[lbo-talk] more Churchill

Colin Brace cb at lim.nl
Wed May 17 17:05:12 PDT 2006


On 5/18/06, info at pulpculture.org <info at pulpculture.org> wrote:


> Does anyone here know Churchill personally? Know more about what he's like
> in person?

I don't know him personally, but I attended a reading he gave at City Lights books last December in SF, and I found him a mesmerizing, compelling speaker who is extremely articulate. He has an impressive recall for statistics, which make the allegations mentioned in the piece Doug just posted all the more disturbing.

I have a copy of the book on Cointelpro that he wrote with Jim Vanderwall; it is heavily, I mean, HEAVILY annotated; I wonder how many "mistakes" are in it? I got regularly hassled by people for citing from it in an article on w-pedia. Now what can I say?

Regardless of his scholarly attributes, I still think some of his early pop-culture crit is good; essays on Dancing with Wolves,Tony Hillerman, Carlos Castaneda, New Age, that kind of thing.

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Colin Brace

Amsterdam



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