Saturday, March 10, 2007PREPARING TO LEAVEI just returned from a film retrospective in New York City on the work of documentarian John Marshall at the Anthology Film Archives. I was there to introduce the films on the opening night and do a Q&A afterwards. This April will be the second anniversary of his death. I reviewed my journals and am... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 6:19 AM Comments (17) (link) Tuesday, March 6, 2007HALLIBURTON REDUXWhat is it with Halliburton that we just don't get??? It seems that at the bottom of every rotten, mishandled, botched job that has embarrassed us as a nation, what do we find but some connection to Halliburton, and who was once the CEO of Halliburton?? Why our very own Donny Darko, Dick man Cheney.... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:16 AM Comments (24) (link) Sunday, March 4, 2007CAPITALISM ON THE KIBBUTZSince I'm deeply engrossed in writing about my experience visiting and ultimately living in an Austrian commune as part of a memoir I'm developing (you can read it on blogit under the title SIX GENERATIONS OF FIRST BORN WOMEN) this article from last weeks Boston Globe about the collapse of kibbutz... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 2:04 PM Comments (2) (link) Friday, March 2, 2007"OFF WITH HIS HEAD!"...So screamed the Queen of Heartsin Alice in Wonderland. It was the Queens cure-all solution when anything went wrong. Remove the head and the problem goes away. Such is the solution the Bush administration applies to every situation rather than addressing the systemic roots of the problem or changing their policies that created... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:44 AM Comments (2) (link) Sunday, February 25, 2007BEYOND BROADCAST: From Participatory Culture to Participatory DemocracyThat was the rather grand title of the day long conference I attended yesterday at the Stata Center (also known as MIT Building #32 - http://web.mit.edu/evolving/buildings/stata/index.html). It was the second year this event has occurred, an attempt to bring media makers from traditional broadcast... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:17 AM Comments (4) (link) |
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