PARIS-With its customary hype and hope, the annual French literary season known as la rentrée littéraire opened this week, with no fewer than 663 novelists elbowing for attention. Mostly in vain, it seems. To judge by the French press, Michel Houellebecq is the only writer who counts. And that was before the public had even…
Hunter S. Thompson note reveals despair – Sep 8, 2005
(Here are the last written words of Hunter S. Thompson. I hope he inspires many more people to blow their brains out….cd) CNN.com – Hunter S. Thompson note reveals despair – Sep 8, 2005 “No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past…
Fine Line Revealed Between Creativity and Insanity
(I don’t think this study comes as a surprise to anyone who is creative….cd) Fine Line Revealed Between Creativity and Insanity By Ker Than LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 07 September 2005 03:09 pm ET History suggests that the line between creativity and madness is a fine one, but a small group of people known as…
It Runs in the Family…..
Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 – As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who “were underprivileged anyway,” saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than…
A revolution of the Soul…The Beats
(Thanks Shaun…I dig this..cd) âThe Beats were not programmatically political, but were utopian in their belief that artists â citizens would be the leaders of a new society.â? The “Beat Movement” has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion,…
Burning Man, meet Drowning Man | The Register
(I liked this article a lot. A lot of burners may find fault with the authors sentiments, but I find that this article rings true. I will write more about my burning man experience at some point, but for now understand that it was a remarkable experience. Yet, despite that, it did have its flaws….
Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev.
Las Vegas SUN: Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev. Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev. ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. (AP) – Unused food and bottled water from the Burning Man counterculture festival is being stockpiled for hurricane evacuees arriving this week in Nevada. Burning Man celebrants began…
A Wrinkle in Space
(shithead! cd) Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Two photos taken on the same day last week — one of a grieving New Orleans survivor, the other of President Bush in flagrante photo opp in San Diego. Photoshopped together, they reveal what the horrific scene at the Superdome might have looked like had the…
Yes, you can still get a drink in New Orleans – Sep 5, 2005
(In the midst of chaos, one can sometimes find order. Constants exist everywhere…cd) Dinia Straydog has a cigar Saturday at a bar on Bourbon Street, as another patron finishes off a drink. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) — At least two bars in New Orleans’ fabled French Quarter are honoring the tradition that drinking establishments in…
President Bush Declares War on Hurricanes
(for some reason this post didn’t get posted immediately, yet it still deserves fukn space today) President Bush vowed today to confront and destroy the “evil” of natural weather. President Bush declares war on hurricanes September 2, 2005 President Bush today showed the world that he’s “still got it” as a national leader when he…