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$&ADFYF@!#$% Stop everything! You know Protagonize, that nifty site where writers go to share their stories online? (You don’t eh? Check it out.) THEY PICKED ME AS THEIR FEATURED AUTHOR THIS WEEK. I’m so psyched. Look, here’s proof. This must be what [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 9 May 2012, 1:05 am
If you were born in the 80s or any time thereafter, you probably loved Where the Wild Things Are when you were a child. Which means today is a sad day for you. Did you know Maurice Sendak was gay? [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 8 May 2012, 4:38 pm
[image thanks to Laughing Squid] Rule #4 You know what drunk people at concerts like to do? They like to take things and throw them into the air. Stuff like beach balls, balloons, other patrons. Barring that, the hat off your [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 27 April 2012, 6:33 pm
Two Chapter Ones Novelling never seems to go as planned. When I started this novel, I told myself I would spend as much time on the later chapters as on the opening ones. Everyone spends forever writing their first chapter, of [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 14 April 2012, 4:26 pm
Lombard Street in San Francisco is known as the “curviest in America,” but city residents know that’s a big lie. Local San Franciscans know that’s a big lie. Vermont Street in Potrero Hill is the curviest street in San Francisco, [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 10 April 2012, 5:13 pm
I wrote an article for Opportunities Planeet on why artists, authors, or anyone who needs to market a product should be on Twitter. For Anyone Looking to Market a Product, Twitter Can Be Even More Important Than Facebook Twitter is the [...] No related posts.
Source: the Future is Fiction | 9 March 2012, 1:33 pm
Here’s the second half of my Best Electro of 2011 selections. Stay tuned; I’ll be uploading these as torrents soon. Image credit: roman-noir.com Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme (B.) – The Black Queen / Memories of Retrocity Grouplove – Naked Kids (3:29) I’m [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 20 February 2012, 8:54 pm
I’ve always wanted to like PIL but I can’t get past thinking it was the worst record in my mom’s collection (which is OK, she has good taste). But I was about twelve then, so I’ve been meaning to give them another chance. Did you seem them in SF when they got back together recently?
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 16 May 2012, 5:29 am
I see this with so many sites, where they’re so caught up in page views that they degrade the user experience. It’s a fact that the more you post the higher your traffic; and that makes it so hard to compete with anyone who’s willing to post garbage quickly. I’ve think about ways to monetize my site, mainly so I can justify spending more time writing. But the truth is that the pursuit of readers can ruin your site faster than the ever-feared selling out.
…Its mix of search engine-friendly headlines and shiny click bait is not totally without appeal — Stereogum is one of a precious few sites paying its bills by writing about indie music, and has 100,000 followers on Twitter. And yet if you have been reading it for a decade, as I have, you could be forgiven lately for feeling disoriented. The Stereogum of 2012 is so far removed from the original product as to beggar belief. And so it seems worth asking how it got there, and what was lost along the way.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 8 May 2012, 11:41 pm
If I ever make a list of sexiest songs, this will be on it. It’s the kind of song that makes you want to slink up to some pretty young thang and sway. Nothing too serious, not a song for bootie-grinding. More a song for getting a little too close, and using a coy smile to get away with it.
By the way, what are your feelings on posting YouTube songs without videos? There’s so much music I want to share, and sometimes I don’t have time to upload the track. I still try to find the official video when possible. And when there’s no official video, I get to thinking the band needs more exposure. What do you think: Is it better to have more posts? Or only posts with videos?
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 4 May 2012, 9:02 pm
This songs from Dove’s third album, Some Cities(2008). I think what makes this rock song sound out are the heavenly back up vocals. They combine and contrast with the guitars in such a striking way.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 2 May 2012, 8:26 pm
On Glee tonight Puckerman’s character sang “School’s Out for Summer” by Alice Cooper. Oh Glee, always picking the most obvious song. Here’s a great Alice Cooper song that doesn’t get enough play, and perfect for the Glee audience: “I’m Eighteen.”
I got a
baby’s brain and an old man’s heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don’t always know what I’m talkin’ about
Feels like I’m livin in the middle of doubt
Cause I’m
Eighteen
I get confused every day
Eighteen
I just don’t know what to say
Eighteen
I gotta get away
Lines form on my face and my hands
Lines form on the left and right
I’m in the middle
the middle of life
I’m a boy and I’m a man
I’m eighteen and I LIKE IT
I know I identified with it when I was eighteen, and the song was already considered classic rock back then.
