Monday, December 31, 2018
Monday, December 24, 2018
A.S. Hamrah
Trying to find a now-defunct Wikipedia template for major English-language cultural magazines, and browsing various Wikipedia articles on magazines, I visited the Guernica website, which reviewed a new book by a movie critic I've never heard of. But I'll check him out from time to time.
Friday, December 21, 2018
Friday, November 30, 2018
Hawaii TimeAfrofuturism, Afropessimism, etc. (a post in progress)
Here.
http://www.culturalstudies.pitt.edu/course/black-time-afrofuturism-afropessimism-and-beyond
Wikipedia: Afro-pessimism
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Marianna Scheffer: One Year Since Her Death
It was a year ago yesterday that Marianna passed away. There's much to consider and I plan to post something later.
Monday, November 26, 2018
Anniversary of WWI's end reminded me to revisit family history from the period. Lots of Great War vets on dad's side, including a great-great uncle who was gassed and never the same. Found this old pic that Myron Hawley was in back in 1918. pic.twitter.com/rBFLH3jGyd
— George Hawley (@georgehawleyUA) November 19, 2018
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Also, #iipcWAC18 seems like a perfect time for me to learn that my new book is up in @McGillQueensUP’s catalogue: History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web is Transforming Historical Research.
— Ian Milligan (@ianmilligan1) November 14, 2018
You can pre-order or check it out at https://t.co/trL3OSKGfr. #webArchiving pic.twitter.com/2anPlgr4o2
Tlingit speakers travelling to 'historic' gathering in Alaska in effort to preserve language | CBC News https://t.co/99sEkgtqD4
— Recovering Voices (@RecoverVoices) November 6, 2018
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Valuing tradition does not mean valuing the past as past. It means valuing what in the past was actually eternal and therefore has the potential to renew the present (while the mistake is to try and recreate the past).
— Carlo Lancellotti (@_CLancellotti) October 29, 2018
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Coyote Oldman, "People of the Glacier", f.k.a. Post No. 30
I originally made this post as a placeholder on Halloween night. Now, on 6 November, I edited it to include this video, by a musician I first heard of last night while listening to Music Choice.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Armond White: "Kanye Goes Back to the Old Landmark"
"Kanye Goes Back to the Old Landmark" by Armond White, in First Things.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Megyn Kelly
A timeline of her shambolic career at NBC.
(Her show, Megyn Kelly Today was opposite The Wendy Williams Show. You know which one I'd always watch.)
29 October update: Late last week, Megyn Kelly Today was still listed for this week on the channel guide, but is now listed as Today Third Hour. And the last airing of her show on Friday (a rerun), was mostly pre-empted by coverage of the mail bombings. A fitting end.
(Her show, Megyn Kelly Today was opposite The Wendy Williams Show. You know which one I'd always watch.)
29 October update: Late last week, Megyn Kelly Today was still listed for this week on the channel guide, but is now listed as Today Third Hour. And the last airing of her show on Friday (a rerun), was mostly pre-empted by coverage of the mail bombings. A fitting end.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Max Blumenthal in Harper's
My scoop for @Harpers: Just days before her surprise resignation, Nikki Haley met in secret with the Council for National Policy, a group that essentially represents the vast right-wing conspiracy. I was the only reporter in the room when she spoke. https://t.co/sK9Z2juMHL pic.twitter.com/1H0zHRobhm
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 17, 2018
19 October update: It turns out Max wrote this for Browsings, the Harper's blog, and not the print magazine itself. Nevertheless, the article marks his first appearance in Harper's. He gets back into his Republican Gomorrah groove as he details Nikki Haley's "pilgrimage" (a week prior to her resignation as UN ambassador) to the "decidedly immoderate, highly secretive organization of right-wing, mostly evangelical Republican operatives known as the Council for National Policy, or CNP."
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Brexit as an Example of The Long Emergency
The Fall is a podcast on the possible hardships in Great Britain after Brexit takes full effect.
Friday, October 12, 2018
Avenatt1 the Avaricious
Avenatti tweets "chip in for Beto now" with an ActBlue link. But unless his followers click on that link in the text, they might not realize that only half of their donation is actually going to Beto. The other half goes to Avenatti's PAC. pic.twitter.com/dNA1enZR7G
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 11, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Ford Fairlane is superior to A Star is Born and Andrew Dice Clay's performance was better back then. Remember that unforgettable line about Sting? https://t.co/lowvX1wd6B
— armond white (@3xchair) October 11, 2018
Ford Fairlane is superior to A Star is Born and Andrew Dice Clay's performance was better back then. Remember that unforgettable line about Sting? --Armond White (@3xchair), Twitter, 11 October 2018
[To wit: "Is Sting really an a--hole?"]
Monday, October 08, 2018
Filling a city with an inadequate public transport system with speed cameras and doubling the fines after 2 weeks is one more thing @MayorBowser does to make DC uninhabitable for the working poor. Now she wants to quintuple fines & lower speed limits to 15 mph in some areas. https://t.co/uJKiMlrKIp
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 8, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Friday, September 28, 2018
"A Particularly Catholic Realm of Elite DC Suburban Preppy Culture"
Max Blumenthal grew up in in Washington.
