Looking back at earlier entries to participate in a project chronicling people's entry into the business. How tortured I was back then, and how nuanced and clever and scholarly I was in my descriptions of my angst! And now, nothing. But in the words of the philosopher Cobain..."I think I'm dumb--maybe just happy ( Read more... )

B/c of Constantina's generous invite: http://marginalutility.dreamwidth.org/

Here's my new fledgeling little blog. I'm particularly proud of the second to last entry ( Read more... )

"Death represents the loss of knowledge and information. A person is a mind file. A person is a software program--a very profound one, and we have no backup."
--Ray Kurzweil

Does it matter that, arbitarily, she died 365 days ago yesterday? I guess it's supposed to matter, right?

"Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is ( Read more... )

Sorry--I'm doing a bunch of Poverty Is Not A Crime stuff on facebook, where I have a more grassroots effective list of readers. Plus I need to *do* this work + not worry about analysis right now, you know--except in terms of crafting public speaking + literature. But that's more popular education, anyway. So my life isn't appearing much here right ( Read more... )

Truck fuck with my old regular, the only client I'd ever go in a car with. The slim roll of bills already folded in my leather jacket pocket as we twist and turn around. Contorting over the gear shift, hitting the horn with my heels mutedly, I haven't worked for a little while b/c of activist immersion + economic downturnturn, so I mix a little ( Read more... )

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The democratic proccess exhausted me tonight, after that three hour public hearing. Sometimes even a radical wishes for a benevolent dictator or philosopher king, like, oh, say, ME.
(Don Schneir, I am NOT encouraging you.)