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Big Massive Protest

[There used to be an embedded YouTube video here. That link is dead, but you can still see the entire film at IMDB.] I went to school in Ireland with the mastermind behind this. Paul Timoney is also...

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“Do me a favor”

“A reenactment: not of the record, but of V-E Day.” —Greil Marcus

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A Sonics Love Story

“In writing, thinking, and talking about the Sonics’ possible relocation to Oklahoma City, I shuffle like an iPod through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, and...

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Piano fighter

The Internet Archive has 74 live Warren Zevon shows for free and legal download or streaming, in multiple formats. If you’re overwhelmed, I recommend 11/26/1988 and 6/12/1986. I still don’t get what...

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Rule 1: Do not write on your flag.

Probably not new to some of you, but deserving of wider recognition nevertheless: Grading the World’s Flags. The Methodology page is a particular gem: Colonial Nonsense: Used for countries that have...

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Two years. Oh, the shame.

Yes, I let this thing languish for two years, while I went outside and tried to have a life. Well, it’s 100°F in Philadelphia. Having a life is overrated. I got tired of looking at my own name over and...

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Tuli Kupferberg has died

NY Times coverage. Viking’s Portable Beat Reader contained an excerpt from his “1001 Ways to Beat the Draft.” When I discovered it, I was an eleven-year-old with an authority problem, and it brought me...

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Artists’ Summer Caucus

My friend Reza Nahaie-Ghanad is in this group show at Rodger LaPelle Galleries in Philly. I’m not going to bother with an inadequate description of his work when you could just look at his portfolio,...

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PAFA Commencement Speech, May 13, 2011

I was the student commencement speaker for this year’s graduate class at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. I feel a little silly doing this, but a few people have requested the text of my...

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Unglaublich

It’s ironic that John Heartfield, who abhorred artistic introspection and whose focus was always outside himself, gave us some of the greatest self-portraits since Rembrandt. 1929: Use Photography as a...

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