Satrapi’s Comic-Strip Memoir comes to Life-
• December 25, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Persepolis', Aeolic Word pais, America & Middle East politics, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, anthropology, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, anxiety of Tehran, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art Threat, Artforum, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, autobiographical comic-strip, avant-garde cinema, Ayatollah & Khomeini, Bande Desinee, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, bibliophile, Bohemia, books, brutality of Taliban era, chadors of females in Iran, children's health, cinema, citizenship, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, contemporary art, contemporary printmaking, Contemporary Writers, corruption, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, Demetrius Phalereus, democracy, Democracy politics, diptych prints, disparate collection of voices, dissemination of images, Docu-drama, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, European alternative culture, Exiled life, fanatical Islamists, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Foreign Film, free-speech, freedom, Freedom as Birthright, French Bourgeoisie, Fundamentalists, gender equality, global politics, Good vs Evil, government, graphic artist/art, Graphic Novel, Hellenic Knowledge, History, human rights, humanity, Hypatia, idealism, ignored genres, imposition of the veil, Independent press, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, intolerance & superstition, Iranian Life, Iranian Revolution, Islamphobe, justice, La Societe Feudale, Laissez Faire Elite, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, left-wing intellectuals, liberation, liberty, Life&Death, Light & Darkness, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Lycee Francais, Marjane Satrapi, Marxist, mass protests/demonstrations, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, Muslim extremists, Muslim feminists, nihilism, no-nonsense feminism, Novelist, oppression, Oppressive Politics, Pathos, Peace, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, political dimensions, Political History, political themes in art, politics, Politics of Confrontation, popular culture, post-punk cult, Post-War decay, pre-post Revolution/Iran-Tehran, punk rock, pyschology, race, radical feminism, radical Islamists, religion, religious zealots, rhythmical grumbles, rules of the mullah, Shah dictatorship, social critique, symbolism, Symbolist, technology, theatre, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, travel, Tyranny, unjust hierarchy, vernacular modernism, Video art, visceral reactions to the veil, Voice of Dissent, war-torture-execution, Wealth vs Poverty, Word & Image, World Cinema
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Leftovers-
• November 23, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Ramayana', American Women Poets, Amit Varma, Analytical Consciousness, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, anti-globalization, Anti-war, Apocryphal, art and society, Avadha, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Black Friday, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, Bush cronies, citizenship, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, Corporate America, Corporate Moguls, Corporatorcracy, corruption, creative writing, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, culture consumption, Demetrius Phalereus, democracy, Democracy politics, Democratic Republic, Dharma Beat Poet, disembodied poetics, disparate collection of voices, Dissemintion of popular culture, Diyas, editiorials, education, Ephemeral Memory, Ethics, Founding Fathers, freedom, Ganges, geopolitical, government, Hellenic Knowledge, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, Hinduism, human history, human rights, Hypatia, hypocrisy, ignored genres, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Infantilized consumers, l'inexplorable, liberation, liberty, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Louvre, Media Wonks, modern urban Life, NEImpeach.org, new activism, Novelist, Op-Ed, opinions, oppression, patriarchy, phalli of Priapus, Poetics, Politics of Confrontation, Post-Beat Era, post-Beat Poetry Community, Preamble, Predatory Corporate Capitalism, Pro-Freedom, progressive politics, pyschology, social criticism, Sourdough Mountain, Thom Hartmann, unjust hierarchy, vernacular modernism, We The People...
