tonite i finished dumbing us down by john gatto. cool book with definite anti-authoritarian tendencies. much of what he puts forward in the book dove-tails nicely with anarchism. the basic idea is that the public school system in the u.s. is unreformable because--despite its seeming failures--it is a total success. in other words, the compulsory, ( Read more... )

my new favorite drink is beer and bloody mary mix. my dad turned me on to this mixture. it's something from back in the day i guess. but man, it's awesome. a glass with 1 part of each works well. i'm sold on it anyway ( Read more... )

i am so obssessed with the prelinger archives. (in fact i hesitate to post the link, lest others sink into the fascinating mire.) i'm almost finished with kafka's amerika, but there's something i find so hard about kafka--you want to know what's going to happen, but it's so terrible. there's an unshakeable feeling of dread, and in amerika, it ( Read more... )

bear witness to the power of legos! (logos?)

went hiking today up by front rall. nice hike through shenandoah national park. saw some ruins, graveyard, and a superb view from a hang-glider launch. then, as if i hadn't walked enough, went by the library to pick up books on entrepreneuring . some good, some not as good. the library has a wealth of books on the subject, but some seem pretty ( Read more... )

more raking today. i think it's almost over. the trees are almost naked... speaking of naked, our front yard's only good suit was a tree--a huge red oak--and my mom had it cut down this week. it was a safety hazard i suppose. why a hurricane could rip through here any old time and smash it down into our sun-porch.

reading franz kafka has set me ( Read more... )

i have become dvd obsessed. i wachted the most insane propaganda/training movies from the cold war era (50's & 60's) and am committed to turning these things into killer dvds. and of course i bought night of the living dead and dr. strangelove ( Read more... )

i know what i want for christmas.

well, my idea to write a novel without the letter i is proving terribly misguided. but you can't stop me! and i am getting more of a feel for it. it needs that louis carrol touch. wizard of oz on with pharmaceuticals ( Read more... )

another perfect autumn day. raked leaves today for the first time in many years. didn't wear gloves even though i knew i'd need them and promptly got a blister and ripped it open. but i had a reason for not wearing gloves. for some reason i thought of a famous train robber (maybe somebody from ca claimed this person as a relative), back in the wild ( Read more... )