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I got angry looks in a bar when I was overheard claiming that the Beatles (+ Elvis, as went my theory) were post-war America's way of versioning all the excitement of National Socialism. Needless to say, there was a context to my argument that got a bit lost in the beer ... I'm not sure if the...

Thanks for the wonderful recommendations, everyone. I've got a few of these waiting for me at my library!

I will second the recommendation for Cyberduck. As far as I can tell, Cyberduck is just as good as Transmit, only it's totally open source. I have not used Tofu as much as I thought I would, but I still recommend it. It's simple software that re-formats text in readable columns. Hard to explain...

Euthanasia will never be fully accepted because it interferes with or subverts the medical/pharmacological industry. Any talk of ethics is secondary.

I'm not sure whether this thread belongs here or in the "Thought" forum. That in itself is almost worthy of discussion. So what have you read on Blake that you've liked? Bonus points for stuff written in the past thirty years, also bonus points for anything inflected with structuralism or...

Thanks for providing notification on this thread too. The music forums generally don't draw my attention that often, so I would have missed it otherwise!

Where was this published? I would like to read the whole thing, if possible.

Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners is fiction about the Afro-Caribbean community in late-1950s London.

The primary difference between sex and capitalism is that there are many natural mechanisms for the regulation of exactly how many humans can be produced by sex, whereas capitalism has proven infinitely more successful—and so far without a ceiling of any sort. :)

I quit eating meat in order to migrate my overall consumer demographic and start receiving better quality junk mail.

More importantly: Stevie Wonder is only 55? Shit ... the guy hasn't aged.

This happened to me a few years ago at a service station somewhere near Liverpool (I think), while travelling by coach from Glasgow to London. I was a bit drunk leaving Glasgow, and at the service station I walked up a flight of stairs and down a long hallway, not realizing I was actually...

We are in the midst of a bit of a wasp epidemic here. A local newspaper reported that if you hang paper bags full of shredded newspaper in strategic locations, the wasps will mistake them for competing wasps' nests and stay away. I'm not entirely certain why this works.

Nearly finished Kureishi's The Black Album. Summer of 2005 is a particularly good time to read this book, I think. What do people think of it and of Kureishi generally?

Yeh, loosely adapted. The story is really, really weird. It has been ages since I saw Blow Up (10 years?) and all I remember now is footage of London shot from a car window.

For Mac users there is SoulseeX, and it is OS X native (as opposed to the Python rigamarole of Nicotine).

I'm just reading All Fires the Fire now ... blown away by a couple of the stories—especially "The Southern Thruway." Someone said to me that they thought there was a film adaptation of "The Southern Thruway," but I can't seem to find it. The only thing I can think of is Week End, which has the...

Free market capitalism says "our economic system is the best because, er, Jesus has laid it all out for us," so I'm not what the distinction is.

I recently got to see what a post-millenial olympiad can do to a city. Vancouver is already irrevocably damaged by a Games that's still five years away. I'd like to extend my sincerest condolences to the people of London.

There were sizeable communities of Christians and Jews living unassimilated and unmolested under the purview of the Ottoman Empire. Not sayin' the Ottoman Empire was all roses, but still ...