Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks. The U.S. government doesn’t think so, of course. It is frantic about today’s “expected release of up to three million confidential diplomatic communiques by the Wikileaks website.” (Scroll down for continuing updates.) Update: “US embassy cables: browse the database” — via The Guardian WASHINGTON — A cache of […]
Archives for November 2010
Vintage Burroughs … No Miracles Here
It’s the week of Thanksgiving, after all: Words of Gratitude. And here’s more Burroughs … on Jesus … the A-Bomb … the Titanic … Doctor Benway … you get the idea. It’s a 1989 reading. He was doing perfected shtick by then. The automatic audience adulation, which was unavoidable under the circumstances — he was […]
Old Evidence Rediscovered
This report from Athens under the Greek military junta 42 years ago turned up in a batch of old letters and postcards that a friend found the other day in a forgotten file. “How I come to have it,” he writes, “is a mystery.” Well, mystery solved: He and I were doing VDRSVP at the […]
Book Sex
Kant was also born in 1724, a coincidence not lost on Editions Silverbridge, the French publisher of Birth of the Cunt. The video was recorded Nov. 5, 2010, at the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, taking place this weekend at MoMA P.S. 1 in Queens, New York. On the soundtrack that’s Spike Wilner noodling […]
Unindicted War Criminal Back on the Air
…and Matt Lauer is his enabler. “I really don’t care about perceptions at this point in time. … I’m a content man.”— George W. Bush Postscript: Nov. 7 — It’s worth mentioning Robert Fisk’s perceptions in this context. He writes almost daily, and his stuff is incomparable. These two recent columns are just two back-to-back […]