On Saturday, October 19th, I presented at the closing plenary of the Vermont Palestine Conference at the Old North End Community Center in Burlington on the No Surveillance in Healthcare campaign, outlining who Eleos is, and why we in Southern Vermont for Palestine feel it is an important and powerful …
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An inoculation against crocodile tearjerkers
On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila massacre, I’m reminded of this film “Waltz with Bashir”, an Israeli apologia for its soldiers’ role in the massacre. Mark my words: within the next decade we will witness a whole genre of similar hand-wringing as Israelis wrestle with what they’ve …
Back in the Belly of the Beast—رجوع إلى بطن السوء
I’ll continue with the travel narrative in a bit, but here’s something a bit more recent Well, after a hellish day of traveling, I’m back in the US of A. It was something of an unhappy arrival. I had a short scheduled layover in JFK airport in New York before …
Dance of Death: ‘Waltz with Bashir’ and Sympathy for the Killer—رقصة الموت: «فالس مع بشير» والعطف على القاتل
I spent some time over the past week translating this excellent critique of the film “Waltzing with Bashir” by As`ad AbuKhalil (aka, the Angry Arab). Aside from butchering the title of the article and completely failing on one complicated parenthetical statement, I seem to have done pretty well. It was …
A conversation about this image—مناقشة عن هذه الصورة
What follows is a conversation about the above image, which I’ve been using as my profile picture on Facebook. The other party agreed to have his/her words reproduced here without her/his name attached:
New Year’s Resolutions—عزائم للعام الجديد
My apologies to those who had been following my blog and were disappointed to find that I wasn’t updating since last spring. My access to the internet over the summer while I was bopping about North America was somewhat limited and it became difficult to get back in the habit …
Surrender is Surrender
A friend of mine handed me a recent (November 15) article by Slavoj Žižek, entitled “Resistance Is Surrender”. It comes from the London Review of Books. This friend wanted to know my opinion. My answer? The short version is not appropriate for a public audience, so I’ll share with you …
Collecting places—مجموعة الأمكنة
There’s something insidious about this website (click on the map to go to it) that will generate such a map for you based on the states you click, designed for you to be able to show off the states you’ve visited (there is another version for the world traveler). And, …
Embarrassing my future self
Let this post function as a sort of caveat. I’ve just posted a whole bunch of stuff on this here blog, most of which was culled from emails I’ve sent to people over the last several days. Lacking the time or the patience to fully edit this material and tweak …
Welcome to Grey Wool Knickers!
This blog is still pretty bare, and I haven’t yet migrated a lot of content from my previous static site at the-alarm.com, but I’ll get there. I’ve spent entirely too long setting this thing up, so I’m going to take a break for a while and allow GWK to fill …