the first day of spring
:::THIS::: is important. [Yes, that was a link.] WTF? Still here? Oh you lazy ass slackers! Fine. You need convincing. [So sad.] Here is an excerpt: To hell with you. To hell with every greedhead operator who flocked here throughout history because you wanted what we had, but wanted us to […]
There’s a big internet scare — About Los Angeles being the next big 9-11 hit. Tomorrow. November 15th. It’s kind of stupid. I’m not sure why anyone would follow up, say, I dunno, on a 2001 September attack in 20013 in November on a completely different day. Really? 12 years later? In a […]
I just realized in a random conversation something I never snapped to before. Texas is the only state in the U.S. I have returned to, to live in, besides California. I have lived in a lot of states. I lost count of interstate moves around interstate move number seven — and I […]
I find it — Annoying I have to pay extra to pay bills online. Everyone is all, Please go paperless, please go paperless! I am paperless, but then they are all, Oh, paperless, that will be $500 in online fees every year! [Okay it depends how many bills you are carrying and I travel […]
So I’ve been — Considering all the financial meltdown and end of the world stuff for a while. I’m not convinced it won’t happen. I’m not convinced it will happen. But it might be smart to be prepared if it does. And one of the ways of being prepared is to know how to […]
Winds — Are whipping Austin. Whipping the trees. Whipping the air. Whipping the neighbor’s wind chimes. I did not think I would like those wind chimes when the neighbors moved in. But I do. I can hear and taste the electric wind. I lift my face and nose and just breath. where the […]
This is Helen Caldicott speaking in front of the EPA about nuclear radiation and the need to shut down the dozens of reactors in the United States that are identical to the Fukishima plant — and almost all on fault lines. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ntr0D4QOM&w=420&h=315] *Helen Caldicott is the author of Nuclear Power is […]
So I promised @Catherina_Guate — I would write something up about living in the “zone” as in the pepper spray zone — with dogs. Which was where I found myself during WTO, with two big dogs who had to walk at least twice a day, when everything outside in Belltown, Seattle — and I […]