my newest platitude, 'speak from the heart' taken from Wedding Crashers is paying off. today was unreasonably rich. i found myself on my couch having just hosted a massive party - upwards of seventy people had crammed into our apartment last night. i was awoken by mike wilbur calling to ask me to play a free jazz session at school. i couldn't, but ( Read more... )

my school had an occupation this week. just to mark this, the situation isn't over and our time here is fluid in the extreme. the situation at school is complicated: a host of things touched off the occupation, so it's hard to say exactly what it's points were. it had demands, but they were incomplete, i think. it had a sentiment, but that was ( Read more... )

i've just realized that the reason i've not been able to get up in the morning the last few days is the week i had and the week i had before it. halloween was surrounded by three successive nights of partying, which hasn't happened in a very long time, and was extremely enjoyable and tiring. the nights directly before that there were the ensemble ( Read more... )

the national conference of organized resistance is a family reunion, one sketchy kid said to me. i once received a text message which said, 'hi, this is austin, from germany. i think we're in the same room - i'm in the back row'. this and other things made me happy in ways i cannot describe. there was a lecture on organizing with love that i ( Read more... )

i think i'll write this entry which as been percolating in my brain for a while. it goes like ( this. )

spent time in sf yesterday night. in a housing space above a 99 cent store, with peeling wattle and daub walls and new doors and lots of white dust all over the ground. there were dumpstered bagles upstairs, and drummers too; and expensive laptops and computers on desks and couches. i learned that i know too many stories ( Read more... )

maybe im updating too often. i dont know. i went to this party. it was outside, and really loud, and kids from half moon bay came by. also, this guy who i'd seen give a speech last year at city hall was there, and i had a short but really cool conversation with him about politics. hoo-gosh, i need to find more fresh animals like him to kill with my ( Read more... )

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