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Reading Room
A Belated Review Of Anita Hill’s Autobiography -
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Occupy The Rust Belt: Notes From The Pittsburgh Protest -
Star Spangled Bummer
Mitt Romney’s American Wasteland Tour -
The Way We Were
Hippies Fight Back During People’s Park Uprising
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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Leonard Nimoy: Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
The guy who posted this video on YouTube had some harsh words: “Perhaps the lowest moment in Leonard Nimoy’s life. One of the worst songs I’ve heard.. and seen.” I feel like he and I must not be watching the same video.
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Bedrooms of the Fallen: The Aftermath of War, In Pictures
War has always interested me. As a kid, it was for the obvious reasons ‚Äî I wanted to run around with a toy gun and pretend to be involved in a dangerous world of good versus evil. But of course back then I had no understanding of the difference between fact and fiction. That‚Äôs because in the action/adventure cartoons…
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In The Land Of Believers
The Hopeless Sermons Of Pastor Steven L. Anderson
“We got a bunch of leaders who don’t stand up and piss against the wall like a man.” -Steven L. Anderson
After spending five years in a Catholic school, hellfire sermons are old hat. In fact, I used to be able to gauge the skill level of the priest at the pulpit by how quickly I fell…
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Talking with Nicholas Gazin about truth and conflict
Back in early March, I stumbled across the work of Nicholas Gazin entirely by accident. I had just read an essay he wrote for Vice magazine titled “Disney Isn’t Punk, But He’s Punk Enough For Me.” Here Gazin proclaimed the late Walt Disney to be “America‚Äôs most important and best artist,” a…
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Clutchy Hopkins: Verbal Headlock
The video for Clutchy Hopkins’ new album The Storyteller (Ubiquity Records) was directed by Christian Borstlap, an alum of cpluv.com’s Let’s Talk series. Take a listen, and keep your eyes open.
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Gang Starr’s Guru Dies After Prolonged Battle With Cancer
After a prolonged battle with cancer, Gang Starr emcee Guru died yesterday at age 43. I wrote a short piece over at True/Slant about his passing. Rest in peace.
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Things That Were in My Pockets Two Years Ago
For some reason, I have a picture from two years ago displaying the contents of my pockets. It was tucked away in a random folder on my laptop. The photo is from July 8, 2008. I’m certain I took this photo with some specific purpose in mind. However, that purpose is unclear to me at this time. In the…
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Adventures In Modern Music
Isao Tomita’s ‘Firebird Suite’
Isao Tomita is a pioneer in the field of experimental electronic music. In the 1960s, he was an early adopter of synthesizers (specifically the Moog III) after being inspired by the work of composer/electronic musician Wendy Carlos. This past Saturday, I stumbled across a copy of Tomita’s Firebird Suite (1975) on vinyl and had to pick it up. Included below…
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Battle for Asgard: Comic Book Advertisements in 1976
Before I even knew how to read, comic books fascinated me. When I was still very young, probably three or four years old, my sister’s best friend gave me a stack of old Daredevil and Captain America comics from the early 1970s. I used to pore over the art and try to understand what the hell was going on…
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Interview Room
Boogie on the Life and Death of the American Dream
For nearly 20 years, Serbian-born photographer Boogie has documented the lives of people marginalized by society, and those living on the fringe. He has photographed gang members and drug addicts in Brooklyn’s housing projects; neo-Nazi skinheads in Serbia; and transsexual prostitutes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, gaining unfettered access into worlds where outsiders are normally greeted with violence, suspicion, or a…
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The Great Southern Fried Cavalcade (Redux)
Corbin, KY + Knoxville, TN ‚Äî With Colonel Harland Sanders‚Äô Cafe and Museum set plainly in our sights, we set out mid-morning to check out the scene in Corbin, KY. We found these two gentleman (pictured above) eating ice cream cones and defending the local flea mart. Michelle asked if she could snap their picture for…
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Personal Essays
Notes From the Kitchen of the Holiday Inn
For the last several months, I’ve been reading through a clutter of essays and story ideas that I’ve left for dead. Some were abandoned for good reasons. Other pieces, however, just never got my full attention (and probably never will). The other day I found this (read after the jump). It was part of an essay I was writing…
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The Life and Times of Storm Thorgerson
Since the late 1960s to the present, Storm Thorgerson has designed, photographed, art directed, and filmed a mountain of creative work. Some might call it a legacy. Of all he has done, album covers have been a staple throughout. The most famous of his covers, The Dark Side of the Moon for Pink Floyd, was done while Thorgerson was…
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When Basketball (Was) My Favorite Sport
On March 28, 1990, Michael Jordan scored 69 points against the Cleveland Cavaliers. It would end up being a career high for the number of points he scored in a single game. I was sitting in the seats at Richfield Coliseum that night with my parents. I was thirteen years old and obsessed with basketball.
