the reality tunnel

The music industry is whack.  We all know this, but as a person making DIY punk music it’s always hard to reason about making money from making music.  Working a crappy (and moreover, undignified) job to support making records is something that is respected or revered.  With many folks making music coming from college-educated backgrounds [...]

These are part of the V Week of Events. There’s lots more, but these were the ones that caught my eye. 2/6 Friday — Critical Mass & Speak Out @ 1pm, SAMPLE GATES –Take to the streets in a critical mass bike ride to raise awareness of violence against women. 2/11 Wednesday — Film Screening [...]

I was having trouble SSHing into my workstation.  It would just hang at the login.  I was worried that I had gotten 0wn3d.  I logged in at the console and ran top and saw that there were a bunch of runaway imapfilter proccesses from my cron runs. I ran imapfilter from the command line and [...]

After the snows, the American-made sport utility vehicles seem to own the roads, vindicated by nature from recent events.  They swagger through streams of grey slush bellowing, “I am too big to fail!”

I was recently asked to advise on the 2009 Allied Media Conference’s How-To Track (you can check the 2008 track out here) and I’m trying to think how to approach it.  Watching teachers recently and thinking about the community organizing that’s happening here in Bloomington, a lot of the skills I want to know how-to [...]

I just got a letter from my health insurance company telling me that my primary physician was leaving their network and that I had been assigned to a new doctor.  I wasn’t particularly attached to my first doctor, but I’m still wondering if this switch is “normal” with all healthcare these days, or more frequent [...]

The Northwest Airlines in-flight magazine has been a wealth of insight lately.  I read that Berry Gordy started Motown Records in 1959 on an $800 loan from te Ber-berry Co Op, a fund which family members each paid in $10 every month in order to make loans to launch new family business ventures.  With so [...]

I love this statement from The Best American Short Stories 2005 : Yet entertainment – as I define it, pleasure and all – remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the gulf of consciousness that seperates each of us from everybody else.  The [...]

Event: Roe v. Wade Anniversary Rally “Celebrating 36 years of reproductive choice!” What: Rally Host: Roe supporters Start Time: Thursday, January 22 at 2:00pm End Time: Thursday, January 22 at 3:30pm Where: IU Sample Gates To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=71448004688

INVITATION TO COMMUNITY MEETING AGAINST JAIL EXPANSION SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 3:00-6:00 p.m. GREAT HALL, TRINITY CHURCH, 111 S. Grant St. Childcare will be provided Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC), with the encouragement of Citizens for Effective Justice, UU Friends of Prisoners Task Force, and New Leaf/New Life, is pleased to invite you to a community update [...]