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href="http://pblks.com/2010/01/winter-soundsrecent-mixes/" title="Winter Sounds/Recent Mixes">Winter Sounds/Recent Mixes</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2595" title="ill-2" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ill-2.gif" alt="ill-2" width="500" height="320" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.lowerdepths.com/mixes/303/ben-ufo-why-not-mix" target="_blank"><strong>Ben UFO</strong>: <em>Why Not Mix</em></a></p> <p class="audioplayer_container"><span style="display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8" id="audioplayer_1">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. 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You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.</span><script type="text/javascript">AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_1", {soundFile:"http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lowerdepths.com%2Fmixes%2Fben-ufo-why-not-mix.mp3"});</script></p> <p>Unreleased and forthcoming from the likes of Roska, Kode 9, Ikonika & Joy Orbison.</p> <p><a href="http://kickoutthejam.blogspot.com/2009/12/dj-oneman-winter-2009-mix.html" target="_blank"><strong>DJ Oneman</strong>: <em>Winter 2009 Mix</em></a></p> <p><em>“The Winter mix is a real mix of styles, incorporating old favourites like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/shackletonmusic">Shackleton</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/burialuk">Burial</a> as well as some new peeps to check out like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/joyorbison">Joy Orbison</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bisweed">Bisweed</a>. It also draws in elements of downtempo d&b and some light techno for good measure and makes for a mix that reminds you of frosty winter nights.”</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2009/12/martin-kemp" target="_blank"><strong>Martin Kemp</strong>:<em> XLR8R Mix</em></a></p> <p><em>“Loaded with high-quality tunes—many of which are forthcoming or entirely unreleased—the mix occupies that unique space where garage, 2-step, funky, and house bubble together in a uniquely potent brew.” </em></p> <p><a href="http://www.thisisluckyme.com/html/1music/mixtapes.html" target="_blank"><strong>Dorian Concept</strong>: <em>Mi NYE Mix (LuckyMe)</em></a></p> <p class="audioplayer_container"><span style="display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8" id="audioplayer_2">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. 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Can’t wait for you all to hear my album ‘Cosmogramma’ coming out April 20th 2010 on Warp Records.”</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/" target="_blank"><strong>Darkstar</strong><em>: 20JazzFunkGreats mix</em></a></p> <p><em>“Darkstar and their post garage phantom pop are probably the [</em><em><a href="http://www.hyperdub.net/" target="_blank">Hyperdub</a>] </em><em>members we’re most excited about as we enter into a new decade, which is why we’re more than a little happy the wire whisperers took the time out from communing with their computers to make XXJFG an exclusive mix, which expertly blends Timbaland exoskeleton rhythms, trippy echo-soul and micro bass beats to perfection.”</em></p> <p>[near the bottom of the page...look for the stars]<em><br /> </em></p> <p><a href="http://soundcloud.com/strictly/blech-20-1" target="_blank"><strong>DJ Food</strong></a><em><a href="http://soundcloud.com/strictly/blech-20-1" target="_blank">: Blech 20.1</a></em></p> <p><em>“Part 1 of a new Blech collection – classic tracks from Warp’s 20 year history, mixed together by Strictly kev aka DJ Food with a nod to the Blech mixes he did with PC in the 90’s. Certain sections mirror the set played at Warp’s 20th anniversary gig in London, 2009.”</em></p> <p>and also…<em><br /> </em></p> <p><a href="http://www.letsmix.com/mix/19295/l_vis_1990_classic_house_mix" target="_blank"><strong>L Vis 1990</strong>: <em>Classic House Mix</em></a></p> <p><a href="http://rj5000.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">[vis a vis RJ5000]</a></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2513" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Jan 5, 2010</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2010/01/a-jazz-thing/#comments" title="Comment on A Jazz Thing">1</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2010/01/a-jazz-thing/" title="A Jazz Thing">A Jazz Thing</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IA7d6P7yXSo&feature" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IA7d6P7yXSo&feature"></embed></object></p> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0vglFMb9zUo" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0vglFMb9zUo"></embed></object></p> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-GJ3i49Ze84" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-GJ3i49Ze84"></embed></object></p> <p>BONUS!</p> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fSfLVSAqBbs" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fSfLVSAqBbs"></embed></object></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2489" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Jan 3, 2010</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2010/01/lost-tehrangeles/#respond" title="Comment on Lost Tehrangeles">0</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2010/01/lost-tehrangeles/" title="Lost Tehrangeles">Lost Tehrangeles</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ca6IF4yIcxg&feature" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ca6IF4yIcxg&feature"></embed></object></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2490" title="punk" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/punk-499x350.jpg" alt="punk" width="499" height="350" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2491" title="man_holding_sign_during_iranian_hostage_crisis_protest_1979-1" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/man_holding_sign_during_iranian_hostage_crisis_protest_1979-1-500x332.jpg" alt="man_holding_sign_during_iranian_hostage_crisis_protest_1979-1" width="500" height="332" /></p> <p><a href="http://belog.jigaram.