In the episode Puck and the cheerleaders do their make-up like this.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 2 May 2012, 3:34 am
Hey, who here likes energetic girl bands? This one’s rolling, I tell you, rollicking!
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 1 May 2012, 8:29 pm
Such a fun, upbeat song. It’s a little bit tropical, a little bit electro. Or maybe electronic tropical. But what’s with the guys in the video, standing around looking all bored and serious? Surely that’s not the image you want to give off in a video with lasers and back-up singers going “Whoa-Oh-Oh”.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 30 April 2012, 8:30 pm
This is only hip-hop in the tradition of smooth-voiced musicians like PM Dawn. It’s Shad, a Canadian fellow of mixed African heritage. His mother is Rwandan, and this song about Rwandan genocide has snippets of poetry his mother wrote.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 30 April 2012, 4:02 pm
Archive :: You All Look The Same To Me [2002]
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 29 April 2012, 8:29 pm
The first four seconds of this sounds bootleg, but it’s not. I suspect the uploader wanted more people to be able to discover Moving Units, but knew if they just posted the song the copyright witches would remove their content. It’s sad that the recording industry wants to squelch music videos. The whole concept of a music video was originally a tool to publicize music. I guess that felt safe to them when it was primarily in the hands of a corporate entity, like MTV. Get real, RIAA, anyone who replaces a music collection with a YouTube stream wasn’t going to buy the music in the first place.
Anyway, speaking of retro sounds, Moving Units has that eighties feel. Not the movie soundtrack vibe of dreamwave, nor the dark wave sound that lived before Goth. No, this is straight-up new wave, in the tradition of Crowded House, Tears for Fears or Simple Minds. The song is ”Dark Walls.”
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 28 April 2012, 8:31 pm
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 27 April 2012, 6:33 pm
To promote their upcoming European tour dates, YACHT is enchanté to release a new song, a cover of iconic avant-garde French singer Brigitte Fontaine’s “Le Goudron”.
Fontaine is one of YACHT’s longtime favorite artists. Her singing style, her ability to blend humor and major gravitas, her seeming flippancy about life and death, & her willingness to take on serious issues: these are all huge inspirations for YACHT. So is her path of unswerving weirdness.
“Le Goudron” is a surrealist revolutionary song originally recorded in 1969 with The Art Ensemble of Chicago; YACHT has reinvented its naive-apocalyptic candor for a neon-soaked dance floor, their preferred autonomous zone.
While Claire L. Evans of YACHT was raised in France, this is the 1st song YACHT has ever recorded in French. Of the song, YACHT says, “we can only hope that our frantic, starry-eyed cribbing of Brigitte Fontaine makes us better people. In the meantime, we wanted to pay homage.”
The pair also made a new music video for the song, shot at The Smell in Los Angeles, California. Check it out below & read more about the track on YACHT’s blog. European + US tour dates below.
“Le Goudron (edit)” ϟ download
SHANGRI-LA TOUR 2012: PT.2 EUROPE:
04.26 Nantes, FR – Pôle Etudiant
04.27 Tours, FR – Le Temps Machine
04.28 Paris, FR – KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD at Gaîté Lyrique
04.30 Heidelberg, DE – Halle01
05.01 Frankfurt, DE – Zoom
05.02 St. Gallen, CH – Palace
05.03 Dublin, IE – Workmansclub
05.05 Belfast, UK – Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
05.06 Bristol, UK – Simple Things Festival
05.08 London, UK – XOYO
05.11 Brighton, UK – The Great Escape at Digital
05.13 Norwich, UK – Norwich & Norfolk Festival
05.14 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
05.15 Brussels, BE – Les Nuits De Botanique Festival
05.16 Lyon, FR – Nuits Sonores Festival
05.17 Barcelona, ES – Music Hall
05.18 Madrid, ES – Charada
05.19 Guimaraes, PT – Vila Flor
SHANGRI-LA TOUR 2012: PT.3 SOUTHERN U.S.A.
