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The Weekly Urchin Recap
Words by Henry David Thoreau*; Images by Geo Ong (what a combo!) October is the month of painted leaves. Generally, every fruit, on ripening, and just before it falls, when it commences a more independent and individual existence, requiring less … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Geo
Tagged autumn, autumnal tints, fall, falling leaves, henry david thoreau, leaves, Nature, october, seasons, trees
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That’s What He Said
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and … Continue reading
Essential Reading According to Your Friendly Neighbourhood Urchins
Let’s take a look at what have officially and unofficially been deemed the most widely read books of all time. The Bible, the Harry Potter series, Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy, and the Twilight series. Of those four, we ourselves can … Continue reading
That’s What He Said
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened … Continue reading
Environmental Activist Faces 10 Years in Prison
By Sarah Jost In 2008, 27-year-old University of Utah economics student Tim DeChristopher attended an auction of oil and gas drilling leases and drove up the bidding by hundreds of thousands of dollars. DeChristopher and other activists were protesting the … Continue reading
The Meaning of Life: Who Knows
By Sarah Jost It is a fool’s life, as they will find out when they get to the end of it, if not before. -Henry David Thoreau, Economy I’ve been pretty busy lately. Working, playing, sitting outside even when it’s … Continue reading
The Urchin Book Trunk
As we mentioned earlier, the Urchins are embarking on our first ever Urchin road trip. In preparation for our journey, we look to the interesting minds that have done it before us. Here it is – the Urchin Book Trunk! … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, Literature, Travel
Tagged air-conditioned nightmare, america, america day by day, Beat Generation, beats, bennington, Bill Bryson, books, dogs, edna st vincent millay, electric kool-aid acid test, england, essays, expatriates, frasier, gothic literature, henry david thoreau, henry miller, Jack Kerouac, john steinbeck, london, mark twain, new journalism, nonfiction, novels, on the road, poetry, poodles, pulitzer prize, riding toward everywhere, road trip, roughing it, sal paradise, shirley jackson, simone de beauvoir, sixties, stephen fry, stephen fry in america, the lost continent, tom wolfe, train hopping, travel literature, travels with charley, urchin book trunk, urchin bookshelf, Vermont, walden, we have always lived in the castle, william t vollmann
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Bad Nature, Bad Words, and Bad People: Three More Revolutionary Books
By Geo Ong Part Three of the ongoing and hopefully infinite list of revolutionary books. If you haven’t yet read Part One: Begin from Within or Part Two: You Animals!, be sure to check out those posts, too! Civil Disobedience … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged art as social revolution, books, castro, civil disobedience, communism, communist manifesto, discrimination, essays, false consciousness, fox news, friedrich engels, gandhi, henry david thoreau, immigration, imperial, injustice, joseph mccarthy, karl marx, martin luther king jr, marxism, mccarthyism, mexican immigrants, mexican-american war, mexico, pol pot, poverty, resistance to civil government, revolution, revolutionary books, slavery, stalin, tariq ali, the idea of communism, War!, william t vollmann
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That’s What He Said
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides … Continue reading
You Are the Future – No Pressure!
To the graduates of the world, I know what it’s like. I’ve been there. You’re sitting there, cursing your oversized gown, zoning out the valedictorian’s speech in favour of a myriad other things… When will this be over?… I better … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Geo
Tagged civil disobedience, college graduates, graduates, graduation, henry david thoreau, job market, jobs, school, university graduation
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