Monday, February 12, 2007

A Ban for All Ages...

Ian Mackaye testifying last month against a proposed all-age ban for some DC establishments. A clear case of policymakers attempting to blame the victim. It would be nice if this video went on a little longer to get Councilman Jim Graham's response, but alas.

Some background information can be found here.

Ian on Nike's rapacious and illegal appropriation of a certain Minor Threat cover image.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Catharsis...

When the chrysalis splits, when the warmth and familiarity and routine comfort give way suddenly, unexpectedly, and something brand new and yet faintly familiar begins (again) like a slow dawning that floods your torpid being with the blood of gods, well, sometimes it only takes a few lucid minutes—the sun streaming in unbidden on your worried mind between swatches of dark clouds, the bracing cold piercing your exiled body like a billion icy needles on a moonlit walk to the metro station—to realize that the insular place you were in was a little thing called hell, and heaven is simply that feeling of freedom you'd somehow managed to forget while wrapping the tawdry trappings again and again like a tourniquet around your crude form until they almost felt like folded wings...

...almost.