Ground up… 25 February 2010
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Many outside of New York were first exposed to graffiti in 1979, when Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were featured in a gallery in Rome and when Jean-Michel Basquiat was featured in Blondie’s video “Rapture.” Basquiat later branched out from street graffiti, working on pieces like the one above. Published: 02/05/2010 09:19:51 – Credits: Bloomberg News
NYDN of all places, has a nice gallery of street art in NY…. tho perhaps less surprising when one considers years into decades of commissioned work, as well as gallery commissions.
I had not meant to pick one by so well known an artist as Basquiat… but it appealed.
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Marisacat 
hmm drum beat… via Ben Smith:
Just read the Joe Bageant post “Round Midnight”, that has been recommended here. For “what to do” comes no better than…
“A common goal is to develop an economy not dependent, as is capitalism, on limitless exponential growth, but on consuming fewer resources, operating without debt, and using less or none of the global banking system’s money.”
Should work within as well as without the U.S.
I liked the piece a lot……..
We need to do away with any growth based economic system… not sustainable.
Barter, baby! Who wants to set up a skill collective with me?
too bad exponential growth is practically a religion in this country.
Well as Jane Jacobs said once:
Growth for the sake of growth, which is the definition of CANCER.
so true, and our fucking economy has metastasized all over the fucking world. Colon cancer, of course.
oh but let’s shoot fatties. SO much more fun!!
GOLD in womens’ hockey! WOOHOO! Ramen. Praise be to the sacred puck.
screw the hockey, how’s my lady Cheryl Bernard and the curling team doing?
Womens’ gold medal game on Friday: Canada vs Sweden
cool, I hope one of the NBC networks shows a minute or two of the match between the commercials.
Bummed that China didn’t make it … they were a scrappy little team.
Oddly enough, as I slide by the Olympics.. what is on but womens semi final curling…………. 🙄
Hey catnip! I thought of you last night while I was watching Joannie Rochette — she simply rocks!!
Quite the performance. Choked back the tears after her short program the other nite too. What courage.
Absolutely!! Inspirational all the way ’round!
O Canada!
Oh just burn it right in there, catnip.
And over one of those artsy fartsy made-up sports like HOCKEY.
How about mentioning some of the US excellence in contrived coldplay
we invented, like TwitterSkiJumpers vs. ChairLift Marksmen? 😉
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didn’t the NYDN spend days and days attacking those artists when they were active?
oh I am SURE they did… a string of mayors declared war on them… the article mentoined Lindsay in ’72, but I esp remember that creep Koch as well.
Of course NOW the artists get commercial and corporate commissions… and the series was of the more “palatable” sorts. Not much edge political stuff in there. At all.
Mark Knopffler and Dire Straits had it in right….”In the Gallery” is one my all time favorites of theirs….
Former police officer pleads guilty to Danziger Bridge shooting cover-up of stunning breadth
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oh thank you for that! Danziger Bridge had 5 different stories the very day it happened. The ONLY thing it could be was rogue cops.
and just one of many incidents of rogue cops down there, not to mentioned the documented cases of white neighborhoods shooting AA people trying to get out of the city.
Fuckers. Five years later…..makes me want to engage in a “bad shoot” of my own.
hmm via Counterpunch.. more background on Tillikum and others.
I don’t know dear… you have majorities, both houses and the WH… and apparently no idea what to do with them. But whine.
Unemployment under the gun. The Dems would have us think due ot the nasty mean devil worshipping Republicans.
DROWN THEM ALL
Over and over Ob and the Dems grab the needed headlines off the House… and let the Senate be the chopping block. The slaughter house.
Google page on news reports on unemployment expiration coming this Sunday….
I think a note, penned by someone else, and flowers, would have sufficed. UNLESS Ob needed a hit of dominate white R male. And I guess he did.
Who are these people?
They need to meet up with some orcas and/or sharks in a nice dark tank somewhere, methinks! 8)
yup… I heard commentary to day that the Sea World set up for their press conf this am, is right in front of the killer whale tank.. and there is a small group in there swimming.. and one keeps coming straight up to the glass wall. Wants to speak at the podium, is my thought.
Direct action, works for me!
