In order to keep these roundups fresh as a spring daisy, I usually discard any links I’ve been keeping around that are more than a week old. But since this is OcPot’s first roundup in more than six weeks, I’m extending the freshness window slightly to include a few things that were just too good […]
Entries from October 2007
Roundup: Where All the Corn Cobs Are Edition
Posted by Dave Awl on October 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Music · Science · Tech · Food · LGBT · New Wave · Film · Climate Change · Internet · Books · Comics · HIV/AIDS · Health · Advertising · Human Rights · Nature · Labor · Fantasy · Pets · Healthcare Crisis · Law · Organic Food · Roundup · Fiction · Death Penalty
Coming in November: The History of Chicago Punk on Film
Posted by Dave Awl on October 26th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Tags: Culture · Music · Chicago · New Wave · Film · History · Video · Illinois · Peoria
No Backsies
Posted by Dave Awl on October 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Tags: Politics · Culture · LGBT · Media · Film · Books · Lit · Science Fiction · Human Rights · Education · Fantasy · Fiction
Of Dykes, Blankets, and Blockheads
Posted by Dave Awl on October 23rd, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Tags: Culture · Journal · LGBT · Books · Comics · Lit · Fiction
The War on Halloween, Anderson Cooper, and Keith Olbermann’s O’Reilly Defense Initiative
Posted by Dave Awl on October 22nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Tags: Politics · Culture · Media · Comedy · Climate Change · Video · Journalism
On My Reading List: Naomi Klein’s New Book, The Shock Doctrine
Posted by Dave Awl on October 16th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Activism · Film · TV · Climate Change · Books · Human Rights · Foreign Policy · Video · Journalism · Infrastructure
The Bowie Video Vault: Live “‘Heroes,’” “My Death,” and “Fashion”
Posted by Dave Awl on October 16th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · Video
On The Christians and The Gays, and Keeping the Flock Together
Posted by Dave Awl on October 15th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Tags: Politics · Culture · Music · Blogs · Journal · LGBT · Activism · Religion · Spirituality
The Golden Compass: Official Trailer and Featurette on Daemons
Posted by Dave Awl on October 12th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Tags: News · Culture · Music · Film · TV · Books · Lit · Science Fiction · Video · Fantasy · Fiction · Ursula K. Le Guin
Standard Bearers from the Past
Posted by Dave Awl on October 12th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Tags: Meta · News · Politics · Culture · Books · Lit · Science Fiction · History · Torture · Human Rights
Breakthrough
Posted by Dave Awl on October 7th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Update on the Movery
Posted by Dave Awl on October 2nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Tags: Meta · Culture · Journal · Chicago · Internet · Pets · Kiwi · Mr. Blue · Cats
