I haven’t been hit in the head with a folding metal chair even once, but Mick Foley is still smarter than me. He doesn’t know how to use a computer and told his friends to not bother him with Internet gossip (like this).
Archive > July 2004
“The Basil Hallward Gallery proudly presents the Beautiful Mutants of artist/musician Mark Mothersbaugh Saturday July 31st, 7:00 PM. The Mutant series, manipulated photographs and illustrations, consists of images pulled from man’s past then corrected into sickeningly beautiful beings in order to examine those who have walked the planet before us.” Portland pleasanteers take note – the ‘Basil Hallward Gallery’ is the top floor of Powell’s Books, downtown. Mr. Mothersbaugh is rumored to be in attendance.
‘The Cassette Mythos project began after Op Magazine completed its operating lifespan in 1984. Cassette Mythos was not funded by anyone. It was a crazy (but sometimes satisfying) hobby that absorbed all my time and spare change for postage and buying bulk-rate blank tapes, and took on many different forms, including an interview project, a short-lived DIY radio syndication series, and one nearly successfull video bicycle trip. I received 1167 cassettes from all over the world for review, and sent the reviews to interested magazines like Sound Choice, Option, Ear, Transnational Perspectives, The Rocket, and B-Side, plus numerous ephemeral zines. Cassette Mythos was published as a book in 1990 by Autonomedia.’ (and here a good deal of it is online).
Please feel encouraged to see the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, directed by Michael Moore. And after you see it, do the right thing and seek to confirm or discredit the claims of the film. Critical analysis is how social ills are made weaker and how social goods are made stronger. If we’d had more critical analysis in the ‘election’ of G. W. Bush, in the period before 9/11, in the war against Afghanistan, in the war against Iraq, and in the ‘war against terror‘ then… then we might not have had any of those terrible things.
In your search for critical analysis of F911 you will find many sites that offer a good deal of bluster and harumphing but not much content, and one that offers a reasonable critique.
Erica Werner reports: “The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission. Such guidelines do not currently exist, said DeForest B. Soaries, head of the voting panel. Soaries was appointed to the federal Election Assistance Commission last year by President Bush. Soaries said he wrote to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge in April to raise the concerns. “I am still awaiting their response,” he said. “Thus far we have not begun any meaningful discussion.” Spokesmen for Rice and Ridge did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Soaries noted that Sept. 11, 2001, fell on Election Day in New York City – and he said officials there had no rules to follow in making the decision to cancel the election and hold it later. Events in Spain, where a terrorist attack shortly before the March election possibly influenced its outcome, show the need for a process to deal with terrorists threatening or interrupting the Nov. 2 presidential election in America, he said. “Look at the possibilities. If the federal government were to cancel an election or suspend an election, it has tremendous political implications. If the federal government chose not to suspend an election it has political implications,” said Soaries, a Republican and former secretary of state of New Jersey. “Who makes the call, under what circumstances is the call made, what are the constitutional implications?” he said. “I think we have to err on the side of transparency to protect the voting rights of the country.””
That’s not scary or anything.