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Belog</strong></a>, which seems like some sort of subsidiary product of the excellent <a href="http://bidoun.com/bdn/" target="_blank"><strong>Bidoun Magazine</strong></a>, is a hot blog for all things Iranian.</p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2460" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Dec 30, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/okinawa-soba/#respond" title="Comment on Okinawa Soba">0</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/okinawa-soba/" title="Okinawa Soba">Okinawa Soba</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><code>  <script type='text/javascript'> var flashvars = { xml : 'http://pblks.com/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/getxml.php?attr=id^2460*source^full*sourcehd^large*', width : '500', height : '320', classid : 'st_0', rotationtime : '2', transition : 'Blur', transitiontime : '1', transitionease : 'LinearEaseNone', autoplay : '', showcontrols : 'on', controls : '1234', textbgcolor : '', showtext : '', showalt : '', shuffle : '', scale : 'showAll', target : '_self' }; 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To the benefit of photography enthusiasts and nipponophiles everywhere, he has decided to scan and upload a choice selection of the photos to<strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/" target="_blank">his flickr photostream</a></strong>. How did one individual happen to come into the ownership of such a magnificient photographic treasury? According to Soba, it was rather simple:</p> <p><em>“95 % of the stream came from photography dealers and collectors in several countries — the majority of images found </em><em>during business travels</em> to NORTH AMERICA. The part that was not found in North America was tediously acquired from several other countries of the world via “snail mail” correspondence, phone calls, and looking at Xerox copies of single images (and whole collections) that were available. Over 30 years of business travel in and out of Japan allowed me to frequent Antique photography and Ephemera Shows, as well as other venues that centered around the buying and selling of vintage photography. As a member of the National Stereoscopic Association, attendance at our Conventions and Trade Shows naturally resulted in the accumulation of old 3-D images of Japan and elsewhere.”</p> <p>Note: I predict that<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring" target="_blank"><strong> hand-colouring</strong></a> will emerge as an <em>avant-garde</em> photo trend in 2010. Soon after it will be available as an iPhone app. Or maybe that’s already happened and I missed it.</p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2399" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Dec 28, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/the-tehran-strike-back/#comments" title="Comment on The Tehran Strike Back">1</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/the-tehran-strike-back/" title="The Tehran Strike Back">The Tehran Strike Back</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNmv4tErXys&feature" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNmv4tErXys&feature"></embed></object></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2401" title="6a00d83451c45669e201287685b843970c-800wi" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/6a00d83451c45669e201287685b843970c-800wi-500x375.jpg" alt="6a00d83451c45669e201287685b843970c-800wi" width="500" height="375" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2402" title="slide_4197_58745_large" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/slide_4197_58745_large-500x363.jpg" alt="slide_4197_58745_large" width="500" height="363" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2403" title="slide_4197_58762_large" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/slide_4197_58762_large-500x363.jpg" alt="slide_4197_58762_large" width="500" height="363" /></p> <p><strong>The Guardian</strong>:<em> </em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/27/iran-protest-crackdown-dead-tehran" target="_blank">Mayhem unfolded in Tehran after a brutal crackdown</a> in which security forces fired on protesters gathered on Ashura, one of the holiest days in the Shia calendar. The shootings killed at least four people, with another said to have died from head injuries after being beaten by police. Among the dead was Ali Mousavi, a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, leader of the reformist movement. He was reported to have been shot through the heart.</p> <p><strong>New York Times</strong>: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28iht-edharrison.html" target="_blank">The biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals</a> in multi-ethnic Iran does not come from the embattled democratic opposition movement struggling to reform the Islamic Republic. It comes from increasingly aggressive separatist groups in Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri and Arab ethnic minority regions that collectively make up some 44 percent of Persian-dominated Iran’s population.