NEW MASHUP VIDEO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3aY2g1RwmE

The walls start breathin', my mind's unweavin'
Maybe it's best you leave me alone
A weight is lifted on this evenin'
I give the final blow
'Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect

#MashupMonday #music #video #mashup #poppunk #rock #AAR #AllAmericanRejects #SimplePlan

Do remember, I am open to some mashup requests! So, if you've got an idea, lemme know!

"The City of Malibu has completed an independent After-Action Review (AAR) examining how emergency operations were managed during the 2024 Franklin Fire and the 2025 Palisades Fire. The City’s AAR will be presented to Council at the City Council Meeting on March 9, and the Public Safety Commission Meeting on April 1.

The report focuses on the City’s emergency management and Emergency Operations Center processes, including coordination, communication, evacuation, and operations during the emergencies. The AAR is an independent report prepared by Witt O’Brien’s, a nationally recognized emergency management and disaster response firm commissioned as part of the City’s commitment to transparency and accountability, and to continuously apply lessons learned from past disasters to strengthen planning and improve response to future incidents. "

https://malibucity.org/DocumentCenter/View/37295/FINAL_-PUBLIC_Malibu-AAR_-2526

#FranklinFire #PalisadesFire #Malibu #AAR

“poetry after barbarism”, by jennifer scappettone: online talk, h. 00:00

Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome, Tuesday talk from On Fascism series, in conversation with Franco Baldasso, h. 6 pm ET (online) = h. 00:00 Wed 3rd, Rome Time
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuesday-talks-poetry-after-barbarism-by-jennifer-scappettone-tickets-1980610633722

Poetry After Barbarism. The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism

Columbia University Press, 2025

Jennifer Scappettone discusses her new book (begun at the AAR) with Franco Baldasso

Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resistance—the poetry of motherless tongues. Departing from the national and global paradigms that dominate literary history, Jennifer Scappettone traces the aesthetic and geopolitical resonance of “xenoglossic” poetics: poetry composed in the space of contestation between national languages, concretizing dreams of mending the ruptures traced to the story of Babel. Studying experiments between languages by immigrant, refugee, and otherwise stateless authors, this book explores how poetry can both represent and jumpstart metamorphosis of the shape and sound of citizenship, modeling paths toward alternative republics in which poetry might assume a central agency.

Jennifer Scappettone, 2011 Fellow, works in zones of confluence and cross-contamination of the literary, visual, and scholarly arts, on the page and off. She is Professor of literature, creative writing, gender studies, and the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization at the University of Chicago, where she founded and directs the Environmental Arts + Humanities Lab (The City and its Others). She is the author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia, 2014) and the cross-genre verse books From Dame Quickly and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology of the Corporate Dump. She is also the editor and translator of Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which won the biennial Raiziss/De Palchi prize in translation from the Academy of American Poets.

Franco Baldasso, 2019 Fellow, is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Bard College, New York, and Fellow of the American Academy in Rome since 2019. He is also co-Director of the Graduate Summer School “The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism” at Sapienza University in Rome. Among his publications: Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy. (2022), which was awarded the 2023 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, and will be published in Italian in 2026.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-after-barbarism/9780231212090/