“The Unity Council has proposed a project with 94 affordable apartments at 111 Fairmount Ave., documents show. Work on the project would require the demolition of some parts of the property yet leave other portions of First Christian Church intact.”

#Oakland #housing

Come hang out-- I'll be volunteering at Chris Kraus in Oakland this Friday; Brandon Taylor in Berkeley next Tues; Short Stories at Clio's next Weds; and Alta Journal at the Verdi Club on Weds 10/22

I'm reading Monday 10/20 at Page Street-- the theme is "Stories about the Books that have changed Us"

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

R.E.M., “These Days”

NEW: @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased 1009 Market St., the building housing its fine art studio. In a time of economic insecurity, a rise in anti-homelessness sentiment, and an affordability crisis, this acquisition is a rare win for low-income artists in San Francisco

I am. It is divine.

Sent off the first batch of Alas, So Long CDs and had to add something suitably historical in with them.

We've still some in stock if you fancy our CD of music inspired the 19th century & a letter inspired by the 18th Century!

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

10am sharp, on @bff.fm :

--Mox
--Sachi's Mirror
--Pocket Full of Crumbs
--Spa
--Joel Cusumano
--Whitney's Playland

bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...

This worksheet includes content adapted from our Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care toolkit, and also incorporates lessons and ideas from activists and organizers from around the country, including LA and DC.

You can check out the toolkit on our website here:

“Women didn’t love him. They still don’t.”

I've never seen it but I do love the idea of a soap opera called Search for Tomorrow

Exclusive: Bay Area university to open $240 million downtown Oakland campus. Here’s a look inside—
Samuel Merritt University will bring 2,000 in-person Oakland students and hundreds of faculty and staff to a massive building… www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti... Roland Li @sfchronicle.com

Not in the 2015 part, in the dystopian 1985 part.

This is good on Bowie and his young disciples.

Teenage Wildlife's third verse is an all-timer.

bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/t...

Leave it to Back to the Future II (1989) to actually nail Trump and inequality politics?

Can confirm this is Craven-proof.

Now reading:

Been digging this one lately:

“The anthology’s profit is a kind of surplus literariness, an investment in the public literary good. But where does this metaphorical profit flow?” I absolutely adore this essay from @nicksturm.bsky.social

Film, drunkenness, rain, and books are coming!

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, September 30 - October 5: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice.

When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

How many colons should I put in this sentence?

10am on @bff.fm:

--Ayodele Nzinga
--Wife
--Credit Electric
--Agnes Martian
--Jas Stade
--Brown Dog

bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...