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 [...]
This Man
In Box
The Vice Presidential Debate
Iz Gold
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, [...]
Peter Kropotkin
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Mutual Aid
The Conquest of Bread
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 [...]
Neil Goldberg: Progress Bars
Neil Goldberg: Truck Drivers’ Elbows
Ken Kifer’s Plains Trip
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. [...]