the reality tunnel

tour diary – sunday 03.30 – madison, in
we woke up super early, especially given that most of us stayed up very late the previous evening, but ryan messed up and lost the directions and info for the show so we had to get going early to make sure we got to the show on time. [...]

tour diary – saturday 03.29 – asheville, nc
ridiculously beautiful. john said that taking 441 through the mountains might even be a little faster and the views would be awesome, so that’s the road that we took from Athens into the nc mountains. it was definitely beautiful as we passed vista after vista and [...]

tour diary – friday 03.28 – athens, ga
we drove through the night. well, ryan and chad drove through the night with me taking a turn as the sun rose. we stopped only for the occasional fill up and once for ryan, chad, and will to get some food at a waffle house. [...]

tour diary – tuesday 03.25 – washington d.c.
the next morning i was a bit stressed because will had gone off to hang out with brandon the previous night and wasn’t back yet. we hadn’t really given him a firm time, but we needed to get going to miss the dc traffic. we ate [...]

tour diary – monday 03.24 – brooklynn, ny
we somehow managed to navigate the tangled knot of new york city highways and made it to pete and natalja’s apartment with plenty of time before the show. we hung out for a little bit and then headed over to the show space. the space was [...]

tour diary – sunday 03.23 – providence, ri
the ride up to providence sucked. there were 11 of us, defiance, ohio, our friends, and the good good. that, combined with ryan and chad getting us lost in new jersey and running into nyc traffic meant that the ride was excruciating. there were some [...]

tour diary – saturday 03.22 – philadelphia, pa
this show was a little bit weird since it was a basement show right before a keg party at my friend hannah’s house. the show got set up that way because we didn’t really know anyone from philadelphia and i remembered that hannah had offered to help [...]

tour diary – friday 03.21 – allentown, pa
it was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows – a hackneyed description yes, but the most accurate one of which i can think. i should have known that things were going to be a little less than cool when one of the members [...]

i don’t know what to say about the fact that our country is about to go to war other than that i am very, very sad. there are a million good, intellectual, rational arguments for why this is a bad idea, but for me, the human toll, the loss of life and the brutality [...]

interesting analysis on the iraq war from a former us diplomat
I just feel we’re entering a new sort of ugly phase where America attempts to be a unilateral power. But we do not realize that the United States was the chief beneficiary of an international system that found alternatives to violence — the idea [...]