05.24 San Diego, CA – The Loft at UCSD
05.25 Tucson, AZ – Plush
05.26 El Paso, TX – Neon Desert Music Festival
05.28 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
05.30 Gainesville, FL – Double Down Live
05.31 Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
06.01 Tampa, FL – Crowbar
06.02 Miami, FL – Bardot
06.04 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
06.05 Nashville, TN – 12th & Porter
06.06 Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone Cafe
06.07 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
06.08 Austin, TX – The Mohawk
06.09 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
06.11 Norman, OK – Opolis
06.13 Santa Fe, NM – Sol
06.14 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
06.15 Pomona, CA – The Glass House
08.10/08.12 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands
08.31/09.02 Chicago, IL – North Coast Music Festival
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 24 April 2012, 7:45 pm
The team behind Metric is doing a great job promoting the album that will be out on May 1st. In an email to their fans, they note that the release on International Worker’s Day is no coincidence:
Before you jump to conclusions about those old time “socialists” and “anarchists,” take a moment to thank them for effectively implementing the 8 hour work day and making it illegal for you to get stuck in a factory job when you’re still in grade school. In 1971, there were some serious May Day Protests against the Vietnam War too. And in 2010, hundreds of thousands of people across Europe took part in May Day demonstrations in the wake of the global financial crisis, probably having no idea how much worse it was going to get for countries like Greece. In 2011, May Day was reportedly pretty subdued by contrast. It will be interesting to see what happens this year. It seems like a lot of people might be feeling too beaten down to rise up for much. My eyes are peeled.
It’s this intelligence and social engagement that keeps Metric at the top of the list of my favorite bands. The first single off the album will be “Youth Without Youth” and you can bet that as soon as I hear it I’ll be posting it for you too. Until then, here’s a video from their 2009 album, Fantasies.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 20 April 2012, 2:27 pm
listen to "Clock Opera - Once And For All (2012 album version)":
Full preview of the new Clock Opera album out April 24: http://hypem.com/artist/Clock%20Opera I listened to it all last night. This may be the first contender for Best Music of 2012.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 19 April 2012, 11:42 pm
Listen To Every Tom Waits Song Ever!
Seriously, follow the link. You won’t regret this.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 17 April 2012, 8:02 pm
And here I just figured it was an April Fool’s joke. Sure brings new meaning to the phrase “new releases.”
Jack White’s vinyl-filled balloons are starting to surface…
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 13 April 2012, 2:30 pm
Hunx and His Punx @ Echoplex, LA 03/20/12 by The Owl Mag on Flickr.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 10 April 2012, 11:40 pm
She’s been missing since March 16th, according to KTVU.
PLEASE REBLOG. You could help bring her home.
I’m literally begging you. REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 7 April 2012, 2:15 am
Choose Your Own Chairlift Adventure:
I know it would be exciting enough if I simply told you Chairlift has a new single. But what if I told you that the video allowed you to select different outcomes like in those old Choose Your Own Adventure books. Well you’d probably slap me hard, because that’s science-fiction talk, and where is your jetpack, anyway? But it’s true. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to change the outcome of the video.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 6 April 2012, 8:30 pm
Sleigh Bells is Giving Away Free Tickets on Their Facebook Page:
Sleigh Bells is running a contest to give free tickets out to one of the shows on their tour with Javelin. Most of these shows are already sold out.
Source: Your New Favorite Band | 28 March 2012, 8:31 pm
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Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in 1845:
Nate St. Pierre writes:
Lincoln was requesting a patent for “The Gazette,” a system to “keep People aware of Others in the Town.” He laid out a plan where every town would have its own Gazette, named after the town itself. He listed the Springfield Gazette as his Visual Appendix, an example of the system he was talking about. Lincoln was proposing that each town build a centrally located collection of documents where “every Man may have his own page, where he might discuss his Family, his Work, and his Various Endeavors.”
He went on to propose that “each Man may decide if he shall make his page Available to the entire Town, or only to those with whom he has established Family or Friendship.” Evidently there was to be someone overseeing this collection of documents, and he would somehow know which pages anyone could look at, and which ones only certain people could see (it wasn’t quite clear in the application). Lincoln stated that these documents could be updated “at any time deemed Fit or Necessary,” so that anyone in town could know what was going on in their friends’ lives “without being Present in Body.”
A patent request for Facebook, filed by Abraham Lincoln in 1845.
I’ve long argued Facebook is working towards natural or timeless (for lack of better words) human interaction. That their central idea is relevant in any age should not be surprising.
(Though it is astounding Lincoln was imagining a nearly identical privacy system.)
(Via The Next Web)
FJP: Color me fascinated — Michael.
