 - #4)
Kennesaw Mountain Landis
Fluffy, a truck driver
Pup Scooby
Lobster St. Stunt Breast, a bon vivant
Live First Alert Doppler 8000, a weather-forecasting system
Waitresses
Bishop
Throughout the play music should come in, as though it were making a cinematic comment on the action. But it isn’t. It is totally random. Waitresses appear and disappear, delivering food and [...]
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Posted in Poetry on December 29, 2005 | No Comments »
Express in numbers and the world’s math,
In words, it’s magic,
And whether by equation or by incantation,
We seek its resolution.
Chaos increases in complexity
Exponentially, in momentum
By factors of itself,
And still nostalgics yearn
For resumption and return,
A primitive, cyclical salvation.
But real nostalgia’s for the end,
The final freedom from the wheel
Our one-way history pledges.
In the engine room the mathematicians
Plot their [...]
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Since I’ve started blogging and especially since I’ve started the Committee to Protect Bloggers, my internationalist inclinations have been gratified manyfold over the last year. I regularly read and correspond with Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, Jews and G-d knows what else, with extreme conservatives of all stripes, with socialists, libertarians and Greens. (Horror of horrors, probably [...]
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The Protestant Northern Irish playwright Gary Mitchell, author of “Trust,” “The Force of Change” and others, and his family, have been attacked by members of Loyalist militias, according to the BBC.
Mitchell’s plays deal with the Northern Irish situation from a Protestant perspective. Mitchell is no a hero-maker in his plays. He’s as grimly honest about [...]
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Posted in Companies on December 24, 2005 | No Comments »
Two months ago I went into the Blockbuster store on Willamette Street and 18th in Eugene, Oregon. As I passed by the counters I tossed into a black plastic garbage can a paper I had been carrying. When the attendent saw me, she did not greet me. Instead, in a disgusted tone she proclaimed, “That’s [...]
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Posted in Journalism on December 23, 2005 | No Comments »
Norbert Niediek, a veteran German journalist covering southeastern Europe and the Balkans from Graz, Austria, is seeking a native Spanish-speaking journalist to join a nascent correspondents’ bureau. which currently consists of him, a French journalist and (soon) a native English-speaking journalist.
The idea is to gather four (or three or five) journalists who supply the big [...]
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Posted in Music, Social media on December 19, 2005 | No Comments »
Via Baby Priest, I give you this bit of freakishness. It’s a combination of cleverness and kitsch.
Via Jason Mulgrew, here’s Pandora. Put in a band you like or a song and it suggests (and plays) songs it thinks you will dig. Sometimes the robots know.
iBelieve, Pandora, robots
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The famous journalist, critic, poet and dramatist Bob Folder:
Do all the bongos congregate at midnight to be burned on a pyre by a man in a large coat?” Folder asks. “The policeman’s flashing patch solves an equation in my forehead which I renounce and feed to the rainforest of the andiron!
bobfolder
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Does Iranian president Ahmadinejad..
More closely resemble Captain Caveman…
Or B.C.?
Technorati Tags: Ahmadinejad, caveman, BC, Captain_Caveman, superintelligent_sea_cucumbers, Johnny_Hart
Curt Hopkins
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I was unable to attend the London Summit for Global Voices on December 10, unfortunately. I was finishing up the SoA Anonymous Blogging Guides and shepherding the Committee to Protect Bloggers through the last hairpin turn of its tax-exempt nonprofit corporation status application.
Nevertheless, since I’ve been a longtime supporter and tangentially involved, I wanted to [...]
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