A new novel hits the bookshelves in Vienna, and the Austrian television network ORF interviews the author on the news. Try getting a novelist interviewed on the evening news in America. Never happen. Besides, we’re talking about a book called Manhattan Muffdiver, not exactly a title that U.S. network censors would approve. It’s not altogether […]
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Bill & Tony With a Twist
This video experiment, first posted by realitystudio.org, was recorded on Dec. 21, 1971, as I wrote there, in William S. Burroughs‘ London flat at 8 Duke St. The filmmaker Antony Balch, who lived downstairs, brought his movie projector up to the flat, along with the unfinished footage of Bill & Tony, a movie he’d been […]
Obama Makes It His Top Secret, Too
It’s so secret, We Can’t Tell You. That’s the catchy headline on today’s New York Times editorial about “relentless efforts” to continue the aaaeulc‘s legacy of clandestine eavesdropping. If an Islamic charity is “subjected to warrantless surveillance” by the National Security Agency and is “declared a sponsor of terrorism,” what happens when it challenges those […]