The #KavanaughHearings offer an unsettling look at a particularly Catholic realm of elite DC suburban preppy culture. So many layers of damage there, all the way down to Kavanaugh and Judge's marriage & sex counselor, who also taught Neal Gorsuch. https://t.co/CqK9isSKKq pic.twitter.com/h8Tw5C6nfF
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 27, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
On Peak Knowledge (a post in progress)
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2011-11-01/impermanence-knowledge/
Monday, September 24, 2018
A Sign of Peak Oil?
I do believe this is first time House of Saud has ever said it was incapable of increasing capacity https://t.co/ArRuxYe961
— Joe Costello (@ofbyforbook) September 22, 2018
Friday, September 21, 2018
Ralph Norman
At @gebiofuel with @RepRalphNorman and bio Joe Renwick in Winnsboro, SC - tasting clean biofuel made from used cooking oil pic.twitter.com/rbS2lFQYBo
— Matt Moore (@MattMooreSC) September 19, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Megan McArdle
I would be cool with a teen murderer getting a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. I think there's good reason we expunge juvenile records, and would raise the expungement age to 21.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 14, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Here is the video of Ferguson activists protesting Deray book tour. pic.twitter.com/Mcm9hRKcwu
— .YoNasDa Lonewolf (@QueenYoNasDa) September 14, 2018
Friday, September 14, 2018
Edroso's New E-Newsletter
The Village Voice, whose electronic edition recently went kaput, was Edroso's main outlet for commentary. Now he has a newsletter.
Enjoying @edroso's new newsletter, incl this LOL moment: "The Federalist isn't some fringe operation -- it's run by Ben Domenech, former celebrity plagiarist and husband of Meghan McCain, sort of a Richie Aprile of the conservative movement." Subscribe! https://t.co/htTx5eAwTt
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) September 14, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
1. Re @RuleandRuin’s grumpy piece on the historiography of conservatism (https://t.co/G3ols3owF1), @TomSugrue offers the full-throated defense of the discipline’s honor: https://t.co/20TalVTsja. I have a more specific point, undeniably motivated by some “presentist” concerns.
— Sam Rosenfeld (@sam_rosenfeld) September 10, 2018
Monday, September 03, 2018
Kunstler: The Uncomfortable Hiatus
Kunstler: The Uncomfortable Hiatus.
And so the sun seems to stand still this last day before the resumption of business-as-usual, and whatever remains of labor in this sclerotic republic takes its ease in the ominous late summer heat, and the people across this land marinate in anxious uncertainty. What can be done?
Some kind of epic national restructuring is in the works. It will either happen consciously and deliberately or it will be forced on us by circumstance. One side wants to magically reenact the 1950s; the other wants a Gnostic transhuman utopia. Neither of these is a plausible outcome. Most of the arguments ranging around them are what Jordan Peterson calls “pseudo issues.” Let’s try to take stock of what the real issues might be.
Energy: The shale oil “miracle” was a stunt enabled by supernaturally low interest rates, i.e. Federal Reserve policy. Even The New York Times said so yesterday (The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground). For all that, the shale oil producers still couldn’t make money at it. If interest rates go up, the industry will choke on the debt it has already accumulated and lose access to new loans. If the Fed reverses its current course — say, to rescue the stock and bond markets — then the shale oil industry has perhaps three more years before it collapses on a geological basis, maybe less. After that, we’re out of tricks. It will affect everything.
The perceived solution is to run all our stuff on electricity, with the electricity produced by other means than fossil fuels, so-called alt energy. This will only happen on the most limited basis and perhaps not at all. (And it is apart from the question of the decrepit electric grid itself.) What’s required is a political conversation about how we inhabit the landscape, how we do business, and what kind of business we do. The prospect of dismantling suburbia — or at least moving out of it — is evidently unthinkable. But it’s going to happen whether we make plans and policies, or we’re dragged kicking and screaming away from it.
Corporate tyranny: The nation is groaning under despotic corporate rule. The fragility of these operations is moving toward criticality. As with shale oil, they depend largely on dishonest financial legerdemain. They are also threatened by the crack-up of globalism, and its 12,000-mile supply lines, now well underway. Get ready for business at a much smaller scale.
Hard as this sounds, it presents great opportunities for making Americans useful again, that is, giving them something to do, a meaningful place in society, and livelihoods. The implosion of national chain retail is already underway. Amazon is not the answer, because each Amazon sales item requires a separate truck trip to its destination, and that just doesn’t square with our energy predicament. We’ve got to rebuild main street economies and the layers of local and regional distribution that support them. That’s where many jobs and careers are.
Climate change is most immediately affecting farming. 2018 will be a year of bad harvests in many parts of the world. Agri-biz style farming, based on oil-and-gas plus bank loans is a ruinous practice, and will not continue in any case. Can we make choices and policies to promote a return to smaller scale farming with intelligent methods rather than just brute industrial force plus debt? If we don’t, a lot of people will starve to death. By the way, here is the useful work for a large number of citizens currently regarded as unemployable for one reason or another.
Pervasive racketeering rules because we allow it to, especially in education and medicine. Both are self-destructing under the weight of their own money-grubbing schemes. Both are destined to be severely downscaled. A lot of colleges will go out of business [Note: I'll keep track of colleges going defunct.--P.Z.]. Most college loans will never be paid back (and the derivatives based on them will blow up). We need millions of small farmers more than we need millions of communications majors with a public relations minor. It may be too late for a single-payer medical system. A collapsing oil-based industrial economy means a lack of capital, and fiscal hocus-pocus is just another form of racketeering. Medicine will have to get smaller and less complex and that means local clinic-based health care. Lots of careers there, and that is where things are going, so get ready.
