Friday Fun Link

Matt Welch | June 24, 2005

The author of The Anarchist Cookbook apparently recants. (Link via Dr. Frank.)

Comments

|6.24.05 @ 2:45PM|#

He got 'how to smoke banana peels' from a military manual? Damn, every once in a while I'm sorry I missed the late 60's.

|6.24.05 @ 2:47PM|#

Wow. I don't care about the Anarchist Cookbook, but I can vouch for Dr. Frank's band, The Mr. T. Experience. Better, smarter, funnier than Green Day could ever hope to be.

|6.24.05 @ 2:48PM|#

That 'recant' is old and tired and, luckily for him, so is the book. Most of the information is available elsewhere and the rest is just wrong.

It's more likely to help a kid do something dumb and hurt themselves rather than aid a terrorist or spark a revolution.

the regulator|6.24.05 @ 2:54PM|#

I thought the Mr. T Experience was just ok back in the early 90s when I was doing a college radio show. I may have been wrong, seeing as how I was much more into the NY/NJ scene and the stuff being put out on ebullition (Born Against style stuff).

|6.24.05 @ 3:00PM|#

There was a little bit of crossover between the Lookout! and ebullition scenes - I have a Screeching Weasel/Born Against split 7" floating around somewhere

Matt Welch|6.24.05 @ 3:08PM|#

regulator -- I'm a big fan of the last two releases: Alcatraz, and especially Yesterday Rules. The latter is a sort-of punk rock Pet Sounds, with sonic & emotional variety that you wouldn't have guessed from Love Is Dead or whatever.

|6.24.05 @ 3:14PM|#

An anglican!?! What a sell out!

Handsome Dan|6.24.05 @ 3:28PM|#

Jaybird--

Whoah, that brings back memories. Wasn't the gimmick there that Born Against wrote the songs played on the Screeching Weasel side and SW wrote the songs on the BA side? I still sing 'El Mozote' to myself every morning on the way to work...

the regulator|6.24.05 @ 4:11PM|#

Handsome Dan --

You are correct (you just put the na-na-na part in my head). I think BA also did the theme to the Jefferson's on the CD version -- you can buy it on amazon used for $27!

Gosh the old days -- I don't think I ever saw a better overall show than Burn, Sick of it All (before they sucked), and Worlds Collide (I think Mouthpiece played too) at Middlesex County College.

Matt W --

I'll check em out. In my current phase of musical maturity I might appreciate them much more.

keith|6.24.05 @ 4:19PM|#

Hey Handsome Dan--

Funny running into you here.

I always liked that Born Against album where they were mad at the government and church.

I was never a big Mr. T Experience fan, though I loved the song "The Girl Who Still Lives at Home."

|6.24.05 @ 4:25PM|#

Friday fun link? It might be Friday, but sorry, the link was not that much fun. Falls well short of the average FFL.

the regulator|6.24.05 @ 4:25PM|#

I always liked that Born Against album where they were mad at the government and church.

I think that's all of them :)

|6.24.05 @ 4:36PM|#

Actually, the link above it *is* pretty fun. "Help, There's a Libertarian Hiding in My Bathroom!"

http://asmallvictory.net/archives/009360.html

Gene Berkman|6.24.05 @ 5:10PM|#

I have never offered the Anarchist Cookbook for sale in my store, but I looked at the introduction in a copy at a bookstore long ago. The guy identifies Mao tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh & Fidel Castro as representing anarchism in the world of 1970 (when it was published) so I knew he had no idea of what anarchy means.

After Lyle Stuart sold his publishing business - it became Carol Publishing Group - he bought back the rights to the Anarchist Cookbook for $75,000 and used it to start Barricade Books. Stuart has reported he quickly made his money back, so the title sells the book, regardless of how bogus the contents are.

|6.25.05 @ 3:48PM|#

From what Gene said, I don't feel bad about somehow never buying this one. BTW, Gene's store looks interesting.

|6.26.05 @ 8:12AM|#

I have 3 different versions of the anarchists cookbook. Somebody once told me that the guy who wrote one of them was a government agent, and a lot of the stuff was written purposefully wrong, so that someone trying the stuff would hurt themselves.

I tried to make a silencer from the book and it didn't work, though that was probably a lot more to do with the lack of effort that I put in that particular project than anything else.

|6.27.05 @ 12:28AM|#

My God, people are talking about NYHC and post-hardcore on Hit & Run. Quicksand was great when I was 16. I'll still pop Killing Time's 'Brightside' into the cd player when I'm driving and want to feel tough. Die 116's 'Dyna-Cool' is some great, way ahead of its time discordant HC.

It's too bad that whole scene has degenerated into mindless yo boy guido Madball clones and metalcore lite limp wristed prettyboy bands.