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A tree ascended there. Oh pure transcendence ( Read more... )

Hey there, sports fans. Not sure if anybody's still reading this, but I've been offline, pouring my thoughts onto real paper with an actual pen. I spent all day applying to parks jobs in Alaska and organic farm jobs in Maine and Minnesota from the inside of a city coffeeshop. Reading the descriptions of the farms -- with their bees and vegetables ( Read more... )

I think I'll be the Lorax when I grow up. Or maybe this guy: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/us/28neutrino.html?_r=1

I had a dream that Gina was running for congressional representative and I was her campaign manager. I talked her into using paper cranes as her symbol, and we papered the city in Marquez signs and strands of paper cranes, fistfuls of cranes, cranes in windows and over doors.

There was a Chinese belief that demons liked to travel only in straight lines. Hence the bridge zigzagged no fewer than nine times as it made its way to the center of the pond. The bridge was a demon filter, in other words, and the teahouse demon-free, which seemed of only limited usefulness if it still hosted people like Dr. X. But for Judge Fang ( Read more... )

XIX ( Read more... )

Moomers cordially invites you and all your loved ones to drink of our champagne tower on this night, New Year's Eve, when we gather to remember, to dance, to toast all those things we've forgetten or left behind us. It's unseasonably warm. There's a strange rain falling. Some of us still live at Moomers. Some of us live across the street. Some of ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, internet. Common Ground didn't need any volunteers right now, so I decided to stay in Chicago for the time being. I got a cozy little one-bedroom in Pilsen, up on the fourth floor, with big sunny windows looking out over the industrial wasteland that stretches to the south ( Read more... )

At loose ends. Should I go to Austin and live in a co-op; or should I go to New Orleans and work for Common Ground for a while?