ED MORALES

I started a new blog that will consist of short takes on whatever comes up on random (shuffle) play. They will be meditations on songs and memory. Expect regular updates. Right now I have them up on wordpress and tumblr. Not sure which format I’m going to stay with right now.

  Johnny Depp’s new movie, The Rum Diary certainly seems to be motivated by good intentions. It’s a homage to his late friend, gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson, and it replaces some of his original novel’s derogatory treatment of Puerto Ricans with a progressive argument against the way unbridled speculative business ventures exploit that vulnerable island […]

I never really knew Piri at all although the one time I met him he was an incredibly generous spirit. It was one of the last times I read poetry on the Lower East Side and he seemed to understand the dificulty I was having communicating and he told me that I had to get […]

“Here…This is my world,” says J-Lo in the voiceover. “This place inspires me…to be tougher…to stay sharper…to think faster.” In other words, this is how the other 99 percent lives. With a little luck and some socially responsible philanthropy, they might just… The ad embedded above was partially shot on my block a few weeks […]

There’s no turning back now. Things are finally starting to happen The security state is too transparent to hold. As soon as the police led the marchers into the trap, the story came out almost immediately that they were trapped. The publicity value of marchers arrested has blown back into marchers martyred. The movement knows […]

The 99 Percent kids are doing the occupy Wall Street thing and today it spread uptown, to Union Square, where there were approximately 80 arrests, according to Colin Moynahan. I’m keeping track of this virtually at the Livestream site, which depicts the real-time scene at “Liberty Park.” At this point it’s hard to make a […]

“The application for stay of execution of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied.” No doubt Justice Thomas knows something about high-tech lynchings. He’s been around a few. This was the “high” technology used: an injection of  pentobarbital, an “ultra-short action barbiturate,” which rendered Troy Davis unconscious; pancoromium bromide, […]

All loss of life should be mourned.

Generally, I enjoy checking out the main page of Huffington Post. Over the last few years it’s been a pretty good source of criticism of political incompetence, both by the Republican and now Democratic administration. It can also be a good way to tap into the Zeitgeist through videos that capture great moments in cable […]