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Tag Archives: Steve Earle
back to each other’s garden
Shake up the status quo.What started off as a bit of a stunt could gather steam, abate, and then come back stronger at a later date. This could be more serious than good natured letting off of steam. Maybe some … Continue reading
letting a good time roll
Joan Baez was introduced to her first large gathering of afficionados by Chicago’s ebullient troubadour Bob Gibson, at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, and the audience, which had come to see the famous Oscar Brand, Odetta, Earl Scruggs, and Jean … Continue reading
confederacy and complicity
Romanticized and demonized, the Confederate battle flag remains a divisive and polarizing influence, still part of a cultural dialog that permeates the soft boundaries of personal identity and its relation to racism; whether racist ideology outright or one’s own sense … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, American Slavery, Confederate flag, confederate flag symbolism, Dixiecrat party, Genral Custer, James McPherson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Steve Earle, Steve Earle Ben McCullough, The Dukes of hazzard, The Dukes of Hazzard Power Cycle, The Dukes of Hazzard Power Cycle Coleco
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new forms for old feeling
Profit as evidence of god’s approval for the sacred project of America buffeting the shock between business and piety, lucre and morality. The Emersonian chosen people, selected, picked for a special destiny. Many are called, few are frozen; a form … Continue reading
jerusalem : greeting on this day
Maurice Merleau Ponty: Progress is not so much a movement toward a homogenous or classless society as the quest… for a life which is not unlivable for the greatest number.” ( Rick Salutin, Toronto Star ) Certainly, in the case … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged a.m. klein, Edward Said, henry aubin, jerusalem arab riots, jerusalem history, Maurice Merleau Ponty, meir margalit, Rembrandt, Rick Salutin, Sam Huntington, Stendhal, Steve Earle
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when the revolution comes…
Joseph Heath put it very superbly. The modern condition, modern marketing and how criticism of mass society ends up increasing the cycle of consumerism. How books like “No Logo” by Naomi Klein actually make us more brand conscious and how … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, angie jackson, arnold mindell, ben courtice, bianca mugyenyi, Emma Goldman, Gloria Steinem, henry rollins, james woolsley, johan norberg, john bellamy foster, Jonathan Chait, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Naomi Klein, seymour martin lipset, Steve Earle, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, yves engler
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Same Old Wine
Two and a half minutes long; followed by a smattering of light applause on November 19, 1863. Ostensibly a speech about the dedication of a cemetary , Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is as pertinent today regarding an elusive economic and social … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ben McCulloch, Civil War, Gettysburg Address, Mark Jenkins, Steve Earle
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