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Saturday, August 04, 2001 :::

Yes, I checked, and no, it's not a parody: first, second. Unfortunately only the google cache remains, someone was smart enough to take it off-line.

::: posted by the boot at 9:00 AM

Friday, August 03, 2001 :::

if you're on a T1, you might want to check out this purty motion graphics piece. it's 37 MB, tho.

Thursday, August 02, 2001 :::

your humorous but fact-filled anti-globalization links for the day: the Whirled Bank, the Global Arcade, and Washington Monopoly.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 3:05 PM

"got to get away from here, think i know which hemisphere
crazy me, don't think there's pain in barcelona" - rw

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 8:51 AM

Tuesday, July 31, 2001 :::

* "Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all." Tom Robbins is the best. I can't swallow poetry, but poetic prose, yes.
* desperately researching how to become an expatriate.
* at the bugging of Verde Erica and Le Roi Phoque, I got out my oboe for the first time in years tonight and hyperventilated and honked to myself for a while. I just wish I could play duduk too.
* When I logged into blogger tonight, I saw the Erotic Journals of Martha Stewart in the sidebar. Yikes.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 9:53 PM

Remember Turn Around Norman from Skinny Legs and All? Here’s a theatrical take on that: a John Wayne movie that lasts for five years.

Am getting increasingly whipped up into an anti-corporate mood these days. An anonymous activist wrote a defense of violent tactics in anti-globalization protests. She makes a good point that peaceful protests with thousands of people are routinely ignored by the media, but if one person smashes a window, they're all over the news -- yet with the reason for their protest still ignored. Anyway, this quote stood out to me: "Violence is a tricky concept. I'm not totally clear what actions are violent, and what are not. And when is a violent action considered self defense? I believe that using the word violent to describe breaking the window of a Nike store takes meaning away from the word. Nike makes shoes out of toxic chemicals in poor countries using exploitative labor practices. Then they sell the shoes for vastly inflated prices to poor black kids from the first world. In my view, this takes resources out of poor communities on both sides of the globe, increasing poverty and suffering. I think poverty and suffering could well be described as violent, or at least as creating violence." I think corporations could easily be said to be engaged in violent acts against communities and the environment when they don't pay living wages, make unsafe working conditions, and pollute the hell out of an area. It's really no wonder that people are resorting to violence to strike back. I wonder when someone will use self-defense as an excuse..."Your Honor, we had to break their windows because our children have pollution-induced asthma, our spouses can no longer work due to accidents caused by uninspected and unsafe factories, and we don't have health insurance and can barely pay rent on our wages. Violence has been committed against us all along, we don't know how else to respond anymore."

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 9:40 AM

Monday, July 30, 2001 :::

Adbusters is openly advocating that people throw paint-filled eggs and stinkbombs at Niketown locations. Ballsy, but... can't they get sued for sedition? Statements that openly encourage crimes are not supported under the First, if I remember correctly.

What will become of these tens of thousands of unemployed Bay Area folk? Will people move to LA in droves?

By the way, someone's contacted me trying to get the rights to Pinkodisc.com. Curious to see what he'd want with it.

Some interesting clips over here at CultureJam.

::: posted by kevin seal at 3:08 PM

Was going through the newspapers that piled up at work over the weekend...was greeted with this front-page headline from Sat: U.S. on edge of a recession. Great. Been thinking about layoffs lately, rereading Jim Hightower, and wondering if all these companies ship production overseas, and everyone's increasingly underemployed, who's gonna be able to afford the products that are shipped back for us to consume? I feel economically stupid or something. This is no way to live, being a wage-slave with neither time nor money left over for Real Life. Anyone else ready to snap? Feeling itchy today, can't we all go en masse and get some seasonal work overseas?

Quote of the day, on a "found CD" (if Alex can find photos on the street, I can find live Bloomington recordings of Col.K in Kevin's bathroom drawer) in which Kevin describes working at WFHB, where cockroaches waited for him and climbed up on the microphone. "They just wanted kisses!" cries Chris.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 2:57 PM