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The A.V. Club

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:42:00 -0700

If AV Club is doing an interview with the author, creator, participator of a film, show or album it usually gets a high(er) grade (than AV Club's average, which is comparable to Pitchfork). Not *the* rule, but often enough. Verify? I won't, observe it for yourself.

I live without cash - and I manage just fine | Mark Boyle | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:29:35 -0700

'Be the change you want to see in the world.'

This is the change Mark wants to see in the world.

Imagine: What if all upper middle-class white people with business degrees decided to leave it all behind? You know, one day they just pack-up and leave. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Taking with themselves their solar powered laptops and smug self-righteous complacency, they scoot away. How great that would be, right?

Imagine a world big enough to give them what they want. Such a world where they can all nestle themselves at their God given parcels they have secured at friendly farms run by peripheral characters of no importance and value. Imagine all these farms to be quite within the reach and dependence of the supply chain and establishment but not close enough to make them feel bad about themselves, just close enough for them to lend their voices as they can prove once again that all upper-class white male from the developed world and privileged backgrounds with no dependents can say 'No' to it all? Just like that... All because of some Yoda-like 'little chap in loincloth' said something along those lines.

Can you imagine such a world? Can you imagine the degrees of separation these people can conjure up to distance themselves mentally from the 'other' world? Can you imagine the titles they can bestow themselves? Like pro-activist...Social Homeopath...And invent a pretext, a temporary one even, like, 'investigating the root cause of the problems of today's society'...Wouldn't that also give you ample space to go back to civilization once your solar panel gets broken, your laptop fucks up, and you need to have a surgery that can't be done with a dollar store sewing kit? Can you imagine these people in the Barnes&Nobles of the country, answering questions about their years out in the wild? You can, right? You can.

Doesn't this all sound just like it has been thought about and philosophized upon by two such men on a lazy afternoon over drinks? It does, right? It does.

Can you be that change you want to see in your world? If your world is small enough, you can. And if this is -your- world, why not? If you think your desires have nothing to do with who you are and have been, then go ahead. This goes out for all Marks of the world: You have nothing to lose but your acquired sense of individualism.

Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:43:16 -0700

Making this into a case of Chinese Malfeasance or idiosyncrasy would be misinformation bordering on disinformation.

The hand does what the mind orders it to do, and there's no discrepancy between the fundamental approaches of China and the rest of the world regarding the relationship between The Productivity and The Progress. The environmental sensibility is reduced to a palliative cost-benefit policy, which, in this respect was a simple corollary of what 'needs to be done when it -must- be done'. Considering 'the benefits and interests involved, the cost was inevitable, and the solution was putting the lid on top of 'it'. For the 'productive' and 'affluent' world that lid meant China, and where ''The Hush'', could be disassociated with and from the ideologically 'right' (liberal capitalism), to ideologically 'wrong' (state capitalism).

Now, which 'Hush' does matter the most; the one that forces the truth to remain silent, or, the one that talks so much bullshit that you can not tell the truth from the rest? And what if both work for the same purpose? Then what?

Колыбельные Мира. Азербайджанская. CORRECTED

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:25:33 -0700

Crushes my soul for some reason.

In Which These Are The 100 Greatest Writers Of All&Time - Today - This Recording

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:27:07 -0700

Creative writing majors should find something other than making vh1 top 100 lists.

Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:25:46 -0700

And?

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:02:14 -0700

Armenian Duduk on Yanni Live! The Concert Event

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:48:44 -0700

Just because it has Yanni in it somewhere it does not have to be shitty. And it is not.

The Impossibility of War

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:55:14 -0700

I think this dates 1900-something. How accurate in its predictions and such a wonder that none of these mattered; it happened despite all, everyone jumped in on it, not once, but twice. ''Ominous'' rise of the revolution, where are you?

StumbleUpon.com: Personalized Recommendations to Help You Discover the Best of the Web

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:47:08 -0700

I'll get used to this one as well. One demand: please don't make use insert breaks and other html shit like that so that we have decent looking paragraphs. I don't need to do it on friendfeed or facebook, why do I need to insert breaks here to separate my paragraphs?

Please.

Please. (just checking)

Alright it didn't work.

I'll just make this into a poem

Do not force us to typeset basic word processing.

Why should I even bother to insert *br*?

I shouldn't.

I don't want to.

It sucks.

Seriously.

Stop me.