http://brianbrownewalker.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:07:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/27/15288/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/27/15288/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:43:30 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15288       New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled,the humiliating question arises, “Why then are you not taking part in them?” H. G. Wells   ]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/27/15288/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/22/the-pam-omidyar-memorial-stump-or-why-they-put-rich-peoples-heads-on-pikes-during-the-french-revolution-chapter-the-twentieth-of-eat-the-rich-share-the-wealth/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/22/the-pam-omidyar-memorial-stump-or-why-they-put-rich-peoples-heads-on-pikes-during-the-french-revolution-chapter-the-twentieth-of-eat-the-rich-share-the-wealth/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:53:31 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15265 Allow me to say at the outset today that I’m not advocating putting anyone’s head on a pike; I’m not in favor of that, though some who read what follows may feel a dark desire. But also allow me to encourage you to put a bucket at your feet before you read any further, because [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/22/the-pam-omidyar-memorial-stump-or-why-they-put-rich-peoples-heads-on-pikes-during-the-french-revolution-chapter-the-twentieth-of-eat-the-rich-share-the-wealth/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/21/tomorrow-a-fresh-visit-to-the-pam-omidyar-memorial-stump-today-the-thuggish-lengths-to-which-shell-go-to-quell-this-conversation-chapter-the-nineteenth-of-eat-the-rich-share-the-wealth/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/21/tomorrow-a-fresh-visit-to-the-pam-omidyar-memorial-stump-today-the-thuggish-lengths-to-which-shell-go-to-quell-this-conversation-chapter-the-nineteenth-of-eat-the-rich-share-the-wealth/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:55:29 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15248 friend Time for a brief roundup and a preview of a gory conversation. As regular readers here will recall, a few months ago I told the story of The Pam Omidyar Memorial Stump. That’s a photo of it above.  It’s carried in this photo, and every minute for every day for the rest of her life, [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/21/tomorrow-a-fresh-visit-to-the-pam-omidyar-memorial-stump-today-the-thuggish-lengths-to-which-shell-go-to-quell-this-conversation-chapter-the-nineteenth-of-eat-the-rich-share-the-wealth/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/20/kate-beaton-is-young-to-be-called-master-but-the-chaussure-fits/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/20/kate-beaton-is-young-to-be-called-master-but-the-chaussure-fits/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:02:06 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15238 If Hark! a Vagrant isn’t the best comic in the known and unknown universe, I will eat my chapeau. Feed the Mighty Beaton, you knaves. ]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/20/kate-beaton-is-young-to-be-called-master-but-the-chaussure-fits/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/19/omidyar-celebrity-billionaire-reality-show-armagedda-extravaganza-catastrofuck-chapter-the-eighteenth-of-%e2%80%9ceat-the-rich-share-the-wealth%e2%80%9d/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/19/omidyar-celebrity-billionaire-reality-show-armagedda-extravaganza-catastrofuck-chapter-the-eighteenth-of-%e2%80%9ceat-the-rich-share-the-wealth%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:22:51 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15157 kate beaton To: Your Royal Hineys The Baron Pierre and The Baroness Pamela von Omidyar From: Brian Browne Walker, lowly taoist poet re: Reality show proposal Date: 19 July 2010 Hi Pam, hi Pierre, happy belated Bastille Day! If it’s okay, I’m gonna just write all my emails to you in public from now on. [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/19/omidyar-celebrity-billionaire-reality-show-armagedda-extravaganza-catastrofuck-chapter-the-eighteenth-of-%e2%80%9ceat-the-rich-share-the-wealth%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/16/15123/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/16/15123/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:16:57 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15123 Real beauty makes a person in its presence feel “This moment here is enough,” or even “This life is enough because sometimes there’s beauty.” Anne Herbert     A few thousand wealthy weaklings hoard tens of trillions of dollars in resources to calm their nervous palpitations about having enough – while saying there’s no money to build a sustainable energy grid, or give [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/16/15123/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/15/15106/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/15/15106/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:56:36 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15106 There is One God, the Eternal, the Only Being; None exists save She. There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of all souls, Who constantly leads all followers toward the Light. There is One Holy Book, the Sacred Manuscript of Nature, the only Scripture that can enlighten the reader. There is One Religion, the unswerving [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/15/15106/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/15083/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/15083/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:05:51 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15083 For two days I’ve been saying, that’s just the way I roll. Try things on is a good philosophy, and look outside yourself is advice that smells of lilac in the morning. I would experiment with a tractor for my heart if I could, the blood plowing, the rooting around for love. It’s embarrassing, though. Are you sure you don’t [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/15083/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/this-modern-world-or-the-more-wrong-one-is-the-harder-one-must-exert-ones-self-to-ignore-it/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/this-modern-world-or-the-more-wrong-one-is-the-harder-one-must-exert-ones-self-to-ignore-it/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:02:46 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15075 ]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/this-modern-world-or-the-more-wrong-one-is-the-harder-one-must-exert-ones-self-to-ignore-it/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/prince-houston-1981-or-how-in-the-sweet-motherfucking-petraeus-does-the-one-time-baddest-dirtiest-little-cat-on-the-planet-get-to-releasing-his-new-album-in-a-newspaper-because-the-internet-f/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/prince-houston-1981-or-how-in-the-sweet-motherfucking-petraeus-does-the-one-time-baddest-dirtiest-little-cat-on-the-planet-get-to-releasing-his-new-album-in-a-newspaper-because-the-internet-f/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:01:37 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=15070 When I was in my early 20’s, my best friend and I read an article about Prince’s entourage at Paisley Park, his home/studio/Princeworld in Minneapolis. “Where Prin’?”, its many members walked around the house all day saying to one another, “Where Prin’?!”  That gem of a phrase cracked us up and we used it as [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2010/07/14/prince-houston-1981-or-how-in-the-sweet-motherfucking-petraeus-does-the-one-time-baddest-dirtiest-little-cat-on-the-planet-get-to-releasing-his-new-album-in-a-newspaper-because-the-internet-f/feed/ 0