You know that old riddle about the chicken and the egg and which came first? I had an idea about how to answer that, which is neither and both since they’re the same thing. You might as well ask which came first, the human or the baby. The problem isn’t that the answer is unknowable,…
[Spoiler warnings] I think Mulholland Drive is a movie about how Hollywood seduces and destroys people. Betty (Naomi Watts character) is actually Diane Selwyn—Betty is a representation of her hokey internal self-image within a fantasy world that constitutes the first two-thirds of the movie. So are the two seniors she arrives in LA with, who…
In assessing the present condition of things, the endemic corruption and open hostility on the part of our alleged representatives to the needs and concerns of the mass of the population, the question tends increasingly to revolve around whether politics is getting worse, or whether we are just getting a better handle on how bad…
Have released a mix CD containing tracks from my last 4 bandcamp releases. Streaming and downloading are king now, but you’re not a legit artist until you have music on plastic; gotta love those double standards. Well I had fun putting it together anyway so naysayers be damned.
Not honestly much a fan of manged debate. I collect Q&A tweets using my twitter account (periodically renamed due to OCD tendencies). In no semblance of real order, and by way of demonstrating I consistently make way more sense than anyone who actually appears on the show: 2024 edit: these are aging now as I’ve…
Just published an ebook on Amazon Kindle: ‘The centenary of the Russian Revolution of October 1917 represents a unique moment for historical remembrance and celebration, the event in question a momentous episode in the history of working class struggle and a beacon of hope for anyone who has ever dared to dream of a basically…
Gary Leupp, who has written good material in the past for Counterpunch, asks ‘What if there was no collusion?’ The entire point of the Mueller investigation, Leupp alleges, ‘has been to unite people around an anti-Russia, anti-Putin line, and view “Russian ties” as inherently suspicious, the better to isolate and topple a president…
Homelessness? Housing unaffordability? Domestic violence epidemic? Growing income inequality? Climate change? Support for renewables? Nope. Apparently the main issue confronting the Victorian state election later in the year will be african youth gangs. Sat up to the very wee small hours of the morning writing up a piece on the federal government’s sleazy, vile and…