January 2009
4 posts
more on baraka
A lot of readers have written in, after the long poem by Amiri Baraka, to demand to know who indeed he was talking about. So, let’s go to the tape.
Who own this city Who own the air Who own the water Who own your crib Who rob and steal and cheat and murder and make lies the truth
[[Could be anyone at this point]]
Who call you uncouth Who live in the biggest house Who do the biggest...
"eww, redesign"
I just did a Google search and it turns out the phrase “Eww, redesign” does not appear anywhere on the internet, at least not in English.* And yet who amongst us has not made his way to an old, beloved, possibly very ugly site to find it new, and glossy, and different, and thought—well, those two words, separated by a comma?
The latest victim: The World Socialist Web Site,...
russia
Sometimes people are like, Keith, what’s Russia like?
Here’s what Russia is like.
A couple of months ago a journalist for a small paper north of Moscow who’s been fighting the local administration over its desire to expand the new Moscow-Petersburg super-highway through a large chunk of forest—the Danny Goldstein of Russia, you could say—was attacked outside his...
year in review
Watching the news from Gaza, I keep wondering: What do I hate more, injustice, short-sightedness, killing… or CNN? CNN… or injustice? Because, you know, I loathe injustice. But CNN I just can’t stand. Why can’t they let someone finish a thought? Why do they have to cut to the UN? To a report in the field? To Atlanta? Are they worried people will stop watching? “Ob...
