As a parent and a teacher, I am all over Kevin Caplicki’s new poster for the Justseeds Cooperative. It translates as “We sow the seeds of the Revolution.” Perfect for home and classroom.
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All last night and this morning I’ve listened to my local NPR station talk of money, fear, and politics. I think I’m as well informed as I can be at this stage, and as powerless as ever. So I’m switching soundtracks.
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Ken Freedman runs the greatest (and free-est) radio station in America, WFMU. I’ll admit that his occasional extended riffs on German noise rock can get a little—er, extended—but when he’s pissed off he’s at his most brilliant. Today he put together a soundtrack for our economic collapse, and I’ve rarely so enjoyed sinking further into depression.
See (hear) especially Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” and tell me how he could not be singing about this particular end-of-times.
Tags: Alice Cooper, Ken Freedman, Leonard Cohen, WFMU
Cathy worked closely with David Foster Wallace when Ecco Press published Signifying Rappers, and we managed to keep in touch for a while. Along with being a brilliant writer and a hilarious observer, he was a sweet man who wrote postcards to two-year-olds and bought art from stammering nobodies. I’m sorry he couldn’t stay.
His unauthorized Playmobil likeness will continue to consort with princesses and pirates in our daughters’ room, and visit the baby Jesus each Christmas.