If you haven't yet, do see The Motorcycle DiariesWatched it last night. Nice narrative that introduces several dialogues: between reform and revolution, between photography and film, between vision and reality. It lets these speak, though, without ever snagging the movie's progression ( Read more... )

This past Wednesday, our local Radical Faerie circle made the decision to sell our Sanctuary. For about six months, the west wall has been collapsed and we still hadn't managed to find the time, energy, or resources to secure it. We've had a series of break-ins and burglaries. We've spent less and less time, as a group, in the space ... cold and ( Read more... )

Still looking at my psycho-social construction, in terms of class ... :

( personal economics )

I know the last two posts were long and choppy. What I was trying to do, though, was get myself down -- wings under pins under glass -- and see how I might be conditioned by my class background -- how some life options might never even occur to me, how others come like instinct, how I might choose more knowingly ( Read more... )

( up to now )

Reading "That's Revolting," being prodded by 2fruition's wonderful recent posts, and talking some time ago about this to dom_ino, I have been thinking a lot about class ( Read more... )

OK: This is what ultimately became of all the Xmas hullabaloo: There were what might be called emotional thumbscrews -- or what might be called active expressions of caring. My brother Jeremy called and said that he and my youngest brother Josh had agreed to come and pick me up for Xmas, since they wanted to get the chance to see me this year. I ( Read more... )

Have reflected some more on the post by clarkelane -- about what I can do after the numbing news of the results of this past election.  Answering the question is complicated by the facts that

• I don't believe our democratic process or representative government works any more.  I won't waste any more energy on writing a Senator or signing a national petition ( Read more... )

Last night after Circle at the Sanctuary, I found something in my mailbox there. It was a bill from JC Penney's (where I used to work part-time) from 1994. There was information about Baby Bootie Charms (?!) in it. There was a check made out to them from me (also dated 1994), signed by me and otherwise filled out by my ex-girlfriend, Beth. The ( Read more... )

I'll admit that what with the marionetted last Presidential election, the silly fingerpointing of "spoiler" at Nader, the ignoring of how monied interests grease congressional palms, the unbelievable hacking away at our civil liberties by Bush & Co., and the obvious Hollywood-like construction of campaign platforms, I have chosen -- for spiritual ( Read more... )