Category: Book excerpts

• Inka Cola / Holiday Shows

  One of my favorite lyrics on our new record uses a nugget I got from a passage in Mark Pendergrast’s great history of the Coca-Cola corporation: in perhaps the perfect symbol of neo-colonialism, the Coca-Cola corporation actually bought out Inka Cola of Peru.  The line in the song goes,   “Mao’s Little Red Book slandered you…

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  November 21, 2017

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, History, Music, New Releases, Shows and Events, Wisecracks

  Coca-Cola, dA Center for the Arts, El Pulpo, Inka Cola, Mark Pendergrast, Peter Hughes, The Hemlock Tavern

• The Residents and the Arctic

  I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio.  A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity.  I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say…

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  October 27, 2014

  Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  american empire, Arctic Circle, Book Reviews, Coca-Cola, Cora Dubois, Dust to Digital, Ecuador, Edward Said, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Eric Lott, Eskimo, Folkways, Harvard University, History, Immanuel Kant, Imperial Eyes, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Inuit, Jadaliyaa, Jay-Z, LA, Left media, Lowland Tribes of Ecuador, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Music, Naomi Klein, Native Instruments, Omar Souleyman, Palestinian Walks, Paul Gilroy, Peabody Museum, Race, Record Reviews, Residents, Sarah Palin, Siam Mapped, Sublime Frequencies, Timbalaand, Upcoming Projects

• Sunday Paper with the BPF: Ahhh, Mindfulness

  Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore.  Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership.  But I’ve been kicking back and checking out some posts on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) website after renewing my membership today.  Among them was a piece with a…

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  June 29, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Buddhism, Economics, History, Politics, The Dharma

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, american empire, Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Burma, Capitalism, chalmers johnson, Devo, Doug Henwood, Drug Policy, Economics, Eric Schmidt, Feminism, Google, IMF, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Karl Marx, KRS-One, Laos, Neoliberalism, NPR, Peter Dale Scott, Professor Elizabeth Stanley, Race, Ronald Purser, Silicon Valley, Thailand, The Dharma, The Stone House, Time magazine, Vipassana Hawaii, Washington Consensus, Whip It, Wired magazine

• Are you ready for some futbol? History and the World Cup

  During the recently concluded qualifying rounds for next summer’s 2014 World Cup, I was reminded of Paraguay’s run at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.  So much hope for a more equitable world seemed to mis/dis-placed onto the upsets Ghana and Paraguay scored to advance to the quarterfinals of that event. The tournament ultimately…

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  November 24, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Sports, Uncategorized

  a, Argentina, Bank of London, Barack Obama, Brazil, Eduardo Galeano, Football in Sun and Shadow, Futbol, Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, Ghana, Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, Netherlands, Open Veins of Latin America, Paraguay, Spain, Standard Oil, War of the Triple Alliance, World Cup

• Unhand Me

  From “Major Aranda’s Hand,” by Alfonso Reyes: “Major Aranda suffered the loss of a hand in battle, and, unfortunately for him, it was his right hand…A delicate instrument, [the hand] possesses the most fortunate physical resourcres: hinges, pincers, tongs, hooks, bony little chains, nerves, ligaments, canals, cushions, valleys and hillocks.  It is soft and hard,…

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  October 30, 2013

  Book excerpts, Disability, Mental Health, Wisecracks

  Alfonso Reyes, Bordering Fires, Folk Implosion, Major Aranda’s Hand, Palm of My Hand