</p> <p><strong>Wall Street Journal</strong>:<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2009/12/27/protesters-capture-tehran-police-depot/" target="_blank"> In another incident, apparently in central Tehran, a small police depot is attacked by protesters</a>. The protesters appear to take control of the station and lead out a bloodied officer. A police helmet is hurled from the site and held a loft by a protester.</p> <p><strong>The Times</strong>:<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6967927.ece" target="_blank"> Iranian student protester Nada Soltan is Times person of the year</a> – Neda Soltan was not political. She did not vote in the Iranian presidential election on June 12. The young student was appalled, however, by the way that the regime shamelessly rigged the result and reinstalled Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ignoring the pleas of her family, she went with her music teacher eight days later to join a huge opposition demonstration in Tehran.</p> <p><strong>Al Jazeera</strong>: <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/iran/2009/11/200911411259869709.html" target="_blank">Timeline – Iran after the election</a>. June 13 – Authorities say that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incumbent, has won the election with nearly 63 per cent of vote. Mir Hossein Mousavi, who polled 34 per cent of the vote, describes the result a “dangerous charade” and thousands of protesters clash with police.</p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2253" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Dec 18, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/black-swan-theory/#respond" title="Comment on Black Swan Theory">0</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/black-swan-theory/" title="Black Swan Theory">Black Swan Theory</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2294" title="url-4" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/url-4-500x345.jpg" alt="url-4" width="500" height="345" /></p> <p>I was loitering outside of a particularly well-appointed Starbucks tonight, waiting for my wife to use their bathroom, and observing the random assortment of people sitting at the tables in the outside courtyard. I was positioned on the edge of a stone parquet beside an elderly homeless woman who appeared to be sleeping, slumped in her chair. It was around nine o’clock in the evening, on a Friday night, and there were an assortment of mostly middle-aged people milling about in slow motion, reading at the tables, chatting quietly and sipping coffee.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Across from me was a fellow who appeared to be my age, well-kept if slightly overweight in the sedentary fashion, with an appropriately well-trimmed beard. He was reading the New York Times – just finishing a section, actually, which he was carefully folding and placing beside his small round tabletop. The next section lay crisply on the table in front of him. It looked like it might have been the arts section, or maybe metro. The cover page contained only a large picture of someone I recognized; annoyingly, i can’t for the life of me remember who. This guy looked smart enough and probably is, but I knew he wasn’t.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>As<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" target="_blank"><strong> Nassim Nicholas Taleb</strong></a>, the renegade critical economist who predicted the recent stock market crash, writes in <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness" target="_blank"><em>Fooled by Randomness</em></a>,</strong> his book about the idiocy of orthodox economic theory, you have to be stupid to read the newspaper. Stupid. Of course, this is not to say that reading newspapers and magazines can’t be enjoyable, lots of stupid things are enjoyable. I hear, for example, that huffing glue lends a very pleasant buzz to otherwise dull mornings. The reason given by Taleb is simple: everyone reads the newspaper, therefore any ‘news’ that you might gather from it will be obsolete by the time it finds you. The relevance of this shows up starkly in the context of finance: when financial ‘news’ organizations publish ‘hot tips’ on stocks, a savvy investor will only take interest if he already happens to own shares in those companies. Otherwise the information will be, of necessity, useless.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tNkS1YB52NU" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tNkS1YB52NU"></embed></object></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Taleb however, extends his argument effortlessly to cover the gamut of the so-called popular media. To paraphrase his thinking: high risk investments pay off disproportionately in comparison to low-risk investments. The latter draw the majority of investment capital because of their reliability in the short term. The former, though exceedingly risky in the short term, occasionally yield at orders of magnitude in the long term. These kinds of risks, Taleb emphasizes, are worth taking. On the other hand, the ‘blue-chip’ -type, low-risk investments – those that pay little, but with good short-term reliability – are the kind of risks that for Taleb are emphatically NOT worth taking. The reason for this became the title of Taleb’s second book, published just before the mortgage market really started to tank in early 2008. It’s called<em><strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_(Taleb_book)" target="_blank">The Black Swan</a></strong></em>. A black swan is a highly unlikely event; one that is unpredictable from preexisting models of the system it impacts, and whose impact changes the structure of the system unpredictably and irrevocably.