Call of the Wild: Jack London's Advice on Honing Your Creative Craft :: Tips :: 99U:
"Call of the Wild: Jack London's Advice on Honing Your Creative Craft
by Scott McDowel"
Monday
Sunday
Dissent Magazine - Summer 2012 Issue - Borrowed Energy
Dissent Magazine - Summer 2012 Issue - Borrowed Energy: "Borrowed Energy
By Alex Gourevitch
The Reactionary Mind:
Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin
Oxford University Press, 2011, 304 pp.
Conservatism is idea driven. Its idée fixe is the defense of inequalities of wealth and power against challenges from below—that is the thesis of Corey Robin’s provocative new book, The Reactionary Mind. To some this might seem familiar, even obvious. But the common opinion on the Left is that conservatives are fire-breathing idiots, who make up in heat what they lack in light. Robin’s book is a welcome correction of this simplistic view and puts the debate where it ought to be: on the force and content of conservative ideas. "
'via Blog this'
Friday
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| Cartoonist Will Eisner at the Inkpt Awards ceremony at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con (today called Comic-Con International). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories by Will EisnerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
the first true graphic novel not dealing with spandexed vigilantes. a grand introduction to will eisner. unforgettable.
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Wednesday
Chris Hedges on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt - YouTube
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| Journalist and author Chris Hedges with a blurred background. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Summer Read
Days of Destruction Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco,
Nation Books, New York, 2012.
This brilliant combination of prose and graphic comics reports from the field on four of the poorest, most abandoned areas of the U.S. The plight of the Americans barely existing there reflects the power of the corporate supremacists and their indentured governments to exploit and deny.
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Sunday
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: drawing America's invisible poor - audio slideshow | Books | guardian.co.uk
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: drawing America's invisible poor - audio slideshow | Books | guardian.co.uk:
"Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: drawing America's invisible poor - audio slideshow
For his latest book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, out this month in paperback, Pulitzer prizewinning author Chris Hedges collaborated with awardwinning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco to produce a heartfelt, harrowing picture of post-capitalist America. Together they explore the country's 'sacrifice zones' - areas that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement - and show in words and images what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints"
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"Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: drawing America's invisible poor - audio slideshow
For his latest book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, out this month in paperback, Pulitzer prizewinning author Chris Hedges collaborated with awardwinning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco to produce a heartfelt, harrowing picture of post-capitalist America. Together they explore the country's 'sacrifice zones' - areas that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement - and show in words and images what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints"
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Thursday
We Will Speak Out by James Russell Lowell(1819 – 1891)
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| James Russell Lowell (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
We Will Speak Out
by James Russell Lowell(1819 – 1891)
by James Russell Lowell(1819 – 1891)
We will speak out, we will be heard,
Though all earth's system's crack;
We will not bate a single word,
Nor take a letter back.
Let liars fear, let cowards shrink,
Let traitors turn away;
Whatever we have dared to think
That dare we also say.
We speak the truth, and what care we
For hissing and for scorn,
While some faint gleamings we can see
Of Freedom's coming morn?
Though all earth's system's crack;
We will not bate a single word,
Nor take a letter back.
Let liars fear, let cowards shrink,
Let traitors turn away;
Whatever we have dared to think
That dare we also say.
We speak the truth, and what care we
For hissing and for scorn,
While some faint gleamings we can see
Of Freedom's coming morn?
Tuesday
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Tuesday
a bit of small-talk
Nancy's Whiskey Pub.
i grabbed an empty stool next to a young lady and exchanged some pleasantries
followed by a bit of small talk. As the young woman drank she became saddened
and proceeded to tell me her woes.
As her stories became more desperate I followed suit with my
owned (silent) desperation.
I needed to exit but, How could I possibly be so mean as to just
walk away? This kid is ready to slit her wrists, I thought. I prayed that she would catch a cock-blockers’
eye so that he would move in and I would unperceivably slither away. But this
wasn’t going to happen, so I endured, never uttering a word myself, barely
understanding her muted voice drowned out by the jukebox, occasionally nodding
my head to emote an awareness of something uttered outside the range of my understanding.
Suddenly, an hour or so after it had begun, her life-story
concluded. She inched closer to me, her mouth almost touching mine and shouted
in whisky-tinged, husky, dulcet tone “this is the best conversation I’ve ever
had. You’re such a great listener”.
It was then that she kissed me.
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