This is amazing. Wow, I need to look into this.
Source: Tech-ish | 8 May 2012, 9:46 pm
“…readers may click through your slideshow, but they’ll hate you a liiitttle bit more than they did when they got to the site. And I bet they’ll feel the same way about whatever advertiser was unlucky enough to get stuck on the page with some stupid thing that a reporter did with a little bit of hate in his heart and fingertips.” Atlantic reporter Alexis Madrigal, in a story called “The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive ‘Traffic’”
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Source: Tech-ish | 8 May 2012, 9:37 pm
SnoopSister: Who is going to Dive into the Deep End Sooner?:
Space used to be the last frontier. Only two people have dived to the very bottom of the ocean, roughly 20 miles southwest of Guam.
Now at least three billionaires want to explore there. They each have developed plans, and some very sci-fi equipment to explore five deep-sea trenches that…
Source: Tech-ish | 16 March 2012, 8:15 pm
Are you a blogger? If you are, you may be interested in the post I wrote today for 40tech.com on how to access your site’s log file. You can see who’s looking at your site, and what they’re reading, all in real time. You can also check out your error log to figure out why something on your site isn’t working. It’s pretty nifty, and it’s a good foray into accessing your site directly via the command line.
Also, I found a link that explains how to read the contents of the Log file. Some of it seemed obvious to me, like the numbers are the IP of the person checking out your site and the GET: postname.html is the page they’re looking at. But this was something I wouldn’t have intuited:
The sixth piece of information is a status code. This tells you whether the request was successful, or encountered some problem. Most of the time, this is 200, which means that the transfer was successful, and everything went well. Hopefully. I’m not going to give the whole list of the status codes, and what they mean. You need to look in the documentation for that. But, in general, a status code that starts with 2 was successful. Starting with a 3 means that the request was redirected somewhere else for some reason. Starting with a 4 means that the user did something wrong, and starting with a 5 means that the server did something wrong.
Good to know. Both articles are very easy to read and understand even for someone with absolutely no experience using the command line.
Source: Tech-ish | 17 February 2012, 4:49 pm
Wait, that’s not what Tumblr is? ;)
StuckUp Stickers, iPhone App for Finding & Sharing Street Art Stickers
Source: Tech-ish | 23 January 2012, 6:27 pm
Google Shuts Down Picnik, Premium Free Through April:
Have you used Picnik? It’s this awesome website where you can easily edit photos online. It’s great for web designers and casual photographers alike. Or at list it will be until April, when they shut down for good.
Google bought Picnik and this is what they’ve decided to do with it. There are so far 93 comments on the Picnik blog, all of them negative. There is a possibility that Picnik’s features will be available in Google+… whoopty-freakin-du.
On the plus side (NO pun intended), in “celebration” of their demise, all of Picnik’s premium featuers will be free until they close their doors in April.
Source: Tech-ish | 20 January 2012, 8:45 pm
You may recognize this foodie blogger as the hottest mechanic in the fictional universe.
Source: Tech-ish | 29 November 2011, 7:56 pm
I knew Google had authors come speak at their HQ but it didn’t occur to me that Daddy G would have the finest in Geek selection. Some of their speakers have included Neil Gaiman, Noam Chomsky and Cory Doctorow.
Here is the video of Randall Munroe, writer of the web comic XKCD. He talks about solving a Rubick’s cube drunk, how to escape a raptor, how math made him able to pee in public, and how much time he spends perfecting his stick figures. Oh, he’s such a dreamcake!
Source: Tech-ish | 29 November 2011, 4:36 pm
Sucks.. #apple #fail #greed #coolapps #reading #ebooks #books (Taken with instagram)
Source: Tech-ish | 24 November 2011, 7:40 pm
Make your own Internet memes faster than Photoshop. Currently only for Mac.
Source: Tech-ish | 24 November 2011, 2:55 pm
Source: Tech-ish | 24 November 2011, 4:17 am
So clever, yet so infuriating.
Source: Tech-ish | 21 November 2011, 6:35 pm
I heard a rumor that they’re patent is about to run out so they’re promoting themselves really heavily right now. Which, by the way, explains why when we were kids there were stupid Legos of different sizes—off brands couldn’t connect with regular Legos or they’d have been violating copyright.
Not that they need any promotion. No one can resist their capacity to create a microcosm out of anything.
