All of a sudden in Urban Outfitters last night it hit me how lucky I am to have a cute/comparably inexpensive apartment in an incredible location in Santa Cruz. I have acquired things to fill my apartment with, a bed, dressers, kitchen supplies, decorations.....even art. I have a Rocking Chair and a shoe basket, my own microwave (not one I took ( Read more... )

background: i'm supposed to be graduating this quarter. i'm taking a senior seminar class that requires an extraordinary amount of reading (oh.....and the class is taught in spanish, which means all the readings are in spanish, everything i write and say and hear is all in spanish), a politics class which requires just as much reading (with a ( Read more... )

misinformation is the new road to political activism

Santa Cruz hosted a benefit show last night for the "West Memphis Three" -- three kids who were arrested on charges of killing three 8-year old boys in Memphis Tennessee. Jello Biafra was a special guest to the bar (The Blue Lagoon) obviously, because three of the five bands ( Read more... )

ok....so, i started a new blog.  this one is completely a political blog.  the website (in case you're interested): http://programmablezombierobot.blogspot.com/Read more... )

this man gets dead bodies from executions in some countries and/or mental institutions and turns them into art ( Read more... )

attention:  this is not a real ethnography, it's more a creative writing.  Although these are real instances and real people, i took no notes and made no interviews.  the conclusions i drew are MEANT to be silly and ridiculous.  read this as it is, make nothing of it.

It seems, according to the findings of this ethnographic study that ( Read more... )

i read your journal.  i just thought you should know

It’s difficult to think of myself as a writer, although I would honestly love to someday.  Consequently, writing about how I became the writer I am, is proving to be difficult.  However, I can easily say what kind of writer I wish to be and why. 
Lets start from the very beginning, a very good place to start - I’ve always been a reader, since I ( Read more... )

i'm in my new place....alone for the first night and i'm a little scared.  I know i have to get used to this but i don't want to.

When he's here i get so frustrated with him and i feel crowded but when he's gone, i feel insecure and vulnerable.

WARNING!  Explicit content follows.  Viewer Discretion is advised.


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