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Admin: retry - cutting racial talks, keeping threads unrepetitive

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/19/2020 - 6:28pm |

As Dagblog has devolved into talk about "whitesplaining" and "blacksplaining" and never ending polemics on racism, the Civil War, "pity Olympics", et al, from now on white Dagbloggers will no longer try to explain black people, and black Dagbloggers will no longer try to explain white people. Except for Danny and anyone else on the masthead, who can do whatever they please. (I personally will abide by my diktat).

Admin: no more racial talk (except Danny)

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/19/2020 - 12:21pm |

As Dagblog has devolved into talk about "whitesplaining" and "blacksplaining" and never ending polemics on racism, the Civil War, "pity Olympics", et al, from now on white Dagbloggers will no longer try to explain black people, and black Dagbloggers will no longer try to explain white people. Except for Danny and anyone else on the masthead, who can do whatever they please. (I personally will abide by my diktat).

Papyr R Us or Da Hammurabi Code

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 6:19am |

Hobby Lobby gets a new claim to fame in the Egyptology/Biblical Origins trade

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-oxford-the-cur...

"My City Was Gone", Addis version

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 4:58am |

Ethiopian cartoonist documents culture flux - could be any major city (hat tip AA - Art App, not Addis Ababa...)

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/27/from-kiosks-to-concrete-j...

Neuromancer grown up: Future as Past

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/10/2019 - 2:43am |

We're already living he future - not as a singularity, but as a haphazard assault on the senses.

Will we survive? How even to process this as a writer - there's nothing ooh-aah that's not taken over in 5 seconds by something outlandish on the outside, either political ore technological or societal. The Seer is struggling to keep up.

William Gibson:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-h...

 

 

Maus Over: A Look in the Spiegel, Man

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 2:35am |

[worth holding around longer than In The News pieces]

While Art Spiegelman became the persona he'd resisted:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2008/10/making-comics-after-mau...

Fascinating read how comic book heroes grew up mainly as creation of mainly underclass Jews as some kind of New York groundswell of response to rising fascism:

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