Octubre 15, 2008
Honors
The local rag I love to hate, the Tucson Weekly, issued a "Best of Tucson" award to Dry River, the little group that runs the infoshop down the street from me and that I'm an on-again, off-again member of. The Weekly determined that we are the "best anarchist collective" in town. Here's the entirety of their explanation:
Anarchy may have gone out of style with the passing of St. Joe Strummer, but here in Tucson, there are still a few flying the black flag. What they do is kind of a mystery. We know they take camping trips, practice consensus decision-making and, mainly, facilitate a space called Dry River. Dry River commandeered the Best of Tucson™ title by giving radicals a place to organize, create and share. Like any good anarchist collective, Dry River has a zine library and a free store, and hosts all-ages punk shows and radical film screenings—but it's the free education that caught our eye. They offer classes in English, Spanish and silk-screening; they're also open to new ideas.
Pretty clueless, lazy, and snarky. But, I expect nothing better from the Weakly. Furthermore, I'm told that a reporter came to one of our wednesday night open meetings a while back, and failed to identify himself as being a journlist, even after he was asked directly; after the fact folks figured it out. Isn't that some kind of breach of journalistic ethics? And for what? A stupid "best of" issue?
Oh well, even snarky publicity is good publicity. heh.
Posted by steev at Octubre 15, 2008 05:58 PM
Hi Steev
Just picked you up on twitter. A while ago I asked you if we could post "On the Edge" on VisionOnTV, and you said that was fine, and i should let you know about views. Well, episode 6 had 34,000 views in a weekend (someone must have put it on a big blog). The other episodes were more modest, but we're still not launched (fuding shoukld arrive in a week or two). I'm putting together a season on migration, which I'd really like your film for - this should garner a lot more views, because we'll really push it as a season - publicise it to all the groups who might be interested - have embeds on websites and stuff.
Anyeway, just thought I'd give you some feedback.
Richard (visionon.tv)