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My guess is that this will make her seem even hotter to her natural audience.
A People’s History really changed my worldview when I read it as a teenager. RIP, Mr. Zinn. A man with a history of writing and teaching like he did will never be really dead.
From the fantastic documentary, THE CORPORATION.
Read this in high school, and it had a big impact. (Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead read it during the recording of KID A and probably pimped it on their site.) Might have to read it again.
Harold Graves transcribes a homeless veteran he meets on the subway:
“You people want to see a fuckin’ parade? You want to celebrate something? Have a fuckin’ parade for Death! That’s what you should have a parade for! You know why? Death don’t discriminate! Death don’t care what color you is, or whether you is insured or not! Fuck Veteran’s Day, man! Let’s have a Death Parade! You think you’re hot shit? You think you’re bad? Then let’s see you end the war in Iraq! That’s right! Let’s see you put an end to homelessness! That’s right folks! Death don’t respect nobody, not even Michael Jackson! Not even Michael Fucking Jackson, the King of Pop! Death don’t respect nobody, no sir! Everybody gets treated the same by Death! Let’s have a National Holiday and a ticker-tape Parade for Death! No shit, man! Your death is someone else’s holiday, baby!”
For both you’ll need: EGO, HATERS, FEUDS, and VERBAL SKILLZ.
Cheney, cropped
Cheney, with family
Photographer David Kennerly’s essay about his photo of Dick Cheney preparing dinner for his family, which was cropped to show him with bloody meat. The essay strikes me as incredibly self-righteous and precious about professional photography. “How dare they alter my work! Now that everyone can do it, no one cares anymore.” Etc.
I question any photographer who harbors the delusion that photojournalism and photography is objective.
Kottke made a good post about it, asking, “Is cropping a photo lying?” And the world is waiting for Errol Morris’s response essay.
What do you think?
See more videos of him drawing - including a spot on Late Night with David Letterman, where he explained that he learned to do this “as a bar bet!”
BILL MOYERS: Are you cynical?
DAVID SIMON: I am very cynical about institutions and their willingness to address themselves to reform. For their willingness to do what they’re supposed to do in American life. I am not cynical when it comes to individuals and people. And I think the reason THE WIRE is watchable, even tolerable, to viewers is that it has great affection for individuals. It’s not misanthropic in any way. It has great affection for those people. Particularly, when they stand upon their hind legs and say, “I will not lie anymore. I am actually going to fight for what I perceive to be some shard of truth.”
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