His board term expired, and another board member has created a bureaucratic logjam that make it difficult to re-appoint him or appoint a new member.

Michel Bauwens refers to the classic essay on social movements, “The Tyranny of Structurelessness,” in his analysis of complains about Wikipedia.

Up on 51st Street, Austin Studios is having what appears to be a periodic clean-out sale, where shoppers can dig through leftovers from pictures shot there. It looks like the studios is selling furniture and props, which may not be cheap. The blurb says, “These items have been featured in movies such as “Spy Kids”, “Secondhand Lions”, “The Faculty”, “Varsity Blues”, “Beerfest”, “Friday Night Lights”, “Grindhouse”, “Man of the House”, “Perfect Game”, “Sin City”, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “The Hitcher”, “There Will Be Blood”, “Tree of Life”, and Others.”

Down on campus, it looks like an MFA student is scrapping a bunch of stuff from a recently completed movie. If you’ve ever wondered what was inside the ominous Big Black Box on The Drag, here’s your chance to check out the RTF and Journalism studios where I taught for several years. The lockers may be very useful to someone, but, otherwise, I suspect most of the stuff will only be useful to other artists, or, in this day and age, scrap metal vultures.

*I thought I would call these rummage sales both because I’m finding it increasingly charming and neither of these seem to be actually taking place near a garage.