December 2011
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36 hours, mad Skype calls w/ you
So! In the last day, I did a little reading for Take This Book backers over Livestream, did one more edit on the manuscript, sang Happy Birthday to Patti Smith (who of course shouted out to Occupy from the stage at the Bowery Ballroom and told us we were the future, as you would expect Patti Smith to do), and now I’m looking at the final 36 hours of Take This Book.
If you can be the person...
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Watchekstasis:
Take This Book: The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street by Melissa Gira Grant, on Kickstarter
“This used to be a library: thousands of books, thousands of people, tended to by a dozen or so librarians in Zucotti Park, the first home of Occupy Wall Street…”
Somewhere in that library was my name, printed and bound above the first story I ever published. On a livestream, I watched...
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WatchThinking I want to do an impromptu reading of a part of Take This Book tonight? I’d like to do that. If we can hit $4000 by 10p Eastern, I will do just that in a private video chat for backers.
(It will be better lit! This is just me having thoughts/feelings re: what Glass Houses is when someone asked on VYou, which I am definitely too internet-old to use with any regularity.)
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“In a digital-age twist,” she wrote, “I found out about this because the woman...”
– Plus ça change… (also, let’s stop having sex with people from the internet, shall we, internet? What’s that? Who else would we have sex with? How else would we attract people to have sex with? Where else would we write about how bad an idea that sex was in the first place? Fuck it....
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“When I first met him, Jez was referring to the project as the Occupy Wall Street...”
– Michelle Dean, The Struggle For The Occupy Wall Street Archives (The Awl)
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WatchTake This Book: The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street
This is one story of the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street, as told to me by many of the librarians behind it: how the library began, what happened after the November 15 raid on Zuccotti Park, and why they’re rebuilding. It’s a story about books, danger, and freedom.
Take This Book is an extended essay...
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“Where else would you go at 3 in the morning with a prostitute other than to buy...”
– SURPRISE IN STRANGLER CASE, The Daily
Expect a haul of these, it being the year anniversary of the discovery of the original victims. (Shame is always in season.)
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“People already immersed in the investigation’s details may find that this...”
– On the Trail of a Murderer Still Alarmingly at Large, NYT (via)
Unrelated: today I found myself mentally calculating my freelance rates in terms of sex work rates. E.g., an online story is about what a solo porn shoot once went for, and print is closer to an evening or overnight rate. My enablers...
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gone fishin' for a few more days →
(but this is the gist of it)
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Today In Pigeons
Between The Texts:
K: … Maybe it’s just better if you don’t have a phone. Maybe we could get you a carrier pigeon.
B: I feel like I’d probably just end up training it to go coo outside his window when I’m drunk.
Handily: WNYC has a guy who can help with that.
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from "Be Aware: Nick Kristof's Anti-Politics"
thenewinquiry:
Notice how in Kristof’s writing (and in Western advocacy campaigns writ large) “raising awareness” involves shaming citizens around knowledge rather than action: “Did you know this is going on?” one exclaims, while clutching her pearls. “Oh yes, I did read about that. Just terrible, isn’t it?” goes the appropriate response.
It is the knowing about (parts of) it, rather than...
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