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Hey, I think I’d do acid with this guy. A truly smart dude amidst a lot of jokers. Read on…
Rolling Stone : Al Gore 3.0:
Right now we are borrowing huge amounts of money from China to buy huge amounts of oil from the most unstable region of the world, and to bring it here and [...]

As a mentor (no, not a member of that gawd-awful trash metal band of the ’80s who wore executioner hoods when performing live), I work with youth to guide and support their media activism. (You can read about it in the article I wrote in Clamor Magazine called, “School of (Punk) Rock.”) I hear many [...]

Singer-songwriter Sandi Thom does an awesome job of conflating punks and hippies in here new hit, “I wish I were a punk rocker.” The central refrain goes, “I wish I were a punk rocker with flowers in my hair…” She goes on to lament being born too late to experience either movement, and decries the [...]

“The heart is bigger than the universe,” Sufi saying

What appeared first on blogdisease as fragments and in short mental spurts now has been magically concocted into a coherent, erudite essay featured in the June issue of the Brooklyn Rail. The story covers usual blogdisease themes: cultural appropriation, post-irony, fashion, punk and Aztec philosophy. I think it is one of my better pieces; read [...]

This interview with the Dalai Lama from last April in The Daily Telegraph contains some very interesting tidbits: he wears Doc Martens, collects watchbands, travels first class, has a budget of 76 cents a day…. Another fascinating detail is that the Dalai Lama has warm feelings towards George Bush and is “astonished by his grasp [...]

Casa D’Ice, a restaurant in North Versailles, Pennsylvania offers signs unlike any restaurant I’ve ever seen before. Mixing the tradition of baptist church signs and standard suburban lawn advertising, its marquee spews bite sized nuggets of Rush Limbaughesque right-wing intolerance, many of them laugh-out-loud funny in their extremeness. Although they are primarily anti-Arab (”camel jockeys”), [...]

To paraphrase a famous literary passage, let he who leaves no carbon footprint cast the first stone. As someone whose business relies solely on the consumption of electricity, I find it hypocritical to sit on my ass and complain about the state of our planet without actually doing a damn thing about my own behavior. [...]

Monday I finally hit a wall. I crashed from my adrenalin high and slept 13 hours in the confines of air conditioning and a darkened hotel room down the highway from the Bonnaroo grounds. Somehow I managed to shoot hours of footage, catch bands, chill with new friends and blog, but come the morning after [...]

I couldn’t get a good signal this morning, so here is my report kinda late. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s post: Sonic Youth and much more…
I’m very interested in biological models for media. Yesterday I came up with a new one. If you know anything about slime mold (of which I know little), basically it behaves [...]

This is probability a blog first, but I am actually posting from a portapotty. Call it a benefit of sever sinus allergies, but it’s an office away from home. Anyhoo…
The morning is bleached, the sky a foamy white, a breeze blowing out the stagnant sunlit air held down by oppressive dust. After a long night, [...]

Volkswagen is Bonnaroo’s official vehicle. Word in the tent city is that it’s also the official van of police profiling across our nation’s interstates. While VW successfully targets hipsters, it also remains an icon of drugs, rock and roll and hippie nomadism. Highway patrols across the southeast are hip to this stereotype as well, and [...]

Blogdisease watches out for you.
Out here at Bonnaroo we’re still in the midst of set up. My favorite crew is Clean Vibes. In charge of festival recycling, this awesome tribe serves as my underground escort. Through out the next three days I’ll be documenting their monumental efforts to collect and sort the reusable [...]

I’m sitting in the dark in a yet to be used press tent pirating electricity and wireless as bugs crawl across my screen. How’s that for camping? It’s a few days ahead of the opening of the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee. I’m here shooting a documentary on the greening of the festival and to also [...]

Coulter in a past life?
I cannot heap enough praise on my favorite blog, Bag Notes. Its most recent post is a popular topic, Ann Coulter, who we can’t seem to take our eyes off of, just as if we were driving past a severe car accident on the freeway. I’m surprised people don’t actually get [...]

“Every man his own football,”
John Heartfield*
This year’s World Cup match will invite opportunities for reflection on heady subjects, including globalization, nationalism and, of course, shoe advertising. I’m fairly interested and will poke in and out of the coverage as time permits. I think soccer is a great sport, and I love how it makes everyone [...]

Long Knives Night is officially the scariest movie I have ever seen. It’s political documentary as horror film offering a hallucinatory view of a modern Soviet-style dictatorship (Belarus under still current president Aleksandr Lukashenko) and the cult of violence, repression, and submission necessary to maintain it. Director Viktor Dashuk was a journalist until [...]

Just as some people are born with the freak gene that makes them punks, others are born with the geek gene that makes them, um, Star Trek fans. I’m blessed with both. Having been spawned by a visual artist and rocket engineer, my life-long affliction goes back to the days of antennas and broadcast TV. [...]

It has been said that if you think you are watching a show about a bunch of plane crash survivors, you are watching the wrong show. The show in question, of course, is Lost. The surprise breakout on ABC is most definitely not your average program, and the one thing that keeps me interested is [...]

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
Robert Anton Wilson
I stumbled upon a provocative documentary making the Internet rounds, 911 Loose Change. Admittedly, I found it [...]