tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111120382008-08-17T09:04:06.977-07:00Elliothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658082165996004912noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-11427804903532881802008-08-16T21:02:00.000-07:002008-08-17T09:04:07.052-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/crme5C5m5Uk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/crme5C5m5Uk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Rogue Wave performsPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-39901559263437095252008-08-16T09:01:00.000-07:002008-08-17T09:02:12.688-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />We'll start this week with the most <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/13/bigfoot-discovery-pr.html">important story</a> in the <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/">history of importance</a>.<br /><br />In economics this week, <span style="font-style:italic;">Alternet</span> reports on why <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/94548/why_you_want_a_progressive_to_be_running_the_economy/">you want a progressive running the economy</a> and delves into <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/94985/the_great_corporate_tax_heist/">the great corporate tax heist</a>. Turns out <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/12/representation-without-ta_n_118455.html">two-thirds of US corporations haven't paid income taxes under the conservatives</a> while <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/10/MNN9126CUL.DTL&tsp=1">student aid requests soar as the economy plummets</a>.<br /><br />Two foreboding questions: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/89940/the_era_of_catastrophe_geologists_name_new_era_after_human_influence_on_the_planet/">have we entered the era of catastrophe?</a> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/95126/the_delusion_revolution%3A_we%27re_on_the_road_to_extinction_and_in_denial_/">Are we on the road to extinction?</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Buzzflash</span> asks what everyone is thinking: <a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/110">could Cheney have orchestrated the anthrax attacks?</a><br /><br />Finally this week, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Boston Globe</span> has a story on <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/08/10/the_future_of_crossing_the_street/">the future of crossing the street</a>.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-33426179475114176872008-08-11T07:10:00.000-07:002008-08-11T07:13:14.268-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.idiolexicon.com/uploaded_images/darwish-775698.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://blog.idiolexicon.com/uploaded_images/darwish-775694.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Mahmoud Darwish, one of my favorite poets, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/darwish-poet-of-the-palestinian-cause-dies-after-surgery-890307.html">passed away today.</a>Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-7904030383324585532008-08-09T20:53:00.000-07:002008-08-10T08:57:22.287-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mgwU4zCEJtY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mgwU4zCEJtY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Billy Bragg performsPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-77624700652281052232008-08-09T08:53:00.000-07:002008-08-10T08:53:34.709-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/06/suskind/">Kind of important: the White House may have ordered the CIA to forge a link between Iraq and 9/11</a>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Salon</span> reports <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/08/08/suskind/">new evidence backs it up</a>.<br /><br />This week, <span style="font-style:italic;">Alternet</span> asks: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/94146/is_your_organic_food_really_organic/">is organic food really organic?</a><br /><br />In economics, we get to <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/93729/the_heart_of_the_economic_mess/">the heart of the economic mess</a>: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/democracy/94046/how_washington%27s_right-wing_wrecking_crew_robbed_us_blind/">the right-wing wrecking crew robbed us blind</a>. But, Thomas Frank says <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080818/frank2">misgovernment was no accident</a>, and <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/obstruction">they continue to obstruct any efforts to the contrary</a>. <br /><br />In sad environmental news, we have a report on <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/93728/the_death_march_of_the_penguins/">the death march of the penguins</a>, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/opinion/06friedman.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin">the collapsing of Greenland's glaciers</a>.<br /><br />Finally this week, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Atlantic Monthly</span> wonders: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google">is Google making us stupid?</a>Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-45098290199033784022008-08-07T15:05:00.000-07:002008-08-07T15:26:46.181-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.idiolexicon.com/uploaded_images/517XA7NTw2L._SL500_AA240_-726586.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://blog.idiolexicon.com/uploaded_images/517XA7NTw2L._SL500_AA240_-726583.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932195467/idiolexicon-20/ref=nosim/"><span style="font-style:italic;">Do The Math</span></a> - Poems by Emily Galvin<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Do The Math</span> is a book of presence, of the separation between the body and the self in any given moment, in any unit of time. A book that sets limits and seeks differentials within it. In her work, Galvin plays wonderfully with the absurdity inherent in poetry, in the assuming of persona and the stagecraft of lyric and language.