I was at a meeting of queer anti-war activists last night, and we were talking about how some groups seem to want to focus on war profiteering, as if the dollars were the point as much as the lives being lost. My favorite response to that, from someone at the meeting:
I would still be against a not-for-profit war.
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This site — warning: bad music — is showing up in my referrer logs. I can’t decide if it’s a parody. I fear it’s not, since I have cousins whose emails sound like this.
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An interesting list of war profiteers and their offices in NYC
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Via The Guardian and Common Dreams:
A few miles from the bridge to the south lie the ruins of the ancient city of Ur, founded 8,000 years ago, the birth place of Abraham and a flourishing metropolis at a time when the inhabitants of north-west Europe were still walking round in animal skins.
Sgt Sprague, from White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, passed it on his way north, but he never knew it was there.
“I’ve been all the way through this desert from Basra to here and I ain’t seen one shopping mall or fast food restaurant,” he said. “These people got nothing. Even in a little town like ours of twenty five hundred people you got a McDonald’s at one end and a Hardee’s at the other.”
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We took Mom to Century 21 for some shopping during her visit last week. While there, I overheard one employee tell another this:
You be the teddy bear stalker. You be stalkin’ anyone with a teddy bear.
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You’re either with us or against us.
Like it or not, Canadian baseball fans will be hearing God Bless America played during the seventh-inning stretch of each team’s first home game.
Toronto’s SkyDome will air the song during the New York Yankees game on Monday night, a Toronto Blue Jays spokesman said. Normally, Okay, Blue Jays is played during the seventh-inning stretch.
The directive was handed down from Major League Baseball, which has decreed that God Bless America will be sung during the seventh-inning stretch of all home openers, Sunday games and holiday games to honour U.S. military men and women serving in Iraq.
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The title of this post, along with “We can’t hear your car alarms / from our renovated barn” are some of my favorite lyrics from People Are Wrong, a rock musical at P.S.122. There are only two more performances — Saturday at 9pm and Sunday at 5pm.
Don’t just stand there! Go buy tickets!
The talented cast includes our friend David Driver (web site seems to be down), John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants, and is directed by our friend David Herskovitz. The cast also includes Maggie Moore from Hedwig, and the great music is written by Julia Greenberg and Robin Goldwasser.
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I won’t be posting much for a few days. Mom arrived today for a visit, and we’re busy having fun. While walking around Chelsea this afternoon we spotted Tony Kushner eating at Le Gamin on Ninth Avenue. Mom saw Angels in America at Arkansas Rep, so I had to stop and point him out. We also went to see the Douglas Gordon video works at Gagosian:
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I haven’t had time to post it, but the night before the El Niño debacle I saw a brilliant music/theater work by Heiner Göbbels work at BAM called Hashirigaki. Go read Flying Vicar‘s take on it — including photos. While you’re there, do not miss the essay titled What is art for? by Jeanette Winterston.
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“Baghdad resident Taha Sabri, killed Monday in a U.S. air strike on his city, would have loved the eventual liberation of Iraq and establishment of democracy, had he lived to see it, his grieving widow said.” Yes, there is a special war edition of The Onion.
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Boycott of American Goods Over Iraq War Gains. See also Boycott Brand America and Consumers Against War.
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