Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A Rave in the Desert

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The chance event, November 1996, 3 days in the desert, conference organized by Chris Kraus featuring Jean Baudrillard, Roseanne Alluqere Sto...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Summer Mysteries

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http://m8ball.nicksoft.info/ We were at my son's high school graduation from Brooklyn Tech yesterday when I got a text from one of my ot...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Notes on the Clinton Hill Collapse

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I got a call from a friend whose family owns a building on Myrtle Avenue between Hall and Ryerson. They are two doors down from the building...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Ideations, Iterations, and idée fixe

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Dylan: The Jungian Perspective http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=643&Itemid=40 It’s tough rock...
Monday, June 22, 2009

A Way Back

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Damn that foolish soul and all of the joy that the passage of time takes and gives. Damn that stubborn soul, and the decades spent searching...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Back ta Brooklyn: Personal Notes

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We are enjoying, savoring really, the last future perfect moments before we pickup our older daughter from JFK in a couple of hours, who is ...
Friday, June 19, 2009

IRAN NOW: The Players & 'Palace intrigue plus Twitter'

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I listened to Professor Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University on Doug Henwood's WBAI-FM show Behind the News yesterday. Dr. Dabashi had s...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

'Where is my vote': Iran

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Image from http://www.tehran24.com/ Wow, does this bring back memories of the demonstrations, widely supported in the West, that resulted in...

Roubini: 'Green shoots in the economy' but also 'yellow weeds'

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Nouriel Roubini, who was so far out front among the pack on the current economic crisis that one might think he had also invented a time mac...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Bloomsday: "Introibo ad altare Dei."

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--Berneice Abbott portrait of James Joyce Whether in Dublin or in Brooklyn, NY, June 16 remains forever and always, Bloomsday. BLOOMSDAY mar...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Summer's Coming: Red Hook Sunset, 8:01 PM

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Liberty Sunset, Red Hook, 6-14-2009
Friday, June 12, 2009

Nate the Great: Get me some politics, stat!

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A couple of weeks ago I left the office and stopped at Duane Reade on Joralemon and Court Street on the way home to pick up a few items. Who...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

BLOOM

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Photo by TN/Brooklyn Beat Unfortunately, the roses are going fast now. Early blooms followed by heavy rains and cool weather, leave lots of ...
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Monday, June 8, 2009

Stephen Colbert visits our troops in Iraq

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Stephen Colbert, in a camo suit, submitting to the discipline of a military haircut. Whatever one's political stripes, American freedom ...
Friday, June 5, 2009

David Carradine: Everyone (including Bob Dylan) is Kung Fu Fighting & Quentin Tarantino & Bob Dylan Have a Go at the Sweet Science

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UK music magazine UNCUT has some interesting nuggets from a past interview with the late actor David Carradine on Bob Dylan as The Boxer and...