You may notice that the day count advanced faster than real-time. This is because I am actually more into my sentence that I initially indicated, and plan to "catch up" as my release date approaches.
Politics to me is a sport, and I watch it and follow the players and their peculiarities the way American Football fans obsess over athletes' minutia. Even though I am on Work Release and get access to the Internet all day I have not been able to follow things as closely as I once did. Following the political and financial blogs and Indy media during the day; watching CNBC in the early AM and late PM (to know what the ruling class are thinking, of course); nightly fixes of The Daily Show and of course The Colbert Report - these were my bread and butter. Now I stay current with day-old New York Times and our local daily morning paper, when they can cover something beyond local high school sports. The horror, the horror!
One of my favorite journalists is Matt Taibbi, who is a celebrity of sort in the world of journalism (he makes appearances on Bill Maher's show and also on Stewart and Colbert, so it counts). I think I first read him in print copies of The Nation, and then AlterNet online. Through Taibbi, I found out about eXile.
So it is with sadness that I must share that the eXile is closing up shop. Being a Russo-phile of the "wore a CCCP shirt during my junior high punk days" sort, I will miss the eXile's irreverence and brutally honest analysis of the West. But thanks to the Internet, I can still read a lot of the great journalists who were what made the eXile so grand.
Ironically, people are going to hear a lot more about the eXile in the Western mainstream media now that it is dead. Which is too bad, because the Western media could have learned a lot from the eXile, if they could fit it in between being an uncritical supporter for the Bush administration's Iraq War run-up, getting to the bottom of flag-pin-gate during 2008 Democratic Presidential primary debates, and reminding us that Hillary Clinton has a vagina.
Farewell, eXile!
As I was googling for Russian coverage of the eXile's demise, I came across Sean's Russia Blog, which was pretty interesting. The most recent post covered web videos of David Harvey lectures. 13 two-hour episodes, which of course I don't have time to watch due to being in prison. Something else for the post-release to-do list!
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