Argh! The US on climate change

I have huge prob­lems with the idea of the G8. I don’t think there should be a ruling class like this making decisions for the rest of us. But when those decisions are good things, like rein­ing in the run­away idiocy of their cor­por­a­tions and trying to...

Tech envy

Doug was trying to make Aper­ture jump through hoops the other day and decided the busi­ness needed a faster machine. He went for a quick drive and came home with a MacPro with 4Gb RAM and 750Gb HD. Holy tamole. I am sooo envi­ous. Even if I do get...
FireDrums 2007

FireDrums 2007

Over the week­end, we went to Big Basin State Forest for Fire­Drums V. It was a magical week­end, mys­tical and wild, even if it was emo­tion­ally drain­ing at times. I lit my poi for the first time ever and Doug and I did a quiet little Beltaine...

May 1, cinqo de mayo, beltaine

Well, today is May Day, tra­di­tion­ally a day of work­er’s rights. There were ral­lies through­out Cali­for­nia for labor issues and I figure it’s an appro­pri­ate time for me to com­ment on my observations. One of the teens around me right now men­tioned...

Whoa…

I‑80 col­lapses after tanker crash I was just on this stretch of road yes­ter­day, driv­ing back from Alameda (where we had Anzac day lunch at a New Zea­l­and res­taur­ant with mizchalmers) to San Fran­cisco to buy lovely Moroc­can fur­niture from La Kasbah. Just...