Today, the movie Star Wars celebrates its 30th anniversary.

A great recasting of Alan Ginsburg’s famed poem ”Howl” for the corporate employee

See my previous entry about the poem’s 50th anniversary of publication.

Yanked from Dervishspin.I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Corporate Bullshit, jargon speaking, frustration ( Read more... )

I just finished reading this article in New York Magazine on the emergence of a new psycho-demographic group, “Grups.” After reading the article, I got the sense that “Grups” is the next combined evolutionary stage of Generation X (and possibly some Baby Boomers too). The description of the attitudes and lifestyle of ”Grups” certainly fits myself ( Read more... )

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of it's first public reading this day, October 7, 1955, here is the full text preprint of the famed beat poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg.

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In today’s Boston Globe Newspaper I saw a story on people making a political statement about George W. Bush’s administration and what's going on in American society with our civil liberties by making an action statement. The action statement involves reshelving copies of George Orwell’s book 1984 from their usual assigned space in fiction/ ( Read more... )

I was waiting to get my hair cut after work today and was thumbing through a copy of New York Magazine, a leisure magazine about what's going on and things to do in New York City and the surrounding Boroughs, when I came across a "zeitgeisty" feature called:

"The Approval Matrix ( Read more... )

Last night, Friday, June 24, 2005, I went to a Midnight movie at the Coolidge Corner Theater, my favorite independent film theater in the Boston area. The program I saw was titled: The A/V Geeks: Weird and wild original 16mm classroom films. It was a two-part series with part 1 running Friday night and part 2 on Saturday ( Read more... )

The only thing I have to say about this is: "What a sad, sad, dumbed down future this country is well on its way to having." These types of kids definately need a Ghost of Christmas Future moment or military school to set them straight.

Reposted from the Boing Boing entries for Friday, March 06, 2005

Moment of "Overheard in New York" Zen
Dumb ( Read more... )

Reposted from the Boing Boing entries for Tuesday, March 08, 2005.

Danceteria flyer archive from the '80s
Mmmmm I can smell the hairspray and cigarettes already. Magnificent gallery of posters from New York's Danceteria, an '80s mecca for new wave music and weird / hip / artsy culture. Featured artists and personalities include Nina Hagen (shown ( Read more... )

Well, here we go again, President George W. Bush is once again pursuing his agenda of trying to pass a constitutional amendment that prohibits gay marriage. The first attempt earlier this year, 2004, failed in Congress ( Read more... )