Michael Franti. He is a good man. Amazing. This is a video of him singing his song Hello Bonjour at the Power To The Peaceful concert in San Francisco that he hosts every year. Check out some of his other music...he has also recently made a film called I know I'm not alone where he traveled to the war zones of Iraq, Israel and the Occupied ( Read more... )

WAL-MART: UNION FREE FOREVER!

Wal-Mart is bad (but we already knew that). This post is about how Wal-Mart is, and goes about being, 100% anti-union. Unions represent the people. Keep your right to have a say in your working conditions, hours and wages; keep your right to obtain decent benefits; keep your right to strike without losing your job; be a ( Read more... )

Half-assed Movie Review of the Month!

Waking Ned Devine is a great Irish comedy. The plot line is simple: Man dies of shock. Man had just won the lottery. Fellow townsfolk find man...and his lottery ticket. Fellow townsfolk try to claim the lottery money. Mind you, my synopsis does NOT do this movie justice. I just suck at writing movie reviews ( ( Read more... )

I live on a boat. Someone outed me once...as a boater. Hah. kills me every time I think about it. My dad is considered "homeless" by the state because he lives on a boat. That always kills Peter to hear that. I wonder if it was a houseboat, would it still be considered homeless? Because it's a sailboat. 37 feet (or around there). It was crafted in ( Read more... )

Today it was 111 degrees here in good old Antioch. 111! It was a low of 105 at 8pm. Absolutely amazing and at the same time (sadly) not very surprising. In England it was 100 degrees for the second time in their history! The first time being August of 2003 when it soared to a record 101. Can you believe it? 100 degrees...in England! The average ( Read more... )