<br /><br />Wittgenstein said, to paraphrase, that the limits of our language are the limits of our reality. In her work, Galvin builds tiny universes of intricately stacked language, set between two points of set time, and allows them to play out. As the work increases, the mathematical and linguistic limits begin to be reached, but simultaneously unravel. <br /><br />I don't know enough theater to say if Galvin borrows from Beckett, Brecht or Artaud, but I know enough poetics to speculate on the influence of Stein's architecture and Creeley's breath construction to her work. Galvin plays with communication, challenging our assumption of the line and the units of words as we turn every break. Grammar begins to separate from context, and voices begin to speak past each other, moving into new and parallel worlds of language. <br /><br />Language within <span style="font-style:italic;">Do The Math</span> builds on itself while dividing at the same time, a wonderful game of language and math, a string theory verse, each unit spinning off and colliding and creating. A great read.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-89940598993637803142008-08-05T21:47:00.001-07:002008-08-05T21:47:28.680-07:00<b>Brian Teare and Mike Young</b><br /><b><a href="http://www.idiolexicon.com/ips/07.html">Idiolexicon Poetry Series #7</a></b><br />August 11, 2008<br /><a href="http://www.caferoyale-sf.com/" target="_blank">Cafe Royale</a>, 800 Post St, San Francisco<br />7 PM<br />Free<br /><br /><a href="http://graphics.idiolexicon.com/ips/teare.jpg"><img src="http://graphics.idiolexicon.com/ips/teare_small.jpg" width=333 height=500 border=0></a><br />The recipient of Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships, <b>Brian Teare</b> is the author of the award-winning debut <i>The Room Where I Was Born</i> and the chapbooks <i>Pilgrim</i> and <i>Transcendental Grammar Crown</i>. Two new books are forthcoming: <i>Sight Map</i> (University of California, 2009) and <i>Pleasure</i> (Ahsahta, 2010). He lives and teaches in San Francisco.<br /><br /><img src="http://graphics.idiolexicon.com/ips/young.jpg" width=165 height=218><br /><b>Mike Young</b> co-edits <i>NO&#214; Journal</i> and <i>Magic Helicopter Press</i>. Work appears or will in <i>Coconut</i>, <i>MiPOesias</i>, <i>Saltgrass</i>, <i>Juked</i>, <i>elimae</i>, <i>NO COLONY</i> and more. His chapbook <i>MC Oroville's Answering Machine</i> is forthcoming from Transmission Press.Elliothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658082165996004912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-64966220743972673602008-08-02T10:12:00.000-07:002008-08-02T10:13:06.941-07:00<a href="http://www.poetsandartists.com/"><span style="font-style:italic;">Oranges and Sardines</span>'</a> Fall 2008 issue is out, featuring poetry by none other than me! <br /><br />Download a free copy of the issue - and then purchase several dozen print copies and leave them around your city and town with my pages dog-eared. Deal? Deal.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-10713411330291155112008-08-02T10:06:00.001-07:002008-08-02T10:06:28.090-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2196198/">Know your poet laureate</a>! (My third favorite game show!)<br /><br />Also: <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/23/a-solar-power-plant-in-the-sahara-could-power-all-of-europe/">woah!</a><br /><br />In economics this week, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/339763/americans_government_and_the_american_dream">Americans, Government and American Government</a>, as reported by <span style="font-style:italic;">The Nation</span>. <span style="font-style:italic;">Alternet</span> says <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/92910/in_a_perfect_storm_of_economic_stagflation%2C_the_yachting_set_says%3A_%22let_them_eat_pizza%22/">stagflation is alive and well in America</a>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Our Future</span> reports on <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/makingsense/alert/unaffordable-economic-costs-iraq">the unaffordable economic costs of Iraq</a>. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/93241/steven_greenhouse%3A_why_we%27re_working_more_and_earning_less/">We're working more and earning less</a>, and it's hard to change that when <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/roots-obstruction">The GOP and Bush have run an organized campaign of obstructionism</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080804/de_la_vega">America faces water emergencies</a>, but <span style="font-style:italic;">Scientific American</span> reports it's all part of <a href="http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=water">a worldwide freshwater crisis</a>.<br /><br />Finally this week, <span style="font-style:italic;">Slate</span> has an <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2195892/">interactive Bush illegal activity chart!</a>.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-5561160077002117092008-07-26T09:09:00.000-07:002008-07-27T09:18:44.599-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l-xQ8EwmTLo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l-xQ8EwmTLo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Silversun Pickups performPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-19199557781483339372008-07-26T09:08:00.000-07:002008-07-27T09:09:09.527-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />This week: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080804/henry">Attack of the pirate bankers!</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/water/92435/america%27s_got_water_problems%2C_and_no_plan_to_fix_them/">American has water problems - and no plan to fix them</a>.<br /><br />In economics this week: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/92286/?ses=278498c96f7941f2d8599df940d8c995">A nightmare on Wall Street</a>. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-lotke20-2008jul20,0,1958019.story">E.Coli Conservatives are shrinking government to death</a> - <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/92426/the_u.s._economy_is_socialism_for_the_rich/">our economy has become socialism for the rich</a>. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/92431/america%27s_middle_class_can%27t_take_much_more_punishment/">America's middle class can't take much more punishment</a>; <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/92658/how_wall_street_wrecked_your_retirement/">Wall Street has already wrecked our retirements</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=will_congress_rebuff_the_supreme_courts_anti_consumer_activism">Can Congress fight the Supreme Court's anti-consumer ideology?