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Entries from February 2002

Governmental Weather

February 28th, 2002 · 1 Comment

Interesting thought posed to me by a co-worker who listens to the Art Bell show regularly:
The reason for the wacky weather lately is: the government is manipulating the weather! Some Canadian joker called in to the Art Bell show, and apparently in a convincing, non-E. Augustine sort of way made an articulate argument for this [...]

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Tags: Culture

Pirate Shipwreck Weekend I: Reykjavik

February 22nd, 2002 · 1 Comment

The complete write up regarding Pirate Shipwreck Weekend I in Reykjavik, Iceland

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Tags: Pirate Shipwreck Weekend · Travel

Iceland Ho!

February 20th, 2002 · 2 Comments

Iceland Ho!We’re off! The halfasses have embarked upon their journey—the first-ever halfass Shipwreck Weekend. We hope this is the start of a series. Maybe we’ll manage a road post. This event brought to you in conjunction with Rode The 900 Productions and is a promotion of Halfass Omnemedia Feeling The Effecstacy. [...]

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Tags: Pirate Shipwreck Weekend · Travel

Voulkos is dead.

February 20th, 2002 ·

Voulkos is dead. He died today. I read it in an email, the fact that Voulkos died. Perhaps it was yesterday. I saw him work. I saw him work when I felt burned out and when I was about to leave clay school, when the limitations of institutional life, the [...]

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Tags: Death

Hugh Treadwell — Networking.Please find

February 13th, 2002 · 2 Comments

Hugh Treadwell—Networking.Please find attached photo of my friend Hugh… networking as usual. (via Diablo)

Hugh is the girl in front, a woman of taste and distinction. Please note that Hugh is always proper. Hugh showed up at the western-attire rehearsal dinner at my sister’s wedding wearing a giant foam cowboy hat.

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Tags: Funny! · This is Weird

This is Truck Day

February 11th, 2002 · 3 Comments

This is Truck Day. The Sun is daily moving North and surely soon Spring will be upon Us, with Winter banished and the Warmth of the Heavens flooding down from a cloud-filled Sky onto the green Grass of a Field where Heroes and Physics intersect for Fractions of Seconds, for Hours, and for Months. [...]

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Tags: Baseball

Nick Owen

February 6th, 2002 · 5 Comments

Nick Owen is a cool guy. He’s an Internet millionare who hangs at the Yacht Club, and he’s a buddy of ours. Check out this article.

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Tags: Atlanta

Respite Near Water

February 4th, 2002 ·

Looking out
A Respite Near Water
it is dark and it is murky
I was struggling
I’m not struggling anymore
Waiting for
my twisted sister
she is wiley and she’s sly
and the wait
it fills the hours
like a beer to
my belly
It’s deeper than you think
And we were just an inkling
but then again were gone
nothing like that night is
going to last very long
kind of [...]

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Tags: Music

Urrrgh!

February 4th, 2002 · 1 Comment

it was great to see this first thing on monday morning:
clickforgive if it’s old

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Tags: This is Weird

Seattle is Lilly White

February 3rd, 2002 · 2 Comments

On my recent journey to Seattle, I decided to take a little stroll around my hotel while my wife got ready for the wedding we were about to attend. I thought I’d head along the water, cut to the Public Market, and walk back to my hotel via surface streets. It was a [...]

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Tags: Travel