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I’ve been increasingly impressed by Al Gore’s love child, Current TV, though I only capture glimpses of it here and there on other people’s TV sets or on its Web site. I’m excited by news of a collaboration they have with Burning Man to document the events on the Playa all week as the crazed [...]

Admittedly, I really resisted commenting on today’s anniversary, because I find it palatably painful to regurgitate the disgust I feel in my gut. A year ago I watched in astonishment Armageddon unfold live on television, and I cried, as the gods do, over the folly of humans. I remain amazed by level of denial and [...]

Forgive me if I’m a little biased, but the best show this Fall is opening next week in Chelsea by none other than my fabulous sister, Nicola Lopez. You can catch the opening for her most recent work, “OverGrowth,” on Thursday, Sept. 7 at Caren Golden Fine Art (and if you run to MOMA you [...]

Hello All,
You are invited to:

Hidden Acts : Balancing Truths
an installation by
Rachel J. Siegel
Artist’s Reception
Thursday September 7, 4-6 pm
on view
August 21- September15, 2006
Building Hours: Monday-Friday 7am - 6pm
Portland Building Lobby
1120 SW 5th Avenue
Portland, OR

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Now it’s your turn. Try it, it’s fun!
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With kids, I’ve had some difficulty communicating my aesthetic sensibilities, partly because I’m still trying to makes sense of them. Many of the youth I work with call themselves punks; it still freaks me out to that they were born after my punk rock zine days. I don’t feel that old, really. One day a [...]

UPDATE: Speaking of pranks, this just in from the fun loving tricksters, The Yes Men:
FRAUDSTERS DUPE NAGIN, BLANCO, EXECUTIVES, CNN; GROSSLY MISREPRESENT HUD, DoE, WAL-MART, EXXON POSITIONS; SPAWN FALSE HOPES AMONG BLACKS
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Pranking is seen as a kind of intervention designed to disrupt the daily mind-numbing doldrums of reality; a kind of poetic insurgency [...]

This morning I tuned into NPR streaming the Prez, something I rarely do out of psychic protection from unnecessary anger. Generally I’m not one to make sweeping philosophical generalizations (liar!), but I didn’t want to let this one slip by. When Bush called the war in the Middle East the “Freedom Agenda,” it reminded me [...]

I got too behind to post this when it was fresh, but better late than never. Pay close attention to the soundtrack.
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“Pirates” isn’t just a Disney copyright. Sweden’s Pirate Party is spreading like a virus. It advocates some basic principles of libertarian intellectual property concepts with the hope of doing for culture what environmentalists do for ecology. Vandana Shiva, the wonderful Indian activist who fights for farmer rights against GMOs, has said that since the land [...]

Al Franken strikes back.

Tommy Chong has written a book of wisdom called The I Chong. In this insightful interview by LA CutyBeat’s Dean Kuipers, he talks about prison, karma and meditation.
Here’s a snip:
AlterNet: DrugReporter: The Spirit of Tommy Chong:
KUIPERS: And those are meditative?
CHONG: Well, I’m into meditation. Actually, Cheech turned me on to meditation. When I first met [...]

LSD, wide-angle lenses and boredom: mix and stir (1984)
What follows is an essay in progress that is in a way a commencement speech for a brave school that would have me speak there (the last school I spoke at I gave an antiwar rant that almost started a riot). As many of [...]

Me before half the world was born (1982, I think)
Today is my 40th roundtrip around the sun, but the celebration started yesterday with a concert featuring Sonic Youth and Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Brooklyn. So far so good.
At first I was convinced that the universe had been turned upside down; how in the hell [...]

I’m not going to say that I agree with every single statement by activist George Galloway (I’m an advocate of nonviolence), but he deconstructs live during his TV interview the tactics of the newscast to frame his view. It is a brilliant engagement and something you will never see in the US media. It’s also [...]

I was browsing Crooks and Liars, which has one of those sidebar Amazon banner ads and the books listed included two about Aztec philosophy and religion and the other two were William Gibson novels. This is too weird. How did the ad read my mind?
What happens when you go to Crooks and Liars?

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You’ll get over your empire. It swept across the globe in a westward direction. It always ends up: These people take over the world, cause a lot of junk, don’t know what to do, fall into decline, and then get into parties and fashion and pop music and so forth. That’s what America’s [...]

More foder reconfirming our notion that arguments for war remain the province of insane people.
Alexander Cockburn has long been The Nation Magazine’s resident curmudgeon, but usually he’s spot on. I thought this latest dispatch on Lebanon is prescient, and I was thrilled that he referenced my all-time favorite sociologist, C. Wright Mills, who is [...]

And you thought “Holiday in Cambodia” was a funny song…
Independent Online Edition Club Gulag: tourists are offered prison camp experience:
The Mayor of what used to be one of the most infamous outposts of Josef Stalin’s Gulag wants to charge masochistic foreign tourists £80 a day to “holiday” in an elaborate mock-up of a Soviet [...]

I usually don’t give a crap about this kind of stuff, but watching Britney Spears trip out and postulate about time travel is worth more than any CD she ever released. Watch it before it gets taken down. Really.

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