tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post2319876267201924157..comments2023-10-02T06:07:30.625-07:00Comments on CONTRA JAMES WOOD: Fiction Ain't All The New Yorker DomesticatesEdmond Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-44845807042948024542010-08-11T16:55:41.180-07:002010-08-11T16:55:41.180-07:00It's astonishing to me that I was in Philly (j...It's astonishing to me that I was in Philly (just back from college) when all this (Mumia) first happened... this has been one of the backdrops of my entire adult life! Only the name "Leonard Peltier" has been there longer...<br /><br />At least they released the Lockerbie "Bomber" patsy.A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-23879476135403812392010-08-09T21:11:44.288-07:002010-08-09T21:11:44.288-07:00My fingers are crossed, Meg. Ona Move!My fingers are crossed, Meg. Ona Move!Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-30723030855821320942010-08-09T21:01:14.469-07:002010-08-09T21:01:14.469-07:00Wonderful post and yes, Free Mumia...love that you...Wonderful post and yes, Free Mumia...love that you have his photo right up there. <br /><br />Keep your fingers crossed for me would you? I've submitted a piece and it centers around the Mumia tragedy of 'this' (not our or mine anymore) country...the racism and the blindness to such a thing.<br /><br />So few people probably recall the BlackoWaco fire bombing in Philly which followed Mumia's incident.<br /><br />Another item that they don't cover in the mainstream NYC press.<br /><br />PeaceCarmenisacathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-56840944099404540042010-08-09T17:29:48.079-07:002010-08-09T17:29:48.079-07:00It's that old old story of 'normalization,...It's that old old story of 'normalization,' where pathological class conflicts are assimilated and lobotomized into electoral politics--a process even deeper than money. That need, that irresistible impulse to power up the hologram and patch its leaks--to become a servant--and this is important--not of the Corporate Masters, not directly at least--but of the reigning narrative, the myth that only those who don't believe in it are free to freely manipulate. Liberals and the liberal intelligentsia are dupes--because they're addicted to this Redemptive Myth where Justice really does have power--like magic--to raise up saviors and martyrs to get the pendulum to swing back in the right direction just in time. <br /><br />Nothing to suggest that it might not work this time, or the next, will ever find a place in their stories. Addicted to a false notion of 'hope' ... like crack addicts.Jacob Russellhttp://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-74770272157662417472010-08-09T17:12:07.368-07:002010-08-09T17:12:07.368-07:00The New Yorker is a little like Obama. Maybe more ...The New Yorker is a little like Obama. Maybe more than a little. You can find a lot to like. Seymour Hersh. One or two innovative fiction pieces in the course of a year--which is more than you get in any other MS pub. But over time what they leave out, what they don't do or say, is telling. <br /><br />If you ask 'em, "Whose yer Daddy?" ... you know the answer. And that they'll never tell ya.Jacob Russellhttp://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-54101134538746226442010-08-09T16:41:56.896-07:002010-08-09T16:41:56.896-07:00Excuse me, 50!!! bullets were just fired in an NYP...Excuse me, 50!!! bullets were just fired in an NYPD police shootout in Harlem. Covert Operation HELTER SKELTER is on! Watch the coverage on that in The New Yorker; it was probably written weeks ago, locked in David Remnick's desk drawer in a manila file folder labeled: "Harlem Real Estate Final Solution."Frances Madesonhttp://www.booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.com