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Living in Oklahoma, I might as well go in there and vote for Donald Duck, because all of OK's electoral votes will go to whoever the Republican candidate is. We're not a "battleground state", so neither candidate can be bothered to make any appeareaces near my home. (But I don't have to push the mute button on any PAC-created ads, so maybe that's a ( Read more... )

At the 2012 annual national Rainbow Gathering in the Cherokee National Forest in the extreme northeastern corner of Tennessee, a great deal of the infrastructure of the gathering was built by what some gatherers like to call "dirty kids". Young people clad in black and shades of khaki and brown, especially from Fat Kids Kitchen, took part in laying ( Read more... )

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Circa Paleo, the electronically amplified Celtic band that had enough drums to fill up over half of the Maypole stage floor when they surprised us with their presence the morning of Memorial Day Saturday last year, returned again the same weekend this year to the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival in Muskogee. This year they were able to perform in the ( Read more... )

Saturday of the second weekend of Academy, instead of spending the whole day in dread of the teacher calling on me in IP class, I got to spend a more pleasant morning cleaning out and doing repairs in some privies where the water had been turned off for several months and the odor of long-ago urinations and defecations greeted the nostrils upon ( Read more... )

There was the usual "Mixer" potluck feast on the evening of the first Saturday in February (the 4th). The meal itself started at about 6;30, but I was told in a e-mail that there would be a dance rehearsal at 4, so I went the the Castle at that time. Between the end of the rehearsal and the dinner I was able to find both Karen and Donald in her ( Read more... )