Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Step Brothers, Select Media Festival, the Movement for a Democratic Society, and green buildings OR Anti-Miserablism

Saturday, gonna freeek the tap room with the Step Brothers Dance Band.

In my debut behind the kit, gonna beat out three songs - a beginning

a middle,
the longest part
that seems to go nowhere
but eventually does reach something,
and an end (which hopefully won't be long and painful).

I'm excited already to tell you how it went.

Here's something.






Space: Just
read this around
while sitting the corner
freeek u out!from the tap room, a radicalized collection of Chicago freeeks, hosts the sixth Select Media Festival. The opening show is November 9th at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. The theme is space. The gallery is blacklight lit. The basement is a black hole.

Polish drama Chinese space-dance pop-rockers Brilliant Pebbles will rock the colony.



The very next morning, SMF makes time for another curious event, You Can Change the World! - A Convergence of the Movement for a Democratic Society.

But how do they expect one to get to Loyola University by 10 AM on Saturday? Or choose between the following discussions?

10 am Rm 212 Comics, Blues & Popular Culture: Paul Buhle & Paul Garon. Buhle edited Radical America in the 60s; His recent books are Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World and forthcoming SDS A Graphic History of Students for a Democratic Society. Garon's latest book is What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way: Black Hoboes & Their Songs.

10 am Rm 312 Anti-Miserablism-The Surrealist Perspective: David Roediger, Kate Khatib & Franklin Rosemont. Roediger teaches at the U of Il in Champaign. His books include The Wages of Whiteness and Colored White and recently History Against Misery. Khatib is a founder of Red Emma's Book Store and is researching Surrealism. Rosemont has written Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous; Wrong Numbers and recently is author of Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism.

10 am Rm 412 Resisting Endless War: Tom Good, Elaine Brower, Bill Ayers. Student and community organizing as well as supporting G.I. resistance. Ayers: former SDS and WUO leader and prominent educator/author/activist. Brower: mother of a US Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, member of the World Can't Wait steering committee and MDNYC. Good is MDS organizer and editor of Next Left Notes.

Rightfreek on
the y o u same
damnoutblock

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!is UrbanLab, who are making their own future plans
for water world.

The Urbanlab-ers have other reasons to get out of their lab space this week, the Green Build Expo.

Speaking
of space colonies,

our house becomes a dorm this week for a few Kansas architecture students attending this

I'm so glad we had this time together

green
just to have a laugh
and sing a song
Seems we just got started and before we knew it

thing

came the time we had to say, "so long."

5 Comments:

Blogger Carlos Anaconda said...

Carol Burnett?

November 7, 2007 9:40:00 AM EST  
Blogger Justin said...

You know, I saw that American Masters documentary on PBS the other night, too.

November 7, 2007 11:07:00 AM EST  
Blogger Wednesday said...

You got me on that one Justin. She was a cutie back in the day wasn't she?

November 7, 2007 2:34:00 PM EST  
Blogger Justin said...

Indeed. And funny.

November 7, 2007 6:52:00 PM EST  
Blogger bluebird of doom and gloom said...

thanks for the links to UrbanLab. will sit down and have a look at their full proposal for turning Chicago into a water park later.

November 13, 2007 7:16:00 AM EST  

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