2009: Life is good, but busy. Grad School. Teaching. Ending over a year of couple's counseling. On my way to quitting smoking (again). Cutting loose some flotsam and getting back in touch with good jetsam. I am still here. I ain't goin no wheres. Love you all.
Someone gotta fill these:
I wish I was a half of a two
last resort
fuck it, I love you even if I'm gonna feel like shit
i'm leaving teethmarks on your striptease
It's easier to drink on an empty stomach than to eat on a broken heart
I pray to God you don't look at me. You pray to God I don't look back.
we meet on the street for the first time every day
We jammers are a loose global network of artists, activists, green entrepreneurs, media-literacy teachers, downshifters, reborn Lefties, high school shit-disturbers, campus rabble-rousers, dropouts, incorrigibles, poets, philosophers, ecofeminists. We cover the spectrum from the cool intellectual middle to the violent lunatic fringe, from Raging Grannies who chant doggerel at protests to urban guerrillas who stage wild street parties. We are ecological economists, TV jammers, ethical investors. We paint our own bike lanes, reclaim streets, "skull" Calvin Klein ads and paste GREASE stickers on tables and trays at McDonald's restaurants. We organize swap-meets, rearrange items on supermarket shelves, make our software available free on the Net and generally apply ourselves to the daily business of getting consumer culture to bite its own tail. We're idealists, anarchists, guerrilla tacticians, hoaxers, pranksters, neo-Luddites, malcontents and punks. We're the ragtag remnants of oppositional culture - what's left of the revolutionary impulse in the jaded fin de millénium atmosphere of postmodernity in which revolution is said to no longer be possible. What we share is an overwhelming rage against consumer capitalism and a vague sense that our time has come to act as a collective force.
On the simplest level, we are a growing band of people who have given up on the American dream.
-----Adbusters
It is for eeyore14 that Mark Twain quotes appear here.
You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination.
- "A Fable"
Gatherings thus far:
9/2000 • 2/2001 •
10/2001 • 12/2001 • 1/26/02 • 4/13/02 • 7/4/02 • 12/31/2002 • 7/1/05
Piss Christ is the art world's version of trolling.
Quizro
Quizro says: Templeton, you have always seemed to me to be the one who has lived the concept of E2 as a community to its fullest. Including friendships and, of course, romance.
Wow. I mean, wow.
Book list of books I want to read:
The Dumb Ox, G.K. Chesterton
Brave New World Revisited, Huxley
The Transparent Society, David Brin
Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Henry Miller
In Watermelon Sugar
Deathbird Stories, Shatterday, The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, Harlan Ellison
The Slave and the Free, Holdfast Chronicles, Suzy McKee Charnas
Backlash, Susan Faludi
Manifesta, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
The Favourite Game, Leonard Cohen
Backlash, Stiffed, Susan Faludi
Mockingbird, Sean Stewart
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Cat's Eye or The Blind Assassin, Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
Heat, William Goldman
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Restoring the Lost Constitution : The Presumption of Liberty
Angles by OSC
Oryx and Crake
The Handmaid's Tale
You are unceasingly amazing and one of the primary reasons I've been around as long as I have. Much love to you, ma'am.
I love you too, sillyhead
Just so you know: it's not what you didn't say to me or to blood relations, it's what you said to my friends that hurt me the most. That was the one thing I never told you.