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Much of this book amounts to Taleb making the profound and persuasive case that all the major historical events that have shaped the world as we know it were black swans for the world that preexisted their occurrence. This is obviously a pretty major claim, and here I am without a citation. Fuck it: read the books. Taleb’s argument gets even more spooky when you follow his assertion that once black swans occur, they become precisely those conditions of which it is most difficult to imagine the world in the absence. In other words, not only can we not imagine them before they occur, we can’t see them after they occur either! They become part of the architecture, part of the unquestionable firmament; the defining characteristic of a black swan after it has occurred is that it is taken for granted. Retrospectively, they take on the appearance of things that could not have happened otherwise.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s8l50gIQN7w&feature" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s8l50gIQN7w&feature"></embed></object></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>So what the fuck does this have to do with the popular media? Easy. The third major characteristic that Taleb clarifies with regard to the black swan is that its disproportionate impact on events is accompanied by its disproportionate absence from the ‘popular media.‘ What does this mean? It means that the black swan is precisely that event in which these initial characteristics of huge impact and tiny prior knowledge are combined; the effect of the black swan is definitively augmented by the lack of familiarity that precedes its invention. The popular media is precisely that spectrum of omni-communicable information into which no inkling of black swans, no matter how relevant or immanent, can penetrate. For Taleb, infuriatingly, this is all just a simple consequence of the incomprehensibly chaotic nature of the environs that we inhabit. If we get our information from ‘the news’, we will certainly not receive any information about impending black swan events. Taleb offers a number of convincing historical examples of this, including both World Wars, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11, et cetera, and et cetera (fuck you, Wharton), up to the most recent stock market crash, explicitly predicted in the pages of <em><strong>The Black Swan</strong></em>.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><em>-Blake Victor Seidenshaw</em></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2286" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Dec 16, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/babylon-falling/#respond" title="Comment on Babylon Falling">0</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/babylon-falling/" title="Babylon Falling">Babylon Falling</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2285" title="scrapbook_10" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/scrapbook_10-500x335.jpg" alt="scrapbook_10" width="500" height="335" /><br /> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="281" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4188506&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="281" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4188506&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2288" title="tumblr_ktljd3lrIh1qzhoqfo1_500" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tumblr_ktljd3lrIh1qzhoqfo1_500.jpg" alt="tumblr_ktljd3lrIh1qzhoqfo1_500" width="500" height="359" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2289" title="tumblr_ku541xrrZI1qzhoqfo1_500" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tumblr_ku541xrrZI1qzhoqfo1_500.jpg" alt="tumblr_ku541xrrZI1qzhoqfo1_500" width="500" height="395" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><a href="http://babylonfalling.tumblr.com" target="_blank"><strong>Babylon Falling is one of the best tumblrs going</strong></a>, but once upon a time it was also San Fransisco’s<strong><em> </em></strong>one and only<strong><em> </em></strong><em>‘anti-revolutionary bookstore’ revolutionary bookstore:</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><em>Babylon Falling was a concept driven independent bookstore, located in Lower Nob Hill San Francisco and open between June 2007 and June 2009, with a focus on the spirit of Revolution. In addition to new books we also carried similarly themed collectible toys, artwork, DVDs, and our own in-house t-shirt line featuring designs submitted by artists who exhibited at the store.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Revolution surrounded us. On one side of the store the shelves were dedicated to the history, theory, and politics of Revolution. The other wall of shelves was focused on aesthetic and stylistic Revolution and featured sections devoted to literature, graphic novels, art, and music. The toys, artwork, clothing, and DVDs complemented and supplemented the collection of over 3,000 titles. <strong> <em>NO FILLER.</em></strong></em></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2263" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Dec 13, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/berlusconi-bloodied-populist/#respond" title="Comment on Berlusconi: Bloodied Populist">0</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/berlusconi-bloodied-populist/" title="Berlusconi: Bloodied Populist">Berlusconi: Bloodied Populist</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2264" title="berlusconi-attacker_275346s" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/berlusconi-attacker_275346s-500x341.jpg" alt="berlusconi-attacker_275346s" width="500" height="341" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2265" title="berlusconi-car-AP_275321s" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/berlusconi-car-AP_275321s-500x341.jpg" alt="berlusconi-car-AP_275321s" width="500" height="341" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>First shoes, now statuettes. It looks like the revolutionary object-throwers of the world are beginning to step their game up. