Last of the naked eye astronomers (Ethyl, get your clothes on!). Lost his nose in a duel (I wonder if this where that game with babies came from). Vanity caused him to replace with a gold prosthetic, only to discover it was merely brass.

Always makes me cry, but then I had never heard it in an upbeat tempo.

being given a pass on their continued fronting for the Candidate?

They should be challenged aggressively and relentlessly every single day from now until election.

The Podesta emails prove that the Candidate is everything we thought she was.(and less)
The relation between Citigroup and Obama cabinet choices show how deep the fix is in.

There is no doubt about what they are trying pull in Clinton camp. Hacks like Mook and Brazille lie for money and to help the team. This is expected, though again the emails have really nailed it down. ('"Christian woman"- retching)

But the entire Dem leadership is complicit; Sanders and Warren, having the most power, are the most culpable. They KNOW and continue to front. I hope that what remains of the free press will press them on this issue just as hard as Brazille was pushed on CNN issue. There is no importance to Brazille unless she comes to Jesus and publicly repents her lies.

On the other hand the sin of Sanders(et. al.) is much graver. Even now he could make a difference, but he chooses to cheer for the Candidate and piss on the left.

WTF Bernie! How much will you let pass? ( from one who sent you money, made calls, canvassed neighborhoods,
drove to Las Vegas to help in primary, talked to friends, and wore your damned Tshirt )

Stein - Baraka 2016

believe it or not.

I hereby present Selene: Michael Manring, a Zon fretless bass, a bunch of Hipshot tuners, and some seriously bad intentions lead to one of the more interesting solo studies I've heard since listening to Bela Fleck retune his banjo on the fly. This is very much worth a listen, if you aren't familiar with the guy- or with Hipshots.

Hell of a lot better than listening to any of the candidates...

to our local activist group in Astoria.

Greetings EL and all good 99%er folks. Nice brisk day here in NYC, love this weather immensely.

Cool story about that:

A few years ago an Occupy friend of mine who usually combs the Craigslist ads for interesting things posted an ad that said something like "huge collection of radical political, philosophy, humor, history and all kinds of books for free, but you must take them all."

So I thought I'd take a chance and wrote an email saying we were a local Occupy group in Queens who are looking into creating a community space and would be interested. He wrote back saying they were ours if we wanted them. All of a sudden I had a dilemma. First, what did the actual collection look like, then how to transport what he said were an entire loft full of books, then finally where to store them.

So the Occupy activist friend of mine who found the ad and myself went down to the Soho loft where Tuli lived to meet his son and see what we were getting into. We walked into a large railroad style room that was being cleared out and had nothing left but books on shelves covering most of the wall space, and more bookcases stacked and even more boxes on the floor. There were an overwhelming amount of books. Not all great obviously, but some radical Left gems and plenty of stuff we could give away as part of the new space we hoped to be opening. He said his father would be happy to know such a group as ours would be getting his stuff.

Anyway, long story short we got them back to our neighborhood in a U-haul truck with the help of about a dozen other local activists in our group, stored them at another member's place for a few months and then moved into an alcove/former storage space attached to car repair shop he owned next door. For many months spirits were high and there was lots of volunteer help and interest from the surrounding community. Many people worked on the space, spackling, putting up sheet rock, insulating the roof, painting, categorizing the books, redoing the floor, installing lights, along with many friends of friends offering supplies and their expertise. We got in touch with some of Tuli's old friends, and the aforementioned activist who found the ad and I even were invited to have dinner with his old friend and owner of ESP Records who recorded the Fugs, Bernard Stollman. In the end the group member whose family owned the building got cold feet and made some weird excuses whey we couldn't continue (we suspect he was getting pressure to cash in by selling the building, but who knows). After two years of all this work, the dream of a community space, with Tuli's library at the center of it, withered.

It's been months since I've seen the books. They're all at another community space that welcomed us, but a key member (and librarian) of our small central group who worked most on this project just moved out of town, we just had a baby less than a year ago and another is a national comedian who was on the road most of the year. So our wonderful idealism is kind of in limbo at the moment.

But Tuli's radical Left books remain on shelves nearby, waiting to be engaged. I've got a few titles here, "Echoes of Revolt: The Masses 1911-1917," "Jack London/American Rebel" by Philip Foner, "Years of Protest: a collection of American writings of the 1930's," "Some Dissenting Voices" by Arthur and Lila Weinberg, "Writings On The Wall: A Radical and Socialist Anthology 1215-1984."

I'll always have an affinity for Tuli and all those great Yippies' penchant for creative, hilarious and biting radical street protest, poetry and art.

Sung to Patti Smith's (Springsteen-penned) "Because the Night," "because the State belongs to Fuckers..."

Here he is still in great radical spirit not long before he left us, in the apartment where we came and lovingly took his books. "Nobody For President":