Entries from June 2008

June 10, 2008

ralph nader says it all starts with fire in the belly

nosuppertonight video montage:Nader in Cambridge June 6 2008
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By Michael Horan
But you’ve been told many times before,
Messiahs pointed to the door,
No one had the guts to leave the temple….
–Pete Townshend, Tommy
But what about the next time? Who is going to explain in 1976 that all the people who felt they got burned [...]

June 3, 2008

Some rise, some fall, some climb, to get to terrapin

Bo Diddley died today. But you heard about that. Also departed: Alton Kelly, who with collaborator Mouse (“riffing off each other’s giggle”) provided some of the most sumptuously festive iconography of the past half-century, ranging from the team’s trademark signage, as in this handbill for Bo himself, to classics like the Skull and Roses emblem and, [...]