http://www.stormcoming.org Relatively Harmless Little Dystopian Rantings Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:20:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since far too many people have been asking what I think of "occupy", here's some of what I put on my (private) facebook: At what point do the 99% finally realize we are not the occupiers, but the occupied? I was asked to clarify, this is a rough first impression of what ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2011/11/14/on-occupy-and-strategy/ Perhaps best summarized by this Jennifer Berman panel from Summer '08 (With special thanks to a special fellow who pointed this out today.) AUUGH! I'm definitely still in the "cynic" column. Not that I don't believe the grand sign off will take place, just in that the 'devil' will be in the ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2009/09/02/my-thoughts-on-the-soon-to-be-independent-antioch/ Yeah, well, this week's bright spot was of course India. Meanwhile, the shit continues to hit the fan. This is how just some of the digital Queer portions of my life went this past week over the Stonewall anniversary (and no, don't even get me started on similar such travesties in other ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2009/07/06/one-for-the-what-an-anti-queer-week-its-been-files/ Yup, I said 2009, not some date plucked from the past. Read 'em and weep. Happy fucking Stonewall 40 everyone. (I've been doing some of my "brighter" or "happier" writing about the Stonewall anniversary primarily elsewhere, but wanted to pull these three sorrow and rage inducing events out and document them over ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2009/06/29/stonewall-09-a-litany-of-sorrows-rainbow-lounge-raid-anti-queer-assault-and-the-sf-pink-triangle-arson/ Yeah the YouTube? Usually not so much with me, but this is a useful little thing to keep handy. Never know when you might have need of it, there are just so many occasions for use. Music by Lily Allen, set to uploaded video collaborative montage, Big Fat Gay ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2009/05/07/couldnt-have-said-it-better-myself/ Well that's 8 years of all our lives we can never get back. Fuck you very much Mr. Bush. You and the imbeciles you rode in on. http://www.stormcoming.org/2009/01/20/inauguration-day-09/ Last Thursday Paula Treichler's piece "Antioch: Report From Ground Zero" appeared on Inside Higher Ed. I'm not going to cover piece by piece every last bit of coverage, relating to the meticulous obliteration of Antioch College, but articles such as Treichler's are important, in that they come from a ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2008/07/12/more-vital-readings-relating-to-the-murder-of-antioch-college/ (A picture of "Hassle Castle.") By way of my title, I am referring of course to Antioch College, and Horace Mann, the abolitionist, visionary educator, and social reformer; Antioch's first President. Mann was a champion of public education. He believed that in a democratic society, education should be tuition free and universal, ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2008/07/01/they-murdered-our-college-mann/ (An older introduction, originally written over a year ago, Feb 14th '07 to be exact, for this page before changing it over to a blog format.) *** This is how I learned that America, while beautiful, is in profound ways deeply broken. Miles, lots of miles, overland; so naturally, an American byway I've ... http://www.stormcoming.org/2008/05/25/the-road-an-introduction-of-sorts/