An excellent and troubling article “The Assault on the Black Middle Class”, penned by author Kai Wright. It details first-hand how the sub-prime mortgage debacle inordinately disaffected people of color, and provides historical context and examples of the insistent racial divide that defines land-ownership, wealth, and class in this country. [The American Prospect: The Assault [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Reccs’
Here Read This:
Posted in Economy, Racisms, tagged assault on the black middle class, Economy, inequality, Kai Wright, mortgage crisis, poverty, racism, Reccs on 08/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Books to Read: A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories
Posted in Books, tagged A Good Man is Hard to Find, Art, Books, Flannery O'Connor, good reads, Literature, Reccs on 08/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is difficult to write a review for a collection of short stories – while there are only ten in the volume, each is unique and brilliantly powerful, inasmuch as the collection itself is an impressive, living thing. To attempt to describe or summarize the stories would only diminish their impact, and insult Ms. O’Connor [...]
Planned Parenthood Action
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, tagged Health, laws, pro-choice, Reccs, taking action, women's rights on 07/22/2009 | Leave a Comment »
In case you haven’t heard, anti-choice groups all over the country are trying to use health care legislation to strip access to abortion and other reproductive health care from millions of women. Please take a couple of minutes to stand up to these bullies and protect women’s healtchare by just signing your name to a [...]
Rude Bloggers Who Force You To Read Novels *and* Their Blogs
Posted in Books, tagged apparently there are other websites on the internet, blood meridian, cormac mccarthy, Reccs on 06/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I wrote an abridged and rudimentary (but also quite brilliant – haha not really) review of Cormac McCarthy’s celebrated novel Blood Meridian, and now The A.V Club has come along to trump that review with a more verbose and detailed one of their own. This is known in street parlance as *hating*. [...]
Books to Read: American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination
Posted in Books, tagged American hypocrisy, American Methods, book reviews, Books, politics, Reccs, torture, violence on 06/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little while back I finished reading Kristian Williams’ American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, and sadly forgot to post and recommend it here. I don’t often quote publishers’ descriptions of works, but in this case, I think South End Press gets it pretty accurately, so here it goes: “American Methods is a [...]
Good Reads
Posted in Blogs, Books, tagged Books, Reccs, The Book of Night Women on 04/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maud Newton has a very good interview with Marlon James posted over at maudnewton.com. James is the author of the much anticipated (and finally released) novel The Book of Night Women. Set on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the height of 18th century Caribbean slavery, The Book of Night Women centers around Lilith, one of [...]
The Walkmen, Webster Hall, 4/16/09
Posted in Music, tagged bands, Reccs, The Walkmen on 04/17/2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night, your Editor A G and I went to see one of our favorite bands, The Walkmen, for probably the fifth time in the last three years. We will see them anytime anywhere forever, because they are just that damn good. Performing songs from their latest critically acclaimed 2008 release You & Me, a [...]
Photography: Paul Graham
Posted in Art, tagged photography, Reccs on 03/31/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I finally made it to the MoMA to see a shimmer of possibility, the small-ish exhibit by British photographer Paul Graham. The show consists of 49 color images – a sampling of the pictures the photographer took while traveling throughout the States between 2004 and 2006. With a couple of exceptions, the images [...]
All You Can Eat, Drink AND Fuck
Posted in Economy, Marketing, Traveling to the Foreigns, tagged europeans, randomness, Reccs on 03/17/2009 | 3 Comments »
No, really. Dreams do come true, for just $90 a pop. You see, to fight the recession and lure more customers, a brothel in Berlin is offering a flat rate of 70 euros for prostitutes, with unlimited* food and drinks. As an additional “marketing” ploy, the establishment is also allowing men to take along their [...]
Overrated Oscars and Underrated Art
Posted in Movies, tagged Reccs on 02/23/2009 | 1 Comment »
Unlike the rest of America, we will not be commenting on last night’s Oscars; the four hour long, masturbatory, narcissistic lovefest extravaganza spoke for itself. For the most part. I will say three things: First, having seen both Milk and The Wrestler, I strongly maintain that Mickey Rourke was robbed. So what if he tried [...]
How to Spend Your Unemployment Check
Posted in Books, Economy, tagged Reccs on 02/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it looks like we’ll all be joining that unemployment line pretty soon. Why not bring a good read with you for the wait? And if you think you can’t fit all that literature in between Maury and Days of Our Lives, don’t worry, you won’t be able to apply for a job until 2013 [...]
