schools not jails
Wednesday, March 8, 2000 :: 01:03 p.m.
proposition 21 passed in california, targeting & criminalizing poor youth & youth of color. california is 41st in education spending & first in the u.s. in contributing to the enormous prison-industrial complex. you should be alarmed.
unholy black metal song title-o-matic
Thursday, March 2, 2000 :: 11:44 p.m.
my friend karyn is way into the black metal; i dedicate this link to her since i suspect that many of her favorite black metal bands used this title-o-matic to come up with such phrases as "the silent embalmer in the still midnight."
41 shots
Sunday, February 27, 2000 :: 10:40 p.m.
in the wake of the acquittal of the four white police officers who murdered amadou diallo, please do get yourself to the village voice archives & this site. & riot in the streets, please.
salon on oxygen
Sunday, February 27, 2000 :: 10:36 p.m.
(i got this link, too, from schismatic.) a columnist at salon tackles the new oxygen media empire for it's atrocious programming, simplistic "you go, girl!" feminism, and vapid consumption obsession.
diallo archives
Tuesday, February 15, 2000 :: 11:33 p.m.
the village voice is archiving its amazing series of articles about the shooting death of haitian immigrant amadou diallo by four new york city police officers. stopping him at the front door of his own building, they shot 41 times. please do check out the case and the articles about police brutality & the politics of race.
heartcore records
Tuesday, February 15, 2000 :: 12:06 a.m.
ernesto and sascha run this bi-continental label with a mind to support queer punk/indie musicians, especially queers of color. he's got some impressible releases lined up, including the two-piece, two-girl hardcore outfit the haggard, an acoustic boys of now, an ethereal split with sarah dougher and kaia, and more. through a string of coincidences, i managed to have a hand in landing the now-defunct queer-pop quartet sta-prest a compilation CD with heartcore, which makes me happy as a clam. more, there's a messageboard and a lot of resources (labels, artists, zines, videos and more).
a wasteland of one's own
Monday, February 14, 2000 :: 12:24 p.m.
i was looking at sarah's wonderfully schismatic site and she recommended this editorial by francine prose that appeared in the new york times magazine. it is a wonderfully critical & smart piece addressing the new spate of "women's" programming on both television & the internet --including oprah winfrey's oxygen.com, ivillage.com, providence, & more-- and the false premises of "empowerment." she asks, what kind of "women's culture" is this? what kind of priorities and fantasies do these productions promulgate about who women are and what women need or desire? it's truly an amazing piece.
coal mines & women organizers
Saturday, December 25, 1999 :: 05:23 p.m.
this is a fascinating collection of columns, commentary, & links on labor history, focused especially on coal mines, the radical foundation of workers' unions & strikes, & women in labor history. the triangle shirtwaist fire & mother jones are only some of the more well-known topics covered in this collection.
roadside america
Saturday, December 25, 1999 :: 05:08 p.m.
if i had my way, i'd spend at least half my time in the car with icki, driving around & taking photographs of odd attractions & eating badly.
paul erdos
Saturday, December 25, 1999 :: 05:01 p.m.
this is the website dedicated to "the man who loved only numbers," mathematician paul erdos, maintained by the author of the book by the same name, paul hoffman. (who also happens to have written about fifty other books and edits the encyclopedia brittanica!) icki just finished reading the book & spent some time trying to explain to me what "real numbers" are. big mistake. i failed math twice in college. still, it's a fascinating oral history about this eccentric mathematician who traveled the world in pursuit of numerical truths & referred to "god" as "the supreme fascist." you've got to love a man who doesn't know how to open a window or feed a dog, but can work all kinds of mathematical wonders.
