brandon's links
Read scanned copies of playscripts from The Federal Theatre Project (1935-39), the last gasp of American social drama.
DoD 101 The Pentagon's Overview of the Defense Dept. Consider the numbers. Consider "security." Remember: "We are warfighters first and as such have no peers."
This is a Slovakian travel guide that answers these intriguing questions: "What is the best beauty in Slovakia?" and "Wearing what are they most beautyfull in?"Amazing pre-anticon vaudeville in downloadable
song and
video. Try to find the innumerable anticon influences and references.
How Grand is My GardenThe New Job Aptitude Test Sometime pedestrian/restiform bodies collaborator Nick Starr on the occasionally revolutionary lit journal McSweeneys.
Christopher Hitchens: sharp, unsparing.
The Corduroy Suit - Silver Jews David Berman, best songwriter in the ridiculous business.
The National Security Archive presents:
Elvis meets Nixon. Note especially the gift pistol, Elvis's desire to join the DEA, and the proposed rock musical, "Get High on Life."
Here you can watch a live feed from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, including the trial of Slobadon Milosevic. The newly-established permanent International Criminal Court holds considerable promise for restraining the projection of U.S. military power overseas.
Indian stand-up from Club Red, with bits like "Top Ten Things White Folks Say to Indians"
Someone has put Galway Kinnell's
"Book of Nightmares," in its entirety, online. Kinnell is perhaps the greatest living American poet, and "Book of Nightmares" is his masterwork.
Songs of Food SafetyThe history of the development of television, TV clips from the first Gulf War, and various commercials.