Prose Before Hos

This Is As Good As It Gets

Posted on February 12, 2008 in Quotes

Truthfully, this is as good as it gets. We won’t have a chance like this again for some time-if ever, we know that, and we’ve fallen in line. The power structure has allowed this brotha to compete as long as he is clear on a few ground rules: no material changes will be made to the racist global economic order, Africa will not be liberated from its economic dependence on the World Bank and the IMF, and incremental changes in domestic economic institutions like the [tag]health care system[/tag] will be permitted within certain limits.

From [tag]Skeptical Brotha[/tag]’s post [tag]Barack Obama[/tag], a proxy for [tag]racial equality[/tag]

Arts, Briefly

Posted on February 12, 2008 in 00 and 00 and 00 and 00 and 00 and 00 and 00

In a new play at the [tag]National Theater in London[/tag], 27 actors perform for 90 minutes without uttering a word. The attraction is “[tag]The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other[t/ag],” by the Austrian playwright [tag]Peter Handke[/tag]. The script has 60 pages of stage directions and no dialogue, although there are bangs, crashes, screams and laughter, The Independent of London reported. Mr. Handke said that the idea came to him in the 1980s when he found dramatic meaning in the comings and goings in a town square near Trieste, Italy. “Is there much to discover in it?” he said of his play. “I don’t know.”

From the New York Times