http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com A working notebook Mon, 12 May 2008 03:25:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Than a post about the Spin Doctors? Remember this? Well, I don’t think I can handle this A cloudy day in Metropolis I think I’ll talk to my analyst I got it so bad for this little journalist It drives me up the wall and through the roof Lois and Clark in a telephone ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/05/11/could-possibly-be-more-embarassing/ No, not Badiou. Laundries again. This time, British, and as usual unfinished. On June 28th, 1898, Laura Ellen Jones was at work at the Portmadoc District Steam Laundry. Jones was helping Rose McCleod, the manager of the laundry, feed a sheet into a mangle. Jones’ hand slipped into the machine, ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/is-with-all-the-damn-numbers/ Man I love Jawbreaker so much. I think I may take the plunge and get me one of them 4Fs as a tattoo. They’ve got several songs where it’s like they wrote it as accompaniment for moments in my life. And they’ve got lots of songs that are beautiful and ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/am-i-so-sad-about/ I just stumbled across “The Sadness of Post-Workerism,” a review by David Graeber of an event that several thinkers from post-operaismo (often called autonomist marxism in a narrowing conflation). Graeber’s brief positive claims or gestures toward positive claims don’t move me, but his negative remarks are dead on. In many ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/are-post-operaisti-so-sad-about/ The term I mean. I got into a brief argument with a friend about this recently. this is a placeholder to remind myself to write on it, why I think the term is at least acceptable and perhaps advisable. http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/05/05/is-wrong-with-wage-slavery/ From a dear friend - By any objective measure, Mayday 2008 was an historic event. Not only did tens of thousands of immigrant rights activists take to the streets from Detroit to Chicago to LA, to demand legalization for all, but 25,000 dock workers on West Coast shut down West ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/05/04/happened-on-may-day-2/ All of it, of course. Including about you. But the main question at hand is, what do I want to know about injury in the laundry industry? Lots of simple things - how many people worked for wages, total, and how did this change over time? (Say, 1880-1920.) how many people worked ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/04/26/do-i-want-to-know/ I had the good fortune to hear Andrew speak the other night on his N American speaking tour. Blurb on the speaking engagement here - http://twincities.indymedia.org/newswire/display/33331/index.php Read Andrew’s blog here - http://anarchism.pageabode.com/ - including details on the tour. Also a number of other things there worth reading. While I’m tossing up ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/04/25/did-andrew-have-to-say/ Rough morning. I’ve got a cold coming on, not been getting enough sleep, working too much, doing too much other stuff, feeling crappy, and have lots more work left to do that I’m not sure I can get done within my deadlines. As a result I had a sort of ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/04/24/happened/ School on the brain. * One of my brothers completed his GED recently. He quit high school a few years ago, then taught himself welding. I’d tried to talk him into going back to school and to think about college, he eventually said “it’s going to happen so just forget it.” ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2008/04/12/do-people-think-theyre-accomplishing/