Government over-reach: the leviathan state is too large, too reckless, and too corrupt. Insolvency will eventually reduce its scope and scale. Most immediately, the giant matrix of domestic spying agencies has turned on American citizens. It will resist at all costs being dismantled or even reined in. One task at hand is to prosecute the people in the Department of Justice and the FBI who ran illegal political operations in and around the 2016 election. These are agencies which use their considerable power to destroy the lives of individual citizens. Their officers must answer to grand juries.
As with everything else on the table for debate, the reach and scope of US imperial arrangements has to be reduced. It’s happening already, whether we like it or not, as geopolitical relations shift drastically and the other nations on the planet scramble for survival in a post-industrial world that will be a good deal harsher than the robotic paradise of digitally “creative” economies that the credulous expect. This country has enough to do within its own boundaries to prepare for survival without making extra trouble for itself and other people around the world. As a practical matter, this means close as many overseas bases as possible, as soon as possible.
As we get back to business tomorrow, ask yourself where you stand in the blather-storm of false issues and foolish ideas, in contrast to the things that actually matter.
And so the sun seems to stand still this last day before the resumption of business-as-usual, and whatever remains of labor in this sclerotic republic takes its ease in the ominous late summer heat, and the people across this land marinate in anxious uncertainty. What can be done?
Some kind of epic national restructuring is in the works. It will either happen consciously and deliberately or it will be forced on us by circumstance. One side wants to magically reenact the 1950s; the other wants a Gnostic transhuman utopia. Neither of these is a plausible outcome. Most of the arguments ranging around them are what Jordan Peterson calls “pseudo issues.” Let’s try to take stock of what the real issues might be.
Energy: The shale oil “miracle” was a stunt enabled by supernaturally low interest rates, i.e. Federal Reserve policy. Even The New York Times said so yesterday (The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground). For all that, the shale oil producers still couldn’t make money at it. If interest rates go up, the industry will choke on the debt it has already accumulated and lose access to new loans. If the Fed reverses its current course — say, to rescue the stock and bond markets — then the shale oil industry has perhaps three more years before it collapses on a geological basis, maybe less. After that, we’re out of tricks. It will affect everything.
The perceived solution is to run all our stuff on electricity, with the electricity produced by other means than fossil fuels, so-called alt energy. This will only happen on the most limited basis and perhaps not at all. (And it is apart from the question of the decrepit electric grid itself.) What’s required is a political conversation about how we inhabit the landscape, how we do business, and what kind of business we do. The prospect of dismantling suburbia — or at least moving out of it — is evidently unthinkable. But it’s going to happen whether we make plans and policies, or we’re dragged kicking and screaming away from it.
Corporate tyranny: The nation is groaning under despotic corporate rule. The fragility of these operations is moving toward criticality. As with shale oil, they depend largely on dishonest financial legerdemain. They are also threatened by the crack-up of globalism, and its 12,000-mile supply lines, now well underway. Get ready for business at a much smaller scale.
Hard as this sounds, it presents great opportunities for making Americans useful again, that is, giving them something to do, a meaningful place in society, and livelihoods. The implosion of national chain retail is already underway. Amazon is not the answer, because each Amazon sales item requires a separate truck trip to its destination, and that just doesn’t square with our energy predicament. We’ve got to rebuild main street economies and the layers of local and regional distribution that support them. That’s where many jobs and careers are.
Climate change is most immediately affecting farming. 2018 will be a year of bad harvests in many parts of the world. Agri-biz style farming, based on oil-and-gas plus bank loans is a ruinous practice, and will not continue in any case. Can we make choices and policies to promote a return to smaller scale farming with intelligent methods rather than just brute industrial force plus debt? If we don’t, a lot of people will starve to death. By the way, here is the useful work for a large number of citizens currently regarded as unemployable for one reason or another.
Pervasive racketeering rules because we allow it to, especially in education and medicine. Both are self-destructing under the weight of their own money-grubbing schemes. Both are destined to be severely downscaled. A lot of colleges will go out of business [Note: I'll keep track of colleges going defunct.--P.Z.]. Most college loans will never be paid back (and the derivatives based on them will blow up). We need millions of small farmers more than we need millions of communications majors with a public relations minor. It may be too late for a single-payer medical system. A collapsing oil-based industrial economy means a lack of capital, and fiscal hocus-pocus is just another form of racketeering. Medicine will have to get smaller and less complex and that means local clinic-based health care. Lots of careers there, and that is where things are going, so get ready.
Government over-reach: the leviathan state is too large, too reckless, and too corrupt. Insolvency will eventually reduce its scope and scale. Most immediately, the giant matrix of domestic spying agencies has turned on American citizens. It will resist at all costs being dismantled or even reined in. One task at hand is to prosecute the people in the Department of Justice and the FBI who ran illegal political operations in and around the 2016 election. These are agencies which use their considerable power to destroy the lives of individual citizens. Their officers must answer to grand juries.
As with everything else on the table for debate, the reach and scope of US imperial arrangements has to be reduced. It’s happening already, whether we like it or not, as geopolitical relations shift drastically and the other nations on the planet scramble for survival in a post-industrial world that will be a good deal harsher than the robotic paradise of digitally “creative” economies that the credulous expect. This country has enough to do within its own boundaries to prepare for survival without making extra trouble for itself and other people around the world. As a practical matter, this means close as many overseas bases as possible, as soon as possible.
