Part 1I Think I’m Gonna Be Sickand the 2024 Remembrance Show Whenever I joined Columbia House again, back in the 90s, I would use 8 or 9 of my dozen catalogue selections for bands I knew I wanted; and then use 3 or 4 for bands I’d never heard of […]
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Riot Girls: Itty Bitty Titty Comittee
Released in 2007, Jaime Babbitt’s Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a riot-grrl movie that represents the hopeful feminist causes of the 1990s keeping the flame alive in the era of George Bush’s 2nd term full of torture and terror and war and resistance. In the 1990s, our culture’s hatred of […]
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Ulysses cut-up
Across the world for a motion and her presence: the Admiring step backward a sinkapace on footpaths. Runs, she runs to wife. admonition of her craters, the solemn floor. If others have their will She laughed on the wind. Blind friendship, woman, the void of incertitude, familiar to him. They […]
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Marooned On Newtown Creek
The young man in this article about a hermit living on Newtown Creek, was living like a maroon. During slavery, many enslaved people would escape captivity – sometimes for a few days, sometimes for years, sometimes forever. The accounts of enslaved people relate many times that a person escaped, dug […]
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Barren Island, New York City
In 1691, Governor Ingoldesby’s “Humble Address” to the King described New York as “situate upon a barren island.” And that, “The middle of the Island [is] altogether barren… All the rest of the Province, West Chester, Staten Island and Martin’s Vineyard excepted, consist of barren mountain hills not improveable by […]
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Vassar Students, Gum, and 19th Century Misogyny in Humor Columns
The article “Where Stenches Abound” mentions the curious creation of chewing-gum – and also the very strange mention that it is specifically sent to Vassar College. Quote: ‘The basis of the fertilizers here manufactured is what is called Charleston rock, a deposit found in the beds of the Ashley and […]
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How US Railroads From China Ended Up In Greenpoint
One stray sentence from an article about a Lumberyard fire struck me strangely: “The bark Tiber was the last to leave. She had just brought from China the rails of the road which the Chinese Government ordered torn up some time ago.” I wondered, what rails? Why didn’t China want […]
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Some Campus Protests in the 1930s: Students Against Nazis, Universities not so much.
In 1932 City College New York caused student protests by dismissing a popular instructor, Oakely Johnson. After four students were arrested, 1,000 students “marched to the court and staged another demonstration outside.” The judge closed the court, “and sent sixteen policemen … to disperse the mob.” Then “the students crossed […]
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The Folklore of Capitalism
For people deeply indoctrinated, like USians, it is difficult to fight your way from the Right to the Left, or out of the Right, without the emotional energy and restorative peace of works of art. Some of us only make it out of families, or churches, or schools, because we […]
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Gaza Solidarity Encampments, and When Those Schools Divested From South African Apartheid
For the most up to date list, see Students 4 Gaza: A Global Map of Encampments and Demands. Brown University students were demanding divestment by 1978. In 1985 Jimmy Carter’s daughter was protesting on campus, and in 1986 Brown acceded to limited divestment, although it also suspended 4 students for […]