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/13/silvio-berlusconi-punched-face" target="_blank"><strong>The Guardian reports</strong></a>:</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><em>“At one point he interrupted the rally to address protesters who had been chanting “buffoon”, saying they should be ashamed of themselves. Towards the end he boasted that he was still “young and on form”, opening his shirt to show that he “wasn’t even wearing a vest”, before he and a dozen ministers ended the rally with a sing–along of the national anthem. Minutes later, the assault put an end to what should have been the prime minister’s evening of triumph.”</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>In his essay <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n14/slavoj-zizek/berlusconi-in-tehran" target="_blank"><em><strong>“Berlusconi in Tehran”</strong></em></a> Slavoj Zizek provides a stirring analysis of the Italian PM’s antics:</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><em>“Berlusconi is a significant figure, and Italy an experimental laboratory where our future is being worked out. If our political choice is between permissive-liberal technocratism and fundamentalist populism, Berlusconi’s great achievement has been to reconcile the two, to embody both at the same time. It is arguably this combination which makes him unbeatable, at least in the near future: the remains of the Italian ‘left’ are now resigned to him as their fate. This is perhaps the saddest aspect of his reign: his democracy is a democracy of those who win by default, who rule through cynical demoralisation.</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><em>Berlusconi acts more and more shamelessly: not only ignoring or neutralising legal investigations into his private business interests, but behaving in such a way as to undermine his dignity as head of state. The dignity of classical politics stems from its elevation above the play of particular interests in civil society: politics is ‘alienated’ from civil society, it presents itself as the ideal sphere of the </em><em>citoyen in contrast to the conflict of selfish interests that characterise the </em><em>bourgeois. Berlusconi has effectively abolished this alienation: in today’s Italy, state power is directly exerted by the </em><em>bourgeois, who openly exploits it as a means to protect his own economic interest, and who parades his personal life as if he were taking part in a reality TV show.”</em></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-2259" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Dec 9, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/when-satire-attacks/#comments" title="Comment on When Satire Attacks">1</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/12/when-satire-attacks/" title="When Satire Attacks">When Satire Attacks</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <div id="main-article-info"> <p id="stand-first"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2258" title="tumblr_kucel5sncC1qzpt5vo1_500" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tumblr_kucel5sncC1qzpt5vo1_500.jpg" alt="tumblr_kucel5sncC1qzpt5vo1_500" width="500" height="387" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><span style="white-space: pre;"><em></em></span></p> <div id="article-wrapper"> <p>After a rash of schoolyard attacks left scores of red-headed children <a title="Guardian: Children with red hair targeted by classmates in southern California" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/24/california-ginger-red-hair-beating">beaten and bruised</a>, parents in the US, Canada and the UK are shocked and appalled by the rising tide of anti-ginger violence.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>The attacks were said to have originally been inspired by an <a title="South Park: Episode 911" href="http://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/guide/episode/911/">episode of South Park</a> that aired in November of 2005, but have since mutated into a global phenomenon. In the episode, the character Eric Cartman claims that “gingers” are diseased and inhuman. But after his friends bleach his skin and dye his hair red while he’s asleep, Cartman does a volte-face and becomes the leader of a genocidal ginger uprising.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>The writers of South Park were clearly attempting to satirise hate groups, but the episode inadvertently spawned the “ginger kids” internet meme, which has served to amplify and spread pre-existing prejudice. Although these online jabs were initially meant to be humorous, often taking the form of <a title="mock inspirational posters" href="http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/sabrehockeylw30/GingerKids.png">mock inspirational posters</a>, the meme turned violent in 2008 after a 14-year-old Canadian created a Facebook group that established 20 November as “<a title="Canada: 'Kick a ginger' day left redheads with legs covered in bruises" href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ac06eaac-1cb1-4ee7-8e17-a9b8b314af71">Kick a Ginger Day</a>“.