February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
17 posts
The Baader-Meinhof Podcast →
The regular podcast of baader-meinhof.com, the top web site for information about the curiously specific subject of left-wing terrorism of the 1970s. Host Richard Huffman interviews people tangentially and directly related to the Baader-Meinhof era, including Oscar-winning filmmakers, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, journalists, victims and witnesses of terrorist bombings, as well as interview...
Some fathers hate to read but love to take the family on trips. Some children...
– “On Reading” from Anne Carson’s Plainwater
If, after watching the trailer for Moonrise...
towerofsleep:
You do not:
1) Know that you will see the film.
2) Feel embarrassed for Wes Anderson and yourself.
3) Feel mildly disgusted by the inevitability of it all.
You probably do not have a lot in common with me.
Aaron Huey: America’s native prisoners of war
Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from...
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
7 posts
There’s No Place Like Here: Liberty Tool
H.G. “Skip” Brack salvages tools from all over New England to resell at affordable prices, in an effort to support his local economy and craftsmen.
The Vancouver Tool Library is pretty great and all, but just look at this place.
Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake.
– Michael Chabon Manhood for Amateurs
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
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August 2011
14 posts