Right on! Orca action!! Hey Mcat — you still have my email addy, right? Would you mind sending it to MitM with a request that he email me?? I’d appreciate it! 😉
is you email the one you use here? (I don’t think I ever had it…)
If not, send it to me:
where.is.the.cat@gmail.com
yup it is….my utexas one is going bye bye ’cause I don’t work there anymore, dontcha know? 🙂
I’ll send ti to Madman right now… 😉
Great!! No more unemployment $$ for me….Texas Workforce Commission says it’ll keep paying until they run out, but we’ll see…because I’ve been scraping together part-time work since November, my bennies (no health ins.) have lasted more than most….but hey, $400-500/month can make or break my budget in a HUGE way….*sigh*
Another day, another dollar less….ah, well. I guess I’ll go loot my retirement…there’s less than $5000 in there anyway….my actual retirement got spent when I had my first kid and “made too much” whist working 3 jobs and going to school to qualify for any help.
Hey, but ya know what? It’s Friday, the sun is shining, kids are healthy and happy and we have a roof over our heads and food….I’LL TAKE IT!! 🙂
Some guy who is Governor in New York
ya know – the guy who was never gonna drop out of his re-election…
finally dropped out of his re-election.
In other news from Homerton, Kansas, Merle’s piglets Li’l Zeke and Harriet got into the corn crib again and wee last seen headed towards town.
a real hold out right?
I STILL cannot believe he was dumb enough to talk to the woman. UnFUCKINGbelievable.
I wonder if the WH (coughRAHMcough) had anything to do with that leaked story since they didn’t want Paterson to run.
oh I am sure there is engineering.. but you know, sometimes they deserve the fall, however it comes.
The law firm I worked in, the Managing Director had regular typed reports delivered to him on just about anything that was nto above board inside the firm. The place was rife with spies. Gee and they were only No 10 in the nation, top fve in the city. The mess Johnson was in was too big, repeated behavior, too close to Paterson, that if he did not know what was going on (and I think he did, reported to him by the State Police) it was even worse.
Appalling he talked to the woman himself. Worse that they try to make it look better by saying she called him. Like fishing in the gutter for water.
I am just sick to death of the cosy bullshit that is order of the day with ALL OF THEM. And the cosy bullshit is all they care about.
So, if push continues, the Lt Governor, Ravitz think the name is, will rise.
Til he falls, which Iwould doubt there is time for, election is soon and Ravtiz has never won a state wide election… just a place holder…. And Cuomo, who has played his cards so subtly, will get elected. I assume.
May they all bite each other to death.
This is such BULLSHIT!! What the hell ever happened to not using a machete when a scalpel is needed, eh, Barry?
Race to the Fucking Top, indeed. The top of the shit pile.
This has been very ugly… and Arne almost drooled thru his on camera commentary on the mass firing. I caught film of some school comissioner in RI, mouthign the pieties, “for the childdren”… very Michelle Rhee like. The white version….
Of course we are having mass firings in the SF school system as well…. but … little word of it nationally….
For the children my ass. I have finally had enough of standing on the sidelines and bitching — I enrolled in a alternative teacher certification program with a wonderful woman who actually thinks that teachers should be first and foremost advocates for their students — she says she can have me certificate in hand by summer….going for EC-6 and looking ahead to being not only an advocate for kids but teachers and parents as well……my mantra is accountability where it belongs (admin) no more 6 figure salaries for supers, principals and district “managers”, and actual education for all….
On a slightly related note…The new “Take Time to be a Dad Today” PSAs make my blood boil every time I see them….
oh good move brinn! and you have tons of energy to bring to it!
Great idea…………
You think? Actually, I think so too, but thanks for saying so!! I am alternately terrified and excited, but either way, I’ve got a fire burning in my gut, and guts to spare…I was thinking the other day that in 2-5 years, I want to open up the Molly Ivins Charter School for Aspiring Citizens of the World. Maybe right across the street from the capitol building downtown.
I think she’d dig it….8)
I’ve got a fire burning in my gut, and guts to spare
the thing that distinguished Harvey Milk, most of all imo, was his energy. Not ignoring political smarts, of which he had quite a bit, but that energy was the impetus… and being willing to go out there. Who now would debate someone like Briggs (the Briggs amendment, ’76 iirc that would have been a pure witchhunt on gays in academe) from one end of the state to the other.
Now the ”activists” (too many of them) have law degrees and take 6 figure salaries from the “non profit orgs”. Kinda like OB, in Chicago. Etc.
Mcat, did you just compare me to Harvey Milk?!?!? Even if only tangentially, wow.
It’s kinda funny, my mid-life “crisis” has come in the form of a gutload of energy….directing it should be one hell of a ride!! LOL! I’m sooooo ready tho! Have always loved rollercoasters….
