December 2008
“Riots are breaking out in factories in Dongguan as bankruptcies and layoffs...”
– Nerf factory riot in China - Boing Boing
After the riots, the famines.
November 2008
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Acorn Crop Crashes?
Looks like there has been almost zero production of acorns in the mid-atlantic region of the US this year.
[from Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop by Brigid Schulte]
[…]
The idea [of zero acorn production] seemed too crazy to Rod Simmons, a measured, careful field botanist. Naturalists in Arlington County couldn’t find any acorns. None. No hickory nuts, either. Then he went...
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Grounding Myself
Andy Gibson of The School Of Everything tagged me in his Mindapples post, asking what five things I do daily to remain sane.
Here’s my list:
Playing the guitar. I stopped playing guitar on a regular basis back in my twenties. But I suffered a brain aneurysm in 2003, and while recuperating I started playing again. I have written or reorchestrated a lot of tunes, and I really do try to play...
“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political...”
– William S. Burroughs (via reckon)
“Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. And then...”
– Brian Eno believes in singing
“Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. And then...”
– Brian Eno believes in singing
Thanksgiving Can Be Like This
I was working hard to enjoy Thanksgiving, even with all the weird currents from in-laws and cousins.
Keenan, my older son, and Aaron, a neighborhood kid who we have semi-adopted, were playing some crazy music. I grabbed a baby Martin, yesterday afternoon, before the Turkey, and then we were playing a song of mine. “Mary”.
One of the reasons the whole thing was cool is that the...
Natalie Walker, Urban Angel
