Mark Charan Newton

Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
The jungle crouched, humped, in silence.
Then spoke the thunder
D A
Datta: what have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which [...]

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Forgive the huge dose of inaccurate and simplified journalism by the BBC, but this Social Libertarian community in Copenhagen, Freetown Christiania is under siege by the Danish government, and protests have kicked off in response. This is a community where people have chosen to control over as man aspects their own lives as possible—it’s a [...]

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The Guardian newspaper has shown a fascinating gallery of original Watchmen sketches online. I never knew that Rorschach’s face changed on every sketch. I wonder if the movie will manage to replicate that some how?
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There we were in the vaulted tunnel running,
You in your going-away coat speeding ahead
And me, me then like a fleet god gaining
Upon you before you turned to a reed
Or some new white flower japped with crimson
As the coat flapped wild and button after button
Sprang off and fell in a trail
Between the Underground and the [...]

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Double music bonanza this weekend. I love the Guillemots. They’re one of the most original bands around, and fabulous live. They’re genuinely passionate about music, and it shows so much.
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You remember when Gordon Brown used terror laws on something that wasn’t, you know, blowing up people and stuff? Well the Icelandic people have created this website in response. Look at those faces of the terror! All clearly guilty!
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Two young men talked in some local hand-language, their sentences needing a gesture and a glance for completion. Kids were sliding on patches of ice in horizontal freefall. A couple walked by, the blonde woman much younger than the man, and he judged them ‘respectable’ by the quality of their clothing. He was tempted to [...]

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Back again, Marx is back, tell a friend. [End of riffing on hip-hop lyrics]
Karl Marx is back in fashion, says one German publisher, who attributes his new popularity to the economic crisis.
Shame the old dude ruined it all with this, fo shizzle.
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