the reality tunnel

OPENING SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th AT SWEET HICKORY in Bloomington, IN) Future Obsolescence presented by Greg Harvester a presentation of mail art, thirteen years of punk fliers and new screen-printed art. 8-11 PM drinks and food provided show will remain open until Feb. 27th during usual Sweet Hickory hours (2-8 PM)

The Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary recently bought land in Spencer, IN. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all animals. It is our goal to create a space for healing debilitated and displaced domestic animals as well as local wildlife. The Sanctuary will officially open on April 12th. Here is a [...]

I’m on vacation in San Francisco with my family. It’s been a long time since we’ve been on a family vacation, and it’s crazy how, even at 27, and even if it’s been more than a decade since I’ve lived with my parents, how some of the roles and scenarios feel so repetitive or familiar [...]

In researching the details of a museum that my father wanted to go to on our trip in San Francisco, I read this.  It’s crazy that, more than 100 years later, the motivations for limiting immigration and the use of legislation to exclude certain classes of immigrants persists.  The faces of the undesireable immigrants is [...]

I’ve been playing around with building maps with Google Maps.  You can change the icons for placemarkers on your maps, and you can also create your own icons.  They have a lot of icons, but they didn’t have one for museums, so I made one:

Georgia School Melds a World of Differences – New York Times: “The fact that we don’t have anything in common is what we all have in common,” said Shell Ramirez, an American parent with two children at the school…. “The mission,” Ms. Thompson [one of the founders of the school] said, “was never to create [...]

I finally posted audio files from the recent Defiance, Ohio record The Fear, The Fear, The Fear to the web.  After seeing how El-Iqaa distributed his recent release as well as the encouragement of others, I decided to make the audio available as both a free download of 128Kbps or Ogg/Vorbis files on archive.org as [...]

I’ve been working on setting up a Drupal instance for work and have, for the first time been using Postgres for the database instead of MySQL. I was installing the Content Template module and got errors when the module tried to create the tables by default. I think the problem is with the fact that [...]

Enrollment to Start For New State Health Insurance Program – Newsroom – Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick: Thousands of uninsured Hoosiers can now have access to affordable health care through the new Healthy Indiana Plan. Applications for the program will be accepted starting Monday. House Republican Leader Brian C. Bosma voted for the legislation [...]

Even though I have no religious or family connection to Judaism, my first years of elementary school were at a Jerome Lipman Jewish Day School.  Chinese food has always been a principal way that my Chinese-American father has connected with his culture and its consumption has definitely defined itself as a tradition within my family.  [...]