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Entries from April 2009

“Take a look at yourself. They have a name for faces like that.”

April 29th, 2009 · No Comments

“The Third Man (1949), also spelled The 3rd Man, is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene. Greene’s novella of the same name, written in preparation for writing the screenplay, was published in 1950.” -wikipedia

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Tags: Film

Love, Race, and Human Trafficking

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

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Tags: Film

We Built the First Skate Ramp in the Methow Valley

April 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Found all of these Methow (It’s pronounced Met-How!!) photos at Methow.com.

Skiing Up to South Early Winters Spire, photo by Belinda Denchfield 

I’m one of those people who is just smart enough to understand how really smart some of my friends are. I recently caught up with one of those brilliant friends, a kid that I grew up [...]

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Tags: National News

Bike Polo Players and Washboard Country Dance Music

April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

We all miss the large, bouncing hair and omnipresent smile that is Sebastian, but we have to tolerate his absence for a while because he is an International Bike Polo Superstar and is touring Europe right now. Here is some sloppily non-edited video of SeaBass and friends playing bike polo at a secret Ravenna location [...]

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Tags: Local News

If history is a mirror, maybe we’re in the blind spot.

April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

For the most violent culture on earth, there sure are a lot of nice people here.
  “…Studying the relationship between the “West” and its dominated cultural “others” is not just a way of understanding an unequal relationship between unequal interlocutors, but also a point of entry into studying the formation and meaning of Western [...]

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Tags: International News

Moto Make-Believe!

April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

 

*Following any of the advice in this post may cause you to crash and die, void your warranty, or be ridiculed by the local shop-bros who look like this guy:

1. “You should never try to repair a punctured motorcycle tire.”
Remember the time you picked up a roofing nail in your new [...]

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Tags: Mechanical Husbandry

Domestic Dispute

April 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

photo by Dagny Ihnot

photo (of the photo, hanging on the wall at ABC Legal Services) by Craig Etheridge
Excerpt from “Affidavit, 4/14/09″:
“1.     I am a Legal Messenger.  I have personal knowledge of the matters contained herein and am competent to testify thereto.
2.      …..I had attempted to serve Ms. Dean at 6:30 P.M. at her [...]

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Tags: Reflections

When Messengers Rode in Critical Mass

April 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve saved this Stranger clipping since about 1997 (wow.)
The cop pulls the kid off of his bike for not stopping, the kid breaks his arm in the fall and is unconscious, every body forms a circle around the cop and starts going apeshit. Cop calls for back-up on his radio with the intense-Vietnam-movie-voice. The girl [...]

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Tags: Reflections

Somali Pirate Union Files Labor Dispute with Connecticut Longshoremen

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

 
Yeah, I made that up. But a longshoremen did stab one of those pirates in the hand with an ice pick.
Thailand is blowing up.

photo from “creative commons”
Bolivian president Evo Morales is on day five of his hunger strike. Bolivia is the first country in Latin America to elect an Indian for president. Noam Chomsky recently [...]

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Tags: International News

Between the Drone and the Scream

April 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Hoag at Afghanistan invasion protest in Washington D.C., 2001. Photo by Kristin Silady

Truthout.org is full of amazing articles right now. Students have been removed from the New School campus after occupying one of the buildings in protest of an unpopular president, watch the amazing video. I asked Dagny Ihnot when the last time a building [...]

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Tags: International News