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>The group was deleted soon after authorities learned of its existence, but by that point the webpage had received enough traffic for Kick a Ginger Day to go viral. Now in its second year, this year’s <a title="CBS: Three Arrested for Alleged South Park-Inspired 'Kick a Ginger' Beatings" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/27/crimesider/entry5799944.shtml">incidents</a> have spread as far as the <a title="Isle of Man Today: Pupils sent home after plotting to 'Kick a Ginger'" href="http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Pupils-sent-home-after-plotting.5852777.jp">Isle of Man</a>, indicating a cultural momentum completely independent of the original context. But while one Canadian judge blamed a “<a title="CBC: Judge slams 'vulgar' South Park for 'Kick a Ginger Day' attacks" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/05/08/calgary-discharge-kick-ginger.html">vulgar, socially irreverent</a>” South Park for the violence, there is nothing new about gingerism. Rather than an isolated case, Kick a Ginger Day is best interpreted as the latest flare-up of what many consider to be the last form of <a title="Guardian: Simply red" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/gingerism-ginger-prejudice">acceptable prejudice</a>.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>For centuries, even millennia, non-gingers have continually expressed their distaste for all things copper-top. The only difference between the red-headed-witch-burnings of the 15th century and the grade-school drubbings of today is that superstition has been replaced with crudely applied science. Since their genes were decoded in 1997, gingers, once regarded as vampiric by their oppressors, are now dismissed as mere genetic defects doomed to eventual extinction.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>This attitude is in critical need of reappraisal. Gingers are more than potential sunburn victims cloaked in a galaxy of freckles and topped off with a wild streak of bright orange hair. They are living metaphors for the fragility of our species and the universality of individual perseverance. The adversity faced by the average ginger can, in fact, be <a title="Times: Being ginger's been the making of us'" href="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article5747819.ece">inspirational and beneficial</a>, but ginger kids shouldn’t be expected to endure violent persecution just because they have a mutated MC1R gene.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Less than 2% of the world is full-on ginger, but many of us, regardless of race or religion, contain partial ginger genetics. Now is the time for these closet gingers to stand up against the further proliferation of Kick a Ginger Day, a heinous fad that is tantamount to racism. I hold such a strong opinion on the subject because I am one. I am ginger. My father, a Scotsman, is a full ginger. But my mother is blonde; a pigment combination that has has allowed me to live a double-life similar to the that of <a title="Wikipedia: Anatole Broyard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_Broyard">Anatole Broyard</a>. My hair is technically “strawberry blond-brown” but everything south of my scalp is a rusty red. Which means my gingerness remains shrouded if I stay clean shaven and don’t take off my clothes. But no longer. From this point on, until it becomes physically uncomfortable or I get a girlfriend, I am making the personal choice to not shave as a gesture of solidarity.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>If we allow the next generation of ginger kids to be alienated and victimised, what will happen to the Lionhearts, the Churchills and the Lohans of the future? Malcolm X, one of the 20th century’s <a title="Wikipedia: Malcolm X" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Early_years">most influential gingers</a>, put it best when he said: “I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their colour.”</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>And the same should go for hair colour.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>(originally published on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/08/gingers-prejudice-redheads-bigotry" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>)</div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="paginateIndex" class="fix"> <p><span class="left"><a href="http://pblks.com/" >« Previous</a></span> <span class="right"><a href="http://pblks.com/page/3/" >Next »</a></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="secondaryColumn"> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: Entity: line 1: parser error : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: ^ in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: Entity: line 2: parser error : expected '>' in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: as an ideological symptom. </i></p></regular-body></post></posts></ in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: ^ in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: Entity: line 2: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: tumblr line 2 and unparseable in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: as an ideological symptom. </i></p></regular-body></post></posts></ in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: simplexml_load_string() [<a href='function.simplexml-load-string'>function.simplexml-load-string</a>]: ^ in <b>/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/47237/domains/pblks.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/tumblr-widget.php</b> on line <b>118</b><br /> Sorry, we're having trouble loading this Tumblr ...