Warm heart, cold Friday
Been busy doing background reading – Johnson-Reagon, Foucault, Hardt & Negri; looking towards next week for blogging on all that. In the meantime, here’s a somewhat sniffly wrap-up:
20 year anniversary of Do the Right Thing. I’d say read the Newsweek article on it, but it’s full of feigned praise, if not backhanded compliments. Who shows up at someone’s birthday and says, “That outfit makes you look great…for your size”? Much better fare is the New York interview with Spike Lee.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has a hymietown moment. If you mean AIPAC, say AIPAC, alright? Can’t even claim privacy of conversation, he said it to a reporter. I think he got dogged during the elections, but “those Jews”? Come on.
Obama administration may be strong-arming potential swing votes on the war spending bill, which includes $100 million for the IMF.
A fabulous write-up from SexGenderBody on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse as Gothic literature.
A very interesting lecture on “Evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality”.
That’s it! Off to rest, relax and make sure this cold doesn’t get the better of me. Much love, see you on the downbeat…
