In other news.
* Rest in peace, Norman Mailer, you old crank.
* Strikemania! Students across France are voting to strike to protect their right to an education and to demand improvements. It's heartbreaking that the U.S. has so completely lost touch with its history of this sort of activism—in these troubled times, we could use it more than just about anything else. Look what a writer's strike can do; real collectivity, like real change, is so tantalizingly close, just out of reach.
* High resolution footage of the moon, via Boing Boing.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 9:55 AM
Labels: Hollywood, literature, Norman Mailer, obituary, the Moon, writers' strike
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