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the awesome "mix machine" cassette rescue service continues, with several additional mixes from so-cal swap meets, plus some classic new jersey rap radio (world famous supreme team!) :: i can't get enough of this stuff
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re: AAA and OA (see prev item), ckelty writes, "make no mistake: what is happening here is a dissolution of the term open access and a pretty shameless use of this opportunity to issue a press release that might repair some of the damage the association has suffered on this issue."
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the AAA attempt to go OA is pretty obviously lame (i.e., opening access to journals up to 1973, wtf?) :: this pretty much nails it, "In 2003 the AAA was planning to be a ‘change agent’ in the world of scholarship. Five years later, it has become a reactive institution that slowly implements the changes demanded of it by a vibrant and active community of scholars that are moving forward without it." :: i'm really hoping ethnomusicology can do better, and i plan to propose just that at our upcoming annual meeting
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obámonos! (h/t ned s.)
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some bloke named chewy proposes "poco house" for that omni-genre of "new whirled music" that i've elsewhere dubbed, sardonically, "global ghettotech" :: not sure it's an improvement, tho i do like bringing poco matters front and center :: still, this ain't exactly letting the subaltern speak, izzit? :: sidenote: that "township funk" joint, embedded here, is a banger, fruityloopy synths and coupedecale snares and all
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a trenchant essay (nay, plea?) from michael pollan, let's hope that prez. obama reads & responds! :: "Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. … There are many moving parts to the new food agenda I’m urging you to adopt, but the core idea could not be simpler: we need to wean the American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine. … If any part of the modern economy can be freed from its dependence on oil and successfully resolarized, surely it is food. … Yes, sun food costs more, but the reasons why it does only undercut the charge of elitism: cheap food is only cheap because of government handouts and regulatory indulgence … Cheap food is food dishonestly priced — it is in fact unconscionably expensive."
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Thanks for pointing our attention to the Farmer in Chief article. What a clever title. The world would be a much better place if the US president’s title was Farmer in Chief rather than Commander in Chief.
Michael Pollan is a very important author. His work should be part of grade school curriculum. It has troubled me that food has not been a topic of important political discussion in the mainstream coverage of the US presidential election. the broad topic of Food consumption and production deals with the economy, health, the environment, the workforce….. and life values….
This recent article in El Ganso Gris shows that Food is an important topic for everybody. Food policies should play a central role in the presidential debates and should be a major concern to us all.
These issues are not just important to me because I am a chef. They are important because I am a human.
Great links. Whats the baby got? Cilantro? Parsley? She’s so cute, I love when they have those little fat cheeks!
Sí, cilantro! Good call. Man, those cheeks are something else, eh? (Thighs too!)
And thanks for the comment, Roger. We can only hope. Feels like a movement is building. Pollan has been very influential in our household. The Omnivores Dilemma convinced Becca to eat meat again, long as it’s naturally/sustainably/healthily/happily raised. Just makes more farming sense. We’ve been enjoying a monthly meat share (CSA style) from a great lil farm in central Massachusetts for the last several months.
:) Gardening is great, I have a bunch of stuff about sustainability and self sufficiency gardening on one of my blogs. I eat very little meat, sort of my way of expressing solidarity with those who can barely afford food. I want to not eat meat at all, but then mofongo or something calls my name and I slip.
I’m in a “home grown, why should I spend my money watering a lawn I cant even eat when people are starving and food costs too much, its a shame to be so wasteful” Phase.
Fat thighs are even better than fat cheeks, you just want to eat them up they’re so cute!!!!!