Occupy LEGO Land, A Tiny Toy Protest Inside of Occupy Wall Street
Source: Tech-ish | 9 November 2011, 7:50 pm
“I do Facebook two or three times a day but I’m far more active on Twitter. My daughter, Dominique, got me into it. She said I should build up a Twitter following and I said, “What is that?” And she said, “Suppose you want to mobilize people on a particular issue. You can do it right away.” That’s what got me. I was like, “Wow, you’re right, I can reach thousands of people at once.” I was hooked.”
- Reverend Al Sharpton lays out his media diet over at The Atlantic Wire. Read more. (via theatlantic)
Source: Tech-ish | 27 October 2011, 11:28 am
Oh, bummer. Thanks for Lisp, John!
John McCarthy, widely considered the father of artificial intelligence, died today. He was 84. John McCarthy perhaps most notably was responsible for creating Lisp, modern programming languages are still trying to catch up.
Source: Tech-ish | 25 October 2011, 2:20 am
Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr.:
I can’t decide whether I’m more impressed that the Obama campaign realizes that Tumblr is a big deal or that Tumblr is a big enough deal to attract the Obama campaign.
good:
Oh hey Obama.
It’s nice to meet you.
There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.
We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…
Source: Tech-ish | 24 October 2011, 5:40 pm
lmao
Source: Tech-ish | 19 October 2011, 11:48 pm
good:
Iran’s Green Movement was hailed as the Twitter Revolution. Egypt’s uprising was branded the Facebook Revolution. Will we remember Occupy Wall Street as the Tumblr Revolution?
Source: Tech-ish | 17 October 2011, 3:59 pm
Source: Tech-ish | 13 October 2011, 5:52 am
““Without computer clubs there would probably be no Apple computers. Our club in the Silicon Valley, the Homebrew Computer Club, was among the first of its kind. It was in early 1975, and a lot of tech-type people would gather and trade integrated circuits back and forth. You could have called it Chips and Dips. We had similar interests and we were there to help other people, but we weren’t official and we weren’t formal. Our leader, Lee Felsenstein, who later designed the Osborne computer, would get up at every meeting and announce the convening of ‘the Homebrew Computer Club which does not exist’ and everyone would applaud happily.
The theme of the club was “Give to help others.” Each session began with a ‘mapping period,’ when people would get up one by one and speak about some item of interest, a rumor, and have a discussion. Somebody would say, ‘I’ve got a new part,’ or somebody else would say he had some new data or ask if anybody had a certain kind of teletype.””
- Steve Wozniak, ”HOMEBREW AND HOW THE APPLE CAME TO BE”
Source: Tech-ish | 6 October 2011, 7:37 pm
Runs his own clothing line? Wish I’d asked for his card. He and several other awesome people were tending to a magical box on wheels that produced music. I should have asked them what powered the thing, but I am sort of shy about talking to strangers.
If anyone knows about his clothing line, do speak up! Do ya?
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 17 May 2012, 6:00 pm
House in North Oakland
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 16 May 2012, 6:02 pm
Painted hippie camper in support of education reform…hard to see all the awesome details in these photos.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 15 May 2012, 6:01 pm
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 14 May 2012, 6:01 pm
Local East Oakland guy raises his fist in support of the May Day General Strike demonstration as it marches past. Another example of how Oakland supports its history and present as a city of social strife.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 13 May 2012, 6:01 pm
Caught being hot at the May Day protest.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 12 May 2012, 6:01 pm
Posted from Reddit.com/r/bombing.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 11 May 2012, 6:02 pm
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 11 May 2012, 4:03 am
Oh, hey this is smart: stick your camera on a stick. Anyone ever tried this? Did it come out well, or was the result too shaky? How best to affix the camera to the stick?
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 10 May 2012, 6:01 pm
If I were these two women, I’d use any excuse to pull out this dragon costume. Only if I get to be in the front though.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 9 May 2012, 6:01 pm
I hate bicycle thieves.
Everyone and anyone that can help..
Last night Mandys bike was stolen last night at the Metreon Theater. Its a size 48 Orange powder coated Bare knuckle track bike with a front brake, white machined deep v’s laced to standard miche hubs, nitto drop bars with white cloth bar tape, silver chris king head set, white saddle, silver kazane cranks, mks pedals, nitto cages with single white straps, white chain…..
Please spread the word and let mandy or myself know if you see anything on the interwebs or even in the streets. East Bay included.
