Still relevant today… an advert from 1981.
God bless America… indeed.
14 December 2012
8 December 2012
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
—John Lennon (taken from us 32 years ago today)
1 December 2012
The trouble with normal…
Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage
Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage
Suddenly it’s repression, moratorium on rights
What did they think the politics of panic would invite?
Person in the street shrugs— “Security comes first”
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse
Callous men in business costume speak computerese
Play pinball with the Third World trying to keep it on its knees
Their single crop starvation plans put sugar in your tea
And the local Third World’s kept on reservations you don’t see
“It’ll all go back to normal if we put our nation first”
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse
Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
When ends don’t meet it’s easier to justify the means
Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream
As the grinding devolution of the democratic dream
Brings us men in gas masks dancing while the shells burst
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse
—Bruce Cockburn, 30 June 1981, Toronto
17 September 2012
15 September 2012
My imaginary God-friend in the sky is more loving and more powerful than your imaginary God-friend in the sky… and if you don’t share my unconditional belief in my imaginary all-loving God-friend’s offer that the only path to eternal life is in fact the only legitimate Way, I will rally all forces available to me and defeat you in a holy war that will once and for all prove my point. OK?
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Come on people now, smile on your brother… everybody get together, try to love one another right now.
3 August 2012
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
—Nelson Mandela
2 August 2012
Meeting the Walrus… again.
Toronto, Canada
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message. Enjoy, here…
22 July 2012
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
R.I.P. Alexander Cockburn, (6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012)
12 July 2012
True, true…
(thanks to friend Celes Davar—original source unknown)
