erosdiscordia
cutting the other edge
Mauer Mob
Oct 14th
Recreating the Berlin Wall…with people.
From their website (in English):
This project is initiated by Martin Butler, a British performance maker and curator, working together with the liminal institute.
“Mauer Mob. 2009 – Recreating the Berlin Wall” is a large scale art project in the frame work of the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin, Germany. The idea is to form on the 9th of november 2009 – the night the Wall fell 20 years ago – a line of people that will recreate the Berlin Wall with their physical presence, marking the path where the wall once stood. Thousands of people will form a human chain that will make its way on the 9th of november around 8.15pm. This action will last for approximately 15 minutes.
The Berlin Wall project is about creating a “temporary monument of reflection”. When it was created, the wall was one of the clearest man-made divisions of people with different ideologies. For the 20th anniversary of its deconstruction we will rebuild the Berlin Wall, not from steel and concrete, but from people. To remember when Berlin became one again after decades of separations – physically as well as in the minds…
The flash mob will consist of 330 groups, forming a line from Köppchen See area in the north, to Lohmülenstraße by Treptow in the south, with the bulk of participants centering near Brandenburger Tor. The organizers hope to see thousands of people participate. You can register for a place on their homepage by clicking on a little person icon and entering your information.
Mass movements are pretty.
Is there a Nobel Hate Prize?
Oct 9th
The President of the United States has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the angriest yowling about it is coming from within the United States itself.
See anything a little off about that?
Put aside for a moment whether or not he should have won. Ask yourself: what must this fuss look like objectively?
To have an American President win the award for the second time in a decade; and to have a vocal minority of the country not only fail to take pride, but choose also to denigrate the honor, and degrade the value of a 114-year-old institution for giving it to someone they don’t like.
Who hates us most? Ourselves?
This has gone past childish, into schizophrenic and self-destructive.
National Novel Writing Month 2009
Oct 8th
Can I go three for three? I won in 2006. I won in 2008. I wrote half-baked, crazy urban fantasy novels, with beautiful imagery and plotholes you could drive a tank through. Shall I attempt to complete the trilogy this year? To put Bridge of Lions next to Via De Luna (2006) and Seven Hills (2008) on my list of Awesome Shit I’ve Done? I think I shall. Join me this November. It’s the hairbrained ride you’ve been looking for.
Ich habe mit meinem Herz hämmerte
Sep 30th
“We’re in a road movie to Berlin
Can’t drive out the way we drove in
So sneak out this glass of bourbon
And we’ll go
“We were once so close to heaven
Peter came out and gave us medals
Declaring us the nicest of the damned
Time won’t find the lost
It’ll sweep up our skeleton bones
So take the wheel and I will take the pedals
“We’re in a road movie to Berlin
Can’t drive out the way we drove in
So sneak out this glass of bourbon
And we’ll go…”
-They Might Be Giants, Flood, 1987
Frank Schaeffer on Rachel Maddow
Sep 25th
“When you see a bunch of people going around thinking that our president is the antichrist, you have to draw one of two conclusions: either these are racists, looking for any excuse to level the next accusation, or they’re beyond crazy. And I think beyond crazy’s a better explanation.”
“That evangelical subculture has rotted the brain of the United States of America.”
“When we talk about the Left Behind series of books…what we’re really talking about is a group of people who are resentful because they know they’ve been left behind: by modernity, by science, by education, by art, by literature…”
“The rest of us are getting on with our lives, these people are standing on a hilltop waiting for the end.”
Obama Is Not Stalin
Aug 10th
The only thing our 44th President and Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili have in common is that they’ve both had their faces on posters.
That’s certainly no reason to believe he wants to send your grampa to the crematorium.