Thank you to any and all that can help
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 8 May 2012, 11:22 pm
Downtown Oakland (by Studio H (Chris))
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 8 May 2012, 9:44 pm
ArtAround SF, An App for Finding Public Art in San Francisco
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 8 May 2012, 9:11 pm
SF Player, A Parody Rap Music Video About Life in San Francisco
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 8 May 2012, 6:01 pm
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 7 May 2012, 6:01 pm
the cliffhouse at ocean beach, san francisco
source: NY Public Library
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 6 May 2012, 6:01 pm
The banner they marched behind
I mentioned that the general strike was primarily indigenous and immigrants groups, and here’s a fine example. These dancers led the front of the May Day march, behind a banner so long I couldn’t read the whole thing (see last photo).
I love that one of the main drummers is a kid, and that he has an older dude (maybe dad?) has as his whole job just to push the kid’s drum on wheels, so the young dude can focus all his energy on his drum.
Also, that incense smelled terrific, and masked the constant chronic smell of East Oakland.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 5 May 2012, 5:58 pm
Women gathered outside the WIC headquarters in East Oakland to watch the general strike march walk by. WIC stands for “Women Infants and Children,” and it’s basically California’s version of welfare. Many people came out to watch the May Day march, and though too many had no idea what it was about, all of them seemed supportive and open-minded.
Even after all these years, I’m still impressed by what a supportive environment Oakland is for protesters. The march stopped for an hour in a park in East Oakland, and I spent the whole time having a lively debate with two locals. We talked about gentrification as the colonization of neighborhoods. I tried to bring them back around to supporting Occupy, which they had disavowed after the vandalism in the Mission the night before.
It’s so great to be able to talk to total strangers about race and class, and discover that they are engaging, polite and really willing to listen. But I also know that they were a little impressed that a white woman was willing to come into big-old-scary East Oakland (AKA, the ghetto) and have this dialog, while acknowledging that they were cautiously watching to make sure none of these potential “hipsters” fucked up their neighborhood. I didn’t see any of the other protesters venture deeper into the park to talk to the locals, nor did I see any of the locals walk down to see for themselves that the protest was made up almost entirely of local groups, mostly immigrants or indigenous folks.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 4 May 2012, 6:01 pm
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 4 May 2012, 1:26 am
Had to stop and get a photo of these fantastic tags while I was at the general strike march.
Source: * Oakland * San Francisco * Berkeley * | 3 May 2012, 6:01 pm
$&ADFYF@!#$% Stop everything! You know Protagonize, that nifty site where writers go to share their stories online? (You don’t eh? Check it out.) THEY PICKED ME AS THEIR FEATURED AUTHOR THIS WEEK. I’m so psyched. Look, here’s proof. This must be what [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 9 May 2012, 1:05 am
If you were born in the 80s or any time thereafter, you probably loved Where the Wild Things Are when you were a child. Which means today is a sad day for you. Did you know Maurice Sendak was gay? [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 8 May 2012, 4:38 pm
[image thanks to Laughing Squid] Rule #4 You know what drunk people at concerts like to do? They like to take things and throw them into the air. Stuff like beach balls, balloons, other patrons. Barring that, the hat off your [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 27 April 2012, 6:33 pm
Two Chapter Ones Novelling never seems to go as planned. When I started this novel, I told myself I would spend as much time on the later chapters as on the opening ones. Everyone spends forever writing their first chapter, of [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 14 April 2012, 4:26 pm
Lombard Street in San Francisco is known as the “curviest in America,” but city residents know that’s a big lie. Local San Franciscans know that’s a big lie. Vermont Street in Potrero Hill is the curviest street in San Francisco, [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 10 April 2012, 5:13 pm
I wrote an article for Opportunities Planeet on why artists, authors, or anyone who needs to market a product should be on Twitter. For Anyone Looking to Market a Product, Twitter Can Be Even More Important Than Facebook Twitter is the [...] No related posts.
Source: the Future is Fiction | 9 March 2012, 1:33 pm
Here’s the second half of my Best Electro of 2011 selections. Stay tuned; I’ll be uploading these as torrents soon. Image credit: roman-noir.com Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme (B.) – The Black Queen / Memories of Retrocity Grouplove – Naked Kids (3:29) I’m [...] Related posts:
Source: the Future is Fiction | 20 February 2012, 8:54 pm