As we get back to business tomorrow, ask yourself where you stand in the blather-storm of false issues and foolish ideas, in contrast to the things that actually matter.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Toronto Rant
Nancy, on holiday in Toronto, being her grumbly self:
With this site, maybe the bar could be located, or at least guessed at.
1 September update: This list of the top fifteen squash courts and clubs in Toronto would be helpful too.
Oh god: A guy just walked by with two squash racquets sticking out of his bag. And Rick Astley is playing on the video screens. If it weren’t for the smartphones, I’d think I walked into an ‘80s time warp.
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) August 30, 2018
With this site, maybe the bar could be located, or at least guessed at.
1 September update: This list of the top fifteen squash courts and clubs in Toronto would be helpful too.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Via @SRothbell
look at this amazing flyer @Juggolantern and I made to remind #EchoParkRising attendees that “revitalization” is displacement #EchoParkRisingRent pic.twitter.com/OmR6cz5xHe
— tracy jeanne rosenthal #yeson10 (@xxexegesis) August 18, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Wait. @Madonna aka Madge can open schools, hospitals and raise almost a million dollars for underprivileged kids and Twitter judges are silent..but let her tell a story about how Aretha influenced her and she is trending. It's not Madonna with screwed up priorities it's you.
— Don (@DonWayneHair1) August 21, 2018
.@NickiMinaj and @Madonna showing each other love backstage at the #VMAs. pic.twitter.com/tTGXsKWsrp
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 21, 2018
Madonna getting embalmed pic.twitter.com/vrznTKV2Vn
— Christian (@christianismad) August 21, 2018
Mad. Indeed.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Mark Ames opines on V.S. Naipaul.
Aretha Franklin died this morning. I found out about 5:30 a.m. Hawaii time. There's still much of her music I haven't heard but should like to.
Aretha Franklin died this morning. I found out about 5:30 a.m. Hawaii time. There's still much of her music I haven't heard but should like to.
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Stoop-id People, f.k.a. Post
Yep. https://t.co/zkMibAaZjP pic.twitter.com/dbWBhdj7UW
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 1, 2018
Another instance of New York slowly becoming like a theme park, according to Jeremiah Moss.
Two things that occur to me:
I keep thinking about that fake stoop. The stoop, so utterly urban, normally brings the inside out; facing the street, it engages residents with the sidewalk ballet.
Lately, I've been watching reruns of Hey Arnold! on Teen Nick. One of the minor characters is named Stoop Kid. He doesn't just hang out on the stoop but lives on it, and apparently never leaves it. And not only doesn't he "engage with the sidewalk ballet" he actively rejects it, shouting at passersby who seem to get too close to his stoop, not unlike the stereotypical old man yelling at people to get off his lawn.
CBGB was never an abbreviation but an acronym: "Its full name of CBGB & OMFUG stands for 'Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers'."--Wikipedia
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Librarian.net Update
I haven't read librarian.net in ages, but checking it out tonight, I read that Jessamyn is on the faculty of the UH-Manoa library school.
Currently I teach at UH Manoa’s library school....
Currently I teach at UH Manoa’s library school....
Quick to Order, Slow to Arrive
Nancy grumbles about discusses the state of McDonald's, particularly the long wait for items ordered. And the other day I noticed the "wimpy cat-blogger" finally deleted NN from his blogroll.
Three of Four on Lady Baltimore Cakes
modern prehistoric housing
— Thy Svid (@okolikon) July 28, 2018
(the photo by Prokudin-Gorskii) pic.twitter.com/JYq7E7N767
I don't get to The Ave that much, so forgot how big & independent @ubookstorereads actually is. I picked up this interesting book by @annebyrn (@rodaleinc) because Lady Baltimore Cake! pic.twitter.com/vZK1Htkjd3
— Entre Rios Books (@EntreRiosBooks) July 15, 2018
Homemade Lady Baltimore cake, cappuccino; Vivaldi Gloria on the radio; light rain, rabbit in the backyard. Sunday morning. pic.twitter.com/DpWKZeTIyu
— Bill Thayer 🎗️ LacusCurtius (@LacusCurtius) May 20, 2018
Curious about the history of cake in America? Join us today @amhistorymuseum at 1:00 PM to learn about one of America's most beloved cake pairings: Lord and Lady Baltimore cakes. One features figs, the other cherries -- how fanciful! #SmithsonianFood INFO: https://t.co/grTipb5VRl
— Dr. Ashley Rose Young (@AshleyRoseYoung) April 6, 2018
People come up to me and say, “I need you to help me write a book.” https://t.co/42M7lmsuwY
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 27, 2018
Time
I Do Not Have The Same 24 Hours As Beyoncé https://t.co/5VeCydKE0N via @wearyourvoice
— ♈️☀️#GlitterOnTheCash🌙♌️ (@FeministaJones) July 30, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Some Tweets About History
Today @niasknaw hosted a successful workshop “Decolonizing knowledge”, on the development of knowledge cultures in Indonesia, India and Africa after independence. On the intersection of history of science, book history, and political history pic.twitter.com/Y4RVB2hCwL
— Remco Raben (@RemcoRaben) May 28, 2018
New post on our blog! Georg Gangl discusses the "Theses on Theory and History" by Wild On Collective (@ekleinberg) in the disciplinary context of the philosophy of history: https://t.co/P1KOiQ56ce#TheoryRevolt
