February 2011
Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
WHOA
OH MON DIEU
January 2011
“This approach might seem obvious now, but in the late 1960s when these journeys took place, it was revolutionary. Because most anthropologists and archaeologists working then were male, and because hunting is considered to be our ancestors’ primal drama—specifically, a man’s drama—a disproportionate amount of time, ink, and wishful thinking has been devoted to the subject.*”
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival - John Vaillant
On how the stone-age ‘hunter’ of lore was more the carrion-gatherer and how revisionist history has made him into a slayer of great beast and above nature.
STATE OF THE UNION tonight
or
as I like to call it
Bad News Guys: Shit’s Still Fucked-up.