Saturday, July 31, 2010
FREEDOM NOT SPOKEN HERE
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Peace Prize Nominee
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Joke
once upon a time when I was teaching Philosophy at a university in the midwest...
'Oh you are just a WASP...."
he said dismissively.....
But he was wrong, I am "white", but that's it.....
Anglo-Saxon? No, Protestant? No....
Sorry, two out of three wrong does not get you a passing grade......
What I didn't Say
Monday, July 26, 2010
COMMENT ON A NEW PHOTO
Ugliness
Sunday, July 25, 2010
The Camera Lies
The Overwhelming Ugliness
Friday, July 23, 2010
The Grouch Reads
The Grouch Reads: David Harvey and Kafka
DH
I have a friend who moved from New York City to the Midwest in the seventies because rents had gone up. She thinks it was a wise decision on her part, but I wonder to what extent that decision was brought about by individuals who were not considering her interests (only their own self-interest).
That is one thought I had after reading David Harvey’s “Brief History of Neoliberalism”.
Important changes in New York city were the result of decisions by powerful individuals, not elected officials, but bankers. Those decisions made life harder for the poor and working class, and benefited only a small number of people.
K
Kafka’s world is immediately rejected by the sane as too fantastic. Yet, if one thinks seriously about the goings on in New York City—a city gone bankrupt because of the decisions of a small group of self-interested and short-sighted individuals, it seems no longer far fetched that Kafka has described our world.
But even Kafka’s world is more personal than ours; Josef K is not seduced by advertising and the culture industry.
Kafka, Der Proceß
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford UP, 2005
Saturday, July 17, 2010
neprijemne el paso
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Sing Along¡
New York
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Dear Neighbor
Music is a peaceful activity, and
Everybody loves music, right? But maybe you and me don't like
the same music. Right? It isn't so peaceful when your music becomes
my music, without giving me a choice, if you know what I mean....
I mean when I'm sitting in my room and I'm trying to read a book,
and it is not Jack and Jill went up the hill, and the door's closed
and the window's closed and then boom, boom, boom, and I can feel it.
You get the picture.
So maybe you are not maleducato like i said.
SO, let's just say "Peace". I don't hate nobody. and I am not your enemy.
Just be fair to me and I'll be fair to you. Respect.
Just one other thing: are you afraid of something? I mean you have two
pretty scary dogs in your back yard. Maybe you should get to know
your neighbors.....Your neighbors are not bad people
and they do not want to hurt you.
Just a thought.
Respect!
Your neighbor.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
in passing....
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Your Homework
Monday, July 5, 2010
get me out of here
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Stolen Land
Stolen Land
We live here with a heavy conscience.
How else to explain the military aircraft
buzzing or zooming or merely annoying overhead?
Waiting for the bus in the miserable bus station near the border,
I see a helicopter hanging in the sky, suspended in agony.
Then there is the inner colonization:
High school students at lunch time
--large even without baggy jeans--
Eat the greasy salty food produced by various multinational companies,
decorate the ground with greasy wrappers.
--What is their future in this occupied land?
Will they buy a truck and a square of dirt,
and put a fence around their lawn where two dogs stand
guard, and then play their music loud?
Or will they fight amongst themselves for access to scarce resources?
money, power, and women?
I've never had much enthusiasm for that sort of a scramble.
So, I sit alone in a room with a low ceiling,
listening to the killers’ planes flying overhead.
--I don’t think they are protecting us.