Death in the Family.

I was just informed that Pam's father passed away two days ago. We should get her a card.

-F.I.J.

after some thought...

I find that I miss the "aura" of the old garden.

This week I'm going to contact a bunch of the orignal crew of the garden.

I want to set up a bi-weekly - tri-weekly meet up, making it easier for people to get off work // make arrangements that don't require the high level of attention of a weekly meeting.

Tentatively, I'm calling this meeting Gan Aleph, ( garden one ) and it's tone is
to be only semi-serious. Other name ideas include, The Gnome Home, Weed Garden O.S. ( old school, yo!...egads I am so white ) and of course, La Cost-ah Lots-ah.

The orignal garden concept had a six item list.
1 political topic, 1 science topic, 1 philosophical topic, 1 satire topic, 1 local topic, 1 et al.
each one got 10 minutes, and in an hour we "ideally" went through a meeting. in pracitce it was more like 2-3, with about 15-20 minutes each topic + rabbit trails, but it worked and it let everyone leave feeling "high".

There was also the failed attempt to post session to the web, which I'd really like to make happen.

If I can get it up and running, I think another good idea would be to use this blog as a "Master List" of Patches that will be "out there" in the aether, and then each patch have it's own blog to keep up with events and postings.

P.H.T.K.T.P. Darth F I J

Obama nd Bush now have something in common

page over to modern sense if you want to know.

p.t.k.t.p. Darth FIJ

Sheldon Richman on Glenn Beck and AETN

One of "my people" , Sheldon Richman (editor of The Freeman), was recently on the Arkansas Educational Television Network show Unconventional Wisdom. He was also on the Glenn Beck show. Watching these two interviews is an opportunity to compare two different styles of news media, as well as different ways of engaging in discussion. There are some pretty big differences between the two. I strongly recommend watching the Unconventional Wisdom interview first.

Haaretz article about controversial T-shirts

Here is a link to the article referenced in the video from my previous post.

occupied

i'm busy the rest of the week, and the best part of next week.
sorry for late update, but I will not be free for anything until after april the 15th

Patching off.

I have removed my posts.

To keep the peace I will be patching off into other blogs.

The blog you can all find me at is...

Modernsense2000@blogger.com

Anyone who wishes can find me there. I'll keep following here for a month or so to make sure anyone who wishes to touch base // contact me can do so.

Controversial T-shirts

This video is relevant to recent posts.

"Meeting Times, Places, Topics, Books, Plays, Songs, what not...INQUIRING FIJ'S WANT TO KNOW!!!"

In the area of books, since we last spoke, I got the audiobook of Rev. Michael Dowd's Thank God For Evolution (I'm about half way through it), We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now (One of the two editors is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. ), Sartre's Nausea, and Kevin Carson's Organization: A Libertarian Perspective. I listened the album of Julia Sweeney's live show Letting Go Of God. I've also watched most of the British television series Planet Earth as well as Watchmen (the movie). Speaking of Watchmen, check this out, it's hilarious if you've read the graphic novel or seen the movie.

Musically, I've been listening to Diana Krall, Cannabis Corpse, Johnny Paycheck, kid 606, Naked City, Toots and the Maytals, Metallica, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Dr. Dre, Bad Brains, Autechre, Rick Ross, The Lonely Island, Air, The Office Space soundtrack, Against Me!, Zu, Squadra Omega, etc.

Since Someone did not get the word

We have moved, call me and I will tell you where you can come and meet any night, any time day or night, have free coffee, free tea, and see a beautiful lakeside setting. James you know my number if not XXX XXXX