So it’s a beautiful Sunday in the bright, sunny South. And I know it’s been a while, but Shamelessness is like riding a bike. If you’ve been here a while, you’ll know what to do. If you’re new to these parts, you should be able to pick it up pretty quick.

So, how’s things where you are? Got anything big coming up? Anything you've been working on lately? What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

It’s Sunday. Everybody get Shameless.

Today’s the day. You know the deal. So what have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

It’s Sunday Sunday Sunday. Time to get Shameless Shameless Shameless.

You know the detail. So what have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

It’s a beautiful Autumn Sunday. What better time for Shamelessness?

This week for me has mostly been about cleaning up, taking stock, and making plans. When I haven’t just been sitting outside trying to get as much reading done in the fall weather as I can. But to-day I do have some major Shamelessness of my own to lay down, which is that I can confirm that, come October, I’ll be appearing on three panels at Libertopia in San Diego, California, including a break-out session (which we are calling Ask an Anti-Capitalist!) and two panels, one on IP and one on Markets Not Capitalism. While there I’ll be hanging out with as much of the left-libertarian posse as I can, and will also be doing some tabling for Markets Not Capitalism, the ALL Distro, and C4SS in the exhibition space.

Anyway. That’s my thing! How about you? Got anything big coming up? Anything you’ve been working on lately? What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

Here’s a thing. It’s an idea I picked up from Facebook. (Not a meme. There are no memes.)

1. Grab the closest book to you.

2. Turn to page 52.

3. Post the 5th sentence. Copy these instructions along with the post.

This actually turned out to be impossible to fulfill. The nearest book at hand^[1] was Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology. But p. 52 of that book doesn’t have 5 sentences. (It just has a short paragraph closing out the Introduction of the anthology.) The second nearest book was John Stoltenberg’s Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice; but p. 52 of my edition is the blank back of a section title page. I finally got a book that could possibly meet the requirements of the game with the third-nearest; so, by way of a game attempt, here’s the right sentence from the right page of Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, by Michael Davis (Viking, 2008). This is from a chapter which is mostly following some folks working on Captain Kangaroo at CBS, who would later end up as key figures in the Children’s Television Workshop. Anyway, sentence 5 is the especially enlightening record of the fact that:

[Jon] Stone worked for two game shows that, as he recalled, bent the rules.

–Michael Davis (2008), Street Gang, p. 52.

Well, so have I, just now, I suppose.

1. ^[1]I am not counting Distro booklets which I printed myself. In any case hardly any of those have 52 pages.↩