— Centre for Philosophical Studies of History (@CpshOulu) May 28, 2018
Check out the beautiful cover of @warde_paul @LibbydeQ @SverkerSorlin forthcoming book The Environment: A History of the Idea @JHUPress pic.twitter.com/r68hEYBdhI
— Matt McAdam (@mxmcadam) July 20, 2018
So I've been working on this for a while - and it's now live. A website stuffed full of rare programme archives, unseen interviews, documents, and photos, all exploring the long history of the BBC's attempts to embrace a diverse, multicultural worldhttps://t.co/a6HY13X5jB pic.twitter.com/jSPSUxbCKQ
— David Hendy (@DavidjHendy) July 18, 2018
Sunday, July 08, 2018
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
TBogg vs Neil Steinberg
Tammy Duckworth: I enlisted and lost both my legs while flying a helicopter in Iraq in 2004@NeilSteinberg : I got drunk and slapped my wife around in 2005https://t.co/p9neKsjtIV
— TBogg - more or less (@tbogg) July 3, 2018
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Saturday, June 23, 2018
George Will: Four Types and Their Reaction to His Column
Never Trumpers
Trumpers
Resisters welcoming him
Resisters skeptical of him
Trumpers
Resisters welcoming him
Resisters skeptical of him
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Dr. Elizabeth Scott from WDM/ @wdmtweets discusses using microhistory for #Sask history/stories; emphasizes that we can ask new questions of old sources to find new understandings of both artifact and nonartifact histories #shfs2018 #masconf18 pic.twitter.com/IPqGTsnqD1
— Laura Larsen (@triticum_red) June 8, 2018
Thursday, June 14, 2018
I am saddened to see Mother Jones turn into a haven of neocon Cold War conspiracism with backing from a right-wing Silicon Valley billionaire https://t.co/iP9PPFtJM8 Also, Corn doesn’t challenge a single fact in @aaronjmate’s entirely accurate piece. https://t.co/ya0xIbdHwZ
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) June 14, 2018
I am saddened to see my old home, The Nation, publish apologia for Trump and Russia. https://t.co/2n8nhffqhD
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 14, 2018
Neither magazine is what it used to be. And it occurred to me recently that The Smoking Gun isn't discussed much anymore.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Atlas-Repro Paperwork
This company specializes in replicating historical papers and ephemera.
https://www.atlas-repropaperwork.com/film-props/
https://www.atlas-repropaperwork.com/film-props/
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
"Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means" (a post in progress)
1. Pay off credit card each month.
— Adam Khan (@Khanoisseur) June 3, 2018
2. Don’t drink (save hundred$/ month - donate to a good cause instead)
3. Don’t buy or lease a vehicle.
4. Live close enough to work to walk to it.
5. Don’t get cable.
6. Eat out sparingly.
7. Save 20% of your paycheck.
8. Become a minimalist. https://t.co/FDPM9LITvs
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Reaction to Reactions: Bhad Bhabie
Is Bhad Bhabie the first to post a reaction video to reaction videos to her song? I don't know but she can dish it out.
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Excellent blog by @richardheinberg on why in 2005 peak oil advocates like us couldn't see the shale boom coming, and will struggle to get our message that it is in fact a giant Ponzi scheme out before the bubble bursts https://t.co/mZLXBQLDtT Meanwhile: pic.twitter.com/6GSXUw7K0d
— Jeremy Leggett (@JeremyLeggett) March 7, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
How Things Have Changed
Baltimorean who is 41 with zero retirement savings who has never had a six-figure government job with a pension says people who have to go to work all fucking day and still make time to do whatever they can to “fix” Baltimore are sick of these rich fucking scolds.
— Snazzy! Snazzi! Snazzé! (@disnazzio) May 24, 2018
https://t.co/YAD1yRMH0r
New rule, if you were born before 1970 or if you have ever made 100k or more in a year, you don’t get to use the word “whining” anymore. We heard you the first 500 fucking trillion times you tiresome dicks.
— Snazzy! Snazzi! Snazzé! (@disnazzio) May 24, 2018
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Monday, May 21, 2018
Don't Hate, Appreciate.
I don't often agree with Nancy Nall but I like what she says here. Below are some examples of said self-righteous/Debbie Downer types hating on the royals.
To which @ljhickey24 says:
I'm-a gonna watch at least part of the royal wedding tomorrow, I'm-a enjoy it, and none of you wet blankets, dweebs and won't-someone-think-of-the-poor-of-England hand-wringers are going to harsh my mellow. Life contains both misery and celebrations, and this one has great hats.
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) May 18, 2018
That £30m royal wedding swindle represented everything wrong with the UK https://t.co/kGzRPcXCq3 via @willmwhiteman
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 21, 2018
My two cents on whatever it was that happened yesterday https://t.co/7Yzm52yTIB
— William Whiteman (@willmwhiteman) May 20, 2018
No they’re inbred parasitical morons. https://t.co/ksCZPXkU1o
— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) May 20, 2018
To which @ljhickey24 says:
We’ll take the Royals off ur hands in exchange for Trump & Family
— maryjane ☘️ (@ljhickey24) May 20, 2018
Hey media companies: “in case I missed the royal wedding”? I didn’t miss it. I skipped it. That was on purpose. Quit reminding me of something I was intentionally avoiding.
