brilliant! I watch what I eat! I record every morsel to show the doc in case she doesn’t believe me. I work out an hour per day. Minimum! I just gained, I shit you not, 8 lbs since Saturday. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAt the fuck. These new meds are killin’ me. Especially killing me because the medicine […]
probably shouldn’t speak so soon but so far, so good on new meds. no racing heart after upping the dose. yay. mom thinks i should do the heart monitor. bah.
Meanwhile, on the way to dinner yesterday, R and I were talking about the crazy that are republican candidates for president, which got me ranting about […]
so, i’m slower reading the reactionary mind lately because i just don’t have energy.
was diagnosed with a metabolic condition earlier this year. lately, the medication change seems to be associated with some health issues such as - love this! - 8 lb weight gains in 5 days. a gain that came on top of another […]
Reading Robin’s The Reactionary Mind, i’ve concluded i’m not much of a fan of books of “theory” that are basically just moving from page to page by quoting this author, then that one, then the other one.
ho hum.
i just don’t get what it proves. Duncan suggested that what I see as Robin’s sloppiness, the lack […]
there’s a debate on the demands working group email list that’s cracking me up.
guy posts a list of web sites with pieces about the demands working group. i think he was trying to show that there is lots of positive publicity for a Jobs For All demand and, therfore, a lot of support for the […]
lord. I guess the critiques of OWS’s lack of strategy really don’t understand what strategy means.
http://www.possible-futures.org/2012/01/03/a-movement-without-demands/
They make complaints about the no demands strategy, completely failing to get it through their thick skulls that the difference between an anarchist approach and their socialist approach is that the former refuse to cede recognition to government and […]
this is a funny bit about TINA! Huh, so he’s was being called a left of center pwog way back when too, huh?
The whole Alexander Cockburn v Hitchens thing got me to poking around and I discovered this criticism, the sort of battling among upper west side Manhattanites that meant that I pretty much disliked […]
home sick with stomach flu, catching up with email from the Demands Working Group. They’d decided upon a Jobs for All demand, gotten support from other working groups such as the Jobless Working Group. Still, for a second time, the proposal was voted down.
What I’m not grasping is why they, the Demands Working Group, doesn’t […]
run to the nearest dvd rental joint or order it from whoever carries it, it is an excellent doco: http://blackpowermixtape.com/
Apparently, a Swedish crew was in the states, documenting the Black Power movement and other events between 67-75, the film forgotten about in a cellar for 30 years.
Excellent stuff. There’s an early scene, with Stokely […]
wow. I read Dennis Perrin’s letter to Hitchens upon his death.
I’m totally impressed with Perrin’s attack on Hitchens. Of course, the rhetoric is nicely crafted so you can’t see it as an attack at all. It just seems like a nice, understanding, generous letter written by a protege to a man who…
is such a fucking […]
someone wrote me to see if I wouldn’t mend fences with TINA.
I responded and figured it was worth explaining my position.
No. I don’t see the point. Mending fences suggests that there was a former relationship between two people which can be mended.
Clearly, this isn’t the case. As TINA made clear, he has always thought I […]
since i finally recovered from my broken ass (actually, I like the typo ‘borken ass’), I have been back to doing the stuff that must be done such as keeping the heart happy with exercise and trying to keep up with the unpacking and householding. On the latter, damn. Here’s the thing, I did […]
ha. I got home tonight after a freezing cold ride, marveling at how, on the ride to work, I was sweating. Soaked. I’d gotten out the door early so I could ride over and back the bridge, just for the hell of it. Never mind that I packed on 10 lbs during the time that […]
the maudlin boo hooing about people saying mean things about hitch is pretty hilarious. sometimes, i think there are certain people who like it when other people die so they can wallow in their own self pity over the own mortality. where what they are really doing is realizing, unconsciously, what a shitty person […]
personally, I would love for folks advocating strategy to give me an outline, much as Jodi Dean did in a blog comment once. I have a hard time understanding what folks wnat to see, which is probably because of the business I’m in. We just had our big 2012 Strategy Presentation. Which, as we all […]
today, i got a promotion to “senior management” team and a shite raise. I won’t actually have any sort of title and I didn’t even think to ask, actually. It was a phone conference in which I learned this. I don’t mind talking on the phone, but I don’t know the new boss all that […]
Archiving so I don’t have to search the lob archives. It’s in response to a question asked by Corey Robin about anarchism which is copied below. I didn’t feel like cleaning up the >s so I left them, making it difficult to read. AIA.
Dear Corey,
I’m not an anarchist either, but I’m puzzled by the question. […]
slaying me. there’s this hilarious blog that has posted some of the meeting minutes from the demands working group and also appears to be one of the henny penny’s who was circulating the sky is falling email that then got forwarded to email lists and blogs
as was obvious, a lot of this is just […]
ha. I love conversations at lbo. people want to jump in to say something, regardless as to what the topic was to begin with. It’s not nearly as bad as the old politics list, where a thread with the same title once went on for over a year. The title was something about cuba, some […]
earlier I mentioned that I’m irritated with the demands working group for being filled with a bunch of sectarian marxists and others who want to see the establishment of a party and who seem to think that the point of making demands isn’t really about getting those demands, but about scaring up the bodies to […]
saw this excellent discussion of the problematic of GA, consensus, nonviolence, etc. The broader discussion is very important: the author questions the roll of GA since, after all, there are many more people associated with and participating in Occupation and its various actions than are actually at a GA. It’s a much better discussion, I […]
I have been amused, disgusted actually, at the way the mainstream media has completely demurred on the topic of how they were shut out of reporting on events at Zuccotti Park. Sick fuckers. I’m hoping Matt Taibbi takes that shit down, the way he took down down the scum a decade ago when he wrote […]
oooo. Henwood decides not to speak at Platypus debate on the death of the left. Ooooooo. Capitalism is terrified! The heroism! the bravery! the sheer strategic and tactical genius! I’m awed.
Also, sick to fucking death of reading idiotic suggestions about what OWs ought to do next.
reading up on the whole DemandsOWs thing over the […]
Our Occupy was forcibly closed this morning. The group wanted a permitted camping experience and the city extended it a few times. We met weekly with a small group from the city for status updates and to make sure we were keeping the place clean, etc. etc. Mostly it was to build good: that’s how […]
lord, I am so relieved to tune into LBO at the end of the day and see that it is just like freakin’ monday morning at work. a lot of monday morning quarterbacking. it is also very sad to see that TINA has his hands so full with work an’ all that he no longer […]
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