</a><br /><br />Finally, and most importantly this week, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24070088-13762,00.html"><br />Aliens!</a>Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-68363940240950294092008-07-24T15:47:00.000-07:002008-07-24T16:14:09.038-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.idiolexicon.com/uploaded_images/41T9geSbQrL._SL500_AA240_-740037.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://blog.idiolexicon.com/uploaded_images/41T9geSbQrL._SL500_AA240_-740034.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300134312/idiolexicon-20/ref=nosim/"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Earth in the Attic</span></a> - Poems by Fady Joudah<br /><br /><br />We (and by "we" I mean "me") love the saying "All poetry is political," but for Joudah, a Palestinian-American and a member of Doctors Without Borders, that notion pervades his manuscript as an ocean keeping the many boats of verse afloat. This is not to categorize Joudah's work as strictly political or bland rhetoric, but rather to suggest that for some, their lives and inseparable from their artistic self, their being always a part of their object.<br /><br />From the first stanza, the depth of Joudah's experience hits us as a sudden rain storm, and we are some of us ill-dressed. Joudah strings the image of wheat reaching into the sky with a helicopter crashing to Earth. In his poetry, Joudah combines the best of western Modernism (H.D.'s Imagism, Eliot's scope and Zukofsky's lyric) with the great Arabic tradition of Darwish and Youssef.<br /><br />Joudah's poetry is powerful for its scope, but builds that scope with a small and focused lens - a landscape photo built of a thousand polaroids. He captures those smaller moments - people in markets, camel traders, day laborers, a boy gathering water in a bucket. The everyday tragedy of a people suffering in the oppressive throes of the last great colonial war then paired with a western eye. It is startling how Joudah switches between the two, blends them so skillfully. He tells a parable of ants leaving their shelters after the earth has been bombed with rain, before painting a portrait of a child whose skin is "like spandex on the bone" and whose father has been killed. Amazingly, the facts of that death are unimportant in a scenescape where hunger, rape and violent deaths are a constant hum, a dust that seems ever present on the skin.<br /><br />Joudah's poetry is a poetry of people, but a poetry from a physician's eye. The people in his work becoming more alive somehow when viewed with his diagnostic, unemotional eye. A bus-load of dead children, a girl dying of malnutrition, and Joudah's own father passing through an airport. The objects stand for themselves within his poetic gaze. Joudah's line follows this, recalls Creeley and Oppen as a bass stutter that flows one line into the next as a back beat, a wave ebbing and flowing on his ocean elevating the boats of verse. <br /><br />His poems are drawn from life, organic you might say, from sand and pain and blood. Unfiltered in an affected journalism, there are moments when we flinch, moments we turn away from the image, from the reality in the verse. Morning coffee is finished before a pig is bled to death. The goats, we learn, are later bled in a different fashion.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-47541766613490064332008-07-19T19:23:00.000-07:002008-07-20T07:25:21.031-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jZQbsBam01U&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jZQbsBam01U&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Great Lake Swimmers performPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-91522829618266625902008-07-19T07:23:00.000-07:002008-07-20T07:23:30.915-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />Congratulations America! <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10361/">the "terror watch list" topped one million Americans</a> this week!<br /><br /><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Wholesale_prices_soar_in_June_sales_0715.html">in economics</a> this week, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aw6lIs2RpX84&refer=us">oil brings America closer to OPEC debtor dependence</a>, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/336722">taxpayers are being stuck with Wall Street's mistakes</a>, and <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/17/MN8Q11OT2M.DTL&tsp=1">the national debt is $455,000 per household</a>. This is <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080710_the_death_of_reaganomics/">the death of Reaganomics</a>. And George W. Bush <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/91656/?ses=3ec3773fb31038139854fb04e6d5de79">is OK with that</a> (everything but the Reagonomics part). <br /><br />And speaking of our flagship Republican economy, <a href="http://consumerist.com/tag/heath-insurance/?i=5024973&t=charity-founded-to-help-people-in-remote-areas-obtain-basic-medical-care-sets-up-shop-in-the-united-states">a charity founded to help people in remote areas get basic medical care has set up shop in the good ol' US of A</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The Nation</span> reports on <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/lookout">Disaster Capitalism and our stretched resources</a>.<br /><br />Finally, <span style="font-style:italic;">Salon<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span> says <a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2008/07/17/budweiser/">good bye Budweiser</a>.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-61899512762783199592008-07-13T12:01:00.001-07:002008-07-13T12:01:45.894-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />One day late this week - there was a minor accident involving red wine, poor sidewalk conditions, and my ankle, knee and back. <br /><br />This week we star with <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/6/222829/1805/642/547515">the end of the Reagan era</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">In These Times</span> talks about <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3786/">the coming fight over food</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The American Prospect</span> suggests <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=how_the_left_can_avoid_a_new_education_war">how the left can avoid a war over liberal education reform</a>.