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when you think "how can i help america..."

try this.

Citizens Arrest Attempt On Karl Rove In Iowa Leads To 4 Arrest

friendfeed? i just aggregated all my wubbin submits, in a minimium clicks

http://friendfeed.com/hellbender

omfg. i just aggregated.

Tires: mostly full of gravel

Tires: mostly full of gravel
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got some shit done today.

The tarpage scene: its better than it looks.

The tarpage scene: its better than it looks.
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rewatching adaptation and it's really remarkable - not least because it's starring nicholas cage... and nicholas cage! (and meryl strepp (and the crazy dad from american beauty)) and it's really good. 

i'm really impressed by it's insanity. and then i looked up charlie kaufman (being john malkovitch, sunshine of the eternal spotless mind). and then i looked up spike jonze (a white boy who changed his name (he did beastie boy's sabotage, three kings, and jackass (the movie)). eventually you research everything i guess. 

the fractal of the real. the more you look, the more there is.

things:

staring at the burn, i was struck by the metaphor of the flame as life and experience - the way that the fire is really all happening at the point of contact, the disintegrating substrate, the fuel - this is the present moment, the thing that is un-graspable, the contact between self and other that is experience. 

in this metaphor, the actual flames are your "awareness," as contrasted with the direct experience that is the combustion. the flames are the mind, pulling apart the consumed material, mixing the smoke and ash and consuming it further. i feel now, that the roaring, flowing, ferocious liquid shape of a bonfire is the shape of the mind, formed by the fuel and the dynamics of flame twisting and spiraling on itself, lunging for fuel, living only as long as it can feed. and it's not rained out.

and it could live forever. more or less. in theory. just like me.

transformus is so fucking perfect, it's almost unreal now. burning man was always a fascinating idea, but it had too many downsides, the distance, the cost, the desert, and, i know now, the size.

we partied in the forest, drinking spring water (and beer, wine, whiskey, etc). and it was around 1500 people, not tens of thousands. so when you saw someone, talked to them, liked them, you could trust that you'd see them again. 

or i know that now, anyways. i spent a lot of time there in fear that i might never see certain people again. which is par for the course for most daily interactions, at a party, or in a city, on the street. 

it's hard to make friends in cities. thats just one reason i dont like them, but it's damn important.

but in this village, in two days, it was nearly community. it's all terribly unsustainable, long term, for any variety of reasons, but for a few days, it's paradise. it's freedom, and beauty, and art, and sex, and insanity, novelty, community and perfection.

what i did with my mini-vacation

the start of the afterparty; a little spin around the blaze

do a double take: how big was that fire?

playing with fire is neat. there was some serious innovation present.  like a 7-man chain-reaction fire-spewing. and some serious atheleticism

Next steps series: #Infinity of infinity

Next steps series: #Infinity of infinity
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the fabulous tarp... i cant even go into my tarping story. it has it's ups and downs. it's gonna work fine, if it doesn't get ruined this weekend.

so the foundation is done. next is the rammed earth tire stem wall/capillary break. i'm decided to get a whole load of gravel dumped right in the middle of this shot - wheelbarrowing is for the birds - and i need a LOT of gravel right there.

new gear

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i broke a coat hanger and wove it through my hat so it'd stay up.

found another stash of old-folks glasses at another thrift store, got 3 pair yesterday for 50c apiece. i love these dumb shades bcuz i hate to squint.

new headphones, walmart $9, going for the perfect hybrid where i can wear my ipod shuffle on my head and have no cords at all, but the goddamn shuffle is dead, hafta send the motherfucker back.

my cubicle

Where I work
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