Other Voices, Other Rooms

• Many people are doing excellent work reporting on Occupy Oakland, so I'll link to the latest at Oakland North and SFBay Guardian and just mention Occupy Nashville, where old Freedom Riders draw parallels.  (Via Southern Beale, who draws other parallels.  Oh, Tennessee.)
• Jill of Brilliant at Breakfast on Game 6 of this year's World Series, and baseball generally.

  No sport played professionally in America bears the literary and poetic burden of baseball. You'll never see soft-focus movies about football, Brian's Song notwithstanding. The Natural wasn't a movie about Michael Jordan. No one will ever make a tennis movie called Court of Dreams. The right-wing may conjure up images of the 1950s in its longing for a return to the past, but their image is a false one. It doesn't take into account the desperate isolution of women in suburbia, the constant threat of nuclear annihilation, the drab and predictable lives of the men in the gray flannel suits. It's baseball that carries the mythology of America. Ken Burns created twelve hours of soft-focus reverence about the Greater Meanings of Baseball.

  It was a nailbiter, and I can't wait for tonight.
• The article is titled "A look at the dark side of 'Facebook revolution'," but it also discusses social media in general.
• Republic of T on writing vs. blogging.  (Why yes, that's why I keep threatening to write while posting lots of links.  But I choose the links.  If I'm doing this right, the links build a mosaic in your mind so you can--oh.  Right.  I forgot.  Sorry.  Well, I'll post the Game 7 score when I get it, and then it's hockey season, and that widget's up already.  Besides, psychohistory (in the Isaac Asimov sense) is happening a mile down the road and I'm not ready.)
• In memoriam:
• Virginia Knauer, Office of Consumer Affairs
• Elizabeth Winship, "Ask Beth"
• Florence Parry Heide, children's stories in prose and poetry
• Liviu Ciulei, best known here as a stage and theater director.