Archive for the ‘People’ Category

Tony Judt’s Night

I suffer from a motor neuron disorder, in my case a variant of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Lou Gehrig's disease. Motor neuron disorders are far from rare: Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and a variety of lesser diseases all come under that heading. What is distinctive about ALS—the least common of this family of neuro-muscular illnesses—is [...]

December 30, 2009 • Posted in: People

This Man

October 19, 2009 • Posted in: Creeds, People

In Box

January 18, 2009 • Posted in: People

The Vice Presidential Debate

Iz Gold

September 10, 2008 • Posted in: Conduct, People

My Scheme of Order

My scheme of Order gave me the most trouble; and I found that, tho' it might be practicable where a man's business was such as to leave him the disposition of his time, that of a journeyman printer, for instance, it was not possible to be exactly observed by a master, [...]

June 9, 2008 • Posted in: Conduct, People

Peter Kropotkin

Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Mutual Aid
The Conquest of Bread

June 9, 2008 • Posted in: Conduct, People, Politics

Human Life

Human life can be compared to a person dancing in a variety of forms around his own self: thus the vegetables of our first picture book encircled a boy in his dream -- green cucumber, blue eggplant, red beet, Potato père, Potato fils, a girly asparagus, and, oh, many more, their spinning ronde going faster [...]

May 2, 2008 • Posted in: People

Neil Goldberg: Progress Bars

April 6, 2008 • Posted in: Art, People

Neil Goldberg: Truck Drivers’ Elbows

April 6, 2008 • Posted in: Art, People, Photography

Ken Kifer’s Plains Trip

March 31, 2008 • Posted in: People, bicycles

His Grandmother in Waukegan

Last week, I emptied out my storage locker and brought everything here to my apartment. I don't have much except the Y'all archives, which consist of several boxes of videotapes, recordings in various formats (many of them obsolete), and a couple boxes of memorabilia, mostly things given to us by fans: drawings, letters, cards, etc. [...]

February 15, 2008 • Posted in: People, Places