June 2011
2 posts
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
Kickstarter - Get "Upstate" to the Los Angeles... →
My good pal co-directed this film and has only three days left to raise the money to finish it in time for the Los Angeles Film Festival. Please consider donating if you can! Thanks!!
April 2010
1 post
cat purrs can heal yr bones
“Cats purr during both inhalation and exhalation with a consistent pattern and frequency between 25 and 150 Hertz. Various investigators have shown that sound frequencies in this range can improve bone density and promote healing.”
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
5 posts
“Lefebvre insists that life should be lived as a project and that the only...”
– David Harvey on Lefebvre (taken from the afterward of The Production of Space)
“Clouds -
a chance to dodge
moonviewing.”
– Basho
praxis and theory
So a friend of mine is involved with planning a conference investigating this question of praxis and theory. I was reading the call for papers again today and realized how much this question really means to me and the basic problems i’ve been running up against in various professionalizing situations that seem to depend, either implicitly or explicitly, on the assumption that...
“Autumn deepens …
What does my neighbor do
to survive?”
– Basho
“Sparrow’s excrement
Becomes quickly powdery
On sizzling pavements.”
– Haiku by Richard Wright
October 2009
1 post
Western Beef, an odyssey →
Back when I lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, this was my local grocery store. It was a bizarre place where every kind of product was emblazoned with a picture of a smiling cactus and the words “western beef”. Think of it as a low-rent trader joe’s. For some reason I decided to look it up today… evidently, their whole business plan is to set up in low-income areas and sell the...
August 2009
14 posts
WE NEED A MILLION PHONECALLS →
FOLKS: There needs to be a million or so calls this week on health care: Call your rep a few times AND call the Congressional switchboard: 202-224-3121. The full Medicare, single payer bill (backed by nearly ninety legislators) is H.R. 676. Ask for it and PUSH for a public option at the very least. Do it now, before it’s too late. And read this for inspiration…we need to PUSH then to...
Let them know how much we care.
People to email in support of a public option for healthcare if you live in California (google them to get their websites): barbara boxer, nancy pelosi, diane feinstein, your local congressman people to email from anywhere in the US: whitehouse.org, www.healthreform.gov (kahtleen sebelius’ website), nancy pelosi (as speaker)Do it.
Thousands Line Up for Promise of Free Healthcare... →
My actual website (for film and video stuff)
http://www.joannenucho.com/