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Bountiful Blessings-
• November 21, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in American Holidays/Traditions, American Poetry, colonialism, cooking, democracy, ecoliving, Farm to Table, food, Food Revolution, freedom, Harvest Festivals, Heritage Turkeys, l'automne, liberation, life, Literary coterie, literature, local food infrastructure, local sustainable food supply, Milwaukee writers, Native American Poetry, Native American Traditions, natural habitats and life cycles, Poetics, poetry, Slow Food Nation, Slow Food USA, Thanksgiving, Whole Earth
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Bohemian Ink-
• November 17, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in active anarchist, American Poetry, American Surrealism, American Women Poets, Anthologies, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, anti-globalization, Anti-war, art, art and society, Art&Poetry, Artistic Genres, Authenticity, Avadha, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Beatitude, Bhudevi, bibliophile, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, collectives, community, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, cult of personality, cultural icons, cultural legacy, culture consumption, Dharma Beat Poet, Diane di Prima, Dissemintion of popular culture, Diyas, Eros, erotica, experimental writing, Femanifestos, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, femme fatale, free-speech, freedom, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, Homoerotica, Iconic Imagery, ignored genres, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, Intellectual Milieu, Jack Kerouac, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, Literary Group, Literary Legacy, literature, Masters-In-Poetics, memoirs, Novelist, Online Poetics, pacifist politics, Philosophy, Poet Laureate, Poetess, Poetics, Poets/Icons, popular culture, Post-Beat Era, post-Beat Poetry Community, Prose Fiction, psychedelic community, publication, pyschology, Realists, Revolutionary Letters, rhythmical grumbles, San Franciso artists, Sanskrit & Alchemy, social critique, Sourdough Mountain, Spontaneous Prose, vernacular, Voice of Dissent, Women of Beat, Word & Image
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Bibliotheca Alexandria-
• November 15, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in "war criminal", 'Mahabharata', 'Ramayana', Aeolian dialect of Greek, Aeolic Word pais, algebraic forumulae, Ancient Greece, ancient languages, ancient scribes, ancient scrolls, anthropology, Antiquity, aristocracy, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art History, Art&Poetry, Artistic Genres, Avadha, barbarians, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Bhudevi, biblica climax, bibliophile, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Bloody Hands, Bohemia, books, Caliph Omar, Ceasar, clandestine operations, community, creative writing, creativity, cult of personality, cultural icons, cultural legacy, culture, dactylic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, Daughter of Zeus, deliquescence, Demetrius Phalereus, Destruction of Idolatrous Greek Temples/libraries, Dionysius, disembodied poetics, Diyas, economics, education, Ephemeral Memory, epigraphs, Epithalamia, Eros, Glyconic Meter, Goethe, Greece, Greek history/literature, Greek Mythology, Greek Tenth Muse, Harvest Festivals, Hecate, Hellenic Knowledge, Hellenic Peoples, History, Hymn to Aphrodite, Hypatia, Iconic Imagery, ignored genres, Intellectual Milieu, intelligentsia, Jack Kerouac, Jai Ambe Gauri, Kierkegaard, Library of Ptolemis, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, Literary Group, Literary Legacy, literature, Love of Phaon, Lyric Poetess, mathematicians, Milwaukee artists, Milwaukee writers, Mother Goddess, Musaeum, Mythology, Oxyrhynchus remains, Palla Athene, Papyrus fragments, Phainetai Moi, phalli of Priapus, Philosophy, Pillars of Hercules, Platonic Idealism, Platonis School, Pleiades, poet Alcaeus, Poetics, poetry, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, Posidippus of Pella, Post-Beat Era, post-Beat Poetry Community, Ptolemy, pyschology, race, rhythmical grumbles, sacred texts, Sagas Legends, Sappho, Sappho's Aeolic dialect, scripted narratives, sculpture, sociology, Sourdough Mountain, Symbolist, synonym sapphie, technology, Temple of Muses, The Women of Beat, travel, writing
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Myanmar as a Stage Prop-
• November 11, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in community, creativity, culture, Literary coterie
Tags: academic discourse, advocacy, Analytical Consciousness, Anti-war, Aung San Suu Kyi, Blog, branding of revolution, Burma crisis, China's 'String of Pearls', China-India, China-Myanmar oil & gas, civil unrest, clandestine operations, Corporate Moguls, critical media, critique, culture, Democratic Voice of Burma, editiorials, education, Ethics, foundation fraud, Free Burma, geopolitical control, geopolitical manuever, government, History, international politics, Journalism, Junta, life, Media, Myanmar, National Endowment for Democracy-NED, News, Peace Action, political hypocrisy, poverty&war, progressive politics, Realists, regime, Saffron Revolution, society, Southeast Asia, Strait of Malacca, strategic revolution, thoughts, travel, tyrannies, US led revolutions, world politics
Diwali-Deepavali
