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May 13, 2008

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May 10, 2008

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May 9, 2008

Water in the Desert Festival at Peninsula Park on July 26th

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Filed under: Portland

A friend mentioned this to me in passing and I wasn’t able to find information about it until last night someone handed me a little flyer for it, so here it is:

Water in the Desert Festival
Art, Ritual, Performance & Ecology

A free event

July 26, 2008

Peninsula Park
N. Ainsworth & N. Albina
Portland, OR 97217

For more information, contact:
info@waterinthedesertfestival.org
503 289 3499

or check online at:

http://www.waterinthedesertfestival.org

This project is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Work for Art.

Electronic Body Movement: Red-Zone at Mt Tabor on May 30th at 9pm

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Filed under: Music, Portland

On Sat, May 30th, there’s a “special electronic erotic ball” with Pan!zen Soundsystem and Subversive Soundsystem in the main hall of the Mt Tabor Legacy, which will have “penty of bass and wood floors to stomp on!”

This is part of something called the “Electronic Body Movement: Red-Zone”, but it’s really this “special electronic erotic ball” part which makes me wonder how much electricity there will be and just how they use it to move bodies. Maybe this is an event where wearing something that’s a natural insulator, like PVC, isn’t just a fashion statement, but a safety device?

It’s sliding scale from $5 - $15 which is pretty reasonable, since, after all, you’ll probably have spent a whole lot of money on that PVC, won’t you?

There’s also live experimental electronic entertainment every 2nd and 4th Thursdays for free in the Mt Tabor Legacy Lounge called the Subversive Zone, with 4 acts each night and a collective jam at the end. (I actually went to this last night, but couldn’t stay for the whole thing. But, it was loud, noisy and fun!)

Zombie Prom at Mt Tabor on May 10th at 8pm

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Filed under: Music, Portland

Too funny for words, because, you know, zombies groan and moan …

The First Ever Annual PDX Zombie Prom is going to be tomorrow night at the Mt Tabor Legacy at 8pm. There’s a couple of bands and some DJs but also prom photos, zombie corsages for sale and a costume contest. It’s $10 advance and $15 at the door.

More information can be found online.

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May 8, 2008

Super Powers

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Filed under: Omnium Gatherum

“Ridiculous, of course, but I really was afraid, mostly of my own ignorance and prejudices. I had never been to something like this before, and I didn’t know how to act. I badly wanted to be invisible.”

“In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.”

“If Keats’s philosophy is correct, then any intense experience — even letting your life rot away after a failed relationship, or enduring the agony of heroin withdrawal, or dying young of tuberculosis — is precious. … Each goes into making you into a unique being.”

“… people everywhere have an amazing capacity to accept almost anything as normal …”

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May 7, 2008

sneaky slithering elephant snakes

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Filed under: Omnium Gatherum

“I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that’s eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.”

“Pleasure itself is an entirely underrated spiritual act …”

“… a group of blind men … touch an elephant to learn what it is like …”

Gorillas in the midst

Police arrested Kooki the Clown on five felony charges relating to her allegedly defrauding a 90-year-old woman of more than $500,000.”

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May 6, 2008

ewige Nudelkraft

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Mystical magnetic noodles [via]

“It makes me have my doubts that the first Pentecost went as seamlessly as I’ve always been taught.”

“There’s nothing like making fun to short out the belief circuits and make the dogma howl.”

“Oh my God! Are you saying the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is actually an Illuminati front organisation?”

Secret Pastafarian Video Exposed

“I’m signing this bill because the Flying Spaghetti Monster told me that it’s the right thing to do.”

Personally, I belong to an ultra-secret counter FSM movement and proudly, but secretly, call myself a Pestofarian. After all, the secret is in the sauce.

May 4, 2008

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May 3, 2008

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May 2, 2008

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Apr 29, 2008

Home meat delivery logo with J. R. “Bob” Dobbs?

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Filed under: Question

The other day, I saw a van with text on the side saying that it was some kind of home meat delivery service that also had a logo with the head of the Church of the SubGenius [also] icon J. R. “Bob” Dobbs with a black bowtie. What the heck? Was this real? Was this someone from the ChickenHed?

antsy

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Filed under: Notebook, Poetry

my ancestors are antsy
when I ask them for answers
or to be my allies
they sense I’m not serious
about survival
and want to see
me make sacrifices
willingly, fiercely
to do what is required
by society to be successful
none of them really understand
except grandma dragon
this path I’m on
and what I’m asking them to do
when I haven’t done it either

Oppose the Mortgage Lender Housing Bailout

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Filed under: Activism Works

Another savings & loan bailout? Another chrysler bailout? Why is our society being asked to subside predatory business practices and rampant speculation … again? Boom & bust economic cycles shouldn’t be encouraged by rewarding those that participate in the willfully risky behaviour that makes them happen. There’s a time for real and important economic assistance to people, and there’s times when it’s merely a way to reinforce inequity and merely a subsidy to industry masked as if it were assistance to individuals.

angryrenter.com

How about this: instead of bailing out another industry, let’s re-visit the bankruptcy laws and make personal bankruptcy a viable and functional option for people in need of protection, instead of making the process another captured regulation?

Apr 25, 2008

iron and sulphur

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Filed under: Notebook, Poetry

a magical journal
of attempts and results
to contact myself
the echo chamber of my self
and the echo is not answered
as it once was
by the muse and the burning
need to write and rhyme
with assonance and consonance
I used to know that hidden holy part of myself
and I called it inspiration
but somehow it was tied to sadness and sorrow
that felt more real than myself
like my personality was a peel on the outside of a bitter fruit
pit and pith and juice of cold iron and sulfur

fisher king

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I have a wound in my side that will not heal
leaking energy to the four winds
and to the depths of hell
where I will eventually send myself
if I do not get well
from this sickness in my soul
that yearns for what is not real
I lost my innocence and my trust
and all that remains is the remains
of a corpse once full of strength
but weakened by feeling of emptiness
and need for love
to match the love I cried out to give
no gifts I have even been given
could match the grail I wanted to have
and so I have never been satisfied
distracted by this noise
I’ve missed my call to action

Apr 20, 2008

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