Synopsis of Defense Industry Reports 1-4 : Reeves took the krona he made from selling a documentary about North Carolinians drinking window cleaning fluid to a Swedish television channel, got drunk on Mexican beer in San Antonio and made a thousand T-shirts with “Defend Brooklyn” written on them. Now he’s hanging the shirts [...]

NOVEMBER 20 — LEO TOLSTOY Christian anarchist, novelist of epic and historic scale. NOVEMBER 20, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Mexico: REVOLUTION DAY. WRITING ON THE WALL DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 20 IN HISTORY… 1752 — British poet, forger, suicide Thomas Chatterton born, Bristol, England. 1816 — Term...

Blurred and Spacey By Nabob Shineywater Originally published in Arthur No. 25 (October 2006) Sandy Bull Still Valentine’s Day 1969: Live at the Matrix, San Francisco (Water) When I was living in Point Reyes, my closest friends became people in their sixties. They would share stories with me as I...

What Steve Berra is talking about applies to other essential cultural sites/practices as well. Bookshops. Record shops. Coffeehouses. Magazine publishers. Book publishers. Record labels. And so on… Excerpts: “I receive emails almost every single day telling me about another skate shop or skatepark that’s going, or has gone, out of business. I get asked if there’s [...]

I thought of this guy I knew whose gratitude practice was centered on appreciating every object from the day it comes into his possession until the dystopic collapse of society. Vacations (soon nobody’s going to be going anywhere, man), new cars (what the hell, we’ll all be walking before long)...

NOVEMBER 19 — HUTCHINS HAPGOOD American author, journalist, anarchist, free love advocate. NOVEMBER 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS GROUP RATES FOR GROUP SOULS DAY.������������������������ HAVE A BAD DAY DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 19 IN HISTORY… 1493 — “Christ-bearing Dove” Christopher Columbus...

We went to a bar with a TV and stared for an hour. Devadatta met us there. Bomb squads and cameras were trained on the New Land Trust Building like it was a birthday cake with a stripper inside. Then they cut back to Brass Ring with its missing face. “Man,” Mirror said, “Just look [...]

NOVEMBER 18 — MAN RAY Surrealist photographer, radical social critic. NOVEMBER 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS NED LUDD MEMORIAL MACHINE-SMASHING FESTIVAL. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 18 IN HISTORY… 1789 — Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre born, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France. 1820 — Nathaniel Palmer...