— Ted Rall (@TedRall) May 20, 2018
Sunday, May 20, 2018
The Volcano
Sometime I'll look back at the news coverage of the current eruption and see what was the most false, or sensationalistic. The ignorance about Hawaii is understandable, but if people want to inform themselves they can do so more easily than they could have even a decade ago.
Friday, May 11, 2018
Sunday, May 06, 2018
Dude. I haven’t worn pants in, I think, 3 years.
— TBogg - Totally King of New New California (@tbogg) May 6, 2018
Outside of running shoes for working out, no shoes in 2 years.https://t.co/PAOv5EFtFj
Friday, May 04, 2018
Another Way to Celebrate May Day
MayDay: Saving Our Archives! On May 1-this year & every year-you can do something that will make a difference when & if an emergency occurs. That’s the purpose of MayDay-a grassroots effort whose goal is to save our archives. See @archivists_org MayDay https://t.co/6Witu7TbjM pic.twitter.com/9DZNGl1koF
— SAA Preservation (@SAApreservation) April 25, 2018
Thursday, May 03, 2018
Monday, April 30, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Here's a mild take as a palette-cleanser: pic.twitter.com/UAcQXlM354
— 🚨New Music Drama🚨 (@NewMusicDrama) April 16, 2018
That's "palate-cleanser."
Thursday, April 05, 2018
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Fifty Years After He Was Slain
Before his assassination in 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. started to realize his "dream" had become a nightmare. MLK then started working on the #PoorPeoplesCampaign so we can get our "check." It's no surprise mainstream media won't play this footage even on this day. #MLK50 pic.twitter.com/k6S3izFyKZ
— The Black Detour (@theblackdetour) April 4, 2018
He was complicated.
Monday, April 02, 2018
The People of the Ruins, by Edward Shanks
Before now, I had heard neither of the book nor the writer. It's available in various formats at The Internet Archive.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Mother and her two teenagers pass this pop-art piece depicting Reagan at the Hirshhorn. “Who is that?” she asks the daughter, who doesn’t know. Distressed, she then asks her son: “Who is that?” He doesn’t know. The look on her face... pic.twitter.com/HhNo4rN3k8
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) March 31, 2018
They probably think Paul Newman is the old dude who makes salad dressing.
Hi everyone! A tweeting mistake on our part meant to tell you earlier this week that Underground has officially moved to Friday nights again (that’s right now!) — we’re still on the air, we promise!
— TCM Underground (@TCMUnderground) March 10, 2018
What was that I was saying about the lack of religious literacy in the national media? https://t.co/fI0CvWTNuZ
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) March 31, 2018
Because my ability to keep up with good stuff that I should be reading is barely adequate I missed this superb tribute to "adequacy" as a concept & a standard for most people most of the time. One does something well enough to contribute &/or to enjoy. https://t.co/DgRMfY9qQ0
— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) March 22, 2018
How historians @jmjafrx and @marthasjones_ extended the reach of their graduate seminar far beyond @JohnsHopkins . Any historian can do this: #EverythinghasaHistory & all histories have people who are interested. https://t.co/aWjkG4bIRm
— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) March 22, 2018
The Lessons of a School Shooting--in 1853
The Lessons of a School Shooting–in 1853 via @politicomag https://t.co/WSjMbONrmH #everythinghasahistory
— History Bizarre (@HistoryBizarre) March 25, 2018
#Everythinghasahistory
#EverythinghasaHistory https://t.co/PAYg44ABhe
— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) March 27, 2018
A single computer failure can wipe out an entire digital photo collection, destroying years of a family's carefully curated memories.
— Facet Publishing (@facetpublishing) March 22, 2018
How can library and information professionals help? https://t.co/jVMYn3Hwci#digitalarchive #archiving #digitalpreservation #digitalmemory pic.twitter.com/Ha7w5DSAFj
every archivist has done this. there's no shame. we all have to eat. https://t.co/CQwbIiPTQo
— Mayne Gauche (@Bibliocracy) March 21, 2018
Just in time for #NEAARTSP18! JCAS volume 5, article 1 has been published: https://t.co/UcIMQC1it3
— Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (@JCASonline) March 22, 2018
Meghan Rinn of @BarnumMuseum discusses gaps in subject headings related to disabilities.@NEarchivists @ArchivistsRT pic.twitter.com/5IVfU5m7El
Friday, March 30, 2018
Kunstler: Not So Happy Motoring.
Kunstler: Not So Happy Motoring.
On another note, this is interesting: U.S. Utilities Look To Electric Cars As Their Savior Amid Decline In Demand.
Jan Adams makes a dystopian prediction re: driverless cars.
31 March update:
On another note, this is interesting: U.S. Utilities Look To Electric Cars As Their Savior Amid Decline In Demand.
Jan Adams makes a dystopian prediction re: driverless cars.
31 March update:
bumping this again after reading the @nytimes story on the recent Model X crash, which it incorrectly called the “second fatal crash in which the Autopilot system.” https://t.co/i9jExgMOM6 https://t.co/KOIsZkVest
— Ryan Felton (@ryanfelton) March 31, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Thanks to Ian Lind's post today I found this:
Federation of American Scientists link to CRS Reports
Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports
The Congressional Research Service, a component of the Library of Congress, conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of national policy issues. While many CRS memoranda are generated in response to individual Member or staff inquiries and are confidential, most CRS reports are available to anyone who has access to a congressional intranet.
