hatred

This is how I wish the conversation would have ended …

There are the things that you see in the world that you just hate.  We hate them because they are ugly – an ugly way for people to treat each other, ugly things to value given so many more beautiful options, and we hate them because they remind us of each of our own capacities to mistreat others, and our own capacities to value things that have no value over the things that mean so much, and we hate them because they remind us not only of our individually precarious positions, but how we teeter in our collective humanity.  And we can feel this hatred in the bristle of our hair and the redness of our face, and the sting of bitten tongues.  And I can feel the hatred when I look at the big buildings that are younger even than my life in Bloomington, in these big buildings that look so much like the jail next door.  And I can feel this hatred in the brightness of the signs that seems to threaten to overpower the brightness of the stars so starkly visible from our backs in the graveyard a few blocks away.
But, really, we can feel this hatred in two ways.  We can try to hate the things that we hate more than we already hate them, and we can hate and hate and hate with fury and with explosion and clenched fists and red faces.  But, in the end, I don’t know where that leaves me.

Or, we can try to love the things that we love as much as we hate the things that we hate.  We can try to love them more than the things that we hate, exponentially more than the things that we hate, orders of magnitude more than the things that we hate.  And we can hope that this is enough.

Boxcar Inventory Development Update

I updated the new_order form so that textbooks from MBS and Nebraska are automatically entered in as used:
Private Sub Form_BeforeInsert(Cancel As Integer)
Me.datestamp = Now()
If Me.distributor = “MBS Textbook Exchange” Or Me.distributor = “Nebraska Book Company” Then
Me.book_state = “Used”
Else
Me.book_state = “New”
End If
Me.status = “On Order”
If IsNull(Me.Order_date.Value) Then
Me.Order_date = Format(Now(), “DD-MMM-YYYY”)
End If
End Sub

I also created a query, “Make Textbooks Used” to fix already entered textbooks.

For the online store, I added an in-store pickup option for shipping.  In the development version of the online inventory, I made it so shipping methods and properties are pulled from the database instead of hard-coded in.

Prisoners Shift Gears at the Indiana Department of Correction

Prisoners Shift Gears at the Indiana Department of Correction:

Commissioner J. David Donahue is pleased to announce another exciting work skills development program that will benefit offenders and communities. The Department of Correction is partnering with The Bicycle Garage Indy, and Volunteers of America to collect donated bicycles from the general public and refurbish them at the Pendleton Correctional Facility and the Indiana State Prison.

homewoods bowl

Homewoods Bowl Construction

Pat posted this photo of the construction of the bowl at Homewoods.  I have yet to go out there since last summer, but it looks sick!  They need folks to help with the pours today and monday at around 1p.

Defiance, Ohio Mini-Tour

August 11th Bloomington, IN @ Rhino’s w/ Japanther, TBIAPB. 8p. $5.

August 12th Chicago, IL @ the Beat Kitchen w/Japanther, TBIAPB, Underground Railroad to Candyland (Todd from TTK) and the Bananas. 5pm.

August 13 Cleveland, OH @ tba w/tba

August 14th (early evening) New York City, NY @ tompkins sq park (7th street and Avenue B) 5pm w/Wombat Combat, Team Spider, The Psalters. all ages! FREE!!

August 14th (late evening) Brooklyn, NY – a Benefit for Support New York* @Maiden Brooklyn (an art space at 252 Grand St. btw. Roebling and Driggs) all ages!, $5, w/ the gloryhole, the orphanage * Support New York is a recently formed collective dedicated to survivor support. We came together in defiance of the silence surrounding sexual violence in the anarcho-punk and activist communities. We are opening a dialogue about sexual assault and consent, challenging our society’s narrow views of abuse, and creating a safe space and resources for folks of all genders. This is an open call for anyone who needs support.

August 15th Berkely Heights, NJ @ 666 Plainfield Ave. w/ Movement, Permanent + 2 more. 6p.

August 16th Harrisburg, PA @ Championship (52 Rear Market St., Lemoyne, PA) w/ i object, permanent, how we are, la villains.

August 17th Columbus, OH @ Skylab (57 E. Gay Street Apt. 5) w/ tba. 9p. 15th.house a@gmail.com for info.

Recycling Volunteer Needed for downtown Soup Kitchen

Reposting from Milo Rose:

The Shalom Community Center (on 4th & Washington) needs a secondary person to pick up recycling as the amount has become cumbersome for the older woman who presently picks it & food leftovers up on Fridays & since Shalom staff are being more diligent about recycling, particularly in the kitchen.
Wednesdays after the food pantry (over @ 5:PM) would be preferable as there is a lot of cardboard that often gets dumpstered/not recycled. There are also usually a couple bags of large food cans & plastic jugs/jars. I prepare (sort & bag/box up) the recycling for Ms. Ferguson on Fridays & can show any volunteer where the containers are around the Shalom Ctr. or try to have everything outside ready for pick-up.
Pam Kinnaman, the Volunteer Coordinator, would also like any volunteers to go thru their basic orientation. I’ll CC her on this (see email above). The items are placed on a concrete landing by the dumpster just off the alley on the North side of the First United Methodist Church (the basement of which houses the Soup Kitchen open 8-9:30 & Noon-1:30).
The main resource center, which is open from 9-4 on weekdays, is just West/across the street near the bus station, on the right-up the ramp, on the correspondent alleyway.
Your help will greatly help the likelihood of the continuance of the recycling program @ the Shalom Ctr. They cannot afford the $400 a year for the MCSWMD to pick it up.
U may contact me, Mylo Roze @ greenthecity@yahoo.com or call or email Pam Kinnaman (Vol Coor): 334~5728, kinnaman@bloomington.in.us
Thanx greatly,
Mylo Roze

basil drink

From Martha Stewart by way of Amy, this beverage has become my later summer jam.
Ingredients

  • 1 C H20
  • 1 C Granulated sugar
  • 2 nice sized handfuls of fresh basil leaves
  • Juice of a few lemons
  • Sparkling H20

Mix sugar and water and heat this mixture until sugar is dissolved. Add basil to hot liquid and let steep for as long as you can wait. Strain out basil leaves. Pour the basil syrup, lemon juice, and sparkling h20 into glasses and enjoy.