<br /><br />In economics this week, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/90683/?ses=3a16f5ef59ba1dff94cc47efaccf782c">is the GOP cooking the books until after election day?</a>. There's <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/485f2158-4849-11dd-a851-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1">a record drop in private sector jobs</a>, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2008-07-10-foreclosures_N.htm">forclosures up 53%</a> and <a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/90761/?ses=1924d51a96a2b3e8ef13429577a2f056">billionaires are gouging are grandparents</a>.<br /><br />Finally this week, a blog post over <a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2008/07/column_if_only_drivers_shared_the_road_cyclists_would_be_safer.html">cycling</a> that spurred an angry debate over cycling in cities. See if you can find my comment! One poster suggested bicycles should be illegal, as roads were made only for cars. I wanted to remind him that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_American_Wheelmen">the League of American Wheelmen</a>, the U.S.'s first bicycle advocacy group, was largely responsible for us having paved roads at all.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-86578372992922633882008-07-05T08:40:00.001-07:002008-07-05T08:40:31.380-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />In honor of Independence Day, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/kvh">we need to fix voting - the lifeblood of democracy</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The New York Times</span> reports this week on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/world/middleeast/03kurdistan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin">Hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars, thousands of lives, and our national infrastructure crumbling, all to subsidize the profiteering of the Bush/Cheney oil swindlers</a>. <span style="font-style:italic;">Alternet</span> revisits <a href="http://www.alternet.org/election08/89686/">the 10 most awesomely-bad moments of the Bush presidency</a>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Common Dreams</span> reminds us that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/30/9992/">Iran-Contra's lost chapter helped sow the seeds of today</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/democracy/90161/?ses=ef0cd0614c35d26a9c6f8e417ef21393">Just how stupid are we?</a><br /><br />In economics this week - <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aH0_cYGS8Avc&refer=home">the dollar has dropped 41% under George Bush and conservative government</a>; <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/89837/?ses=947bcd656199ae5d3b1fe630e8b03c64">the mortgage meltdown stole some of black America's hard won wealth</a>; <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3756/">and hard times are hitting for student borrowers</a>. Greater globalization requires <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070101562.html">a greater safety net</a>.<br /><br />Lastly, and most importantly this week, <a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2008/06/30/coffee/">coffee!</a>Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-22440507085218741782008-07-04T10:49:00.001-07:002008-07-04T10:49:26.198-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jF2iX2VG6e4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jF2iX2VG6e4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Happy Independence Day!Elliothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658082165996004912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-18706196882071868342008-06-28T09:38:00.002-07:002008-06-28T09:40:09.894-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/467_K60sy54&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/467_K60sy54&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Stephen Malkmus and David Berman performPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-66145461034595648232008-06-28T09:38:00.001-07:002008-06-28T09:38:29.436-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />This week, <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/25/noise_pollution/">noise pollution is making us sick</a>.<br /><br />We need <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_trade_debate_we_need">a new trade debate</a>, a policy that <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/makingsense2008">works for Main Street, not Wall Street</a>. Something along the lines of <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/safe-toys-edible-food-smart-globalization">safe toys, edible food and smart globalization</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/89121/">The American workplace is stuck in the 50's</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/89104/">Just where DO our health care dollars go?</a> <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11277.html">Just where DO our defense dollars go?</a> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/89432/?ses=dbb87a60a85c6d51174a77957c6f59c1">Just where DO our Iraqi Occupation dollars go?</a><br /><br />Lastly, and most importantly this week, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2192211/">how smart is an octopus?</a>Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-83771872271454582772008-06-25T22:24:00.000-07:002008-06-25T22:26:46.550-07:00<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="432" height="285" id="VE_Player" align="middle"><param name="movie" value="http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf"><PARAM NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/BenjaminZander_2008_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noscale"><param name="wmode" value="window"><embed src="http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf" FlashVars="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/BenjaminZander_2008_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale" wmode="window" width="432" height="285" name="VE_Player" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Elliothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658082165996004912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-89291530776449592482008-06-22T16:35:00.001-07:002008-06-22T16:40:26.648-07:00...and in Boston of all places! <br /><br />Come to <a href="http://brooklinebooksmith.com/Events/MainEvent.html">the Brookline Booksmith</a> tomorrow in Coolidge Corner at 7pm for a literary event featuring Idiolexicon's own Patrick Duggan reading with Myfanwy Collins and Gabe Durham. <br /><br />The reading is being hosted by <span style="font-style:italic;">Noö Journal</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Quick Fiction</span>. I can honestly say, without any hesitation, this reading will be epic on the scale of the Iron Maiden show I was at Friday.