Commentary
The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Jail: A Visit to the Hole
POSTED IN BOOKS, CRIME, DEFIANCE, INCREDIBLE BRAVERY, LAW, RELIGION. JUL 01, 2014 AT 9:45 AM BY BARRETT BROWN I’m afraid I’m now being kept in the Seagoville federal prison Special Housing Unit, or SHU, known more informally as “segregation” and even more informally as “the hole.” Several of my fellow jail […]
Fear and loathing in a Police State
By Sean Brady With the current events in New York City fresh in my mind – the Murder of Eric Gardener in Staten Island, the shooting of unarmed Michael brown in Ferguson Missouri, the shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn stairwell, the shooting death of seven year old […]
Dancing with an epileptic 8-legged shark
by Grant Goodwine As an artist, Recently I’ve found myself winding up in discussions and asked for advice from other creative people- usually involving their frustrations in their works. Or about how much of a perfectionist they are and how frustrated they get when it doesn’t turn out the exact […]
Nodding Out on Old Cape Cod
By David Pratt “I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm, and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.” – William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch “When I was doing drugs, […]
The Magic of Christmas and Fat Greedy Bastards
By: Ernie Hurt Despite the fact I haven’t seen a snowflake in a month; I am beginning to feel that old Yule tide spirit. The type of feeling that makes hot cocoa taste better, and warm fires most inviting. The nip in the air brings on memories of past, some […]
Seeking the Center
In a World With No Boundaries, How Can You Find The Center? or, How Do You Know Where The Center Is If You can’t Tell Where The Edges Are? By: Dan Hallo “Popular and regular governments have always applied themselves to increase the number, strength, power, riches, and courage, of […]
The Occult in Your Living Room! Christmas, Yule and the Winter Solstice
December 21, 2012 By: Clayton L. Luce It’s only a few days before Christmas and many of us are out running around like fiends trying to get last minute Christmas shopping done, or trying not to be killed on the way to the grocery store by the Christmas shoppers who […]
Tom Shroder Takes a Trip
by Tom Shroder – from reset.me Dec. 2, 2014 Though I began researching Acid Test, a book about the revival of research into the use of psychedelic drugs for healing, in 2007, my interest in the subject really began 30 years earlier, when I was a college student at the […]
Disrobing the Sheep
Or: Recession, Oppression and The Third Law of Motion “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” – Sir Isaac Newton Aside from Newtonian physics being pretty much obliterated by Einstein and Hawkins and nano-physics and quantum physics and string theory and particle wave theory and multiverses and […]