Oh, and I actually did consider a law degree (and who knows, I may eventually go get one), but I already have a quarter million dollar student loan debt….and, it long ago occurred to me that ADVOCACY (which, really, is supposed to be what lawyers do…), really effective advocacy, does NOT require a law degree. Hell, I probably at this minute know more about education and labor law than most JDs….
Anyway, thanks for pouring fuel on that fire! Keep it coming! 😉
oh I have nothing against a law degree, ntohing at all. But aspects f it are a scam. Ya know, like two of them in the WH… (tho she let her accreditation and standing in the BAR die in less than 5 years, LOL).
Yes. EXACTLY like 2 of them int he WH….
And scammers everywhere……I want to make my very own PSA that implores OB to “Take Time to be a Leader Today”…..
Hoping if I tack this on to thiscomment it will sit at the bottom of the thread.
NEW POST
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rent The Times of Harvey Milk, documentary made jsut a few years after he died. I am glad for Milk, that it keeps him alive, but it was weak.
What’s an “alternative” teacher cert program?
Hey catnip! It is a way to get “permission” (a certificate) to teach without having to go through “traditional” channels (for example, 4 years in an “ed school”) — considering I’ve been teaching for 20 years and have a masters in education….I’m an ideal candidate for skipping over the most assinine hoop jumping required! 😉
Oh – I thought if you already had a degree (and you have a masters, no less), you’d still be qualified.
I’ve often thought I should have been a lawyer – but I’m too idealistic for that racket.
WH social secretary Desiree Rogers is resigning.
Good idea.. she can go back to highly/over paid corporate diversity work in Chicago.
Hat hurry door hit ass etc.
What a Shame. Her Parties were such fun for
the uninvited ya know~ regular frauds of Washington.
I was hoping she’d stick around for the next clusterfuck or so. I was going to try the old inexplicably moving shrubbery trick at the East Gate.
Actually catnip, I have 2 masters degrees, but all that teaching experience is with adults, college students and in foreign countries (Japan, Korea) so, according to the traditional, and now even more so under the new definition(s) of “highly qualified” in the No Child Left Behind (aka, no child or teacher left WITH a behind) act, there are more hoops than ever…
I think I’m going to get in through a window that Ob and Arne are going to close right quick, because you see, here in USAistan, we haven’t ever really been interested in EDUCATING anyone…only schooling them. To be factory workers, consumers, etc.
And that’s a huge distinction.
Glad you were able to find another path to do what you love (and wish I had some of your energy!) 😉
Thanks! I’m happy to share it — ya’ll keep fueling it the way you have been today and it’ll easily arrive in Canada and SF! 😉
oh, and how could I forget, above all else to respect au-thor-i-TIE (as Cartman would say)….the more arbitrary and ignorant the authority, the more respect it deserves…..
I’m never going to make it as a teacher, am I? I need to get better at covert operations….
is there still any market in overseas jobs for ESL teachers? (realising iwth a split family, you likely cannot go far away from the childrens’ father).. just htinking of escape hatches.
Jobs at all anywhere teaching adults? In another era of course (50s to 80s), but my godfather managed for years teaching adults, English, English for non reading adults, Drama and related Arts courses, depending on where he was (often at UC Santa Barbara on sort of “visiting” rights) etc, from CCNY to Laney College out here…
Yeah, Marisa, there is….later on maybe, when they’re older. That’s basically what I did in Japan and Korea in the 90s…adults and non-reader, sure plenty of demand, but as is the usual with the jobs that actually produce value, not enough to live on….I keep doing those things too, as I attempt to raise a couple of other value-added humans! 😉
Oh, and my ultimate “escape hatch” has always been moving in with catnip….or somewhere there up north….Denmark?
All ya’ll are the best!
well Cali, which once was a leader, is shrinking every education system we had or have. Which was extensive. The whole state system, from the University of C to the California State colleges, to the Community colleges… remedial education, as well…. You know we once had a COMPACT with HS grads, or even with GEDs: there would be a place for you in the system….
O V E R.
well even then, he taught as adjunct to other forms of income earning… sigh. what a struggle.
Paterson’s having a presser – says he can’t run for office and run the state at the same time (lame). “I have never abused my office – not now – not ever.”
no small children to go home to… cuts out that “family” excuse. Probably decided to say little about the son in the news recently ….
Another one DOWN.
hmmm LOL Not to worry! They’ll b e taking the country back any min now.
( Madman sent it to me )
ugh I see this thread is getting itself all scrweed up chronology wise…
Will try to gt a new thread up, within the hour (1pm, now PT).