Sunday, July 27, 2003

They say three’s a trend, and documentation of an OK-we-oversold-the-WMD (and we're glad) meme among Iraq hawks is at two major-media articles and counting.   Josh Marshall follows yesterday’s pointer to Charles Krauthammer with a reference to Steven Den Beste’s piece in the WSJ online opinion section. I first noticed the meme on Den Beste’s weblog last week.   4:04:01 PM    comment []

John Rash: “We should, and can, all be artists…This is the spirit and life of the D.I.Y. culture…If we can do these things on our own, the industry will have no function. If that is accomplished, we can collectively banish them from our community together.” (From Slave, issue 4, via the News & Record)   "I'll fucking publish it myself, I don't care, I just want to write and get my work out there.” Michelle Tea in Slave # 7.   Slave magazine covers hardcore music. Jeri Rowe has an article about the ‘zine and its publisher, John Rash, in this morning’s News & Record.   Rowe makes explicit the link between ‘zines and weblogs, noting “the dominance of big media, run by a handful of corporations, has prodded more people to exercise a basic belief of democracy: diversity of viewpoints.”   There’s also an interesting perspective on Greensboro and its place on the political map of the State. Piedmont Charisma singer Charles Corriher, who writes and records for Slave: "It’s the only town in North Carolina…that's been pretty consistent with activism, even back to the sit-ins. Raleigh is full of PC people with bumper stickers. Charlotte, there's nothing. But Greensboro is really cool. Slave is carrying on Greensboro's leftist tradition without being associated with communist or socialist parties.”   Much of the action in the article takes place at Cat’s Cradle, part of the growing Frank Heath infotainment empire.   11:34:35 AM    comment []

How can a group dedicated largely to accessorizing its uniforms be so homophobic? Observations from Boy Scout camp. 10:14:35 AM    comment []