tom moody

Articles explaining the current "wild ride" of the Dow:

Nouriel Roubini's blog [link was dead - updated 1/3/2010]

Andrew Leonard on Salon (prob. subscription only)

Several nights ago Bill Kristol appeared on Jon Stewart's TV program, describing a recent Baghdad trip and assuring us that Bush's Iraq war escalation is working. Atrios touted this as real journalism--maybe that was ironic? Kristol edits the neocon Weekly Standard and espouses views as bloody minded and hawkish as you'll find. But he came out smiling, Stewart greeted him warmly and they joked around as Kristol repeated over and over that things were going well in Iraq and if we'd just give General Petraeus more time everything would be ducky.
A supposedly hard hitting question from Stewart was "why are you so angry at people who opposed the war?" Kristol never stopped smiling and said "I'm not angry at them" and jokingly assured Stewart that Bush doesn't think that Stewart is a coward.
They had some back and forth schtick, the audience laughed, and applauded when he entered and exited. Stewart clearly values having Kristol on his program and wants to maintain cordial relations with him.
What we needed to see was the smile wiped off Kristol's face by the reading of statistics about the increase in civilian dead in Baghdad post-escalation, the growing chaos in Basra and points north, and some recitation of actual words from Kristol's magazine tarring war opponents as blind to terror or what have you. Stewart's show is a comedy show but he was woefully unprepared and there is nothing funny about Bill Kristol.

Feb 2001 - July 2007, all posts and comments. Much of the printing is double-sided. The images are black and white and there are no links so it's the "zine of the blog." A piece of Internet history, or bulky recyclable? No artist ever knows for sure. Thanks to all who contributed, though--it was in many ways a group effort. The pixel edition is online for as long as Digital Media Tree is online--may it be long!

Rhizome.org has a couple of my images* up on their front page today. Hey, it's the Internet and I don't insist on credit for everything but this is, well, my blog, where I get to mention this sort of thing.

This photo of LoVid performing at Southfirst originally appeared here.

This composite of what I called the "exercise molecules" was used as an illustration of a furtherfield.org article about my blogging activities--the article was also absent from the Rhizome reblogging of the latest furtherfield articles. I mean, they linked to a blurb about the article and that's great and I ain't complaining, really. And it's true the exercise molecules aren't mine (they're found) but it was a bitch putting them together like that in MSPaint where they all retained their characteristic motion in cluster form. (Update: at some point after the above screenshot was made, a mention of the furtherfield coverage of BLOG, my blog-as-performance, was added to the Rhizome post.)

*Update, 2011: The Rhizome links have been changed to http://rhizome.org/editorial/2007/aug/6/new-reviewsinterviews-at-furtherfieldorg-july-31st/ and http://rhizome.org/editorial/2007/aug/15/live-stage-cross-current-resonance-transducer-onli/. Furtherfield's coverage of BLOG has once again gone missing from the former post.