Counter-culture Journals (文革)

Counter-culture Journals (文革)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I Am Pol Pot

The new book I Am Pol Pot is now available from Amazon.com and will be available at Barns & Noble as well as other book outlets soon. This is a good spring or summer read, a novel of war and revolution in what is now Cambodia. While student protests were going on all over the industrialized world, Indochina was thrown into civil war and then revolution. The revolutionaries in Cambodia carried out an extreme social program and it resulted in almost a million deaths. But more important, this book looks at the decision making process. What where its leaders trying to do? What did they expect would happen in their new Democratic Kampuchea? How could such a revolution go wrong? All this is looked at in I Am Pol Pot, a fictional biographic novel.
Now available at Amazon.com.


Thursday, February 05, 2009

The Burbs

The Burbs

By 史蒂夫奥托

A place where nothing lives
Space in which no one ever gives
Destroy all weeds
Put in the grass seed
Sunday charcoal everywhere
No one seems to have a care
Baby you’re in the burbs
White-bread and decorative herbs
Baby you’re in the burbs
Like it or die in the burbs
Home owner’s association
Bachelor’s aggravation
Baby you’re in the burbs
Isn’t it hell living in the burbs