"DON'T BE AFRAID TO SAY [THE WORD] 'REVOLUTION'": DR. CORNEL WEST SPEAKS AT OCCUPY WALL STREET

Via http://twitter.com/#!/OccupyWallStNYC...

Not sure who took the above photo, I think I grabbed it off the twitter feed...

"HIS OWN HARSHEST CRITIC": ALASDAIR GRAY INTERVIEWS HIMSELF IN A BBC SCOTLAND DOC

"DOGS ARE FOREVER IN THE PUSH-UP POSITION": A MITCH HEDBERG REEL

Mitch Hedberg: wikipedia

courtesy Andrew M.!

SOUTHERN LIGHTS, AS SEEN FROM ABOVE

Super-gorgeous video via NASA:

"Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken September 17, 2011 from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT, on an ascending pass from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia over the Indian Ocean."

A TOUCH OF GRAY

I've found myself reading quite a bit of Alasdair Gray lately (A History Maker, first; then, Lanark), apropos of nothing in particular. Here is a recent film in which the great man tries to explain his mural-making and prose-writing processes, often in asides, interruptions and character voices. Long may this "fat asthmatic Glaswegian" hem, haw, waver and start over...

Alasdair Gray: official website, wikipedia entry

VIEW OF A ROOM

Footage of Alexander Trocchi's timeless apartment via 'Cain's Film' (1969) ....

9/17, NYC - GET INVOLVED

A cartoonist for our times

Here's a panel from "Gordon Smalls Endures the Wasteland," a brutal reality strip by Gabby Schulz that is running at Jordan Crane's wonderful "What Things Do" site. Click on the panel below to have a look at the serial.

Gabby has also been posting another harrowing strip, "Sick," on a weekly basis lately. Click on the panel below to have a look at this brilliant work-in-progress...

LOCATE THE CENTER OF INFINITY

"IN TRANSIT" BY LENORE KANDEL
With artwork/design by THE MASKED PORNOGRAPHER

From the San Francisco Oracle No. 6 (February, 1967)

KEEP CLICKING IMAGE TO BIGGIFY

SAN FRANCISCO ORACLE: wikipedia

REPRODUCTIONS/COLLECTIONS OF THE ORACLE: Regent Press

"And I can't pretend to know/what's going on"

Julian Cope performs a new song—subject: his four-month-long Salvia exploration—with the usual great Cope introductory remarks. Can't wait to hear the studio version!