Category Archives: Notes

My bungalow has a working kitchen! Water runs through its plumbed veins, the refrigerator’s motor thrums, and the stove is plugged in, ready and waiting to cook up cauldrons of soup and sauce. Tonight there will be spaghetti! I was … Continue reading →

Glancing back through this blog I find it was September 26 when the remodeling began on my kitchen. Guess what, it still isn’t done, ha ha, joke’s on me for thinking it might ever finish. Progress has happened in fits … Continue reading →

“When the possible outstrips the actual, history arises,” says Stuart Kauffman in a fascinating post (Enablement and Radical Emergence) on a fascinating blog (NPR’s 13.7 Cosmos and Culture). Speaking of possibility, did you hear about how cops confiscated the generators … Continue reading →

From the OccupyMARINES website: “Marines support the movement. We will support demonstrators with organization, direction, supply and logistics, and leadership.” Call me a Jungian, but can you hear that chorus of Kings? These are not brainwashed soldiers. These are Warriors … Continue reading →

Wish I could credit the anonymous people who came up with these, painted them on old cardboard boxes, and held the cardboard up for news cameras: “I am very upset” “Don’t be a douche” “Bring back crystal pepsi!” “How about … Continue reading →

I’ve been ravenous over the news lately, what with these heroic Occupiers of Everywhere. I was especially charmed when they dressed up as corporate zombies and staggered around Wall Street. Has any movement in the history of anything ever been … Continue reading →

Yesterday I moved out of the downstairs of my house and sealed it off. Now I’m upstairs, hiding out with Chloe while a demolition crew makes havoc in the spaces below. In theory this will result in a more workable … Continue reading →

Today is the day we celebrate getting to say the word “autumnal” and the word “equinox,” all rolled up together. What more could you ask from a holiday? Sure, there might also be candles, and ceremonial goblets of wine, and … Continue reading →

Don’t get me wrong, I love science and scientists. HOWEVER, check this out: “Science can work only on what is supposed to repeat itself… Anything that is irreducible and irreversible in the successive moments of history eludes science.” Says Henri … Continue reading →

England had a fling with anarchy this week. And didn’t it look like a shadow version of that other great display of looting called the royal wedding? A few months ago fancy cars paraded around London, and a prince took … Continue reading →