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Suggestions for E2 (person)

2009-05-28T18:53:02Z

I would love it if there were a link somewhere that would direct people to a list of recently updated Home Nodes. Each user could have the option of staying out of the list, but that would save a lot of clicking around.

May 20, 2007 (person)

2007-05-20T21:22:24Z

Mama needs a new bus.

As a long (long) time fan of Kristin Hersh I found the news of her recent tour troubles very sad, considering not only what it means for her and her family, but what it means for music in general.

What I mean is this, all great artists do their thing, whatever that thing is, from a place within their soul. If they are feeling it and they are talented and they know how to translate that into music or art or architecture, then we all benefit. If the artists who are true to their form, who create brand new and influential STUFF are forced to get a day job to make ends meet it leaves all of the rest of us in a bleak landscape of bogus pop art, pop tarts and pop music.

Please read this and consider tossing some money into the tip jar, because if Kristin Hersh was able to make it to your town she could trip your ass back to college with some math rock, sing your baby to sleep with Appalachian folk tunes, heal your heart with a few notes or peel…

A bee hiding up in that flower (log)

2007-04-02T02:52:07Z

We took an early afternoon walk and before leaving I explained that we might want to take adventure notes. My then five year old son and seven year old daughter were aware there was a pen in my hand and a little spiral notebook, and they pointed out the stuff we should write. We filled 10 tiny front and back pages telling about the first great spring day that year.

Walked down the lane
we ate some berries
we saw two dogs yelling at us.
we saw some purple flowers
(we became self aware)
we picked a purple flower
we see a bath of rocks
Man flower
Manhole cover
Dandelion
Berries you can't eat
And then more -10
Katie is…

June 5, 2006 (idea)

2006-06-06T02:44:44Z

Why I am banned from hippie potlucks

Disclosure placards in front of each dish:

1. Free range chicken prepared in a mixture of single pressed olive and flax seed oil, drizzled with a sauce of hydroponic tomatoes grown from heirloom seed, organic oregano grown in free trade coffee bean and mealworm compost, lightly tossed with gluten free pasta and prepared in a feng shui kitchen by a lactating, yoga instructing beam of pure light and positive love energy.

And then mine:

2. This is just something I made, and to be perfectly honest, I am not sure about the politics behind the chow, but I won't cry at your funeral if you are weak and you eat this and die.

October 31, 2004 (person)

2004-10-31T17:50:44Z

Like any good voter, I went to my local library to get a Voter Information Bulletin to find out more about the local candidates for office. The League of Women Voters publishes the one I grabbed. The premise is simple: they contact each candidate with two questions and the candidates send in their responses. They are published without editing for spelling, grammar or content. The whole thing was fairly predictable until I found this:

FRANKLIN COUNTY CLERK OF COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Robert A Martin, Independent (write-in)
3080 Allegheny rd, Apt C, Columbus OH 43209
Email: none given
Website: none given
Education: Am over 60 years old and presently taking a course called Basic Drawing at OSU – Main Campus, summer 04. Like illustrating churches on Sunday.
Occupation: On my US, IRS income taxes 1040, I like to put that I am a insulation designer.
Qualifications for Office:…

September 11, 2004 (idea)

2004-09-16T13:56:44Z

My car had been acting up, needed a muffler and brake work and assorted other crap, but it had also acquired this strange inability to start on the first try, no clicking, no churning, just a whole lot of nothing. So I got out early to find a mechanic, explained my troubles dropped off my car, and waited for the return call. They were "unable to reproduce the problem" and after checking the battery, alternator and starter, determined that my problems could all be solved by "wiggling the clutch a little" when I start it. I had a new muffler system put on (ah, quiet) and called it a day.

Chris and I made a fine dinner. Ate like kings who eat perfectly grilled, medium rare steak with fresh green beans and wine, and talk afterward about the greatness of the meat cut, the perfection of the marbling, the crispness of the beans.

I took the kids up for a bath, made great big bubbles, washed hair, tickled toes with soap and scrubbing, watched my son stuggle to…