As committed as we at Farrago’s F.M.I. are to the history of things that aren’t, parallel realities, and the inexorable blending of fact and fiction, it appears as if the Texas State Board of Education is way ahead of us.

Kudos, bureaucrats, for what promises to be the most expansive experiment in unreality ever achieved. If only F.M.I. had the reach and the budget …

You tell ‘em, Asheville!

Asheville, NC—11/24/09

Or read something different, and tell her to read that. The same applies for watchables.

Rima continues her guest blogging spree at Jeff Vandermeer’s blog, unloading the most noteworthy shapers of her current personal zeitgeist.

There’s a lot going on here, covering everything from Israel/Palestine relations to copyright law, but I didn’t see anything about zombies or explosions, so I didn’t read it.

In the interest of the struggles, both ideological and political, occurring right now in Iran, F.M.I. would like to direct you to Leah Borromeo’s “Images For A New Age (Tehran Street Art)” and “Turban Warfare (Tehran Street Art pt. 2).

Street art is pure cultural expression, a pure assertion of self and situation in the tradition that disregards mankind’s theories of legality for a clean space to be, two-dimensionally.

That is to say, anti-aesthetics. Rock on, artists. Rock on, Leah.

“Sometimes the best presents you receive are the ones that show you people are not alone in fighting for what is right. Weapons of this battle? Feet. Minds. Paint. Words.”

“My friend is tired. Having spent the day erecting over 400 street pieces throughout Tehran’s concrete, steel, and rage-lined arteries. Having run away from angry men on motorcycles wielding batons towards angry men wearing green and throwing rocks.”