This is my mom. Isn´t she beautiful?
Questions about the war, or feel the need to do something? Get ready for the week of Feb. 13-21st. The EU has asked organizations around the US to start protesting. Here's a place to educate yourself, organize and generally get started. International ANSWER
Too much commitment? Print yourself out a big picture of the earth without political boundaries, and display it in your window, on your car, on your butt, wherever you think it'll get some attention. See Not In Our Name.
news
you´re here, kids. The new live links page
web . . . good
Welcome to my links page, where I direct you to a few of the sites that have provided me with hours of mindless, and, occaisionally mindful, entertainment.
info
salon.com
Even better now that you don´t have to pay to access the good stuff. Although you should. Independant journalism seems to be going the way of carabou herds in ANWR.
npr.org
The other place to get good independent journalism. And some damn good art. Right next to Cate Blanchette as Galadriel on my worship-worthy list is This American Life. Audio docu-essays that humble you the way seeing novae in Orion´s belt with the naked eye might.
bbc.co.uk"
Reliable, authoritative, stiff-upper-lip brit news. Sometimes good for cutting through the hype provided by AOL-Time-Warner-Netscape mega-media-hegemon hydras.
and once you´ve been through that you´ll desparately need
comics
marlysmagazine.com from the super human superhuman, Lynda Barry. Don´t be confused by the ebay front page, just click through to where it says comics.
blogs
Iffin´you didn´t know, this site is what´s known as a blog. Short for web-log. My favorite two came from the avant.go site. Back in my dot-communist days I used to download them onto my PDA for kicks.
Kim Holzer Leeds´ lionessden.com is in many ways an inspiration for what you´re reading right now. Plus I snagged her code for a template to the site. Ulp, hope she doesn´t mind. I at least owe her a link. A lot of fun stuff to read, especially the reviews of totally random products.
Ok, kiddies, that´s all for the moment. More later if you´re good.