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What is the war about?
It is about the cost of food and petrol, of basic alimentation and transport. It is about not being able to pay bills, rent, mortgage, housing costs, the costs of habitation, shelter. It is about not being able to afford to pay for education, whether for children or oneself. It
Some reviews accused her of histrionics but at no point did I ever feel she was over the top. … Anonymous said… spot on! I had the pleasure of a hug from her … to do big venues as once you have been captured in the Spiegeltent … A good stand-up comic uses
‘We are the ones we have been waiting for.’
AND What are you going to do in the war, Mummy?
ad by way of introducing the artist, Brendon Wilkinson, new to me, maker of the superb Meat Dust, 2006
– from here, advertising a shop in Istanbul
home (a note on new Christchurch earthquake music video: my city’s in ruins: no link) & away (but maybe these Arabs were there all along: a link to electronic intifada)
quite apart from the monetarisation of every relation, there appears the
as if
of our neo-colonised and neo-liberal social setup: as if a relation belonged to the world of commercial communication. The models set by the commercialisation of culture hereby extend beyond what may – usefully or not – be
thoughts, prayers, business, shit and jelly: the Christchurch earthquake
The jolt was felt as far away as Tauranga, which is an hour south of Auckland, and all over the South Island. But it was shallower and more localised than the last quake in Christchurch. The last measured 7.1, its epicentre 50 km out to sea and 10 km