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-54893862734356270232008-06-21T16:31:00.000-07:002008-06-22T16:33:25.828-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9AUuecK-GTo&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9AUuecK-GTo&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />The Legendary Shack Shakers performPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-64633337409906793062008-06-21T16:30:00.000-07:002008-06-22T16:30:54.795-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />We start this week, unfortunately, with <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/18/0114/76374/375/537620">clear evidence of the U.S. committing war crimes</a>. This was reinforced <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41514.html">by our own generals</a>. This begs the question: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/87625/?ses=fecde24ef696291f92e32a474018de45">why are corporate journalists so afraid of questioning authority?</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">ABC News</span> reports that <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCall/wireStory?id=5179843">a healthy life may literally change your genes</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The Nation</span> delves into the <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/klare">anatomy of an oil price surge</a>. the <span style="font-style:italic;">New York Times</span> reports that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">oil giants return to Iraq</a> (Editor's note: I wonder who's troops will have to stay there to protect them?)<br /><br />Now, I'm not saying "class war" but <span style="font-style:italic;">The Washington Post</span> reports <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061600544_pf.html">CEO pay rose last year</a> in the wake of an economic downturn, housing crises, rising food prises, record unemployment, the weakened dollar and decreasing workers wages....ahem. <span style="font-style:italic;">Our Future</span> says <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/new-us-strategy-global-economy">we need a new strategy in the global economy</a> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Alternet</span> reports on how <a href="http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/88486/?ses=9ad39383ccd4d73128ee1a46612bd31b">shaky economic times are even shakier for women</a>.<br /><br />Finally this week, in Dinosaur! news, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080617-utah-dinosaurs.html">a treasure trove in Utah</a>.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-31322055874006698722008-06-14T06:03:00.001-07:002008-06-16T06:05:10.369-07:00<embed class='castfire_player' id='cf_1ce3b' name='cf_1ce3b' width='480' height='400' src='http://p.castfire.com/Xu7m0/video/14431/bbtv_2008-06-10-050504.flv' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowFullScreen='true'></embed><br /><br />David Byrne plays a buildingPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11112038.post-87212245234473858632008-06-14T06:03:00.000-07:002008-06-16T06:03:40.518-07:00The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:<br /><br />Something political this week. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/87318/">John McCain's healthcare plan: don't get sick</a>.<br /><br />This week in economic news, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Nation</span> reports on how <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/327366">the rising gap between rich and poor threatens our common interest</a>, and says <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/ehrenreich">this land is their land</a>. <span style="font-style:italic;">The American Prospect</span> says <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=how_big_government_got_its_groove_back">our modern economy NEEDS an expanded role for government</a>, and the <span style="font-style:italic;">Financial Times of London</span> wonders: <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/807c8a64-355a-11dd-998d-0000779fd2ac.html">can we reduce risk in our financial systems?</a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Alternet</span> looks into <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/87474/">why oil prices are so high</a> and details how <a href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/87405/">American workers face diminishing returns</a>.<br /><br />We should ask: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/scheer">empire or republic?</a> <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/13/conservatism/">conservatism or authoritarianism?</a><br /><br />In food and water news, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/water/87234/">water supplies will lead to real food shortages</a>, and a <a href="http://www.alternet.org/water/87182/">small town overthrows a giant corporation to take back its water supply</a>. <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a40447d0-37d8-11dd-aabb-0000779fd2ac.html">Bickering will never feed the world</a>, and everyone needs to check out <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/food_crisis.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">National Geographic</span>'s eight-part series on the global food crisis</a>.<br /><br />Finally this week, <a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/06/06/dead-zones-grow-in-the-gulf-of-mexico.html?s_cid=et-0609">marine dead zones are growing</a>.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03870010621800459294noreply@blogger.com