author: J.G. Ballard

name: Steev

average rating: 3.69

book published: 1973

rating: 3

read at: 2003/01/01

date added: 2008/10/23

shelves: novels

review:
Not one of Ballard's best, but still great.

At a McCain rally some racist wingnuts were handing out weird Obama "Change" bumper stickers that had the muslim crescent and star as the "C" in the word change, and a soviet hammer and sickle. Muslim republicans and even some (more) rational conservatives confronted them on it. Here's a pretty good video about it by the American News Project:

http://www.americannewsproject.com/videos/158

author: Eduardo Hughes Galeano

name: Steev

average rating: 4.35

book published: 1982

rating: 4

read at:

date added: 2008/10/20

shelves:

review:

author: Eduardo Hughes Galeano

name: Steev

average rating: 4.17

book published: 1998

rating: 3

read at: 2008/10/01

date added: 2008/10/20

shelves: politics

author: China Miéville

name: Steev

average rating: 4.04

book published: 1999

rating: 5

read at:

date added: 2008/10/20

shelves:

review:

author: Robert Latham Brown

name: Steev

average rating: 3.50

book published: 2006

rating: 3

read at: 2008/10/19

date added: 2008/10/19

shelves: filmmaking

• 10:49 just finishing reconfiguring the backyard for increased chicken grazing. #
• 11:34 noticing i have 82 gigs of music in my mp3 collection, and 82 days worth of listening. about a gig a day. hmm. #
• 13:57 exporting finished November Indymedia Newsreal. #

• 09:28 yuck. just found out Amazon (via IMDB) acquired WithoutABox in january. bleah. more monopolization. "vertical integration" is what u call it #
• 11:32 trying to get rolling #
• 12:50 labelling bike porn postcards with local show info #
• 16:47 just got back from fixing my front brake at BICAS #
• 17:02 bloggng on Tucson Weekly awarding Dry River "best anarchist collective" award: detritus.net/steev/mt/archives/001061.html #

The local rag I love to hate, the Tucson Weekly, issued a "Best of Tucson" award to Dry River, the little group that runs the infoshop down the street from me and that I'm an on-again, off-again member of. The Weekly determined that we are the "best anarchist collective" in town. Here's the entirety of their explanation:

Anarchy may have gone out of style with the passing of St. Joe Strummer, but here in Tucson, there are still a few flying the black flag. What they do is kind of a mystery. We know they take camping trips, practice consensus decision-making and, mainly, facilitate a space called Dry River. Dry River commandeered the Best of Tucson

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Brian Boyce, one of my all-time favorite collage videomakers, weighs in with this quick and dirty Palin detournment:

Palin and McCain have to be defeated. They just have to be. I think they will be, but I admit that part of that optimism is denial, because the alternative is just too much to even think about.