About this document: Idea-rich early announcement broadside (there will be more) for an event that happened on either April 2, 1967 or April 9, 1967. Author is anonymous, as most of the best Diggers documents are, but one would guess that Peter Berg, Lenore Kandel and (perhaps?) Peter Coyote and...

I know we've been blogging pretty hard on the Misha Hollenbach vibe, but Misha just emailed these photos of the exhibition installations so the blog will continue on the vibe. At Target in Japan with Peter Sutherland: At Black & Blue in Sydney: New PAM shirts will be online any...

Corporate marketers discover guerrilla gigs—and another assault on the public is born. From the New York Times: Something to Rah-Rah-Rah About for Christmas By STUART ELLIOTT November 11, 2009 …The Gap campaign — created by Crispin Porter & Bogusky in Miami and Boulder, Colo., owned by MDC Partners — includes, in addition to the commercials, print advertisements, a [...]

Download: Día de Los Muertos 11-17-08 (pdf)

She looked up. Her face was half shadowed and half lit. Tiny golden hairs played on her upper lip. I slid right behind her while she was watching the hawk, put my mouth to her ear and whispered, “Let’s leave tonight when they’re all asleep.” She thought I was joking but I meant it. I [...]

NOVEMBER 23 — GRACCHUS BABEUF French Revolutionist, founder of the Conspiracy of Equals. NOVEMBER 23, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Japan: NIINAME-SAI, harvest festival. ST. CLEMENT’S DAY: Processions of blacksmiths and (mad) hatters. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 23 IN HISTORY… 1170 BC — First recorded strike...

by Ryland Walker Knight —Bring yourself, roll

• Curb Your Enthusiasm, 7th Season [Larry David, 2009] Hard to beat "The Table Read," no doubt, among so many episodes this season, but, once again, LD proves how smart he is about people's petty shit and everybody's desire for a fairytale—despite knowing all too well that most things in life, as it turns out, aren't just jokes but lies. Or, a house of cards and red herrings. I feel like a human again.
• The White Ribbon [Michael Haneke, 2009] Almost exactly what I expected, but it's the first Haneke film I've wanted to see a second time. The film's ambiguities, in ways I've not felt from this...

About this document: Another wisdom broadside from an anonymous pen; best guess is it’s Chester Anderson. About this series: Arthur is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury...

originally published in Arthur No. 31 (September 2008)… C & D Two confirmed schmucks grapple with the big issues. C: Our work continues. D: Or at least our drinking does. Ahahaha. C: [frowns George Will-style] Let the record show that whatever we say from this point forward about any of these...