Monthly Archives: January 2008

Repugnance

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 31, 2008

Today’s New York Times Arts section has an article on repugnance, titled Economists Dissect the ‘Yuck’ Factor. Yuck is my ThemeWord for 2008, so — although I find conservative economics repulsive and offensive in the extreme — I was drawn to the article. [Alvin] Roth spoke at a recent panel on the economics of repugnance [...]

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“A”

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 30, 2008

a fiction, a fictive foto, a fanciful design said to have been the greatest corporate nazi killer of them all… ACT I Ben is lowered from the ceiling. After a moment of being alone, various office “products” begin to be lowered from the ceiling and set in place in Ben’s office cubicle. As each product [...]

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Key Endorsement

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 30, 2008

If you have Hulk Hogan on your side, who else do you really need?

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A French Lesson

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 30, 2008

Milly à la Scène BastilleEnvoyé par valentinakriche dans Musique sur wat.tv [tags]le electile disfunction, @loic votre nombre s’il vous plait, quelque chose la reindeer, book contract a la congo belgique, thinking fontly auf dich[/tags]

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Somewhere on the way from kyogen to anime…

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 30, 2008
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1967 was a very good year

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 29, 2008

Didn’t see the Young Rascals on JP’s 1967 top fifty albums list. I could skip a few of the artists he has listed (Herman’s Hermits?) but I have to say the people below were in my top fifty that year, probably my top ten. …and Wilson Pickett… …and Marvin Gaye, Aretha, Smokey, Gladys… hard for [...]

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post-mortemism

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 29, 2008

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: Stop participating in it.” – Jan Erasmus quoting Noam Chomsky at Jonathan Barnbrook’s Day of Forgetting blog We can always count on RB to pull something interesting, brilliant and beautiful out of the internets.

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Climate Frog

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 28, 2008

Last summer Jon Lebkowsky interviewed Cliff Figallo, author of Climate Frog, at WorldChanging. It was a two part interview. Part one is here. It brings focus to Cliff’s lengthy experience in intentional communities, from The Farm to The WELL. Part two is here. It focuses on “…climate change, denial, and the possibility of mitigation and [...]

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