Origin...

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Jack Kerouac: The Ten-Year Spiritual (or Psychological?) Circle of ‘An American Passed Here'

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Manuscript notes for the novel that would become The Town and the City, ca. 1945
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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

March 31: Operation Blackout?

Kirby Ferguson: Everything is a Remix (Part 4)

Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they’re interwoven, they're tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality... the system starts to fail.
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I will...

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Mark Kozelek - Heron Blue / Sunshine In Chicago (live)

How soon is now?

Weapons of Mass Disinformation

Erin Burnett: Worst of the worst

Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy

Another March to War?

Sales of Charles Dickens's books in his lifetime

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What the Dickens

RIP Michael Davis (MC5)

Michael Davis from influential ‘60s band MC5 dies at age 68

Sean Penn: Rebel with a cause

(I'm English and I agree with Penn!)

Once Upon a Time in Tehran

Tehran University students lounge in 1971. Tehran University was opened to women in 1934, when the college was founded, which was well before most universities in the United States were integrating women into the classroom. After the revolution, women were still allowed to attend the university -- but they now sit in segregated areas. Needless to say, they don't wear miniskirts. Despite the openness of the era however, in 1977, only 35 percent of women in Tehran were literate.

Photos of a swinging Iran when the skirts were short, the dance was the twist, and America wasn't Enemy No. 1.

Shanghai Jim (JG Ballard)

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The 11th Commandment

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