Happy Thanksgiving from William S. Burroughs

Happy Thanksgiving From William S. Burroughs always an iconoclast

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In Memoriam: Andy Irons, Professional Surfer

Philip Andrew Irons (July 24, 1978 – November 2, 2010) [Text from the Wikipedia listing for Irons.]Andy Irons was a professional surfer. Irons learned to surf on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, Hawaii. Over the course of his professional career, he won three world titles (2002, 2003, 2004), three Quiksilver Pro France titles (2003, […]

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Financial Warefare Against Wikileaks

Julian Assange & Wikileaks Targeted Website’s Donation Collection Company Caves To Political Pressure At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March […]

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Legislating Against Truth

WikiLeaks Ban or Global Secrecy Act? Criminalizing WikiLeaks may well deny victims of war crimes international legal attention by helping to keep the crimes secret and thus may protect the perpetrators, notes D. H. Kerby. [From Middle East Online, www.middle-east-online.com.] Sen. John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, has proposed amending the Espionage Act specifically to target WikiLeaks and other media organizations […]

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Talent: Erotica and Fetish Fine Art Photographer George Pitts

[Bio] GEORGE PITTS Art Photography – Erotica George Pitts is a fine art photographer, painter, and writer. His paintings, drawings, and photography have been shown in numerous exhibitions in the United States including The University of Pennsylvania (2010), in New York: at The Dash Gallery, The Ledisflam Gallery and at The Drawing Center; Los Angeles: at The Antebellum Gallery, and […]

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Nia Yoga

[Fitness] What is Nia? HEALTH AND FITNESS article by Marilyn Mitchell Nia, Neuromuscular Integrative Action, is a fantastic aerobic workout, or as some have called it – “a fabulous spiritual sweat” – that blends movements, concepts and theories from diverse sources. Nia (pronounced nee-ya) uses the concentration and flow of tai chi, the dynamic poses and mindfulness of yoga, the […]

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Brooklyn Space Program

WATCH THIS! … A homemade weather balloon/spacecraft (construction price: under $1000) goes into space and returns to its makers with a video. Homemade Spacecraft

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new books: HEART OF DARKNESS as a graphic novel

“Method? What method?” from guardian.co.uk/books By Sam Jones In the 108 years since it was published, Joseph Conrad’s colonial fable Heart of Darkness has infected TS Eliot, been excoriated for racism by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe and transplanted to Vietnam by Francis Ford Coppola. Now the book has been reinterpreted as a graphic novel in whose monochrome pages Conrad’s exploration […]

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