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14 March 2008
Big Enough for the Four of Us
Making a small house work for four people takes some time and effort. One must be conscientious about what comes in the door and not be afraid of letting things go once they have served their usefulness. Why all the effort? Why not move to a bigger, better house? Well, many [...]
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4 October 2007
Like a vegetarian with a leather couch
It’s easy to revile smokers. Their pastime results in dirty air and unhealthy symptoms as well as environmental degradation. Like the overweight or the poor, they are easy targets for feelings of superiority in the observer. Here in San Diego we visit a lot of parks in our ongoing efforts to make sure [...]
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29 September 2007
Smokers are like Butts
Walk down any busy street, and look down at the sidewalk. Your eyes will be greeted by butts. Many many butts. An endless stream of butts. Yellow butts, white butts, dirty, stinky butts. Where do all these butts come from, and why are they on the sidewalk and in the gutters of our nation?
Origins [...]
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13 September 2007
Burners, coffee, true believers, and a desperate dispersal of cookies
On Friday (while at Burning Man), I discovered that there was a wi-fi network available and as I had been commanded by my co-blogger to twitter if I could, I decided that it made sense to spend and hour or so at Center Camp (where the wi-fi signal lived) with my trusty laptop.
After a breakfast [...]
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11 September 2007
Burning Man art: Massive
One of the well known joys of Burning Man - and really the only part that I felt I really understood before I arrived - are the massive art installations. I guess I cheated on this front a little bit, as Nicole and I attended the Burning Man Arts Preview back in July, where we [...]
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8 September 2007
Hot days, wild nights
After being welcomed home, I mounted a suspended, empty hydrogen tank, which was rung by the BRC greeting crew, and thus my adventure was begun. We had identified a target address for our camp, using some of the Burning Man collateral we had collected recently. 4:00 and Jungle, we said (those are streets in BRC), [...]
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7 September 2007
“Welcome Home”
I spent the better part of the last month-and-a-half preparing to travel to and survive in the environmentally challenging environs of Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis of about 45,000 in the middle of the Nevada desert. BRC is, of course, home to Burning Man, the famously wild festival of art, music, and free spirits. [...]
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11 June 2007
Are you a Cougar? and, Coke is the new Chronic.
Couple of things I learned recently:
Cougar: the term to describe those of a certain age who prey on the younger set. Heard the term for the first time when I was out at the Union Street fair a couple weekends ago. Apparently everyone else knows this term already. I have confirmed that this is part [...]
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13 April 2007
You are not alone, nor am I
I had a brief, but most wonderful, conversation with my sister this morning, wherein I learned a little bit about the mischievous side of my wonderful nephew. On our call, my sister mentions to me that it must be harder for me to give up ms. teevee, being single and all. I know what she [...]
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11 February 2007
My own ghetto fabulous reality
Years ago, as a student at Cal, I spent certain semesters studying African-American culture in the US. As I took classes along those lines, I was often able to integrate my interest in hip hop music and culture into my studies. I wrote papers on things like the cultural impact of rap, the cross-cutural components [...]