When I hear someone say that the Occupy Movement didn’t accomplish anything, or amount to anything, I find it incredibly annoying and dismissive. But even worse, I find it ill-informed and/or willfully ignorant. Occupy played a useful role in creating the political environment we are in now, where minimum wage and other anti-poverty struggles are […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 5 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie, encouraging us all to read. This is the fifth in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For full background on this series of posts, see Part One. “Five Years” – […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 4 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie, reading again. This is the fourth in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For full background on this series of posts, see Part One. “Slow Burn” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6MDhtBEmCs The third […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 3 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
This is the third in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For full background on this series of posts, see Part One. “Law (Earthlings on Fire)” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddn-5uKH6MU Folks who know me […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 2 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie, reading. This is the second in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For background on this series, please see Part One. “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” – https://www.vevo.com/watch/david-bowie/the-stars-%28are-out-tonight%29/USRV31300002 The gorgeously […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 1 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie as Nikola Tesla in the movie “The Prestige” I grew up in the suburbs of Southern New Jersey as an MTV kid. As such, my first exposure to David Bowie was his 1983 video for “Let’s Dance”. Just like most young folks (and particularly kids raised as part of the early MTV generation), […]
READ MORE2015 Black, Whole Book List
2015 Book list (asterisk indicates books I really enjoyed) In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami Game of Thrones and Philosophy – edited by Henry Jacoby and William Irwin The Crash of 2016* – Thom Hartmann The Martian* – Andy Weir Super Justice Force – David J. Walker Hitler’s War – Harry Turtledove Black Girl […]
READ MOREFollow-Up to “Space for Us All” – Some Race and Sci-Fi-related Commentary
Hey folks, Following up on my piece from last week, I’m posting links a few articles on race and sci-fi I’ve seen online in this past week by Noah Berlatsky from The Atlantic from last year. The first piece makes some really interesting points about how often and how colonial narratives (and anti-colonial narratives) are […]
READ MORESpace For Us All
The eagerly awaited seventh installment of the popular space opera series Star Wars, subtitled “The Force Awakens”, is set to hit theaters later this month. But earlier this fall, a small group of racist Twitter trolls set off yet another skirmish in the culture wars by launching a new hashtag in response to the film’s […]
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