scramble ramble, rubble bubble

• not to repeat repeat myself, but: angryarab, leninology, juancole -- read 'em.



• see also, billmon, who's been pretty on-the-money, e.g., this pessimistic but probable prediction. hell in a handbasket, folks. hell in a handbasket.



• also, k-punk offers a reading like only k-punk can.



• continued props to mazen kerbaj for putting a very human face on an all too frequently dehumanized lebanon.



• thx to jace for the amplification, the affirmation, the poetics.



• been digging all the radical (anti-)orientalist beatscience bubbling up through murdochspace. whatever you call it (and don't call it 'exotic'), i like what i'm hearing from DJ ahmedinejad, 2/5 BZ, gözel records, ramallah underground, etc.


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• just when i thought i had enough webby things to read, i find another i MUST make time for. ladies and gents, the incomparable keith fullerton whitman enters the bogosphere.



• OTD asks: is the chicken noodle soup dance racist?



• soulcocina continues to cook up some downright delectable posts, full of food and music and life.



• worlds within worlds within worlds. of warcraft.
(btw, wikimania here in cambridge this weekend.)