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Arts Who Was Subcomandante Marcos?

Posted by on April 25 at 12:51 PM

Hey, Stranger arts staffers, you may reel at all my posts about state politics from Olympia or the recent stuff about the Port scandal, but I’ll have you know that way back when (1995), I was published (along with arts writers like Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, and Sarah Vowell) in a round-up of our choices for “Artist of the Year.”

Click on the above link, scroll past the essays on Eddie Vedder, Jane Austen, Sirius B, Howard Cruse (Dave Marsh’s choice), and other stars of ‘95, and you’ll come upon my choice.

p.s. Sarah Vowell’s choice was Ian Brown, the American Public Radio host for the Canadian show, “Sunday Morning.”

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Good one Josh. I usually dont agree with you on international stuff. Performance piece is the right description. I always thought of Marcos as the Spanish represnetative in Chiapas of clowns without borders. The guy has published more books than Stephen King and probably penned "The Secret". I expect to see him on Oprah soon.

Recently he changed his name to delegate X, and is leading the other campaign, which basically cost the left leaning PRD the elections and gave the PAN 6 more years. The reason being that prince's symbol was already taken.

The Zapatista rebellion of 94 was important,however, Marcos was and always has been just an internet guerilla who never fired a shot.

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Where do you keep the Ski Mask now, Josh?

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