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Here's a tale you won't find in It was the winter of 1970, probably in February. I'm not sure of the exact date. It must have been around the time that Tom Hayden and four others of the Chicago Seven were convicted of inciting a riot in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The place was Jessica Mitford's house in Berkeley, California, where a crowd of Bay Area radicals, politicos, artists, poets, journalists, professors and other high-minded riffraff had gathered. We were there to hear the latest news and to rally the troops, raise money, … [Read more...]

Once upon a time I wrote a story called … [Read more...]

Like every two-bit journalist at this time of year, I grabbed a look over my shoulder to see what was left behind. It was uglier than roadkill. The mush rush of the past 12 months turned my stomach. Here's shitty reminder. Which is where … [Read more...]

sound poet, checked out on Dec. 4 in Santa Barbara, Ca. He had a good run, though. … [Read more...]

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If this video doesn't illustrate the power of a signature, nothing does: Today, as Human Rights Day and the culmination of Q&A. … [Read more...]

"aieeeeee," sez un buen amigo, "el keith es un hombre con cojones gigantescos!" Yes, Keith Olbermann still sizzles. His latest special commentary, an here and BnnRpbi … [Read more...]

"Students for a Democratic Society, A Graphic History," a new book due out in January from Hill and Wang. "My own radical journey began with "American Splendor." He's also the subject of the Radical America. They'll be joined in a panel discusion by Jeff Jones, an environmental activist who was a former SDS officer and one of the founders of the (Crossposted at HuffPo) Since Buhle and Pekar will be, here's some of what they say in the introduction to their graphic history: Graduate Center lobby. Just walk in any time. … [Read more...]

It's an excerpt from William Osborne's 50-minute music video, trailer for the video, which gives a broader sample of the work. … [Read more...]

She's making me blush. I don't usually get admiring emails from law profs. Hi Jan -- I just wanted to introduce myself, having followed your blog with great interest.  My name is Sonia Katyal, and I am a law professor who specializes in the area of art, law and technology at Fordham Law School in NYC. Being a fan of your work, I wanted to send you an download the paper for free on SSRN.  Feel free to pass it on to interested folks via blog or otherwise, and I'd be grateful for any thoughts you might be able to pass along. I told her I read … [Read more...]

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I have no idea how many readers wrote to tell them. But I know of at least one. This was my email message to The New York Times Book Review: ("Chelsea Mornings," Oct. 28) Mr. Burroughs wrote the manuscript at the Villa Muniria in Tangier (at 1 Calle Magallanes, where Jack Kerouac typed up an early version for him) and at the Beat Hotel in Paris (at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, where Brion Gysin and others helped him prepare a later version for publication). I sent the email three Sundays ago, on the morning of the review. A few days later I received … [Read more...]

It is a delicious irony of life in New York to ride the subway during the morning rush hour with Dave Frishberg's "Quality Time" playing on your iPod Among other things, they offer an eyeful on the not small matter of prevarication, which some would submit is the issue of our time. Have a look at the portraits of Gepetto's boy. There are a handful, and they come in all sizes. Pinocchio may not resemble the current occupant of the White House. His nose is longer, for one thing. He's also made of wood, although that's a debatable difference, and … [Read more...]

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"Nelson Algren's Last Night!" Made by Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi, it's a Chicago: City on the Make(from the introduction to the 1961 edition dedicated to Joan Baez) Meanwhile, per World Can't Wait: Today a belligerent President Bush comes to the United Nations to impress upon the world that the U.S. is in the Middle East to stay, that the war on terror will be endless, and to threaten a murderous war on Iran. "That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn or be forced to accept." If you don't show your resistance, it … [Read more...]

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Paul Krugman's The Sunni Genocide, December 8, 2005. Lede: Now that Harold Pinter has given his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he has also provided us with cover to post what may be the most incredible item -- truly the hardest to believe -- we've ever put up. It's not only about genocide, which we've written about before, it's about "the coming genocide of the Sunnis in Iraq," to quote a friend of ours, which will be committed by American proxies for a U.S. regime secretly bent on mass murder. Hed: Hidden in Plain Sight, on December 20, … [Read more...]

Jay Rosen lays it out. … [Read more...]