I am convinced they are not worth the fuss.
Category: various
LIFEWTR – Black Art Rising Series
LIFEWRT’s Black Art Rising Series are distributed by Amazon.
LIFEWTR will donate to three organizations that the artists have chosen to support future generations of Black artists.
some links
I am a reluctant airbnb user; article on how they became overdominant in Barcelona; fairbnb.coop is the right idea; via newyorker.
Spinning Mill by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, translated from the Spanish by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Bilingual edition; Cardboard House Press.
Filthy, upcoming comic.
Bertlatsky’s appreciation for The Devil Finds Works. (2014) Baldwin’s and/or great criticism inspire readings in a work.
Wilentz on Notre Dame de l’Assomption (1883-2010). Good overlay of Haiti’s economic history; dubious of spaghetti sandwiches as indicator; not enough an appreciation of Haiti’s internationalism or its politics; the first black republic, and for that matter all republics, gets to determine how to fail its citizens(political infighting vs education).
The Golden Fantasy, solo exhibition by Oneika Russell at New Local Space, opens May 4th.
On the Media on May Day, begins at 36:21.
Danticat reads Achebe
xkcd on google+
You are listening to Los Angeles
anon vs. hbgary
the way in was social engineering. some background.
Boxing Lessons
One more from the opinionator, Gordon Marino on Boxing Lessons.
Fear is painful, but it can be faced, and in time a boxer learns not to panic about the blows that will be coming his way.