the reality tunnel

Currently, I don’t have any health insurance. I think this is true for most of my peers, and for many low-income people, whether they’re low-income because of lifestyle and career choices, like me, or because they lack the economic mobility to obtain incomes that would allow for jobs that provide health coverage or with [...]

  On tour, I got to catch up with some reading and finished The Power of Maps, which Chiara gave me for my birthday.  One of the things that was most compelling about the book was a brief overview of movements trying to redefine the role of geography and cartography in society, aknowledging the knowledge [...]

Friday, February 8
8:00- 11:00 PM
ART HOSPITAL (1021 S. Walnut St.)
www.arthospital.net
$6

GROUND UPS
HERCULANEUM
BASILICA

HERCULANEUM is comprised of members of Chicago’s Icy Demons, Head of Femur, and Cursive. Their seven-piece jazz band takes you through the most unimaginably cool licks, groovy lopsided rhythms, and sincere confessionals, all the while executing it with authentic jazz character.

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This Sunday, Jan. 27th
12-3pm
1021 W. 6th St. (Abbey’s House)
A benefit for Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary

Vegan diner food (breakfast and lunch items) served up by a saucy
waitstaff for dirt cheap! $1 items, $3 plates. A gluten-free option
will be available!

Indiana University and IUPUI have an agreement with at&t Wireless to provide personal cellular services to students, faculty, and staff at discounted rates. Students receive an 8% discount on monthly rate plans. Employees receive a 12% discount.
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… and people are selling  hats on the metro.  “Peruvian style hats.  Keep your ears warm, in colors to match your outfit or your shoes.  Only five dollars.”  The mans sales partner then repeats the pitch in Spanish.  A teenage boy staggers down the aisle and asks, “can I please have a dollar.  I [...]

I was reading this glossy, colorful magazine about revolutionary anarchism and was a little bummed that some of the articles about actions read like the articles in Soldier of Fortune that my friend got when he was going through his self-ascribed “paramilitary skater” phase in his early teens.  It’s always hard for me to read [...]

I made one of these a long time ago, but long since lost it. This is stuff that I want to check out.

What is the What
Slingshot Hip-Hop (see also this blog post regarding the film)
The Diamond Sea (band from Melbourne Australia)
Mister F.A.B. (Ghost Ride It)

“What I’ve come to know is that the death of a loved one and the death of an era are equally sad.”  – Jonathan Wilson in The Best Time in My Life, a selection from the Who We Are exhibition
In San Francisco, on Market street, they still have vintage street cars as part of the [...]