May 2012
13 posts
“This was the last hurrah of the novel as an everyday, working person’s...”
– Barbara Kingsolver on the mid-20th century.
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
“This argument is imposing, but we must examine it more closely, before we yield to it. The condition of the Indians in relation to the United States is, perhaps, unlike that of any other two people in existence. In general, nations not owing a common allegiance, are foreign to each other. The term foreign nation is, with strict propriety, applicable by either to the other. But the relation...
“(probably shoulda looked at my hair in the mirror or somethin b4 we shot this)”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3SDYus7iKC8
Sympathy for the outlaw
Thorpe with Alice Corbin Henderson and Alice’s daughter Olive.
John Lomax’s Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads came out a couple of years after N “Jack” Howard Thorpe’s Songs of the Cowboy, but Lomax’s ended up being the more famous of the two books. Thorpe’s book is a truer folklorist’s project, and his authorship-related field notse make...
“Oh little indoor England and its tiresome little adulteries! For the love of heaven, get out doors!” -Harriet Monroe to Ezra Pound
April 2012
3 posts
Dads
One of Monroe’s heroes was Abraham Lincoln. She described a first moment of not feeling lonely in the late 1940s when, still undiscovered, she was walking the Hollywood streets with Bill Cox, a 77-year-old man who had befriended her and who could remember Hollywood as a desert with Indians ‘right where we’re walking’. He talked to her about his experiences as a soldier in the Spanish-American War...
Hakim Bey
“Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a republic of gratified desires was attained. Shall we not confess that the politics of that night have more reality and force for us than those of, say, the entire US Government?”
March 2012
3 posts
“Insisting upon the narrative of the Belle is identical, is the flip side, to insisting upon the narrative of slavery. The Belle is not a quaint or cute cultural artifact—the Belle is failed propaganda. However much it shocks us, there is true advancement in acknowledging Southern women are no more beautiful than any other population of women, no more graceful or virtuous or charming....
February 2012
6 posts
Hakim Bey on Gabriele D'Annuzio
Gabriele D’Annuzio, Decadent poet, artist, musician, aesthete, womanizer, pioneer daredevil aeronautist, black magician, genius and can, emerged from World War I as a hero with a small army at his beck and command: the “Arditi.” At a loss for adventure, he decided to capture the city of Fiume from Yugoslavia and give it to Italy. After a necromantic ceremony with his mistress in...
January 2012
9 posts
“The morning road air was like a new dress.”
– Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
1 tag
December 2011
10 posts
Top three places I imagine defacing when I'm home:
3. Puddin’ Place (because of the apostrophe decision)
2. That house with a racist lawn jockey on North Lamar
1. The Sav-A-Life clinic on old 7 (see this story about the 90s for inspiration)
La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New...
How I love this tragic valley of South Texas, as Ricardo Sanchez calls it; this borderland between the Neuces and the Rio Grande. This land has survived possession and ill-use by five countries: Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the U.S., the COnfederacy, and the U.S. again. It has survived Anglo-Mexican blood feuds, lynchings, burnings, rapes, pillage.
-Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La...
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How To Speak Poetry
Leonard Cohen writes about language, specifically about paring it the fuck down. It’s nice to keep in mind in my sometimes-breathless teaching and in avoiding the dreaded long-windedness of academic writing. But here’s the part, at the end, that I heard first and liked so much:
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re...
Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft and...
How’s that for a straightforward title? The prolific Zitkala-Sa put together this pamphlet in 1923 with help from the American Indian Defense Association and the Indian Rights Association.
“Watching “Melancholia” Is Like:
-Staring at a broken egg timer waiting for it...”
– Tess Lynch (via poorgeoisie)
Too bad we missed it at Three Rivers Film Fest
November 2011
5 posts
October 2011
4 posts
