October 2009
5 posts
September 2009
22 posts
“It was the worthlessness of the tradable securitized debt associated with all...”
– Original Sin - Clusterfuck Nation
My Angel Rocks Back And Forth - Four Tet
How Live/Work failed →
O, RLY SPUR??
“Living and working in the same place is a good idea, and so is reusing old buildings instead of tearing them down,” Metcalf said. “If people want to do it, it’s definitely good for the infrastructure of a city.”
sfhaps:
2007 Chronicle article w/ Pico Sanchez of Artaud and how real estate developers ruined the idea
“San Francisco Public Library, in its push to demolish two historic library...”
– Landmarking libraries | San Francisco Bay View
It’s important to remember that you cannot do anything, change anything, make anything or hide anything in San Francisco’s public space without some interested party bringing your shit to light.
Anonymity and covert action is impossible in...
On heckling
southpol:
Matthew Yglesias
Personally, I sort of liked Rep Joe Wilson’s idea of introducing British-style heckling to the halls of congress; totally disrespectful and out of step with American tradition, true, but their tradition is better. Unfortunately, Wilson was also lying about the point at issue and will thereby set back the cause of heckling by decades.
Sorry, LA.
Man, I love Mike Davis’ rich, thoughtful, prescient writing.
paratext:
“The 1993 firestorms, following so close on the heels of the Rodney King riots, opened a Pandora’s box of white fear. One disaster was, not necessarily logically, superimposed on the other. From Laguna to Ventura, rumors spread that “some new breed of terrorist, or worse, several, were on the loose.” Public officials...
