author: Dick Hebdige

name: Steev

average rating: 3.96

book published: 1979

rating: 4

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date added: 2008/09/14

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author: Michael Caine

name: Steev

average rating: 3.94

book published: 2000

rating: 4

read at: 2008/09/01

date added: 2008/09/11

shelves: filmmaking

review:

Check out this BraveNewFilms video clearly illustrating the distortions and falsehoods that the McCain campaign is spewing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk

• 10:44 wow. nervous. my film went out on sierra club e-newsletter to LOTS of people. tinyurl.com/63snx5 #
• 11:22 awesome: womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/ #
• 14:53 i dont think i like iTunes' new 'Genius' feature. a little creepy, it is. #

Reports are out today that Homeland Security is a little overbudget on the new border fence construction and they need Congress to hand out another $400 million so they can finish what they were asked to do by the end of this year.

"If we run out of money, unfortunately the construction will have to stop," Ahern said. He said it is not known exactly how much extra it will cost to build each mile of the fence, because the costs differ due to varying terrain and environmental issues.

In the big scheme of our massive federal budget, this is chump change, and it seems likely that Congress will just reach in their pocket without thinking much about it - but in this election year maybe if enough people make a stink about it, it won't happen. Write your representative and senators today and tell them not to authorize this further insult to injury. Stop the wall!

• 16:21 capturing an interview with the Mexican Consul of Tucson. #
• 18:42 almost time to go to Pan Left meeting. #
• 20:31 feeling tired and bored. sitting in pan left meeting. #

This is hilarious stuff. Sarah Palin is such great comedy fodder...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioGC40_AWhs

author: Kurt Vonnegut

name: Steev

average rating: 4.18

book published: 1963

rating: 5

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date added: 2008/09/05

shelves: novels

review:
This is probably my favorite Vonnegut, with the possible exception of Player Piano. Ice-9 is terrifying.

author: Andrea Juno

name: Steev

average rating: 4.03

book published: 1991

rating: 4

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date added: 2008/09/05

shelves: politics

review:

I'm proud to finally post online the short version of the film I made for the Sierra Club concerning the border wall and its effects on the environment. This project started in January, finished (late) in August, and will be premiering theatrically later this month at an event here in Tucson with our local congressman Raul Grijalva.

The full version of the film is about 20 minutes long, but you won't see that one online for a little while longer. The Sierra Club local group is trying to use it to raise money for a new border job they're hiring for. They've pressed a few hundred DVDs of both versions and will be sending it around the country to Sierra Club chapters and other interested parties.

Anyway, it's a relief that this is finally done and out there, and I'm hoping it will do some good in helping to get the word out about the gigantic folly that is our increasingly militarised and draconian border infrastructure and the frightening loss of our constitutional rights as a nation.