What in the hell …

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 “what the fuck are you doing?” moment when my wife woke me up early this morning. I’m not proud of that. (more…)

School on the brain. (more…)

I had this community organizing job once where my boss who was a prick really hated this local politician. Me being new, it made sense for me to try to have lunch with this politician to see if he’d tell me anything interesting and also just to get a sense of him. Plus it would make my boss feel funny, which I was all for. In the conversation this local politician, who was not the sharpest tack in the box, made some remark about March being the cruelest month. (more…)

Okay just stumbled onto these old posts by Todd:
http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2007/03/08/mass-vs-political-distinction/

http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2007/07/17/reply-to-nate-on-mass-and-political-organization/
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Quiet here these days. Online that is, not in life, which is why the blog is less active lately. I shall return. For now:

Progress schmogress! This piece from the Brewers in 1903 says most of it in my opinion. (more…)

Ohmigod I’m so tired. (more…)

Blog tag. Az tagged me. Here’s the rules.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. (Or in some cases, just remember them.)
3. Post them for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it correctly and the name of the movie.
5. No Googling/using IMDb/Wikiquote search functions. That would be cheatin’.
6. Tag five people.

I tag Todd, NP, Eli, Adam, Matt, Tzuchien, Mike, and Mike.

My fifteen quotes are below. (more…)

I had a post in mind. I swear I did. I sat down at the computer to type it out. Then the 5 and 6 keys didn’t work, I don’t remember why I needed them anyway. I restarted the computer and as you can see those keys are working just fine. I’m at the blog now, and my mind’s gone a total blank. Uh…

Maybe it’ll come back to me. Hopefully it will wait to come back to me until morning as I’ve got a long day tomorrow and don’t need to be sleeplessly blogging or worse, sleeplessly thinking about blogging.

Barring the previously scheduled post, let me take just a moment and recommend two books to all of my movement friends, both words broadly construed. One is Dear Sisters, a document collection, and the other is The Feminist Memoir Project, a collection of first person accounts. Both center around the lefter end of 1960s and 1970s feminism in the U.S., the section of the movement that went by the term “women’s liberation.” The term always seemed quaint to me when I was in Chicago around older leftists who used it. I was wrong. The term is great. The collections remind me of a lot of my political experiences. Mostly this is unfortunate as I realized that a lot of things I’ve been involved in haven’t really progressed much since 30 some odd years ago. I don’t mean in terms of gender equality, I think there have been significant gains made there (relatively speaking, still tons of work to be done in the left and in society, but damn those new left dudes were way worse than anything I’ve ever encountered), I mean in terms of movement efficacy and (dis)organization. Highly recommended. Makes me want to read way, way more about socialist feminism.