the reality tunnel

DIY Punk Show with Disaster, Auryn, and Ox-Eye Saturday, May 3 110 N. Maple (near intersection of Kirkwood and Maple) $3 All-ages Disaster Bloomington hardcore punk with songs about skateboarding and social justice.  Songs for download at http://disaster.terrorware.com/audio/demo Auryn Playing songs that are pretty and heavy, Auryn comes on tour from Pittsburgh, PA and features [...]

I’ve been interested in Michael Eric Dyson since seeing him speak at IU over the winter.  An NPR news blog wrote this about a recent interview where MED linked Obama and his pastor with the different phases of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life: Obama is the pre-1965 King. The one the holiday is named for, [...]

I’ve been blogging about my experience applying for Indiana’s state subsidized health insurance for low-income folks. Last week, I received a very formal letter that I had been accepted and  a bill for the first month’s payment into my POWER (a medical expense) account. Here are the letters so others know what to expect. Click [...]

Recession Diet Just One Way to Tighten Belt – New York Times: Home prices are sliding, wages are stagnant, job losses are growing and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, a broad measure of stock performance, is down 6 percent in the last year. So consumers are going on a recession diet. This just seems [...]

Saturday, May 3, 2008 Free A New Jail?!: Exploring Alternatives to Incarceration in Monroe County Events At: Boxcar Books 310A S. Washington St. Bloomington, IN 47401 (812) 339-8710 http://www.boxcarbooks.org The Cinemat 123 S. Walnut St. (812) 333-4700 Bloomington, IN 47401 http://www.thecinemat.com A day of popular education that will explore alternatives to the current proposal of [...]

I was responding to a friend who asked me about balancing my work life and my involvement in community activism.  As I wrote my response, I realized that it was something that I wanted to save as a reminder to myself: Although I only work 20 hours a week or so, having a job that [...]

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I don’t know if this is an official project of the Obama campaign, but it’s pretty annoying to get spam like this: Ciao, Is everything great? How are you? I saw those open videos on Barack Obama video exploits Obama yes we can power Watch them carefully belive in the dream, Vote Obama

CI Researching with Communities: Grounded perspectives on engaging communities in research Edited by Andy Williamson and Ruth DeSouza Networked neighbourhoods : the connected community in context / Patrick Purcell (ed.). Community informatics : shaping computer-mediated social relations / edited by Leigh Keeble and Brian D. Loader. Social and community informatics : humans on the Net [...]

This is a response to Patrick’s response to my posting of this analysis of the Stuff White People Like blog. I think that the language in the blog post is strong and frustrated and I’ll grant that the statements about the heftiness of the book deal probably don’t have much statistical support. Still, I think [...]