Archive for November, 2007
Shree 420
Storage Facility, Richmond, California
Basra Violence Plummets after British Troop Withdrawal
Independent.ie, 11/16/2007:
The British army says violence in Basra has fallen by 90% since it withdrew from the southern Iraqi city earlier this year.
Around 500 British soldiers left one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in the heart of the city in early September and stopped conducting regular foot patrols.
A spokesman says the Iraqi security forces still come [...]
Camelot
Maple Seeds
Rummaging the word "pacifier" out of the storerooms of distant memory seemed to have given Himiko back her confidence. But the yellow rubber objects resting in her open hand like enlarged, winged maple seeds looked like troublesome implements for a newborn baby to manage.
"The one with the blue stuff inside is for teething, that's for [...]
Big Decision
I Was Robbed by Two Men
Trevor Paglen, Remnants of California
California is built on borrowed time -- time borrowed through an expenditure of incredible amounts of human labor, effort, and resources. And at some point, when the humans are gone or the pharaonic expenditures necessary to preserve it are no longer possible, California, as we know it, will not exist. In this post-human, or as [...]
Am I Right to Take In an Unfamiliar Dog?
The Fur Trade
The fur trade, as it lengthened, manifested its own destiny and Canada's, too. The fur trade established canoe routes to the far northwest, and conjoined the segments of a continental wilderness. It is possible to cross Canada by canoe, to crisscross Canada, to go almost anywhere. Canada is twenty-five per cent water. The quantity of [...]