Yet at the direction of Congress, CRS does not make even its non-confidential publications directly available to the public online. In order to help overcome this unnecessary barrier, the Federation of American Scientists endeavors to provide current, regularly updated public access to as many non-confidential CRS reports as possible. These reports are provided without congressional or CRS authorization as a public service.
Federation of American Scientists link to CRS Reports
Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports
The Congressional Research Service, a component of the Library of Congress, conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of national policy issues. While many CRS memoranda are generated in response to individual Member or staff inquiries and are confidential, most CRS reports are available to anyone who has access to a congressional intranet.
Yet at the direction of Congress, CRS does not make even its non-confidential publications directly available to the public online. In order to help overcome this unnecessary barrier, the Federation of American Scientists endeavors to provide current, regularly updated public access to as many non-confidential CRS reports as possible. These reports are provided without congressional or CRS authorization as a public service.
Past and Present
Like many other people I watched the Roseanne premiere last night.
Max Blumenthal opines:
The interesting thing to me is when something is revisited after many years, and seeing what changes and what stays the same. Imperial Bedrooms, the Bret Easton Ellis novel from 2010 is an example. Set twenty-five years after Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms is current, but its characters haven't changed much. Rip may be constantly texting and watching CNN on a laptop, but he's still malevolent.
Then there's the new YouTube Red series, Cobra Kai. From what I can tell from the trailer h
http://democratherald.com/blogs/of-being-and-johnny-lawrence-sweep-the-leg/article_1b2d98b1-224f-51e8-9277-221c6ed38569.html
Max Blumenthal opines:
.@ABC rewarding #Roseanne's long record of industrial level racism and anti-Palestinian incitement with a sitcom reboot is just another instance of corporate media fueling right-wing Trump culture https://t.co/pih8HpGcb0
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 28, 2018
The interesting thing to me is when something is revisited after many years, and seeing what changes and what stays the same. Imperial Bedrooms, the Bret Easton Ellis novel from 2010 is an example. Set twenty-five years after Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms is current, but its characters haven't changed much. Rip may be constantly texting and watching CNN on a laptop, but he's still malevolent.
Then there's the new YouTube Red series, Cobra Kai. From what I can tell from the trailer h
http://democratherald.com/blogs/of-being-and-johnny-lawrence-sweep-the-leg/article_1b2d98b1-224f-51e8-9277-221c6ed38569.html
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018
So Bad It's Good
If you have free time and want a laugh, check out @WorstDamnTweet. It compiles tweets from everybody: Sh!tlibs, Kekistanners, the Acela Corridor (Beltway people), Clown Politicians (a redundancy?), Never Trumpers, Brits, the extremely online, celebrities....
Examples:
Examples:
— WorstTweetAllTime (@WorstDamnTweet) March 26, 2018
REGION: CLOWN POLITICIANS PLAY-IN MATCH
— WorstTweetAllTime (@WorstDamnTweet) March 22, 2018
Lieu's "Prison labor is good..."
vs.
King's "American babies..."
Whose tweet was worse?
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
On the Decline of German Restaurants
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/grandmas-food-how-changing-tastes-are-killing-german-restaurants/2018/03/19/de4c4994-0b93-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.250ca7fa21ff
Linked from NancyNall.com
Linked from NancyNall.com
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Tolstoy was an pacifist anarchist,, u oaf https://t.co/0ZupMaxS20
— Carlgoyle Beijer (@CarlBeijer) March 6, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
This Blog is Twelve
The twelfth anniversary of this blog came and went, and I realized it just yesterday. That shows how hectic things have been lately. They've been discussing small towns a lot recently at NancyNall.com. Much I can say--if I can find the time. I doubt any of the commenters are familiar with Kunstler.
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Three Women Who Launched a Movement https://t.co/b6Tt7PavWN #InternationalWomensDay
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) March 8, 2018
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Some Historians to Check Out
That said, I'm just a simple, country 20th-century historian. Let me tag in some 19th-century folks who actually work on these issues. @Ed_Baptist @arothmanhistory @HC_Richardson @rothmanistan @TheTattooedProf @KevinLevin @karpmj
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 7, 2018
Friday, March 02, 2018
On Uber and Ambulances
This is called an ambulance. It already exists. WHY IS TECH SO FUCKING DETERMINED NOT TO ADVANCE A DAMNED THING? https://t.co/7FDmLZ2KQm
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) March 2, 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Lent is coming, and the Anglican Church in North America has launched an internet resource, https://t.co/OmP9j3Flfl, to support the Church in the Lenten disciplines of prayer and almsgiving. Learn more here: https://t.co/PXrnUCnCsV @anglicanaid @Matthew25i #Lent2018 #Anglican pic.twitter.com/Eq37xvGuJa
— ACNA (@The_ACNA) February 13, 2018
Fellow Orthodox Christians: We all dread all the beans we have to eat during Lent. I made a crazy delicious pot of cannellini beans using loads of Bavarian seasoning mix from @TheSpiceHouse. You gotta try it! https://t.co/C128fdV1lP
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) March 1, 2018
Does anybody want to buy a computer collection I have been gathering since 1993? This is less than half of it. I am considering a move, and I'm not sure these can go with me to the new place. Would love to keep them all together somehow. Want to start a museum? pic.twitter.com/lG7b3PuDUg
— Benj Edwards (@benjedwards) February 26, 2018
Large Archive of Hannah Arendt’s Papers Digitized by the Library of Congress.
