Here at OMT, we knew the minute that we got the news that Roman Polanski had been arrested by the Swiss at the behest of the Americans on a 30-year-old warrant for having non-consensual sex with a 13-year old girl at Jack Nicholson’s house in 1977 (where the hell was Jack while all this was [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Further Reading
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mayor Skippy and the Storm Troopers
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Even though we missed the police riots in Oakland on Thursday and Friday nights during last week’s G20 summit here in Pittsburgh, much of what we did manage to see in the much calmer downtown area left us with the feeling that what happened in this town last week was nothing short of an occupation [...]
Pittsburgh Braces for the World – Part II
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The second day of the G20 summit in downtown Pittsburgh got off to a much quieter start than the first. There were no demonstrations in the morning, planned or unplanned, and so the streets were empty, except for the overwhelming show of force by the police. The only thing that could even remotely [...]
Pittsburgh Braces for the World
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The day in downtown Pittsburgh observing the activities surrounding the G20 summit certainly started out uneventfully enough. It was cooler than we’d hoped, cloudy, a little foggy actually, with the temperature in the lower 60s, with a high, clammy humidity. As it happened, in spite of the occasional peeks of sunshine, there [...]
The World Comes to Pittsburgh
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here at OMT, we are generally loathe to cover local news, our journalistic sights aimed, as they are, high above the somewhat provincial concerns of our fair little city. But what’s happening in Pittsburgh today and tomorrow is truly global in scope, and so we will be making a rare exception.
We’ve taken the next [...]
Ol’ Tofu Eyes is Back
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We made something of a big deal about a week and a half ago about shutting down OMT, doing some hand-wringing about how, “yes, yes, it’s over, so fuck it, we’re moving on”, making it seem for all the world as though OMT was finished on a more or less permanent basis. We even [...]
The Lessons of Lyndon
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Father, father
We don’t need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
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OK, We’re Done
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
– Jim Morrison
Here at OMT, we’re nothing if not realists. When something is, it just [...]
