video of the backside of the street battle in front of the Traveler’s Aid Building. Apparently, there was some contention over whether the fire was a good idea. Seems like someone may have thought, “If we are good little protestors, the cops won’t take our building away?” Gives me a lot more context for some […]
heh. this video is awesome. shows a “non-violent” protester going after an anarchist, tackling him. Later, interviewed by a reporter, the guy explains that that he had to do it in the name of his non-violent principles! hee hoooooooo. fuckin ayyy that’s hilarious. also, there’s an even better snippet of the attack of yellow helmet […]
I’ll write more on this later, but for now a placeholder. i read Beggs’ concern that smashing a bank window isn’t a threat to capitalism or even the bank itself.
I think this is a hoot in so far as, just as with the complaint that the Oakland Commune depended on capitalism so therefore couldn’t […]
i got the impression that recent debates had lbo were often being had elsewhere and spilling over to the list. dunno. how else to make sense of the repeated claim that criticisms of those insisting on demands - usually in the form of clarifying what appeared to be misrepresentations of this or that thinker or […]
I watched what I could on teevee but I had no idea it was this big. The media sure as shit is doing its best to downplay the numbers. SF Chronicle still describing it as 1000s of people in the streets. If you haven’t seen it, it’s the helicopter footage of the march as they […]
After relating a rather sketchy history of consensus-based democratic struggles, wending their way through the u.s. and beyond, from SNCC to OWS, making the point that even when there seemed to be no movement, all of it nonetheless converged, I was given this line, “Well dug, old mole,” something Marx supposedly wrote about how a […]
answering the question, “why did the u.s. invade iraq?” has always seemed simple to me. Always thought the neo-cons told everyone why.
1. when you’re the biggest bully on the block, you have to remember that everyone hates you and wants to take a swing.
2. since everyone hates you, you can’t trust anyone, not even allies. […]
Has anyone else noticed the prevalence of signs, tweets, blogs, updates that say, “the 99% is finally waking up” or “Americans have been asleep,” or “Wake up!”
I find it interesting.
A long time ago, someone at a discussion lists was calling me a sophist. Being a philistine, ha ha, I had no idea what that meant. I asked Carrol Cox at LBO. We had this really long ranging discussion, as well as a related one about why, in academia, it is probably a really bad […]
Well, that’s not entirely true. She was a douche, though a considerably chastened douche.
I’m so thrilled! Our Occupy group had an opportunity to represent on a local NPR affiliate and the two guys repping did such a great job. But what is really awesome is that the usual bunch of retrograde assholes did not fill […]
my apologies for having no updated content. i really don’t have much time for this these days. but, my fractured coccyx is still a bit of a pain, so i’m not yet back into the full schedule of biking and Mr. Rope Trainer!
So, who are you people and why the fuck is screeching bag lady […]
wah wah wah. I know. I have a lot of nerve ignoring this place only to show up after months and let off giant steaming pile of rantage! I have been laid up with a cold, off the bike and out of the gym, and thus way more time on my hands even in spite […]
stuff white people like and stuff white people do? they like the sites, stuff white people like and stuff white people do! stuff white people like and do? they like and do bitch about white people who like the sites stuff white people like and stuff white people do! ha! couldn’t resist. and so on. […]
had to throw in the towel and unsub from lbo. this one thread bugged me, though. apparently, real artists are the ones who pursue their art no matter what. if they drop out and quit, apparently they aren’t real artists.
what a load of horseshit! more on that later, i just want to post this so […]
2007-01-21 04:34:00
Oooops! I may be plagiarizing there. Whatev. I’ve been quite irked of late to read a lot of dismissals of theory and ideology, as if to say that asshattery and shitbagginess are caused by commitment to a political theory or ideology. I’m an ideologue and I am proud. Indeed, pretty much every single person […]
recently, there was a debate on lbo about some rant by sean keenan about the crazee that is the internet. he was railing at the way putting your content u p for free increasingly requires this huge investment in time because there are so many people doing it, you have to really work hard to […]
love this blog i stumbled over: Pervocracy
this was also originally published a few years ago, 2007-01-01 00:51:11
reposted for archival purposes. It’s actually a repost of something written for the Bad Subjects zine by an anonymous writer. Don’t know if it’s still online but the link to the old issue is included below.
Dedicated to RenEv, you spitfire, you. heh.
Actually, the title is, […]
I rescued my old posts on Janet Halley’s Split Decisions, archiving them here: http://cleandraws.com/category/so-very-1998/janet-halley-so-very-1998/
sorry to be behind on that project. took a spill on my bike and had to recuperate.
i did my first critical mass ride tonight and I’m unbelievably stoked. I rode 22.5 miles today, between my five mile round trip to work, and the 17.5 mile critical mass ride.
it was totally completely absolutely awesomely cool!
also, if you think, as I did, that underarmour clothing is a gimmick, it’s not. I just bought […]
Unfortunately, Kiley’s experience is pretty much what I’ve seen around here. Although I’ve never had the good fortune to visit SF, I’ve lived in far more accepting places than this place. As I said when I first started working in this area, the level of public, unabashed, unapologetic hatred expressed in my workplace used to […]
me: […] the concern about the tax burden on the middle class - I don’t get it.
At 01:34 PM 6/16/2010, Jordan Hayes wrote:
I think this is tied up in the usual US’er concept of always looking up instead of down. You get a $10k raise in your wages, you think: $10k is a LOT […]
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i have been itching to get my hands on a keyboard so I can type into an input field and gripe about a few of my least favorite things these days.
Number one is the artisanal class. These are probably what would be called yups or hipsters. They are people that make a godamned […]
good god. monday, i forgot to bring a book to work. i dropped into the bookstore and picked up Bitch magazine to read at lunch. I read about a woman who twittered her abortion and the attacks she received.
why i am surprised that jezebel readers accused her of being a baiter for the rightwing, i […]
i’m just not a writer who works from a thesis. i don’t know what i want to say when i start out. i work in pastiche or some shit. when i’m done, i don’t have any driving idea that’s guiding me. between “beginning” and “ending” there’s a whole bunch of shit in between and it […]
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