— Open Culture (@openculture) February 28, 2018
Read Her Lectures, Drafts of Articles, Notes & Correspondence https://t.co/4cvhO5dT5s pic.twitter.com/2EDiUGrBEv
People on all sides of this have a lot of time on their hands.
Tucker hosted a college kid who tried to press charges against fellow students who handed him a box of crackers and photoshopped him as a cracker. Tucker called him brave. pic.twitter.com/obj4Mwysv6
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 1, 2018
"The World Ain't a Big Soap Opera."
Maddow still appropriating Glenn Beck's act https://t.co/fIiNqNjWYE
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) February 21, 2018
Rachel Maddow got emotional as she said that the indictments of 13 Russians are proof that finally, someone is defending us from the Russian threat to the United States. https://t.co/F6aINirMGt #maddow #Russians pic.twitter.com/1EEpXI5Ajc
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 17, 2018
Rachel should listen to Yo-Yo.
And this guy.
Alabama, "Jukebox in My Mind."
Another song I first heard yesterday in the Chinese restaurant. It's much more recent than I thought it was.
Charlie Rich, "Rollin' With the Flow."
I first heard (of) this song yesterday afternoon in a Chinese restaurant as I was waiting to pick up my order.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Hating on Rod Dreher--Again
This may be the pluperfect Dreher post, @edroso -- quotes Wendell Berry, pimps homeschooling, has reader-comment edit on transgenderism, blames large schools, etc. All suffused w/ fear. Missing? A pic of him feeding his face. So maybe just a contender.https://t.co/EVvXykU83M
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) February 22, 2018
My prejudice: I went to a *huge* high school, where one could take four years of Russian, a million different lit classes, etc. So my enthusiasm for the kountry klassrooms of Fritters is perhaps not quite at his level.
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) February 22, 2018
Excellent point. And you could have little schools because no one was expected to know much more than readin’, writin’ and cipherin’. The reader comment he added is particularly dickish, btw.
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) February 22, 2018
Edroso is the master of Rod-haters, especially here.
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4 March update: I found this.
LOL pic.twitter.com/in77Mn2nyu
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) December 13, 2017
Look at it this way: It's a break from the endless, multi-thousand-word posts about people with the wrong takeaway about the Benedict Option.
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) December 13, 2017
I was in 10th grade when I learned that communication is a loop, and if someone misunderstands what you said/wrote, you should consider that maybe you weren't clear. Rod...takes a different approach.
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) December 13, 2017
I think it's worse. He's constantly calling for people to withdraw from modern life (schools, telecommunications, culture), then saying "of course BO is not about withdrawing from modern life, didn't you see in chapter 1 where I said it wasn't?"
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) December 13, 2017
"Form close communities of like-minded Christians! Care for one another's children! Homeschool together! I'll be inside reading, blogging and otherwise ignoring you."
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) December 13, 2017
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6 March update: What exactly is she accusing him of? A kind of sock-puppeting?
Why do all of Dreher's "reader letters" read like they were written by the same person? The voice, word choice, hand-wringing attitude, all of it. I'm not the world's most experienced editor, but I know writing styles are highly individual. These aren't. https://t.co/kaiP3QpBib
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) March 6, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
I think of Marianna and know she'd have so much to say about this.
"There was nothing left to repair" A medic writes about the Florida mass shooting. https://t.co/sSZew0VwXD
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) February 22, 2018
Monday, February 19, 2018
Dupes
Americans are dupes, according to this.
(The New Yorker, "Reading the Mueller Indictment: A Russian-American Fraud" by Evan Osnos, February 16, 2018.)
Yes they are.
Really?
Maybe they are, but so is the chattering class.
Maybe the dupes aren't regular people after all.
ICYMI on the Mueller indictment: "At the heart of the Russian fraud is an essential, embarrassing insight into American life: large numbers of Americans are ill-equipped to assess the credibility of the things they read." (by me) https://t.co/bpUWVqZoPl
— Evan Osnos (@eosnos) February 17, 2018
(The New Yorker, "Reading the Mueller Indictment: A Russian-American Fraud" by Evan Osnos, February 16, 2018.)
Yes they are.
I had classes in media literacy in high school. Alas, now here we are. https://t.co/YtYBRNHokT
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) February 19, 2018
Really?
"At the heart of the Russian fraud is an essential, embarrassing insight into American life: large numbers of Americans are ill-equipped to assess the credibility of the things they read." https://t.co/qwfMfPVvoB
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 19, 2018
Maybe they are, but so is the chattering class.
This statement is also true when applied to well educated coastal liberals. Their uncritical, almost faith based acceptance of the Russiagate narrative has revealed them to be just as suggestible and easily duped as the red state rubes they disdain. https://t.co/PcUWfd3MCw
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 18, 2018
Maybe the dupes aren't regular people after all.
One facet of elite political culture that Russiagate lays bare is the contempt our top minds have for average voters. Here is 1 of multiple suggestions that Russian ads/bots changed minds/outcome. Look up the total for Russian FB Nov election ads in MI & WI - it’s less than $1k. https://t.co/mM7Z6P95oh
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) February 19, 2018
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