Art Spiegelman: The Complete Maus: a Survivor's Tale
I've kept meaning to read this one, and got it for Xmas this year. I should have read it years ago.
Neal Stephenson: The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion : Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle)
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Picked the hardcover up second hand. Took a long time to read. Now I have to find the next two...
JOHN D. MACDONALD: Flash of Green (Fawcett Gold Medal)
OK, John D. Macdonald is a guilty pleasure
Lewis Mumford: The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
ROBERT NEUWIRTH: Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
Amazing examination of squatting in the world today.
Tin Soldiers
Stiff Little Fingers: Nobody's Heroes
This one goes out to all the soldiers in Bush's army that have been back door drafted
Pig Was Cool
Killdozer: Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
A gentle reminder that even the cops used to be the guys we got drunk with at bush bashes behind the old school.
Here Comes the war
New Model Army: Thunder & Consolation
It ain't coming, it's here
A Twisted Sense Of God Pt. 1
Fine Arts Militia: Fine Arts Militia
Yeah, f**k the religious right and the horse they raped on the way in.
51st State of America
New Model Army: Thunder & Consolation
Originally written about Great Britain, taken by Canada as a second national anthem, I wonder if any english speaking Iraqis are cranking this up in their basement... (*****)
Java Junkie
Dance Hall Crashers: The Old Record (1989-1992)
(*****)
Each Dollar A Bullet
Stiff Little Fingers: Flags and Emblems
(*****)
Speed
Atari Teenage Riot: Burn Berlin Burn
Aggression is good. (*****)
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Peace 2006:
Too cool! Grameen bank and Muhammad Yunus gets it for micro-credit. I've been a fairly big fan of the whole concept for years. Nice to see the concept get some credit.
What is also heartening is that this reflects a baseline assumption that peace is inextricably linked with economic and social justice.
Nice to see the Nobel commitee get it right. God knows they've got it wrong in the past.
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