Yearly Archives: 2002

arrived in san francisco

Woweeee… So i’ve been on the road for quite some time and am now sitting in a little cafe in San Francisco. Catie, Steph and i drove all around the funny country – through Iowa (which is not spelled O-H-I-O as the sign said) and Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah…. Utah was way pretty.. way way pretty… we spent quite a bit of time there, probably a bit too much as we realized at 2PM on Thursday in Arches that we had 24 hours to rush to northern California for Fusion… which we did…. in one large rushed journey. But everything was very silly (including the sketchy truck stop where Steph got a nice little note from a trucker “I’ll pay you real good” slipped under her shower room).

Fusion was a bit chaotic. We got stopped in the local town because we “looked like ravers” but we played clueless when the sheriff kept telling us it was cancelled. So we drove up the mountain (more really bad roads.. location changed.. good thing we had the truck…) and ran into more cops who told us to turn around. We ignored them. Got to the top and sure enough there was chaos. Although it was on private, native territory, the permits that the organizers had acquired were not considered good enough for a rave. Hrmfpt. We weren’t a rave. But alas.. they declared us as such and we had to seek new permits… Music didn’t happen the first nite, large numbers of road blocks and other chaos… Mean sheriffs… Angry sheriffs… Crazy cool people – the best type – west coast hippie psy kids… So we chilled relaxed and waited. And then i offered my funny satellite phone and they started calling lawyers… and then a little piece of legal paperwork was drafted and Fusion Festival was cancelled and we were marched off the land. And then a church was created, we all joined the church by signing our names, marched back on the land and viola! music!!!! Oh, it was ridiculous.. in a good adventurous kind of way.. hte best kind. And there was crazy dancing. And there were crazy people and water holes and a beautiful campsite and everythign wonderful.

And oh drats.. my card at the internet cafe is running out…

iowa

We’re in Iowa… There was another change in cars and now we have a very big truck. Tehehehehe. We’re doing quite well – ridiculous in fact… we’re still stunned by the new car, which is awefully big and lets us put things on the roof. Mmm.. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, here we go!!! Sleepy.. more shortly…

fabulous spam signature

[From a friend at lab]
Subject: Moralistic bleetings of a SPAM agency…

In the disclaimer section of some spam I just received:

>>>>
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with cost effective advertising. If you attempt to stop bulk email, you
are damaging the economy and threatening our children’s future.
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new florida adoption law destroys privacy of birth mothers

A new Florida law requires women who want to give their unborn up for adoption to publish their sexual histories in the local newspapers of the town in which the child was conceived.

“When women come into my office and find their whole lives have to be exposed in the newspaper, they are like, ‘Forget it.’ They can abort without consent, but they can’t give the child an opportunity to live without humiliating themselves.”

those damn crush sites

I always thought it was a bit odd that people sent me crush notes to the address that i use for my websites. I mean, anyone who has a crush on me probably knows me well enough to know one of my “real” email addresses, right? Well, truth be told, it appears as though there’s a bit of harvesting going on by those silly crush companies… I guess my procmailing those to the spam folder was a bit more accurate than i first believed!

eating

People always give me shit about the fact that i can’t get much food into my body and otherwise get annoyed by the process of eating. Well, studies might show that i’m bound to live longer! Of course, those studies probably don’t account for the large quantity of junk food intake, the sedentary computer-bound lifestyle, carpal tunnel, a broken neck and a few other maladies that make me Darwin’s nightmare..