• November 9, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Mahabharata', 'Ramayana', Amit Varma, anthropology, art, art and society, Art&Music, Art&Poetry, artists, Asia, Avadha, Ayurvedic cooking, Bhudevi, Bohemia, Coffee House Press, community, contemporary art, cooking, creative writing, creativity, culture, Deepavali, deliquescence, desi-lit, Dharma Beat Poet, Diwali, Diyas, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Dussera, Eros, erotica, Farm to Table, feminism, Festival of Lights, fireworks & sweets, food, Fotografos, Ganges, Good vs Evil, Harvest Festivals, Hindu festivals, Hindu holidays, Hindu mythology, Hinduism, History, human history, Iconic Imagery, India, India and Pakistan, Indian holidays/festivals, Indian-American, Kali-Chudash, King Rama, l'automne, Lakshmi, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, local food infrastructure, Lord Rama, Lord Vishnu, love, Ma Sita, Milwaukee writers, Mother Goddess, Mythology, Narakasura, natural habitats and life cycles, Naturalism & Modernism, Pakistan, Philosophy, Photography, Pleiades, Poetics, poetry, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, popular culture, Post-Beat Era, Prose Fiction, Prosperity, publication, Punjab, Punjabi Bhangra, pyschology, race, Rawalpindi, religion, sacred texts, Sagas Legends, Sikh festivals, South Asia, south asian art, South Asian artists, South Asian Media, Spontaneous Prose, Srinivasa Ramanujan, symbolism, Tamil Nadu, travel, vernacular, Whole Earth, Writing & Poetics
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Bhutto under House Arrest-
• November 9, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Nie Wieder Krieg', Aeolian dialect of Greek, America & Middle East politics, Amit Varma, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, anti-establishment, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, Apocryphal, aristocracy, Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi, Authenticity, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Benazir Bhutto, bibliophile, Blogging, Bloody Hands, Bohemia, Branding of Politics, Burma, censorship, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, community, conspiracy against democracy, Contemporary Writers, Corporate lackeys, Corporate Moguls, corruption, creative writing, critical media, cultural icons, cultural legacy, culture, democracy, Democracy politics, Democratic Voice of Burma, Dharma Beat Poet, economics, editiorials, Ethics, extremists, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, free-speech, freedom, global politics, government, human history, human rights, Iconic Imagery, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, India, India and Pakistan, India-Pakistan relations, intelligentsia, international affairs, Journalism, justice, Khaled Hasseini, liberation, life, Life&Death, Linguistics, Literary coterie, mass protests/demonstrations, Media, media blackouts, Media Wonks, Milwaukee writers, Musharraf, new activism, News, opinions, oppression, pacifist consciousness, pacifist politics, Pakistan military, Pakistan People's Party-PPP, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan politics, patriarchy, Peace Action, Philosophy, photojournalism, Police Brutality, Policy Wonk, politics, Politics of Confrontation, Post-Beat Era, post-Beat Poetry Community, PPP activists, Preetha Kannan, Pro-Democracy Movement, Pro-Freedom, progressive politics, protests, pseudo-anonymous, publication, pyschology, Rawalpindi, social criticism, social critique, Solidarity, Sourdough Mountain, South Asia, South Asian Media, South Asian political leaders, Srinivasa Ramanujan, State of Emergency, travel, Women Political Leaders
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Rambling Manifesto ends in Death-
• November 7, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Analytical Consciousness, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Bloody Hands, Bohemia, Branding of Politics, community, counterculture, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, culture consumption, Ethics, extremists, Finland, Finland massacre, Finnish Culture, human history, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Jokela HS
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Hossienis’ Kite snags but isn’t cut…
• December 8, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Afghan society, Afghanistan, Akademie der Kunste, America & Middle East politics, American Artists, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, ancient languages, Anthologies, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art&Design, Artistic Genres, Authenticity, Avadha, barbarians, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beatitude, bibliophile, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, brutality of Taliban era, cinema, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, creative writing, creativity, critical media, culture, culture consumption, dactylic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, democracy, Democracy politics, desi-lit, Dharma Beat Poet, Diane di Prima, disparate collection of voices, Dissemintion of popular culture, Emancipation from Tribalism, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, Ethics, ethnic violence, experimental writing, fear of reprisal, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Fotografos, freedom, gender equality, geopolitical, global politics, government, Hellenic Knowledge, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, History, Hollywood Behemoth, Hubris, human rights, Hypatia, hyperrealistic, Idiosyncratic politics, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, India-Pakistan relations, Information Suppression, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, Iraq policy, Islamphobe, justice, Kabul, Khaled Hosseini, La Societe Feudale, liberation, liberty, Library of Ptolemis, life, Life&Death, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Ma Sita, Media Wonks, memoirs, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, monculture catastrophe, Muslim extremists, Novelist, Oppressive Politics, Pakistan, photographic portraiture, Photography, photojournalism, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, Poetess, Poignant Themes, political asylum, Political Moguls, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, Post Modernism, Post-Beat Era, Post-War decay, pre-war Kabul, Prose Fiction, psychopathology, pyschology, race, radical Islamists, religion, social critique, social philosophy, symbolism, The Kite Runner, travel, Tyranny, UNHCR, unjust hierarchy, Voice of Dissent, World Cinema
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