via Indy Magazine

„After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, fear of a Japanese invasion and subversive acts by Japanese-Americans prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. The act designated the West Coast as a military zone from which "any or all persons may be excluded." Although not specified in the order, Japanese-Americans were singled out for evacuation. More than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes in California, southern Arizona, and western Washington and Oregon and sent to ten relocation camps. Those forcibly removed from their homes, businesses, and possessions included Japanese immigrants legally forbidden from becoming citizens (Issei), the American-born (Nisei), and children of the American-born (Sansei)“

Zitat von ppoc-Ansel Adam's Manzanar Photos

PCL LinkDump bringt einen interesantes Link über die über die Unruhen in Watts. Wen diese Zeit, das Denken dieser Zeit und die Umstände die zu diesen Unruhen führen konnten interessiert sollte auf alle Fälle „A Journey Into The Mind of Watts“ von Thomas Pynchon lesen.

„Why is everybody worrying about another riot--haven't things in Watts improved any since the last one? A lot of white folks are wondering. Unhappily, the answer is no. The neighborhood may be seething with social workers, data collectors, VISTA volunteers and other assorted members of the humanitarian establishment, all of whose intentions are the purest in the world. But somehow nothing much has changed. There are still the poor, the defeated, the criminal, the desperate, all hanging in there with what must seem a terrible vitality. (…) Everything seems so out in the open, all of it is real, no plastic faces, not transistors, no hidden Muzak, or Disneyfied landscaping, or smiling little chicks to show you around. Not in Raceriotland. (…)“

Den Pynchontext gibt es bei dem San Narcisco College. Dort wird eine sehr gute Thomas Pynchon Seite geführt, wenn auch nicht alle Links funken.

update: „An ex-radical (maybe he still is) living around my parts, Pun Plamondon, wrote a book on his life with a great inside look at the Detroit riots. He was there with John Sinclair, White Panthers, MC5, etc. Detroit was poised to become the Midwest US's hippie heart, but the riots radicalized and drove out these groovy people.“

Here's a link to a look at Pun: Pun Kommentar geliehen von PCL LinkDump :-)

Japan Focus ist eine vielversprechende Seite. Dort gibt es interessante Artikel zu allen möglichen Themen. Habe mir mal den Newsletter bestellt.

Das Bild habe ich dem Artikel „Godzilla and the Bravo Shot: Who Created and Killed the Monster? “ entnommen.

Der Link stammt von pynchonoid

Marily Monroe erinnert mich an Oedipa Maas aus dem Roman „The Crying of Lot 49“ von Thomas Pynchon. „Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel as drunk as possible. But this did not work.(…)„ vgl. Pynchon - Guides: The Crying of Lot 49

Link via Anke Gröner

StopHipHop wurde brutalstmöglich gehackt. Ich weiß nicht ob es stimmt, es ist aber allemal lesenswert.

Link via netbib weblog

Das Geschäft ist ein Muß, wenn ihr mal in Frankfurt am Dom seit…