The Post-Rockist

…but it is, in fact, the face of former-Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.

For those of you who may have been wondering what happened to the non-Foo Fighting /world-touring/officially-stepped-out-of-the-shadow-of-Kurt Cobain member of Nirvana, you can read weekly updates by checking out Krist Novoselic’s blog posts for the Seattle Weekly. If you haven’t been keeping up with Novoselic since 1994, you’ll find that he’s been putting his energies toward politics more than music and has become an important and interesting commentator and activist on national and Washington-state politics over the past 10 years.

But unlike Bono’s glamorous-gladiator-for-the-good persona, traveling in fast luxury jets to third-world locales for professional photo shoots and gaining entrance into closed-door meetings with world leaders based solely upon the leaders’ giddy excitement at meeting a real rock star, Novoselic has been scrapping politically in the mucky trenches of American grassroots activism.

Based on a reading of his first blog, it seems that Novoselic will be writing partly about national and local politics and partly about music and Nirvana (and, most likely, will be using music as a segue into political conversation).

Novoselic’s first post presents an interesting and, I believe, particularly sensitive understanding of anarchy in the USA. Nothing crazy or bombast here. Just a mind who is simultaneously dedicated to real justice in American life and, consequently, was the bassist to the most influential and important band of my lifetime.

–Posted by Scotter