On The End of the 00s: Made in New York, by Joel Johnson
Devastating. And not just the cum shots.
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On The End of the 00s: How To Lose Your Idealism In Under Ten Years, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
And then we start a home for aging riot grrls!
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On The End of the 00s: How To Lose Your Idealism In Under Ten Years, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Too many things. Here's two:
The union of which you speak. Been there, as a shop steward in a failing shop, negotiating contracts with said shop and a boomer union rep who wasn't getting paid enough to care and made it clear, and finally, on my way out, went through an arbitration there. Been to their national conference (in San Francisco in 2006) where the only people I wanted to deal with were nurses from Canada. The union staff were so disconnected from 'the field' as to make me never want to leave 'the field.' Not that the workers were perfect. Most of them saw no worth in a union. Given the union we had, why argue? (And that's not to justify how I closed out the decade, as a freelancer without any benefits, and who's going to organize bloggers anyway?)
Thing two. Now, from back inside professional do-goodery, I don't know why it will be any different. The organization I work with advances the organizing efforts of folks 15-35 and hires in that same age bracket. So there's a start. We actually age staff out. It's like Logan's Run but no jumpsuits.
I guess eventually all those scions of boomer activism have to die. We know how crap their health insurance packages are. So. Si se puede, etc etc.
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On Rockin' Philately
Well done, royal mail-making-happen people, but when do I get to lick Jarvis?
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On The Awl's Totally Gay Dance Weekend Party Radio: Episode 1
Was that Lady Miss *Kier*? (Who is sort of on Twitter now?)