Algerian rocker Rachid Taha covers the Clash's classic "Rock the Casbah"

“The Internet is a big distraction.”

“The Internet is a big distraction.”

Journalist Isa Saharkhiz was arrested and taken to an unknown location yesterday.

“It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

Journalist Isa Saharkhiz was arrested and taken to an unknown location yesterday.

Bradbury has stated that the novel
is not about censorship;
he states that Fahrenheit 451
is a story about how television
destroys interest in reading literature,
which leads to a perception
of knowledge as being composed of "factoids",
partial information devoid of context,
for example, Napoleon's birth date alone,
without an indication of who he was.

Journalist Isa Saharkhiz was arrested and taken to an unknown location yesterday.

“‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’”

Journalist Isa Saharkhiz was arrested and taken to an unknown location yesterday.

Violence and resistance in Iran is so last week, before Michael Jackson.

Guy Montag: [holding a book in his hand]
Behind each of these books, there's a man.
That's what interests me.

RT journalist Isa Saharkhiz has been arrested. #iranelection

Isa Saharkhiz is a
pro reform movement journalist and a
political analyst in Iran.
He is a member of
the Association of Iranian Journalists and
a member of the Central Council of
the Committee to Protect Press Freedom.
He is also a civil society and human rights activist.

Socialist Worker online
Everything, everything online


[Montag meets the books]
here we are only 50 or so
but there are many many more scattered around
in abandoned railway yards
wandering the roads
tramps outwardly but inwardly libraries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpzESK8v9lQ

233° Centigrade: A Screening of Fahrenheit 451 at the Trash Palace

Burn Books Burn

The Scream Literary Festival has asked me to present original work with a bunch of other malcontent agitators before the screening of François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451, based on a Ray Bradbury book. My memory, though dim, is that Bradbury's writing was mediocre at best.

I'm digging up all sorts of interesting and disruptive information about what drove the author to write this treatise to the superiority of the male intellect, sadly brought down by the demands of special interests and the overwhelming desire men have to be nice. Serialized in Playboy.

Oh, yes. I'm going there, baby.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
10 pm — 1 am
The Trash Palace
89-B Niagara (down the alley, follow the sandwich board)
Toronto, ON

Email: info@thescream.ca

Description

“The books have nothing to say.”
– The Captain.

Ray Bradbury knew books were in threat of extinction long before the rest of us. Join several noted Toronto poets in the underground resistance at Toronto's classiest cult cinema, the Trash Palace, for short readings and a screening of François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966). Behold the dystopia that awaits us all in the post-lit world.

Cost: $5 Admission

new religion

Love is patient and kind
love is not jealous or boastful
it is not arrogant or rude

Love does not insist on its own way
it is not irritable or resentful
it does not rejoice in the wrong
but rejoices in the right

Love bears all things
believes all things
hopes all things
and endures all things

http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html

Krimkhan Street

early morning two glasses of wine

A funny thing
the cat snores
this is not what I'm here to write about

A funny thing
love
the cat snores
this is not what I'm here to write about

A funny thing
life
a funny thing
life
the cat snores
love
this is not what I'm here to write about

This is not what I'm here to write about
shoulder pains
time passes
wrist aches
memories
no regrets, final reprieve
time passes and there is only forward

There are the people who love
there are the people who torture
I pick the people who love

Love.
I write about love.
I will live love.
Time passes
and I will live love.

fragmented (lip gloss on the door)

and then in the time | democracy a joke | and then the heartbreak | groceries | and then he lied all the time, is a liar, lies | bills | and then the world washes over | bad news | too much to do | and then lost | time passes | what? | and then no anger, the dog a distance | fever | and then | who | and then | who | and then | my instincts to reject | and then second-guessing, or second-guessing the second-guessing | he was no good | should have left long before | the decades passed | the past

and then here looking | self | self | who | self | who | why | dinner time

Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser

Silence Tastes Bad ... Put Free Speech on the Menu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 4, 2009


Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM at The Four Seasons Hotel, 21 Avenue Road. This protest will be held outside the hotel, at Avenue Road and Cumberland.

As this gala with “world class cultural luminaries” and “leading chefs” is announced, artists will don chef’s hats, take up utensils and declare, “Silence Tastes Bad”, “Occupation is Unsavoury”, and “Put Human Rights on the Menu.”

This action responds to the Koffler Gallery’s eleventh hour “disassociation” from Reena Katz' relational art project, each hand as they are called, which was to be presented as part of the Luminato festival May 20.

After a year of active collaboration and sponsorship, the Koffler widely circulated a letter days before the show was to open, saying that they are disassociating from Katz’ project due to her support of Israeli Apartheid Week. Koffler erroneously claimed that the artist “advocates the extinction of Israel as a Jewish state.” Each hand as they are called has no relation to Israel/Palestine. Katz and curator Kim Simon have been forced to suspend the project.

“The Koffler’s withdrawal was not based on Katz’s artwork or conduct in relation to the project, but solely because of the artist’s support for the human rights of Palestinians. This constitutes a serious attack on freedom of speech and political affiliation, and if unchallenged poses grave threats to all artists,” said artist b.h. Yael.

As a result of the Koffler actions, performers, artists and community organizations are now withdrawing their support of Koffler events:

• Sarah Polley, film director/actor, has pulled out of the Artful Dish fundraiser


• Artist/Professor Yvonne Singer has stepped down from the Koffler Centre of the Arts Board of Directors


• Gwen McGregor, artist, has withdrawn from the Wrecking Ball fundraiser


• Artist/professor Nina Levitt has withdrawn her touring exhibition ‘Thin Air’


• Pages Bookstore has withdrawn from a Koffler event